The Story of American History for Elementary Schools

CHAPTER VIII. PAGES 106-125.

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THE FRENCH AND INDIAN WARS.

TOPICS FOR COLLATERAL READING.--For a great variety of topics in connection with the French and Indian Wars and the overthrow of New France, the student will find the books of Parkman a vast storehouse of intensely fascinating reading matter. See the index to the various volumes. For example, read La Salle's Descent of the Mississippi, Parkman's _La Salle_, pp. 275-288; Braddock's March and Defeat; Parkman's _Montcalm and Wolfe_, Vol. I, p. 204, and The Heights of Abraham, Vol. II, p. 259-297.

REFERENCES FOR READING.--Johnson's _Old French War_; Drake's _Border Wars of New England_.

OUTSIDE READINGS.-Abbott's _Life of King Philip_ (Ajax Series); Henty's _With Wolfe in Canada_; Cooper's _Last of the Mohicans_ (story of Seven Years' War); James Otis's _At the Siege of Quebec_.