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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 5, 13th edition., Chapter 7: (search)
thing they had; but the French traders were left at liberty and unharmed. Thus fell the old post of Mackinaw on the main. The fort at Presque Isle, now Erie, was the point of communication between Pittsburg and Niagara and Detroit. It was in itself one of the most tenable, and had a garrison of four and twenty men, I left Ensign Christy six men to strengthen his party, as he had but eighteen men. Lieut. Cuyler's Report, &c., 6 June, 1763. and could most easily be relieved. On the twenty-second of chap VII.} 1763. June. June, after a two days defence, the commander, out of his senses I am surprised any officer in his senses would enter into terms with such barbarians. Amherst to Bouquet, 7 July, 1763. with terror, capitulated; Particulars regarding the loss of the post at Presqua Isle. See also the account of the soldier, Benjamin Grey, in Ecuyer to Bouquet, 26 June, 1763. giving up the sole chance of saving his men from the scalpingknife. Mante's History of the War,
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 5, 13th edition., Chapter 15: (search)
cted both; but Temple inflexibly resisted Pitt's judgment, declaration, and most earnest remonstrance; he would not consent to supplant the brother whose present measures he applauded, and with whom he had just been reconciled; and Pitt felt himself disabled by this refusal. As they parted, he said pathetically, in the words of a Roman poet: You, brother, bring ruin on me, and on yourself, and on the people, and the peers, and your country. When Temple, on the morning of Tuesday, the twenty-second, received the visit of Grenville, he appeared under great agitation. He was still nervous and trembling when he went in to the king, and declined entering his service in any office, assigning reasons of the most tender and delicate nature, which he did not explain. I am afraid, he added —and it was the king himself who repeated the remark—I foresee more misfortunes in your majesty's reign than in any former period of history. Deserted in this wise by the connection in whom he had tr