With great skill, Washington saved the survivors,--but not until four shots had pierced his coat and only thirty of his three companies of Virginians were left alive.
[Sidenote: The French and Indian War.] [Sidenote: William Pitt, war minister, 1757.] 100.

The War to 1759 .-- All the earlier French and Indian wars had begun in Europe and had spread to America.

This war began in America and soon spread to Europe.

At first affairs went very ill.

But in 1757 William Pitt became the British war minister, and the war began to be waged with vigor and success.