Identifier: introductoryhis03flet (find matches)
Title: An introductory history of England
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: Fletcher, C. R. L. (Charles Robert Leslie), 1857-1934
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Publisher: London : Murray
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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s on Lake Ontario ; while a detachment ofHighlanders and Colonials under Forbes had seizedthe dreaded Fort Duquesne. Among the new soldierssent out had been Lord Howe, who was killed atTiconderoga ; to him is due the credit of having takenlessons from the enemy and the Indians in the art offorest warfare ; he stripped his men of their ridiculoustight coats, and filled their knapsacks with food insteadof pipeclay and clothes-brushes. Bradstreet, Forbes,Monckton, Murray and many others were quick tolearn and enforce the same lesson, and so matterslooked hopeful for the coming year. In the European theatre of the war the profit andloss were about equal. If Frederick beat a largeRussian Army at Zorndorff, he was badly beaten bythe Austrians at Hochkirch ; yet ever the indomitableman stood somewhere as near as possible to his centre,facing now this way, now that, as the blows were aimedat him from East, South or North. Ferdinand guardedhim well on the West, drove the French out of Hanover,
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; John. Murray. Albemarle BRITAIN STILL IN DANGER, 1758 209 out of Westphalia, over Rhine, and won a great battleon the left bank of that river at Crefeld. On gettingthe news of this, Pitt, who had promised Ferdinandtwo thousand British troops, sent him six thousand,and took his whole Army into British pay. He alsokept the French coasts in continual alarm by descents,either executed or threatened, at St. Malo, Cherbourg,Havre and again St. Malo. None of these raids, one ofwhich was beaten back with heavy loss, effected any-thing permanent, but, as a whole, they wrought dreadfulhavoc on French docks and shipping, and almost whollyparalysed Frances left hand. Old Lord Anson himselfactually took command of a Squadron and went anddared the Brest Fleet to come out and fight him. InWest African waters, Senegal and Goree, two importantFrench slave-trade stations, were taken by Englishships. In the West Indies our first big expedition wasbeaten off at Martinique, but seized the hardly lessimp

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