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Bougainville.
Montcalm abandoned by the Court. His Plans of Defence. Sad News
from Candiac. Promises of Vaudreuil.
CHAPTER 24
1758, 1759 Wolfe
The Exiles of Fort Cumberland. Relief. The Voyage to Louisbourg.
The British Fleet. Expedition against Quebec. Early Life of Wolfe. His
Character. His Letters to his Parents. His Domestic Qualities.
Appointed to command the Expedition. Sails for America.
CHAPTER 25
1759 Wolfe at Quebec
French Preparation. Muster of Forces. Gasconade of Vaudreuil. Plan of
Defence. Strength of Montcalm. Advance of Wolfe. British Sailors.
Landing of the English. Difficulties before them. Storm. Fireships.
Confidence of French Commanders. Wolfe occupies Point Levi. A
Futile Night Attack. Quebec bombarded. Wolfe at the Montmorenci.
Skirmishes. Danger of the English Position. Effects of the
Bombardment. Desertion of Canadians. The English above Quebec.
Severities of Wolfe. Another Attempt to burn the Fleet. Desperate
Enterprise of Wolfe. The Heights of Montmorenci. Repulse of the
English.
CHAPTER 26

1759 Amherst. Niagara
Amherst on Lake George. Capture of Ticonderoga and Crown Point.
Delays of Amherst. Niagara Expedition. La Corne attacks Oswego. His
Repulse. Niagara besieged. Aubry comes to its Relief. Battle. Rout of
the French. The Fort taken. Isle-aux-Noix. Amherst advances to attack
it. Storm. The Enterprise abandoned, Rogers attacks St. Francis.
Destroys the Town. Sufferings of the Rangers.
CHAPTER 27
1759 The Heights of Abraham
Elation of the French. Despondency of Wolfe. The Parishes laid waste.
Operations above Quebec. Illness of Wolfe. A New Plan of Attack.
Faint Hope of Success. Wolfe's Last Despatch. Confidence of
Vaudreuil. Last Letters of Montcalm. French Vigilance. British
Squadron at Cap-Rouge. Last Orders of Wolfe. Embarkation. Descent
of the St. Lawrence. The Heights scaled. The British Line. Last Night
of Montcalm. The Alarm. March of French Troops. The Battle. The
Rout. The Pursuit. Fall of Wolfe and of Montcalm.
CHAPTER 28
1759 Fall of Quebec
After the Battle. Canadians resist the Pursuit. Arrival of Vaudreuil.
Scene in the Redoubt. Panic. Movements of the Victors. Vaudreuil's
Council of War. Precipitate Retreat of the French Army. Last Hours of
Montcalm. His Death and Burial. Quebec abandoned to its Fate.
Despair of the Garrison. Lévis joins the Army. Attempts to relieve the
Town. Surrender. The British occupy Quebec. Slanders of Vaudreuil.
Reception in England of the News of Wolfe's Victory and Death.
Prediction of Jonathan Mayhew.
CHAPTER 29

1759, 1760 Sainte-Foy
Quebec after the Siege. Captain Knox and the Nuns. Escape of French
Ships. Winter at Quebec. Threats of Lévis. Attacks. Skirmishes. Feat of
the Rangers. State of the Garrison. The French prepare to retake
Quebec. Advance of Levis. The Alarm. Sortie of the English. Rash
Determination of Murray. Battle of Ste.-Foy. Retreat of the English.
Lévis besieges Quebec. Spirit of the Garrison. Peril of their Situation.
Relief. Quebec saved. Retreat of Lévis. The News in England.
CHAPTER 30
1760 Fall of Canada
Desperate Situation. Efforts of Vaudreuil and Lévis. Plans of Amherst.
A Triple Attack. Advance of Murray. Advance of Haviland. Advance
of Amherst. Capitulation of Montreal. Protest of Lévis. Injustice of
Louis XV. Joy in the British Colonies. Character of the War.
CHAPTER 31
1758-1763 The Peace of Paris
Exodus of Canadian Leaders. Wreck of the "Auguste." Trial of Bigot
and his Confederates. Frederic of Prussia. His Triumphs. His Reverses.
His Peril. His Fortitude. Death of George II. Change of Policy.
Choiseul. His Overtures of Peace. The Family Compact. Fall of Pitt.
Death of the Czarina. Frederic saved. War with Spain. Capture of
Havana. Negotiations. Terms of Peace. Shall Canada be restored?
Speech of Pitt. The Treaty signed. End of the Seven Years War.
CHAPTER 32
1763-1884 Conclusion
Results of the War. Germany. France. England. Canada. The British
Provinces.

Appendix
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Author's Introduction
It is the nature of great events to obscure the great events that came
before them. The Seven Years War in Europe is seen but dimly through
revolutionary convulsions and Napoleonic tempests; and the same
contest in America is half lost to sight behind the storm-cloud of the
War of Independence. Few at this day see the momentous issues
involved in it, or the greatness of the danger that it averted. The strife
that armed all the civilized world began here. "Such was the
complication of political interests," says Voltaire, "that a cannon-shot
fired in America could give the signal that set Europe in a blaze." Not
quite. It was not a cannon-shot, but a volley from the hunting-pieces of
a few backwoodsmen, commanded by a Virginian youth, George
Washington.
To us of this day, the result of the American part of the war seems a
foregone conclusion. It was far from being so; and very far from being
so regarded by our forefathers. The numerical superiority of the British
colonies was offset by organic weaknesses fatal to vigorous and united
action. Nor at the outset did they, or the