 | 1851 - 588 sider
...might survive, and was told that he had not ninny hours remaining. " So much the better," he said ; " I am happy that I shall not live to see the surrender of Quebec." Officers from the garrison came to his bedside to ask his orders and instructions. " I will give no... | |
 | William Leete Stone - 1865 - 572 sider
...informed that he had but ten or twelve hours to live at the most, he exclaimed, " So much the better, I am happy that I shall not live to see the surrender of Quebec." When consulted by the commander of the garrison in relation to the defence of the city, he replied,... | |
 | Francis Parkman - 1880 - 402 sider
...might survive, and was told that he had not many hours remaining. " So much the better," he said ; " I am happy that I shall not live to see the surrender of Quebec." Officers from the garrison came to his bedside to ask his orders and instructions. " I will give no... | |
 | Francis Parkman - 1884 - 538 sider
...rest on the impregnable hill 1 Lirre d'Ordres, Ordrt du 13 Sept. 1759. s Foligny, Journal memoratif. of Jacques-Cartier, by the brink of the St. Lawrence,...of his last words were in praise of his successor, L^vis, for whose talents and fitness for command he expressed high esteem. When Vaudreuil sent to ask... | |
 | Francis Parkman - 1884 - 400 sider
...might survive, and was told that he had not many hours remaining. " So much the better," he said ; " I am happy that I shall not live to see the surrender of Quebec." Officers from the garrison came to his bedside to ask his orders and instructions. " I will give no... | |
 | 1893 - 376 sider
...and Montcalm. (6) Wolfe— "Now God be praised, I will die happy." Montcalm — " Sn much the better, I am happy that I shall not live to see the surrender ot Quebec." Samuel Adams. Philadelphia, New York city, Annapolis, Trenton, York, and other cities.... | |
 | Edward Eggleston - 1888 - 450 sider
...he said, " Now, God be praised, I die in peace ! " Montcalm, who was also mortally wounded, said, " I • ' am happy that I shall not live to see the surrender of Quebec." Quebec soon capitulated, and the fate of Canada was sealed. The French attempt- . ed to retake the... | |
 | David Henry Montgomery - 1891 - 516 sider
...peace." The French leader, when told that he must soon breathe his last, said, " So much the better, I am happy that I shall not live to see the surrender of Quebec." The fall of Quebec practically ended the war ; but four years later, Pontiac, chief of a Michigan tribe... | |
 | David Henry Montgomery - 1891 - 528 sider
...peace." The French leader, when told that he must soon breathe his last, said, " So much the better, I am happy that I shall not live to see the surrender of Quebec." The fall of Quebec practically ended the war; but four years later, Pontiac, chief of a Michigan tribe... | |
 | 1900 - 758 sider
...answer to his question, that he had scarcely twelve hours to live, he remarked, " So much the better; I am happy that I shall not live to see the surrender of Quebec." He spoke in complimentary terms of Wolfe and of his successor, Levis. When de Ramesay, the commandant... | |
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I am glad of it," was his calm reply. He then asked how long he might survive, and was told that he had not many hours remaining. "So much the better," he said; "I am happy that I shall not live to see the surrender of Quebec. 
