man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks. Methinks I see her like an _eagle_ viewing her mighty youth and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full midday beam." FOOTNOTES: [281] Adams's _Works_ (ed. 1856), vol. i. p. 23. [282] Doyle, _The Colonies under the House of Hanover_ (1907), pp. 544, 545. [283] _Dinwiddie Papers_, vol. i. p. 258. [284] _Dinwiddie Papers_, vol. i. p. 306. [285] _Letters of Horace Walpole_ (Ed. 1861), vol. ii. p. 459. [286] Parkman, _Wolfe and Montcalm_ (1901), vol. i. p. 188. [287] _Annual Register_, 1758, p. 4. [288] Bradley, _The Fight with France for North America_ (1905), pp. 81-99. [289] Quoted by J. A. Harrison, _Washington_ (1906), p. 95. [290] Letter of Washington to Dinwiddie, July 18, 1755. [291] Doyle, _The Colonies under the House of Hanover_ (1907), p. 575. [292] Letter of Washington to Dinwiddie, July 18, 1755. [293] Lucas, _Hist. Geo. of British Colonies, Canada_, part i. (1901), p. 240. [294] Wright, _Life of Wolfe_ (1864), pp. 440, 441. [295] Parkman, _Wolfe and Montcalm_, vol. ii. p. 48. [296] Drucour's letter, _Annual Register_, 1758, pp. 179-81. [297] Bradley, _The Fight with France for North America_ (1905), p. 217, says a million sterling had been spent on the fortifications since 1745. [298] _Grenville Correspondence_, vol. i. 262. [299] Quoted by Bradley, _ut supra_, p. 245. [300] _Annual Register_, 1758, pp. 72, 73. [301] Burke, _Annual Register_, 1759, p. 34. [302] Major W. Wood, in _The Siege of Quebec_ (1904), doubts the truth of this picturesque story. [303] Bradley, _Life of Wolfe_ (1895), p. 208. [304] Hunt, _Political History of England_, 1760-1801 (1905), p. 141. [305] Bancroft, _History of the United States_ (1891), i. p. 525. CHRONOLOGY OF COLONIAL HISTORY