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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 4, 15th edition., Chapter 7: (search)
ish scalps and prisoners among the nations who accepted their hatchet. Fond of war, the cruel and sanguinary Cumberland entered on his American career with eager ostentation. He was heroically brave and covetous of military renown, hiding regrets at failure under the aspect of indifference. Waldegrave's Memoirs, 21-23. Himself obedient to the king, he never forgave a transgression of the minutest precept of the military rubric. Walpole's Memoires of Geo. II., i., 86. In Scotland, in 1746, his method against rebellion was threatening military execution. Our success, he at that time complained to Bedford, has been too rapid. It would have been better for the extirpation of this rabble, if they had stood. All the good we have chap. VII.} 1754. done, he wrote to Newcastle, has been a little bloodletting. Coxe's Pelham Ad., i., 303. His attendant, George Townshend, afterwards to be much connected with American affairs, promised his friends still more entertainment in the w
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 4, 15th edition., Chapter 12: (search)
Chapter 12: The New Protestant powers against the Catholic powers of the Middle Age.—William Pitt's ministry. 1757. the orator is vastly well provided for, thought chap. XII.} 1757 Bedford, in 1746, on the appointment of William Pitt to a subordinate office of no political influence. I assure your grace of my warmest gratitude, wrote Pitt himself, in 1750, to Newcastle, who falsely pretended to have spoken favorably of him to the king; and now, in defiance of Bedford and Newcastle, and the antipathy of the king, he is become the foremost man in England, received into the ministry as its guide, because he alone was the choice of the people, and, by his greatness of soul and commanding eloquence, can restore the state. On his dismissal in April, no man had the hardihood to accept his place. A storm of indignation burst from the nation. To Pitt and to Legge, who had also opposed the Russian treaty, London, with many other cities, voted its freedom; unexampled disconten
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 4, 15th edition., Chapter 13: (search)
of unsound judgment yet questioning every judgment but his own, restless and opinionated, made the apology of Loudoun. Nothing is done, nothing attempted, said Pitt with vehement asperity. We have lost all the waters; we have not a boat on the lakes. Every door is open to France. Loudoun was recalled, and added one more to the military of- chap. XIII.} 1757. ficers, who advised the magisterial exercise of British authority, and voted in parliament to sustain it by fire and sword. In 1746 the Duke of Bedford, then at the head of the admiralty, after considering the conduct and principles of the Northern colonies, had declared officially that it would be imprudent to send twenty thousand colonists to plunder the Canadians and conquer their country, on account of the independence it might create in those provinces, when they should see within themselves so great an army possessed of so great a country by right of conquest. He had, therefore, advised to place the chief dependenc