Under the English system the best general does not always come forward first, and perhaps we've not yet so much as heard the name of the man who is going to beat Montcalm.

That he will be beaten I've no doubt.

We'll conquer Canada and settle North American affairs for all time.

Perhaps it will be the last great war." Robert was listening with the closest attention, and it seemed to him that the New Yorker was right.

With Canada conquered and the French power expelled it would be the last great war so far as North America was concerned?
How fallible men are! How prone they are to think when they have settled things for themselves they have settled them also for all future generations! "And then," continued Mr.Hervey, "New York will become a yet greater port than it now is.