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Title: A history of the United States for schools; including a concise account of the discovery of America, the colonization of the land, and the revolutionary war
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Mowry, William A. (William Augustus), 1829-1917 Mowry, Arthur May, 1862-1900
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Publisher: Boston, New York (etc.) Silver, Burdett and co
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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ightwas moonless and sufificiently dark.The General was in one of the fore-most boats, and near him was a youngmidshipman, John Robison, who usedto tell in his later life how Wolfe, witha low voice, repeated Grays Elegy ina Country Churchyard to the officersabout him. Probably it was to re-lieve the intense strain of his thoughts.Among the rest was the verse whichhis own fate was soon to illustrate, —* The paths of glory lead but to the grave. Gentlemen, he said, as his reci-tal ended, * I would rather have writtenthose lines than take Quebec Nonewere there to tell him that the herois greater than the poet. The dead stillness was suddenlybroken by the sharp Qui vive I of aFrench sentry; invisible in the thickgloom. i^ra««. answered a High-land officer of Erasers regiment fromone of the boats of the light infantry.He had served in Holland, and spokeFrench fluently. M quel regiment ? * De la Reitie,^ replied the High-lander. The sentry was satisfied, anddid not ask for the password.
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^ •io 1763) TREATY OF 1763. 89 CHAPTER XXII. TREATY OF 1763. 158. The War ended.—The fall of Quebec practically determinedthe result of the war. The next year the French made an attemptto recapture the city, but the timely arrival of a large force fromEngland prevented the success of this undertaking. Soon after,Montreal and all Canada submitted to British domination. Thetreaty of peace, however, was delayed until 1763. 159. A New Map of North America. — This treaty made greatchanges in the political map of North America. Up to this timeSpain had held Florida, Mexico, and Central America. The entirevalley of the Mississippi from the Alleghanies to the Rocky Moun-tains, and the entire valley of the St. Lawrence, including all nowknown as British America, belonged to France. Previous to thistime the British colonies comprised only a narrow strip between theAtlantic and the Alleghany Mountains extending from Maine toGeorgia. 160. France shut out from North America. — By this trea

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