Note 963 — Chapter VII
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“A train of favorable, unforeseen, and even astonishing events facilitated the conquest,” says Amos Adams in his Concise Hist. of New England, etc. Palfrey in his review of Mahon speaks of it as “one of the wildest undertakings ever projected by sane people.” Whatever the fortuitous character of the conquest, there was an attempt made in England to give the chief credit of it to Warren, who never landed a marine during its progress.