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tion of Canada. This officer, recently appointed high-sheriff of 

 New England, sailed from Boston early in the spring of 1690 for 

 Port Royal. The fort surrendered with hut little resistance, and 

 three weeks later Sir William returned to Boston to prepare for 

 the more ambitious attempt upon Quebec. August 9th, he sailed 

 with upwards of thirty vessels and two thousand Massachusetts 

 men, among whom were Captain Andrews, Lieutenant Chubbuck, 

 and other Hingham men ; how many we do not know- 

 October 5 the fleet dropped anchor beneath the castle which 

 was commanded by Frontenac, an old and distinguished French 

 officer. The attack commenced on the 8th, and was continued 

 during; the two following davs. when the colonial troops retreated 

 after suffering great loss. Sir William returned to Boston with 

 the remnant of his army and fleet, arriving there November 19. 

 At least one of our townsmen was killed in the attack upon 

 Quebec, while another, Isaac Lasell, died a few days after, proba- 

 bly uf wounds, while Paul Gilford, Samuel Judkins, Jonathan 

 Burr, Daniel Tower, and Jonathan May, and " two more of the 

 town " were carried off by the small pox, which broke out in the 

 fleet and added its misfortunes to the disasters of the expedition. 

 On the 25th of the month Captain Andrews succumbed to the 

 dreaded disease : a stone m the old Granary burying-ground 

 marks his last resting-place. The succeeding day Lieutenant 

 Chubbuck died also. This ill-fated attempt was followed by the 

 long struggle between France in the New World and New England 

 and the colonies south and west, which only terminated a few years 

 preceding the American Revolution. The history of the period is 

 that of exasperating and wasteful incapacity, oftentimes on the 

 part of British commanders in this country, of disastrous defeats, of 

 glorious victories, of cruelties on both sides which we would gladly 

 forget, of bravery, persistence, and enterprise by Massachusetts 

 men of which we may well be proud, and of final triumph, due in 

 very large measure to the arms of New England and the training 

 of a soldierv under the laws of our own and the neighboring 

 colonies which only made success possible. It is the history of 

 Louisburg, of Fort Necessity and its gallant young commander, 

 of Crown Point, Fort William Henry, Acadia and its piteous story, 

 Shirley and Winslow, Wolfe and Montcalm, and the Heights of 

 Abraham. During its telling we learn of Braddock's defeat, of 

 Ticonderoga, of Fort Frontenac ; we become acquainted with the 

 Howes, with Gage, Fraser, and a score of other English officers 

 who afterwards played a part in the contest with the mother 

 country. We first meet Washington and soon come to know why 

 none other could have been the future American commander ; we 

 see Gates and Putnam and Stark in their earlier days, while 

 Franklin and Otis already are shaping the legislation and destiny 

 of their respective States. During all this period, in all the wars, 

 and in nearly every battle fought in the North we shall find, on 



