A Particular History of the Five Years French and Indian War in New England and Parts Adjacent: From Its Declaration by the King of France, March 15, 1744, to the Treaty with the Eastern Indians, Oct. 16, 1749, Sometimes Called Gov. Shirley's War ; with a Memoir of Major-General Shirley, Accompanied by His Portrait and Other Engravings |
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Page 282 - I will therefore put you in remembrance, though ye once knew this, how that the Lord, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed them that believed not.
Page 187 - General and Governor in Chief in and over his Majesty's Province of the Massachusetts Bay in New England and Vice Admiral of the same.
Page 216 - The next morning, as Vaughan was returning with thirteen men only, he crept up the hill which overlooked the battery, and observed that the chimneys of the barracks were without smoke, and the staff without a flag. With a bottle of brandy, which he had in his pocket (though he never drank spirituous liquors), he hired one of his party, a Cape Cod Indian, to crawl in at an embrasure and open the gate. He then wrote to the General...
Page 213 - Bay, to his Grace the Duke of Newcastle, with a journal of the siege of Louisbourg...
Page 216 - May it please your honor, to be informed, that by the grace of God, and the courage of thirteen men, I entered the royal battery, about nine o'clock, and am waiting for a reinforcement, and a flag.
Page 108 - Warren were in the council-chamber, went thither, when the speaker addressed them in the following manner: " The House of Representatives of this province have a high sense of the services you have done for his majesty's subjects in general, and for the people of New England in particular; and it is with the greatest pleasure they embrace this happy opportunity of acknowledging it. " In their name, and by their order, I congratulate you on your safe arrival in the province, and most heartily bid...
Page 187 - July 18, 1745. Occasioned by taking the city of Louisbourg, on the isle of Cape Breton, by New- England soldiers, assisted by a British squadron.
Page 251 - The Redeemed Captive ; being a Narrative of the taking and carrying into Captivity the Reverend Mr. John Norton, when Fort Massachusetts surrendered to a large body of French and Indians, Aug. 20, 1746,
Page 181 - Opportunitys, as far as depends upon me, to distress and' Annoy the French in their Settlements, Trade, and Commerce, His Majesty having already issued his Royal Proclamation for the Distribution of Prizes taken by his Ships of War or Privateers, I do invite all His -Majesty's Subjects under my Government to receive the Benefit of this most gracious Declaration, by fitting out such Privateers. Which will not only...
Page 242 - River, and sent in his Boats to reconnoitre ; they found no ships there, but, on their appearance, the French burst their Cannon, blew up their Magazine, burned everything they could, belonging to the Fort, and marched off.