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reduce Canada, . Proceedings at Osrvego 

 and Lake Ontario. Buildings and settle- 

 ment at Fort St. Frederick at Croxvn 

 Point. Capture of Fort Massachusetts. 

 Proposed expedition against Croxmi Point. 

 Attempt upon the Fort at Charlestoxvn. 287 

 CHAPTER XL 



"War Fro7n the year 1750, to 1757. 



Conferences at Paris. Measures of the 

 French. Embassy and defeat of Wash- 

 ington. Views of the English and Prench 

 colonies. Congress and plan of Union at 

 Albany. Council of Generals and Gover- 

 nors at Alexandria. Expedition and de- 

 feat of Braddock. Success of Monckton 

 and Winslow^ in Nova Scotia. Proposed 

 Expedition to JViaga?'a. Proceedings of 

 Baron Dieskau at Lake Champlain. Vic- 

 tory of Johnson at Lake George. Ter- 

 inination of the campaigns of 1755. Mil- 

 itary arrangements of the British ministry 

 in 1756. Capture of Osrvego by Mont- 

 calm. Inactivity of the Earl of Loudon. 3S^ 

 CHAPTER XH. 



Vsl A'R.... Progress and events of the War in 

 the years 1757 and 1758. Loudon's pre- 

 parations for the campaign. Montcahn^s 

 measures with the Lidians. Designs upon 

 the English. Putnam's account of Webb^s 

 proceedijigs. Conquest of Fort William 

 Henry. Savage massacre of the prison- 

 ers. Reflections on Montcalm's conduct. 

 Result of the campaign in 1757. Change 

 gf the British councils and ministry, 



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