The Works of Francis Parkman: Montcalm and WolfeLittle, Brown,, 1898 |
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Side 8
... four hundred thousand francs ; the pettiest ensign , who does not gamble , will have ten , twelve , or fifteen thousand . The Indians don't like Ligneris , who is drunk every day . Forgive the confusion of this letter ; I have not slept ...
... four hundred thousand francs ; the pettiest ensign , who does not gamble , will have ten , twelve , or fifteen thousand . The Indians don't like Ligneris , who is drunk every day . Forgive the confusion of this letter ; I have not slept ...
Side 9
... four- fifths of them were employed in the hard and tedious work of transportation , the women , boys , and old men tilled the fields and raised a scanty harvest , which always might be , and sometimes was , taken from them in the name ...
... four- fifths of them were employed in the hard and tedious work of transportation , the women , boys , and old men tilled the fields and raised a scanty harvest , which always might be , and sometimes was , taken from them in the name ...
Side 14
... four memorials before the court , in which he showed the desperate state of the colony and its dire need of help . Thus far , he said , Canada has been saved by the dissensions of the English colonies ; but now , for the first time ...
... four memorials before the court , in which he showed the desperate state of the colony and its dire need of help . Thus far , he said , Canada has been saved by the dissensions of the English colonies ; but now , for the first time ...
Side 15
... four hun- dred recruits for the regulars , sixty engineers , sap- pers , and artillerymen , and gunpowder , arms , and provisions sufficient , along with the supplies brought over by the contractor , Cadet , to carry the colony through ...
... four hun- dred recruits for the regulars , sixty engineers , sap- pers , and artillerymen , and gunpowder , arms , and provisions sufficient , along with the supplies brought over by the contractor , Cadet , to carry the colony through ...
Side 21
... four soldiers and a ranger were waylaid not far from the fort , disabled by bullets , and then scalped alive . They were found the next morning on the snow , contorted in the agonies of death , and 99 frozen like marble statues . St ...
... four soldiers and a ranger were waylaid not far from the fort , disabled by bullets , and then scalped alive . They were found the next morning on the snow , contorted in the agonies of death , and 99 frozen like marble statues . St ...
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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...