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1756. Outbreak of the Seven Years' War.
Oswego, under Bradstreet, taken by Montcalm.
Recall of William s.h.i.+rley.
1757. Loudoun and Holborne made an abortive attempt on Louisburg.
Fort William Henry taken by Montcalm and Levis.
William Pitt joined Newcastle.
1758. Louisburg under Drucour taken by Boscawen, Amherst, and Wolfe.
Abercromby defeated at Ticonderoga. Death of Lord Howe.
1758. Fort Frontenac taken by Bradstreet.
Amherst appointed Commander-in-chief in North America.
Fort Duquesne taken by Forbes and renamed Pittsburg.
1759. Stanwix sent to Duquesne and Prideaux to Oswego.
Fort Niagara taken by Johnson.
Ticonderoga and Crown Point taken by Amherst.
The capture of Quebec. Deaths of Wolfe and Montcalm.
1760. The Battle of St Foy. Levis forced the English into Quebec.
Relief of Quebec.
Surrender of Montreal to the forces of Amherst, Haviland, and Murray.
1763. The Peace of Paris.
A SHORT BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THOSE WORKS WHICH CAN BE OBTAINED EASILY
_Large Bibliographies_
Larned, J. N. (editor). The Literature of American History, Boston, 1902.
Harrisse, H. Notes pour servir a l'histoire, a la bibliographie, et a la cartographie de la Nouvelle France, etc., Paris, 1872.
Cambridge Modern History, vol. vii., Cambridge, 1905.
_General_
Calendars of Colonial State Papers in the English Record Office.
Bancroft, G. History of the United States, 6 vols., New York, 1883-85.
Doyle, J. A. The English in America, 3 vols., London, 1882-87; The Middle Colonies, London, 1907; The Colonies under the House of Hanover, London, 1907.
Egerton, H. L. Short History of British Colonial Policy, New York, 1898; Origin and Growth of English Colonies, Oxford, 1903.
Hart, A. B. (editor). American History told by Contemporaries, 4 vols., New York, 1897-1902.
Winsor, J. (editor). The Narrative and Critical History of America, 8 vols., Boston, 1886-89.
_Discoveries_
Fiske, J. The Discovery of America, 2 vols., Boston, 1892.
Hakluyt, R. Princ.i.p.al Navigations, voiages, etc. (1598), 12 vols., Glasgow, 1904-5.
Payne, L. J. Voyages of Elizabethan Seamen to America, 2 vols., London, 1893.
Prowse, D. W. History of Newfoundland, London, 1895.
_The Thirteen Colonies_
Bradley, A. G. Captain John Smith (English Men of Action), London, 1905.
Brown, J. The Pilgrim Fathers of New England, New York, 1895.
Browne, W. H. Maryland: the History of a Palatinate, Boston, 1884.
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Clarkson, T. Memoirs of William Penn, 2 vols., London, 1813.
Fiske, J. The Beginnings of New England, Boston, 1889; Old Virginia and her Neighbours, 2 vols., New York, 1897; Dutch and Quaker Colonies in America, 2 vols., Boston, 1899.
Johnston, A. Connecticut, Boston, 1887.
Jones, C. C. History of Georgia, 2 vols., Boston, 1883.
M'Clintock, J. History of New Hamps.h.i.+re, Boston, 1889.
M'Crady, E. History of South Carolina, 4 vols., New York, 1897-1903.
Neill, E. D. History of the Virginia Company of London, Albany, 1869.
Rickman, J. Rhode Island, its Making and Meaning, 2 vols., New York, 1902.
Roberts, E. H. History of New York, 2 vols., Boston, 1887.
Saunders, W. L. (editor). Colonial Records of North Carolina, 16 vols., Raleigh, 1886.
Shurtlegg, N. B. Records of Ma.s.sachusetts Bay, 1628-86, 5 vols., Boston, 1853-54.
Weeden, W. B. Economic and Social History of New England, 2 vols., Boston, 1890.
Williamson, W. D. History of Maine, 2 vols., Hallowell, 1832.
Wenson, J. Memorial History of Boston, 1630-1880, 4 vols., Boston, 1880-82.
