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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)
American major-general and commanderin-chief, Edward Braddock was selected, a man in fortunes desperfor the moment, the prerogative was employed; Braddock was ordered to exact a common revenue; and alof the armament which was making in Ireland. Braddock, with two regiments, was already on the way t. 8. While the negotiations were pending, Braddock arrived in the Chesapeake. In March, he reac the American governors, Shirley, now next to Braddock in military rank; Delancey, of New York; Morrpe, of Maryland; and Dinwiddie, of Virginia. Braddock directed their attention, first of all, to thays]. My copy is from that inclosed in Major General Braddock's Letter of 19 April, 1755, to the Secretary of State. This imposing document Braddock sent forthwith to the ministry, himself also Mem. Une taxe sur les domaines de sa majestie. Braddock to Sir Thomas Robinson, 14 April, 1755, in thy in America; from civilians, as well as from Braddock, and Dunbar, and Gage; from the popular Delan
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 4, 15th edition., Chapter 8: (search)
Ohio Valley and the Northwest. Soon after Braddock sailed from Europe, the French also sent a flhim to bid him welcome. From Williamsburg, Braddock had promised Newcastle to be beyond the mountaguette and Vincennes. The savages, answered Braddock, may be formidable to your raw American militof Horatio Gates. The American troops, wrote Braddock, have little courage, or good-will. I expectre the general was in motion with the second. Braddock is not at all impatient to be scalped, thougilderness fare. On the nineteenth of June, Braddock, by Washington's advice, leaving Dunbar behin Early in the morning of the ninth of July, Braddock set his troops in motion. A little below theeen them and Fort Duquesne. Journal of General Braddock's Expedition, in British Museum, King's LOf the men, one half were killed or wounded. Braddock braved every danger. His secretary was shot y, the next day they all retreated. At night Braddock roused from his lethargy to say, We shall bet[4 more...]
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 4, 15th edition., Chapter 14: (search)
a tenable post at the chap. XIV.} 1759. mouth of the wild Oswego, the united American, British, and Indian forces embarked, on the first day of July, on Lake Ontario, and landed without opposition at one of its inlets, six miles exist of the junction of the Niagara. The fortress on the peninsula was easily invested. Aware of the importance of the station, D'Aubry collected from Detroit and Erie, Le Boeuf and Venango, a little army of twelve hundred men, larger than that which defeated Braddock, and marched to the rescue. Prideaux made the best dispositions to frustrate the design; but, on the fifteenth of July, he was killed by the bursting of a cohorn, leaving his honors immature. Sir William Johnson, who succeeded to the command, commemorated his rare abilities and zeal, and carefully executed his plans. He posted the British army on the left, above the fort, so as to intercept the approach of the enemy and to support the guard in the trenches. On the morning of the twenty-
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 4, 15th edition., Chapter 15: (search)
aid. Such was the usage of those days. Officers of the customs gave as their excuse for habitually permitting evasions of the laws of trade, that it was their only mode of getting rich; for they were quartered chap. XV.} 1759. upon by their English patrons for more than the amount of all their honest perquisites. See their own statement to Hutchinson, in the Hutchinson Correspondence. Townshend returned home, to advocate governing America by concentrating power in England; and like Braddock, Sharpe, Shirley, Abercrombie, Loudoun, Gage, and so many more of his profession, to look upon taxation of the colonies by the metropolis as the exercise of a necessary duty. In Georgia, Ellis, the able governor, who had great influence in the public offices, was studying how the colonies could be administered by the central authority. In South Carolina Lyttleton persuaded himself that he had restored the royal sway. Yet the fruits of his administration were distrust and discontent. T