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CHAPTER XI. 



War. Frofn the year 1750 to 11 SI. Confer* 

 iences at Parts. Measures of the French, 

 Embassy and defeat of Washington, Views 

 of the English and French colonies. CongresSy 

 and plan of union at Albany. Council of gen- 

 erals and governors at Alexandria, Expedi- 

 tion and defeat of Braddock. Success oj 

 Monckton and Wmslow in Nova Scotia, 

 Proposed expedition to Niagara. Proceed- 

 ings of baron Dieskaii at lake Champlain, 

 Victory of Johnson at lake George. Terniina- 

 iion of the campaigns of 1755. Military ar- 

 rangements of the British miyiistry i?i 1756. 

 Capture of Oswego by Montcalm. Inactivity 

 of the earl of London, 



1752. BY the treaty of Aix la Chap- 

 pelle, the controversy between the British and 

 French crowns relative to their claims in A- 

 merica was referred to commissioners to be ap- 

 pointed by the two sovereigns for that purpose. 

 These commissioners met at Paris in the year 

 1752, of V\7hich Mr. Shirley, governor of Mas- 

 sachusetts, was one. They laboured much to 

 establish the claims of their respective sover- 

 eigns by virtue of ancient grants, maps, treaties, 

 priority of discovery, ceremonies of taking pos- 

 session, concessions, and such other grounds of 

 claim, as were then customary among sover- 

 eigns ; and were supposed to be matters of real 

 weight and importance. The commissioners 

 were not able to come to any agreement ; and 



