From Franquelin, 1683.

LANDING OF IBERVILLE'S MEN AT PORT NELSON . . . . . . . . . 186
From La Potherie's _Histoire de l'Amerique Septentrionale_.

CAPTURE OF FORT NELSON BY THE FRENCH . . . . . . . . . . . 187
From the same.

CONTEMPORARY MAP, 1689 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191
From La Hontan.

HERTEL DE ROUVILLE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193
After a portrait in Daniel's _Nos Gloires Nationales_.

CONTEMPORARY PLAN OF PORT ROYAL BASIN . . . . . . . . . . . 199
From Bellin's map, 1744.

PAUL MASCARENE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201
After a portrait in Savary's edition
of Calnek's _Annapolis_.

LA VERENDRYE'S FORTS AND THE RIVER OF THE WEST . . . . . . 207
After Jeffery's map, 1762.

MAP PUBLISHED IN PARIS IN 1752 SHOWING THE SUPPOSED
SEA OF THE WEST . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209
From the Memoire presented to the Academy
of Sciences at Paris by Buache, August, 1752.

MAP SHOWING THE SUPPOSED SEA OF THE WEST, WITH APPROACHES
TO THE MISSISSIPPI AND GREAT LAKES, PARIS, 1755 . . . . . 211
From the same.

WILLIAM PEPPERRELL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217
After the portrait by Smibert.

RUINS OF THE FORTIFICATIONS AT LOUISBURG . . . . . . . . . . 219
From a recent photograph.

CONTEMPORARY PLAN OF THE ATTACK ON LOUISBURG . . . . . . . . 221
After a plan reproduced in Winsor's _America_.

FORT HALIFAX, 1755 (Restoration) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 222

CONTEMPORARY VIEW OF OSWEGO . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223
From Smith's _History of the Province of New York_.

GOVERNOR DINWIDDIE OF VIRGINIA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225
After a portrait by Ramsay.

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TITLE-PAGE OF WASHINGTON'S JOURNAL . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227

A SKETCH OF THE FIELD OF BATTLE AT BRADDOCK'S DEFEAT . . . . 229
From a contemporary manuscript in the Library
of Harvard University.

PLAN OF FORT BEAUSEJOUR . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 230
From Mante's _History of the Late War in North America_.

GENERAL MONCKTON . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 232
After a mezzotint in the Library of the
American Antiquarian Society.

GENERAL JOHN WINSLOW . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 234
After the portrait in Pilgrim Hall, Plymouth, Massachusetts.

MAP OF ACADIA AND THE ADJACENT ISLANDS, 1755 . . . . . . . . 237

SIR WILLIAM JOHNSON