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1093. CANADA, Conquest of.—[further continued] .

The acquisition of Canada
this year, as far as the neighborhood of
Quebec, will be a mere matter of marching,
and will give us experience for the attack of
Halifax the next, and the final expulsion of
England from the American continent.—
To William Duane. Washington ed. vi, 75. Ford ed., ix, 366.
(M. Aug. 1812)