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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 3, 15th edition., Chapter 24: (search)
battalions to the armament. No colony refused its quota; even Pennsylvania voted a contribution of money, and thus enabled its governor to enlist troops for the occasion. It will not be amiss, wrote Sir Charles Wager to Admiral Vernon, for both French and Spaniards to be a month or two in the West Indies before us, that they may be half dead, and half roasted, before our fleet arrives. So the expedition from England did not begin its voyage till October, and, after stopping for water at Dominica, where Lord Cathcart, the commander of the land forces, fell a victim to the climate, 1741. Jan 9. reached Jamaica in the early part of the following year. How has history been made the memorial of the Chap. XXIV.} passionate misdeeds of men of mediocrity! The death of Lord Cathcart left the command of the land forces with the inexperienced, irresolute Wentworth; the Smollett. naval force was under the impetuous Vernon, who was impatient of contradiction, and ill disposed to endure e