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With Wolfe in Canada

CHAPTER 17: Louisbourg And Ticonderoga
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This was called Fort Pitt, and the place itself, Pittsburg.

A small garrison was left there, and the army, after having collected and buried the bones of Braddock's men, retired to Virginia.

The general, who, though suffering terribly from disease, had steadfastly carried out the enterprise in the face of enormous difficulties, died shortly after the force returned to the settlements.
Another successful enterprise, during the autumn, had been the capture of Fort Frontenac, and the gaining of a foothold by the English on Lake Ontario.
Thus, the campaign of 1758 was, on the whole, disastrous to the French.
They had held their own triumphantly at Ticonderoga, but they had lost their great fortress of Louisbourg, their right had been forced back by the capture of Fort Duquesne, and their line of communication cut by the destruction of Fort Frontenac..


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