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THE
ANNUAL REGISTER,
For the YEAR 1758.
THE
HISTORY
OF THE
PRESENT WAR.
CHAP. I.
Origin of the troubles in North America. Admiral Boſcawen and General Braddock ſent thither. Operations intended. Two French men of war taken. Braddock defeated. General Johnſon repulſes the French. French threaten an invasion. Fort St. Philip beſieged and taken. Treaty with Ruſſia, the ſpirit of it. Alliance with the King of Pruſſia. Ground of the quarrel between her Imperial Majeſty and that monarch. Treaty of Peterſbourg. Treaty of Verſailles. King of Pruſſia enters Saxony and Bohemia. Battle of Lowoſitz. Saxon army ſurrenders.
THE original plan of this work propoſed no more than that each volume ſhould contain a narrative of thoſe events which distinguiſh its own year. But, becauſe we have entered upon our undertaking in the heat of an almoſt general and very important war, I thought it would not be unnecessary or diſagreeable to look a little farther back. It would be difficult perfectly to underſtand the operations of the ſeveral powers at war, during the laſt year, without reviewing the tranſactions of the preceding years; nor would it be eaſy to enter into the ſpirit of theſe without examining the cauſes which
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