THE FALL OF NEW FRANCE Pry 
sault. The result was a useless slaughter, like that which 
the present generation has witnessed at Fredericks- 
burg and Cold Harbor. After an obstinate struggle of 
four hours, in which the gallant Englishmen dashed 
themselves repeatedly against a stout breastwork nine 
feet high, they lost heart and withdrew in disorder, 
leaving two thousand men killed or wounded on the 
field. For this disastrous error of judgment Aber- 
crombie was superseded by General Amherst. 
The victory of Ticonderoga was, however, the last 
considerable success of the French arms in this war. 
The stars in their courses had begun to fight against 
them, and, with the exception of this brief gleam of 
triumph, their career for the next two years was an 
unbroken succession of disasters. In 1758 the French 
fleets were totally defeated by Admiral Osborne off 
Cartagena, and by Admiral Pococke in the Indian 
Ocean, while their great squadron destined for North 
America was driven ashore in the Bay of Biscay by 
Sir Edward Hawke. In Germany, their army was 
defeated by the Prince of Brunswick, at Crefeld, in 
June. 
In America prodigious exertions were made. Mas- 
sachusetts raised 7000 men, and during the year con- 
tributed more than a million dollars toward the 
expenses of the war. Connecticut raised 5000 troops; 
New Hampshire and Rhode Island furnished 1000 be- 
tween them; New York raised 2680; New Jersey, 
1000; Pennsylvania, 2700; Virginia, 2000, and South 
Carolina, 1250. With these provincial troops, with 
22,000 British regulars, and with an especial levy of 
Highlanders from Scotland, there were in all 50,000 
troops collected for the overthrow of the French power 
