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xxii Boscawen and general Amherst arrive at Halifax.... Plan of the campaign.... Expeditions against Louisbourg.... Ticonderoga, and Crown Point... General Abercrombie repulsed under the walls of Ticonderoga.... Fort Frontignac taken by colonel Bradstreet.... Expedition against fort du Quesne.... Preparations for the campaign of 1759.... General Amherst succeeds general Abercrombie.... Plan of the campaign.... Ticonderoga and Crown Point taken.... The army of Amherst put into winter quarters at Crown Point.... French repulsed at Oswego.... Defeated at Niagara, and that place taken.... Expedition against Quebec.... Check given the English army.... Battle on the plains of Abraham.... Death of Wolfe and Montcalm.... Victory of the English.... Quebec capitulates.... Garrisoned by five thousand men under command of general Murray.... Attempt to recover Quebec.... Battle near Sillery.... Quebec besieged by monsieur de Levi.... Siege raised.... Montreal capitulates.... War with the southern Indians.... Battle near the village of Etchoe.... Grant defeats them and burns the towns of the middle settlements.... Treaty with the Cherokees.... Negociations between England and France.... Altercations with Spain.... Mr. Pitt proposes a declaration of war against that monarchy.... Is over-ruled and resigns his office.... War with Spain, and great success of the English.... Treaty of peace.