[A Popular History of France From The Earliest Times by Francois Pierre Guillaume Guizot]@TWC D-Link bookA Popular History of France From The Earliest Times CHAPTER LIII 70/76
The English Parliament resolved to send three armies to America, and the remains of General Wolfe were interred at Westminster with great ceremony.
King Louis XV. and his ministers sent to Canada a handful of men and a vessel which suffered capture from the English; the governor's drafts were not paid at Paris.
The financial condition of France did not permit her to any longer sustain the heroic devotion of her children. M.de Lally-Tollendal was still struggling single-handed in India, exposed to the hatred and the plots of his fellow-countrymen as well as of the Hindoos, at the very moment when the Canadians, united in the same ideas of effort and sacrifice, were trying their last chance in the service of the distant mother-country, which was deserting them.
The command had passed from the hands of Montcalm into those of the general who was afterwards a marshal and Duke of Levis.
He resolved, in the spring of 1760, to make an attempt to recover Quebec. "All Europe," says Raynal, "supposed that the capture of the capital was an end to the great quarrel in North America.
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