CHAPTER XV.

Expedition against Senegal..... Fort Louis and Senegal
taken..... Unsuccessful attempt upon Goree..... Expedition
to Cape Breton..... Louisbourg taken..... and  St.
John’s..... Unsuccessful  attempt   upon   Ticonderoga.....
Fort Frontenac taken and destroyed by the English.....
Brigadier Forbes takes Fort du Quesne..... Goree taken.....
Shipwreck of Captain Barton..... Gallant Exploit of Captain
Tyrrell..... Transactions in the East Indies..... Admiral
Pococke engages the French Fleet..... Fort St. David’s taken
by the French..... Second Engagement between Admiral Pococke
and M. d’Apehé..... Progress of M. Lally..... Transactions
on the Continent of Europe..... King of Prussia raises
Contributions in Saxony and the Dominions of the Duke of
Wirtemberg..... State of the Armies on the Continent.....
The French King changes the Administration of Hanover.....
Plan of a Treaty between the French King and the Landgrave
of Hesse-Cassel..... Treaty between the French King and the
Duke of Brunswick..... Decree of the Aulic Council against
the Elector of Hanover and others..... Bremen taken by the
Duke de Broglio, and retaken by Prince Ferdinand..... Duke
de Richelieu recalled..... Generous Conduct of the Duke de
Randan..... The French abandon Hanover..... Prince of
Brunswick reduces Hoya and Minden..... Prince Ferdinand
defeats the French at Creveldt, and takes Dusseldorp.....
Prince of Ysembourg defeated by the Duke de Broglio.....
General Imhoff defeats M. de Chevert..... General Oberg
defeated by the French at Landwernhagen..... Death of the
Duke of Marlborough..... Operations of the King of Prussia at
the  beginning of the  Campaign..... He enters Moravia,  and
invests Olmutz..... He is obliged to raise the Siege, and
retires into Bohemia, where he takes Koningsgratz.....
Progress of the Russians..... King of Prussia defeats the
Russians at Zorndorf..... and is defeated by the Austrians at
Hoch-kirchin..... He retires to Silesia..... Suburbs of
Dresden burned by the Prussian Governor..... The King of
Prussia raises the Siege of Neiss, and relieves Dresden.....
Inhabitants of Saxony grievously oppressed..... Progress of
the Swedes in Pomerania..... Prince Charles of Saxony
elected Duke of Courland..... The King of England’s Memorial
to the Diet of the Empire..... Death of Pope Benedict.....
The King of Portugal assassinated..... Proceedings of the
French Ministry..... Conduct of the King of Denmark.....
Answers to the Charges brought by the Dutch against the
English Cruisers..... Conferences between the British
Ambassador and the States-general..... Further Proceedings