d afterward to Rosswein. No sooner were they
informed of the Imperial defeat at Torgau than they diligently advanced
to cover Dresden before the Prussians could come up.

FOOTNOTES:

[42] The Hanoverian nobility, who hoped thereby to protect their
property, were implicated in this affair. They were shortly afterward
well and deservedly punished, being laid under contribution by the
French.

CONQUEST OF CANADA

VICTORY OF WOLFE AT QUEBEC

A.D. 1759

A.G. BRADLEY

With the opening of the Seven Years' War the two races, French and
English, once more began to contend for the prize of empire in the
New World. For a while the advantage in the struggle was on the side
of France, though the preponderance of population was vastly on the
side of the English colonies. Louis XV, however, had one general in
Canada worthy of the gallant race from which he had sprung, and who
strenuously endeavored to uphold the fortunes of his country. This
was the Marquis de Montcalm, a cultured and far-seeing French
nobleman, whose ability and enthusiasm in the profession of arms had
procured for him the chief military command in Canada, and who was
now seeking to expel the English from the colonial possessions of
France on the Continent.

But, unfortunately for his country, Montcalm was ill-supported by
Old France, and his difficulties were increased by the
maladministration of affairs in the colony. Despite these drawbacks,
he was for some years the means of protracting the gallant struggle
in America and of bringing many disasters on the English arms.

Concentrating his forces in the neighborhood of Lake Champlain, he
attacked Fort William Henry, on Lake George, and with a body of
Indian auxiliaries from the Ottawa forced the English to capitulate.
The victory was marred by horrible Indian atrocities on the English
prisoners of war, which Montcalm was unable to prevent. During the
year 1757 Montcalm acted solely on the defensive, while the English,
having incompetent generals, accomplished little and failed in an
attempt to wrest Louisburg from the French. The following year,
however, William Pitt, "the Great English Commoner," was called to
the councils of his nation, and infused new vigor into the war which
had now been formally declared between the two countries. Pitt,
aiming at the extinction of French power