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up recruits. In the final campaign of 1760 his regi- 

 ment was part of the force led by Amherst from Lake 

 Ontario down the St. Lawrence to Montreal; and 

 after the capture of that town had completed the con- 

 quest of Canada, he returned to England. His uncle, 

 Sir William Bunbury, writing from London, had 

 alluded to chances of promotion, and incidentally 

 observed that many fashionable matches were re- 

 ported, and he had better come home before all the 

 fine young ladies were disposed of. Perhaps Sir 

 William had not heard of the accomplished daughter 

 of the " Lord Treasurer " White Thunder. The pro- 

 motion came in August, 1761, when Lee was appointed 

 Major in the iO3d regiment, known as the Volunteer 

 Hunters. War was then breaking out between Spain 

 and Portugal, and in 1762 a small British army was 

 sent to aid the Portuguese. The chief command of 

 the allied forces was given to one of the ablest gen- 

 erals of his time, the famous Count von Lippe-Schaum- 

 burg, a grandson of King George I., and own cousin 

 to the brothers Howe. Lee accompanied the expedi- 

 tion with a brevet of lieutenant-colonel from the king 

 of Portugal, and his brigadier-commander was General 

 Burgoyne. The campaign was a brilliant success, and 

 Lee received honourable mention for the masterly way 

 in which he surprised and carried by storm the Span- 

 ish position at Villa Velha on the Tagus. On his 

 return to England he busied himself with schemes of 

 colonization in America, in which he aspired to emu- 

 late the fame of Penn and Oglethorpe. A colony was 

 to be founded on the Ohio River below the Wabash, 

 and another on the Illinois. Inducements were to be 

 held out for Protestant emigrants from Switzerland 



