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 Quesne.... 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 Stamp act repealed....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Duties, except that on tea, repealed....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
remov