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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 4, 15th edition., Chapter 8: (search)
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 families fled to the woods, and a party was detached on the hunt to bring them in. Our soldiers hate them, wrote an officer on this occasion, and if they can but find a pretext to kill them, they will. Did a prisoner seek to
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 4, 15th edition., Chapter 14: (search)
ders the brave, open-hearted, and liberal Robert Monckton, afterwards governor of New York and conq Lawrence. In the night of the twenty-ninth, Monckton, with four battalions, having crossed the soumorenci at the proper time of the tide, while Monckton's regiments should cross the St. Lawrence in they could not again come into line; though Monckton's regiments had chap. XIV.} 1759. July. arriof the grenadiers; he praised the coolness of Monckton's regiments, as able alone to beat back the win his intrenchments at Beauport. Meeting at Monckton's quarters, they wisely and unanimously gave g of the thirteenth of September, Wolfe, with Monckton and Murray, and about half the forces, set ofally the forty-third and forty-seventh, where Monckton stood, received the shock with calmness; and h greatness, completed it before its noon. Monckton, the first brigadier, after greatly distinguitruck by a musket-ball, as he fought opposite Monckton, he continued in the engagement, till, in att
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 4, 15th edition., Chapter 18: (search)
position, because, as the first fruits of the removal of Pitt from power, within six weeks of his resignation, Representation of the Board of Trade to the king, 11 November, 1761. the independency of the judiciary was struck at Egremont to Monckton, 9 December, 1761. throughout all America, making revolution inevitable. On the death of the chief justice of New York, his successor, one Pratt, a Boston lawyer, was appointed at the king's pleasure, and not during good behavior, as had been done before the late king's death. The Assembly held the new tenure of judicial power to be inconsistent with American liberty; the generous but dissolute Monckton, coming in glory from Quebec to enter on the government of New York, before seeking fresh dangers in the West Indies, censured it in the presence of the Council; Letter to the Lords of Trade, 7 April, 1762. even Colden advised against it. Golden to the Board of Trade, 25 Sept., 1761. As the parliament, argued Pratt, Pratt t
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 4, 15th edition., Chapter 19: (search)
land. Histoire de la Guerre, &c. in $CEuvres Posthumes, IV. 284. And, deserted by his ally, he was left to tread in solitude the paths of greatness. Little did George the Third dream that he was filling his own cup with bitterness to the brim; that the day was soon to come, when he in his turn would entreat benefits from Frederic, and find them inexorably withheld. During these negotiations, and before the end of March, news reached Europe of victories in the West Indies, achieved by Monckton with an army of twelve thousand men, assisted by Rodney and a fleet of sixteen sail of the line and thirteen frigates. On the seventh of January, the British armament appeared off Martinico, the richest and best of the French colonies, strongly guarded by natural defences, which art had improved. Yet, on the fourteenth of February, the governor and inhabitants were forced to capitulate. Grenada, St. Lucia, St. Vincent's, were soon after occupied; so that the outer Caribbee Islands, in th