Montcalm and Wolfe, Volum 2Little, Brown, 1884 |
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... writes on the fourteenth that most of those from New York had deserted , threatening to kill their officers if 1 Loudon to Webb , 20 Aug. 1757. Loudon to Holdernesse , Oct. 1757. Lou- don to Pownall , 16 [ 18 ? ] Aug. 1757. A passage in ...
... writes on the fourteenth that most of those from New York had deserted , threatening to kill their officers if 1 Loudon to Webb , 20 Aug. 1757. Loudon to Holdernesse , Oct. 1757. Lou- don to Pownall , 16 [ 18 ? ] Aug. 1757. A passage in ...
Side 4
... writes Bougainville , " that the Governor would have told them they should have neither provisions nor presents till all the English were given up ; that he himself would have gone to their huts and taken the prisoners from them ; and ...
... writes Bougainville , " that the Governor would have told them they should have neither provisions nor presents till all the English were given up ; that he himself would have gone to their huts and taken the prisoners from them ; and ...
Side 8
... writes again to the same friend : " My heart and my stomach are both ill at ease , the latter being the worse . " To his wife he says : " The price of everything is ris- ing . I am ruining myself ; I owe the treasurer twelve thousand ...
... writes again to the same friend : " My heart and my stomach are both ill at ease , the latter being the worse . " To his wife he says : " The price of everything is ris- ing . I am ruining myself ; I owe the treasurer twelve thousand ...
Side 34
... writes : " You pay bills with- out examination , and then find an error in your accounts of three million six ... write , Monsieur , to answer your last two letters , in which you tell me that instead of six- teen millions , your drafts ...
... writes : " You pay bills with- out examination , and then find an error in your accounts of three million six ... write , Monsieur , to answer your last two letters , in which you tell me that instead of six- teen millions , your drafts ...
Side 73
... writes Dru- cour , joined to the impossibility of resisting an assault , M. le Chevalier de Courserac undertook in my behalf to run after the bearer of my answer to the English commander and bring it back . " It is evident that the ...
... writes Dru- cour , joined to the impossibility of resisting an assault , M. le Chevalier de Courserac undertook in my behalf to run after the bearer of my answer to the English commander and bring it back . " It is evident that the ...
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Abercromby Amherst arms army artillery attack battalions batteries battle Béarn Beauport Bigot boats Bougainville Bouquet Bourlamaque Brigadier British Cadet camp Canada Canadians cannon Cap-Rouge capitulation Captain captured Colonel colony command Crown Point defence detachment Drucour Duquesne enemy England English expedition fight fire fleet Forbes force forest Fort Duquesne Fort Edward Fort William Henry France French garrison Governor grenadiers Guerre guns heights Highlanders honor hundred Indians intrenchments Johnson Journal killed King Knox Lake Champlain Lake George land Lawrence letter Lévis light infantry Louisbourg Marquis de Montcalm Mémoire miles militia Montcalm Montmorenci Montreal morning Murray night officers party peace Pitt Point Levi Pointe-aux-Trembles posts Pouchot prisoners provincials Quebec Ramesay rangers regiment rest retreat river Rogers ruin sailed savages says sent Sept ships shore shot siege soldiers thousand Ticonderoga told took town troops Vaudreuil au Ministre vessels Wolfe Wolfe's wounded wrote
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Side 87 - Howe, 8 and he was in fact its real chief ; " the noblest Englishman that has appeared in my time, and the best soldier in the British army," says Wolfe.4 And he elsewhere speaks of him as
Side 395 - means war; too many wars on our hands; let us at "least wait!" urge all the others, — all but one, or one and a half, of whom presently. "Whereupon Pitt: "If these views are to be followed, this is the last time "I can sit at this Board. I was called to the Adminis"tration of Affairs by the voice of the People: to them " I have always considered myself as accountable • for "my conduct; and therefore cannot remain in a situation "which makes me responsible for measures I am no "longer allowed...
Side 285 - St.-Denis, which, swollen by the late rains, fell plashing in the stillness over a rock. Other than this no sound could reach the strained , ear of Wolfe but the gurgle of the tide and the cautious climbing of his advance-parties as they mounted the steeps at some little distance from where he sat listening. At length from the top came a sound of musket-shots, followed by loud huzzas, and he knew that his men were masters of the position. The word was given ; the troops leaped from the boats and...
Side 306 - So much the better," he returned. "I am happy that I shall not live to see the surrender of Quebec.
Side 388 - My man Harry tells me all the amusing news. He first told me of the late Prince of Wales's death, and to-day of the King's ; so I must tell you all I know of departed majesty. He went to bed well last night, rose at six this morning as usual, looked, I suppose, if all his money was in his purse, and called for his chocolate. A little after seven he went into the...
Side 153 - Your letter of the seventeenth I read with no less surprise than concern, as I could not believe that such an attempt would have been made without my knowledge and concurrence. The breaking in upon our fair and flattering hopes of success touches me most sensibly. There are two wounded Highland officers just now arrived, who give so lame an account of the matter that one can draw nothing from them, only that my friend Grant most certainly lost his wits, and by his thirst of fame brought on his own...
Side 267 - My antagonist has wisely shut himself up in inaccessible entrenchments, so that I can't get at him without spilling a torrent of blood, and that perhaps to little purpose. The Marquis de Montcalm is at the head of a great number of bad soldiers, and I am at the head of a small number of good ones, that wish for nothing so much as to fight him ; but the wary old fellow avoids an action, doubtful of the behaviour of his army. People must be of the profession to understand the disadvantages and difficulties...
Side 295 - 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 result...
Side 279 - 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 269 - ... armament is deprived of the power of acting, yet we have almost the whole force of Canada to oppose. In this situation there is such a choice of difficulties that I own myself at a loss how to determine.