Chapter 12: A Commission.
Chapter 13: An Abortive Attack.
Chapter 14: Scouting On Lake Champlain.
Chapter 15: Through Many Perils.
Chapter 16: The Massacre At Fort William Henry.
Chapter 17: Louisbourg And Ticonderoga.
Chapter 18: Quebec.
Chapter 19: A Dangerous Expedition.
Chapter 20: The Path Down The Heights.
Chapter 21: The Capture Of Quebec.



Preface.


My Dear Lads,

In the present volume I have endeavoured to give the details of the
principal events in a struggle whose importance can hardly be
overrated. At its commencement the English occupied a mere patch of
land on the eastern seaboard of America, hemmed in on all sides by the
French, who occupied not only Canada in the north and Louisiana in the
south, but possessed a chain of posts connecting them, so cutting off
the English from all access to the vast countries of the west.

On the issues of that struggle depended not only the destiny of Canada,
but of the whole of North America and, to a large extent, that of the
two mother countries. When the contest began, the chances of France
becoming the great colonizing empire of the world were as good as those