The Life of George Washington, Vol. 1 | Page 5

Disputes between England and France respecting boundary in
America.... Recommencement of hostilities.... Quotas of the respective
colonies.... Treaty of neutrality between France and the five nations....
Expedition against Port Royal.... Incursion into Massachusetts.... Plan
for the invasion of Canada.... Port Royal taken.... Expedition against
Quebec.... Treaty of Utrecht.... Affairs of New York.... Of Carolina....
Expedition against St. Augustine.... Attempt to establish the Episcopal
church.... Invasion of the colony.... Bills of credit issued.... Legislature
continues itself.... Massacre in North Carolina by the Indians....
Tuscaroras defeated.... Scheme of a Bank.
CHAPTER VIII.
Proceedings of the legislature of Massachusetts.... Intrigues of the
French among the Indians.... War with the savages.... Peace....
Controversy with the governor.... Decided in England.... Contests

concerning the governor's salary.... The assembly adjourned to Salem....
Contest concerning the salary terminated.... Great depreciation of the
paper currency.... Scheme of a land bank.... Company dissolved by act
of Parliament.... Governor Shirley arrives.... Review of transactions in
New York.
CHAPTER IX.
War with the southern Indians.... Dissatisfaction of Carolina with the
proprietors.... Rupture with Spain.... Combination to subvert the
proprietary government.... Revolution completed.... Expedition from
the Havanna against Charleston.... Peace with Spain.... The proprietors
surrender their interest to the crown.... The province divided.... Georgia
settled.... Impolicy of the first regulations.... Intrigues of the Spaniards
with the slaves of South Carolina.... Insurrection of the slaves.
CHAPTER X.
War declared against Spain.... Expedition against St. Augustine....
Georgia invaded.... Spaniards land on an island in the Alatamaha....
Appearance of a fleet from Charleston.... Spanish army re-embarks....
Hostilities with France.... Expedition against Louisbourg.... Louisbourg
surrenders.... Great plans of the belligerent powers.... Misfortunes of
the armament under the duke D'Anville.... The French fleet dispersed
by a storm.... Expedition against Nova Scotia.... Treaty of Aix la
Chapelle.... Paper money of Massachusetts redeemed.... Contests
between the French and English respecting boundaries.... Statement
respecting the discovery of the Mississippi.... Scheme for connecting
Louisiana with Canada.... Relative strength of the French and English
colonies.... Defeat at the Little Meadows.... Convention at Albany....
Plan of union.... Objected to both in America and Great Britain.
CHAPTER XI.
General Braddock arrives.... Convention of governors and plan of the
campaign.... French expelled from Nova Scotia, and inhabitants
transplanted.... Expedition against fort Du Quêsne.... Battle of

Monongahela.... Defeat and death of General Braddock.... Expedition
against Crown Point.... Dieskau defeated.... Expedition against
Niagara.... Frontiers distressed by the Indians.... Meeting of the
governors at New York.... Plan for the campaign of 1756.... Lord
Loudoun arrives.... Montcalm takes Oswego.... Lord Loudoun
abandons offensive operations.... Small-pox breaks out in Albany....
Campaign of 1757 opened.... Admiral Holbourne arrives at Halifax....
Is joined by the earl of Loudoun.... Expedition against Louisbourg
relinquished.... Lord Loudoun returns to New York.... Fort William
Henry taken.... Controversy between Lord Loudoun and the assembly
of Massachusetts.
CHAPTER XII.
Preparations for the campaign of 1758.... Admiral Boscawen and
General Amherst arrive at Halifax.... Plan of the campaign....
Expedition against Louisbourg, Ticonderoga, and Crown Point....
General Abercrombie repulsed under the walls of Ticonderoga.... Fort
Frontignac taken.... Expedition against Fort Du Quêsne.... Preparations
for the campaign of 1759.... General Amherst succeeds General
Abercrombie.... Plan of the campaign.... Ticonderoga and Crown Point
taken.... Army goes into winter quarters.... French repulsed at
Oswego.... Defeated at Niagara.... Niagara taken.... Expedition against
Quebec.... Check to the English army.... Battle on the Plains of
Abraham.... Death of Wolfe and Montcalm.... Quebec capitulates....
Garrisoned by the English under the command of General Murray....
Attempt to recover Quebec.... Battle near Sillery.... Quebec besieged by
Monsieur Levi.... Siege raised.... Montreal capitulates.... War with the
southern Indians.... Battle near the town of Etchoe.... Grant defeats
them and burns their towns.... Treaty with the Cherokees.... War with
Spain.... Success of the English.... Peace.
CHAPTER XIII.
Opinions on the supremacy of parliament, and its right to tax the
colonies.... The stamp act.... Congress at New York.... Violence in the
towns.... Change of administration.... Stamp act repealed.... Opposition

to the mutiny act.... Act imposing duties on tea, &c., resisted in
America.... Letters from the assembly of Massachusetts to members of
the administration.... Petition to the King.... Circular letter to the
colonial assemblies.... Letter from the Earl of Hillsborough....
Assembly of Massachusetts dissolved.... Seizure of the Sloop Liberty....
Convention at Fanueil Hall.... Moderation of its proceedings.... Two
British regiments arrive at Boston.... Resolutions of the house of
Burgesses of Virginia.... Assembly dissolved.... The members form an
association.... General measures against importation.... General court
convened in Massachusetts.... Its proceedings.... Is prorogued.... Duties,
except that on tea, repealed.... Circular letter of the earl of
Hillsborough.... New York recedes from the non-importation agreement
in part.... Her example followed.... Riot in Boston.... Trial and acquittal
of Captain Preston.
CHAPTER XIV.
Insurrection in North Carolina.... Dissatisfaction of Massachusetts....
Corresponding-committees.... Governor Hutchinson's correspondence
communicated by Dr. Franklin.... The assembly petition for his
removal.... He is succeeded by General Gage.... Measures to enforce
the