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ranks, for every month of the autumn, winter, and spring. The return made out on the 24th of April, four days before the battle, shows that the total number of rank and file, exclusive of non-commissioned officers and drummers, was 6,808, of whom 2,612 were fit for duty in Quebec, and 654 at other places in Canada; that is, at Ste.-Foy, Old Lorette, and the other outposts. This gives a total of 3,266 rank and file fit for duty at or near Quebec; besides which there were between one hundred and two hundred artillerymen, and a company of rangers. This was Murray's whole available force at the time. Of the rest of the 6,808 who appear in the return, 2,299 were invalids at Quebec, and 669 in New York; 538 were on service in Halifax and New York, and 36 were absent on furlough. These figures nearly answer to the condensed statement of Fraser, and confirm the various English statements of the numbers that took part in the battle; namely, 3,140 (Knox), 3,000 (John Johnson), 3,111, and elsewhere, in round numbers, 3,000 (Murray). Lévis, with natural exaggeration, says 4,000. Three or four hundred were left in Quebec to guard the walls when the rest marched out.

I have been thus particular because a Canadian writer, Garneau, says: "Murray sortit de la ville le 28 au matin à la tête de toute la garnison, dont les seules troupes de la ligne comptaient encore 7,714 combattants, non compris les officiers." To prove this, he cites the pay-roll of the garrison; which, in fact, corresponds to the returns of the same date, if non-commissioned officers, drummers, and artillerymen are counted with the rank and file. But Garneau falls into a double error. He assumes, first, that there were no men on the sick list; and secondly, that there were none absent from Quebec; when in reality, as the returns show, considerably more than half were in one or the other of these categories. The pay-rolls were made out at the headquarters of each corps, and always included the entire number of men enlisted in it, whether sick or well, present or absent. On the same fallacious premises Garneau affirms

that Wolfe, at the battle on the Plains of Abraham, had eight thousand soldiers, or a little less than double his actual force.

Having stated, as above, that Murray marched out of Quebec with at least 7,714 effective troops, Garneau, not very consistently, goes on to say that he advanced against Lévis with six thousand or seven thousand men; and he adds that the two armies were about equal, because Lévis had left some detachments behind to guard his boats and artillery. The number of the French, after they had all reached the field, was, in truth, about seven thousand; at the beginning of the fight it seems not to have exceeded five thousand. The Relation de la seconde Bataille de Québec says: "Notre petite armée consistoit au moment de l'action en 3,000 hommes de troupes reglées et 2,000 Canadiens ou sauvages.” A large number of Canadians came up from Sillery while the affair went on; and as the whole French army, except the detachments mentioned by Garneau, had passed the night at no greater distance from the field than Ste.-Foy and Sillery, the last man must have reached it before the firing was half over.

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A.

Abenakis, the, i. 23, 40, 209, 480;
settled in Canada, i. 23; at Fort
Duquesne, i. 154; assist the Cana-
dian militia, i. 371, 372; called to a
council of war by Montcalm, i. 485-
489; position of the English at
Fort William Henry, i. 499; the
massacre at Fort William Henry
(see William Henry, Fort), i. 510-
513, ii. 428-431; evidence concern-
ing the massacre, i. 514 note; their
conversion to Christianity, i. 514
note; seize the messengers of Am-
herst, ii. 251; Rogers sent to destroy
one of their towns, ii. 251, 253-258
note; their cruelty, ii. 253, 255; the
St. Francis settlement, ii. 253, 254;
statistics of warriors at the siege of
Quebec, ii. 436, 437.

Abercromby, General James, i. 165
note; to supersede Webb in com-
mand of the army, i. 383; to resign
in favor of Earl Loudon, i. 383;
arrives at Albany, i. 399; sends a
letter of approbation to Rogers, i.
445; Loudon recalled from office, ii.
48; succeeds Loudon in command,
ii. 48; to lead the expedition against
Louisbourg, ii. 48; Amherst pre-
vented from co-operation with, ii.
75; the rejoicing at the fall of
Louisbourg, ii 76, 77; Amherst plans
to assist him at Lake George, ii. 80;
expedition led by, against Ticonde-
roga, ii. 85-113 note; his camp at
Lake George, ii. 88; his leadership,
ii. 89, 240; number of his troops, ii.
88, 89; his opinion of Lord Howe,
ii. 89; statistics of the expedition
against Ticonderoga, ii. 91, 92, 431-
433; the passage of Lake George,
ii. 92-94; the army lost in the
woods, ii. 95; effect of the death of
Lord Howe upon his army, ii. 97,
98; the army reaches the Falls, ii.

98, 99; statements concerning the
French defences, ii. 100, 101; dif-
ferent courses of action open to,
ii. 101, 102; the eve of battle, ii. 103,
104; order of the assault, ii. 105-
107; his encounter with Montcalm
at Ticonderoga, ii. 106-110; his
retreat, ii. 110, 111, 114, 115,
165, 238; his losses, ii. 110, 432,
433; a disgraceful order sent to
Colonel Cummings, ii. 114; nick-
name given to, by the Provincials,
ii. 115; visited by the chaplains,
ii. 117; sends a war-party into
the woods, ii. 121-123; despatches
Bradstreet to capture Fort Fron-
tenac, ii. 127; receives news of the
fall of Fort Frontenac, ii. 127;
Fort Frontenac dismantled, ii. 129;
joined by Amherst, ii. 129; his
camp broken up, ii. 130; neglects
to assist Forbes's army, ii. 157; Am-
herst's superior leadership, ii. 240;
his letter to Pitt, ii. 432.
Abraham an Indian, i. 174.
Abraham Martin, his name given to
the Heights of Abraham, ii. 289.
Abraham, the Heights of, ii. 259,
408, 438-441; Wolfe discovers a
path ascending the cliff, ii. 272,
273; general belief in the safety
of the heights, ii. 275, 276; as-
cent of the troops under Wolfe's
direction, ii. 281, 287; statistics
concerning Wolfe's army, and the
action upon, ii. 438-441.
Abraham, the Plains of, ii. 200, 298
note, 327, 357; inaccessibility of, ii.
260: Guienne's troops not at their
post, ii. 285; origin of the name, and
description of, ii. 289; the fall of
Quebec, ii. 302-324, 325 note, 326
note, 444.

Acadia, i. 178, 486; population of, i.
20, 94, 124, 264, 284; attacks made
on New England, i. 28; questions of
boundary, i. 90, 122-128, 184, 236-

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