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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 4, 15th edition., Chapter 2: (search)
h the success of the applications from New-York. The same conspiracy against the colonies extended to New Jersey. In December, the council of that Dec. province likewise found it their indispensable duty to represent to his Majesty the growing rDec. province likewise found it their indispensable duty to represent to his Majesty the growing rebellion in their province. James Alexander to C. Golden, 3 January, 1749. The conflict for lands in its eastern moiety, where Indian title deeds, confirmed by long occupation, were pleaded against claims derived from grants of an English king, le and treasonably and boldly denying his title to New Jersey. These appeals were to tally with and accre- chap II. 1748} Dec. dit the representation from New-York. C. Colden to Clinton, 12 January, 1749. Compare too Hamilton's Speech to the Asswhich had spread themselves over many of the plantations, and were destructive of all order and government, Letter of December, to Glen of South Carolina. and he resolved on instantly effecting a thorough change, by the agency of parliament. Whil
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 4, 15th edition., Chapter 5: (search)
se two men to our one; but they are too dilatory to prevent any enterprise of ours. The Delawares were intimidated or debauched; but the Half-King clung to Washington like a brother, and delivered up his belt as he had promised. The rains of December had swollen the creeks. The messengers could pass them only by felling trees for bridges. Thus they proceeded, now killing a buck and now a bear, delayed by excessive rains and snows, by mire and swamps, while Washington's quick eye discerned ting out the setting-pole to stop the raft, Washington was jerked into the deep water, and saved himself only by grasping at the raft-logs. They were obliged to make for an island. There lay Washington, imprisoned by the elements; but the late December night was intensely cold, and in the morning he found the river frozen. Not till he reached Gist's settlement, in January, 1754, were his toils lightened. 1754. Washington's report was followed by immediate activity. The Ohio Company agreed
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 4, 15th edition., Chapter 7: (search)
etary Calvert to Lt. Gov. Sharpe, 20 Dec., 1754. and inquiries were instituted relating to the easiest method of taxation by parliament. But, for the moment, the prerogative was employed; Braddock was ordered to exact a common revenue; and all the governors received the king's pleasure that a fund be established chap. VII.} 1754. for the benefit of all the colonies collectively in North America. Sir T. Robinson's Circular of 26 Oct., 1754. Men in England expected obedience; but in December, Delancey referred to the general opinion of the congress at Albany, that the colonies would differ in their measures and disagree about their quotas; without the interposition of the British parliament to oblige them, nothing would be done. Lieut. Gov. Delancey to the Lords of Trade, 15 Dec. 1754. In the same moment, Shirley, at Boston, was planning how the common fund could be made efficient; and to Franklin—who, in December, 1754, revisited the region in which he drew his first br
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 4, 15th edition., Chapter 8: (search)
them to obey; and they marched slowly and heavily from the chapel to the shore, between women and children, who, kneeling, prayed for blessings on their heads, they themselves weeping, and praying, and singing hymns. The seniors went next; the wives and children must wait till other transport vessels arrive. The delay had its horrors. The wretched people left behind, were kept together near the sea, without proper food, or raiment, or shelter, till other ships came to take them away; and December with its appalling cold, had struck the shivering, half-clad, broken-hearted sufferers, before chap. VIII.} 1755. the last of them were removed. The embarkation of the inhabitants goes on but slowly, wrote Monckton, from Fort Cumberland, near which he had burned three hamlets; the most part of the wives of the men we have prisoners are gone off with their children, in hopes I would not send off their husbands without them. Their hope was vain. Near Annapolis, a hundred heads of familie
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 4, 15th edition., Chapter 9: (search)
lies. The treaty was hardly concluded, before the ministry yielded to the impulse given by Pitt; and, after subsidizing Russia to obtain the use of the Russian troops against Frederic, it negotiated an alliance with Frederic himself, not to permit the entrance of Russian or any other foreign troops into Germany. At the head of the American forces this ministry had placed Shirley, a worn-out barrister, who knew nothing of war. In the security of a congress of governors at New York, he in December planned a splendid campaign for the following year. Quebec was to be menaced by way of the Kennebec and the Chaudiere; Frontenac and Toronto and Niagara were to be taken; and then Fort. Duquesne and Detroit and Michilimackinac, deprived of their communications, were of course to surrender. Sharpe, of Maryland, thought all efforts vain, unless parliament should interfere; and this opinion he enforced in many letters to his correspondents. See the Correspondence of Sharpe with his broth
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 4, 15th edition., Chapter 10: (search)
nduce our Indians to take up the hatchet. Promise a reward to every man who shall bring in the scalp of a Frenchman or of one of the French Indians. Demere to Gov. Lyttleton, Dec. 1756. Lyttleton to Lords of Trade, 25 December, 1756. In December, the Six Nations sent a hundred and eighty delegates to meet the Nepissings, the Algonquins, the Potawatamies, and the Ottawas, at a congress at Montreal. All promised at least neutrality; the young braves wished even to join the French; and thession of the House of Hanover, had yet never possessed the affections of the people of England and no longer enjoyed its confidence; and at the very height of its power, sunk down in the midst of its worshippers. W. C. Bryant's Poems. In December William Pitt, the man of the people, the sincere lover of liberty, having on his side the English nation, of which he was the noblest representative and type, was commissioned to form a ministry. In this he was aided by the whole influence of L
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 4, 15th edition., Chapter 12: (search)
erals, could not move him. Not till the second day of December did the drooping army from Glogau join the king. Every Dec. power was exerted to revive their confidence. By degrees, they catch something of his cheerful resoluteness; they share taun veteran troops and double in number to the Prus sians, were advancing, as if to crush them and end chap. XII.} 1757. Dec. the war. The Marquis of Brandenburg, said Voltaire, will lose his hereditary states, as well as those which he has won by If I fall, the country must reward you. Go, tell your regiments what you have heard from me. And he chap. XII.} 1757. Dec. added, The regiment of cavalry which shall not instantly, at the order, charge, shall be dismounted and sent into garrison left, outwinged it, and attacked it in front and flank; the bodies which Lorraine sent to its support chap. XII.} 1757. Dec. were defeated successively, before they could form, and were rolled back in confused masses. Lorraine was compelled to ch
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 4, 15th edition., Chapter 14: (search)
ly promotion, to justify the notice taken of me by such exertions and exposure of myself as will probably lead to my fall. And the day before departing for his command, in the inspiring presence of Pitt, he forgot danger, glory, every thing but the overmastering purpose to devote himself for his country. All the while, ships from every part of the world were bringing messages of the success of British arms. In the preceding April, a small English squadron made a conquest of Senegal; in December, negroes crowded on the heights of the island of Goree to gaze on the strange spectacle of war, and to witness the surrender of its forts to Commodore Augustus Keppel. In the Indian seas, Pococke maintained the superiority of England. In the West Indies, in January, 1759, a fleet of ten line-of-battle ships, with six thousand effective troops, made a fruitless attack on Martinico; but, sailing for Guadaloupe, the best of the West India possessions of France, after the losses and daring d
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 4, 15th edition., Chapter 15: (search)
and, on the morning of the eighth of August, Oconostata himself received the surrender of the fort, and sent its garrison of two hundred on their way to Carolina. The next day, at Telliquo, the fugitives were surrounded; Demere and three other officers, with twenty-three privates, were killed. The Cherokee warriors were very exact in that number, as being the amount of hostages who had been retained by Lyttleton Lieut. Gov. Bull to the Lords of Trade, 9 September, 1760. in the previous December. The rest were brought back and distributed among the tribes. Lieut. Gov. Fauquier to Lords of Trade, 17 Sept., 1760. Their English prisoners, including captives carried from the back settlements of North and South Carolina, were thought to have amounted to near three hundred souls. Lieut. Gov. Bull to Lords of Trade, 21 Oct., 1760. But friendship lives in the heart of the savage. chap. XV.} 1760. Listen to the tale of a red man's fidelity. Attakullakulla, hearing that Stuart,
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 4, 15th edition., Chapter 17: (search)
ion of oligarchy is a point too arduous and important to be achieved without much difficulty and some degree of danger. They will beat every thing, said Glover, of Bute and the king; only a little time must be allowed for the chap. XVII.} 1760. Dec. madness of popularity to cool. But from that day forward, popularity, as the influence and power of the people were sometimes called by the public men of England, was the movement of the age, which could as little be repressed as Providence dethrd be made during the summer from Belle-Isle? Bedford expected nothing, but possibly the taking another island, or burning a few more miserable villages on the continent. Wiffen's House of Russell, II. 468, 469, 470, 471. Did Pitt say, Before December, I will take Martinico? Will that, rejoined Bedford, be the means of obtaining a better peace than we can command at present, or induce the French to relinquish a right of chap. XVII.} 1761. July. fishery? Indeed, he pursued, with good judgm