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Side 22
... heights of Abraham , where the battle was fought , and after marching till we got clear of the bushes , we were ... height would wait till he would come up and join them , which I did , but before Mr. Ross could get up , he unfortunately ...
... heights of Abraham , where the battle was fought , and after marching till we got clear of the bushes , we were ... height would wait till he would come up and join them , which I did , but before Mr. Ross could get up , he unfortunately ...
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... heights and not to attack the Enemy , unless he should be forced to it , which we were persuaded of by his orders to carry out intrenching tools . We had very little chance of beating an Army * of four times our number ; in a situation ...
... heights and not to attack the Enemy , unless he should be forced to it , which we were persuaded of by his orders to carry out intrenching tools . We had very little chance of beating an Army * of four times our number ; in a situation ...
Side 5
... heights . About two hundred paces from the curtain between the west gate and the King's bastion , a height ( Hauteur de la Potence ) overlooks a great part of the town , the parade , the wharves ; enfilades the battery of the Grâve ...
... heights . About two hundred paces from the curtain between the west gate and the King's bastion , a height ( Hauteur de la Potence ) overlooks a great part of the town , the parade , the wharves ; enfilades the battery of the Grâve ...
Side 9
... height overlooking the English tenders from our two batteries upon them , our musketry and cannon would have swept their decks , aiming at the sailors at the distance of a very small musket - shot , and killing them , as partridges , as ...
... height overlooking the English tenders from our two batteries upon them , our musketry and cannon would have swept their decks , aiming at the sailors at the distance of a very small musket - shot , and killing them , as partridges , as ...
Side 13
... height , that Ferdinand de Chambou , the officer on guard at the " Grâve , " was obliged to quit his post with his detachment , to avoid being drowned , after standing their ground until the water was up to their knees . It began about ...
... height , that Ferdinand de Chambou , the officer on guard at the " Grâve , " was obliged to quit his post with his detachment , to avoid being drowned , after standing their ground until the water was up to their knees . It began about ...
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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...