Francis Parkman's Works: Montcalm and Wolfe. 1907Little, Brown, 1907 |
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... enemy to fall back , caused no slight annoyance , till Rogers checked them by the defeat of Marin . Nevertheless Vaudreuil pretended on one hand that Montcalm had done noth- ing with the Canadians and Indians sent him , and on the other ...
... enemy to fall back , caused no slight annoyance , till Rogers checked them by the defeat of Marin . Nevertheless Vaudreuil pretended on one hand that Montcalm had done noth- ing with the Canadians and Indians sent him , and on the other ...
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... enemy ; promising succors that did not and could not come ; inventing plausible reasons why they did not come , 1 Mémoire sur le moyen d'entretenir 10,000 Hommes de Troupes dans les Colonies , 1759 . and making new promises to set off ...
... enemy ; promising succors that did not and could not come ; inventing plausible reasons why they did not come , 1 Mémoire sur le moyen d'entretenir 10,000 Hommes de Troupes dans les Colonies , 1759 . and making new promises to set off ...
Side 10
... enemy , that this country might be snatched from England and saved to France . " 1 What Boishébert was doing in Acadia , Vaudreuil was doing on a larger scale in Canada . By indefatigable lying , by exaggerating every success and ...
... enemy , that this country might be snatched from England and saved to France . " 1 What Boishébert was doing in Acadia , Vaudreuil was doing on a larger scale in Canada . By indefatigable lying , by exaggerating every success and ...
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... enemy could approach were barred by the rock of Quebec , the rapids of the St. Lawrence , and the strong posi- tion of Isle - aux - Noix , at the outlet of Lake Cham- plain . Montcalm had long inclined to the plan of concentration ...
... enemy could approach were barred by the rock of Quebec , the rapids of the St. Lawrence , and the strong posi- tion of Isle - aux - Noix , at the outlet of Lake Cham- plain . Montcalm had long inclined to the plan of concentration ...
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... enemy ; and I shall do so again and again , till I have forced him to retire , or till he has entirely crushed me by excessive superiority of numbers . My obsti- 1 Ordres du Roy et Dépêches des Ministres , Lettre à Vaudreuil , 3 Février ...
... enemy ; and I shall do so again and again , till I have forced him to retire , or till he has entirely crushed me by excessive superiority of numbers . My obsti- 1 Ordres du Roy et Dépêches des Ministres , Lettre à Vaudreuil , 3 Février ...
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Amherst Anglois Anse du Foulon arms army artillery attack battalions batteries battle Beauport Bigot boats Bougainville Bourlamaque Brigadier British Cadet camp Canada Canadians cannon Cap-Rouge capitulation Captain colony command Crown Point defence encamped enemy England English fight fire fleet force Fort Edward Fort William Henry France French garrison governor grenadiers Guerre heights Highlanders hundred Indians intrenchments Inverawe Isle-aux-Noix Johnson killed King Knox Lake Lake Champlain land Lawrence letter Lévis light infantry Louisbourg Marquis Marquis de Montcalm Mémoire ment miles militia Mont Montcalm Montmorenci Montreal morning Murray night Octobre officers ordered party peace Pitt Point Levi Pointe-aux-Trembles Pouchot qu'ils Ramesay rangers regiment Repentigny rest retreat river Rogers Roquemaure sailed Saint-Véran sauvages says scalps sent Septembre ships shore Siége Siege of Quebec Sillery soldiers squadron Ste.-Foy thousand Ticonderoga tion told town Townshend troops Vaudreuil au Ministre vessels Wolfe Wolfe's wounded wrote
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Side 243 - War determined for ages to come the destinies of mankind. With that of Rossbach began the re-creation of Germany; with that of Plassey the influence of Europe told for the first time since the days of Alexander on the nations of the East; with the triumph of Wolfe on the Heights of Abraham began the history of the United States.
Side 123 - Robison, afterward professor of natural philosophy in the University of Edinburgh. He used to tell in his later life how Wolfe, with a low voice, repeated Gray's " Elegy in a Country Churchyard " to the officers about him. Probably it was to relieve the intense strain of his thoughts. Among the rest was the verse which his own fate was soon to illustrate : — " The paths of glory lead but to the grave." " Gentlemen," he said, as his recital ended, " I would rather have written those lines than take...
Side 125 - He himself, however, found strength to drag himself up with the rest. The narrow slanting path on the face of the heights had been made impassable by trenches and abattis ; but all obstructions were soon cleared away, and then the ascent was easy. In the gray of the morning the long file of red-coated soldiers moved quickly upward, and formed in order on the plateau above. Before many of them had reached the top, cannon were heard close on the left. It was the battery at Samos firing on the boats...
Side 137 - Then, turning on his side, he murmured, " Now, God be praised, I will die in peace ! " and in a few moments his gallant soul had fled. Montcalm, still on horseback, was borne with the tide of fugitives towards the town. As he approached the walls a shot passed through his body. He kept his seat; two soldiers supported him, one on each side, and led his horse through the St. Louis Gate. On the open space within, among the excited crowd, were several women, drawn, no doubt, by eagerness to know the...
Side 142 - I am glad of it," was his calm reply. He then asked how long he might survive, and was told that he had not many hours remaining. "So much the better," he said; "I am happy that I shall not live to see the surrender of Quebec.
Side 101 - Robineau de Portneuf, cure of St. Joachim, placed himself at the head of thirty parishioners and took possession of a large stone house in the adjacent parish of Chateau Richer, where for a time he held the English at bay. At length he and his followers were drawn out into an ambush, where they were surrounded and killed ; and, being disguised as Indians, the rangers scalped them all.2 Most of the French writers of the time mention these barbarities without much comment, while Vaudreuil loudly denounces...
Side 120 - The officers and men will remember what their country expects from them, and what a determined body of soldiers, inured to war, is capable of doing against five weak French battalions, mingled with a disorderly peasantry.
Side 129 - Montcalm had passed a troubled night. Through all the evening the cannon bellowed from the ships of Saunders, and the boats of the fleet hovered in the dusk off the Beauport shore, threatening every moment to land. Troops lined the intrenchments till day, while the General walked the field that adjoined his headquarters till one in the morning, accompanied by the Chevalier Johnstone and Colonel Poulariez. Johnstone says that he was in great agitation, and took no rest all night. At daybreak he heard...
Side 107 - I found myself so ill, and am still so weak, that I begged the general officers to consult together for the public utility.
Side 134 - When the smoke rose, a miserable sight was revealed ; the ground cumbered with dead and wounded, the advancing masses stopped short and turned into a frantic mob, shouting, cursing, gesticulating. The order was given to charge. Then over the field rose the British cheer, mixed with the fierce yell of the Highland slogan. Some of the corps pushed forward with the bayonet ; some advanced firing. The clansmen drew their broadswords and dashed on, keen and swift as bloodhounds. At the English right,...