ic opinion in France. Nor
were the disasters of the Duke d'Anville's armament yet over. That part
of the fleet which had arrived in America, sailed for the purpose of
attacking Annapolis, only to be dispersed by a storm, in the Bay of
Fundy, and to return to France crest-fallen. Another expedition was
however, determined upon. Six men of war, of the largest class, six
frigates, and four East Indiamen, with a convoy of thirty merchant
vessels, set sail from France, with the Admiral de la Jonquiere
appointed to succeed de Beauharnois as Governor of Canada. But a
British fleet, under Admiral Anson and Rear Admiral Warren, dispatched
to watch, and, if possible, intercept it, fell in with the French fleet
on the 3rd of May, and before night all the battle ships had
surrendered. The new Governor of Canada found himself a prisoner. The
disagreeable intelligence of this second failure reached France on the
somewhat sudden and unexpected return of a part of the convoy, which
had escaped capture, as night fell, on the day of the surrender of the
fleet. Another Governor for Canada was appointed, the Count de la
Gallisoniere, who arrived safely. De la Gallisoniere took an
intelligent view of the position of affairs. He saw the folly, in a
military point of view, of keeping the frontier a wilderness, and
recommended that a large number of settlers should be sent from France,
who, by being located on the frontier, would act as a check upon the
British. His advice was, however, unheeded, and de la Jonquiere having
been released from captivity and conveyed to Canada, the Count resigned
his trust to the Admiral, and returned to France. De la Jonquiere was
exceedingly active and able. Shortly after, or about the time of his
release from captivity, the peace of Aix-la-Chapelle was signed, and
all conquests--Louisbourg included--made during the war, were mutually
restored. But de la Jonquiere hated the English cordially, and by his
hostile acts against the English fur traders, of the Ohio Company, he
brought on that war between France and England, known as "The French
and Indian War." Several English traders were seized and carried to a
French port, on the south of Lake Erie, and fortifications, at
convenient distances, were erected and occupied by French troops,
between Fort Presqu'isle and the Ohio. War was ultimately declared, and
Colonel George Washington, afterwards President of the United States,
was sent, at the head of a regiment of