1756-1764.
THESE five years were in many respects the most glorious and the most important in English history. At last the long series of disasters which had overwhelmed the royal armies had ended. Since the day the Great Commoner took the post of secretary, victory had followed victory with amazing rapidity. In July, 1758, Louisburg surrendered; then Cape Breton fell; and the great French fleet, the terror of the coast, was annihilated. Scarcely had the captured standards been hung in St. Paul's when 1759 opened, and the nation heard with delight of the conquest of Goree; of the fall of Guadaloupe, Ticonderoga, and Niagara; of the capture of Quebec. Before 1760 closed Montreal capitulated; the arms of England were triumphant in Canada, in India, on the sea, and the old king died.
With the accession of the new king arose a cry for peace. The Tories, with George III. at their head, were clamorous for peace on any
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Publication information:
Book title: Benjamin Franklin.
Contributors: John Bach McMaster - Author.
Publisher: Chelsea House.
Place of publication: New York.
Publication year: 1980.
Page number: 168.
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