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Scotland (United Kingdom) (search for this): chapter 10
sixty thousand pounds sterling annually was confidently promised from this source. The project of an American stamp-act was pressed upon Pitt himself. With the enemy at their backs, with English bayonets at their breast, in the day of their distress, perhaps the Americans, thought he, would submit to the imposition. Pitt in the House of Commons, 14 January, 1766. But the heroic statesman scorned to take an unjust and ungenerous advantage of them. He turned his eye to the mountains of Scotland for defenders of America, and two battalions, each of a thousand Highlanders, Anecdotes of Lord Chatham, i. 298. were raised for the service, under the command of Lord Eglinton and the Master of Lovat. Still he possessed no real power, and was thwarted in his policy at every step during the short period of his stay in office. Soon the Duke of Cumberland was appointed to conduct the campaign in Germany, and was unwilling to leave England without a change in the cabinet. Temple was, t
France (France) (search for this): chapter 10
7. The open declaration of war was not made by chap. X.} 1756. England till May; though her navy had all the while been employed in despoiling the commerce of France. At the commencement of avowed hostilities, she forbade neutral vessels to carry merchandise belonging to her antagonist. Frederick of Prussia had insisted, thated the commerce of the Netherlands in naval stores; denied them the right to become the carriers of French colonial products, and declared all the harbors of all France to be in a state of blockade, and all vessels bound to them lawful prizes. Van Kampen's Geschichte der Niederlande, II., 443. Flassan: Histoire de la Diplomatht of the Canadians and the savages, the missionaries planted a cross bearing the words, This is the banner of victory; by its side rose a pillar with the arms of France, and the inscription, Bring lilies with full hands. Expressions of triumphant ecstasy broke from Montcalm; but, to allay all jealousy of the red men, he razed th
Ulster County (New York, United States) (search for this): chapter 10
mbie was still lingering at Albany, when, on the twenty-ninth of July, the Earl of Loudoun arrived. There too the viceroy loitered with the rest, doing nothing, having ten or twelve thousand men at his disposition, keeping the provincials idle in their camps, without the skill and experience necessary to take care of themselves, and victims to disease, which want of employment and close quarters generated. The French were more active; and, while the savages made inroads to the borders of Ulster and Orange counties, they turned all their thoughts to the capture of Oswego. De Lery, leaving Montreal in March with a party of more than three hundred men, hastened over ice and snow along the foot of mountains; by roads known to savages alone, they penetrated to Fort Bull, at the Oneida portage, gained it after a short struggle and a loss of three men, destroyed its stores, and returned with thirty prisoners to Montreal. Journal, &c., from October, 1755, to June, 1756. Paris Doc., XI
Saint James (Missouri, United States) (search for this): chapter 10
. Pitt, applauding his genius for debate, despised his versatility. But the transition in England from the rule of the aristocracy to a greater degree of popular power, was not as yet destined to take place. There was an end of the old aristocratic rule; but it was not clear what should come in its stead. The condition of the new minister was seen to be precarious. On entering office Pitt's health was so infirm, that he took the oath at his own house, though the record bears date at St. James's. The House of Commons, which he was to lead, had been chosen under the direction of Newcastle, whom he superseded. His subordinates even ventured to be refractory; so that when Charles Towns- chap. X.} 1756. hend, on one occasion, showed himself ready to second Fox in opposition, Pitt was obliged to chide him, before the whole House, as deficient in common sense or common integrity; and, as Fox exulted in his ally, exclaimed, loud enough to be heard by half the assembly, I wish you jo
Carolina City (North Carolina, United States) (search for this): chapter 10
me to the county that includes the battle-field. At the remotest south, adventurers formed a settlement beyond the Alatamaha, on the banks of the Santilla and the island of Cumberland; established their own rules of government; preserved good order amongst themselves; and held the country as far as the St. Mary's, in defiance of South Carolina and of the Spaniards at St. Augustine. At the same time men of European origin were chap. X.} 1756. penetrating the interior of Tennessee from Carolina; and near the junction of the Telliquo and the Tennessee, a little band of two hundred men, three-fifths of whom were provincials, under the command of Captain Demere, were engaged in completing the New Fort Loudoun, which was to insure the command of the country. They exulted in possessing a train of artillery, consisting of twelve great guns which had been brought to the English camp, Gov. Lyttleton of South Carolins to the Lords of Trade, 31 Dec. 1756. from such a distance as the sea
Fort Bull (South Carolina, United States) (search for this): chapter 10
ll and experience necessary to take care of themselves, and victims to disease, which want of employment and close quarters generated. The French were more active; and, while the savages made inroads to the borders of Ulster and Orange counties, they turned all their thoughts to the capture of Oswego. De Lery, leaving Montreal in March with a party of more than three hundred men, hastened over ice and snow along the foot of mountains; by roads known to savages alone, they penetrated to Fort Bull, at the Oneida portage, gained it after a short struggle and a loss of three men, destroyed its stores, and returned with thirty prisoners to Montreal. Journal, &c., from October, 1755, to June, 1756. Paris Doc., XII., 18. Near the end of May, eight hundred men, led by the intrepid and prudent De Villiers, made their palisaded camp under the shelter of a thicket near the mouth of Sandy Creek. From this place he could send little parties to hover round chap. X.} 1756. the passes of O
South Carolina (South Carolina, United States) (search for this): chapter 10
nd reaching the town without being discovered, was universally applauded. Philadelphia voted honors to him and his gallant band; Pennsylvania has given his name to the county that includes the battle-field. At the remotest south, adventurers formed a settlement beyond the Alatamaha, on the banks of the Santilla and the island of Cumberland; established their own rules of government; preserved good order amongst themselves; and held the country as far as the St. Mary's, in defiance of South Carolina and of the Spaniards at St. Augustine. At the same time men of European origin were chap. X.} 1756. penetrating the interior of Tennessee from Carolina; and near the junction of the Telliquo and the Tennessee, a little band of two hundred men, three-fifths of whom were provincials, under the command of Captain Demere, were engaged in completing the New Fort Loudoun, which was to insure the command of the country. They exulted in possessing a train of artillery, consisting of twelve
Frontenac (New York, United States) (search for this): chapter 10
Leran, and by Bourlamarque, colonel of infantry. Travelling day and night, he hurried to Fort Carillon, at Ticonderoga; by two long marches on foot, he made himself familiar with the ground, and took measures for improving its defences. Montcalm to the minister, 20 July, 1756. He next resolved by secrecy and celerity to take Oswego. Collecting at Montreal three regiments from Quebec, and a large body of Canadians and Indians, on the fifth of August he was able to review his troops at Frontenac, and on the evening of the same day anchored in Sackett's Harbor. Fort Oswego, on the right of the river, was a large stone building surrounded by a wall flanked with four small bastions, and was commanded from adjacent heights. For its defence, Shirley had crowned a summit on the opposite bank with Fort Ontario. Against this outpost, Montcalm, on the twelfth of chap. X.} 1756. August, at midnight, opened his trenches. From the following daybreak till evening, the fire of the garri
North America (search for this): chapter 10
e commanderin-chief; I assert it on my honor, which is the highest evidence you can require; and he resolved to make New York an example for the other colonies and towns. The citizens pleaded in reply their privileges as Englishmen, by the common law, by the petition of right, and by acts of parliament. God damn my blood, was the official answer of the viceroy to the mayor; if you do not billet my officers upon free quarters this day, I'll order here all the troops chap. X.} 1756. in North America under my command, and billet them myself upon the city. So the magistrates got up a subscription for the winter support of officers, who had done nothing for the country but burden its resources. In Philadelphia Loudoun uttered the same menace, and the storm was averted only by an adjustment. The frontier had been left open to the French; this quartering troops in the principal towns at the expense of the inhabitants by the illegal authority of a military chief, was the great result o
England (United Kingdom) (search for this): chapter 10
safely and unmolested all the harbors of the belligerents, unless they were blockaded or besieged; that the contraband of war should be strictly limited to arms, artillery, and horses, and should not include materials for ship-building. But Great Britain, in the exercise of its superior strength, arbitrarily prohibited the commerce of the Netherlands in naval stores; denied them the right to become the carriers of French colonial products, and declared all the harbors of all France to be in aII., 443. Flassan: Histoire de la Diplomatie Francaise, VI., 64, 65. Heeren's Historische Werke, IX., 47. Such was the rule of 1756. To charge England with ambition, said Charles Jenkinson, A Discourse on the Conduct of the Government of Great Britain in respect to Neutral Nations, during the present War. an Oxford scholar, who had given up the thought of entering the church, and hoped for success in public life; to charge England with ambition must appear so absurd to all who understand t
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