The History of Connecticut, Vol. 2: From the First Settlement of the Colony to the Adoption of the Present Constitution (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Levussove, S. H.

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ISBN 10: 1451001207 ISBN 13: 9781451001204

Verlag: Forgotten Books, 2010

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Excerpt from The History of Connecticut, Vol. 2 of 2: From the First Settlement of the Colony to the Adoptions of the Present Constitution

As this work was not commenced under the promptings of any desire to obtain money or win popularity, but from the mere love of the subject of which it treats, I have no occasion to solicit the indulgence of the public. Still the kindness of the legislature of the state, whose history I have attempted to illustrate, in making an appropriation to aid me in embellishing my work with portraits of some of her noblest sons, I can no more forget, than I can be unmind ful of the generosity and eloquence with which that appropriation was advocated by John Cotton Smith, Esquire, then a comparative stranger to me, and the assiduity with which he has aided the work in too many ways to be mentioned in a single paragraph.

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WHEN employed in writing the first volume of this work, it was a pleasure to dwell upon the traits of individual men who fell under my observation. But on reaehing the period of the last French war, the population of the colony was found to have multiplied so rapidly that the task became more difficult, and when the attempt was made to give an account of men who lived, and events whioh transpired three quarters of a oentury later, it appeared almost impossible to embrace within a small volume even an outline of our history. Aware of the many imperfeetions of this work, it would be ungrateful in me not to acknowledge that it would have been much more open to criticism than it is, had not the contributions of friends, too numerous to be named here, been used without stint as they were given without reserve. The names of some of these contributors have been already mentioned in notes. To them should be added those of the Rev. Tryon Edwards, D.D., the Rev. Chauncey A

Table of Contents

CONTENTS; of Montcalm and his Indian allies; retreat of General Webb; inglorious; close of the campaign of 1756; the contrast; chagrin of; the people of New England; preparations for a new campaign;; arrival of the fleet from England; expedition against Crown Point; abandoned; Lord Loudoun's expedition against Louisbourg; his; return to New York; General Webb visits Fort William Henry ;; Israel Putnam; Fort William Henry reinforced by Colonel Monroe;; Montcalm opens the siege; Monroe implores assistance from; General Webb; the general advises him to lIurrender; he capitulates; Montcalm neglects to provide a suitable escort; Indian barbarities;; Putnam visits the scene of slaughter; more troops called; PAll!:; for; response of Connecticut 45; CHAPTER III; Campaign oj 1758-Convention of governors at Hartford; the conference; proves unsa

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• Verlag: Forgotten Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1451001207
• ISBN 13: 9781451001204
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 782