...of influence over the Ministry. Their coalition boded ill to Shirley, and he soon felt its effects.1 The campaign was now closed, — a sufficiently active...reckoning from the line of Fort Cumberland. M. de Contrecceur had not been gone a week before I had six or seven different war-parties in the field at...

...retreat of Dunbar from the frontier which it was his duty to defend. Dumas had replaced Conirecceur in the command of Fort Duquesne ; and his first care...reckoning from the line of Fort Cumberland. M. de Contrecceur had not been gone a week before I had six or seven different war-parties in the field at...

...consequence of the defeat of Braddock aided by the skilful devices of the French commander. ** Ifr is by means such as I have mentioned," says Dumas,...reckoning from the line of Fort Cumberland. M. de Contreca'ur had not been gone a week before I had six or seven different war-parties in the field at...

...French commander on the Ohio the opportunity that he so well improved, and also so well described, of "ruining the three adjacent provinces, Pennsylvania,...inhabitants, and totally destroying the settlements from a tract of country thirty leagues wide reckoning from the line of Fort Cumberland ; "* and of...

...were personally cognizant of the course of the dispute. 1755.] DUMAS ATTACKS THE BORDERS. 341 nally at peace. A disastrous rout on the Monongahela, failure...reckoning from the line of Fort Cumberland. M. de Contrecceur had not been gone a week before I had six or seven different war-parties in the field at...

...French commander on the Ohio the opportunity that he so well improved, and also so well described, of "ruining the three adjacent provinces, Pennsylvania,...inhabitants, and totally destroying the settlements from a tract of country thirty leagues wide reckoning from the line of Fort Cumberland;"2 and of course...

...Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Virginia, driving off the inhabitants, and totally destroying the settlements from a tract of country thirty leagues wide reckoning from the line of Fort Cumberland;"' and of course adjourned theboundary war until the war of arms should cease. With the fall of Fort Duquesne...

...and swarmed in fury against the English frontier. Soon the French commander could boast that he had succeeded in ruining the three adjacent provinces, Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Virginia, driving off their inhabitants and totally destroying the settlements over a tract of country thirty leagues wide,...

...with Teedyuscung to fight both French and English, but this attitude could not be maintained. land and Virginia, driving off the inhabitants and totally...settlements over a tract of country thirty leagues wide. I had six or seven war parties in the field at once, always accompanied by Frenchmen." The orders of...

...before I had six or seven different war parties in the field at once, always accompanied by Frenchmen. I have succeeded in ruining the three adjacent provinces,...wide, reckoning from the line of Fort Cumberland." And the Rev. Claude Godfroy Coquard, SJ, in a letter to his brother, said in reference to the work...