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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 3, 15th edition., Chapter XXI (search)
ruin of New France, of which it was the centre. Cherished as the loveliest spot in Canada, its possession secured the intercourse with the upper Indians and the great highway to the Mississippi. In the mean time, the preliminaries of a treaty had been signed between France and England; and the war, which had grown out of European changes and convulsions, was suspended by negotiations that were soon followed by the uncertain peace of Utrecht. In 1706, the victories of Ramillies and of Turin were equally fatal; and France, driven from its outposts, was compelled to struggle for the defence of its 1708 own soil. The aged monarch, humbled in arms, reduced in power, chagrined as a king by the visible decline of the prosperity of his kingdom, dejected at the loss of foreign provinces, was now wounded in his affections. His children, his grandchildren, all but one feeble infant, were swept away: he remained alone. 1709 April 29. Bowing to the stroke of Providence, he desired peac