E-text prepared by Martin Robb
With Wolfe in Canada
Or The Winning of a Continent
by G. A. Henty
1894
| Preface. | |
| Chapter 1: | A Rescue. |
| Chapter 2: | The Showman's Grandchild. |
| Chapter 3: | The Justice Room. |
| Chapter 4: | The Squire's Granddaughter. |
| Chapter 5: | A Quiet Time. |
| Chapter 6: | A Storm. |
| Chapter 7: | Pressed. |
| Chapter 8: | Discharged. |
| Chapter 9: | The Defeat Of Braddock. |
| Chapter 10: | The Fight At Lake George. |
| Chapter 11: | Scouting. |
| 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 ofthe principal events in a struggle whose importance can hardly beoverrated. At its commencement the English occupied a mere patch ofland on the eastern seaboard of America, hemmed in on all sides bythe French, who occupied not only Canada in the north and Louisianain the south, but possessed a chain of posts connecting them, socutting off the English from all access to the vast countries ofthe west.
On the issues of that struggle depended not only the destiny ofCanada, but of the whole of North America and, to a large extent,that of the two mother countries. When the contest began, thechances of France becoming th