Francis Parkman's Works: Montcalm and Wolfe. 1907Little, Brown, 1907 |
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... soldiers in their houses , for each of whom they were paid fifteen francs a month , in return for sub- stance devoured and wives and daughters debauched.1 No pains had been spared to keep up the courage of the people and feed them with ...
... soldiers in their houses , for each of whom they were paid fifteen francs a month , in return for sub- stance devoured and wives and daughters debauched.1 No pains had been spared to keep up the courage of the people and feed them with ...
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... soldiers with it . I have answered for you to the King ; I am confident that you will not disappoint me , and that for the glory of the nation , the good of the state , and your own preservation , you will go to the utmost extremity ...
... soldiers with it . I have answered for you to the King ; I am confident that you will not disappoint me , and that for the glory of the nation , the good of the state , and your own preservation , you will go to the utmost extremity ...
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... soldiers and a ranger were waylaid not far from the fort , disabled by bullets , and then scalped alive . They were found the next morning on the snow , contorted in the agonies of death , and frozen like marble statues . St. Patrick's ...
... soldiers and a ranger were waylaid not far from the fort , disabled by bullets , and then scalped alive . They were found the next morning on the snow , contorted in the agonies of death , and frozen like marble statues . St. Patrick's ...
Side 22
... soldiers were shouting and cheering in their barracks ; and when they mustered for the evening roll - call , there was another burst of huzzas . They waited in expectancy nearly three weeks , and then the transports which were to carry ...
... soldiers were shouting and cheering in their barracks ; and when they mustered for the evening roll - call , there was another burst of huzzas . They waited in expectancy nearly three weeks , and then the transports which were to carry ...
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Francis Parkman. fort saluting them , and the soldiers cheering lustily , overjoyed to escape from their long imprisonment . A gale soon began ; the transports became separated ; Knox's vessel sheltered herself for a time in Passa ...
Francis Parkman. fort saluting them , and the soldiers cheering lustily , overjoyed to escape from their long imprisonment . A gale soon began ; the transports became separated ; Knox's vessel sheltered herself for a time in Passa ...
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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,...