The Works of Francis Parkman: Montcalm and WolfeLittle, Brown,, 1898 |
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Side vi
... Forces . dreuil . Plan of Defence . - vance of Wolfe . - - - - Gasconade of Vau- Strength of Montcalm.Ad- British Sailors . - Landing of the English . Difficulties before them . - Storm . - Fireships . - Confidence of French Commanders ...
... Forces . dreuil . Plan of Defence . - vance of Wolfe . - - - - Gasconade of Vau- Strength of Montcalm.Ad- British Sailors . - Landing of the English . Difficulties before them . - Storm . - Fireships . - Confidence of French Commanders ...
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... forces equal to those which the English are prepared to oppose to you , the attempt would have no other effect than to ... force against Canada , and attack you on several sides at once , it is necessary that you limit your plans of ...
... forces equal to those which the English are prepared to oppose to you , the attempt would have no other effect than to ... force against Canada , and attack you on several sides at once , it is necessary that you limit your plans of ...
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... force their way into the heart of Canada , Montcalm proposed the desperate resort of abandon- ing the valley of the St. Lawrence , descending the Mississippi with his troops and as many as possible of the inhabitants , and making a last ...
... force their way into the heart of Canada , Montcalm proposed the desperate resort of abandon- ing the valley of the St. Lawrence , descending the Mississippi with his troops and as many as possible of the inhabitants , and making a last ...
Side 37
... forces , at least six times more numerous than ours , are already in motion . Never was Canada in a state so critical and full of peril . Never were we so des- titute , or threatened with an attack so fierce , so general , and so ...
... forces , at least six times more numerous than ours , are already in motion . Never was Canada in a state so critical and full of peril . Never were we so des- titute , or threatened with an attack so fierce , so general , and so ...
Side 39
... force of the colony , except the detachments of Bourlamaque and La Corne , was ordered to Quebec . Montcalm hastened thither , and Vaudreuil followed . The governor- general wrote to the minister in his usual strain , as if all the hope ...
... force of the colony , except the detachments of Bourlamaque and La Corne , was ordered to Quebec . Montcalm hastened thither , and Vaudreuil followed . The governor- general wrote to the minister in his usual strain , as if all the hope ...
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Amherst Anglois arms army artillery attack battalions batteries battle Beauport Bigot boats Bougainville Bourlamaque Brigadier British Cadet camp Canada Canadians cannon Cap-Rouge capitulation Captain captured Colonel colony command Crown Point defence deserters enemy England English fight fire fleet force Fort Edward Fort Lévis 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 miles militia Monckton 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 Roquemaure ruin sailed Saint-Véran sauvages says scalps sent Septembre ships shore Siége Siege of Quebec soldiers Ste.-Foy tenu à l'Armée thousand Ticonderoga told town Townshend troops Vaudreuil au Ministre vessels Wolfe Wolfe's wounded wrote
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Side 152 - So much the better," he returned. "I am happy that I shall not live to see the surrender of Quebec." He is reported to have said that since he had lost the battle it consoled him to have been defeated by so brave an enemy; and some of his last words were in praise of his successor, Le'vis, for whose talents and fitness for command he expressed high esteem.
Side 270 - That we were wilfully or ignorantly deceived by our interpreter in regard to the word assassination I do aver, and will to my dying moment ; so will every officer that was present. The interpreter was a Dutchman little acquainted with the English tongue, therefore might not advert to the tone and meaning of the word in English; but, whatever his motives for so doing, certain it is that he called it the death or the loss of the Sieur Jumonville. So we received and so we understood it, until, to our...
Side 237 - 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 105 - 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 129 - 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 139 - It was towards ten o'clock when, from the high ground on the right of the line, Wolfe saw that the crisis was near. The French on the ridge had formed themselves into three bodies, regulars in the center, regulars and Canadians on right and left.
Side 261 - Spain at a later day, sunder themselves from a parent fallen into decrepitude ; but with astonishing audacity they affronted the wrath of England in the hour of her triumph, forgot their jealousies and quarrels, joined hands in the common cause, fought, endured, and won. The disunited colonies became the United States. The string of discordant communities along the Atlantic coast has grown to a mighty people, joined in a union which the earthquake of civil war served only to compact and consolidate....
Side 124 - 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 - That we were, wilfully or ignorantly, deceived by our interpreter in regard to the word assassination, I do aver, and will to my dying moment ; so will every officer who was present. The interpreter was a Dutchman, little acquainted with the English tongue, therefore might not advert to the tone and meaning of the word in English ; but whatever his motives were for so doing, certain it is, we called it the death, or the loss, of the Sieur Jumonville.
Side 135 - 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 the sound of cannon above the town. It was the battery at Samos firing on the English ships. He had sent an officer to the quarters of Vaudreuil, which were much nearer Quebec, with orders to bring him word at once...