Francis Parkman's Works: Montcalm and Wolfe. 1907Little, Brown, 1907 |
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Side 15
... less than the negotiating of suitable marriages for the eldest son and daughter of his commander , with whom , in the confidence of friendship , he had had many conversa- tions on the matter . " He and I , " Montcalm wrote to his mother ...
... less than the negotiating of suitable marriages for the eldest son and daughter of his commander , with whom , in the confidence of friendship , he had had many conversa- tions on the matter . " He and I , " Montcalm wrote to his mother ...
Side 29
... less , and that those who perish in their duty and in the service of their country die honorably . " Then he proceeds to give particular directions about his numerous dogs , for the welfare of which in his absence he provides with ...
... less , and that those who perish in their duty and in the service of their country die honorably . " Then he proceeds to give particular directions about his numerous dogs , for the welfare of which in his absence he provides with ...
Side 35
... less.1 " Our troops are good , " he informs Pitt ; " and if valor can make amends for the want of numbers , we shall probably succeed . " Three brigadiers , all in the early prime of life , held command under him : Monckton , Townshend ...
... less.1 " Our troops are good , " he informs Pitt ; " and if valor can make amends for the want of numbers , we shall probably succeed . " Three brigadiers , all in the early prime of life , held command under him : Monckton , Townshend ...
Side 43
... less than nine thousand men available for operations on land . The steep and lofty heights that lined the river made the cannon of the ships for the most part useless , while the exigencies of the naval service forbade employing the ...
... less than nine thousand men available for operations on land . The steep and lofty heights that lined the river made the cannon of the ships for the most part useless , while the exigencies of the naval service forbade employing the ...
Side 49
... less civility , that he wished they had come sooner , that they might have enjoyed the asparagus and radishes of his garden , now unhappily going to seed . The letter concluded with many compliments and good wishes , in which the ...
... less civility , that he wished they had come sooner , that they might have enjoyed the asparagus and radishes of his garden , now unhappily going to seed . The letter concluded with many compliments and good wishes , in which the ...
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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,...