Identifier: historyofamericap02wils (find matches)
Title: A history of the American people
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Wilson, Woodrow, 1856-1924 John Davis Batchelder Collection (Library of Congress)
Subjects: United States -- History
Publisher: New York and London, Harper & brothers
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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JEFFREY AMHERST Wolfe came with scarcely nine thousand (June 21. 1759),and their fortifications stood everywhere ready to de-fend the place. For close upon three months the Eng-lish struck at their strength in vain, first here andthen there, in their busy efforts to find a spot where94 COMMON UNDERTAKINGS
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JAMES WOLFE to get a foothold against the massive stronghold,—Montcalm holding all the while within his defencesto tire them out; until at last, upon a night in Septemberwhich all the world remembers, Wolfe made his way by95 A HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE a path which la)- within a deep ravine upward to theheights of Abraham, and there lost his life and wonCanada for England (September 13, 1759). After that the rest of the task was simple enough.The next year Montreal was yielded up, all Canadapassed into the hands of the English, and the war waspractically over. There were yet three more years towait before formal peace should be concluded, becausethe nations of Europe did not decide their affairs b)T theissue of battles and sieges in America; but for the Eng-lish colonies the great struggle was ended. By theformal peace, signed in 1763, at Paris, England gainedCanada, Nova Scotia, Cape Breton Island, and all theislands of the Gulf of St. Lawrence, the river and har-bor of Mobile

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