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Rh in the Alatamaha... Appearance of a fleet from Charleston... Spanish army are seized with a panic, and re-embark... Hostilities with France... Plan for attacking Louisbourg... Louisbourg surrenders.

CHAPTER XI.

Great plans of the belligerent powers... Misfortunes of the armament under the duke D'Anville... The French fleet is dispersed by a storm... Expedition against Nova Scotia... Treaty of Aix la Chapelle... Paper money of Massachussetts redeemed... Revival of the contest between the French and English colonies respecting boundaries... Statement of the discovery of the Mississippi by the French... Scheme for connecting Louisiana with Canada... Relative strength and advantages of the French and English colonies... Defeat at the Little Meadows... Convention at Albany... Plan of union agreed to in convention... Objected to, both in America and Great Britain.

CHAPTER XII.

General Braddock arrives in America... Convention of the governors, and plan of the campaign resolved on... French expelled from Nova Scotia, and the inhabitants transplanted... Expedition against fort du Quesne... Battle of Monongahela... Defeat and death of Braddock... Expedition against Crown Point... Dieskau defeated... Expedition against Niagara... Frontiers distressed by incursions of the Indians... Meeting of the governors at New York... Plan for the campaign of 1756... Command in America bestowed on lord Loudoun... Montcalm takes Oswego... All offensive operations abandoned by lord Loudoun... Small-pox breaks out in Albany... Campaign closed... Campaign of 1757 opened... Admiral Holbourne arrives with a large armament at Halifax, where he is joined by the earl of Loudoun... Expedition against Louisbourg relinquished... lord Loudoun returns to New York... Fort William Henry taken... Controversy between lord Loudoun and the assembly of Massachussetts.

CHAPTER XIII.

Review of affairs at the close of the campaign of 1757... Great preparations for the campaign of 1758... Admiral