grew continually stronger in America, while the losers
grew correspondingly weaker. When peace came, the French
only had time enough to build new ships and start their
trade again before the next war set them back once more;
while the British had nearly all their old ships, all
those they had taken from the French, and many new ones.

But where did Wolfe come in? He came in at the most
important time and place of all, and he did the most
important single deed of all. This brings us to the
consideration of how the whole of the Second Hundred
Years' War was won, not by the British Navy alone, much
less by the Army alone, but by the united service of
both, fighting like the two arms of one body, the Navy
being the right arm and the Army the left. The heart of
this whole Second Hundred Years' War was the Seven Years'
War; the British part of the Seven Years' War was then
called the 'Maritime War'; and the heart of the 'Maritime
War' was the winning of Canada, in which the decisive
blow was dealt by Wolfe.

We shall see presently how Navy and Army worked together
as a united service in 'joint expeditions' by sea and
land, how Wolfe took part in two other joint expeditions
before he commanded the land force of the one at Quebec,
and how the mighty empire-making statesman, William Pitt,
won the day for Britain and for Greater Britain, with
Lord Anson at the head of the Navy to help him, and
Saunders in command at the front. It was thus that the
age-long vexed question of a Greater France or a Greater