Lyal-Henning,
for the defence of Pennsylvania; but he himself did not long survive
these transactions, his Constitution having been exhausted by the
incredible fatigues of the service.--Thus have we given a particular
detail of all the remarkable operations by which this campaign was
distinguished on the continent of America; the reader will be convinced,
that, notwithstanding the defeat of Ticonderoga, and the disaster of the
advanced party in the neighbourhood of Fort du Quesne, the arms of Great
Britain acquired many important advantages; and indeed paved the way
for the reduction of Quebec, and the conquest of all Canada. In the
meantime, the admirals Boscawen and Hardy, having left a considerable
squadron at Halifax in Nova-Scotia, returned with four ships of the
line to England, where they arrived in the beginning of November, after
having given chase to six large French ships, which they descried to the
westward of Scilly, but could not overtake or bring to an engagement.

The conquest of the French settlement in the river Senegal being deemed
imperfect and incomplete, whilst France still kept possession of the
island of Goree, the ministry of Great Britain resolved to crown the
campaign in Africa with the reduction of that fortress. For this purpose
commodore Keppel, brother to the earl of Albemarle, was vested with the
command of a squadron, consisting of four ships of the line, several
frigates, two bomb-ketches, and some transports, having on board seven
hundred men of the regular troops, commanded by colonel Worge, and
embarked in the harbour of Cork in Ireland, from whence this whole
armament took its departure on the eleventh day of November. After a
tempestuous passage, in which they touched at the isle of Teneriffe,
they arrived at Goree in the latter end of December, and the commodore
made a disposition for attacking this island, which was remarkably
strong by nature, but very indifferently fortified. Goree is a small
barren island, extending about three quarters of a mile in length, of a
triangular form; and on the south-west side rising into a rocky hill, on
which the paltry fort of St. Michael is situated. There is another still
more inconsiderable, called St. Francis, towards the other extremity of
the island; and several batteries were raised around its sweep, mounted
with about one hundred pieces of cannon, and four mortars. The French
governor, M. de St. Jean, had great plenty of ammunition, and