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Identifier: historyofamericap02wils (find matches)
Title: A history of the American people
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Wilson, Woodrow, 1856-1924 John Davis Batchelder Collection (Library of Congress)
Subjects: United States -- History
Publisher: New York and London, Harper & brothers
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
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r of failure ransformed into a war of victories, quick and 5 e. Two more years, and the French 110 longer had possessions in America that any nation need covet. Pitt saw to it that the forces, as well as the talents, used .dequate. In July. 1758, a powerful fleet underAdmiral Bos and twelve thousand troops under General Jeffrey Amherst, whom Pitt had speciallychosen for the command, invested and took Louis-In August, Colonel John Bradstreet. with threesand of Abercromhies men. drove the Frenchfrom Fort Frontenae at Oswego. In November theFrench abandoned Fort Duquesne, upon the approachof a force under General Forbes and Colonel Washing-ton. In June. 1759. Johnson captured the French fortat Niagara and cut the route to the Ohio.—where FortDuques place to Fort Pitt. At midsummer General Amherst, after his thorough fashion, led eleventhousand men against Ticonderoga, and had the satis-faction of seeing the French retire before him. Hecleared Lake George and captured and strengthened9^
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A HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE Crown Point upon Champlain. The French neededall their power in the north, for Pitt had sent Wolfeagainst Quebec. They had concentrated quite four-teen thousand men in and about the towering city ere Genei \mmer

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