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... shoals of Ice that no boats could go from the Ships to Shore . There is still some snow in the hollows , on shore . I suppose the Ice comes from the Gulf and river of St. Lawrence . I hear a Lieutenant , on board one of the.
... shoals of Ice that no boats could go from the Ships to Shore . There is still some snow in the hollows , on shore . I suppose the Ice comes from the Gulf and river of St. Lawrence . I hear a Lieutenant , on board one of the.
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... Boats having gone from our fleet to sound near the shore , were fired on by the Indians , as they say , with two pound swivels ; they came pretty nigh them , but nobody was hurt . We found Admiral Durell with most part of his Squadron ...
... Boats having gone from our fleet to sound near the shore , were fired on by the Indians , as they say , with two pound swivels ; they came pretty nigh them , but nobody was hurt . We found Admiral Durell with most part of his Squadron ...
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... boats who are every night , on the watch for them above the shipping . Our boats immediately grappled it , and tho ' it burnt with great violence , they towed it past all the shipping without any damage . Sunday , 29th July . - Nothing ...
... boats who are every night , on the watch for them above the shipping . Our boats immediately grappled it , and tho ' it burnt with great violence , they towed it past all the shipping without any damage . Sunday , 29th July . - Nothing ...
Side 10
... boats about 11 o'clock , at Point Levy , and rowed , as if we were intended to land on the opposite shore under the French intrench- ments ; when we had got more than half across , Brigadier Monckton , who commanded us ordered us to row ...
... boats about 11 o'clock , at Point Levy , and rowed , as if we were intended to land on the opposite shore under the French intrench- ments ; when we had got more than half across , Brigadier Monckton , who commanded us ordered us to row ...
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... boats this night to our Camp at Point Levy . Monday , 3rd September . - The Army at Montmorency decamped this day , and crossed to the Island of Orleans , and from thence to Point Levy , without molestation from the French , tho ' they ...
... boats this night to our Camp at Point Levy . Monday , 3rd September . - The Army at Montmorency decamped this day , and crossed to the Island of Orleans , and from thence to Point Levy , without molestation from the French , tho ' they ...
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Side 21 - Levi, and the troops will land where the French seem least to expect it. The first body that gets on shore is to march directly to the enemy, and drive them from any little post they may occupy. The officers must be careful that the succeeding bodies do not, by any mistake, fire upon those who go on before them.
Side 14 - I brought a 9-pounder on Lymeburner's wharf to bear upon them; the first shot of which killed one of their men and wounded another. I then called out to Nairne in their hearing, so that he should let me know when he heard firing on the other side; our General had sent 500 men to hem the enemy in on that side; they soon after began to give themselves up and surrender to Nairne, who sent them through the window to us.
Side 21 - When the artillery and troops are landed, a corps will be left to secure the landing place, while the rest march on and endeavour to bring the French and Canadians to a battle. " 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 14 - ... the barrier afterwards. They however kept up a brisk fire from back windows of the houses they had occupied in Sault-au-Matelot Street on our people in Lymeburner's house, on his wharf, and the street adjacent, from one of their houses. I had a narrow escape, for going at day-break to reconnoitre on the wharf under them, just as they took post there, they asked, "Who is there?
Side 21 - The enemy's force is now divided, great scarcity of provisions now in their camp, and universal discontent among the Canadians. The second officer in command is gone to Montreal or St. John's, which gives reason to think that General Amherst is advancing into the colony. A vigorous blow struck by the army at this juncture may determine the fate of Canada.
Side 8 - A party of our Rangers having been sent out on this side of the river, (the south) on the gth they took one man prisoner and two boys (his children) having followed him a little way, making a great noise, were in a most inhuman manner murdered by those worse than savage Rangers, for fear, as they pretend, they should be discovered by the noise of the children. I wish this story was not fact, but I'm afraid there is little reason to doubt it : — the wretches having boasted of it on their return,...
Side 14 - Highland regiments * alone, by the soldierlike and cool manner they were formed in, would undoubtedly have beat back the whole Canadian army, if they had ventured to attack them. The loss, however, is inconsiderable, and may be easily repaired, when a favourable opportunity offers, if the men will shew a proper attention to their Officers.
Side 16 - ... the General's orders, in hope that we should have marched out directly and completed our victory. But all that was done was going out as far as Mr. Grant's, in St. Roch, and bringing in 7 Royals, that were placed behind his house; one small brass field piece was also taken, and a few of the houses in which the enemy had before posted themselves, and from whence they had much annoyed us, were burned. The General did not choose to risk anything further, his ideas seemed entirely to centre in the...