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Pitt's Militia, Canada & Act of Marriage
The Seven Years War started badly for Britain. Minorca was lost, Pomerania threatened. In Canada Montcalm was pressing against the American frontier forts. Pitt came to the war office convinced he was the only person who could save Britain. Before the end of 1757 he had sent back the foreign troops paid to defend Britain and introduced the militia, now the Territorial Army. The Militia Act of 1757 laid down who would be called up, who would be trained, for how long and when.
Pitt now turned his attention to America, he planned to invade Canada.
Dr Samuel Johnson |
DR SAMUEL JOHNSON (1709-1784)- Essayist and critic
- Son of a Lichfield bookseller
- Became a parliamentary reporter for the Gentleman's Magazine
- In 1747 started to compile a dictionary illustrated by quotations
- It was published in 1755
- Rarely in funds,, wrote a novel Rasselas (1759) in seven days to pay off debts
- A contemporary and friend of Burke, Gibbon, Goldsmith and Reynolds
That the militia, now the Territorial Army, had its origins in Anglo-Saxon England when it was called the fyrd. It was then a way of raising local troops. The fyrd rarely fought beyond the borders of the county or shires.
 
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| 1727 | George I dies
George II becomes king
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| 1751 | Death of Frederick Prince of Wales
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| 1754 | Tom Pelham, Duke of Newcastle becomes Prime Minister
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| 1756 | Pitt the Elder becomes Secretary at War
Seven Years' War starts
Black Hole of Calcutta
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| 1757 | Militia Act
Calcutta recaptured
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| 1760 | George II dies
George III becomes king
Wolfe dies at Quebec
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| 1761 | Pitt the Elder falls from power
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| COLONIAL GOVERNORS INSTRUCTED BY PITT TO PREPARE TO INVADE CANADA | | • | Massachusetts |
| • | New Hampshire |
| • | Connecticut |
| • | Rhode Island |
| • | New Jersey |
| • | New York |
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