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   <h1>Montcalm and Wolfe</h1> 
   <p class="title-author">by Francis Parkman</p>
	 <p class="double-space-top">
			 France and England<br /> in North America
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	 <p>
	     A Series<br /> of Historical Narratives
	 </p>
	 <p>
			 Part Seventh.<br />
	 </p>
	 <p class="double-space-top center small">
	    BOSTON:<br />
			LITTLE, BROWN, AND COMPANY.<br />
			1885.<br />
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	 <hr />
	 <p class="quad-space-top center small">
    <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_ii" id="Page_ii">ii<br />V1</a></span>
                  <i>Copyright, 1884,</i><br />
                  by <span class="smcap">Francis Parkman.</span><br />
									<br /><br />
									University Press:<br />
									<span class="smcap">John Wilson and Son, Cambridge.</span>
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	 <hr />
	 <p class="quad-space-top">
	 <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_iii" id="Page_iii">iii<br />V1</a></span>
	 <br /></p>
   <h2>Montcalm and Wolfe<br />
	     Vol. 1.</h2> 
   <p class="title-author">by Francis Parkman</p>
	 <p class="double-space-top smcap">
	     sixth edition.
	</p>
	 <p class="double-space-top center small">
	    BOSTON:<br />
			LITTLE, BROWN, AND COMPANY.<br />
			1885.<br />
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	 <hr />
	 <p class="quad-space-top center small">
    <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_iv" id="Page_iv">iv<br />V1</a></span>
                  <i>Copyright, 1884,</i><br />
                  by <span class="smcap">Francis Parkman.</span><br />
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   <hr />
   <p class="quad-space-top">
	 <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_v" id="Page_v">v<br />V1</a></span>
	 <br /></p>
   <p class="smcap">To</p>
   <p class="smcap xl">Harvard College,</p>
   <p class="smcap">the alma mater under whose influence the<br />
      purpose of writing it was conceived,</p>
	 <p class="smcap lg">
			this book</p>
	 <p class="smcap">
      is affectionately inscribed.
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<hr />
<div class="chapterhead">
   <br /><a name="Preface" id="Preface"></a>
	 <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_vii" id="Page_vii">vii<br />V1</a></span> 
	 <br /><br /><br />
	 <h2><a href="#Contents">PREFACE.</a><br />
	 </h2> 
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<p class="double-space-top">
<span class="smcap">The</span> names on the titlepage stand as representative 
of the two nations whose final contest for the control of North America is the 
subject of the book.</p>

<p>A very large amount of unpublished material has been used in its
preparation, consisting for the most part of documents copied from the
archives and libraries of France and England, especially from the
Archives de la Marine et des Colonies, the Archives de la Guerre, and
the Archives Nationales at Paris, and the Public Record Office and the
British Museum at London.  The papers copied for the present work in
France alone exceed six thousand folio pages of manuscript, additional
and supplementary to the "Paris Documents" procured for the State of New
York under the agency of Mr. Brodhead.  The copies made in England form
ten volumes, besides many English documents consulted in the original
manuscript. Great numbers of autograph letters, diaries, and other
writings of persons engaged in the war have also been examined on this
side of the Atlantic.</p>

<p>
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_viii" id="Page_viii">viii<br />V1</a></span> 
I owe to the kindness of the present Marquis de Montcalm the permission
to copy all the letters written by his ancestor, General Montcalm, when
in America, to members of his family in France. General Montcalm, from
his first arrival in Canada to a few days before his death, also carried
on an active correspondence with one of his chief officers, Bourlamaque,
with whom he was on terms of intimacy. These autograph letters are now
preserved in a private collection. I have examined them, and obtained
copies of the whole. They form an interesting complement to the official
correspondence of the writer, and throw the most curious side-lights on
the persons and events of the time.</p>

<p>Besides manuscripts, the printed matter in the form of books, pamphlets,
contemporary newspapers, and other publications relating to the American
part of the Seven Years' War, is varied and abundant; and I believe I
may safely say that nothing in it of much consequence has escaped me.
The liberality of some of the older States of the Union, especially New
York and Pennsylvania, in printing the voluminous records of their
colonial history, has saved me a deal of tedious labor.</p>

<p>The whole of this published and unpublished mass of evidence has been
read and collated with extreme care, and more than common pains have
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_ix" id="Page_ix">ix<br />V1</a></span> 
been taken to secure accuracy of statement. The study of books and
papers, however, could not alone answer the purpose. The plan of the
work was formed in early youth; and though various causes have long
delayed its execution, it has always been kept in view. Meanwhile, I
have visited and examined every spot where events of any importance in
connection with the contest took place, and have observed with attention
such scenes and persons as might help to illustrate those I meant to
describe. In short, the subject has been studied as much from life and
in the open air as at the library table.</p>

<p>These two volumes are a departure from chronological sequence. The
period between 1700 and 1748 has been passed over for a time. When this
gap is filled, the series of "France and England in North America" will
form a continuous history of the French occupation of the continent.</p>

<p>
The portrait in the first volume is from a photograph of the original
picture in possession of the Marquis de Montcalm; that in the second,
from a photograph of the original picture in possession of Admiral Warde.
</p>

<p class="neat-left-margin small">
   <span class="smcap">Boston</span>, Sept. 16, 1884.
</p>


<hr />

<div class="contents">
   <a id="Contents" name="Contents"></a>
	 <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_xi" id="Page_xi">xi<br />V1</a></span>   
   <h2>Contents</h2>
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   <p class="smcapheader">
	    Montcalm and Wolfe: Volume 1
	 </p>
	 <p class="noindent double-space-top"><a href="#Preface">PREFACE.</a></p>
	 <p class="noindent"><a href="#Chapter_0">AUTHOR'S INTRODUCTION.</a></p>
	 <p class="noindent">
	    <a id="Contents01" name="Contents01"></a>
	    <a href="#Chapter_01">CHAPTER I.</a> 1745-1755.
	 </p>
	 <p class="noindent">THE COMBATANTS.</p>
   
	 <p class="topics">				
	 England in the Eighteenth Century &bull; 
	 Her Political and Social Aspects &bull; Her Military Condition &bull;
	 France &bull; Her Power and Importance &bull; Signs of Decay &bull;
   The Court, the Nobles, the Clergy, the People &bull;
	 The King and Pompadour &bull; The Philosophers &bull;
	 Germany &bull; Prussia &bull; Frederic II &bull; Russia &bull;
	 State of Europe &bull; War of the Austrian Succession &bull;
	 American Colonies of France and England &bull; 
	 Contrasted Systems and their Results &bull; Canada &bull;
	 Its Strong Military Position &bull; French Claims to the Continent &bull;
	 British Colonies &bull; New England &bull; Virginia &bull; 
	 Pennsylvania &bull; New York &bull; 
	 Jealousies, Divisions, Internal Disputes, Military Weakness.
   </p> 
   <p class="noindent">
	    <a id="Contents02" name="Contents02"></a>
			<a href="#Chapter_02">CHAPTER II. </a>1749-1752
	 </p>
	 <p class="noindent">C&Eacute;LORON DE BIENVILLE.</p>
	 <p class="topics">				
	 La Galissoni&egrave;re &bull; English Encroachment &bull;
	 Mission of C&eacute;loron &bull; The Great West &bull; 
	 Its European Claimants &bull; Its Indian Population &bull;
	 English Fur-Traders &bull; C&eacute;loron on the Alleghany &bull;
	 His Reception &bull; His Difficulties &bull; Descent of the Ohio &bull;
	 Covert Hostility &bull; Ascent of the Miami &bull; La Demoiselle &bull;
	 Dark Prospects for France &bull; Christopher Gist &bull; 
	 George Croghan &bull; Their Western Mission &bull; Pickawillany &bull; 
	 English Ascendency &bull; English Dissension and Rivalry &bull;
	 The Key of the Great West.<br/>
   </p> 
   <p class="noindent">
	    <a id="Contents03" name="Contents03"></a>
			<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_xii" id="Page_xii">xii<br />V1</a></span> 
			<a href="#Chapter_03">CHAPTER III.</a> 1749-1753.
	 </p>
	 <p class="noindent">CONFLICT FOR THE WEST.</p>
	 <p class="topics">				
	 The Five Nations &bull; Caughnawaga &bull; Abb&eacute; Piquet &bull;
	 His Schemes &bull; His Journey &bull; Fort Frontenac &bull;
	 Toronto &bull; Niagara &bull; Oswego &bull; Success of Piquet &bull;
	 Detroit &bull; La Jonqui&egrave;re &bull; His Intrigues &bull; 
	 His Trials &bull; His Death &bull; English Intrigues &bull; 
	 Critical State of the West &bull; Pickawillany Destroyed &bull; 
	 Duquesne &bull; His Grand Enterprise.
   </p> 
   <p class="noindent">
	    <a id="Contents04" name="Contents04"></a>
	    <a href="#Chapter_04">CHAPTER IV.</a> 1710-1754.
	 </p>
	 <p class="noindent">CONFLICT FOR ACADIA.</p>
	 <p class="topics">				
	 Acadia ceded to England &bull; Acadians swear Fidelity &bull;
	 Halifax founded &bull; French Intrigue &bull; Acadian Priests &bull;
	 Mildness of English Rule &bull; Covert Hostility of Acadians &bull;
	 The New Oath &bull; Treachery of Versailles &bull; 
	 Indians incited to War &bull; Clerical Agents of Revolt &bull;
	 Abb&eacute; Le Loutre &bull; Acadians impelled to emigrate &bull;
	 Misery of the Emigrants &bull; Humanity of Cornwallis and Hopson &bull; 
	 Fanaticism and Violence of Le Loutre &bull; 
	 Capture of the "St. Fran&ccedil;ois" &bull; The English at Beaubassin &bull;
	 Le Loutre drives out the Inhabitants &bull; Murder of Howe &bull;
	 Beaus&eacute;jour &bull; Insolence of Le Loutre &bull; 
	 His Harshness to the Acadians &bull; The Boundary Commission &bull;
	 Its Failure &bull; Approaching War
   </p> 
   <p class="noindent">
	    <a id="Contents05" name="Contents05"></a>
	    <a href="#Chapter_05">CHAPTER V.</a> 1753, 1754.
	 </p>
	 <p class="noindent">WASHINGTON.</p>
	 <p class="topics">				
	    The French occupy the Sources of the Ohio &bull; Their Sufferings &bull; 
			Fort Le B&oelig;uf &bull;  Legardeur de Saint-Pierre &bull; 
			Mission of Washington &bull;  Robert Dinwiddie &bull; 
			He opposes the French &bull; His Dispute with the Burgesses &bull; 
			His Energy &bull;  His Appeals for Help &bull;  Fort Duquesne &bull; 
			Death of Jumonville &bull; Washington at the Great Meadows &bull; 
			Coulon de Villiers &bull; Fort Necessity.
   </p> 

	 <p class="noindent">
	    <a id="Contents06" name="Contents06"></a>
			<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_xiii" id="Page_xiii">xiii<br />V1</a></span> 
	    <a href="#Chapter_06">CHAPTER VI.</a> 1754, 1755.
	 </p>
	 <p class="noindent">THE SIGNAL OF BATTLE.</p>
	 <p class="topics">
	 Troubles of Dinwiddie &bull; Gathering of the Burgesses &bull;
	 Virginian Society &bull; Refractory Legislators &bull; 
	 The Quaker Assembly &bull; It refuses to resist the French &bull;
	 Apathy of New York &bull; 
	 Shirley and the General Court of Massachusetts &bull;
	 Short-sighted Policy &bull; Attitude of Royal Governors &bull;
	 Indian Allies waver &bull; Convention at Albany &bull; 
	 Scheme of Union &bull; It fails &bull; Dinwiddie and Glen &bull;
	 Dinwiddie calls on England for Help &bull; The Duke of Newcastle &bull;
	 Weakness of the British Cabinet &bull; Attitude of France &bull;
	 Mutual Dissimulation &bull; Both Powers send Troops to America &bull;
	 Collision &bull; Capture of the "Alcide" and the "Lis."
   </p> 

	 <p class="noindent">
	    <a id="Contents07" name="Contents07"></a>
	    <a href="#Chapter_07">CHAPTER VII.</a> 1755.
	 </p>
	 <p class="noindent">BRADDOCK.</p>
	 <p class="topics">				
	    Arrival of Braddock &bull; His Character &bull; 
			Council at Alexandria &bull; Plan of the Campaign &bull;
			Apathy of the Colonists &bull; Rage of Braddock &bull; Franklin &bull;
			Fort Cumberland &bull; Composition of the Army &bull; 
			Offended Friends &bull; The March &bull; The French Fort &bull;
			Savage Allies &bull; The Captive &bull; Beaujeu &bull; 
			He goes to meet the English &bull; Passage of the Monongahela &bull;
			The Surprise &bull; The Battle &bull; Rout of Braddock &bull;
			His Death &bull; Indian Ferocity &bull; Reception of the Ill News &bull;
			Weakness of Dunbar &bull; The Frontier abandoned.
   </p> 

    <p class="noindent">
	    <a id="Contents08" name="Contents08"></a>
	    <a href="#Chapter_08">CHAPTER VIII.</a> 1755-1763.
	 </p>
	 <p class="noindent">REMOVAL OF THE ACADIANS.</p>
	 <p class="topics">
	    State of Acadia &bull; Threatened Invasion &bull; 
			Peril of the English &bull; Their Plans &bull; 
			French Forts to be attacked &bull; 
			Beaus&eacute;jour and its Occupants &bull; 
			French Treatment of the Acadians &bull; John Winslow &bull;
			Siege and Capture of Beaus&eacute;jour &bull; Attitude of Acadians &bull;
			Influence of their Priests &bull; 
			They Refuse the Oath of Allegiance &bull; 
			Their Condition and Character &bull; Pretended Neutrals &bull;
			Moderation of English Authorities &bull; 
			<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_xiv" id="Page_xiv">xiv<br />V1</a></span> 
			The Acadians persist in their Refusal &bull; Enemies or Subjects? &bull;
			Choice of the Acadians &bull; The Consequence &bull; 
			Their Removal determined &bull; Winslow at Grand Pr&eacute; &bull;
			Conference with Murray &bull; Summons to the Inhabitants &bull; 
			Their Seizure &bull; Their Embarkation &bull; Their Fate &bull; 
			Their Treatment in Canada &bull; Misapprehension concerning them.
   </p> 


   <p class="noindent">
	    <a id="Contents09" name="Contents09"></a>
	    <a href="#Chapter_09">CHAPTER IX.</a> 1755.
	 </p>
	 <p class="noindent">DIESKAU.</p>
	 <p class="topics">
	     Expedition against Crown Point &bull;  William Johnson &bull; 
			 Vaudreuil &bull;  Dieskau &bull;  Johnson and the Indians &bull; 
			 The Provincial Army &bull;  Doubts and Delays &bull;  
			 March to Lake George &bull;  Sunday in Camp &bull; 
			 Advance of Dieskau &bull;  He changes Plan &bull;  
			 Marches against Johnson &bull;  Ambush &bull;  Rout of Provincials &bull; 
			 Battle of Lake George &bull;  Rout of the French &bull;  
			 Rage of the Mohawks &bull;  Peril of Dieskau &bull;  
			 Inaction of Johnson &bull;  The Homeward March &bull;  
			 Laurels of Victory.
   </p> 

   <p class="noindent">
	     <a id="Contents10" name="Contents10"></a>
			 <a href="#Chapter_10">CHAPTER X.</a> 1755, 1756.
	 </p>
	 <p class="noindent">SHIRLEY.  BORDER WAR.</p>
	 <p class="topics">				
	 The Niagara Campaign &bull;  Albany &bull; March to Oswego &bull; 
	 Difficulties &bull;  The Expedition abandoned &bull;  
	 Shirley and Johnson &bull; Results of the Campaign &bull; 
	 The Scourge of the Border &bull; Trials of Washington &bull; 
	 Misery of the Settlers &bull;  Horror of their Situation &bull; 
	 Philadelphia and the Quakers &bull;  Disputes with the Penns &bull; 
	 Democracy and Feudalism &bull; Pennsylvanian Population &bull; 
	 Appeals from the Frontier &bull; Quarrel of Governor and Assembly &bull; 
	 Help refused &bull;  Desperation of the Borderers &bull;  
	 Fire and Slaughter &bull;  The Assembly alarmed &bull; 
   They pass a mock Militia Law &bull; They are forced to yield.
   </p> 

   <p class="noindent">
	     <a id="Contents11" name="Contents11"></a>
	     <a href="#Chapter_11">CHAPTER XI.</a> 1712-1756.
	 </p>
	 <p class="noindent">MONTCALM.</p>
	 <p class="topics">
	    War declared &bull; State of Europe &bull; 
			Pompadour and Maria Theresa &bull; Infatuation of the French Court &bull;
			The European War &bull; Montcalm to command in America &bull;
      His early Life &bull; 
			<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_xv" id="Page_xv">xv<br />V1</a></span> 
			An intractable Pupil &bull; His Marriage &bull;
			His Family &bull; His Campaigns &bull; Preparation for America &bull;
			His Associates &bull; L&eacute;vis, Bourlamaque, Bougainville &bull;
			Embarkation &bull; The Voyage &bull; Arrival &bull; Vaudreuil &bull;
			Forces of Canada &bull; 
			Troops of the Line, Colony Troops, Militia, Indians &bull;
			The Military Situation &bull; Capture of Fort Bull &bull;
			Montcalm at Ticonderoga.
   </p> 

	 <p class="noindent">
	    <a id="Contents12" name="Contents12"></a>
			<a href="#Chapter_12">CHAPTER XII.</a> 1756.
	 </p>
	 <p class="noindent">OSWEGO.</p>
	 <p class="topics">	
	    The new Campaign &bull; Untimely Change of Commanders &bull;
			Eclipse of Shirley &bull; Earl of Loudon &bull; 
			Muster of Provincials &bull; New England Levies &bull;
			Winslow at Lake George &bull; Johnson and the Five Nations &bull;
			Bradstreet and his Boatmen &bull; Fight on the Onondaga &bull;
			Pestilence at Oswego &bull; Loudon and the Provincials &bull; 
			New England Camps &bull; Army Chaplains &bull; A sudden Blow &bull;
			Montcalm attacks Oswego &bull; Its Fall.
   </p>

	 <p class="noindent">
	    <a id="Contents13" name="Contents13"></a>
			<a href="#Chapter_13">CHAPTER XIII.</a> 1756, 1757. 
	 </p>
	 <p class="noindent">PARTISAN WAR.</p>
	 <p class="topics">	
	    Failure of Shirley's Plan &bull; Causes &bull; 
			Loudon and Shirley &bull; Close of the Campaign &bull;
			The Western Border &bull; Armstrong destroys Kittanning &bull;
			The Scouts of Lake George &bull; War Parties from Ticonderoga &bull;
			Robert Rogers &bull; The Rangers &bull; Their Hardihood and Daring &bull;
			Disputes as to Quarters of Troops &bull; Expedition of Rogers &bull;
			A Desperate Bush-fight &bull; Enterprise of Vaudreuil &bull;
			Rigaud attacks Fort William Henry.
   </p>

   <p class="noindent">
	    <a id="Contents14" name="Contents14"></a>
			<a href="#Chapter_14">CHAPTER XIV.</a> 1757. 
	 </p>
	 <p class="noindent">MONTCALM AND VAUDREUIL.</p>
	 <p class="topics">	
	 The Seat of War &bull; Social Life at Montreal &bull;
	 Familiar Correspondence of Montcalm &bull; His Employments &bull;
	 His Impressions of Canada &bull; His Hospitalities &bull;
   Misunderstandings with the Governor &bull; Character of Vaudreuil &bull;
	 His Accusations &bull; Frenchmen and Canadians &bull; 
	 Foibles of Montcalm &bull; The opening Campaign &bull; 
	 Doubts and Suspense &bull; London's Plan &bull; His Character &bull;
	 Fatal Delays &bull; Abortive Attempt against Louisbourg &bull;
	 Disaster to the British Fleet.
   </p>

   <p class="noindent">
	    <a id="Contents15" name="Contents15"></a>
			<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_xvi" id="Page_xvi">xvi<br />V1</a></span> 
			<a href="#Chapter_15">CHAPTER XV.</a> 1757. 
	 </p>
	 <p class="noindent">FORT WILLIAM HENRY.</p>
	 <p class="topics">
	 Another Blow &bull; The War-song &bull; The Army at Ticonderoga &bull;
	 Indian Allies &bull; The War-feast &bull; Treatment of Prisoners &bull;
	 Cannibalism &bull; Surprise and Slaughter &bull; The War Council &bull;
	 March of L&eacute;vis &bull; The Army embarks &bull; 
	 Fort William Henry &bull; Nocturnal Scene &bull; Indian Funeral &bull;
	 Advance upon the Fort &bull; General Webb &bull; His Difficulties &bull;
	 His Weakness &bull; The Siege begun &bull; Conduct of the Indians &bull; 
	 The Intercepted Letter &bull; Desperate Position of the Besieged &bull; 
	 Capitulation &bull; Ferocity of the Indians &bull; 
	 Mission of Bougainville &bull; Murder of Wounded Men &bull; 
	 A Scene of Terror &bull; The Massacre &bull; Efforts of Montcalm &bull; 
	 The Fort burned.
   </p>
   <p>
  <a href="#contentsV2">Contents of Volume II</a>
	</p>  
<hr />

<div class="chapterhead">
   <p>
	    <br />
			<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_001-V1" id="Page_001-V1">1<br />V1</a></span>
      <br /><a name="Chapter_0" id="Chapter_0"></a><br /><br />
	 </p>
	 <h2><a href="#Contents">INTRODUCTION.</a><br />
	 </h2> 
</div>



<p class="double-space-top">
<span class="smcap">It</span> is the nature of great events to 
obscure the great events that came
before them. The Seven Years War in Europe is seen but dimly through
revolutionary convulsions and Napoleonic tempests; and the same contest
in America is half lost to sight behind the storm-cloud of the War of
Independence. Few at this day see the momentous issues involved in it,
or the greatness of the danger that it averted. The strife that armed
all the civilized world began here. "Such was the complication of
political interests," says Voltaire, "that a cannon-shot fired in
America could give the signal that set Europe in a blaze." Not quite. It
was not a cannon-shot, but a volley from the hunting-pieces of a few
backwoodsmen, commanded by a Virginian youth, George Washington.</p>

<p>
To us of this day, the result of the American part of the war seems a
foregone conclusion. It was far from being so; and very far from being
so regarded by our forefathers. The numerical superiority of the British
colonies was offset by organic weaknesses fatal to vigorous and united
action. Nor at the outset did they, or the mother-country, 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_002-V1" id="Page_002-V1">2<br />V1</a></span> 
aim at conquering Canada, but only at pushing back her boundaries.
Canada&mdash;using the name in its restricted sense&mdash;was a position of great
strength; and even when her dependencies were overcome, she could hold
her own against forces far superior. Armies could reach her only by
three routes,&mdash;the Lower St. Lawrence on the east, the Upper St.
Lawrence on the west, and Lake Champlain on the south. The first access
was guarded by a fortress almost impregnable by nature, and the second
by a long chain of dangerous rapids; while the third offered a series of
points easy to defend. During this same war, Frederic of Prussia held
his ground triumphantly against greater odds, though his kingdom was
open on all sides to attack.</p>

<p>
It was the fatuity of Louis XV. and his Pompadour that made the conquest
of Canada possible. Had they not broken the traditionary policy of
France, allied themselves to Austria, her ancient enemy, and plunged
needlessly into the European war, the whole force of the kingdom would
have been turned, from the first, to the humbling of England and the
defence of the French colonies. The French soldiers left dead on
inglorious Continental battle-fields could have saved Canada, and
perhaps made good her claim to the vast territories of the West.</p>

<p>
But there were other contingencies. The possession of Canada was a
question of diplomacy as well as of war. If England conquered her, she
might restore her, as she had lately restored Cape 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_003-V1" id="Page_003-V1">3<br />V1</a></span> 
Breton. She had an
interest in keeping France alive on the American continent. More than
one clear eye saw, at the middle of the last century, that the
subjection of Canada would lead to a revolt of the British colonies. So
long as an active and enterprising enemy threatened their borders, they
could not break with the mother-country, because they needed her help.
And if the arms of France had prospered in the other hemisphere; if she
had gained in Europe or Asia territories with which to buy back what she
had lost in America, then, in all likelihood, Canada would have passed
again into her hands.</p>

<p>
The most momentous and far-reaching question ever brought to issue on
this continent was: Shall France remain here, or shall she not? If, by
diplomacy or war, she had preserved but the half, or less than the half,
of her American possessions, then a barrier would have been set to the
spread of the English-speaking races; there would have been no
Revolutionary War; and for a long time, at least, no independence. It
was not a question of scanty populations strung along the banks of the
St. Lawrence; it was&mdash;or under a government of any worth it would have
been&mdash;a question of the armies and generals of France. America owes much
to the imbecility of Louis XV. and the ambitious vanity and personal
dislikes of his mistress.</p>

<p>
The Seven Years War made England what she is. It crippled the commerce
of her rival, ruined France in two continents, and blighted her as a
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_004-V1" id="Page_004-V1">4<br />V1</a></span> 
colonial power. It gave England the control of the seas and the mastery
of North America and India, made her the first of commercial nations,
and prepared that vast colonial system that has planted new Englands in
every quarter of the globe. And while it made England what she is, it
supplied to the United States the indispensable condition of their
greatness, if not of their national existence.</p>

<p>
Before entering on the story of the great contest, we will look at the
parties to it on both sides of the Atlantic.</p>





<hr />
<div class="chapterhead">
   <a name="Chapter_01" id="Chapter_01"></a>
	 <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_005-V1" id="Page_005-V1">5<br />V1</a></span> 
	 <p class="center lg caps noindent">
	    Montcalm and Wolfe.
	 </p>
	 <hr class="tiny" />
   <br />
	 <h2><a href="#Contents01">CHAPTER I.</a><br />
	 <span class="med">1745-1755.</span>
	 </h2> 
	 <p class="smcapheader">THE COMBATANTS.</p>
	 <p class="smcap noindent space-bottom">
	 England in the Eighteenth Century &bull; 
	 Her Political and Social Aspects &bull; Her Military Condition &bull;
	 France &bull; Her Power and Importance &bull; Signs of Decay &bull;
   The Court, the Nobles, the Clergy, the People &bull;
	 The King and Pompadour &bull; The Philosophers &bull;
	 Germany &bull; Prussia &bull; Frederic II &bull; Russia &bull;
	 State of Europe &bull; War of the Austrian Succession &bull;
	 American Colonies of France and England &bull; 
	 Contrasted Systems and their Results &bull; Canada &bull;
	 Its Strong Military Position &bull; French Claims to the Continent &bull;
	 British Colonies &bull; New England &bull; Virginia &bull; 
	 Pennsylvania &bull; New York &bull; 
	 Jealousies, Divisions, Internal Disputes, Military Weakness.
	 </p>
	 <p class="break1"></p> 
</div>

<p class="double-space-top">
<span class="smcap">The</span> latter half of the reign of George II. 
was one of the most prosaic
periods in English history. The civil wars and the Restoration had had
their enthusiasms, religion and liberty on one side, and loyalty on the
other; but the old fires declined when William III. came to the throne,
and died to ashes under the House of Hanover. Loyalty lost half its
inspiration when it lost the tenet of the divine right of kings; and
nobody could now hold that tenet with any consistency except the
defeated and despairing Jacobites. Nor had anybody as yet proclaimed the
rival dogma of the divine right of the people. The reigning 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_006-V1" id="Page_006-V1">6<br />V1</a></span> 
monarch held
his crown neither of God nor of the nation, but of a parliament
controlled by a ruling class. The Whig aristocracy had done a priceless
service to English liberty. It was full of political capacity, and by no
means void of patriotism; but it was only a part of the national life.
Nor was it at present moved by political emotions in any high sense. It
had done its great work when it expelled the Stuarts and placed William
of Orange on the throne; its ascendency was now complete. The Stuarts
had received their death-blow at Culloden; and nothing was left to the
dominant party but to dispute on subordinate questions, and contend for
office among themselves. The Troy squires sulked in their
country-houses, hunted foxes, and grumbled against the reigning dynasty;
yet hardly wished to see the nation convulsed by a counter-revolution
and another return of the Stuarts.</p>

<p>If politics had run to commonplace, so had morals; and so too had
religion. Despondent writers of the day even complained that British
courage had died out. There was little sign to the common eye that under
a dull and languid surface, forces were at work preparing a new life,
material, moral, and intellectual. As yet, Whitefield and Wesley had not
wakened the drowsy conscience of the nation, nor the voice of William
Pitt roused it like a trumpet-peal.</p>

<p>
It was the unwashed and unsavory England of Hogarth, Fielding, Smollett,
and Sterne; of Tom Jones, Squire Western, Lady Bellaston, and Parson
Adams; of the "Rake's Progress" and "Marriage 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_007-V1" id="Page_007-V1">7<br />V1</a></span> 
&agrave; la Mode;" of the lords
and ladies who yet live in the undying gossip of Horace Walpole,
be-powdered, be-patched, and be-rouged, flirting at masked balls,
playing cards till daylight, retailing scandal, and exchanging double
meanings. Beau Nash reigned king over the gaming-tables of Bath; the
ostrich-plumes of great ladies mingled with the peacock-feathers of
courtesans in the rotunda at Ranelagh Gardens; and young lords in velvet
suits and embroidered ruffles played away their patrimony at White's
Chocolate-House or Arthur's Club. Vice was bolder than to-day, and
manners more courtly, perhaps, but far more coarse.</p>

<p>The humbler clergy were thought&mdash;sometimes with reason&mdash;to be no fit
company for gentlemen, and country parsons drank their ale in the
squire's kitchen. The passenger-wagon spent the better part of a
fortnight in creeping from London to York. Travellers carried pistols
against footpads and mounted highwaymen. Dick Turpin and Jack Sheppard
were popular heroes. Tyburn counted its victims by scores; and as yet no
Howard had appeared to reform the inhuman abominations of the prisons.</p>

<p>
The middle class, though fast rising in importance, was feebly and
imperfectly represented in parliament. The boroughs were controlled by
the nobility and gentry, or by corporations open to influence or
bribery. Parliamentary corruption had been reduced to a system; and
offices, sinecures, pensions, and gifts of money were freely used to
keep ministers in power. The great offices of state 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_008-V1" id="Page_008-V1">8<br />V1</a></span> 
were held by men
sometimes of high ability, but of whom not a few divided their lives
among politics, cards, wine, horse-racing, and women, till time and the
gout sent them to the waters of Bath. The dull, pompous, and irascible
old King had two ruling passions,&mdash;money, and his Continental dominions
of Hanover. His elder son, the Prince of Wales, was a centre of
opposition to him. His younger son, the Duke of Cumberland, a character
far more pronounced and vigorous, had won the day at Culloden, and lost
it at Fontenoy; but whether victor or vanquished, had shown the same
vehement bull-headed courage, of late a little subdued by fast growing
corpulency. The Duke of Newcastle, the head of the government, had
gained power and kept it by his rank and connections, his wealth, his
county influence, his control of boroughs, and the extraordinary
assiduity and devotion with which he practised the arts of corruption.
Henry Fox, grasping, unscrupulous, with powerful talents, a warm friend
after his fashion, and a most indulgent father; Carteret, with his
strong, versatile intellect and jovial intrepidity; the two Townshends,
Mansfield, Halifax, and Chesterfield,&mdash;were conspicuous figures in the
politics of the time. One man towered above them all. Pitt had many
enemies and many critics. They called him ambitious, audacious,
arrogant, theatrical, pompous, domineering; but what he has left for
posterity is a loftiness of soul, undaunted courage, fiery and
passionate eloquence, proud incorruptibility, domestic virtues rare in
his day, 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_009-V1" id="Page_009-V1">9<br />V1</a></span> 
unbounded faith in the cause for which he stood, and abilities
which without wealth or strong connections were destined to place him on
the height of power. The middle class, as yet almost voiceless, looked
to him as its champion; but he was not the champion of a class. His
patriotism was as comprehensive as it was haughty and unbending. He
lived for England, loved her with intense devotion, knew her, believed
in her, and made her greatness his own; or rather, he was himself
England incarnate.</p>

<p>
The nation was not then in fighting equipment. After the peace of
Aix-la-Chapelle, the army within the three kingdoms had been reduced to
about eighteen thousand men. Added to these were the garrisons of
Minorca and Gibraltar, and six or seven independent companies in the
American colonies. Of sailors, less than seventeen thousand were left in
the Royal Navy. Such was the condition of England on the eve of one of
the most formidable wars in which she was ever engaged.</p>

<hr class="break" />
<p>
Her rival across the Channel was drifting slowly and unconsciously
towards the cataclysm of the Revolution; yet the old monarchy, full of
the germs of decay, was still imposing and formidable. The House of
Bourbon held the three thrones of France, Spain, and Naples; and their
threatened union in a family compact was the terror of European
diplomacy. At home France was the foremost of the Continental nations;
and she boasted herself second only to Spain as a colonial power. 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_010-V1" id="Page_010-V1">10<br />V1</a></span> 
She disputed with England the mastery of India, owned the islands of Bourbon
and Mauritius, held important possessions in the West Indies, and
claimed all North America except Mexico and a strip of sea-coast. Her
navy was powerful, her army numerous, and well appointed; but she lacked
the great commanders of the last reign. Soubise, Maillebois, Contades,
Broglie, and Clermont were but weak successors of Cond&eacute;, Turenne,
Vend&ocirc;me, and Villars. Marshal Richelieu was supreme in the arts of
gallantry, and more famous for conquests of love than of war. The best
generals of Louis XV. were foreigners. Lowendal sprang from the royal
house of Denmark; and Saxe, the best of all, was one of the three
hundred and fifty-four bastards of Augustus the Strong, Elector of
Saxony and King of Poland. He was now, 1750, dying at Chambord, his iron
constitution ruined by debaucheries.</p>

<p>The triumph of the Bourbon monarchy was complete. The government had
become one great machine of centralized administration, with a king for
its head; though a king who neither could nor would direct it. All
strife was over between the Crown and the nobles; feudalism was robbed
of its vitality, and left the mere image of its former self, with
nothing alive but its abuses, its caste privileges, its exactions, its
pride and vanity, its power to vex and oppress. In England, the nobility
were a living part of the nation, and if they had privileges, they paid
for them by constant service to the state; in France, they had no
political life, 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_011-V1" id="Page_011-V1">11<br />V1</a></span> 
and were separated from the people by sharp lines of
demarcation. From warrior chiefs, they had changed to courtiers. Those
of them who could afford it, and many who could not, left their estates
to the mercy of stewards, and gathered at Versailles to revolve about
the throne as glittering satellites, paid in pomp, empty distinctions,
or rich sinecures, for the power they had lost. They ruined their
vassals to support the extravagance by which they ruined themselves.
Such as stayed at home were objects of pity and scorn. "Out of your
Majesty's presence," said one of them, "we are not only wretched, but
ridiculous."</p>

<p>Versailles was like a vast and gorgeous theatre, where all were actors
and spectators at once; and all played their parts to perfection. Here
swarmed by thousands this silken nobility, whose ancestors rode cased in
iron. Pageant followed pageant. A picture of the time preserves for us
an evening in the great hall of the Ch&acirc;teau, where the King, with piles
of louis d'or before him, sits at a large oval green table, throwing the
dice, among princes and princesses, dukes and duchesses, ambassadors,
marshals of France, and a vast throng of courtiers, like an animated bed
of tulips; for men and women alike wear bright and varied colors. Above
are the frescos of Le Brun; around are walls of sculptured and inlaid
marbles, with mirrors that reflect the restless splendors of the scene
and the blaze of chandeliers, sparkling with crystal pendants. Pomp,
magnificence, profusion, were a business and a duty at the Court.
Versailles was a gulf 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_012-V1" id="Page_012-V1">12<br />V1</a></span> 
into which the labor of France poured its
earnings; and it was never full.</p>

<p>Here the graces and charms were a political power. Women had prodigious
influence, and the two sexes were never more alike. Men not only dressed
in colors, but they wore patches and carried muffs. The robust qualities
of the old nobility still lingered among the exiles of the provinces,
while at Court they had melted into refinements tainted with corruption.
Yet if the butterflies of Versailles had lost virility, they had not
lost courage. They fought as gayly as they danced. In the halls which
they haunted of yore, turned now into a historical picture-gallery, one
sees them still, on the canvas of Lenfant, Lepaon, or Vernet, facing
death with careless gallantry, in their small three-cornered hats,
powdered perukes, embroidered coats, and lace ruffles. Their valets
served them with ices in the trenches, under the cannon of besieged
towns. A troop of actors formed part of the army-train of Marshal Saxe.
At night there was a comedy, a ballet, or a ball, and in the morning a
battle. Saxe, however, himself a sturdy German, while he recognized
their fighting value, and knew well how to make the best of it,
sometimes complained that they were volatile, excitable, and difficult
to manage.</p>

<p>The weight of the Court, with its pomps, luxuries, and wars, bore on the
classes least able to support it. The poorest were taxed most; the
richest not at all. The nobles, in the main, were free from imposts. The
clergy, who had vast possessions, 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_013-V1" id="Page_013-V1">13<br />V1</a></span> 
were wholly free, though they
consented to make voluntary gifts to the Crown; and when, in a time of
emergency, the minister Machault required them, in common with all
others hitherto exempt, to contribute a twentieth of their revenues to
the charges of government, they passionately refused, declaring that
they would obey God rather than the King. The cultivators of the soil
were ground to the earth by a threefold extortion,&mdash;the seigniorial
dues, the tithes of the Church, and the multiplied exactions of the
Crown, enforced with merciless rigor by the farmers of the revenue, who
enriched themselves by wringing the peasant on the one hand, and
cheating the King on the other. A few great cities shone with all that
is most brilliant in society, intellect, and concentrated wealth; while
the country that paid the costs lay in ignorance and penury, crushed and
despairing. Of the inhabitants of towns, too, the demands of the
tax-gatherer were extreme; but here the immense vitality of the French
people bore up the burden. While agriculture languished, and intolerable
oppression turned peasants into beggars or desperadoes; while the clergy
were sapped by corruption, and the nobles enervated by luxury and ruined
by extravagance, the middle class was growing in thrift and strength.
Arts and commerce prospered, and the seaports were alive with foreign
trade. Wealth tended from all sides towards the centre. The King did not
love his capital; but he and his favorites amused themselves with
adorning it. Some of the chief embellishments 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_014-V1" id="Page_014-V1">14<br />V1</a></span> 
that make Paris what it is to-day&mdash;the Place de la Concorde, the 
Champs &Eacute;lys&eacute;es, and many of the palaces of the Faubourg 
St. Germain&mdash;date from this reign.
</p>

<p>One of the vicious conditions of the time was the separation in
sympathies and interests of the four great classes of the
nation,&mdash;clergy, nobles, burghers, and peasants; and each of these,
again, divided itself into incoherent fragments. France was an aggregate
of disjointed parts, held together by a meshwork of arbitrary power,
itself touched with decay. A disastrous blow was struck at the national
welfare when the Government of Louis XV. revived the odious persecution
of the Huguenots. The attempt to scour heresy out of France cost her the
most industrious and virtuous part of her population, and robbed her of
those most fit to resist the mocking scepticism and turbid passions that
burst out like a deluge with the Revolution.</p>

<p>Her manifold ills were summed up in the King. Since the Valois, she had
had no monarch so worthless. He did not want understanding, still less
the graces of person. In his youth the people called him the
"Well-beloved;" but by the middle of the century they so detested him
that he dared not pass through Paris, lest the mob should execrate him.
He had not the vigor of the true tyrant; but his langour, his hatred of
all effort, his profound selfishness, his listless disregard of public
duty, and his effeminate libertinism, mixed with superstitious devotion,
made him no less a national curse. Louis XIII. was equally unfit 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_015-V1" id="Page_015-V1">15<br />V1</a></span> 
to  govern; but he gave the reins to the Great Cardinal. Louis XV. abandoned
them to a frivolous mistress, content that she should rule on condition
of amusing him. It was a hard task; yet Madame de Pompadour accomplished
it by methods infamous to him and to her. She gained and long kept the
power that she coveted: filled the Bastille with her enemies; made and
unmade ministers; appointed and removed generals. Great questions of
policy were at the mercy of her caprices. Through her frivolous vanity,
her personal likes and dislikes, all the great departments of
government&mdash;army, navy, war, foreign affairs, justice, finance&mdash;changed
from hand to hand incessantly, and this at a time of crisis when the
kingdom needed the steadiest and surest guidance. Few of the officers of
state, except, perhaps, D'Argenson, could venture to disregard her. She
turned out Orry, the comptroller-general, put her favorite, Machault,
into his place, then made him keeper of the seals, and at last minister
of marine. The Marquis de Puysieux, in the ministry of foreign affairs,
and the Comte de St.-Florentin, charged with the affairs of the clergy,
took their cue from her. The King stinted her in nothing. First and
last, she is reckoned to have cost him thirty-six million
francs,&mdash;answering now to more than as many dollars.</p>

<p>The prestige of the monarchy was declining with the ideas that had given
it life and strength. A growing disrespect for king, ministry, and
clergy was beginning to prepare the catastrophe that was 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_016-V1" id="Page_016-V1">16<br />V1</a></span> 
still some
forty years in the future. While the valleys and low places of the
kingdom were dark with misery and squalor, its heights were bright with
a gay society,&mdash;elegant, fastidious, witty,&mdash;craving the pleasures of
the mind as well as of the senses, criticising everything, analyzing
everything, believing nothing. Voltaire was in the midst of it, hating,
with all his vehement soul, the abuses that swarmed about him, and
assailing them with the inexhaustible shafts of his restless and
piercing intellect. Montesquieu was showing to a despot-ridden age the
principles of political freedom. Diderot and D'Alembert were beginning
their revolutionary Encyclop&aelig;dia. Rousseau was sounding the first notes
of his mad eloquence,&mdash;the wild revolt of a passionate and diseased
genius against a world of falsities and wrongs. The <i>salons</i> of Paris,
cloyed with other pleasures, alive to all that was racy and new,
welcomed the pungent doctrines, and played with them as children play
with fire, thinking no danger; as time went on, even embraced them in a
genuine spirit of hope and good-will for humanity. The Revolution began
at the top,&mdash;in the world of fashion, birth, and intellect,&mdash;and
propagated itself downwards. "We walked on a carpet of flowers," Count
S&eacute;gur afterwards said, "unconscious that it covered an abyss;" 
till the gulf yawned at last, and swallowed them.</p>

<hr class="break" />
<p>
Eastward, beyond the Rhine, lay the heterogeneous patchwork of the Holy
Roman, or Germanic, 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_017-V1" id="Page_017-V1">17<br />V1</a></span> 
Empire. The sacred bonds that throughout the Middle
Ages had held together its innumerable fragments, had lost their
strength. The Empire decayed as a whole; but not so the parts that
composed it. In the south the House of Austria reigned over a formidable
assemblage of states; and in the north the House of Brandenburg,
promoted to royalty half a century before, had raised Prussia into an
importance far beyond her extent and population. In her dissevered rags
of territory lay the destinies of Germany. It was the late King, that
honest, thrifty, dogged, headstrong despot, Frederic William, who had
made his kingdom what it was, trained it to the perfection of drill, and
left it to his son, Frederic II. the best engine of war in Europe.
Frederic himself had passed between the upper and nether millstones of
paternal discipline. Never did prince undergo such an apprenticeship.
His father set him to the work of an overseer, or steward, flung plates
at his head in the family circle, thrashed him with his rattan in
public, bullied him for submitting to such treatment, and imprisoned him
for trying to run away from it. He came at last out of purgatory; and
Europe felt him to her farthest bounds. This bookish, philosophizing,
verse-making cynic and profligate was soon to approve himself the first
warrior of his time, and one of the first of all time.</p>

<hr class="break" />
<p>Another power had lately risen on the European world. Peter the Great,
half hero, half savage, had roused the inert barbarism of Russia into a
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_018-V1" id="Page_018-V1">18<br />V1</a></span> 
titanic life. His daughter Elizabeth had succeeded to his
throne,&mdash;heiress of his sensuality, if not of his talents.</p>

<hr class="break" />
<p>Over all the Continent the aspect of the times was the same. Power had
everywhere left the plains and the lower slopes, and gathered at the
summits. Popular life was at a stand. No great idea stirred the nations
to their depths. The religious convulsions of the sixteenth and
seventeenth centuries were over, and the earthquake of the French
Revolution had not begun. At the middle of the eighteenth century the
history of Europe turned on the balance of power; the observance of
treaties; inheritance and succession; rivalries of sovereign houses
struggling to win power or keep it, encroach on neighbors, or prevent
neighbors from encroaching; bargains, intrigue, force, diplomacy, and
the musket, in the interest not of peoples but of rulers. Princes, great
and small, brooded over some real or fancied wrong, nursed some dubious
claim born of a marriage, a will, or an ancient covenant fished out of
the abyss of time, and watched their moment to make it good. The general
opportunity came when, in 1740, the Emperor Charles VI. died and
bequeathed his personal dominions of the House of Austria to his
daughter, Maria Theresa. The chief Powers of Europe had been pledged in
advance to sustain the will; and pending the event, the veteran Prince
Eugene had said that two hundred thousand soldiers would be worth all
their 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_019-V1" id="Page_019-V1">19<br />V1</a></span> 
guaranties together. The two hundred thousand were not there, and
not a sovereign kept his word. They flocked to share the spoil, and
parcel out the motley heritage of the young Queen. Frederic of Prussia
led the way, invaded her province of Silesia, seized it, and kept it.
The Elector of Bavaria and the King of Spain claimed their share, and
the Elector of Saxony and the King of Sardinia prepared to follow the
example. France took part with Bavaria, and intrigued to set the
imperial crown on the head of the Elector, thinking to ruin her old
enemy, the House of Austria, and rule Germany through an emperor too
weak to dispense with her support. England, jealous of her designs,
trembling for the balance of power, and anxious for the Hanoverian
possessions of her king, threw herself into the strife on the side of
Austria. It was now that, in the Diet at Presburg, the beautiful and
distressed Queen, her infant in her arms, made her memorable appeal to
the wild chivalry of her Hungarian nobles; and, clashing their swords,
they shouted with one voice: "Let us die for our king, Maria Theresa;"
<i>Moriamur pro rege nostro, Mari&acirc; Theresi&acirc;</i>,&mdash;one 
of the most dramatic scenes in
history; not quite true, perhaps, but near the truth. Then came that
confusion worse confounded called the war of the Austrian Succession,
with its Mollwitz, its Dettingen, its Fontenoy, and its Scotch episode
of Culloden. The peace of Aix-la-Chapelle closed the strife in 1748.
Europe had time to breathe; but the germs of discord remained alive.</p>

<p>
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_020-V1" id="Page_020-V1">20<br />V1</a></span></p> 
<h3>The American Combatants</h3>

<p>The French claimed all America, from the Alleghanies to the Rocky
Mountains, and from Mexico and Florida to the North Pole, except only
the ill-defined possessions of the English on the borders of Hudson Bay;
and to these vast regions, with adjacent islands, they gave the general
name of New France. They controlled the highways of the continent, for
they held its two great rivers. First, they had seized the St. Lawrence,
and then planted themselves at the mouth of the Mississippi. Canada at
the north, and Louisiana at the south, were the keys of a boundless
interior, rich with incalculable possibilities. The English colonies,
ranged along the Atlantic coast, had no royal road to the great inland,
and were, in a manner, shut between the mountains and the sea. At the
middle of the century they numbered in all, from Georgia to Maine, about
eleven hundred and sixty thousand white inhabitants. By the census of
1754 Canada had but fifty-five thousand.<span class="superscript">[1]</span>
Add those of Louisiana and
Acadia, and the whole white population under the French flag might be
something more than eighty thousand. Here is an enormous disparity; and
hence it has been argued that the success of the English colonies and
the failure of the French was not due to difference of religious and
political systems, but 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_021-V1" id="Page_021-V1">21<br />V1</a></span> 
simply to numerical preponderance. But this preponderance itself grew out 
of a difference of systems. We have said before, and it cannot be said too 
often, that in making Canada a citadel of the state religion,&mdash;a holy 
of holies of exclusive Roman Catholic orthodoxy,&mdash;the clerical 
monitors of the Crown robbed their country of a trans-Atlantic empire. 
New France could not grow with a priest on guard at the gate to let in 
none but such as pleased him. One of the ablest of Canadian governors, 
La Galissoni&egrave;re, seeing the feebleness of the colony compared with 
the vastness of its claims, advised the King to send ten thousand peasants 
to occupy the valley of the Ohio, and hold back the British swarm that was 
just then pushing its advance-guard over the Alleghanies. It needed no 
effort of the King to people his waste domain, not with ten thousand 
peasants, but with twenty times ten thousand Frenchmen of every 
station,&mdash;the most industrious, most instructed, most disciplined by 
adversity and capable of self-rule, that the country could boast. While La 
Galissoni&egrave;re was asking for colonists, the agents of the Crown, set 
on by priestly fanaticism, or designing selfishness masked with fanaticism, 
were pouring volleys of musketry into Huguenot congregations, imprisoning 
for life those innocent of all but their faith,&mdash;the men in the galleys, 
the women in the pestiferous dungeons of Aigues Mortes,&mdash;hanging their 
ministers, kidnapping their children, and reviving, in short, the dragonnades. 
Now, as in the past century, many
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_022-V1" id="Page_022-V1">22<br />V1</a></span> 
of the victims escaped to the British colonies, and became a part of
them. The Huguenots would have hailed as a boon the permission to
emigrate under the fleur-de-lis, and build up a Protestant France in the
valleys of the West. It would have been a bane of absolutism, but a
national glory; would have set bounds to English colonization, and
changed the face of the continent. The opportunity was spurned. The
dominant Church clung to its policy of rule and ruin. France built its
best colony on a principle of exclusion, and failed; England reversed
the system, and succeeded.</p>

<div class="footer">
		<p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_001" name="footer_001"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[1]</span>
				<i>Censuses of Canada</i>, iv. 61. Rameau <i>(La France aux
Colonies,</i> II. 81) estimates the Canadian population, in 1755, at
sixty-six thousand, besides <i>voyageurs</i>, Indian traders, etc. Vaudreuil,
in 1760, places it at seventy thousand.
</p>
</div>


<p>I have shown elsewhere the aspects of Canada, where a rigid scion of the
old European tree was set to grow in the wilderness. The military
Governor, holding his miniature Court on the rock of Quebec; the feudal
proprietors, whose domains lined the shores of the St. Lawrence; the
peasant; the roving bushranger; the half-tamed savage, with crucifix and
scalping-knife; priests; friars; nuns; and soldiers,&mdash;mingled to form a
society the most picturesque on the continent. What distinguished it
from the France that produced it was a total absence of revolt against
the laws of its being,&mdash;an absolute conservatism, an unquestioning
acceptance of Church and King. The Canadian, ignorant of everything but
what the priest saw fit to teach him, had never heard of Voltaire; and
if he had known him, would have thought him a devil. He had, it is true,
a spirit of insubordination born of the freedom of the forest; but if
his instincts rebelled, his mind and soul 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_023-V1" id="Page_023-V1">23<br />V1</a></span> 
were passively submissive. The
unchecked control of a hierarchy robbed him of the independence of
intellect and character, without which, under the conditions of modern
life, a people must resign itself to a position of inferiority. Yet
Canada had a vigor of her own. It was not in spiritual deference only
that she differed from the country of her birth. Whatever she had caught
of its corruptions, she had caught nothing of its effeminacy. The mass
of her people lived in a rude poverty,&mdash;not abject, like the peasant of
old France, nor ground down by the tax-gatherer; while those of the
higher ranks&mdash;all more or less engaged in pursuits of war or adventure,
and inured to rough journeyings and forest exposures&mdash;were rugged as
their climate. Even the French regular troops, sent out to defend the
colony, caught its hardy spirit, and set an example of stubborn fighting
which their comrades at home did not always emulate.</p>

<p>
Canada lay ensconced behind rocks and forests. All along her southern
boundaries, between her and her English foes, lay a broad tract of
wilderness, shaggy with primeval woods. Innumerable streams gurgled
beneath their shadows; innumerable lakes gleamed in the fiery sunsets;
innumerable mountains bared their rocky foreheads to the wind. These
wastes were ranged by her savage allies, Micmacs, Etech&eacute;mins, Abenakis,
Caughnawagas; and no enemy could steal upon her unawares. Through the
midst of them stretched Lake Champlain, pointing straight to the heart
of 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_024-V1" id="Page_024-V1">24<br />V1</a></span> 
the British settlements,&mdash;a watery thoroughfare of mutual attack, and
the only approach by which, without a long <i>d&eacute;tour</i> by wilderness or
sea, a hostile army could come within striking distance of the colony.
The French advanced post of Fort Frederic, called Crown Point by the
English, barred the narrows of the lake, which thence spread northward
to the portals of Canada guarded by Fort St. Jean. Southwestward, some
fourteen hundred miles as a bird flies, and twice as far by the
practicable routes of travel, was Louisiana, the second of the two heads
of New France; while between lay the realms of solitude where the
Mississippi rolled its sullen tide, and the Ohio wound its belt of
silver through the verdant woodlands.</p>

<p>To whom belonged this world of prairies and forests? France claimed it
by right of discovery and occupation. It was her explorers who, after De
Soto, first set foot on it. The question of right, it is true, mattered
little; for, right or wrong, neither claimant would yield her
pretensions so long as she had strength to uphold them; yet one point is
worth a moment's notice. The French had established an excellent system
in the distribution of their American lands. Whoever received a grant
from the Crown was required to improve it, and this within reasonable
time. If he did not, the land ceased to be his, and was given to another
more able or industrious. An international extension of her own
principle would have destroyed the pretensions of France to all the
countries of the West. She had called them 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_025-V1" id="Page_025-V1">25<br />V1</a></span> 
hers for three fourths of a
century, and they were still a howling waste, yielding nothing to
civilization but beaver-skins, with here and there a fort, trading-post,
or mission, and three or four puny hamlets by the Mississippi and the
Detroit. We have seen how she might have made for herself an
indisputable title, and peopled the solitudes with a host to maintain
it. She would not; others were at hand who both would and could; and the
late claimant, disinherited and forlorn, would soon be left to count the
cost of her bigotry.</p>

<hr class="break" />
<p>The thirteen British colonies were alike, insomuch as they all had
representative governments, and a basis of English law. But the
differences among them were great. Some were purely English; others were
made up of various races, though the Anglo-Saxon was always predominant.
Some had one prevailing religious creed; others had many creeds. Some
had charters, and some had not. In most cases the governor was appointed
by the Crown; in Pennsylvania and Maryland he was appointed by a feudal
proprietor, and in Connecticut and Rhode Island he was chosen by the
people. The differences of disposition and character were still greater
than those of form.</p>

<p>The four northern colonies, known collectively as New England, were an
exception to the general rule of diversity. The smallest, Rhode Island,
had features all its own; but the rest were substantially one in nature
and origin. The principal among them, Massachusetts, may serve as the
type 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_026-V1" id="Page_026-V1">26<br />V1</a></span> 
of all. It was a mosaic of little village republics, firmly
cemented together, and formed into a single body politic through
representatives sent to the "General Court" at Boston. Its government,
originally theocratic, now tended to democracy, ballasted as yet by
strong traditions of respect for established worth and ability, as well
as by the influence of certain families prominent in affairs for
generations. Yet there were no distinct class-lines, and popular power,
like popular education, was widely diffused. Practically Massachusetts
was almost independent of the mother-country. Its people were purely
English, of sound yeoman stock, with an abundant leaven drawn from the
best of the Puritan gentry; but their original character had been
somewhat modified by changed conditions of life. A harsh and exacting
creed, with its stiff formalism and its prohibition of wholesome
recreation; excess in the pursuit of gain,&mdash;the only resource left to
energies robbed of their natural play; the struggle for existence on a
hard and barren soil; and the isolation of a narrow village
life,&mdash;joined to produce, in the meaner sort, qualities which were
unpleasant, and sometimes repulsive. Puritanism was not an unmixed
blessing. Its view of human nature was dark, and its attitude towards it
one of repression. It strove to crush out not only what is evil, but
much that is innocent and salutary. Human nature so treated will take
its revenge, and for every vice that it loses find another instead.
Nevertheless, while New England Puritanism bore its 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_027-V1" id="Page_027-V1">27<br />V1</a></span> 
peculiar crop of
faults, it produced also many good and sound fruits. An uncommon vigor,
joined to the hardy virtues of a masculine race, marked the New England
type. The sinews, it is true, were hardened at the expense of blood and
flesh,&mdash;and this literally as well as figuratively; but the staple of
character was a sturdy conscientiousness, an undespairing courage,
patriotism, public spirit, sagacity, and a strong good sense. A great
change, both for better and for worse, has since come over it, due
largely to reaction against the unnatural rigors of the past. That
mixture, which is now too common, of cool emotions with excitable
brains, was then rarely seen. The New England colonies abounded in high
examples of public and private virtue, though not always under the most
prepossessing forms. They were conspicuous, moreover, for intellectual
activity, and were by no means without intellectual eminence.
Massachusetts had produced at least two men whose fame had crossed the
sea,&mdash;Edwards, who out of the grim theology of Calvin mounted to sublime
heights of mystical speculation; and Franklin, famous already by his
discoveries in electricity. On the other hand, there were few genuine
New Englanders who, however personally modest, could divest themselves
of the notion that they belonged to a people in an especial manner the
object of divine approval; and this self-righteousness, along with
certain other traits, failed to commend the Puritan colonies to the
favor of their fellows. Then, as now, New England was best known to her
neighbors by her worst side.</p>

<p>
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_028-V1" id="Page_028-V1">28<br />V1</a></span> 
In one point, however, she found general applause. She was regarded as
the most military among the British colonies. This reputation was well
founded, and is easily explained. More than all the rest, she lay open
to attack. The long waving line of the New England border, with its
lonely hamlets and scattered farms, extended from the Kennebec to beyond
the Connecticut, and was everywhere vulnerable to the guns and
tomahawks of the neighboring French and their savage allies. The
colonies towards the south had thus far been safe from danger. New York
alone was within striking distance of the Canadian war-parties. That
province then consisted of a line of settlements up the Hudson and the
Mohawk, and was little exposed to attack except at its northern end,
which was guarded by the fortified town of Albany, with its outlying
posts, and by the friendly and warlike Mohawks, whose "castles" were
close at hand. Thus New England had borne the heaviest brunt of the
preceding wars, not only by the forest, but also by the sea; for the
French of Acadia and Cape Breton confronted her coast, and she was often
at blows with them. Fighting had been a necessity with her, and she had
met the emergency after a method extremely defective, but the best that
circumstances would permit. Having no trained officers and no
disciplined soldiers, and being too poor to maintain either, she
borrowed her warriors from the workshop and the plough, and officered
them with lawyers, merchants, mechanics, or farmers. To compare them
with good 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_029-V1" id="Page_029-V1">29<br />V1</a></span> 
regular troops would be folly; but they did, on the whole,
better than could have been expected, and in the last war achieved the
brilliant success of the capture of Louisburg. This exploit, due partly
to native hardihood and partly to good luck, greatly enhanced the
military repute of New England, or rather was one of the chief sources
of it.</p>

<p>
The great colony of Virginia stood in strong contrast to New England. In
both the population was English; but the one was Puritan with Roundhead
traditions, and the other, so far as concerned its governing class,
Anglican with Cavalier traditions. In the one, every man, woman, and
child could read and write; in the other, Sir William Berkeley once
thanked God that there were no free schools, and no prospect of any for
a century. The hope had found fruition. The lower classes of Virginia
were as untaught as the warmest friend of popular ignorance could wish.
New England had a native literature more than respectable under the
circumstances, while Virginia had none; numerous industries, while
Virginia was all agriculture, with but a single crop; a homogeneous
society and a democratic spirit, while her rival was an aristocracy.
Virginian society was distinctively stratified. On the lowest level were
the negro slaves, nearly as numerous as all the rest together; next, the
indented servants and the poor whites, of low origin, good-humored, but
boisterous, and sometimes vicious; next, the small and despised class
of tradesmen and mechanics; next, the farmers and lesser planters, who
were mainly of good 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_030-V1" id="Page_030-V1">30</a></span> 
English stock, and who merged insensibly into the
ruling class of the great landowners. It was these last who represented
the colony and made the laws. They may be described as English country
squires transplanted to a warm climate and turned slave-masters. They
sustained their position by entails, and constantly undermined it by the
reckless profusion which ruined them at last. Many of them were well
born, with an immense pride of descent, increased by the habit of
domination. Indolent and energetic by turns; rich in natural gifts and
often poor in book-learning, though some, in the lack of good teaching
at home, had been bred in the English universities; high-spirited,
generous to a fault; keeping open house in their capacious mansions,
among vast tobacco-fields and toiling negroes, and living in a rude pomp
where the fashions of St. James were somewhat oddly grafted on the
roughness of the plantation,&mdash;what they wanted in schooling was supplied
by an education which books alone would have been impotent to give, the
education which came with the possession and exercise of political
power, and the sense of a position to maintain, joined to a bold spirit
of independence and a patriotic attachment to the Old Dominion. They
were few in number; they raced, gambled, drank, and swore; they did
everything that in Puritan eyes was most reprehensible; and in the day
of need they gave the United Colonies a body of statesmen and orators
which had no equal on the continent. A vigorous aristocracy favors the
growth of personal eminence, even in those who are not of it, but only
near it.</p>

<p>
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_031-V1" id="Page_031-V1">31<br />V1</a></span> 
The essential antagonism of Virginia and New England was afterwards to
become, and to remain for a century, an element of the first influence
in American history. Each might have learned much from the other; but
neither did so till, at last, the strife of their contending principles
shook the continent. Pennsylvania differed widely from both. She was a
conglomerate of creeds and races,&mdash;English, Irish, Germans, Dutch, and
Swedes; Quakers, Lutherans, Presbyterians, Romanists, Moravians, and a
variety of nondescript sects. The Quakers prevailed in the eastern
districts; quiet, industrious, virtuous, and serenely obstinate. The
Germans were strongest towards the centre of the colony, and were
chiefly peasants; successful farmers, but dull, ignorant, and
superstitious. Towards the west were the Irish, of whom some were
Celts, always quarrelling with their German neighbors, who detested
them; but the greater part were Protestants of Scotch descent, from
Ulster; a vigorous border population. Virginia and New England had each
a strong distinctive character. Pennsylvania, with her heterogeneous
population, had none but that which she owed to the sober neutral tints
of Quaker existence. A more thriving colony there was not on the
continent. Life, if monotonous, was smooth and contented. Trade and the
arts grew. Philadelphia, next to Boston, was the largest town in British
America; and was, moreover, the intellectual centre of the middle and
southern colonies. Unfortunately, for her credit in the approaching 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_032-V1" id="Page_032-V1">32<br />V1</a></span> 
war, the Quaker influence made Pennsylvania non-combatant. Politically, too,
she was an anomaly; for, though utterly unfeudal in disposition and
character, she was under feudal superiors in the persons of the
representatives of William Penn, the original grantee.</p>

<p>New York had not as yet reached the relative prominence which her
geographical position and inherent strength afterwards gave her. The
English, joined to the Dutch, the original settlers, were the dominant
population; but a half-score of other languages were spoken in the
province, the chief among them being that of the Huguenot French in the
southern parts, and that of the Germans on the Mohawk. In religion, the
province was divided between the Anglican Church, with government
support and popular dislike, and numerous dissenting sects, chiefly
Lutherans, Independents, Presbyterians, and members of the Dutch
Reformed Church. The little city of New York, like its great successor,
was the most cosmopolitan place on the continent, and probably the
gayest. It had, in abundance, balls, concerts, theatricals, and evening
clubs, with plentiful dances and other amusements for the poorer
classes. Thither in the winter months came the great hereditary
proprietors on the Hudson; for the old Dutch feudality still held its
own, and the manors of Van Renselaer, Cortland, and Livingston, with
their seigniorial privileges, and the great estates and numerous
tenantry of the Schuylers and other leading families, formed the basis
of an aristocracy, 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_033-V1" id="Page_033-V1">33<br />V1</a></span> 
some of whose members had done good service to the
province, and were destined to do more. Pennsylvania was feudal in form,
and not in spirit; Virginia in spirit, and not in form; New England in
neither; and New York largely in both. This social crystallization had,
it is true, many opponents. In politics, as in religion, there were
sharp antagonisms and frequent quarrels. They centred in the city; for
in the well-stocked dwellings of the Dutch farmers along the Hudson
there reigned a tranquil and prosperous routine; and the Dutch border
town of Albany had not its like in America for unruffled conservatism
and quaint picturesqueness.</p>

<p>Of the other colonies, the briefest mention will suffice: New Jersey,
with its wholesome population of farmers; tobacco-growing Maryland,
which, but for its proprietary government and numerous Roman Catholics,
might pass for another Virginia, inferior in growth, and less decisive
in features; Delaware, a modest appendage of Pennsylvania; wild and rude
North Carolina; and, farther on, South Carolina and Georgia, too remote
from the seat of war to take a noteworthy part in it. The attitude of
these various colonies towards each other is hardly conceivable to an
American of the present time. They had no political tie except a common
allegiance to the British Crown. Communication between them was
difficult and slow, by rough roads traced often through primeval
forests. Between some of them there was less of sympathy than of
jealousy kindled by conflicting interests or perpetual 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_034-V1" id="Page_034-V1">34<br />V1</a></span> 
disputes concerning boundaries. The patriotism of the colonist was bounded 
by the lines of his government, except in the compact and kindred colonies of
New England, which were socially united, though politically distinct.
The country of the New Yorker was New York, and the country of the
Virginian was Virginia. The New England colonies had once confederated;
but, kindred as they were, they had long ago dropped apart. William Penn
proposed a plan of colonial union wholly fruitless. James II. tried to
unite all the northern colonies under one government; but the attempt
came to naught. Each stood aloof, jealously independent. At rare
intervals, under the pressure of an emergency, some of them would try to
act in concert; and, except in New England, the results had been most
discouraging. Nor was it this segregation only that unfitted them for
war. They were all subject to popular legislatures, through whom alone
money and men could be raised; and these elective bodies were sometimes
factious and selfish, and not always either far-sighted or reasonable.
Moreover, they were in a state of ceaseless friction with their
governors, who represented the king, or, what was worse, the feudal
proprietary. These disputes, though varying in intensity, were found
everywhere except in the two small colonies which chose their own
governors; and they were premonitions of the movement towards
independence which ended in the war of Revolution. The occasion of
difference mattered little. Active or latent, the quarrel was always
present. In New 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_035-V1" id="Page_035-V1">35<br />V1</a></span> 
York it turned on a question of the governor's salary;
in Pennsylvania on the taxation of the proprietary estates; in Virginia
on a fee exacted for the issue of land patents. It was sure to arise
whenever some public crisis gave the representatives of the people an
opportunity of extorting concessions from the representative of the
Crown, or gave the representative of the Crown an opportunity to gain a
point for prerogative. That is to say, the time when action was most
needed was the time chosen for obstructing it.</p>

<p>
In Canada there was no popular legislature to embarrass the central
power. The people, like an army, obeyed the word of command,&mdash;a military
advantage beyond all price.</p>

<p>
Divided in government; divided in origin, feelings, and principles;
jealous of each other, jealous of the Crown; the people at war with the
executive, and, by the fermentation of internal politics, blinded to an
outward danger that seemed remote and vague,&mdash;such were the conditions
under which the British colonies drifted into a war that was to decide
the fate of the continent.</p>

<p>
This war was the strife of a united and concentred few against a divided
and discordant many. It was the strife, too, of the past against the
future; of the old against the new; of moral and intellectual torpor
against moral and intellectual life; of barren absolutism against a
liberty, crude, incoherent, and chaotic, yet full of prolific vitality.</p>


<hr />
<div class="chapterhead">
   <br /><a name="Chapter_02" id="Chapter_02"></a>
	 <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_036-V1" id="Page_036-V1">36<br />V1</a></span> 
	 <br /><br /><br />
	 <h2><a href="#Contents02">CHAPTER II.</a><br />
	 <span class="med">1749-1752.</span>
	 </h2> 
	 <p class="smcapheader">C&Eacute;LORON DE BIENVILLE.</p>
	 <p class="smcap noindent space-bottom">		
	 La Galissoni&egrave;re &bull; English Encroachment &bull;
	 Mission of C&eacute;loron &bull; The Great West &bull; 
	 Its European Claimants &bull; Its Indian Population &bull;
	 English Fur-Traders &bull; C&eacute;loron on the Alleghany &bull;
	 His Reception &bull; His Difficulties &bull; Descent of the Ohio &bull;
	 Covert Hostility &bull; Ascent of the Miami &bull; La Demoiselle &bull;
	 Dark Prospects for France &bull; Christopher Gist &bull; 
	 George Croghan &bull; Their Western Mission &bull; Pickawillany &bull; 
	 English Ascendency &bull; English Dissension and Rivalry &bull;
	 The Key of the Great West.
	 </p>
	 <p class="break1"></p> 
</div>

<p class="double-space-top">
<span class="smcap">When</span> 
the peace of Aix-la-Chapelle was signed, the Marquis de la
Galissoni&egrave;re ruled over Canada. Like all the later Canadian governors,
he was a naval officer; and, a few years after, he made himself famous
by a victory, near Minorca, over the English admiral Byng,&mdash;an
achievement now remembered chiefly by the fate of the defeated
commander, judicially murdered as the scapegoat of an imbecile ministry.
Galissoni&egrave;re was a humpback; but his deformed person was animated by a
bold spirit and a strong and penetrating intellect. He was the chief
representative of the American policy of France. He felt that, cost what
it might, she must hold fast to Canada, and link her to Louisiana by
chains of forts strong enough to hold back the British colonies, and
cramp their growth 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_037-V1" id="Page_037-V1">37<br />V1</a></span> 
by confinement within narrow limits; while French
settlers, sent from the mother-country, should spread and multiply in
the broad valleys of the interior. It is true, he said, that Canada and
her dependencies have always been a burden; but they are necessary as a
barrier against English ambition; and to abandon them is to abandon
ourselves; for if we suffer our enemies to become masters in America,
their trade and naval power will grow to vast proportions, and they will
draw from their colonies a wealth that will make them preponderant in
Europe.<span class="superscript">[2]</span></p>

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		<p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_002" name="footer_002"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[2]</span>
				La Galissoni&egrave;re, <i>M&eacute;moire sur les Colonies de la France
dans l'Am&eacute;rique septentrionale</i>.
</p>
</div>

<p>The treaty had done nothing to settle the vexed question of boundaries
between France and her rival. It had but staved off the inevitable
conflict. Meanwhile, the English traders were crossing the mountains
from Pennsylvania and Virginia, poaching on the domain which France
claimed as hers, ruining the French fur-trade, seducing the Indian
allies of Canada, and stirring them up against her. Worse still, English
land speculators were beginning to follow. Something must be done, and
that promptly, to drive back the intruders, and vindicate French rights
in the valley of the Ohio. To this end the Governor sent C&eacute;loron de
Bienville thither in the summer of 1749.</p>

<p>He was a chevalier de St. Louis and a captain in the colony troops.
Under him went fourteen officers and cadets, twenty soldiers, a hundred
and eighty Canadians, and a band of Indians, 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_038-V1" id="Page_038-V1">38<br />V1</a></span> 
all in twenty-three
birch-bark canoes. They left La Chine on the fifteenth of June, and
pushed up the rapids of the St. Lawrence, losing a man and damaging
several canoes on the way. Ten days brought them to the mouth of the
Oswegatchie, where Ogdensburg now stands. Here they found a Sulpitian
priest, Abb&eacute; Piquet, busy at building a fort, and lodging for the
present under a shed of bark like an Indian. This enterprising father,
ostensibly a missionary, was in reality a zealous political agent, bent
on winning over the red allies of the English, retrieving French
prestige, and restoring French trade. Thus far he had attracted but two
Iroquois to his new establishment; and these he lent to C&eacute;loron.</p>

<p>Reaching Lake Ontario, the party stopped for a time at the French fort
of Frontenac, but avoided the rival English post of Oswego, on the
southern shore, where a trade in beaver skins, disastrous to French
interests, was carried on, and whither many tribes, once faithful to
Canada, now made resort. On the sixth of July C&eacute;loron reached Niagara.
This, the most important pass of all the western wilderness, was guarded
by a small fort of palisades on the point where the river joins the
lake. Thence, the party carried their canoes over the portage road by
the cataract, and launched them upon Lake Erie. On the fifteenth they
landed on the lonely shore where the town of Portland now stands; and
for the next seven days were busied in shouldering canoes and baggage up
and down the steep hills, through the 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_039-V1" id="Page_039-V1">39<br />V1</a></span> 
dense forest of beech, oak, ash,
and elm, to the waters of Chautauqua Lake, eight or nine miles distant.
Here they embarked again, steering southward over the sunny waters, in
the stillness and solitude of the leafy hills, till they came to the
outlet, and glided down the peaceful current in the shade of the tall
forests that overarched it. This prosperity was short. The stream was
low, in spite of heavy rains that had drenched them on the carrying
place. Father Bonnecamp, chaplain of the expedition, wrote, in his
Journal: "In some places&mdash;and they were but too frequent&mdash;the water was
only two or three inches deep; and we were reduced to the sad necessity
of dragging our canoes over the sharp pebbles, which, with all our care
and precaution, stripped off large slivers of the bark. At last, tired
and worn, and almost in despair of ever seeing La Belle Rivi&egrave;re, we
entered it at noon of the 29th." The part of the Ohio, or "La Belle
Rivi&egrave;re," which they had thus happily reached, is now called the
Alleghany. The Great West lay outspread before them, a realm of wild and
waste fertility.</p>

<p>French America had two heads,&mdash;one among the snows of Canada, and one
among the canebrakes of Louisiana; one communicating with the world
through the Gulf of St. Lawrence, and the other through the Gulf of
Mexico. These vital points were feebly connected by a chain of military
posts,&mdash;slender, and often interrupted,&mdash;circling through the wilderness
nearly three thousand miles. Midway between Canada and Louisiana 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_040-V1" id="Page_040-V1">40<br />V1</a></span> 
lay the valley of the Ohio. If the English should seize it, they would sever 
the chain of posts, and cut French America asunder. If the French held it,
and entrenched themselves well along its eastern limits, they would shut
their rivals between the Alleghanies and the sea, control all the tribes
of the West, and turn them, in case of war, against the English
borders,&mdash;a frightful and insupportable scourge.</p>

<p>The Indian population of the Ohio and its northern tributaries was
relatively considerable. The upper or eastern half of the valley was
occupied by mingled hordes of Delawares, Shawanoes, Wyandots, and
Iroquois, or Indians of the Five Nations, who had migrated thither from
their ancestral abodes within the present limits of the State of New
York, and who were called Mingoes by the English traders. Along with
them were a few wandering Abenakis, Nipissings, and Ottawas. Farther
west, on the waters of the Miami, the Wabash, and other neighboring
streams, was the seat of a confederacy formed of the various bands of
the Miamis and their kindred or affiliated tribes. Still farther west,
towards the Mississippi, were the remnants of the Illinois.</p>

<p>France had done but little to make good her claims to this grand domain.
East of the Miami she had no military post whatever. Westward, on the
Maumee, there was a small wooden fort, another on the St. Joseph, and
two on the Wabash. On the meadows of the Mississippi, in the Illinois
country, stood Fort Chartres,&mdash;a much stronger 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_041-V1" id="Page_041-V1">41<br />V1</a></span> 
work, and one of the chief links of the chain that connected Quebec with New 
Orleans. Its four stone bastions were impregnable to musketry; and, here in 
the depths of the wilderness, there was no fear that cannon would be brought
against it. It was the centre and citadel of a curious little forest
settlement, the only vestige of civilization through all this region. At
Kaskaskia, extended along the borders of the stream, were seventy or eighty 
French houses; thirty or forty at Cahokia, opposite the site of St. Louis; 
and a few more at the intervening hamlets of St. Philippe and Prairie 
&agrave; la Roche,&mdash;a picturesque but thriftless population, mixed 
with Indians, totally ignorant, busied partly with the fur-trade, and 
partly with the raising of corn for the market of New Orleans. They
communicated with it by means of a sort of row galley, of eighteen or
twenty oars, which made the voyage twice a year, and usually spent ten
weeks on the return up the river.<span class="superscript">[3]</span></p>

<div class="footer">
		<p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_003" name="footer_003"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[3]</span>
Gordon, <i>Journal</i>, 1766, appended to Pownall, <i>Topographical 
Description</i>. In the D&eacute;p&ocirc;t des Cartes de la Marine at
Paris, C.&nbsp;4,040, are two curious maps of the Illinois colony, made a
little after the middle of the century. In 1753 the Marquis Duquesne
denounced the colonists as debauched and lazy.
</p>
</div>


<p>
The Pope and the Bourbons had claimed this wilderness for seventy years,
and had done scarcely more for it than the Indians, its natural owners.
Of the western tribes, even of those living at the French posts, the
Hurons or Wyandots alone were Christian.<span class="superscript">[4]</span>
The devoted zeal of the early 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_042-V1" id="Page_042-V1">42<br />V1</a></span> 
missionaries and the politic efforts of their successors had
failed alike. The savages of the Ohio and the Mississippi, instead of
being tied to France by the mild bonds of the faith, were now in a state
which the French called defection or revolt; that is, they received and
welcomed the English traders.</p>

<div class="footer">
		<p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_004" name="footer_004"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[4]</span>
"De toutes les nations domicili&eacute;es dans les postes des pays
d'en haut, il n'y a que les hurons du d&eacute;troit qui aient embrass&eacute; 
la R&eacute;ligion chretienne." <i>M&eacute;moirs du Roy pour servir 
d'instruction au S<span class="superscript">r</span>. Marquis de 
Lajonqui&egrave;re</i>.
</p>
</div>


<p>
These traders came in part from Virginia, but chiefly from Pennsylvania.
Dinwiddie, governor of Virginia, says of them: "They appear to me to be
in general a set of abandoned wretches;" and Hamilton, governor of
Pennsylvania, replies: "I concur with you in opinion that they are a
very licentious people." <span class="superscript">[5]</span>
Indian traders, of whatever nation, are
rarely models of virtue; and these, without doubt, were rough and
lawless men, with abundant blackguardism and few scruples. Not all of
them, however, are to be thus qualified. Some were of a better stamp;
among whom were Christopher Gist, William Trent, and George Croghan.
These and other chief traders hired men on the frontiers, crossed the
Alleghanies with goods packed on the backs of horses, descended into the
valley of the Ohio, and journeyed from stream to stream and village to
village along the Indian trails, with which all this wilderness was
seamed, and which the traders widened to make them practicable. More
rarely, they carried their goods on horses to the upper waters of the
Ohio, and embarked them in large wooden canoes, in which 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_043-V1" id="Page_043-V1">43<br />V1</a></span> 
they descended
the main river, and ascended such of its numerous tributaries as were
navigable. They were bold and enterprising; and French writers, with
alarm and indignation, declare that some of them had crossed the
Mississippi and traded with the distant Osages. It is said that about
three hundred of them came over the mountains every year.</p>

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		<p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_005" name="footer_005"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[5]</span>
<i>Dinwiddie to Hamilton</i>, 21 <i>May</i>, 1753. <i>Hamilton to
Dinwiddie</i>,&mdash;<i>May</i>, 1753.
</p>
</div>

<p>
On reaching the Alleghany, C&eacute;loron de Bienville entered upon the work
assigned him, and began by taking possession of the country. The men
were drawn up in order; Louis XV. was proclaimed lord of all that
region, the arms of France, stamped on a sheet of tin, were nailed to a
tree, a plate of lead was buried at its foot, and the notary of the
expedition drew up a formal act of the whole proceeding. The leaden
plate was inscribed as follows: "Year 1749, in the reign of Louis
Fifteenth, King of France. We, C&eacute;loron, commanding the detachment sent
by the Marquis de la Galissoni&egrave;re, commander-general of New France, to
restore tranquillity in certain villages of these cantons, have buried
this plate at the confluence of the Ohio and the Kanaouagon
[<i>Conewango</i>], this 29th July, as a token of renewal of possession
heretofore taken of the aforesaid River Ohio, of all streams that fall
into it, and all lands on both sides to the source of the aforesaid
streams, as the preceding Kings of France have enjoyed or ought to have
enjoyed it, and which they have upheld by force of arms and by treaties,
notably by those of Ryswick, Utrecht, and Aix-la-Chapelle."</p>

<p>
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_044-V1" id="Page_044-V1">44<br />V1</a></span> 
This done, the party proceeded on its way, moving downward with the
current, and passing from time to time rough openings in the forest,
with clusters of Indian wigwams, the inmates of which showed a strong
inclination to run off at their approach. To prevent this, Chabert de
Joncaire was sent in advance, as a messenger of peace. He was himself
half Indian, being the son of a French officer and a Seneca squaw,
speaking fluently his maternal tongue, and, like his father, holding an
important place in all dealings between the French and the tribes who
spoke dialects of the Iroquois. On this occasion his success was not
complete. It needed all his art to prevent the alarmed savages from
taking to the woods. Sometimes, however, C&eacute;loron succeeded in gaining
an audience; and at a village of Senecas called La Paille Coup&eacute;e he read
them a message from La Galissoni&egrave;re couched in terms sufficiently
imperative: "My children, since I was at war with the English, I have
learned that they have seduced you; and not content with corrupting your
hearts, have taken advantage of my absence to invade lands which are not
theirs, but mine; and therefore I have resolved to send you Monsieur de
C&eacute;loron to tell you my intentions, which are that I will not endure the
English on my land. Listen to me, children; mark well the word that I
send you; follow my advice, and the sky will always be calm and clear
over your villages. I expect from you an answer worthy of true
children." And he urged them to stop all trade with the intruders, and
send 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_045-V1" id="Page_045-V1">45<br />V1</a></span> 
them back to whence they came. They promised compliance; "and,"
says the chaplain, Bonnecamp, "we should all have been satisfied if we
had thought them sincere; but nobody doubted that fear had extorted
their answer."</p>

<p>Four leagues below French Creek, by a rock scratched with Indian
hieroglyphics, they buried another leaden plate. Three days after, they
reached the Delaware village of Attiqu&eacute;, at the site of Kittanning,
whose twenty-two wigwams were all empty, the owners having fled. A
little farther on, at an old abandoned village of Shawanoes, they found
six English traders, whom they warned to begone, and return no more at
their peril. Being helpless to resist, the traders pretended obedience;
and C&eacute;loron charged them with a letter to the Governor of Pennsylvania,
in which he declared that he was "greatly surprised" to find Englishmen
trespassing on the domain of France. "I know," concluded the letter,
"that our Commandant-General would be very sorry to be forced to use
violence; but his orders are precise, to leave no foreign traders within
the limits of his government." <span class="superscript">[6]</span></p>

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		<p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_006" name="footer_006"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[6]</span>
				C&eacute;loron, <i>Journal</i>. Compare the letter as translated in
<i>N.&nbsp;Y. Col. Docs</i>., VI. 532; also <i>Colonial Records of Pa</i>., 
V. 425.
</p>
</div>


<p>
On the next day they reached a village of Iroquois under a female chief,
called Queen Alequippa by the English, to whom she was devoted. Both
Queen and subjects had fled; but among the deserted wigwams were six
more Englishmen, whom C&eacute;loron warned off like the others, and 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_046-V1" id="Page_046-V1">46<br />V1</a></span> 
who, like them, pretended to obey. At a neighboring town they found only two
withered ancients, male and female, whose united ages, in the judgment
of the chaplain, were full two centuries. They passed the site of the
future Pittsburg; and some seventeen miles below approached Chiningu&eacute;,
called Logstown by the English, one of the chief places on the river.
<span class="superscript">[7]</span>
Both English and French flags were flying over the town, and the
inhabitants, lining the shore, greeted their visitors with a salute of
musketry,&mdash;not wholly welcome, as the guns were charged with ball.
C&eacute;loron threatened to fire on them if they did not cease. The French
climbed the steep bank, and encamped on the plateau above, betwixt the
forest and the village, which consisted of some fifty cabins and
wigwams, grouped in picturesque squalor, and tenanted by a mixed
population, chiefly of Delawares, Shawanoes, and Mingoes. Here, too,
were gathered many fugitives from the deserted towns above. C&eacute;loron
feared a night attack. The camp was encircled by a ring of sentries; the
officers walked the rounds till morning; a part of the men were kept
under arms, and the rest ordered to sleep in their clothes. Joncaire
discovered through some women of his acquaintance that an attack was
intended. Whatever the danger may have been, the precautions of the
French averted it; and instead of a battle, there was a council. C&eacute;loron
delivered to the assembled chiefs a message from 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_047-V1" id="Page_047-V1">47<br />V1</a></span> 
the Governor more
conciliatory than the former, "Through the love I bear you, my children,
I send you Monsieur de C&eacute;loron to open your eyes to the designs of the
English against your lands. The establishments they mean to make, and of
which you are certainly ignorant, tend to your complete ruin. They hide
from you their plans, which are to settle here and drive you away, if I
let them. As a good father who tenderly loves his children, and though
far away from them bears them always in his heart, I must warn you of
the danger that threatens you. The English intend to rob you of your
country; and that they may succeed, they begin by corrupting your minds.
As they mean to seize the Ohio, which belongs to me, I send to warn them
to retire."</p>

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		<p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_007" name="footer_007"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[7]</span>
There was another Chiningu&eacute;, the Shenango of the English,
on the Alleghany.
</p>
</div>

<p>
The reply of the chiefs, though sufficiently humble, was not all that
could be wished. They begged that the intruders might stay a little
longer, since the goods they brought were necessary to them. It was in
fact, these goods, cheap, excellent, and abundant as they were, which
formed the only true bond between the English and the Western tribes.
Logstown was one of the chief resorts of the English traders; and at
this moment there were ten of them in the place. C&eacute;loron warned them
off. "They agreed," says the chaplain, "to all that was demanded, well
resolved, no doubt, to do the contrary as soon as our backs were
turned."</p>

<p>Having distributed gifts among the Indians, the French proceeded on
their way, and at or 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_048-V1" id="Page_048-V1">48<br />V1</a></span> 
near the mouth of Wheeling Creek buried another plate of lead. They repeated 
the same ceremony at the mouth of the Muskingum. Here, half a century later, 
when this region belonged to the United States, a party of boys, bathing in 
the river, saw the plate protruding from the bank where the freshets had laid 
it bare, knocked it down with a long stick, melted half of it into bullets, 
and gave what remained to a neighbor from Marietta, who, hearing of this 
mysterious relic, inscribed in an unknown tongue, came to rescue it from their
hands.<span class="superscript">[8]</span> It is now in the cabinet of 
the American Antiquarian Society.<span class="superscript">[9]</span> 
On the eighteenth of August, C&eacute;loron buried yet another
plate, at the mouth of the Great Kenawha. This, too, in the course of a
century, was unearthed by the floods, and was found in 1846 by a boy at
play, by the edge of the water.<span class="superscript">[10]</span>
The inscriptions on all these plates were much alike, with variations of 
date and place.</p>

<div class="footer">
		<p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_008" name="footer_008"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[8]</span>
O.&nbsp;H. Marshall, in <i>Magazine of American History, March,</i>
1878.
    </p>
		<p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_009" name="footer_009"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[9]</span>
For papers relating to it, see <i>Trans. Amer. Antiq. Soc</i>.,
II.
    </p>
		<p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_010" name="footer_010"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[10]</span>
				For a fac-simile of the inscription on this plate, see
<i>Olden Time,</i> I. 288. C&eacute;loron calls the Kenawha, 
<i>Chinodahichetha</i>. The inscriptions as given in his Journal 
correspond with those on the plates discovered.
    </p>
</div>


<p>
The weather was by turns rainy and hot; and the men, tired and famished,
were fast falling ill. On the twenty-second they approached Scioto,
called by the French St. Yotoc, or Sinioto, a large Shawanoe town at the
mouth of the river which bears the same name. Greatly doubting what
welcome awaited them, they filled their powder-horns and prepared for the
worst. Joncaire was 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_049-V1" id="Page_049-V1">49<br />V1</a></span> 
sent forward to propitiate the inhabitants; but they
shot bullets through the flag that he carried, and surrounded him,
yelling and brandishing their knives. Some were for killing him at once;
others for burning him alive. The interposition of a friendly Iroquois
saved him; and at length they let him go. C&eacute;loron was very uneasy at the
reception of his messenger. "I knew," he writes, "the weakness of my
party, two thirds of which were young men who had never left home
before, and would all have run at the sight of ten Indians. Still, there
was nothing for me but to keep on; for I was short of provisions, my
canoes were badly damaged, and I had no pitch or bark to mend them. So I
embarked again, ready for whatever might happen. I had good officers,
and about fifty men who could be trusted."</p>

<p>As they neared the town, the Indians swarmed to the shore, and began the
usual salute of musketry. "They fired," says C&eacute;loron, "full a thousand
shots; for the English give them powder for nothing." He prudently
pitched his camp on the farther side of the river, posted guards, and
kept close watch. Each party distrusted and feared the other. At length,
after much ado, many debates, and some threatening movements on the part
of the alarmed and excited Indians, a council took place at the tent of
the French commander; the chiefs apologized for the rough treatment of
Joncaire, and C&eacute;loron replied with a rebuke, which would doubtless have
been less mild, had he felt himself stronger. He gave them also a
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_050-V1" id="Page_050-V1">50<br />V1</a></span> 
message from the Governor, modified, apparently, to suit the
circumstances; for while warning them of the wiles of the English, it
gave no hint that the King of France claimed mastery of their lands.
Their answer was vague and unsatisfactory. It was plain that they were
bound to the enemy by interest, if not by sympathy. A party of English
traders were living in the place; and C&eacute;loron summoned them to withdraw,
on pain of what might ensue. "My instructions," he says, "enjoined me to
do this, and even to pillage the English; but I was not strong enough;
and as these traders were established in the village and well supported
by the Indians, the attempt would have failed, and put the French to
shame." The assembled chiefs having been regaled with a cup of brandy
each,&mdash;the only part of the proceeding which seemed to please
them,&mdash;C&eacute;loron reimbarked, and continued his voyage.</p>

<p>On the thirtieth they reached the Great Miami, called by the French,
Rivi&egrave;re &agrave; la Roche; and here C&eacute;loron buried the last of his leaden
plates. They now bade farewell to the Ohio, or, in the words of the
chaplain, to "La Belle Rivi&egrave;re,&mdash;that river so little known to the
French, and unfortunately too well known to the English." He speaks of
the multitude of Indian villages on its shores, and still more on its
northern branches. "Each, great or small, has one or more English
traders, and each of these has hired men to carry his furs. Behold,
then, the English well advanced upon our lands, and, what is worse,
under the 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_051-V1" id="Page_051-V1">51<br />V1</a></span> 
protection of a crowd of savages whom they have drawn over to
them, and whose number increases daily."</p>

<p>The course of the party lay up the Miami; and they toiled thirteen days
against the shallow current before they reached a village of the Miami
Indians, lately built at the mouth of the rivulet now called Loramie
Creek. Over it ruled a chief to whom the French had given the singular
name of La Demoiselle, but whom the English, whose fast friend he was,
called Old Britain. The English traders who lived here had prudently
withdrawn, leaving only two hired men in the place. The object of
C&egrave;loron was to induce the Demoiselle and his band to leave this new
abode and return to their old villages near the French fort on the
Maumee, where they would be safe from English seduction. To this end, he
called them to a council, gave them ample gifts, and made them an
harangue in the name of the Governor. The Demoiselle took the gifts,
thanked his French father for his good advice, and promised to follow it
at a more convenient time.<span class="superscript">[11]</span> 
In vain C&eacute;loron insisted that he and his
tribesmen should remove at once. Neither blandishments nor threats would
prevail, and the French commander felt that his negotiation had failed.</p>

<div class="footer">
		<p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_011" name="footer_011"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[11]</span>
C&eacute;loron, <i>Journal</i>. Compare <i>A Message from the
Twightwees</i> (Miamis) in <i>Colonial Records of Pa</i>., V. 437, where they
say that they refused the gifts.
				
</p>
</div>


<p>He was not deceived. Far from leaving his village, the Demoiselle, who
was Great Chief of 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_052-V1" id="Page_052-V1">52<br />V1</a></span> 
the Miami Confederacy, gathered his followers to the
spot, till, less than two years after the visit of C&eacute;loron, its
population had increased eightfold. Pique Town, or Pickawillany, as the
English called it, became one of the greatest Indian towns of the West,
the centre of English trade and influence, and a capital object of
French jealousy.</p>

<p>
C&eacute;loron burned his shattered canoes, and led his party across the long
and difficult portage to the French post on the Maumee, where he found
Raymond, the commander, and all his men, shivering with fever and ague.
They supplied him with wooden canoes for his voyage down the river; and,
early in October, he reached Lake Erie, where he was detained for a time
by a drunken debauch of his Indians, who are called by the chaplain "a
species of men made to exercise the patience of those who have the
misfortune to travel with them." In a month more he was at Fort
Frontenac; and as he descended thence to Montreal, he stopped at the
Oswegatchie, in obedience to the Governor, who had directed him to
report the progress made by the Sulpitian, Abb&eacute; Piquet, at his new
mission. Piquet's new fort had been burned by Indians, prompted, as he
thought, by the English of Oswego; but the priest, buoyant and
undaunted, was still resolute for the glory of God and the confusion of
the heretics.</p>

<p>
At length C&eacute;loron reached Montreal; and, closing his Journal, wrote
thus: "Father Bonnecamp, who is a Jesuit and a great mathematician,
reckons that we have travelled twelve hundred leagues; I and 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_053-V1" id="Page_053-V1">53<br />V1</a></span> 
my officers think we have travelled more. All I can say is, that the nations 
of these countries are very ill-disposed towards the French, and devoted
entirely to the English."
<span class="superscript">[12]</span> 
If his expedition had done no more, it had at least revealed clearly the 
deplorable condition of French interests in the West.</p>

<div class="footer">
		<p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_012" name="footer_012"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[12]</span>
<i>Journal de la Campagne que moy C&eacute;loron, Chevalier de
l'Ordre Royal et Militaire de St. Louis, Capitaine Commandant un
d&eacute;tachement envoy&eacute; dans la Belle Rivi&egrave;re par les 
ordres de M. le Marquis de La Galissoni&egrave;re</i>, etc.				
</p>
<p>
<i>Relation d'un voyage dans la Belle Rivi&egrave;re sous les ordres 
de M. de C&eacute;loron, par le P&egrave;re Bonnecamp, en</i> 1749.
</p>
</div>


<p>
While C&eacute;loron was warning English traders from the Ohio, a plan was on
foot in Virginia for a new invasion of the French domain. An association
was formed to settle the Ohio country; and a grant of five hundred
thousand acres was procured from the King, on condition that a hundred
families should be established upon it within seven years, a fort built,
and a garrison maintained. The Ohio Company numbered among its members
some of the chief men of Virginia, including two brothers of Washington;
and it had also a London partner, one Hanbury, a person of influence,
who acted as its agent in England. In the year after the expedition of
C&eacute;loron, its governing committee sent the trader Christopher Gist to
explore the country and select land. It must be "good level land," wrote
the Committee; "we had rather go quite down to the Mississippi than take
mean, broken land." <span class="superscript">[13]</span> 
In November Gist reached Logstown, the Chiningu&eacute;
of C&eacute;loron, where he found
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_054-V1" id="Page_054-V1">54<br />V1</a></span> 
what he calls a "parcel of reprobate Indian
traders." Those whom he so stigmatizes were Pennsylvanians, chiefly
Scotch-Irish, between whom and the traders from Virginia there was great
jealousy. Gist was told that he "should never go home safe." He declared
himself the bearer of a message from the King. This imposed respect, and
he was allowed to proceed. At the Wyandot village of Muskingum he found
the trader George Croghan, sent to the Indians by the Governor of
Pennsylvania, to renew the chain of friendship.
<span class="superscript">[14]</span> 
"Croghan," he says,
"is a mere idol among his countrymen, the Irish traders;" yet they met
amicably, and the Pennsylvanian had with him a companion, Andrew
Montour, the interpreter, who proved of great service to Gist. As
Montour was a conspicuous person in his time, and a type of his class,
he merits a passing notice. He was the reputed grandson of a French
governor and an Indian squaw. His half-breed mother, Catharine Montour,
was a native of Canada, whence she was carried off by the Iroquois, and
adopted by them. She lived in a village at the head of Seneca Lake, and
still held the belief, inculcated by the guides of her youth, that
Christ was a Frenchman crucified by the English.
<span class="superscript">[15]</span> 
Her son Andrew is thus described by the Moravian Zinzendorf, who knew him: 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_055-V1" id="Page_055-V1">55<br />V1</a></span> 
"His face is like that of a European, but marked with a broad Indian ring 
of bear's-grease and paint drawn completely round it. He wears a coat of
fine cloth of cinnamon color, a black necktie with silver spangles, a
red satin waistcoat, trousers over which hangs his shirt, shoes and
stockings, a hat, and brass ornaments, something like the handle of a
basket, suspended from his ears."
<span class="superscript">[16]</span> He was an excellent interpreter,
and held in high account by his Indian kinsmen.</p>

<div class="footer">
		<p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_013" name="footer_013"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[13]</span>
Instructions to Gist, in appendix to Pownall,
<i>Topographical Description of North America</i>.
</p>
    <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_014" name="footer_014"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[14]</span>
<i>Mr. Croghan's Transactions with the Indians</i>, in <i>N.&nbsp;Y.
Col. Docs.,</i> VII. 267; <i>Croghan to Hamilton</i>, 16 <i>Dec</i>. 1750.
</p>
    <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_015" name="footer_015"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[15]</span>
This is stated by Count Zinzendorf, who visited her among the Senecas. 
Compare <i>Frontenac and New France under Louis XIV.</i>, p. 376.  In 
a plan of the "Route of the Western Army," made in 1779, and of which 
a tracing is before me, the village where she lived is still called 
"French Catharine's Town."
</p>
    <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_016" name="footer_016"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[16]</span>
Journal of Zinzendorf, quoted in Schweinitz, <i>Life of
David Zeisberger</i>, 112, <i>note</i>.
</p>
</div>

<p>
After leaving Muskingum, Gist, Croghan, and Montour went together to a
village on White Woman's Creek,&mdash;so called from one Mary Harris, who
lived here. She was born in New England, was made prisoner when a child
forty years before, and had since dwelt among her captors, finding such
comfort as she might in an Indian husband and a family of young
half-breeds. "She still remembers," says Gist, "that they used to be
very religious in New England, and wonders how white men can be so
wicked as she has seen them in these woods." He and his companions now
journeyed southwestward to the Shawanoe town at the mouth of the
Scioto, where they found a reception very different from that which had
awaited C&eacute;loron. Thence they rode northwestward along the forest path
that led to Pickawillany, the Indian town on the upper waters of the
Great Miami. Gist was delighted with the country; and reported to his
employers that "it is fine, rich, level land, well 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_056-V1" id="Page_056-V1">56<br />V1</a></span> 
timbered with large
walnut, ash, sugar trees and cherry trees; well watered with a great
number of little streams and rivulets; full of beautiful natural
meadows, with wild rye, blue-grass, and clover, and abounding with
turkeys, deer, elks, and most sorts of game, particularly buffaloes,
thirty or forty of which are frequently seen in one meadow." A little
farther west, on the plains of the Wabash and the Illinois, he would
have found them by thousands.</p>

<p>They crossed the Miami on a raft, their horses swimming after them; and
were met on landing by a crowd of warriors, who, after smoking with
them, escorted them to the neighboring town, where they were greeted by
a fusillade of welcome. "We entered with English colors before us, and
were kindly received by their king, who invited us into his own house
and set our colors upon the top of it; then all the white men and
traders that were there came and welcomed us." This "king" was Old
Britain, or La Demoiselle. Great were the changes here since C&eacute;loron, a
year and a half before, had vainly enticed him to change his abode, and
dwell in the shadow of the fleur-de-lis. The town had grown to four
hundred families, or about two thousand souls; and the English traders
had built for themselves and their hosts a fort of pickets, strengthened
with logs.</p>

<p>
There was a series of councils in the long house, or town-hall. Croghan
made the Indians a present from the Governor of Pennsylvania; and he and
Gist delivered speeches of friendship and good 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_057-V1" id="Page_057-V1">57<br />V1</a></span> 
advice, which the
auditors received with the usual monosyllabic plaudits, ejected from the
depths of their throats. A treaty of peace was solemnly made between the
English and the confederate tribes, and all was serenity and joy; till
four Ottawas, probably from Detroit, arrived with a French flag, a gift
of brandy and tobacco, and a message from the French commandant inviting
the Miamis to visit him. Whereupon the great war-chief rose, and, with
"a fierce tone and very warlike air," said to the envoys: "Brothers the
Ottawas, we let you know, by these four strings of wampum, that we will
not hear anything the French say, nor do anything they bid us." Then
addressing the French as if actually present: "Fathers, we have made a
road to the sun-rising, and have been taken by the hand by our brothers
the English, the Six Nations, the Delawares, Shawanoes, and
Wyandots. <span class="superscript">[17]</span>
We assure you, in that road we will go; and as you
threaten us with war in the spring, we tell you that we are ready to
receive you." Then, turning again to the four envoys: "Brothers the
Ottawas, you hear what I say. Tell that to your fathers the French, for
we speak it from our hearts." The chiefs then took down the French flag
which the Ottawas had planted in the town, and dismissed the envoys with
their answer of defiance.</p>

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		<p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_017" name="footer_017"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[17]</span>
Compare <i>Message of Miamis and Hurons to the Governor of
Pennsylvania</i> in <i>N.&nbsp;Y. Col. Docs</i>., VI. 594; and 
<i>Report of Croghan</i> in <i>Colonial Records of Pa</i>., 
V. 522, 523.
</p>
</div>


<p>
On the next day the town-crier came with a message from the Demoiselle,
inviting his English 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_058-V1" id="Page_058-V1">58<br />V1</a></span> 
guests to a "feather dance," which Gist thus describes: "It was performed by 
three dancing-masters, who were painted all over of various colors, with long 
sticks in their hands, upon the ends of which were fastened long feathers of 
swans and other birds, neatly woven in the shape of a fowl's wing; in this 
disguise they performed many antic tricks, waving their sticks and feathers 
about with great skill, to imitate the flying and fluttering of birds, keeping
exact time with their music." This music was the measured thumping of an
Indian drum. From time to time a warrior would leap up, and the drum
and the dancers would cease as he struck a post with his tomahawk, and
in a loud voice recounted his exploits. Then the music and the dance
began anew, till another warrior caught the martial fire, and bounded
into the circle to brandish his tomahawk and vaunt his prowess.</p>

<p>
On the first of March Gist took leave of Pickawillany, and returned
towards the Ohio. He would have gone to the Falls, where Louisville now
stands, but for a band of French Indians reported to be there, who would
probably have killed him. After visiting a deposit of mammoth bones on
the south shore, long the wonder of the traders, he turned eastward,
crossed with toil and difficulty the mountains about the sources of the
Kenawha, and after an absence of seven months reached his frontier home
on the Yadkin, whence he proceeded to Roanoke with the report of his
journey. <span class="superscript">[18]</span></p>

<div class="footer">
		<p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_018" name="footer_018"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[18]</span>
<i>Journal of Christopher Gist</i>, in appendix to Pownall,
<i>Topographical Description. Mr. Croghan's Transactions with the Indians</i>
in <i>N.&nbsp;Y. Col. Docs</i>., VII. 267.
</p>
</div>


<p>
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_059-V1" id="Page_059-V1">59<br />V1</a></span> 
All looked well for the English in the West; but under this fair outside
lurked hidden danger. The Miamis were hearty in the English cause, and
so perhaps were the Shawanoes; but the Delawares had not forgotten the
wrongs that drove them from their old abodes east of the Alleghanies,
while the Mingoes, or emigrant Iroquois, like their brethren of New
York, felt the influence of Joncaire and other French agents, who spared
no efforts to seduce them. <span class="superscript">[19]</span>
 Still more baneful to British interests
were the apathy and dissensions of the British colonies themselves. The
Ohio Company had built a trading-house at Will's Creek, a branch of the
Potomac, to which the Indians resorted in great numbers; whereupon the
jealous traders of Pennsylvania told them that the Virginians meant to
steal away their lands. This confirmed what they had been taught by the
French emissaries, whose intrigues it powerfully aided. The governors of
New York, Pennsylvania, and Virginia saw the importance of Indian
alliances, and felt their own responsibility in regard to them; but they
could do nothing without their assemblies. Those of New York and
Pennsylvania were largely composed of tradesmen and farmers, absorbed in
local interests, and possessed by two motives,&mdash;the saving of the
people's money, and opposition to the governor, who stood for the royal
prerogative. It was Hamilton, of Pennsylvania, who had sent Croghan 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_060-V1" id="Page_060-V1">60<br />V1</a></span> 
to the Miamis to "renew the chain of friendship;" and when the envoy
returned, the Assembly rejected his report. "I was condemned," he says,
"for bringing expense on the Government, and the Indians were
neglected." <span class="superscript">[20]</span>
In the same year Hamilton again sent him over the mountains, with a
present for the Mingoes and Delawares. Croghan succeeded in persuading
them that it would be for their good if the English should build a
fortified trading-house at the fork of the Ohio, where Pittsburg now
stands; and they made a formal request to the Governor that it should be
built accordingly. But, in the words of Croghan, the Assembly "rejected
the proposal, and condemned me for making such a report." Yet this post
on the Ohio was vital to English interests. Even the Penns,
proprietaries of the province, never lavish of their money, offered four
hundred pounds towards the cost of it, besides a hundred a year towards
its maintenance; but the Assembly would not listen.
<span class="superscript">[21]</span> The Indians were
so well convinced that a strong English trading-station in their country
would add to their safety and comfort, that when Pennsylvania refused
it, they repeated the proposal to Virginia; but here, too, it found for
the present little favor.</p>

<div class="footer">
		<p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_019" name="footer_019"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[19]</span>
Joncaire made anti-English speeches to the Ohio Indians
under the eyes of the English themselves, who did not molest him.
<i>Journal of George Croghan</i>, 1751, in <i>Olden Time</i>, I. 136.
</p>
<p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_020" name="footer_020"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[20]</span>
<i>Mr. Croghan's Transactions with the Indians, N.&nbsp;Y. Col.
Docs.,</i> VII. 267.
</p>
		<p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_021" name="footer_021"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[21]</span>
<i>Colonial Records of Pa</i>., V. 515, 529, 547. At a council
at Logstown (1751), the Indians said to Croghan: "The French want to
cheat us out of our country; but we will stop them, and, Brothers the
English, you must help us. We expect that you will build a strong house
on the River Ohio, that in case of war we may have a place to secure our
wives and children, likewise our brothers that come to trade with us."
<i>Report of Treaty at Logstown, Ibid</i>., V. 538.
</p>
</div>


<p>
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_061-V1" id="Page_061-V1">61<br />V1</a></span> 
The question of disputed boundaries had much to do with this most
impolitic inaction. A large part of the valley of the Ohio, including
the site of the proposed establishment, was claimed by both Pennsylvania
and Virginia; and each feared that whatever money it might spend there
would turn to the profit of the other. This was not the only evil that
sprang from uncertain ownership. "Till the line is run between the two
provinces," says Dinwiddie, governor of Virginia, "I cannot appoint
magistrates to keep the traders in good order."
<span class="superscript">[22]</span> Hence they did what
they pleased, and often gave umbrage to the Indians. Clinton, of New
York, appealed to his Assembly for means to assist Pennsylvania in
"securing the fidelity of the Indians on the Ohio," and the Assembly
refused. <span class="superscript">[23]</span> 
"We will take care of our Indians, and they may take care
of theirs:" such was the spirit of their answer. He wrote to the various
provinces, inviting them to send commissioners to meet the tribes at
Albany, "in order to defeat the designs and intrigues of the French."
All turned a deaf ear except Massachusetts, Connecticut, and South
Carolina, who sent the commissioners, but supplied them very meagrely
with the indispensable presents. <span class="superscript">[24]</span> 
Clinton says further: "The Assembly
of this province have not given one farthing for Indian affairs, nor for
a year past have they provided for 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_062-V1" id="Page_062-V1">62</a></span> 
the subsistence of the garrison at
Oswego, which is the key for the commerce between the colonies and the
inland nations of Indians." <span class="superscript">[25]</span> </p>


<div class="footer">
		<p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_022" name="footer_022"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[22]</span>
<i>Dinwiddie to the Lords of Trade</i>, 6 <i>Oct</i>. 1752.
</p>
    <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_023" name="footer_023"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[23]</span>
<i>Journals of New York Assembly</i>, II. 283, 284. <i>Colonial
Records of Pa</i>., V. 466.
</p>
    <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_024" name="footer_024"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[24]</span>
<i>Clinton to Hamilton</i>, 18 <i>Dec.</i> 1750. <i>Clinton to Lords of
Trade</i>, 13 <i>June</i>, 1751; <i>Ibid.</i>, 17 <i>July</i>, 1751.
</p>
    <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_025" name="footer_025"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[25]</span>
				<i>Clinton to Bedford</i>, 30 <i>July</i>, 1750.
</p>
</div>


<p>
In the heterogeneous structure of the British colonies, their clashing
interests, their internal disputes, and the misplaced economy of
penny-wise and short-sighted assembly-men, lay the hope of France. The
rulers of Canada knew the vast numerical preponderance of their rivals;
but with their centralized organization they felt themselves more than a
match for any one English colony alone. They hoped to wage war under the
guise of peace, and to deal with the enemy in detail; and they at length
perceived that the fork of the Ohio, so strangely neglected by the
English, formed, together with Niagara, the key of the Great West. Could
France hold firmly these two controlling passes, she might almost boast
herself mistress of the continent.</p>

<div class="footer">
<p class="double-space-top">
        <a id="footer_02Note" name="footer_02Note"></a>
<span class="smcap">Note</span>.&mdash;The Journal of C&eacute;loron 
(Archives de la Marine) is very long and circumstantial, including the 
<i>proc&egrave;s verbaux</i>, and reports of councils with Indians. 
The Journal of the chaplain, Bonnecamp (D&eacute;p&ocirc;t de la Marine), 
is shorter, but is the work of an intelligent and observing man. The 
author, a Jesuit, was skilled in mathematics, made daily observations, 
and constructed a map of the route, still preserved at the 
D&eacute;p&ocirc;t de la Marine. Concurrently with these French narratives, 
one may consult the English letters and documents bearing on the same 
subjects, in the Colonial Records of Pennsylvania, the Archives of 
Pennsylvania, and the Colonial Documents of New York.</p>
<p>
Three of C&eacute;loron's leaden plates have been found,&mdash;the two 
mentioned in the text, and another which was never buried, and which the 
Indians, who regarded these mysterious tablets as "bad medicine," procured 
by a trick from Joncaire, or, according to Governor Clinton, stole from 
him. A Cayuga chief brought it to Colonel Johnson, on the Mohawk, who
interpreted the "Devilish writing" in such a manner as best to inspire
horror of French designs.</p>
</div>
<hr />

<div class="chapterhead">
   <br /><a name="Chapter_03" id="Chapter_03"></a>
	 <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_063-V1" id="Page_063-V1">63<br />V1</a></span> 
	 <br /><br /><br />
	 <h2><a href="#Contents03">CHAPTER III.</a><br />
	 <span class="med">1749-1753.</span>
	 </h2> 
	 <p class="smcapheader">CONFLICT FOR THE WEST.</p>
	 <p class="smcap noindent space-bottom">		
	 The Five Nations &bull; Caughnawaga &bull; Abb&eacute; Piquet &bull;
	 His Schemes &bull; His Journey &bull; Fort Frontenac &bull;
	 Toronto &bull; Niagara &bull; Oswego &bull; Success of Piquet &bull;
	 Detroit &bull; La Jonqui&egrave;re &bull; His Intrigues &bull; 
	 His Trials &bull; His Death &bull; English Intrigues &bull; 
	 Critical State of the West &bull; Pickawillany Destroyed &bull; 
	 Duquesne &bull; His Grand Enterprise.
	 </p>
	 <p class="break1"></p> 
</div>

<p class="double-space-top">
<span class="smcap">The</span> 
Iroquois, or Five Nations, sometimes called Six Nations after the
Tuscaroras joined them, had been a power of high importance in American
international politics. In a certain sense they may be said to have held
the balance between their French and English neighbors; but their
relative influence had of late declined. So many of them had emigrated
and joined the tribes of the Ohio, that the centre of Indian population
had passed to that region. Nevertheless, the Five Nations were still
strong enough in their ancient abodes to make their alliance an object
of the utmost consequence to both the European rivals. At the western
end of their "Long House," or belt of confederated villages, Joncaire
intrigued to gain them for France; while in the east he was counteracted
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_064-V1" id="Page_064-V1">64<br />V1</a></span> 
by the young colonel of militia, William Johnson, who lived on the
Mohawk, and was already well skilled in managing Indians. Johnson
sometimes lost his temper; and once wrote to Governor Clinton to
complain of the "confounded wicked things the French had infused into
the Indians' heads; among the rest that the English were determined, the
first opportunity, to destroy them all. I assure your Excellency I had
hard work to beat these and several other cursed villanous things, told
them by the French, out of their heads." <span class="superscript">[26]</span>
</p>


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		<p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_026" name="footer_026"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[26]</span>
<i>Johnson to Clinton</i>, 28 <i>April</i>, 1749.
</p>
</div>


<p>
In former times the French had hoped to win over the Five Nations in a
body, by wholesale conversion to the Faith; but the attempt had failed.
They had, however, made within their own limits an asylum for such
converts as they could gain, whom they collected together at
Caughnawaga, near Montreal, to the number of about three hundred
warriors. <span class="superscript">[27]</span>
These could not be trusted to fight their kinsmen, but
willingly made forays against the English borders. Caughnawaga, like
various other Canadian missions, was divided between the Church, the
army, and the fur-trade. It had a chapel, fortifications, and
storehouses; two Jesuits, an officer, and three chief traders. Of these
last, two were maiden ladies, the Demoiselles Desauniers; and one of the
Jesuits, their friend Father Tournois, was their partner in business.
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_065-V1" id="Page_065-V1">65<br />V1</a></span> 
They carried on by means of the Mission Indians, and in collusion with
influential persons in the colony, a trade with the Dutch at Albany,
illegal, but very profitable. <span class="superscript">[28]</span></p>

<div class="footer">
		<p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_027" name="footer_027"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[27]</span>
				The estimate of a French official report, 1736, and of Sir
William Johnson, 1763.
</p>
   <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_028" name="footer_028"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[28]</span>
<i>La Jonqui&egrave;re au Ministre</i>, 27 <i>F&eacute;v</i>. 1750. 
<i>Ibid.</i>, 29 <i>Oct</i>. 1751. <i>Ordres du Roy et D&eacute;p&ecirc;ches 
des Ministres</i>, 1751. <i>Notice biographique de la Jonqui&egrave;re</i>. 
La Jonqui&egrave;re, governor of Canada, at last broke up their contraband 
trade, and ordered Tournois to Quebec.
</p>
</div>


<p>
Besides this Iroquois mission, which was chiefly composed of Mohawks and
Oneidas, another was now begun farther westward, to win over the
Onondagas, Cayugas, and Senecas. This was the establishment of Father
Piquet, which C&eacute;loron had visited in its infancy when on his way to the
Ohio, and again on his return. Piquet was a man in the prime of life, of
an alert, vivacious countenance, by no means unprepossessing; 
<span class="superscript">[29]</span> an enthusiastic schemer, with great 
executive talents; ardent, energetic, vain, self-confident, and boastful. 
The enterprise seems to have been of his own devising; but it found warm 
approval from the Government. <span class="superscript">[30]</span> La
Pr&eacute;sentation, as he called the new mission, stood on the bank of the
River Oswegatchie where it enters the St. Lawrence. Here the rapids
ceased, and navigation was free to Lake Ontario. The place commanded the
main river, and could bar the way to hostile war-parties or contraband
traders. Rich meadows, forests, and abundance of fish and game, made it
attractive to Indians, and the Oswegatchie gave access to the Iroquois
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_066-V1" id="Page_066-V1">66<br />V1</a></span> 
towns. Piquet had chosen his site with great skill. His activity was
admirable. His first stockade was burned by Indian incendiaries; but it
rose quickly from its ashes, and within a year or two the mission of La
Pr&eacute;sentation had a fort of palisades flanked with blockhouses, a chapel,
a storehouse, a barn, a stable, ovens, a saw-mill, broad fields of corn
and beans, and three villages of Iroquois, containing, in all,
forty-nine bark lodges, each holding three or four families, more or
less converted to the Faith; and, as time went on, this number
increased. The Governor had sent a squad of soldiers to man the fort,
and five small cannon to mount upon it. The place was as safe for the
new proselytes as it was convenient and agreeable. The Pennsylvanian
interpreter, Conrad Weiser, was told at Onondaga, the Iroquois capital,
that Piquet had made a hundred converts from that place alone; and that,
"having clothed them all in very fine clothes, laced with silver and
gold, he took them down and presented them to the French Governor at
Montreal, who received them very kindly, and made them large
presents." <span class="superscript">[31]</span></p>

<div class="footer">
		<p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_029" name="footer_029"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[29]</span>
I once saw a contemporary portrait of him at the mission
of Two Mountains, where he had been stationed.
</p>
    <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_030" name="footer_030"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[30]</span>
<i>Rouill&eacute; &agrave; la Jonqui&egrave;re</i>, 1749. The Intendant Bigot 
gave him money and provisions. <i>N.&nbsp;Y. Col. Docs.</i>, X. 204.
</p>
    <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_031" name="footer_031"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[31]</span>
<i>Journal of Conrad Weiser,</i> 1750.
</p>
</div>


<p>
Such were some of the temporal attractions of La Pr&eacute;sentation. The
nature of the spiritual instruction bestowed by Piquet and his
fellow-priests may be partly inferred from the words of a proselyte
warrior, who declared with enthusiasm that he had learned from the
Sulpitian missionary that the King of France was the eldest son of the
wife of 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_067-V1" id="Page_067-V1">67<br />V1</a></span> 
Jesus Christ. <span class="superscript">[32]</span>
This he of course took in a literal sense, the
mystic idea of the Church as the spouse of Christ being beyond his
savage comprehension. The effect was to stimulate his devotion to the
Great Onontio beyond the sea, and to the lesser Onontio who represented
him as Governor of Canada.</p>


<div class="footer">
		<p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_032" name="footer_032"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[32]</span>
Lalande, <i>Notice de l'Abb&eacute; Piquet</i>, in <i>Lettres 
&Eacute;difiantes</i>. See also Tass&eacute; in <i>Revue Canadienne,</i> 
1870, p. 9.
</p>
</div>


<p>Piquet was elated by his success; and early in 1752 he wrote to the
Governor and Intendant: "It is a great miracle that, in spite of envy,
contradiction, and opposition from nearly all the Indian villages, I
have formed in less than three years one of the most flourishing
missions in Canada. I find myself in a position to extend the empire of
my good masters, Jesus Christ and the King, even to the extremities of
this new world; and, with some little help from you, to do more than
France and England have been able to do with millions of money and all
their troops." <span class="superscript">[33]</span></p>

<div class="footer">
		<p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_033" name="footer_033"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[33]</span>
<i>Piquet &agrave; la Jonqui&egrave;re et Bigot</i>, 8 <i>F&eacute;v.</i> 
1752. See <a href="#appendixA">Appendix A</a>. 
In spite of Piquet's self-laudation, and in spite also of
the detraction of the author of the <i>M&eacute;moires sur le Canada,</i> 
1749-1760, there can be no doubt of his practical capacity and his fertility 
of resource. Duquesne, when governor of the colony, highly praises "ses
talents et son activit&eacute; pour le service de Sa Majest&eacute;."
</p>
</div>


<p>
The letter from which this is taken was written to urge upon the
Government a scheme in which the zealous priest could see nothing
impracticable. He proposed to raise a war-party of thirty-eight hundred
Indians, eighteen hundred of whom were to be drawn from the Canadian
missions, the Five Nations, and the tribes of the Ohio, while the
remaining 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_068-V1" id="Page_068-V1">68<br />V1</a></span> 
two thousand were to be furnished by the Flatheads, or
Choctaws, who were at the same time to be supplied with missionaries.
The united force was first to drive the English from the Ohio, and next
attack the Dog Tribe, or Cherokees, who lived near the borders of
Virginia, with the people of which they were on friendly terms. "If,"
says Piquet, "the English of Virginia give any help to this last-named
tribe,&mdash;which will not fail to happen,&mdash;they [<i>the war-party</i>] will do
their utmost against them, through a grudge they bear them by reason of
some old quarrels." In other words, the missionary hopes to set a host
of savages to butchering English settlers in time of peace!
<span class="superscript">[34]</span> His
wild project never took effect, though the Governor, he says, at first
approved it.</p>


<div class="footer">
		<p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_034" name="footer_034"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[34]</span>
<a href="#appendixJ">Appendix A</a>.
</p>
</div>

<p>
In the preceding year the "Apostle of the Iroquois," as he was called,
made a journey to muster recruits for his mission, and kept a copious
diary on the way. By accompanying him, one gets a clear view of an
important part of the region in dispute between the rival nations. Six
Canadians paddled him up the St. Lawrence, and five Indian converts
followed in another canoe. Emerging from among the Thousand Islands,
they stopped at Fort Frontenac, where Kingston now stands. Once the
place was a great resort of Indians; now none were here, for the English
post of Oswego, on the other side of the lake, had greater attractions.
Piquet and his company found the pork and bacon very bad, and he
complains that "there was not 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_069-V1" id="Page_069-V1">69<br />V1</a></span> 
brandy enough in the fort to wash a
wound." They crossed to a neighboring island, where they were soon
visited by the chaplain of the fort, the storekeeper, his wife, and
three young ladies, glad of an excursion to relieve the monotony of the
garrison. "My hunters," says Piquet, "had supplied me with means of
giving them a pretty good entertainment. We drank, with all our hearts,
the health of the authorities, temporal and ecclesiastical, to the sound
of our musketry, which was very well fired, and delighted the
islanders." These islanders were a band of Indians who lived here.
Piquet gave them a feast, then discoursed of religion, and at last
persuaded them to remove to the new mission.</p>

<p>During eight days he and his party coasted the northern shore of Lake
Ontario, with various incidents, such as an encounter between his dog
Cerberus and a wolf, to the disadvantage of the latter, and the meeting
with "a very fine negro of twenty-two years, a fugitive from Virginia."
On the twenty-sixth of June they reached the new fort of Toronto, which
offered a striking contrast to their last stopping-place. "The wine here
is of the best; there is nothing wanting in this fort; everything is
abundant, fine, and good." There was reason for this. The Northern
Indians were flocking with their beaver-skins to the English of Oswego;
and in April, 1749, an officer named Portneuf had been sent with
soldiers and workmen to build a stockaded trading-house at Toronto, in
order to intercept them,&mdash;not by force, which would 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_070-V1" id="Page_070-V1">70<br />V1</a></span> 
have been ruinous to French interests, but by a tempting supply of goods 
and brandy. <span class="superscript">[35]</span>
Thus the fort was kept well stocked, and with excellent effect. Piquet
found here a band of Mississagas, who would otherwise, no doubt, have
carried their furs to the English. He was strongly impelled to persuade
them to migrate to La Pr&eacute;sentation; but the Governor had told him to
confine his efforts to other tribes; and lest, he says, the ardor of his
zeal should betray him to disobedience, he reimbarked, and encamped six
leagues from temptation.</p>

<div class="footer">
		<p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_035" name="footer_035"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[35]</span>
On Toronto, <i>La Jonqui&egrave;re et Bigot au Ministre</i>, 1749. 
<i>La Jonqui&egrave;re au Ministre</i>, 30 <i>Ao&ucirc;t</i>, 1750. 
<i>N.&nbsp;Y. Col. Docs</i>., X. 201, 
246.
</p>
</div>


<p>
Two days more brought him to Niagara, where he was warmly received by
the commandant, the chaplain, and the storekeeper,&mdash;the triumvirate who
ruled these forest outposts, and stood respectively for their three
vital principles, war, religion, and trade. Here Piquet said mass; and
after resting a day, set out for the trading-house at the portage of the
cataract, recently built, like Toronto, to stop the Indians on their way
to Oswego. <span class="superscript">[36]</span>
 Here he found Joncaire, and here also was encamped a
large band of Senecas; though, being all drunk, men, women, and
children, they were in no condition to receive the Faith, or appreciate
the temporal advantages that attended it. On the next morning, finding
them partially sober, he invited them to remove to La Pr&eacute;sentation; "but
as they had still something left in their bottles, I could get no answer
till the following day." "I pass in 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_071-V1" id="Page_071-V1">71<br />V1</a></span> 
silence," pursues the missionary,
"an infinity of talks on this occasion. Monsieur de Joncaire forgot
nothing that could help me, and behaved like a great servant of God and
the King. My recruits increased every moment. I went to say my breviary
while my Indians and the Senecas, without loss of time, assembled to
hold a council with Monsieur de Joncaire." The result of the council was
an entreaty to the missionary not to stop at Oswego, lest evil should
befall him at the hands of the English. He promised to do as they
wished, and presently set out on his return to Fort Niagara, attended by
Joncaire and a troop of his new followers. The journey was a triumphal
progress. "Whenever was passed a camp or a wigwam, the Indians saluted
me by firing their guns, which happened so often that I thought all the
trees along the way were charged with gunpowder; and when we reached the
fort, Monsieur de Becancour received us with great ceremony and the
firing of cannon, by which my savages were infinitely flattered."</p>

<div class="footer">
		<p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_036" name="footer_036"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[36]</span>
<i>La Jonqui&egrave;re au Ministre</i>, 23 <i>F&eacute;v</i>. 1750. 
<i>Ibid.</i>, 6 <i>Oct</i>. 1751. 
Compare <i>Colonial Records of Pa</i>., V. 508.
</p>
</div>


<p>
His neophytes were gathered into the chapel for the first time in their
lives, and there rewarded with a few presents. He now prepared to turn
homeward, his flock at the mission being left in his absence without a
shepherd; and on the sixth of July he embarked, followed by a swarm of
canoes. On the twelfth they stopped at the Genesee, and went to visit
the Falls, where the city of Rochester now stands. On the way, the
Indians found a populous resort of rattlesnakes, and attacked the
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_072-V1" id="Page_072-V1">72<br />V1</a></span> 
gregarious reptiles with great animation, to the alarm of the
missionary, who trembled for his bare-legged retainers. His fears proved
needless. Forty-two dead snakes, as he avers, requited the efforts of
the sportsmen, and not one of them was bitten. When he returned to camp
in the afternoon he found there a canoe loaded with kegs of brandy. "The
English," he says, "had sent it to meet us, well knowing that this was
the best way to cause disorder among my new recruits and make them
desert me. The Indian in charge of the canoe, who had the look of a
great rascal, offered some to me first, and then to my Canadians and
Indians. I gave out that it was very probably poisoned, and immediately
embarked again."</p>

<p>
He encamped on the fourteenth at Sodus Bay, and strongly advises the
planting of a French fort there. "Nevertheless," he adds, "it would be
still better to destroy Oswego, and on no account let the English build
it again." On the sixteenth he came in sight of this dreaded post.
Several times on the way he had met fleets of canoes going thither
or returning, in spite of the rival attractions of Toronto and Niagara.
No English establishment on the continent was of such ill omen to the
French. It not only robbed them of the fur-trade, by which they lived,
but threatened them with military and political, no less than commercial,
ruin. They were in constant dread lest ships of war should be built
here, strong enough to command Lake Ontario, thus separating Canada from
Louisiana, and cutting New France asunder. To 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_073-V1" id="Page_073-V1">73<br />V1</a></span> 
meet this danger, they
soon after built at Fort Frontenac a large three-masted vessel, mounted
with heavy cannon; thus, as usual, forestalling their rivals by
promptness of action. <span class="superscript">[37]</span> 
The ground on which Oswego stood was claimed by the Province of New York, 
which alone had control of it; but through the purblind apathy of the 
Assembly, and their incessant quarrels with the Governor, it was commonly 
left to take care of itself. For some time they would vote no money to pay 
the feeble little garrison; and Clinton, who saw the necessity of maintaining 
it, was forced to do so on his own personal credit.
<span class="superscript">[38]</span>
"Why can't your Governor and your great men [<i>the Assembly</i>] agree?" 
asked a Mohawk chief of the interpreter, Conrad Weiser. 
<span class="superscript">[39]</span>
</p>

<div class="footer">
		<p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_037" name="footer_037"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[37]</span>
<i>Lieutenant Lindesay to Johnson, July</i>, 1751.
</p>
   <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_038" name="footer_038"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[38]</span>
<i>Clinton to Lords of Trade</i>, 30 <i>July</i>, 1750.
</p>
   <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_039" name="footer_039"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[39]</span>
<i>Journal of Conrad Weiser</i>, 1750.
</p>
</div>



<p>
Piquet kept his promise not to land at the English fort; but he
approached in his canoe, and closely observed it. The shores, now
covered by the city of Oswego, were then a desolation of bare hills and
fields, studded with the stumps of felled trees, and hedged about with a
grim border of forests. Near the strand, by the mouth of the Onondaga,
were the houses of some of the traders; and on the higher ground behind
them stood a huge block-house with a projecting upper story. This
building was surrounded by a rough wall of stone, with flankers at the
angles, forming what was called the fort. <span class="superscript">[40]</span> 
Piquet reconnoitred it from his canoe with the eye of a soldier. "It is 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_074-V1" id="Page_074-V1">74<br />V1</a></span> 
commanded," he says, "on almost every side; two batteries, of three 
twelve-pounders each, would be more than enough to reduce it to ashes." 
And he enlarges on the evils that arise from it. "It not only spoils our 
trade, but puts the English into communication with a vast number of our 
Indians, far and near. It is true that they like our brandy better than 
English rum; but they prefer English goods to ours, and can buy for two 
beaver-skins at Oswego a better silver bracelet than we sell at Niagara 
for ten."</p>

<div class="footer">
		<p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_040" name="footer_040"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[40]</span>
Compare <i>Doc. Hist. N.&nbsp;Y.</i>, I. 463.
</p>
</div>


<p>
The burden of these reflections was lightened when he approached Fort
Frontenac. "Never was reception more solemn. The Nipissings and
Algonkins, who were going on a war-party with Monsieur Bel&ecirc;tre, formed a
line of their own accord, and saluted us with three volleys of musketry,
and cries of joy without end. All our little bark vessels replied in the
same way. Monsieur de Verch&egrave;res and Monsieur de Valtry ordered the
cannon of the fort to be fired; and my Indians, transported with joy at
the honor done them, shot off their guns incessantly, with cries and
acclamations that delighted everybody." A goodly band of recruits joined
him, and he pursued his voyage to La Pr&eacute;sentation, while the canoes of
his proselytes followed in a swarm to their new home; "that
establishment"&mdash;thus in a burst of enthusiasm he closes his
Journal&mdash;"that establishment which I began two years ago, in the midst
of opposition; that establishment which may be regarded as a key of the
colony; that establishment which officers, 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_075-V1" id="Page_075-V1">75<br />V1</a></span> 
interpreters, and traders thought a chim&aelig;ra,&mdash;that establishment, 
I say, forms already a mission of Iroquois savages whom I assembled at first 
to the number of only six, increased last year to eighty-seven, and this year 
to three hundred and ninety-six, without counting more than a hundred and fifty 
whom Monsieur Chabert de Joncaire is to bring me this autumn. And I certify 
that thus far I have received from His Majesty&mdash;for all favor, grace, and
assistance&mdash;no more than a half pound of bacon and two pounds of bread
for daily rations; and that he has not yet given a pin to the chapel,
which I have maintained out of my own pocket, for the greater glory of
my masters, God and the King." <span class="superscript">[41]</span> </p>

<div class="footer">
		<p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_041" name="footer_041"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[41]</span>
<i>Journal qui peut 
<ins title="original text has an acute accent over r in servir.">servir</ins>
de M&eacute;moire et de Relation du
Voyage que j'ay fait sur le Lac Ontario pour attirer au nouvel
&Eacute;tablissement de La Pr&eacute;sentation les Sauvages Iroquois 
des Cinq Nations</i>, 1751. The last passage given above is condensed 
in the rendering, as the original is extremely involved and ungrammatical.
</p>
</div>

<p>
In his late journey he had made the entire circuit of Lake Ontario.
Beyond lay four other inland oceans, to which Fort Niagara was the key.
As that all-essential post controlled the passage from Ontario to Erie,
so did Fort Detroit control that from Erie to Huron, and Fort
Michillimackinac that from Huron to Michigan; while Fort Ste. Marie, at
the outlet of Lake Superior, had lately received a garrison, and changed
from a mission and trading-station to a post of war. 
<span class="superscript">[42]</span> This immense
extent of inland navigation was safe in the hands of France so long as
she held Niagara. 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_076-V1" id="Page_076-V1">76<br />V1</a></span> 
Niagara lost, not only the lakes, but also the Valley of the Ohio was lost 
with it. Next in importance was Detroit. This was not a military post alone, 
but also a settlement; and, except the hamlets about Fort Chartres, the 
only settlement that France owned in all the West. There were, it is true, 
but a few families; yet the hope of growth seemed good; for to such as 
liked a wilderness home, no spot in America had more attraction. Father 
Bonnecamp stopped here for a day on his way back from the expedition of 
C&eacute;loron. "The situation," he says, "is charming. A fine river flows 
at the foot of the fortifications; vast meadows, asking only to be tilled, 
extend beyond the sight. Nothing can be more agreeable than the climate. 
Winter lasts hardly two months. European grains and fruits grow here far 
better than in many parts of France. It is the Touraine and Beauce of Canada."
<span class="superscript">[43]</span> 
The white flag of the Bourbons floated over the compact little
palisaded town, with its population of soldiers and fur-traders; and
from the block-houses which served as bastions, one saw on either hand
the small solid dwellings of the <i>habitants</i>, ranged at intervals along
the margin of the water; while at a little distance three Indian
villages&mdash;Ottawa, Pottawattamie, and Wyandot&mdash;curled their wigwam smoke
into the pure summer air. <span class="superscript">[44]</span> </p>

<div class="footer">
		<p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_042" name="footer_042"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[42]</span>
<i>La Jonqui&egrave;re au Ministre</i>, 24 <i>Ao&ucirc;t</i>, 1750.
</p>
    <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_043" name="footer_043"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[43]</span>
<i>Relation du Voiage de la Belle Rivi&egrave;re</i>, 1749.
</p>
    <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_044" name="footer_044"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[44]</span>
A plan of Detroit is before me, made about this time by
the engineer Lery.
</p>
</div>

<p>
When C&eacute;loron de Bienville returned from the Ohio, he went, with a royal
commission, sent him 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_077-V1" id="Page_077-V1">77<br />V1</a></span> 
a year before, to command at Detroit. 
<span class="superscript">[45]</span> His late
chaplain, the very intelligent Father Bonnecamp, speaks of him as
fearless, energetic, and full of resource; but the Governor calls him
haughty and insubordinate. Great efforts were made, at the same time, to
build up Detroit as a centre of French power in the West. The methods
employed were of the debilitating, paternal character long familiar to
Canada. All emigrants with families were to be carried thither at the
King's expense; and every settler was to receive in free gift a gun, a
hoe, an axe, a ploughshare, a scythe, a sickle, two augers, large and
small, a sow, six hens, a cock, six pounds of powder, and twelve pounds
of lead; while to these favors were added many others. The result was
that twelve families were persuaded to go, or about a twentieth part of
the number wanted. <span class="superscript">[46]</span>
Detroit was expected to furnish supplies to the
other posts for five hundred miles around, control the neighboring
Indians, thwart English machinations, and drive off English interlopers.</p>

<div class="footer">
		<p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_045" name="footer_045"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[45]</span>
<i>Le Ministre &agrave; la Jonqui&egrave;re et Bigot</i>, 14 <i>Mai</i>, 1749. 
<i>Le Ministre &agrave; C&eacute;loron</i>, 23 <i>Mai</i>, 1749.
</p>
   <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_046" name="footer_046"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[46]</span>
<i>Ordonnance du</i> 2 <i>Jan.</i> 1750. 
<i>La Jonqui&egrave;re et Bigot au Ministre</i>, 1750. 
Forty-six persons of all ages and both sexes had been induced by La 
Galissoni&egrave;re to go the year before. <i>Lettres communes de
la Jonqui&egrave;re et Bigot</i>, 1749. The total fixed population of Detroit and
its neighborhood in 1750 is stated at four hundred and eighty-three
souls. In the following two years, a considerable number of young men
came of their own accord, and C&eacute;loron wrote to Montreal to ask for girls
to marry them.
</p>
</div>


<p>
La Galissoni&egrave;re no longer governed Canada. He had been honorably
recalled, and the Marquis de la Jonqui&egrave;re sent in his stead.
<span class="superscript">[47]</span> La
Jonqui&egrave;re, like his predecessor, was a naval officer of high repute; 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_078-V1" id="Page_078-V1">78<br />V1</a></span> 
he
was tall and imposing in person, and of undoubted capacity and courage;
but old and, according to his enemies, very avaricious. 
<span class="superscript">[48]</span> The Colonial
Minister gave him special instructions regarding that thorn in the side
of Canada, Oswego. To attack it openly would be indiscreet, as the two
nations were at peace; but there was a way of dealing with it less
hazardous, if not more lawful. This was to attack it vicariously by
means of the Iroquois. "If Abb&eacute; Piquet succeeds in his mission," wrote
the Minister to the new Governor, "we can easily persuade these savages
to destroy Oswego. This is of the utmost importance; but act with great
caution." <span class="superscript">[49]</span>
 In the next year the Minister wrote again: "The only means
that can be used for such an operation in time of peace are those of the
Iroquois. If by making these savages regard such an establishment
[<i>Oswego</i>] as opposed to their liberty, and, so to speak, a usurpation
by which the English mean to get possession of their lands, they could
be induced to undertake its destruction, an operation of the sort is not
to be neglected; but M. le Marquis de la Jonqui&egrave;re should feel with what
circumspection such an affair should be conducted, and he should labor
to accomplish it in a manner not to commit himself." 
<span class="superscript">[50]</span> To this La
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_079-V1" id="Page_079-V1">79<br />V1</a></span> 
Jonqui&egrave;re replies that it will need time; but that he will gradually
bring the Iroquois to attack and destroy the English post. He received
stringent orders to use every means to prevent the English from
encroaching, but to act towards them at the same time "with the greatest
politeness." <span class="superscript">[51]</span>
This last injunction was scarcely fulfilled in a
correspondence which he had with Clinton, governor of New York, who had
written to complain of the new post at the Niagara portage as an
invasion of English territory, and also of the arrest of four English
traders in the country of the Miamis. Niagara, like Oswego, was in the
country of the Five Nations, whom the treaty of Utrecht declared
"subject to the dominion of Great Britain." 
<span class="superscript">[52]</span> This declaration,
preposterous in itself, was binding on France, whose plenipotentiaries
had signed the treaty. The treaty also provided that the subjects of the
two Crowns "shall enjoy full liberty of going and coming on account of
trade," and Clinton therefore demanded that La Jonqui&egrave;re should disavow
the arrest of the four traders and punish its authors. The French
Governor replied with great asperity, spurned the claim that the Five
Nations were British subjects, and justified the arrest.
<span class="superscript">[53]</span> He presently went further. Rewards 
were offered by his officers for the scalps of Croghan and of another trader 
named Lowry. <span class="superscript">[54]</span> When this
reached the ears 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_080-V1" id="Page_080-V1">80<br />V1</a></span> 
of William Johnson, on the Mohawk, he wrote to Clinton
in evident anxiety for his own scalp: "If the French go on so, there is
no man can be safe in his own house; for I can at any time get an Indian
to kill any man for a small matter. Their going on in that manner is
worse than open war."</p>


<div class="footer">
		<p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_047" name="footer_047"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[47]</span>
 <i>Le Ministre &agrave; la Galissoni&egrave;re</i>, 14 <i>Mai</i>, 1749.
</p>
    <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_048" name="footer_048"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[48]</span>
<i>M&eacute;moires sur le Canada</i>, 1749-1760. The charges made here
and elsewhere are denied, somewhat faintly, by a descendant of La
Jonqui&egrave;re in his elaborate <i>Notice biographique</i> of his ancestor.
</p>
    <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_049" name="footer_049"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[49]</span>
<i>Le Ministre &agrave; La Jonqui&egrave;re, Mai,</i> 1749. The instructions
given to La Jonqui&egrave;re before leaving France also urge the necessity of
destroying Oswego.
</p>
    <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_050" name="footer_050"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[50]</span>
<i>Ordres du Roy et D&eacute;p&ecirc;ches des Ministres; &agrave; MM. de la
Jonqui&egrave;re et Bigot</i>, 15 <i>Avril</i>, 1750. 
See <a href="#appendixA">Appendix A</a>. for original.
</p>
   <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_051" name="footer_051"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[51]</span>
<i>Ordres du Roy et D&eacute;p&ecirc;ches des Ministres</i>, 1750.
</p>
   <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_052" name="footer_052"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[52]</span>
Chalmers, <i>Collection of Treaties</i>, I. 382.
</p>
   <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_053" name="footer_053"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[53]</span>
<i>La Jonqui&egrave;re &agrave; Clinton</i>, 10 <i>Ao&ucirc;t</i>, 1751.
</p>
   <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_054" name="footer_054"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[54]</span>
Deposition of Morris Turner and Ralph Kilgore, in <i>Colonial Records of 
Pa.</i>, V. 482. The deponents had been prisoners at Detroit.
</p>
</div>

<p>
The French on their side made counter-accusations. The captive traders
were examined on oath before La Jonqui&egrave;re, and one of them, John Patton,
is reported to have said that Croghan had instigated Indians to kill
Frenchmen. <span class="superscript">[55]</span> 
French officials declared that other English traders were
guilty of the same practices; and there is very little doubt that the
charge was true.</p>

<div class="footer">
		<p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_055" name="footer_055"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[55]</span>
<i>Pr&eacute;cis des Faits, avec leurs Pi&egrave;ces justificatives</i>,
100.
</p>
</div>


<p>
The dispute with the English was not the only source of trouble to the
Governor. His superiors at Versailles would not adopt his views, and
looked on him with distrust. He advised the building of forts near Lake
Erie, and his advice was rejected. "Niagara and Detroit," he was told,
"will secure forever our communications with Louisiana."
<span class="superscript">[56]</span>  "His
Majesty," again wrote the Colonial Minister, "thought that expenses
would diminish after the peace; but, on the contrary, they have
increased. There must be great abuses. You and the Intendant must look
to it." <span class="superscript">[57]</span> 
Great abuses there were; and of the money sent to Canada for
the service of the King the larger part found its way into the pockets
of peculators. The colony was eaten to the heart with official
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_081-V1" id="Page_081-V1">81<br />V1</a></span> 
corruption; and the centre of it was Fran&ccedil;ois Bigot, the intendant. The
Minister directed La Jonqui&egrave;re's attention to certain malpractices
which had been reported to him; and the old man, deeply touched,
replied: "I have reached the age of sixty-six years, and there is not a
drop of blood in my veins that does not thrill for the service of my
King. I will not conceal from you that the slightest suspicion on your
part against me would cut the thread of my days."
<span class="superscript">[58]</span></p>

<div class="footer">
		<p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_056" name="footer_056"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[56]</span>
<i>Ordres du Roy et D&eacute;p&ecirc;ches des Ministres</i>, 1750.
</p>
    <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_057" name="footer_057"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[57]</span>
 <i>Ibid.</i>, 6 <i>Juin</i>, 1751.
</p>
    <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_058" name="footer_058"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[58]</span>
<i>La Jonqui&egrave;re au Ministre</i>, 19 <i>Oct</i>. 1751.
</p>
</div>



<p>
Perplexities increased; affairs in the West grew worse and worse. La
Jonqui&egrave;re ordered C&eacute;loron to attack the English at Pickawillany; and
C&eacute;loron could not or would not obey. "I cannot express," writes the
Governor, "how much this business troubles me; it robs me of sleep; it
makes me ill." Another letter of rebuke presently came from Versailles.
"Last year you wrote that you would soon drive the English from the
Ohio; but private letters say that you have done nothing. This is
deplorable. If not expelled, they will seem to acquire a right against
us. Send force enough at once to drive them off, and cure them of all
wish to return." <span class="superscript">[59]</span> 
La Jonqui&egrave;re answered with bitter complaints
against C&eacute;loron, and then begged to be recalled. His health, already
shattered, was ruined by fatigue and vexation; and he took to his bed.
Before spring he was near his end. <span class="superscript">[60]</span> 
It is said that, though very rich, his 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_082-V1" id="Page_082-V1">82<br />V1</a></span> 
habits of thrift so possessed his last hours that, seeing
wax-candles burning in his chamber, he ordered others of tallow to be
brought instead, as being good enough to die by. Thus frugally lighted
on its way, his spirit fled; and the Baron de Longueuil took his place
till a new governor should arrive.</p>

<div class="footer">
		<p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_059" name="footer_059"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[59]</span>
<i>Ordres du Roy et D&eacute;p&ecirc;ches des Ministres</i>, 1751.
</p>
   <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_060" name="footer_060"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[60]</span>
He died on the sixth of March, 1752 (<i>Bigot au Ministre</i>, 6
<i>Mai</i>); not on the seventeenth of May, as stated in the 
<i>M&eacute;moires sur le Canada</i>, 1749-1760.
</p>
</div>


<p>
Sinister tidings came thick from the West. Raymond, commandant at the
French fort on the Maumee, close to the centre of intrigue, wrote: "My
people are leaving me for Detroit. Nobody wants to stay here and have
his throat cut. All the tribes who go to the English at Pickawillany
come back loaded with gifts. I am too weak to meet the danger. Instead
of twenty men, I need five hundred&hellip;. We have made peace with the
English, yet they try continually to make war on us by means of the
Indians; they intend to be masters of all this upper country. The tribes
here are leaguing together to kill all the French, that they may have
nobody on their lands but their English brothers. This I am told by
Coldfoot, a great Miami chief, whom I think an honest man, if there is
any such thing among Indians&hellip;. If the English stay in this country we
are lost. We must attack, and drive them out." And he tells of war-belts
sent from tribe to tribe, and rumors of plots and conspiracies far and
near.</p>

<p>
Without doubt, the English traders spared no pains to gain over the
Indians by fair means or foul; sold them goods at low rates, made ample
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_083-V1" id="Page_083-V1">83<br />V1</a></span> 
gifts, and gave gunpowder for the asking. Saint-Ange, who commanded at
Vincennes, wrote that a storm would soon burst on the heads of the
French. Joncaire reported that all the Ohio Indians sided with the
English. Longueuil informed the Minister that the Miamis had scalped two
soldiers; that the Piankishaws had killed seven Frenchmen; and that a
squaw who had lived with one of the slain declared that the tribes of
the Wabash and Illinois were leaguing with the Osages for a combined
insurrection. Every letter brought news of murder. Small-pox had broken
out at Detroit. "It is to be wished," says Longueuil, "that it would
spread among our rebels; it would be fully as good as an army&hellip;. We are
menaced with a general outbreak, and even Toronto is in danger&hellip;.
Before long the English on the Miami will gain over all the surrounding
tribes, get possession of Fort Chartres, and cut our communications with
Louisiana." <span class="superscript">[61]</span> </p>

<div class="footer">
		<p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_061" name="footer_061"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[61]</span>
<i>D&eacute;p&ecirc;ches de Longueuil; Lettres de Raymond; Benoit de
Saint-Clerc &agrave; la Jonqui&egrave;re, Oct.</i> 1751.
</p>
</div>


<p>The moving spirit of disaffection was the chief called Old Britain, or
the Demoiselle, and its focus was his town of Pickawillany, on the
Miami. At this place it is said that English traders sometimes mustered
to the number of fifty or more. "It is they," wrote Longueuil, "who are
the instigators of revolt and the source of all our woes."
<span class="superscript">[62]</span>  Whereupon
the Colonial Minister reiterated his instructions to drive them off and
plunder them, 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_084-V1" id="Page_084-V1">84<br />V1</a></span> 
which he thought would "effectually disgust them," and
bring all trouble to an end. <span class="superscript">[63]</span> </p>

<div class="footer">
		<p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_062" name="footer_062"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[62]</span>
<i>Longueuil au Ministre</i>, 21 <i>Avril</i>, 1752.
</p>
    <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_063" name="footer_063"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[63]</span>
<i>Le Ministre &agrave; la Jonqui&egrave;re</i>, 1752. 
<i>Le Ministre &agrave; Duquesne</i>, 9 <i>Juillet</i>, 1752.
</p>
</div>

<p>
La Jonqui&egrave;re's remedy had been more heroic, for he had ordered C&eacute;loron
to attack the English and their red allies alike; and he charged that
officer with arrogance and disobedience because he had not done so. It
is not certain that obedience was easy; for though, besides the garrison
of regulars, a strong body of militia was sent up to Detroit to aid the
stroke, <span class="superscript">[64]</span>
the Indians of that post, whose co-operation was thought
necessary, proved half-hearted, intractable, and even touched with
disaffection. Thus the enterprise languished till, in June, aid came
from another quarter. Charles Langlade, a young French trader married to
a squaw at Green Bay, and strong in influence with the tribes of that
region, came down the lakes from Michillimackinac with a fleet of canoes
manned by two hundred and fifty Ottawa and Ojibwa warriors; stopped a
while at Detroit; then embarked again, paddled up the Maumee to
Raymond's fort at the portage, and led his greased and painted rabble
through the forest to attack the Demoiselle and his English friends.
They approached Pickawillany at about nine o'clock on the morning of the
twenty-first. The scared squaws fled from the cornfields into the town,
where the wigwams of the Indians clustered about the fortified warehouse
of the traders. Of these there were at the 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_085-V1" id="Page_085-V1">85<br />V1</a></span> 
time only eight in the place.
Most of the Indians also were gone on their summer hunt, though the
Demoiselle remained with a band of his tribesmen. Great was the
screeching of war-whoops and clatter of guns. Three of the traders were
caught outside the fort. The remaining five closed the gate, and stood
on their defence. The fight was soon over. Fourteen Miamis were shot
down, the Demoiselle among the rest. The five white men held out till
the afternoon, when three of them surrendered, and two, Thomas Burney
and Andrew McBryer, made their escape. One of the English prisoners
being wounded, the victors stabbed him to death. Seventy years of
missionaries had not weaned them from cannibalism, and they boiled and
<ins title="Verb tenses do not agree:  weaned, boiled, eat?">eat</ins>
the Demoiselle. <span class="superscript">[65]</span></p>

<div class="footer">
		<p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_064" name="footer_064"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[64]</span>
<i>La Jonqui&egrave;re &agrave; C&eacute;loron</i>, 1 <i>Oct.</i> 1751.
</p>
    <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_065" name="footer_065"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[65]</span>
On the attack of Pickawillany, <i>Longueuil au Ministre</i>, 18
<i>Ao&ucirc;t</i>, 1752; <i>Duquesne au Ministre</i>, 25 <i>Oct.</i> 1752; 
<i>Colonial Records of Pa.</i>, V. 599; <i>Journal of William Trent</i>, 1752. 
Trent was on the  spot a few days after the affair.
</p>
</div>


<p>
The captive traders, plundered to the skin, were carried by Langlade to
Duquesne, the new governor, who highly praised the bold leader of the
enterprise, and recommended him to the Minister for such reward as
befitted one of his station. "As he is not in the King's service, and
has married a squaw, I will ask for him only a pension of two hundred
francs, which will flatter him infinitely."</p>

<p>
The Marquis Duquesne, sprung from the race of the great naval commander
of that name, had arrived towards midsummer; and he began his rule by a
general review of troops and militia. 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_086-V1" id="Page_086-V1">86<br />V1</a></span> 
His lofty bearing offended the
Canadians; but he compelled their respect, and, according to a writer of
the time, showed from the first that he was born to command. He
presently took in hand an enterprise which his predecessor would
probably have accomplished, had the Home Government encouraged him.
Duquesne, profiting by the infatuated neglect of the British provincial
assemblies, prepared to occupy the upper waters of the Ohio, and secure
the passes with forts and garrisons. Thus the Virginian and
Pennsylvanian traders would be debarred all access to the West, and the
tribes of that region, bereft henceforth of English guns, knives,
hatchets, and blankets, English gifts and English cajoleries, would be
thrown back to complete dependence on the French. The moral influence,
too, of such a movement would be incalculable; for the Indian respects
nothing so much as a display of vigor and daring, backed by force. In
short, the intended enterprise was a master-stroke, and laid the axe to
the very root of disaffection. It is true that, under the treaty,
commissioners had been long in session at Paris to settle the question
of American boundaries; but there was no likelihood that they would come
to agreement; and if France would make good her Western claims, it
behooved her, while there was yet time, to prevent her rival from
fastening a firm grasp on the countries in dispute.</p>

<p>
Yet the Colonial Minister regarded the plan with distrust. "Be on your
guard," he wrote to Duquesne, "against new undertakings; private
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_087-V1" id="Page_087-V1">87<br />V1</a></span> 
interests are generally at the bottom of them. It is through these that
new posts are established. Keep only such as are indispensable, and
suppress the others. The expenses of the colony are enormous; and they
have doubled since the peace." Again, a little later: "Build on the Ohio
such forts as are absolutely necessary, but no more. Remember that His
Majesty suspects your advisers of interested views."
<span class="superscript">[66]</span></p>

<div class="footer">
		<p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_066" name="footer_066"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[66]</span>
<i>Ordres du Roy et D&eacute;p&ecirc;ches des Ministres</i>, 1753.
</p>
</div>

<p>
No doubt there was justice in the suspicion. Every military movement,
and above all the establishment of every new post, was an opportunity to
the official thieves with whom the colony swarmed. Some band of favored
knaves grew rich; while a much greater number, excluded from sharing the
illicit profits, clamored against the undertaking, and wrote charges of
corruption to Versailles. Thus the Minister was kept tolerably well
informed; but was scarcely the less helpless, for with the Atlantic
between, the disorders of Canada defied his control. Duquesne was
exasperated by the opposition that met him on all hands, and wrote to
the Minister: "There are so many rascals in this country that one is
forever the butt of their attacks." <span class="superscript">[67]</span>
</p>

<div class="footer">
		<p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_067" name="footer_067"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[67]</span>
<i>Duquesne au Ministre</i>, 29 <i>Sept.</i> 1754.
</p>
</div>

<p>It seems that unlawful gain was not the only secret spring of the
movement. An officer of repute says that the Intendant, Bigot,
enterprising in his pleasures as in his greed, was engaged in an
intrigue with the wife of Chevalier P&eacute;an; and 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_088-V1" id="Page_088-V1">88<br />V1</a></span> 
wishing at once to console
the husband and to get rid of him, sought for him a high command at a
distance from the colony. Therefore while Marin, an able officer, was
made first in rank, P&eacute;an was made second. The same writer hints that
Duquesne himself was influenced by similar motives in his appointment of
leaders. <span class="superscript">[68]</span></p>

<div class="footer">
		<p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_068" name="footer_068"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[68]</span>
Pouchot, <i>M&eacute;moire sur la derni&egrave;re Guerre de l'Am&eacute;rique
septentrionale (ed.</i> 1781), I. 8.
</p>
</div>


<p>
He mustered the colony troops, and ordered out the Canadians. With the
former he was but half satisfied; with the latter he was delighted; and
he praises highly their obedience and alacrity. "I had not the least
trouble in getting them to march. They came on the minute, bringing
their own guns, though many people tried to excite them to revolt; for
the whole colony opposes my operations." The expedition set out early in
the spring of 1753. The whole force was not much above a thousand men,
increased by subsequent detachments to fifteen hundred; but to the
Indians it seemed a mighty host; and one of their orators declared that
the lakes and rivers were covered with boats and soldiers from Montreal
to Presquisle. <span class="superscript">[69]</span>
Some Mohawk hunters by the St. Lawrence saw them as
they passed, and hastened home to tell the news to Johnson, whom they
wakened at midnight, "whooping and hollowing in a frightful manner."
<span class="superscript">[70]</span>
Lieutenant Holland at Oswego saw a fleet of canoes upon the lake, and
was told by a roving Frenchman that they belonged to an army of six
thousand 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_089-V1" id="Page_089-V1">89<br />V1</a></span> 
men going to the Ohio, "to cause all the English to quit those
parts." <span class="superscript">[71]</span></p>

<div class="footer">
		<p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_069" name="footer_069"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[69]</span>
<i>Duquesne au Ministre</i>, 27 <i>Oct.</i> 1753.
</p>
    <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_070" name="footer_070"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[70]</span>
<i>Johnson to Clinton</i>, 20 <i>April</i>, 1753, in <i>N.&nbsp;Y. Col.
Docs.</i>, VI. 778.
</p>
   <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_071" name="footer_071"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[71]</span>
<i>Holland to Clinton</i>, 15 <i>May</i>, 1753, in <i>N.&nbsp;Y. Col. Docs.</i>,
VI. 780.
</p>
</div>

<p>
The main body of the expedition landed at Presquisle, on the
southeastern shore of Lake Erie, where the town of Erie now stands; and
here for a while we leave them.</p>

<hr />
<div class="chapterhead">
   <br /><a name="Chapter_04" id="Chapter_04"></a>
	 <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_090-V1" id="Page_090-V1">90<br />V1</a></span> 
	 <br /><br /><br />
	 <h2><a href="#Contents04">CHAPTER IV.</a><br />
	 <span class="med">1710-1754.</span>
	 </h2> 
	 <p class="smcapheader">CONFLICT FOR ACADIA.</p>
	 <p class="smcap noindent space-bottom">			
	 Acadia ceded to England &bull; Acadians swear Fidelity &bull;
	 Halifax founded &bull; French Intrigue &bull; Acadian Priests &bull;
	 Mildness of English Rule &bull; Covert Hostility of Acadians &bull;
	 The New Oath &bull; Treachery of Versailles &bull; 
	 Indians incited to War &bull; Clerical Agents of Revolt &bull;
	 Abb&eacute; Le Loutre &bull; Acadians impelled to emigrate &bull;
	 Misery of the Emigrants &bull; Humanity of Cornwallis and Hopson &bull; 
	 Fanaticism and Violence of Le Loutre &bull; 
	 Capture of the "St. Fran&ccedil;ois" &bull; The English at Beaubassin &bull;
	 Le Loutre drives out the Inhabitants &bull; Murder of Howe &bull;
	 Beaus&eacute;jour &bull; Insolence of Le Loutre &bull; 
	 His Harshness to the Acadians &bull; The Boundary Commission &bull;
	 Its Failure &bull; Approaching War
	 </p>
	 <p class="break1"></p> 
</div>
<p class="double-space-top">
<span class="smcap">While</span> in the West all the signs of the sky 
foreboded storm, another tempest was gathering the East, less in extent, 
but not less in peril. The conflict in Acadia has a melancholy interest, 
since it ended in a catastrophe which prose and verse have joined to 
commemorate, but of which the causes have not been understood.</p>

<p>
Acadia&mdash;that it to say, the peninsula of Nova Scotia, with the addition,
as the English claimed, of the present New Brunswick and some adjacent
country&mdash;was conquered by General Nicholson in 1710, and formally
transferred by France to the British Crown, three years later, by the
treaty of Utrecht. By that treaty it was "expressly provided" that such
of the French inhabitants as 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_091-V1" id="Page_091-V1">91<br />V1</a></span> 
"are willing to remain there and to be
subject to the Kingdom of Great Britain, are to enjoy the free exercise
of their religion according to the usage of the Church of Rome, as far
as the laws of Great Britain do allow the same;" but that any who choose
may remove, with their effects, if they do so within a year. Very few
availed themselves of this right; and after the end of the year those
who remained were required to take an oath of allegiance to King George.
There is no doubt that in a little time they would have complied, had
they been let alone; but the French authorities of Canada and Cape
Breton did their utmost to prevent them, and employed agents to keep
them hostile to England. Of these the most efficient were the French
priests, who, in spite of the treaty, persuaded their flocks that they
were still subjects of King Louis. Hence rose endless perplexity to the
English commanders at Annapolis, who more than suspected that the Indian
attacks with which they were harassed were due mainly to French
instigation. <span class="superscript">[72]</span> It was not till 
seventeen years after the treaty that the Acadians could be brought to 
take the oath without qualifications which made it almost useless. The 
English authorities seem to have shown throughout an unusual patience and 
forbearance. At length, about 1730, nearly all the inhabitants signed by 
crosses, since few of them could write, an oath 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_092-V1" id="Page_092-V1">92<br />V1</a></span> 
recognizing George II. as sovereign of Acadia, and promising fidelity and 
obedience to him. <span class="superscript">[73]</span>  This restored 
comparative quiet till the war of 1745, when some of the Acadians remained 
neutral, while some took arms against the English, and many others aided 
the enemy with information and supplies.</p>



<div class="footer">
		<p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_072" name="footer_072"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[72]</span>
See the numerous papers in <i>Selections from the Public
Documents of the Province of Nova Scotia</i> (Halifax, 1869), pp. 1-165; a
Government publication of great value.
</p>
    <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_073" name="footer_073"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[73]</span>
The oath was <i>literatim</i> as follows: "Je Promets et Jure
Sincerement en Foi de Chr&eacute;tien que Je serai entierement Fidele, et
Obeierai Vraiment Sa Majest&eacute; Le Roy George Second, qui (<i>sic</i>) 
Je reconnoi pour Le Souvrain Seigneur de l'Accadie ou Nouvelle Ecosse.
Ainsi Dieu me Soit en Aide."
</p>
</div>


<p>
English power in Acadia, hitherto limited to a feeble garrison at
Annapolis and a feebler one at Canseau, received at this time a great
accession. The fortress of Louisbourg, taken by the English during the
war, had been restored by the treaty; and the French at once prepared to
make it a military and naval station more formidable than ever. Upon
this the British Ministry resolved to establish another station as a
counterpoise; and the harbor of Chebucto, on the south coast of Acadia,
was chosen as the site of it. Thither in June, 1749, came a fleet of
transports loaded with emigrants, tempted by offers of land and a home
in the New World. Some were mechanics, tradesmen, farmers, and laborers;
others were sailors, soldiers, and subaltern officers thrown out of
employment by the peace. Including women and children, they counted in
all about twenty-five hundred. Alone of all the British colonies on the
continent, this new settlement was the offspring, not of private
enterprise, but of royal authority. 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_093-V1" id="Page_093-V1">93<br />V1</a></span> 
Yet is was free like the rest, with
the same popular representation and local self-government. Edward
Cornwallis, uncle of Lord Cornwallis of the Revolutionary War, was made
governor and commander-in-chief. Wolfe calls him "a man of approved
courage and fidelity;" and even the caustic Horace Walpole speaks of him
as "a brave, sensible young man, of great temper and good nature."</p>

<p>
Before summer was over, the streets were laid out, and the building-lot
of each settler was assigned to him; before winter closed, the whole
were under shelter, the village was fenced with palisades and defended
by redoubts of timber, and the battalions lately in garrison at
Louisbourg manned the wooden ramparts. Succeeding years brought more
emigrants, till in 1752 the population was above four thousand. Thus was
born into the world the city of Halifax. Along with the crumbling old
fort and miserably disciplined garrison at Annapolis, besides six or
seven small detached posts to watch the Indians and Acadians, it
comprised the whole British force on the peninsula; for Canseau had been
destroyed by the French.</p>

<p>
The French had never reconciled themselves to the loss of Acadia, and
were resolved, by diplomacy or force, to win it back again; but the
building of Halifax showed that this was to be no easy task, and filled
them at the same time with alarm for the safety of Louisbourg. On one
point, at least, they saw their policy clear. The Acadians, though those
of them who were not above thirty-five 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_094-V1" id="Page_094-V1">94<br />V1</a></span> 
had been born under the British
flag, must be kept French at heart, and taught that they were still
French subjects. In 1748 they numbered eighty-eight hundred and fifty
communicants, or from twelve to thirteen thousand souls; but an
emigration, of which the causes will soon appear, had reduced them in
1752 to but little more than nine thousand. 
<span class="superscript">[74]</span> These were divided into
six principal parishes, one of the largest being that of Annapolis.
Other centres of population were Grand Pr&eacute;, on the basin of Mines;
Beaubassin, at the head of Chignecto Bay; Pisiquid, now Windsor; and
Cobequid, now Truro. Their priests, who were missionaries controlled by
the diocese of Quebec, acted also as their magistrates, ruling them for
this world and the next. Bring subject to a French superior, and being,
moreover, wholly French at heart, they formed in this British province a
wheel within a wheel, the inner movement always opposing the outer.</p>

<div class="footer">
		<p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_074" name="footer_074"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[74]</span>
<i>Description de l'Acadie, avec le Nom des Paroisses et le Nombre des 
Habitants</i>, 1748. <i>M&eacute;moire &agrave; pr&eacute;senter &agrave; 
la Cour sur la Necessit&eacute; de fixer les Limites de l'Acadie,</i> par 
l'Abb&eacute; de l'Isle-Dieu, 1753 (1754?). Compare the estimates in 
<i>Censuses of Canada</i> (Ottawa, 1876.)
</p>
</div>


<p>
Although, by the twelfth article of the treaty of Utrecht, France had
solemnly declared the Acadians to be British subjects, the Government of
Louis XV. intrigued continually to turn them from subjects into enemies.
Before me is a mass of English documents on Acadian affairs from the
peace of Aix-la-Chapelle to the catastrophe of 1755, and above a
thousand pages of French official 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_095-V1" id="Page_095-V1">95<br />V1</a></span> 
papers from the archives of Paris,
memorials, reports, and secret correspondence, relating to the same
matters. With the help of these and some collateral lights, it is not
difficult to make a correct diagnosis of the political disease that
ravaged this miserable country. Of a multitude of proofs, only a few can
be given here; but these will suffice.</p>

<p>
It was not that the Acadians had been ill-used by the English; the
reverse was the case. They had been left in free exercise of their
worship, as stipulated by treaty. It is true that, from time to time,
there were loud complaints from French officials that religion was in
danger, because certain priests had been rebuked, arrested, brought
before the Council at Halifax, suspended from their functions, or
required, on pain of banishment, to swear that they would do nothing
against the interests of King George. Yet such action on the part of the
provincial authorities seems, without a single exception, to have been
the consequence of misconduct on the part of the priest, in opposing the
Government and stirring his flock to disaffection. La Jonqui&egrave;re, the
determined adversary of the English, reported to the bishop that they
did not oppose the ecclesiastics in the exercise of their functions, and
an order of Louis XV. admits that the Acadians have enjoyed liberty of
religion. <span class="superscript">[75]</span> 
In a long document addressed in 1750 to 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_096-V1" id="Page_096-V1">96<br />V1</a></span> 
the Colonial Minister at Versailles, Roma, an officer at Louisbourg, testifies 
thus to the mildness of British rule, though he ascribes it to interested
motives. "The fear that the Acadians have of the Indians is the
controlling motive which makes them side with the French. The English,
having in view the conquest of Canada, wished to give the French of that
colony, in their conduct towards the Acadians, a striking example of
the mildness of their government. Without raising the fortune of any of
the inhabitants, they have supplied them for more than thirty-five years
with the necessaries of life, often on credit and with an excess of
confidence, without troubling their debtors, without pressing them,
without wishing to force them to pay. They have left them an appearance
of liberty so excessive that they have not intervened in their disputes
or even punished their crimes. They have allowed them to refuse with
insolence certain moderate rents payable in grain and lawfully due. They
have passed over in silence the contemptuous refusal of the Acadians to
take titles from them for the new lands which they chose to occupy.
<span class="superscript">[76]</span>
</p>

<div class="footer">
		<p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_075" name="footer_075"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[75]</span>
<i>La Jonqui&egrave;re &agrave; l'&Eacute;v&ecirc;que de Qu&eacute;bec</i>, 
14 <i>Juin</i>,  1750. <i>M&eacute;moire du Roy pour servir d'Instruction 
au Comte de Raymond, commandant pour Sa 
<ins title="In original text, Majeste is split between two lines without a hyphen; typo assumed.">Majest&eacute;</ins>
&agrave; l'Isle 
Royale</i> [Cape Breton], 24 <i>Avril</i>, 1751.
</p>
    <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_076" name="footer_076"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[76]</span>
See <a href="#appendixB">Appendix B</a>.
</p>
</div>


<p>
"We know very well," pursues Roma, "the fruits of this conduct in the
last war; and the English know it also. Judge then what will be the
wrath and vengeance of this cruel nation." The fruits to which Roma
alludes were the hostilities, open or secret, committed by the Acadians
against the English. He now ventures the 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_097-V1" id="Page_097-V1">97<br />V1</a></span> 
prediction that the enraged
conquerors will take their revenge by drafting all the young Acadians on
board their ships of war, and there destroying them by slow starvation.
He proved, however, a false prophet. The English Governor merely
required the inhabitants to renew their oath of allegiance, without
qualification or evasion.</p>

<p>
It was twenty years since the Acadians had taken such an oath; and
meanwhile a new generation had grown up. The old oath pledged them to
fidelity and obedience; but they averred that Phillips, then governor of
the province, had given them, at the same time, assurance that they
should not be required to bear arms against either French or Indians. In
fact, such service had not been demanded of them, and they would have
lived in virtual neutrality, had not many of them broken their oaths and
joined the French war-parties. For this reason Cornwallis thought it
necessary that, in renewing the pledge, they should bind themselves to
an allegiance as complete as that required of other British subjects.
This spread general consternation. Deputies from the Acadian
settlements appeared at Halifax, bringing a paper signed with the marks
of a thousand persons. The following passage contains the pith of it.
"The inhabitants in general, sir, over the whole extent of this country
are resolved not to take the oath which your Excellency requires of us;
but if your Excellency will grant us our old oath, with an exemption for
ourselves and our heirs from taking up arms, we 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_098-V1" id="Page_098-V1">98<br />V1</a></span> 
will accept it."
<span class="superscript">[77]</span> The
answer of Cornwallis was by no means so stern as it has been
represented. <span class="superscript">[78]</span> 
After the formal reception he talked in private with
the deputies; and "they went home in good humor, promising great
things." <span class="superscript">[79]</span> </p>

<div class="footer">
		<p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_077" name="footer_077"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[77]</span>
<i>Public Documents of Nova Scotia</i>, 173.
</p>
    <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_078" name="footer_078"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[78]</span>
See <i>Ibid.</i>, 174, where the answer is printed.
</p>
    <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_079" name="footer_079"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[79]</span>
<i>Cornwallis to the Board of Trade</i>, 11 <i>Sept</i>. 1749.
</p>
</div>



<p>
The refusal of the Acadians to take the required oath was not wholly
spontaneous, but was mainly due to influence from without. The French
officials of Cape Breton and Isle St. Jean, now Prince Edward Island,
exerted themselves to the utmost, chiefly through the agency of the
priests, to excite the people to refuse any oath that should commit them
fully to British allegiance. At the same time means were used to induce
them to migrate to the neighboring islands under French rule, and
efforts were also made to set on the Indians to attack the English. But
the plans of the French will best appear in a despatch sent by La
Jonqui&egrave;re to the Colonial Minister in the autumn of 1749.</p>

<p>
"Monsieur Cornwallis issued an order on the tenth of the said month
[<i>August</i>], to the effect that if the inhabitants will remain faithful
subjects of the King of Great Britain, he will allow them priests and
public exercise of their religion, with the understanding that no priest
shall officiate without his permission or before taking an oath of
fidelity to the King of Great Britain. Secondly, that the inhabitants
shall not be 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_099-V1" id="Page_099-V1">99<br />V1</a></span> 
exempted from defending their houses, their lands, and the
Government. Thirdly, that they shall take an oath of fidelity to the
King of Great Britain, on the twenty-sixth of this month, before
officers sent them for that purpose."</p>

<p>
La Jonqui&egrave;re proceeds to say that on hearing these conditions the
Acadians were filled with perplexity and alarm, and that he, the
governor, had directed Boish&eacute;bert, his chief officer on the Acadian
frontier, to encourage them to leave their homes and seek asylum on
French soil. He thus recounts the steps he has taken to harass the
English of Halifax by means of their Indian neighbors. As peace had been
declared, the operation was delicate; and when three of these Indians
came to him from their missionary, Le Loutre, with letters on the
subject, La Jonqui&egrave;re was discreetly reticent. "I did not care to give
them any advice upon the matter, and confined myself to a promise that I
would on no account abandon them; and I have provided for supplying them
with everything, whether arms, ammunition, food, or other necessaries.
It is to be desired that these savages should succeed in thwarting the
designs of the English, and even their settlement at Halifax. They are
bent on doing so; and if they can carry out their plans, it is certain
that they will give the English great trouble, and so harass them that
they will be a great obstacle in their path. These savages are to act
alone; neither soldier nor French inhabitant is to join them; everything
will be done of 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_100-V1" id="Page_100-V1">100<br />V1</a></span> 
their own motion, and without showing that I had any
knowledge of the matter. This is very essential; therefore I have
written to the Sieur de Boish&eacute;bert to observe great prudence in his
measures, and to act very secretly, in order that the English may not
perceive that we are providing for the needs of the said savages.</p>

<p>
"It will be the missionaries who will manage all the negotiation, and
direct the movements of the savages, who are in excellent hands, as the
Reverend Father Germain and Monsieur l'Abb&eacute; Le Loutre are very capable
of making the most of them, and using them to the greatest advantage for
our interests. They will manage their intrigue in such a way as not to
appear in it."</p>

<p>
La Jonqui&egrave;re then recounts the good results which he expects from these
measures: first, the English will be prevented from making any new
settlements; secondly, we shall gradually get the Acadians out of their
hands; and lastly, they will be so discouraged by constant Indian
attacks that they will renounce their pretensions to the parts of the
country belonging to the King of France. "I feel, Monseigneur,"&mdash;thus
the Governor concludes his despatch,&mdash;"all the delicacy of this
negotiation; be assured that I will conduct it with such precaution that
the English will not be able to say that my orders had any part in
it." <span class="superscript">[80]</span></p>


<div class="footer">
		<p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_080" name="footer_080"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[80]</span>
<i>La Jonqui&egrave;re au Ministre</i>, 9 <i>Oct.</i> 1749. 
See <a href="#appendixB">Appendix B</a>.
</p>    
</div>


<p>
He kept his word, and so did the missionaries. The Indians gave great
trouble on the outskirts of Halifax, and murdered many harmless
settlers; 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_101-V1" id="Page_101-V1">101<br />V1</a></span> 
yet the English authorities did not at first suspect that they
were hounded on by their priests, under the direction of the Governor
of Canada, and with the privity of the Minister at Versailles. More than
this; for, looking across the sea, we find royalty itself lending its
august countenance to the machination. Among the letters read before the
King in his cabinet in May, 1750, was one from Desherbiers, then
commanding at Louisbourg, saying that he was advising the Acadians not
to take the oath of allegiance to the King of England; another from Le
Loutre, declaring that he and Father Germain were consulting together
how to disgust the English with their enterprise of Halifax; and a third
from the Intendant, Bigot, announcing that Le Loutre was using the
Indians to harass the new settlement, and that he himself was sending
them powder, lead, and merchandise, "to confirm them in their good
designs." <span class="superscript">[81]</span></p>

<div class="footer">
		<p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_081" name="footer_081"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[81]</span>
<i>Resum&eacute; des Lettres lues au Travail du Roy, Mai</i>, 1750.
</p>    
</div>


<p>To this the Minister replies in a letter to Desherbiers: "His Majesty is
well satisfied with all you have done to thwart the English in their new
establishment. If the dispositions of the savages are such as they seem,
there is reason to hope that in the course of the winter they will
succeed in so harassing the settlers that some of them will become
disheartened." Desherbiers is then told that His Majesty desires him to
aid English deserters in escaping from Halifax. 
<span class="superscript">[82]</span> Supplies for the
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_102-V1" id="Page_102-V1">102<br />V1</a></span> 
Indians are also promised; and he is informed that twelve medals are
sent him by the frigate "La Mutine," to be given to the chiefs who shall
most distinguish themselves. In another letter Desherbiers is enjoined
to treat the English authorities with great politeness.
<span class="superscript">[83]</span></p>

<div class="footer">
		<p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_082" name="footer_082"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[82]</span>
In 1750 nine captured deserters from Phillips's regiment
declared on their trial that the French had aided them and supplied them
all with money. <i>Public Documents of Nova Scotia</i>, 193.
</p>    
    <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_083" name="footer_083"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[83]</span>
<i>Le Ministre &agrave; Desherbiers</i>, 23 <i>Mai</i>, 1750; 
<i>Ibid.</i>, 31 <i>Mai</i>, 1750.
</p>    
</div>


<p>
When Count Raymond took command at Louisbourg, he was instructed, under
the royal hand, to give particular attention to the affairs of Acadia,
especially in two points,&mdash;the management of the Indians, and the
encouraging of Acadian emigration to countries under French rule. "His
Majesty," says the document, "has already remarked that the savages have
been most favorably disposed. It is of the utmost importance that no
means be neglected to keep them so. The missionaries among them are in a
better position than anybody to contribute to this end, and His Majesty
has reason to be satisfied with the pains they take therein. The Sieur
de Raymond will excite these missionaries not to slacken their efforts;
but he will warn them at the same time so to contain their zeal as not
to compromise themselves with the English, and give just occasion of
complaint." <span class="superscript">[84]</span> 
That is, the King orders his representative to encourage
the missionaries in instigating their flocks to butcher English
settlers, but to see that they take care not to be found out. The
injunction was hardly needed. "Monsieur Desherbiers," says a 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_103-V1" id="Page_103-V1">103<br />V1</a></span> 
letter of
earlier date, "has engaged Abb&eacute; Le Loutre to distribute the usual
presents among the savages, and Monsieur Bigot has placed in his hands
an additional gift of cloth, blankets, powder, and ball, to be given
them in case they harass the English at Halifax. This missionary is to
induce them to do so." <span class="superscript">[85]</span>
In spite of these efforts, the Indians began
to relent in their hostilities; and when Longueuil became provisional
governor of Canada, he complained to the Minister that it was very
difficult to prevent them from making peace with the English, though
Father Germain was doing his best to keep them on the war-path.
<span class="superscript">[86]</span>
La Jonqui&egrave;re, too, had done his best, even to the point of departing
from his original policy of allowing no soldier or Acadian to take part
with them. He had sent a body of troops under La Corne, an able partisan
officer, to watch the English frontier; and in the same vessel was sent
a supply of "merchandise, guns, and munitions for the savages and the
Acadians who may take up arms with them; and the whole is sent under
pretext of trading in furs with the savages."
<span class="superscript">[87]</span> On another occasion
La Jonqui&egrave;re wrote: "In order that the savages may do their part
courageously, a few Acadians, dressed and painted in their way, could
join them to strike the English. I cannot help consenting to what these
savages do, because we have our hands tied [<i>by the peace</i>],
and 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_104-V1" id="Page_104-V1">104<br />V1</a></span> 
so can do nothing ourselves. Besides, I do not think that any
inconvenience will come of letting the Acadians mingle among them,
because if they [<i>the Acadians</i>] are captured, we shall say that they
acted of their own accord."
<span class="superscript">[88]</span> In other words, he will encourage them
to break the peace; and then, by means of a falsehood, have them
punished as felons. Many disguised Acadians did in fact join the Indian
war-parties; and their doing so was no secret to the English. "What we
call here an Indian war," wrote Hopson, successor of Cornwallis, "is no
other than a pretence for the French to commit hostilities on His
Majesty's subjects."</p>

<div class="footer">
		<p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_084" name="footer_084"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[84]</span>
<i>M&eacute;moire du Roy pour servir d'Instruction au Comte de
Raymond</i>, 24 <i>Avril</i>, 1751.
</p>    
    <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_085" name="footer_085"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[85]</span>
<i>Lettre commune de Desherbiers et Bigot au Ministre</i>, 
15 <i>Ao&ucirc;t</i>, 1749.
</p>    
    <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_086" name="footer_086"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[86]</span>
<i>Longueuil au Ministre</i>, 26 <i>Avril</i>, 1752.
</p>    
    <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_087" name="footer_087"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[87]</span>
<i>Bigot au Ministre</i>, 1749.
</p>   
    <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_088" name="footer_088"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[88]</span>
<i>D&eacute;p&ecirc;ches de la Jonqui&egrave;re</i>, 1 <i>Mai</i>, 1751. 
See <a href="#appendixB">Appendix B</a>.
</p>    
</div>


<p>
At length the Indians made peace, or pretended to do so. The chief of Le
Loutre's mission, who called himself Major Jean-Baptiste Cope, came to
Halifax with a deputation of his tribe, and they all affixed their totems 
to a solemn treaty. In the next summer they returned with ninety or a 
hundred warriors, were well entertained, presented with gifts, and sent 
homeward in a schooner. On the way they seized the vessel and murdered 
the crew. This is told by Pr&eacute;vost, intendant at Louisbourg, who 
does not say that French instigation had any part in the treachery.
<span class="superscript">[89]</span> It is nevertheless certain that the 
Indians were paid for this or some contemporary murder; for Pr&eacute;vost, 
writing just four weeks later, says: "Last month the savages 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_105-V1" id="Page_105-V1">105<br />V1</a></span> 
took eighteen English scalps, and Monsieur Le Loutre was obliged to pay them 
eighteen hundred livres, Acadian money, which I have reimbursed him." 
<span class="superscript">[90]</span></p>


<div class="footer">
		<p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_089" name="footer_089"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[89]</span>
<i>Pr&eacute;vost au Ministre</i>, 12 <i>Mars</i>, 1753; <i>Ibid.</i>, 17 
<i>July</i>, 1753. Pr&eacute;vost was <i>ordonnateur</i>, or intendant, 
at Louisbourg. The treaty will be found in full in <i>Public Documents of 
Nova Scotia</i>, 683.
</p>
    <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_090" name="footer_090"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[90]</span>
<i>Pr&eacute;vost au Ministre</i>, 16 <i>Ao&ucirc;t</i>, 1753.
</p>
</div>

<p>From the first, the services of this zealous missionary had been beyond
price. Pr&eacute;vost testifies that, though Cornwallis does his best to induce
the Acadians to swear fidelity to King George, Le Loutre keeps them in
allegiance to King Louis, and threatens to set his Indians upon them
unless they declare against the English. "I have already," adds Pr&eacute;vost,
"paid him 11,183 livres for his daily expenses; and I never cease
advising him to be as economical as possible, and always to take care
not to compromise himself with the English Government."
<span class="superscript">[91]</span> In
consequence of "good service to religion and the state," Le Loutre
received a pension of eight hundred livres, as did also Maillard, his
brother missionary on Cape Breton. "The fear is," writes the Colonial
Minister to the Governor of Louisbourg, "that their zeal may carry them
too far. Excite them to keep the Indians in our interests, but do not
let them compromise us. Act always so as to make the English appear as
aggressors." <span class="superscript">[92]</span></p>


<div class="footer">
		<p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_091" name="footer_091"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[91]</span>
<i>Ibid.</i>, 22 <i>Juillet</i>, 1750.
</p>
    <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_092" name="footer_092"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[92]</span>
<i>Le Ministre au Comte de Raymond</i>, 21 <i>Juillet</i>, 1752. It is
curious to compare these secret instructions, given by the Minister to
the colonial officials, with a letter which the same Minister, Rouill&eacute;,
wrote ostensibly to La Jonqui&egrave;re, but which was really meant for the eye
of the British Minister at Versailles, Lord Albemarle, to whom it was shown in 
proof of French good faith. It was afterwards printed, along with other papers, 
in a small volume called <i>Pr&eacute;cis des Faits, avec leurs Pi&egrave;ces 
justificatives</i> which was sent by the French Government to all the courts of 
Europe to show that the English alone were answerable for the war. The letter, 
it is needless to say, breathes the highest sentiments of international honor.
</p>
</div>

<p>
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_106-V1" id="Page_106-V1">106<br />V1</a></span> 
All the Acadian clergy, in one degree or another, seem to have used their 
influence to prevent the inhabitants from taking the oath, and to persuade 
them that they were still French subjects. Some were noisy, turbulent, and 
defiant; others were too tranquil to please the officers of the Crown. A 
missionary at Annapolis is mentioned as old, and therefore inefficient; while 
the cur&eacute; at Grand Pr&eacute;, also an elderly man, was too much inclined 
to confine himself to his spiritual functions. It is everywhere apparent that 
those who chose these priests, and sent them as missionaries into a British 
province, expected them to act as enemies of the British Crown. The maxim is 
often repeated that duty to religion is inseparable from the duty to the King 
of France. The Bishop of Quebec desired the Abb&eacute; de l'Isle-Dieu to 
represent to the Court the need of more missionaries to keep the Acadians 
Catholic and French; but, he adds, there is danger that they (the missionaries) 
will be required to take an oath to do nothing contrary to the interests of the 
King of Great Britain. <span class="superscript">[93]</span>
It is a wonder that such a pledge was not always demanded. It was exacted in a 
few cases, notably in that of Girard, priest at Cobequid, who, on charges of 
instigating his flock to disaffection, had been sent prisoner to Halifax, but 
released on taking an oath in the above terms. 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_107-V1" id="Page_107-V1">107<br />V1</a></span> 
Thereupon he wrote to Longueuil at Quebec that his parishioners wanted to 
submit to the English, and that he, having sworn to be true to the British 
King, could not prevent them. "Though I don't pretend to be a casuist," 
writes Longueuil, "I could not help answering him that he is not obliged 
to keep such an oath, and that he ought to labor in all zeal to preserve 
and increase the number of the faithful." Girard, to his credit, preferred 
to leave the colony, and retired to Isle St. Jean. 
<span class="superscript">[94]</span></p>


<div class="footer">
		<p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_093" name="footer_093"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[93]</span>
L'Isle-Dieu, <i>M&eacute;moire sur l'&Eacute;tat actuel des Missions</i>,
1753 (1754?).
</p>
    <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_094" name="footer_094"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[94]</span>
<i>Longueuil au Ministre</i>, 27 <i>Avril</i>, 1752.
</p>
</div>

<p>
Cornwallis soon discovered to what extent the clergy stirred their
flocks to revolt; and he wrote angrily to the Bishop of Quebec: "Was it
you who sent Le Loutre as a missionary to the Micmacs? and is it for
their good that he excites these wretches to practise their cruelties
against those who have shown them every kindness? The conduct of the
priests of Acadia has been such that by command of his Majesty I have
published an Order declaring that if any one of them presumes to
exercise his functions without my express permission he shall be dealt
with according to the laws of England." <span class="superscript">[95]</span>
</p>


<div class="footer">
		<p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_095" name="footer_095"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[95]</span>
<i>Cornwallis to the Bishop of Quebec</i>, 1 <i>Dec.</i> 1749.
</p>    
</div>


<p>The English, bound by treaty to allow the Acadians the exercise of their
religion, at length conceived the idea of replacing the French priests
by others to be named by the Pope at the request of the British
Government. This, becoming known to the French, greatly alarmed them,
and the Intendant at Louisbourg wrote to the Minister that the 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_108-V1" id="Page_108-V1">108<br />V1</a></span> 
matter required serious attention. <span class="superscript">[96]</span>
It threatened, in fact, to rob them of their chief agents of intrigue; but 
their alarm proved needless, as the plan was not carried into execution.</p>

<div class="footer">
		<p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_096" name="footer_096"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[96]</span>
<i>Daudin, pr&ecirc;tre, &agrave; Pr&eacute;vost</i>, 23 <i>Oct.</i> 1753. 
<i>Pr&eacute;vost au Ministre</i>, 24 <i>Nov.</i> 1753.
</p>    
</div>

<p>
The French officials would have been better pleased had the conduct of
Cornwallis been such as to aid their efforts to alienate the Acadians;
and one writer, while confessing the "favorable treatment" of the
English towards the inhabitants, denounces it as a snare.
<span class="superscript">[97]</span> If so, it
was a snare intended simply to reconcile them to English rule. Nor was
it without effect. "We must give up altogether the idea of an
insurrection in Acadia," writes an officer of Cape Breton. "The Acadians
cannot be trusted; they are controlled by fear of the Indians, which
leads them to breathe French sentiments, even when their inclinations
are English. They will yield to their interests; and the English will
make it impossible that they should either hurt them or serve us, unless
we take measures different from those we have hitherto pursued."
<span class="superscript">[98]</span></p>

<div class="footer">
		<p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_097" name="footer_097"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[97]</span>
<i>M&eacute;moire &agrave; pr&eacute;senter &agrave; la Cour</i>, 1753.
</p>    
    <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_098" name="footer_098"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[98]</span>
<i>Roma au Ministre</i>, 11 <i>Mars</i>, 1750.
</p>    
</div>


<p>During all this time, constant efforts were made to stimulate Acadian
emigration to French territory, and thus to strengthen the French
frontier. In this work the chief agent was Le Loutre. "This priest,"
says a French writer of the time, "urged the people of Les Mines, Port
Royal [<i>Annapolis</i>], and other places, to come and join the French, and
promised to all, in the name of the Governor, to 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_109-V1" id="Page_109-V1">109<br />V1</a></span> 
settle and support them for three years, and even indemnify them for any 
losses they might incur; threatening if they did not do as he advised, to 
abandon them, deprive them of their priests, have their wives and children 
carried off, and their property laid waste by the Indians."
<span class="superscript">[99]</span> Some passed over the isthmus to the 
shores of the gulf, and others made their way to the Strait of Canseau. 
Vessels were provided to convey them, in the one case to Isle St. Jean, 
now Prince Edward Island, and in the other to Isle Royale, called by the 
English, Cape Breton. Some were eager to go; some went with reluctance; 
some would scarcely be persuaded to go at all. "They leave their homes 
with great regret," reports the Governor of Isle St. Jean, speaking of 
the people of Cobequid, "and they began to move their luggage only when 
the savages compelled them." <span class="superscript">[100]</span> These 
savages were the flock of Abb&eacute; Le Loutre, who was on the spot to 
direct the emigration. Two thousand Acadians are reported to have left the
peninsula before the end of 1751, and many more followed within the next
two years. Nothing could exceed the misery of a great part of these
emigrants, who had left perforce most of their effects behind. They
became disheartened and apathetic. The Intendant at Louisbourg says that
they will not take the trouble to clear the land, and that some of them
live, like Indians, under huts of spruce-branches. 
<span class="superscript">[101]</span> The Governor of
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_110-V1" id="Page_110-V1">110<br />V1</a></span> 
Isle St. Jean declares that they are dying of hunger. 
<span class="superscript">[102]</span> Girard, the
priest who had withdrawn to this island rather than break his oath to
the English, writes: "Many of them cannot protect themselves day or
night from the severity of the cold. Most of the children are entirely
naked; and when I go into a house they are all crouched in the ashes,
close to the fire. They run off and hide themselves, without shoes,
stockings, or shirts. They are not all reduced to this extremity but
nearly all are in want."  <span class="superscript">[103]</span> 
Mortality among them was great, and would
have been greater but for rations supplied by the French Government.</p>

<div class="footer">
		<p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_099" name="footer_099"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[99]</span>
<i>M&eacute;moires sur le Canada</i>, 1749-1760.
</p>    
    <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_100" name="footer_100"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[100]</span>
<i>Bonaventure &agrave; Desherbiers</i>, 26 <i>Juin</i>, 1751.
</p>    
    <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_101" name="footer_101"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[101]</span>
<i>Pr&eacute;vost au Ministre</i>, 25 <i>Nov.</i> 1750.
</p>    
    <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_102" name="footer_102"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[102]</span>
<i>Bonaventure, ut supra</i>.
</p>    
    <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_103" name="footer_103"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[103]</span>
<i>Girard &agrave; (Bonaventure?)</i>, 27 <i>Oct.</i> 1753.
</p>    
     
</div>

<p>
During these proceedings, the English Governor, Cornwallis, seems to
have justified the character of good temper given him by Horace Walpole.
His attitude towards the Acadians remained on the whole patient and
conciliatory. "My friends," he replied to a deputation of them asking a
general permission to leave the province, "I am not ignorant of the fact
that every means has been used to alienate the hearts of the French
subjects of His Britannic Majesty. Great advantages have been promised
you elsewhere, and you have been made to imagine that your religion was
in danger. Threats even have been resorted to in order to induce you to
remove to French territory. The savages are made use of to molest you;
they are to cut the throats of all who remain in their native country,
attached to their own interests and 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_111-V1" id="Page_111-V1">111<br />V1</a></span> 
faithful to the Government. You know that certain officers and missionaries, 
who came from Canada last autumn, have been the cause of all our trouble 
during the winter. Their conduct has been horrible, without honor, probity, 
or conscience. Their aim is to embroil you with the Government. I will not 
believe that they are authorized to do so by the Court of France, that being 
contrary to good faith and the friendship established between the two Crowns."
</p>

<p>
What foundation there was for this amiable confidence in the Court of
Versailles has been seen already. "When you declared your desire to
submit yourselves to another Government," pursues Cornwallis, "our
determination was to hinder nobody from following what he imagined to be
his interest. We know that a forced service is worth nothing, and that a
subject compelled to be so against his will is not far from being an
enemy. We confess, however, that your determination to go gives us pain.
We are aware of your industry and temperance, and that you are not
addicted to any vice or debauchery. This province is your country. You
and your fathers have cultivated it; naturally you ought yourselves to
enjoy the fruits of your labor. Such was the design of the King, our
master. You know that we have followed his orders. You know that we have
done everything to secure to you not only the occupation of your lands,
but the ownership of them forever. We have given you also every possible
assurance of the free and 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_112-V1" id="Page_112-V1">112<br />V1</a></span> 
public exercise of the Roman Catholic
religion. But I declare to you frankly that, according to our laws,
nobody can possess lands or houses in the province who shall refuse to
take the oath of allegiance to his King when required to do so. You know
very well that there are ill-disposed and mischievous persons among you
who corrupt the others. Your inexperience, your ignorance of the affairs
of government, and your habit of following the counsels of those who
have not your real interests at heart, make it an easy matter to seduce
you. In your petitions you ask for a general leave to quit the province.
The only manner in which you can do so is to follow the regulations
already established, and provide yourselves with our passport. And we
declare that nothing shall prevent us from giving such passports to all
who ask for them, the moment peace and tranquillity are
re-established." <span class="superscript">[104]</span>
He declares as his reason for not giving them at
once, that on crossing the frontier "you will have to pass the French
detachments and savages assembled there, and that they compel all the
inhabitants who go there to take up arms" against the English. How well
this reason was founded will soon appear.</p>

<div class="footer">
		<p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_104" name="footer_104"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[104]</span>
The above passages are from two address of Cornwallis,
read to the Acadian deputies in April and May, 1750. The combined
extracts here given convey the spirit of the whole. See <i>Public
Documents of Nova Scotia</i>, 185-190.
</p>    
</div>

<p>
Hopson, the next governor, described by the French themselves as a "mild
and peaceable officer," was no less considerate in his treatment of the
Acadians; and at the end of 1752 he issued 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_113-V1" id="Page_113-V1">113<br />V1</a></span> 
the following order to his military subordinates: "You are to look on the 
French inhabitants in the same light as the rest of His Majesty's subjects, 
as to the protection of the laws and government; for which reason nothing 
is to be taken from them by force, or any price set upon their goods but 
what they themselves agree to. And if at any time the inhabitants should
obstinately refuse to comply with what His Majesty's service may require
of them, you are not to redress yourself by military force or in any
unlawful manner, but to lay the case before the Governor and wait his
orders thereon." <span class="superscript">[105]</span> Unfortunately, 
the mild rule of Cornwallis and Hopson was not always maintained under 
their successor, Lawrence.</p>

<div class="footer">
		<p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_105" name="footer_105"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[105]</span>
<i>Public Documents of Nova Scotia</i>, 197.
</p>    
</div>


<p>
Louis Joseph Le Loutre, vicar-general of Acadia and missionary to the
Micmacs, was the most conspicuous person in the province, and more than
any other man was answerable for the miseries that overwhelmed it. The
sheep of which he was the shepherd dwelt, at a day's journey from
Halifax, by the banks of the River Shubenacadie, in small cabins of
logs, mixed with wigwams of birch-bark. They were not a docile flock;
and to manage them needed address, energy, and money,&mdash;with all of which
the missionary was provided. He fed their traditional dislike of the
English, and fanned their fanaticism, born of the villanous counterfeit
of Christianity which he and his predecessors had imposed on them. Thus
he contrived to use them on the one hand to murder the English, and on
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_114-V1" id="Page_114-V1">114<br />V1</a></span> 
the other to terrify the Acadians; yet not without cost to the French
Government; for they had learned the value of money, and, except when
their blood was up, were slow to take scalps without pay. Le Loutre was
a man of boundless egotism, a violent spirit of domination, an intense
hatred of the English, and a fanaticism that stopped at nothing. Towards
the Acadians he was a despot; and this simple and superstitious people,
extremely susceptible to the influence of their priests, trembled before
him. He was scarcely less masterful in his dealings with the Acadian
clergy; and, aided by his quality of the Bishop's vicar-general, he
dragooned even the unwilling into aiding his schemes. Three successive
governors of New France thought him invaluable, yet feared the
impetuosity of his zeal, and vainly tried to restrain it within safe
bounds. The Bishop, while approving his objects, thought his medicines
too violent, and asked in a tone of reproof: "Is it right for you to
refuse the Acadians the sacraments, to threaten that they shall be
deprived of the services of a priest, and that the savages shall treat
them as enemies?" <span class="superscript">[106]</span>
"Nobody," says a French Catholic contemporary,
"was more fit than he to carry discord and desolation into a
country." <span class="superscript">[107]</span>
Cornwallis called him "a good-for-nothing scoundrel," and
offered a hundred pounds for his head. 
<span class="superscript">[108]</span></p>

<div class="footer">
		<p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_106" name="footer_106"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[106]</span>
<i>L'&Eacute;v&ecirc;que de Qu&eacute;bec &agrave; Le Loutre</i>; translation 
in <i>Public Documents of Nova Scotia</i>, 240.
</p>
   <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_107" name="footer_107"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[107]</span>
<i>M&eacute;moires sur le Canada</i>, 1749-1760.
</p>
   <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_108" name="footer_108"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[108]</span>
On Le Loutre, compare <i>Public Documents of Nova Scotia</i>, 178-180, 
<i>note</i>, with authorities there cited; <i>N.&nbsp;Y. Col. Docs.</i>, X. 11;
<i>M&eacute;moires sur le Canada</i>, 1749-1760 (Quebec, 1838).
</p>    
</div>


<p>
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_115-V1" id="Page_115-V1">115<br />V1</a></span> 
The authorities at Halifax, while exasperated by the perfidy practised
on them, were themselves not always models of international virtue. They
seized a French vessel in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, on the
charge&mdash;probably true&mdash;that she was carrying arms and ammunition to the
Acadians and Indians. A less defensible act was the capture of the armed
brig "St. Fran&ccedil;ois," laden with supplies for a fort lately
re-established by the French, at the mouth of the River St. John, on
ground claimed by both nations. Captain Rous, a New England officer
commanding a frigate in the Royal Navy, opened fire on the "St.
Fran&ccedil;ois," took her after a short cannonade, and carried her into
Halifax, where she was condemned by the court. Several captures of small
craft, accused of illegal acts, were also made by the English. These
proceedings, being all of an overt nature, gave the officers of Louis
XV. precisely what they wanted,&mdash;an occasion for uttering loud
complaints, and denouncing the English as breakers of the peace.</p>

<p>
But the movement most alarming to the French was the English occupation
of Beaubassin,&mdash;an act perfectly lawful in itself, since, without
reasonable doubt, the place was within the limits of Acadia, and
therefore on English ground.<span class="superscript">[109]</span>
Beaubassin was a considerable settlement on the isthmus that joins the 
Acadian peninsula to the mainland. Northwest of the settlement lay a wide 
marsh, through which ran a stream called 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_116-V1" id="Page_116-V1">116<br />V1</a></span> 
the Missaguash, some two miles 
beyond which rose a hill called Beaus&eacute;jour. On and near this hill 
were stationed the troops and Canadians sent under Boish&eacute;bert and 
La Corne to watch the English frontier. This French force excited disaffection 
among the Acadians through all the neighboring districts, and constantly 
helped them to emigrate. Cornwallis therefore resolved to send an English 
force to the spot; and accordingly, towards the end of April, 1750, Major 
Lawrence landed at Beaubassin with four hundred men. News of their approach 
had come before them, and Le Loutre was here with his Micmacs, mixed with
some Acadians whom he had persuaded or bullied to join him. Resolved
that the people of Beaubassin should not live under English influence,
he now with his own hand set fire to the parish church, while his white
and red adherents burned the houses of the inhabitants, and thus
compelled them to cross to the French side of the river. 
<span class="superscript">[110]</span> This was
the first forcible removal of the Acadians. It was as premature as it
was violent; since Lawrence, being threatened by La Corne, whose force
was several times greater than his own, presently reimbarked. In the
following September he returned with seventeen small vessels and about
seven hundred men, and again attempted 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_117-V1" id="Page_117-V1">117<br />V1</a></span> 
to land on the strand of
Beaubassin. La Jonqui&egrave;re says that he could only be resisted indirectly,
because he was on the English side of the river. This indirect
resistance was undertaken by Le Loutre, who had thrown up a breastwork
along the shore and manned it with his Indians and his painted and
be-feathered Acadians. Nevertheless the English landed, and, with some
loss, drove out the defenders. Le Loutre himself seems not to have been
among them; but they kept up for a time a helter-skelter fight,
encouraged by two other missionaries, Germain and Lalerne, who were near
being caught by the English. <span class="superscript">[111]</span>
Lawrence quickly routed them, took
possession of the cemetery, and prepared to fortify himself. The village
of Beaubassin, consisting, it is said, of a hundred and forty houses,
had been burned in the spring; but there were still in the neighborhood,
on the English side, many hamlets and farms, with barns full of grain
and hay. Le Loutre's Indians now threatened to plunder and kill the
inhabitants if they did not take arms against the English. Few complied,
and the greater part fled to the woods. 
<span class="superscript">[112]</span> On this the Indians and
their Acadian allies set the houses and barns on fire, and laid waste
the whole district, leaving the inhabitants no choice but to seek food
and shelter with the French. <span class="superscript">[113]</span></p>

<div class="footer">
		<p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_109" name="footer_109"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[109]</span>
La Jonqui&egrave;re himself admits that he thought so. "Cette partie l&agrave; 
&eacute;tant, &agrave; ce que je crois, d&eacute;pendante de l'Acadie." <i>La
Jonqui&egrave;re au Ministre, 3 Oct. 1750</i>.
</p>  
   <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_110" name="footer_110"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[110]</span>
It has been erroneously stated that Beaubassin was burned by its own 
inhabitants. "Laloutre, ayant vu que les Acadiens ne paroissoient pas fort 
press&eacute;s d'abandonner leurs biens, avoit lui-m&ecirc;me mis le feu 
&agrave; l'&Eacute;glise, et l'avoit fait mettre aux maisons des habitants
par quelques-uns de ceux qu'il avoit gagn&eacute;s," etc. <i>M&eacute;moires 
sur le Canada</i>, 1749-1760. "Les sauvages y mirent le feu." <i>Pr&eacute;cis 
des Faits</i>, 85. "Les sauvages mirent le feu aux maisons." <i>Pr&eacute;vost 
au Ministre</i>, 22 <i>Juillet</i>, 1750.
</p>    
   <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_111" name="footer_111"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[111]</span>
La Valli&egrave;re, <i>Journal de ce qui s'est pass&eacute; &agrave; 
Chenitou</i> [Chignecto] <i>et autres parties des Fronti&egrave;res de 
l'Acadie</i>, 1750-1751. La Valli&egrave;re was an officer on the spot 
to the footnote written.
</p>  
   <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_112" name="footer_112"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[112]</span>
<i>Pr&eacute;vost au Ministre</i>, 27 <i>Sept</i>. 1750.
</p>
    <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_113" name="footer_113"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[113]</span>
"Les sauvages et Accadiens mirent le feu dans toutes les maisons et granges, 
pleines de bled et de fourrages, ce qui a caus&eacute; une grande disette." 
La Valli&egrave;re, <i>ut supra</i>.
</p>    
</div>



<p>
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_118-V1" id="Page_118-V1">118<br />V1</a></span> 
The English fortified themselves on a low hill by the edge of the marsh,
planted palisades, built barracks, and named the new work Fort Lawrence.
Slight skirmishes between them and the French were frequent. Neither
party respected the dividing line of the Missaguash, and a petty warfare
of aggression and reprisal began, and became chronic. Before the end of
the autumn there was an atrocious act of treachery. Among the English
officers was Captain Edward Howe, an intelligent and agreeable person,
who spoke French fluently, and had been long stationed in the province.
Le Loutre detested him; dreading his influence over the Acadians, by
many of whom he was known and liked. One morning, at about eight
o'clock, the inmates of Fort Lawrence saw what seemed an officer from
Beaus&eacute;jour, carrying a flag, and followed by several men in uniform,
wading through the sea of grass that stretched beyond the Missaguash.
When the tide was out, this river was but an ugly trench of reddish mud
gashed across the face of the marsh, with a thread of half-fluid slime
lazily crawling along the bottom; but at high tide it was filled to the
brim with an opaque torrent that would have overflowed, but for the
dikes thrown up to confine it. Behind the dike on the farther bank stood
the seeming officer, waving his flag in sign that he desired a parley.
He was in reality no officer, but one of Le Loutre's Indians in
disguise, &Eacute;tienne Le B&acirc;tard, or, as others say, the great chief,
Jean-Baptiste Cope. Howe, carrying a white flag, and accompanied by 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_119-V1" id="Page_119-V1">119<br />V1</a></span> 
a few officers and men, went towards the river to hear what he had to say.
As they drew near, his looks and language excited their suspicion. But
it was too late; for a number of Indians, who had hidden behind the dike
during the night, fired upon Howe across the stream, and mortally
wounded him. They continued their fire on his companions, but could not
prevent them from carrying the dying man to the fort. The French
officers, indignant at this villany, did not hesitate to charge it upon
Le Loutre; "for," says one of them, "what is not a wicked priest capable
of doing?" But Le Loutre's brother missionary, Maillard, declares that
it was purely an effect of religious zeal on the part of the Micmacs,
who, according to him, bore a deadly grudge against Howe because,
fourteen years before, he had spoken words disrespectful to the Holy
Virgin. <span class="superscript">[114]</span>
Maillard adds that the Indians were much pleased with what
they had done. Finding, however, that they could effect little against
the English troops, they changed their field of action, repaired to the
outskirts of Halifax, murdered about thirty settlers, and carried off
eight or ten prisoners.</p>

<div class="footer">
		<p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_114" name="footer_114"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[114]</span>
Maillard, <i>Les Missions Micmaques</i>. On the murder of Howe, <i>Public 
Documents of Nova Scotia</i>, 194, 195, 210; <i>M&eacute;moires sur le
Canada</i>, 1749-1760, where it is said that Le Loutre was present at the
deed; La Valli&egrave;re, <i>Journal</i>, who says that some Acadians took 
part in it; <i>D&eacute;p&ecirc;ches de la Jonqui&egrave;re</i>, who says 
"les sauvages de l'Abb&eacute; le Loutre l'ont tu&eacute; par trahison;" 
and <i>Pr&eacute;vost au Ministre</i>, 27 <i>Oct</i>. 1750.
</p>    
</div>

<p>
Strong reinforcements came from Canada. The French began a fort on the
hill of Beaus&eacute;jour, and the Acadians were required to work at it with no
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_120-V1" id="Page_120-V1">120<br />V1</a></span> 
compensation but rations. They were thinly clad, some had neither shoes
nor stockings, and winter was begun. They became so dejected that it was
found absolutely necessary to give them wages enough to supply their
most pressing needs. In the following season Fort Beaus&eacute;jour was in a
state to receive a garrison. It stood on the crown of the hill, and a
vast panorama stretched below and around it. In front lay the Bay of
Chignecto, winding along the fertile shores of Chipody and Memeramcook.
Far on the right spread the great Tantemar marsh; on the left lay the
marsh of the Missaguash; and on a knoll beyond it, not three miles
distant, the red flag of England waved over the palisades of Fort
Lawrence, while hills wrapped in dark forests bounded the horizon.</p>

<p>
How the homeless Acadians from Beaubassin lived through the winter is
not very clear. They probably found shelter at Chipody and its
neighborhood, where there were thriving settlements of their countrymen.
Le Loutre, fearing that they would return to their lands and submit to
the English, sent some of them to Isle St. Jean. "They refused to go,"
says a French writer; "but he compelled them at last, by threatening to
make the Indians pillage them, carry off their wives and children, and
even kill them before their eyes. Nevertheless he kept about him such as
were most submissive to his will." 
<span class="superscript">[115]</span> In the spring after the English
occupied Beaubassin, La Jonqui&egrave;re issued a strange proclamation. It
commanded 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_121-V1" id="Page_121-V1">121<br />V1</a></span> 
all Acadians to take forthwith an oath of fidelity to the King
of France, and to enroll themselves in the French militia, on pain of
being treated as rebels. <span class="superscript">[116]</span>
 Three years after, Lawrence, who then
governed the province, proclaimed in his turn that all Acadians who had
at any time sworn fidelity to the King of England, and who should be
found in arms against him, would be treated as criminals. 
<span class="superscript">[117]</span> Thus were
these unfortunates ground between the upper and nether millstones. Le
Loutre replied to this proclamation of Lawrence by a letter in which he
outdid himself. He declared that any of the inhabitants who had crossed
to the French side of the line, and who should presume to return to the
English, would be treated as enemies by his Micmacs; and in the name of
these, his Indian adherents, he demanded that the entire eastern half of
the Acadian peninsula, including the ground on which Fort Lawrence
stood, should be at once made over to their sole use and sovereign
ownership, <span class="superscript">[118]</span>&mdash;"which being read 
and considered," says the record of
the Halifax Council, "the contents appeared too insolent and absurd to
be answered."</p>

<div class="footer">
		<p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_115" name="footer_115"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[115]</span>
<i>M&eacute;moires sur le Canada</i>, 1749-1760.
</p>  
   <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_116" name="footer_116"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[116]</span>
<i>Ordonnance du</i> 12 <i>Avril</i>, 1751.
</p>    
   <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_117" name="footer_117"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[117]</span>
<i>&Eacute;crit donn&eacute; aux Habitants r&eacute;fugi&eacute;s &agrave; 
Beaus&eacute;jour</i>, 10 <i>Ao&ucirc;t</i>, 1754.
</p>  
   <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_118" name="footer_118"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[118]</span>
<i>Copie de la Lettre de M. l'Abb&eacute; Le Loutre, Pr&ecirc;tre
Missionnaire des Sauvages de l'Accadie, &agrave; M. Lawrence &agrave; 
Halifax</i>, 26 <i>Ao&ucirc;t</i>, 1754. 
There is a translation in <i>Public Documents of Nova Scotia</i>.
</p>    
</div>



<p>
The number of Acadians who had crossed the line and were collected about
Beaus&eacute;jour was now large. Their countrymen of Chipody began to find them
a burden, and they lived chiefly on 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_122-V1" id="Page_122-V1">122<br />V1</a></span> 
Government rations. Le Loutre had
obtained fifty thousand livres from the Court in order to dike in, for
their use, the fertile marshes of Memeramcook; but the relief was
distant, and the misery pressing. They complained that they had been
lured over the line by false assurances, and they applied secretly to
the English authorities to learn if they would be allowed to return to
their homes. The answer was that they might do so with full enjoyment of
religion and property, if they would take a simple oath of fidelity and
loyalty to the King of Great Britain, qualified by an oral intimation
that they would not be required for the present to bear arms. 
<span class="superscript">[119]</span> When
Le Loutre heard this, he mounted the pulpit, broke into fierce
invectives, threatened the terrified people with excommunication, and
preached himself into a state of exhaustion. 
<span class="superscript">[120]</span> The military
commandant at Beaus&eacute;jour used gentler means of prevention; and the
Acadians, unused for generations to think or act for themselves,
remained restless, but indecisive, waiting till fate should settle for
them the question, under which king?</p>

<div class="footer">
		<p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_119" name="footer_119"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[119]</span>
<i>Public Documents of Nova Scotia</i>, 205, 209.
</p>  
   <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_120" name="footer_120"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[120]</span>
Compare <i>M&eacute;moires</i>, 1749-1760, and <i>Public Documents of
Nova Scotia</i>, 229, 230.
</p>    
</div>



<p>Meanwhile, for the past three years, the commissioners appointed under
the treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle to settle the question of boundaries
between France and England in America had been in session at Paris,
waging interminable war on paper; La Galissoni&egrave;re and Silhouette for
France, 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_123-V1" id="Page_123-V1">123<br />V1</a></span> 
Shirley and Mildmay for England. By the treaty of Utrecht,
Acadia belonged to England; but what was Acadia? According to the
English commissioners, it comprised not only the peninsula now called
Nova Scotia, but all the immense tract of land between the River St.
Lawrence on the north, the Gulf of the same name on the east, the
Atlantic on the south, and New England on the west.
<span class="superscript">[121]</span> The French
commissioners, on their part, maintained that the name Acadia belonged
of right only to about a twentieth part of this territory, and that it
did not even cover the whole of the Acadian peninsula, but only its
southern coast, with an adjoining belt of barren wilderness. When the
French owned Acadia, they gave it boundaries as comprehensive as those
claimed for it by the English commissioners; now that it belonged to a
rival, they cut it down to a paring of its former self. The denial that
Acadia included the whole peninsula was dictated by the need of a winter
communication between Quebec and Cape Breton, which was possible only
with the eastern portions in French hands. So new was this denial that
even La Galissoni&egrave;re himself, the foremost in making it, had declared
without reservation two years before that Acadia was the entire
peninsula. <span class="superscript">[122]</span>
"If," says a writer on the question, "we 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_124-V1" id="Page_124-V1">124<br />V1</a></span> 
had to do with
a nation more tractable, less grasping, and more conciliatory, it would
be well to insist also that Halifax should be given up to us." He thinks
that, on the whole, it would be well to make the demand in any case, in
order to gain some other point by yielding this one.
<span class="superscript">[123]</span> It is curious
that while denying that the country was Acadia, the French invariably
called the inhabitants Acadians. Innumerable public documents,
commissions, grants, treaties, edicts, signed by French kings and
ministers, had recognized Acadia as extending over New Brunswick and a
part of Maine. Four censuses of Acadia while it belonged to the French
had recognized the mainland as included in it; and so do also the early
French maps. Its prodigious shrinkage was simply the consequence of its
possession by an alien.</p>


<div class="footer">
		<p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_121" name="footer_121"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[121]</span>
The commission of De Monts, in 1603, defines Acadia as extending from the 
fortieth to the forty-sixth degrees of latitude,&mdash;that is, from central 
New Brunswick to southern Pennsylvania. Neither party cared to produce the 
document.
</p>    
   <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_122" name="footer_122"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[122]</span>
"L'Acadie suivant ses anciennes limites est la presquisle born&eacute;e par 
son isthme." <i>La Galissoni&egrave;re au Ministre</i>, 25 <i>Juillet</i>, 
1749. The English commissioners were, of course, ignorant of this admission.
</p>
   <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_123" name="footer_123"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[123]</span>
<i>M&eacute;moire de l'Abb&eacute; de l'Isle-Dieu</i>, 1753 (1754?).
</p>       
</div>


<p>Other questions of limits, more important and equally perilous, called
loudly for solution. What line should separate Canada and her western
dependencies from the British colonies? Various principles of
demarcation were suggested, of which the most prominent on the French
side was a geographical one. All countries watered by streams falling
into the St. Lawrence, the Great Lakes, and the Mississippi were to
belong to her. This would have planted her in the heart of New York and
along the crests of the Alleghanies, giving her all the interior of the
continent, and leaving nothing to England but a strip of sea-coast. Yet
in view of what France had achieved; of the patient gallantry 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_125-V1" id="Page_125-V1">125<br />V1</a></span> 
of her
explorers, the zeal of her missionaries, the adventurous hardihood of
her bushrangers, revealing to civilized mankind the existence of this
wilderness world, while her rivals plodded at their workshops, their
farms, or their fisheries,&mdash;in view of all this, her pretensions were
moderate and reasonable compared with those of England. The treaty of
Utrecht had declared the Iroquois, or Five Nations, to be British
subjects; therefore it was insisted that all countries conquered by them
belonged to the British Crown. But what was an Iroquois conquest? The
Iroquois rarely occupied the countries they overran. Their military
expeditions were mere raids, great or small. Sometimes, as in the case
of the Hurons, they made a solitude and called it peace; again, as in
the case of the Illinois, they drove off the occupants of the soil, who
returned after the invaders were gone. But the range of their
war-parties was prodigious; and the English laid claim to every
mountain, forest, or prairie where an Iroquois had taken a scalp. This
would give them not only the country between the Alleghanies and the
Mississippi, but also that between Lake Huron and the Ottawa, thus
reducing Canada to the patch on the American map now represented by the
province of Quebec,&mdash;or rather, by a part of it, since the extension of
Acadia to the St. Lawrence would cut off the present counties of Gasp&eacute;,
Rimouski, and Bonaventure. Indeed among the advocates of British claims
there were those who denied that France had any rights whatever on the
south side of the St. 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_126-V1" id="Page_126-V1">126<br />V1</a></span> 
Lawrence. <span class="superscript">[124]</span>
Such being the attitude of the two
contestants, it was plain that there was no resort but the last argument
of kings. Peace must be won with the sword.</p>

<div class="footer">
		<p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_124" name="footer_124"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[124]</span>
The extent of British claims is best shown on two maps of
the time, Mitchell's <i>Map of the British and French Dominions in North
America</i> and Huske's <i>New and Accurate Map of North America</i>; both are
in the British Museum. Dr. John Mitchell, in his <i>Contest in America</i>
(London, 1757) pushes the English claim to its utmost extreme, and
denies that the French were rightful owners of anything in North
America except the town of Quebec and the trading-post of Tadoussac.
Besides the claim founded on the subjection of the Iroquois to the
British Crown, the English somewhat inconsistently advanced others
founded on titles obtained by treaty from these same tribes, and others
still, founded on the original grants of some of the colonies, which ran
indefinitely westward across the continent.
</p>    
</div>

<p>The commissioners at Paris broke up their sessions, leaving as the
monument of their toils four quarto volumes of allegations, arguments,
and documentary proofs. <span class="superscript">[125]</span> 
Out of the discussion rose also a swarm of
fugitive publications in French, English, and Spanish; for the question
of American boundaries had become European. There was one among them
worth notice from its amusing absurdity. It is an elaborate
disquisition, under the title of <i>Roman politique</i>, by an author
faithful to the traditions of European diplomacy, and inspired at the
same time by the new philosophy of the school of Rousseau. He insists
that the balance of power must be preserved in America as well as in
Europe, because "Nature," "the aggrandizement of the human soul," and
the "felicity of man" are unanimous in demanding it. The English
colonies are more populous and wealthy than the French; therefore 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_127-V1" id="Page_127-V1">127<br />V1</a></span> 
the
French should have more land, to keep the balance. Nature, the human
soul, and the felicity of man require that France should own all the
country beyond the Alleghanies and all Acadia but a strip of the south
coast, according to the "sublime negotiations" of the French
commissioners, of which the writer declares himself a "religious
admirer." <span class="superscript">[126]</span></p>

<div class="footer">
		<p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_125" name="footer_125"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[125]</span>
<i>M&eacute;moires des Commissaires de Sa Majest&eacute; 
Tr&egrave;s Chr&eacute;tienne et de ceux de Sa Majest&eacute; 
Brittanique</i>. Paris, 1755. Several editions appeared.
</p>    
   <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_126" name="footer_126"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[126]</span>
<i>Roman politique sur l'&Eacute;tat pr&eacute;sent des Affaires de
l'Am&eacute;rique</i> (Amsterdam, 1756). For extracts from French Documents, see
<a href="#appendixB">Appendix B</a>.
</p>    
</div>


<p>
We know already that France had used means sharper than negotiation to
vindicate her claim to the interior of the continent; had marched to the
sources of the Ohio to entrench herself there, and hold the passes of
the West against all comers. It remains to see how she fared in her bold
enterprise.</p>

<hr />
<div class="chapterhead">
   <br /><a name="Chapter_05" id="Chapter_05"></a>
	 <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_128-V1" id="Page_128-V1">128<br />V1</a></span> 
	 <br /><br /><br />
	 <h2><a href="#Contents05">CHAPTER V.</a><br />
	 <span class="med">1753, 1754.</span>
	 </h2> 
	 <p class="smcapheader">WASHINGTON.</p>
	 <p class="smcap noindent space-bottom">				
	    The French occupy the Sources of the Ohio &bull; Their Sufferings &bull; 
			Fort Le B&oelig;uf &bull;  Legardeur de Saint-Pierre &bull; 
			Mission of Washington &bull;  Robert Dinwiddie &bull; 
			He opposes the French &bull; His Dispute with the Burgesses &bull; 
			His Energy &bull;  His Appeals for Help &bull;  Fort Duquesne &bull; 
			Death of Jumonville &bull; Washington at the Great Meadows &bull; 
			Coulon de Villiers &bull; Fort Necessity.			
	 </p>
	 <p class="break1"></p> 
</div>

<p class="double-space-top">
<span class="smcap">Towards</span> the end of spring the vanguard of the 
expedition sent by Duquesne to occupy the Ohio landed at Presquisle, where 
Erie now stands. This route to the Ohio, far better than that which 
C&eacute;loron had followed, was a new discovery to the French; and Duquesne 
calls the harbor "the finest in nature." Here they built a fort of squared 
chestnut logs, and when it was finished they cut a road of several leagues 
through the woods to Rivi&egrave;re aux B&oelig;ufs, now French Creek. At the 
farther end of this road they began another wooden fort and called it Fort 
Le B&oelig;uf. Thence, when the water was high, they could descend French Creek 
to the Allegheny, and follow that stream to the main current of the Ohio.</p>

<p>It was heavy work to carry the cumbrous load of baggage across the
portages. Much of it is said 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_129-V1" id="Page_129-V1">129<br />V1</a></span> 
to have been superfluous, consisting of velvets, silks, and other useless and 
costly articles, sold to the King at enormous prices as necessaries of the 
expedition. <span class="superscript">[127]</span> The weight of
the task fell on the Canadians, who worked with cheerful hardihood, and
did their part to admiration. Marin, commander of the expedition, a
gruff, choleric old man of sixty-three, but full of force and capacity,
spared himself so little that he was struck down with dysentery, and,
refusing to be sent home to Montreal, was before long in a dying state.
His place was taken by P&eacute;an, of whose private character there is little
good to be said, but whose conduct as an officer was such that Duquesne
calls him a prodigy of talents, resources, and zeal. 
<span class="superscript">[128]</span> The subalterns
deserve no such praise. They disliked the service, and made no secret of
their discontent. Rumors of it filled Montreal; and Duquesne wrote to
Marin: "I am surprised that you have not told me of this change. Take
note of the sullen and discouraged faces about you. This sort are worse
than useless. Rid yourself of them at once; send them to Montreal, that
I may make an example of them." <span class="superscript">[129]</span>
P&eacute;an wrote at the end of September
that Marin was in extremity; and the Governor, disturbed and alarmed,
for he knew the value of the sturdy old officer, looked anxiously for a
successor. He chose another 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_130-V1" id="Page_130-V1">130</a></span> 
veteran, Legardeur de Saint-Pierre, who had just returned from a journey of 
exploration towards the Rocky Mountains, <span class="superscript">[130]</span> 
and whom Duquesne now ordered to the Ohio.</p>

<div class="footer">
		<p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_127" name="footer_127"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[127]</span>
Pouchot, <i>M&eacute;moires sur la derni&egrave;re Guerre de l'Am&eacute;rique 
Septentrionale</i>, I. 8.</p>
    <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_128" name="footer_128"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[128]</span>
<i>Duquesne au Ministre</i>, 2 <i>Nov</i>. 1753; compare <i>M&eacute;moire
pour Michel-Jean Hugues P&eacute;an</i>.</p>
    <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_129" name="footer_129"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[129]</span>
<i>Duquesne &agrave; Marin</i>, 27 <i>Ao&ucirc;t</i>, 1753.</p>
    <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_130" name="footer_130"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[130]</span>
<i>M&eacute;moire ou Journal sommaire du Voyage de Jacques Legardeur de 
Saint-Pierre.</i></p>
</div>



<p>Meanwhile the effects of the expedition had already justified it. At
first the Indians of the Ohio had shown a bold front. One of them, a
chief whom the English called the Half-King, came to Fort Le B&oelig;uf and
ordered the French to leave the country; but was received by Marin with
such contemptuous haughtiness that he went home shedding tears of rage
and mortification. The Western tribes were daunted. The Miamis, but
yesterday fast friends of the English, made humble submission to the
French, and offered them two English scalps to signalize their
repentance; while the Sacs, Pottawattamies, and Ojibwas were loud in
professions of devotion. <span class="superscript">[131]</span>
Even the Iroquois, Delawares, and
Shawanoes on the Alleghany had come to the French camp and offered their
help in carrying the baggage. It needed but perseverance and success in
the enterprise to win over every tribe from the mountains to the
Mississippi. To accomplish this and to curb the English, Duquesne had
planned a third fort, at the junction of French Creek with the
Alleghany, or at some point lower down; then, leaving the three posts
well garrisoned, P&eacute;an was to descend 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_131-V1" id="Page_131-V1">131<br />V1</a></span> 
the Ohio with the whole remaining
force, impose terror on the wavering tribes, and complete their
conversion. Both plans were thwarted; the fort was not built, nor did
P&eacute;an descend the Ohio. Fevers, lung diseases, and scurvy made such
deadly havoc among troops and Canadians, that the dying Marin saw with
bitterness that his work must be left half done. Three hundred of the
best men were kept to garrison Forts Presquisle and Le B&oelig;uf; and then,
as winter approached, the rest were sent back to Montreal. When they
arrived, the Governor was shocked at their altered looks. "I reviewed
them, and could not help being touched by the pitiable state to which
fatigues and exposures had reduced them. Past all doubt, if these
emaciated figures had gone down the Ohio as intended, the river would
have been strewn with corpses, and the evil-disposed savages would not
have failed to attack the survivors, seeing that they were but
spectres." <span class="superscript">[132]</span></p>

<div class="footer">
		<p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_131" name="footer_131"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[131]</span>
<i>Rapports de Conseils avec les Sauvages &agrave; Montreal, Juillet</i>, 
1753. <i>Duquesne au Ministre</i>, 31 <i>Oct</i>. 1753. Letter of Dr. 
Shuckburgh in <i>N.&nbsp;Y. Col. Docs.</i>, VI. 806.</p>
    <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_132" name="footer_132"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[132]</span>
<i>Duquesne au Ministre</i>, 29 <i>Nov</i>. 1753. On this expedition,
compare the letter of Duquesne in <i>N.&nbsp;Y. Col. Docs.</i>, X. 255, and the
deposition of Stephen Coffen, <i>Ibid.</i>, VI. 835.</p>
</div>

<p>Legardeur de Saint-Pierre arrived at the end of autumn, and made his
quarters at Fort Le B&oelig;uf. The surrounding forests had dropped their
leaves, and in gray and patient desolation bided the coming winter.
Chill rains drizzled over the gloomy "clearing," and drenched the
palisades and log-built barracks, raw from the axe. Buried in the
wilderness, the military exiles resigned themselves as they might to
months of monotonous solitude; 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_132-V1" id="Page_132-V1">132<br />V1</a></span> 
when, just after sunset on the eleventh
of December, a tall youth came out of the forest on horseback, attended
by a companion much older and rougher than himself, and followed by
several Indians and four or five white men with packhorses. Officers
from the fort went out to meet the strangers; and, wading through mud
and sodden snow, they entered at the gate. On the next day the young
leader of the party, with the help of an interpreter, for he spoke no
French, had an interview with the commandant, and gave him a letter from
Governor Dinwiddie. Saint-Pierre and the officer next in rank, who knew
a little English, took it to another room to study it at their ease; and
in it, all unconsciously, they read a name destined to stand one of the
noblest in the annals of mankind; for it introduced Major George
Washington, Adjutant-General of the Virginia militia. 
<span class="superscript">[133]</span></p>

<div class="footer">
		<p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_133" name="footer_133"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[133]</span>
<i>Journal of Major Washington. Journal of Mr. Christopher Gist.</i></p>
</div>

<p>Dinwiddie, jealously watchful of French aggression, had learned through
traders and Indians that a strong detachment from Canada had entered the
territories of the King of England, and built forts on Lake Erie and on
a branch of the Ohio. He wrote to challenge the invasion and summon the
invaders to withdraw; and he could find none so fit to bear his message
as a young man of twenty-one. It was this rough Scotchman who launched
Washington on his illustrious career.</p>

<p>Washington set out for the trading station of the Ohio Company on Will's
Creek; and thence, 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_133-V1" id="Page_133-V1">133<br />V1</a></span> 
at the middle of November, struck into the wilderness
with Christopher Gist as a guide, Vanbraam, a Dutchman, as French
interpreter, Davison, a trader, as Indian interpreter, and four woodsmen
as servants. They went to the forks of the Ohio, and then down the river
to Logstown, the Chiningu&eacute; of C&eacute;loron de Bienville. There Washington had
various parleys with the Indians; and thence, after vexatious delays, he
continued his journey towards Fort Le B&oelig;uf, accompanied by the friendly
chief called the Half-King and by three of his tribesmen. For several
days they followed the traders' path, pelted with unceasing rain and
snow, and came at last to the old Indian town of Venango, where French
Creek enters the Alleghany. Here there was an English trading-house; but
the French had seized it, raised their flag over it, and turned it into
a military outpost. <span class="superscript">[134]</span>
Joncaire was in command, with two subalterns;
and nothing could exceed their civility. They invited the strangers to
supper; and, says Washington, "the wine, as they dosed themselves pretty
plentifully with it, soon banished the restraint which at first appeared
in their conversation, and gave a license to their tongues to reveal
their sentiments more freely. They told me that it was their absolute
design to take possession of the Ohio, and, by G&mdash;&mdash;, they would do it;
for that although they were sensible the English could raise two men for
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_134-V1" id="Page_134-V1">134<br />V1</a></span> 
their one, yet they knew their motions were too slow and dilatory to
prevent any undertaking of theirs." <span class="superscript">[135]</span></p>

<div class="footer">
		<p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_134" name="footer_134"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[134]</span>
Marin had sent sixty men in August to seize the house, which belonged to the 
trader Fraser. <i>D&eacute;p&ecirc;ches de Duquesne</i>. They
carried off two men whom they found here. Letter of Fraser in <i>Colonial
Records of Pa.</i>, V. 659.</p>
    <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_135" name="footer_135"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[135]</span>
<i>Journal of Washington</i>, as printed at Williamsburg, just
after his return.</p>
</div>

<p>With all their civility, the French officers did their best to entice
away Washington's Indians; and it was with extreme difficulty that he
could persuade them to go with him. Through marshes and swamps, forests
choked with snow, and drenched with incessant rain, they toiled on for
four days more, till the wooden walls of Fort Le B&oelig;uf appeared at last,
surrounded by fields studded thick with stumps, and half-encircled by
the chill current of French Creek, along the banks of which lay more
than two hundred canoes, ready to carry troops in the spring. Washington
describes Legardeur de Saint-Pierre as "an elderly gentleman with much
the air of a soldier." The letter sent him by Dinwiddie expressed
astonishment that his troops should build forts upon lands "so
notoriously known to be the property of the Crown of Great Britain." "I
must desire you," continued the letter, "to acquaint me by whose
authority and instructions you have lately marched from Canada with an
armed force, and invaded the King of Great Britain's territories. It
becomes my duty to require your peaceable departure; and that you would
forbear prosecuting a purpose so interruptive of the harmony and good
understanding which His Majesty is desirous to continue and cultivate
with the Most Christian King. I persuade myself 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_135-V1" id="Page_135-V1">135<br />V1</a></span> 
you will receive and
entertain Major Washington with the candor and politeness natural to
your nation; and it will give me the greatest satisfaction if you return
him with an answer suitable to my wishes for a very long and lasting
peace between us."</p>

<p>Saint-Pierre took three days to frame the answer. In it he said that he
should send Dinwiddie's letter to the Marquis Duquesne and wait his
orders; and that meanwhile he should remain at his post, according to
the commands of his general. "I made it my particular care," so the
letter closed, "to receive Mr. Washington with a distinction suitable to
your dignity as well as his own quality and great merit."
<span class="superscript">[136]</span> No form
of courtesy had, in fact, been wanting. "He appeared to be extremely
complaisant," says Washington, "though he was exerting every artifice to
set our Indians at variance with us. I saw that every stratagem was
practised to win the Half-King to their interest." Neither gifts nor
brandy were spared; and it was only by the utmost pains that Washington
could prevent his red allies from staying at the fort, conquered by
French blandishments.</p>

<div class="footer">
		<p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_136" name="footer_136"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[136]</span>
"La Distinction qui convient &agrave; votre Dignitt&eacute; &agrave; sa
Qualit&eacute; et &agrave; son grand M&eacute;rite." Copy of original letter 
sent by Dinwiddie to Governor Hamilton.</p>
</div>

<p>
After leaving Venango on his return, he found the horses so weak that,
to arrive the sooner, he left them and their drivers in charge of
Vanbraam and pushed forward on foot, accompanied by Gist alone. Each was
wrapped to the throat in an Indian 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_136-V1" id="Page_136-V1">136<br />V1</a></span> 
"matchcoat," with a gun in his hand
and a pack at his back. Passing an old Indian hamlet called Murdering
Town, they had an adventure which threatened to make good the name. A
French Indian, whom they met in the forest, fired at them, pretending
that his gun had gone off by chance. They caught him, and Gist would
have killed him; but Washington interposed, and they let him go.
<span class="superscript">[137]</span>
Then, to escape pursuit from his tribesmen, they walked all night and
all the next day. This brought them to the banks of the Alleghany. They
hoped to have found it dead frozen; but it was all alive and turbulent,
filled with ice sweeping down the current. They made a raft, shoved out
into the stream, and were soon caught helplessly in the drifting ice.
Washington, pushing hard with his setting-pole, was jerked into the
freezing river; but caught a log of the raft, and dragged himself out.
By no efforts could they reach the farther bank, or regain that which
they had left; but they were driven against an island, where they
landed, and left the raft to its fate. The night was excessively cold,
and Gist's feet and hands were badly frost-bitten. In the morning, the
ice had set, and the river was a solid floor. They crossed it, and
succeeded in reaching the house of the trader Fraser, on the
Monongahela. It was the middle of January when Washington arrived at
Williamsburg and made his report to Dinwiddie.</p>

<div class="footer">
		<p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_137" name="footer_137"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[137]</span>
<i>Journal of Mr. Christopher Gist</i>, in <i>Mass. Hist. Coll.,
3rd Series</i>, V.</p>
</div>

<p>Robert Dinwiddie was lieutenant-governor of Virginia, in place of the
titular governor, Lord 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_137-V1" id="Page_137-V1">137<br />V1</a></span> 
Albemarle, whose post was a sinecure. He had been clerk in a government 
office in the West Indies; then surveyor of customs in the "Old 
Dominion,"&mdash;a position in which he made himself cordially disliked; 
and when he rose to the governorship he carried his unpopularity with him. 
Yet Virginia and all the British colonies owed him much; for, though past 
sixty, he was the most watchful sentinel against French aggression and its 
most strenuous opponent. Scarcely had Marin's vanguard appeared at 
Presquisle, when Dinwiddie warned the Home Government of the danger, and 
urged, what he had before urged in vain on the Virginian Assembly, the 
immediate building of forts on the Ohio. There came in reply a letter, 
signed by the King, authorizing him to build the forts at the cost of the 
Colony, and to repel force by force in case he was molested or obstructed. 
Moreover, the King wrote, "If you shall find that any number of persons 
shall presume to erect any fort or forts within the limits of our province 
of Virginia, you are first to require of them peaceably to depart; and if, 
notwithstanding your admonitions, they do still endeavor to carry out any 
such unlawful and unjustifiable designs, we do hereby strictly charge and 
command you to drive them off by force of arms." 
<span class="superscript">[138]</span>
</p>

<div class="footer">
		<p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_138" name="footer_138"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[138]</span>
<i>Instructions to Our Trusty and Well-beloved Robert Dinwiddie, Esq.</i>, 
28 <i>Aug</i>. 1753.</p>
</div>

<p>The order was easily given; but to obey it needed men and money, and for
these Dinwiddie was dependent on his Assembly, or House of Burgesses. 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_138-V1" id="Page_138-V1">138<br />V1</a></span> 
He convoked them for the first of November, sending Washington at the same
time with the summons to Saint-Pierre. The burgesses met. Dinwiddie
exposed the danger, and asked for means to meet it. 
<span class="superscript">[139]</span> They seemed
more than willing to comply; but debates presently arose concerning the
fee of a pistole, which the Governor had demanded on each patent of land
issued by him. The amount was trifling, but the principle was doubtful.
The aristocratic republic of Virginia was intensely jealous of the
slightest encroachment on its rights by the Crown or its representative.
The Governor defended the fee. The burgesses replied that "subjects
cannot be deprived of the least part of their property without their
consent," declared the fee unlawful, and called on Dinwiddie to confess
it to be so. He still defended it. They saw in his demand for supplies a
means of bringing him to terms, and refused to grant money unless he
would recede from his position. Dinwiddie rebuked them for "disregarding
the designs of the French, and disputing the rights of the Crown"; and
he "prorogued them in some anger." <span class="superscript">[140]</span>
</p>

<div class="footer">
		<p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_139" name="footer_139"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[139]</span>
<i>Address of Lieutenant-Governor Dinwiddie to the Council
and Burgesses</i>, 1 <i>Nov</i>. 1753.</p>
    <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_140" name="footer_140"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[140]</span>
<i>Dinwiddie Papers.</i></p>
</div>

<p>Thus he was unable to obey the instructions of the King. As a temporary
resource, he ventured to order a draft of two hundred men from the
militia. Washington was to have command, with the trader, William Trent,
as his lieutenant. His orders were to push with all speed to the forks
of 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_139-V1" id="Page_139-V1">139<br />V1</a></span> 
the Ohio, and there build a fort; "but in case any attempts are made
to obstruct the works by any persons whatsoever, to restrain all such
offenders, and, in case of resistance, to make prisoners of, or kill and
destroy them." <span class="superscript">[141]</span> 
The Governor next sent messengers to the Catawbas,
Cherokees, Chickasaws, and Iroquois of the Ohio, inviting them to take
up the hatchet against the French, "who, under pretence of embracing
you, mean to squeeze you to death." Then he wrote urgent letters to the
governors of Pennsylvania, the Carolinas, Maryland, and New Jersey,
begging for contingents of men, to be at Wills Creek in March at the
latest. But nothing could be done without money; and trusting for a
change of heart on the part of the burgesses, he summoned them to meet
again on the fourteenth of February. "If they come in good temper," he
wrote to Lord Fairfax, a nobleman settled in the colony, "I hope they
will lay a fund to qualify me to send four or five hundred men more to
the Ohio, which, with the assistance of our neighboring colonies, may
make some figure."</p>

<div class="footer">
		<p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_141" name="footer_141"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[141]</span>
<i>Ibid. Instructions to Major George Washington, January</i>,
1754.</p>
</div>

<p>The session began. Again, somewhat oddly, yet forcibly, the Governor set
before the Assembly the peril of the situation, and begged them to
postpone less pressing questions to the exigency of the hour.
<span class="superscript">[142]</span> This
time they listened; and voted ten thousand pounds in Virginia currency
to defend 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_140-V1" id="Page_140-V1">140<br />V1</a></span> 
the frontier. The grant was frugal, and they jealously placed
its expenditure in the hands of a committee of their own.
<span class="superscript">[143]</span>
Dinwiddie, writing to the Lords of Trade, pleads necessity as his excuse
for submitting to their terms. "I am sorry," he says, "to find them too
much in a republican way of thinking." What vexed him still more was
their sending an agent to England to complain against him on the
irrepressible question of the pistole fee; and he writes to his London
friend, the merchant Hanbury: "I have had a great deal of trouble from
the factious disputes and violent heats of a most impudent, troublesome
party here in regard to that silly fee of a pistole. Surely every
thinking man will make a distinction between a fee and a tax. Poor
people! I pity their ignorance and narrow, ill-natured spirits. But, my
friend, consider that I could by no means give up this fee without
affronting the Board of Trade and the Council here who established it."
His thoughts were not all of this harassing nature, and he ends his
letter with the following petition: "Now, sir, as His Majesty is pleased
to make me a military officer, please send for Scott, my tailor, to make
me a proper suit of regimentals, to be here by His Majesty's birthday. I
do not much like gayety in dress, but I conceive this necessary. I do
not much care for lace on the coat, but a neat embroidered button-hole;
though you do not deal that way, I know you have a good taste, that I
may show my friend's fancy in that suit of 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_141-V1" id="Page_141-V1">141<br />V1</a></span> 
clothes; a good laced hat and
two pair stockings, one silk, the other fine thread."
<span class="superscript">[144]</span></p>

<div class="footer">
		<p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_142" name="footer_142"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[142]</span>
<i>Speech of Lieutenant-Governor Dinwiddie to the Council
and Burgesses</i> 14 <i>Feb</i>., 1754.</p>
    <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_143" name="footer_143"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[143]</span>
See the bill in Hening, <i>Statutes of Virginia</i>, VI. 417.</p>
    <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_144" name="footer_144"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[144]</span>
<i>Dinwiddie to Hanbury</i>, 12 <i>March</i>, 1754; 
<i>Ibid</i>., 10 <i>May</i>, 1754.</p>
</div>

<p>
If the Governor and his English sometimes provoke a smile, he deserves
admiration for the energy with which he opposed the public enemy, under
circumstances the most discouraging. He invited the Indians to meet him
in council at Winchester, and, as bait to attract them, coupled the
message with a promise of gifts. He sent circulars from the King to the
neighboring governors, calling for supplies, and wrote letter upon
letter to rouse them to effort. He wrote also to the more distant
governors, Delancey of New York, and Shirley of Massachusetts, begging
them to make what he called a "faint" against Canada, to prevent the
French from sending so large a force to the Ohio. It was to the nearer
colonies, from New Jersey to South Carolina, that he looked for direct
aid; and their several governors were all more or less active to procure
it; but as most of them had some standing dispute with their assemblies,
they could get nothing except on terms with which they would not, and
sometimes could not, comply. As the lands invaded by the French belonged
to one of the two rival claimants, Virginia and Pennsylvania, the other
colonies had no mind to vote money to defend them. Pennsylvania herself
refused to move. Hamilton, her governor, could do nothing against the
placid obstinacy of the Quaker non-combatants and the stolid obstinacy
of the German farmers 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_142-V1" id="Page_142-V1">142<br />V1</a></span> 
who chiefly made up his Assembly. North Carolina
alone answered the appeal, and gave money enough to raise three or four
hundred men. Two independent companies maintained by the King in New
York, and one in South Carolina, had received orders from England to
march to the scene of action; and in these, with the scanty levies of
his own and the adjacent province, lay Dinwiddie's only hope. With men
abundant and willing, there were no means to put them into the field,
and no commander whom they would all obey.</p>

<p>
From the brick house at Williamsburg pompously called the Governor's
Palace, Dinwiddie despatched letters, orders, couriers, to hasten the
tardy reinforcements of North Carolina and New York, and push on the raw
soldiers of the Old Dominion, who now numbered three hundred men. They
were called the Virginia regiment; and Joshua Fry, an English gentleman,
bred at Oxford, was made their colonel, with Washington as next in
command. Fry was at Alexandria with half the so-called regiment, trying
to get it into marching order; Washington, with the other half, had
pushed forward to the Ohio Company's storehouse at Wills Creek, which
was to form a base of operations. His men were poor whites, brave, but
hard to discipline; without tents, ill armed, and ragged as Falstaff's
recruits. Besides these, a band of backwoodsmen under Captain Trent had
crossed the mountains in February to build a fort at the forks of the
Ohio, where Pittsburg now stands,&mdash;a spot which Washington had examined
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_143-V1" id="Page_143-V1">143</a></span> 
when on his way to Fort Le B&oelig;uf, and which he had reported as the best
for the purpose. The hope was that Trent would fortify himself before
the arrival of the French, and that Washington and Fry would join him in
time to secure the position. Trent had begun the fort; but for some
unexplained reason had gone back to Wills Creek, leaving Ensign Ward with
forty men at work upon it. Their labors were suddenly interrupted. On
the seventeenth of April a swarm of bateaux and canoes came down the
Alleghany, bringing, according to Ward, more than a thousand Frenchmen,
though in reality not much above five hundred, who landed, planted
cannon against the incipient stockade, and summoned the ensign to
surrender, on pain of what might ensue. <span class="superscript">[145]</span>
He complied, and was
allowed to depart with his men. Retracing his steps over the mountains,
he reported his mishap to Washington; while the French demolished his
unfinished fort, began a much larger and better one, and named it Fort
Duquesne.</p>

<div class="footer">
		<p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_145" name="footer_145"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[145]</span>
See the summons in <i>Pr&eacute;cis des Faits</i>, 101.</p>
</div>

<p>They had acted with their usual promptness. Their Governor, a practised
soldier, knew the value of celerity, and had set his troops in motion
with the first opening of spring. He had no refractory assembly to
hamper him; no lack of money, for the King supplied it; and all Canada
must march at his bidding. Thus, while Dinwiddie was still toiling to
muster his raw recruits, Duquesne's lieutenant, Contrec&oelig;ur, successor
of 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_144-V1" id="Page_144-V1">144<br />V1</a></span> 
Saint-Pierre, had landed at Presquisle with a much greater force, in
part regulars, and in part Canadians.</p>

<p>
Dinwiddie was deeply vexed when a message from Washington told him how
his plans were blighted; and he spoke his mind to his friend Hanbury:
"If our Assembly had voted the money in November which they did in
February, it's more than probable the fort would have been built and
garrisoned before the French had approached; but these things cannot be
done without money. As there was none in our treasury, I have advanced
my own to forward the expedition; and if the independent companies from
New York come soon, I am in hopes the eyes of the other colonies will be
opened; and if they grant a proper supply of men, I hope we shall be
able to dislodge the French or build a fort on that river. I
congratulate you on the increase of your family. My wife and two girls
join in our most sincere respects to good Mrs. Hanbury."
<span class="superscript">[146]</span>
</p>

<div class="footer">
		<p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_146" name="footer_146"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[146]</span>
<i>Dinwiddie to Hanbury</i>, 10 <i>May</i>, 1754.</p>
</div>

<p>The seizure of a king's fort by planting cannon against it and
threatening it with destruction was in his eyes a beginning of
hostilities on the part of the French; and henceforth both he and
Washington acted much as if war had been declared. From their station at
Wills Creek, the distance by the traders' path to Fort Duquesne was
about a hundred and forty miles. Midway was a branch of the Monongahela
called Redstone Creek, at the mouth of which the Ohio Company had built
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_145-V1" id="Page_145-V1">145<br />V1</a></span> 
another storehouse. Dinwiddie ordered all the forces to cross the
mountains and assemble at this point, until they should be strong enough
to advance against the French. The movement was critical in presence of
an enemy as superior in discipline as he was in numbers, while the
natural obstacles were great. A road for cannon and wagons must be cut
through a dense forest and over two ranges of high mountains, besides
countless hills and streams. Washington set all his force to the work,
and they spent a fortnight in making twenty miles. Towards the end of
May, however, Dinwiddie learned that he had crossed the main ridge of
the Alleghanies, and was encamped with a hundred and fifty men near the
parallel ridge of Laurel Hill, at a place called the Great Meadows.
Trent's backwoodsmen had gone off in disgust; Fry, with the rest of the
regiment, was still far behind; and Washington was daily expecting an
attack. Close upon this, a piece of good news, or what seemed such, came
over the mountains and gladdened the heart of the Governor. He heard
that a French detachment had tried to surprise Washington, and that he
had killed or captured the whole. The facts were as follows.</p>

<p>Washington was on the Youghiogany, a branch of the Monongahela,
exploring it in hopes that it might prove navigable, when a messenger
came to him from his old comrade, the Half-King, who was on the way to
join him. The message was to the effect that the French had marched from
their fort, 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_146-V1" id="Page_146-V1">146<br />V1</a></span> 
and meant to attack the first English they should meet. A
report came soon after that they were already at the ford of the
Youghiogany, eighteen miles distant. Washington at once repaired to the
Great Meadows, a level tract of grass and bushes, bordered by wooded
hills, and traversed in one part by a gully, which with a little labor
the men turned into an entrenchment, at the same time cutting away the
bushes and clearing what the young commander called "a charming field
for an encounter." Parties were sent out to scour the woods, but they
found no enemy. Two days passed; when, on the morning of the
twenty-seventh, Christopher Gist, who had lately made a settlement on
the farther side of Laurel Hill, twelve or thirteen miles distant, came
to the camp with news that fifty Frenchmen had been at his house towards
noon of the day before, and would have destroyed everything but for the
intervention of two Indians whom he had left in charge during his
absence. Washington sent seventy-five men to look for the party; but the
search was vain, the French having hidden themselves so well as to
escape any eye but that of an Indian. In the evening a runner came from
the Half-King, who was encamped with a few warriors some miles distant.
He had sent to tell Washington that he had found the tracks of two men,
and traced them towards a dark glen in the forest, where in his belief
all the French were lurking.</p>

<p>Washington seems not to have hesitated a moment. 
Fearing a stratagem to surprise his camp, 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_147-V1" id="Page_147-V1">147<br />V1</a></span> 
he left his main force to guard it, and at ten
o'clock set out for the Half-King's wigwams at the head of forty men.
The night was rainy, and the forest, to use his own words, "as black as
pitch." "The path," he continues, "was hardly wide enough for one man;
we often lost it, and could not find it again for fifteen or twenty
minutes, and we often tumbled over each other in the dark." 
<span class="superscript">[147]</span>
Seven of his men were lost in the woods and left behind. The rest groped their
way all night, and reached the Indian camp at sunrise. A council was
held with the Half-King, and he and his warriors agreed to join in
striking the French. Two of them led the way. The tracks of the two
French scouts seen the day before were again found, and, marching in
single file, the party pushed through the forest into the rocky hollow
where the French were supposed to be concealed. They were there in fact;
and they snatched their guns the moment they saw the English. Washington
gave the word to fire. A short fight ensued. Coulon de Jumonville, an
ensign in command, was killed, with nine others; twenty-two were
captured, and none escaped but a Canadian who had fled at the beginning
of the fray. After it was over, the prisoners told Washington that the
party had been sent to bring him a summons from Contrec&oelig;ur, the
commandant at Fort Duquesne.</p>

<div class="footer">
		<p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_147" name="footer_147"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[147]</span>
<i>Journal of Washington</i> in <i>Pr&eacute;cis des Faits</i>, 109. This
Journal, which is entirely distinct from that before cited, was found by
the French among the baggage left on the field after the defeat of
Braddock in 1755, and a translation of it was printed by them as above.
The original has disappeared.</p>
</div>

<p>
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_148-V1" id="Page_148-V1">148<br />V1</a></span> 
Five days before, Contrec&oelig;ur had sent Jumonville to scour the country
as far as the dividing ridge of the Alleghanies. Under him were another
officer, three cadets, a volunteer, an interpreter, and twenty-eight
men. He was provided with a written summons, to be delivered to any
English he might find. It required them to withdraw from the domain of
the King of France, and threatened compulsion by force of arms in case
of refusal. But before delivering the summons Jumonville was ordered to
send two couriers back with all speed to Fort Duquesne to inform the
commandant that he had found the English, and to acquaint him when he
intended to communicate with them. <span class="superscript">[148]</span>
It is difficult to imagine any
object for such an order except that of enabling Contrec&oelig;ur to send to
the spot whatever force might be needed to attack the English on their
refusal to withdraw. Jumonville had sent the two couriers, and had
hidden himself, apparently to wait the result. He lurked nearly two days
within five miles of Washington's camp, sent out scouts to reconnoitre
it, but gave no notice of his presence; played to perfection the part of
a skulking enemy, and brought destruction on himself by conduct which
can only be ascribed to a sinister motive on the one hand, or to extreme
folly on the other. French deserters told Washington that the party came
as spies, and were to show the summons only if threatened by a superior
force. This last assertion is confirmed by 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_149-V1" id="Page_149-V1">149<br />V1</a></span> 
the French officer Pouchot,
who says that Jumonville, seeing himself the weaker party, tried to show
the letter he had brought. <span class="superscript">[149]</span>
</p>

<div class="footer">
		<p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_148" name="footer_148"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[148]</span>
The summons and the instructions to Jumonville are in
<i>Pr&eacute;cis des Faits</i>.</p>
    <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_149" name="footer_149"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[149]</span>
Pouchot, <i>M&eacute;moire sur la derni&egrave;re Guerre</i>.</p>
</div>

<p>French writers say that, on first seeing the English, Jumonville's
interpreter called out that he had something to say to them; but
Washington, who was at the head of his men, affirms this to be
absolutely false. The French say further that Jumonville was killed in
the act of reading the summons. This is also denied by Washington, and
rests only on the assertion of the Canadian who ran off at the outset,
and on the alleged assertion of Indians who, if present at all, which is
unlikely, escaped like the Canadian before the fray began. Druillon, an
officer with Jumonville, wrote two letters to Dinwiddie after his
capture, to claim the privileges of the bearer of a summons; but while
bringing forward every other circumstance in favor of the claim, he does
not pretend that the summons was read or shown either before or during
the action. The French account of the conduct of Washington's Indians is
no less erroneous. "This murder," says a chronicler of the time,
"produced on the minds of the savages an effect very different from that
which the cruel <ins title="Changed Vvasinghton to Washington.">Washington</ins>
had promised himself. They have a horror of crime; and they were so indignant 
at that which had just been perpetrated before their eyes, that they abandoned 
him, and offered themselves to us in order to take vengeance." 
<span class="superscript">[150]</span> 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_150-V1" id="Page_150-V1">150<br />V1</a></span> 
Instead of doing
this, they boasted of their part in the fight, scalped all the dead
Frenchmen, sent one scalp to the Delawares as an invitation to take up
the hatchet for the English, and distributed the rest among the various
Ohio tribes to the same end.</p>

<div class="footer">
		<p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_150" name="footer_150"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[150]</span>
Poulin de Lumina, <i>Histoire de la Guerre contre les
Anglois</i>, 15.</p>
</div>

<p>Coolness of judgment, a profound sense of public duty, and a strong
self-control, were even then the characteristics of Washington; but he
was scarcely twenty-two, was full of military ardor, and was vehement
and fiery by nature. Yet it is far from certain that, even when age and
experience had ripened him, he would have forborne to act as he did, for
there was every reason for believing that the designs of the French were
hostile; and though by passively waiting the event he would have thrown
upon them the responsibility of striking the first blow, he would have
exposed his small party to capture or destruction by giving them time to
gain reinforcements from Fort Duquesne. It was inevitable that the
killing of Jumonville should be greeted in France by an outcry of real
or assumed horror; but the Chevalier de L&eacute;vis, second in command to
Montcalm, probably expresses the true opinion of Frenchmen best fitted
to judge when he calls it "a pretended assassination." 
<span class="superscript">[151]</span> Judge it as
we may, this obscure skirmish began the war that set the world on
fire. <span class="superscript">[152]</span></p>

<div class="footer">
		<p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_151" name="footer_151"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[151]</span>
L&eacute;vis, <i>M&eacute;moire sur la Guerre du Canada</i>.</p>
    <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_152" name="footer_152"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[152]</span>
On this affair, Sparks, <i>Writings of Washington</i>, II. 25-48, 447. 
<i>Dinwiddie Papers. Letter of Contrec&oelig;ur</i> in <i>Pr&eacute;cis des
Faits. Journal of Washington, Ibid. Washington to Dinwiddie</i>, 3 
<i>June</i>, 1754.  Dussieux, 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_151-V1" id="Page_151-V1">151<br />V1</a></span> 
<i>Le Canada sous la Domination Fran&ccedil;aise</i>,  118. Gasp&eacute;, 
<i>Anciens Canadiens</i>, appendix, 396. The assertion of Abb&eacute; de 
l'Isle-Dieu, that Jumonville showed a flag of truce, is unsupported. Adam 
Stephen, who was in the fight, says that the guns of the English were so 
wet that they had to trust mainly to the bayonet.  The Half-King boasted 
that he killed Jumonville with his tomahawk. Dinwiddie highly approved 
Washington's conduct.</p>
<p>
In 1755 the widow of Jumonville received a pension of one hundred and
fifty francs. In 1775 his daughter, Charlotte Aimable, wishing to become
a nun, was given by the King six hundred francs for her "trousseau" on
entering the convent. <i>Dossier de Jumonville et de sa Veuve</i>, 22 
<i>Mars</i>, 1755. <i>M&eacute;moire pour Mlle. de Jumonville</i>, 
10 <i>Juillet</i>, 1775. <i>R&eacute;ponse du Garde des Sceaux</i>, 25 
<i>Juillet</i>, 1775.</p>
</div>

<p>
Washington returned to the camp at the Great Meadows; and, expecting
soon to be attacked, sent for reinforcements to Colonel Fry, who was
lying dangerously ill at Wills Creek. Then he set his men to work at an
entrenchment, which he named Fort Necessity, and which must have been of
the slightest, as they finished it within three days.
<span class="superscript">[153]</span> The Half-King
now joined him, along with the female potentate known as Queen
Alequippa, and some thirty Indian families. A few days after, Gist came
from Wills Creek with news that Fry was dead. Washington succeeded to
the command of the regiment, the remaining three companies of which
presently appeared and joined their comrades, raising the whole number
to three hundred. Next arrived the independent company from South
Carolina; and the Great Meadows became an animated scene, with the
wigwams of the Indians, the camp-sheds of the rough Virginians, the
cattle grazing on the tall grass or drinking at the lazy brook that
traversed it; the surrounding heights and forests; and over all, four
miles away, the lofty green ridge of Laurel Hill.</p>

<div class="footer">
		<p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_153" name="footer_153"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[153]</span>
<i>Journal of Washington</i> in <i>Pr&eacute;cis des Faits</i>.</p>
</div>

<p>
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_152-V1" id="Page_152-V1">152<br />V1</a></span> 
The presence of the company of regulars was a doubtful advantage.
Captain Mackay, its commander, holding his commission from the King,
thought himself above any officer commissioned by the Governor. There
was great courtesy between him and Washington; but Mackay would take no
orders, nor even the countersign, from the colonel of volunteers. Nor
would his men work, except for an additional shilling a day. To give
this was impossible, both from want of money, and from the discontent it
would have bred in the Virginians, who worked for nothing besides their
daily pay of eightpence. Washington, already a leader of men, possessed
himself in a patience extremely difficult to his passionate temper; but
the position was untenable, and the presence of the military drones
demoralized his soldiers. Therefore, leaving Mackay at the Meadows, he
advanced towards Gist's settlement, cutting a wagon road as he went.</p>

<p>On reaching the settlement the camp was formed and an entrenchment
thrown up. Deserters had brought news that strong reinforcements were
expected at Fort Duquesne, and friendly Indians repeatedly warned
Washington that he would soon be attacked by overwhelming numbers. Forty
Indians from the Ohio came to the camp, and several days were spent in
councils with them; but they proved for the most part to be spies of the
French. The Half-King stood fast by the English, and sent out three of
his young warriors as scouts. Reports of attack thickened. 
Mackay and his men were sent for, and they 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_153-V1" id="Page_153-V1">153<br />V1</a></span> 
arrived on the twenty-eighth of June. A
council of war was held at Gist's house; and as the camp was commanded
by neighboring heights, it was resolved to fall back. The horses were so
few that the Virginians had to carry much of the baggage on their backs,
and drag nine swivels over the broken and rocky road. The regulars,
though they also were raised in the provinces, refused to give the
slightest help. Toiling on for two days, they reached the Great Meadows
on the first of July. The position, though perhaps the best in the
neighborhood, was very unfavorable, and Washington would have retreated
farther, but for the condition of his men. They were spent with fatigue,
and there was no choice but to stay and fight.</p>

<p>
Strong reinforcements had been sent to Fort Duquesne in the spring, and
the garrison now consisted of about fourteen hundred men. When news of
the death of Jumonville reached Montreal, Coulon de Villiers, brother of
the slain officer, was sent to the spot with a body of Indians from all
the tribes in the colony. He made such speed that at eight o'clock on
the morning of the twenty-sixth of June he reached the fort with his
motley following. Here he found that five hundred Frenchmen and a few
Ohio Indians were on the point of marching against the English, under
Chevalier Le Mercier; but in view of his seniority in rank and his
relationship to Jumonville, the command was now transferred to Villiers.
Hereupon, the march was postponed; the newly-arrived 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_154-V1" id="Page_154-V1">154<br />V1</a></span> 
warriors were
called to council, and Contrec&oelig;ur thus harangued them: "The English
have murdered my children, my heart is sick; to-morrow I shall send my
French soldiers to take revenge. And now, men of the Saut St. Louis, men
of the Lake of Two Mountains, Hurons, Abenakis, Iroquois of La
Pr&eacute;sentation, Nipissings, Algonquins, and Ottawas,&mdash;I invite you all by
this belt of wampum to join your French father and help him to crush the
assassins. Take this hatchet, and with it two barrels of wine for a
feast." Both hatchet and wine were cheerfully accepted. Then Contrec&oelig;ur
turned to the Delawares, who were also present: "By these four strings
of wampum I invite you, if you are true children of Onontio, to follow
the example of your brethren;" and with some hesitation they also took
up the hatchet.</p>

<p>The next day was spent by the Indians in making moccasons for the march,
and by the French in preparing for an expedition on a larger scale than
had been at first intended. Contrec&oelig;ur, Villiers, Le Mercier, and
Longueuil, after deliberating together, drew up a paper to the effect
that "it was fitting (<i>convenable</i>) to march against the English with
the greatest possible number of French and savages, in order to avenge
ourselves and chastise them for having violated the most sacred laws of
civilized nations;" that, thought their conduct justified the French in
disregarding the existing treaty of peace, yet, after thoroughly
punishing them, and compelling them to withdraw from the domain of the
King, they should be told that, in pursuance 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_155-V1" id="Page_155-V1">155<br />V1</a></span> 
of his royal orders, the French looked on them as friends. But it was further 
agreed that should the English have withdrawn to their own side of the 
mountains, "they should be followed to their settlements to destroy them and 
treat them as enemies, till that nation should give ample satisfaction and
completely change its conduct." <span class="superscript">[154]</span>
</p>

<div class="footer">
		<p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_154" name="footer_154"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[154]</span>
<i>Journal de Campagne de M. de Villiers depuis son Arriv&eacute;e
au Fort Duquesne jusqu'&agrave; son Retour au dit Fort</i>. These and other
passages are omitted in the Journal as printed in <i>Pr&eacute;cis des Faits</i>.
Before me is a copy from the original in the Archives de la Marine.
</p>
</div>

<p>The party set out on the next morning, paddled their canoes up the
Monongahela, encamped, heard Mass; and on the thirtieth reached the
deserted storehouse of the Ohio Company at the mouth of Redstone Creek.
It was a building of solid logs, well loopholed for musketry. To please
the Indians by asking their advice, Villiers called all the chiefs to
council; which, being concluded to their satisfaction, he left a
sergeant's guard at the storehouse to watch the canoes, and began his
march through the forest. The path was so rough that at the first halt
the chaplain declared he could go no farther, and turned back for the
storehouse, though not till he had absolved the whole company in a body.
Thus lightened of their sins, they journeyed on, constantly sending out
scouts. On the second of July they reached the abandoned camp of
Washington at Gist's settlement; and here they bivouacked, tired, and
drenched all night by rain. At daybreak they marched again, and passed
through the gorge of Laurel Hill. It rained without ceasing; but
Villiers pushed his 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_156-V1" id="Page_156-V1">156<br />V1</a></span> 
way through the dripping forest to see the place,
half a mile from the road, where his brother had been killed, and where
several bodies still lay unburied. They had learned from a deserter the
position of the enemy, and Villiers filled the woods in front with a
swarm of Indian scouts. The crisis was near. He formed his men in
column, and ordered every officer to his place.</p>

<p>
Washington's men had had a full day at Fort Necessity; but they spent it
less in resting from their fatigue than in strengthening their rampart
with logs. The fort was a simple square enclosure, with a trench said by
a French writer to be only knee deep. On the south, and partly on the
west, there was an exterior embankment, which seems to have been made,
like a rifle-pit, with the ditch inside. The Virginians had but little
ammunition, and no bread whatever, living chiefly on fresh beef. They
knew the approach of the French, who were reported to Washington as nine
hundred strong, besides Indians. Towards eleven o'clock a wounded
sentinel came in with news that they were close at hand; and they
presently appeared at the edge of the woods, yelling, and firing from
such a distance that their shot fell harmless. Washington drew up his
men on the meadow before the fort, thinking, he says, that the enemy,
being greatly superior in force, would attack at once; and choosing for
some reason to meet them on the open plain. But Villiers had other
views. "We approached the English," he writes, "as near as possible,
without uselessly exposing the lives of the King's 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_157-V1" id="Page_157-V1">157<br />V1</a></span> 
subjects;" and he and
his followers made their way through the forest till they came opposite
the fort, where they stationed themselves on two densely wooded hills,
adjacent, though separated by a small brook. One of these was about a
hundred paces from the English, and the other about sixty. Their
position was such that the French and Indians, well sheltered by trees
and bushes, and with the advantage of higher ground, could cross their
fire upon the fort and enfilade a part of it. Washington had meanwhile
drawn his followers within the entrenchment; and the firing now began on
both sides. Rain fell all day. The raw earth of the embankment was
turned to soft mud, and the men in the ditch of the outwork stood to the
knee in water. The swivels brought back from the camp at Gist's farm
were mounted on the rampart; but the gunners were so ill protected that
the pieces were almost silenced by the French musketry. The fight lasted
nine hours. At times the fire on both sides was nearly quenched by the
showers, and the bedrenched combatants could do little but gaze at each
other through a gray veil of mist and rain. Towards night, however, the
fusillade revived, and became sharp again until dark. At eight o'clock
the French called out to propose a parley.</p>

<p>Villiers thus gives his reason for these overtures. "As we had been wet
all day by the rain, as the soldiers were very tired, as the savages
said that they would leave us the next morning, and as there was a
report that drums and the firing of 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_158-V1" id="Page_158-V1">158<br />V1</a></span> 
cannon had been heard in the distance, I proposed to M. Le Mercier to offer 
the English a conference." He says further that ammunition was falling short, 
and that he thought the enemy might sally in a body and attack him.
<span class="superscript">[155]</span> The
English, on their side, were in a worse plight. They were half starved,
their powder was nearly spent, their guns were foul, and among them all
they had but two screw-rods to clean them. In spite of his desperate
position, Washington declined the parley, thinking it a pretext to
introduce a spy; but when the French repeated their proposal and
requested that he would send an officer to them, he could hesitate no
longer. There were but two men with him who knew French, Ensign
Peyroney, who was disabled by a wound, and the Dutchman, Captain
Vanbraam. To him the unpalatable errand was assigned. After a long
absence he returned with articles of capitulation offered by Villiers;
and while the officers gathered about him in the rain, he read and
interpreted the paper by the glimmer of a sputtering candle kept alight
with difficulty. Objection was made to some of the terms, and they were
changed. Vanbraam, however, apparently anxious to get the capitulation
signed and the affair ended, mistranslated several passages, and
rendered the words <i>l'assassinat du Sieur de Jumonville</i> as <i>the death
of the Sieur de Jumonville</i>. <span class="superscript">[156]</span> As 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_159-V1" id="Page_159-V1">159<br />V1</a></span> 
thus understood, the articles were
signed about midnight. They provided that the English should march out
with drums beating and the honors of war, carrying with them one of
their swivels and all their other property; that they should be
protected against insult from French or Indians; that the prisoners
taken in the affair of Jumonville should be set free; and that two
officers should remain as hostages for their safe return to Fort
Duquesne. The hostages chosen were Vanbraam and a brave but eccentric
Scotchman, Robert Stobo, an acquaintance of the novelist Smollett, said
to be the original of his Lismahago.</p>

<div class="footer">
		<p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_155" name="footer_155"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[155]</span>
<i>Journal de Villiers</i>, original. Omitted in the Journal
as printed by the French Government. A short and very incorrect abstract
of this Journal will be found in <i>N.&nbsp;Y. Col. Docs.</i>, X.</p>
    <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_156" name="footer_156"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[156]</span>
See <a href="#appendixC">Appendix C</a>. 
On the fight at Great Meadows, compare Sparks, 
<i>Writings of Washington</i>, II. 456-468; also a letter of Colonel
Innes to Governor Hamilton, written a week after the event, in <i>Colonial
Records of Pa.</i>, VI. 50, and a letter of Adam Stephen in <i>Pennsylvania 
Gazette</i>, 1754.</p>
</div>

<p>Washington reports that twelve of the Virginians were killed on the
spot, and forty-three wounded, while on the casualties in Mackay's
company no returns appear. Villiers reports his own loss at only twenty
in all. <span class="superscript">[157]</span>
The numbers engaged are uncertain. The six companies of the
Virginia regiment counted three hundred and five men and officers, and
Mackay's company one hundred; but many were on the sick list, and some
had deserted. About three hundred and fifty may have taken part in the
fight. On the side of the French, Villiers says that the detachment as
originally formed consisted of five hundred white men. These were
increased after his arrival at Fort Duquesne, and one of the party
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_160-V1" id="Page_160-V1">160<br />V1</a></span> 
reports that seven hundred marched on the expedition. 
<span class="superscript">[158]</span> The number of
Indians joining them is not given; but as nine tribes and communities
contributed to it, and as two barrels of wine were required to give the
warriors a parting feast, it must have been considerable. White men and
red, it seems clear that the French force was more than twice that of
the English, while they were better posted and better sheltered, keeping
all day under cover, and never showing themselves on the open meadow.
There were no Indians with Washington. Even the Half-King held aloof;
though, being of a caustic turn, he did not spare his comments on the
fight, telling Conrad Weiser, the provincial interpreter, that the
French behaved like cowards, and the English like fools.
<span class="superscript">[159]</span>
</p>

<div class="footer">
		<p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_157" name="footer_157"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[157]</span>
Dinwiddie writes to the Lords of Trade that thirty in all
were killed, and seventy wounded, on the English side; and the
commissary Varin writes to Bigot that the French lost seventy-two
killed and wounded.</p>
    <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_158" name="footer_158"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[158]</span>
<i>A Journal had from Thomas Forbes, lately a Private Soldier in the King of 
France's Service</i>. (Public Record Office.) Forbes was one of Villiers' 
soldiers. The commissary Varin puts the number of French at six hundred, 
besides Indians.</p>
    <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_159" name="footer_159"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[159]</span>
<i>Journal of Conrad Weiser</i>, in <i>Colonial Records of Pa.</i>,
VI. 150. The Half-King also remarked that Washington "was a good-natured
man, but had no experience, and would by no means take advice from the
Indians, but was always driving them on to fight by his directions; that
he lay at one place from one full moon to the other, and made no
fortifications at all, except that little thing upon the meadow, where
he thought the French would come up to him in open field."</p>
</div>

<p>In the early morning the fort was abandoned and the retreat began. The
Indians had killed all the horses and cattle, and Washington's men were
so burdened with the sick and wounded, whom they were obliged to carry
on their backs, that most of the baggage was perforce left behind. Even
then they could march but a few miles, and then encamped to wait for
wagons. The Indians 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_161-V1" id="Page_161-V1">161<br />V1</a></span> 
increased the confusion by plundering, and
threatening an attack. They knocked to pieces the medicine-chest, thus
causing great distress to the wounded, two of whom they murdered and
scalped. For a time there was danger of panic; but order was restored,
and the wretched march began along the forest road that led over the
Alleghanies, fifty-two miles to the station at Wills Creek. Whatever may
have been the feelings of Washington, he has left no record of them. His
immense fortitude was doomed to severer trials in the future; yet
perhaps this miserable morning was the darkest of his life. He was
deeply moved by sights of suffering; and all around him were wounded men
borne along in torture, and weary men staggering under the living load.
His pride was humbled, and his young ambition seemed blasted in the bud.
It was the fourth of July. He could not foresee that he was to make that
day forever glorious to a new-born nation hailing him as its father.</p>

<p>The defeat at Fort Necessity was doubly disastrous to the English, since
it was a new step and a long one towards the ruin of their interest with
the Indians; and when, in the next year, the smouldering war broke into
flame, nearly all the western tribes drew their scalping-knives for
France.</p>

<p>Villiers went back exultant to Fort Duquesne, burning on his way the
buildings of Gist's settlement and the storehouse at Redstone Creek. Not
an English flag now waved beyond the Alleghanies. 
<span class="superscript">[160]</span></p>

<div class="footer">
		<p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_160" name="footer_160"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[160]</span>
See <a href="#appendixC">Appendix C</a>.
</p>
</div>


<hr />
<div class="chapterhead">
   <br /><a name="Chapter_06" id="Chapter_06"></a>
	 <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_162-V1" id="Page_162-V1">162<br />V1</a></span> 
	 <br /><br /><br />
	 <h2><a href="#Contents06">CHAPTER VI.</a><br />
	 <span class="med">1754, 1755.</span>
	 </h2> 
	 <p class="smcapheader">THE SIGNAL OF BATTLE.</p>
	 <p class="smcap noindent space-bottom">
	 Troubles of Dinwiddie &bull; Gathering of the Burgesses &bull;
	 Virginian Society &bull; Refractory Legislators &bull; 
	 The Quaker Assembly &bull; It refuses to resist the French &bull;
	 Apathy of New York &bull; 
	 Shirley and the General Court of Massachusetts &bull;
	 Short-sighted Policy &bull; Attitude of Royal Governors &bull;
	 Indian Allies waver &bull; Convention at Albany &bull; 
	 Scheme of Union &bull; It fails &bull; Dinwiddie and Glen &bull;
	 Dinwiddie calls on England for Help &bull; The Duke of Newcastle &bull;
	 Weakness of the British Cabinet &bull; Attitude of France &bull;
	 Mutual Dissimulation &bull; Both Powers send Troops to America &bull;
	 Collision &bull; Capture of the "Alcide" and the "Lis."
   </p> 				
	 <p class="break1"></p> 
</div>
<p class="double-space-top">
<span class="smcap">The</span>
 defeat of Washington was a heavy blow to the Governor, and he
angrily ascribed it to the delay of the expected reinforcements. The
King's companies from New York had reached Alexandria, and crawled
towards the scene of action with thin ranks, bad discipline, thirty
women and children, no tents, no blankets, no knapsacks, and for
munitions one barrel of spoiled gunpowder. 
<span class="superscript">[161]</span> The case was still worse
with the regiment from North Carolina. It was commanded by Colonel
Innes, a countryman and friend of Dinwiddie, who wrote to him: "Dear
James, I now wish that we had none from your colony but yourself, for I
foresee nothing but confusion among them." The men 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_163-V1" id="Page_163-V1">163<br />V1</a></span> 
were, in fact, utterly unmanageable. They had been promised three shillings 
a day, while the Virginians had only eightpence; and when they heard on the
march that their pay was to be reduced, they mutinied, disbanded, and
went home.</p>

<div class="footer">
		<p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_161" name="footer_161"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[161]</span>
<i>Dinwiddie to the Lords of Trade</i>, 24 <i>July</i>, 1754. 
<i>Ibid. to Delancey</i>, 20 <i>June</i>, 1754.</p>
</div>

<p>
"You may easily guess," says Dinwiddie to a London correspondent, "the
great fatigue and trouble I have had, which is more than I ever went
through in my life." He rested his hopes on the session of his Assembly,
which was to take place in August; for he thought that the late disaster
would move them to give him money for defending the colony. These
meetings of the burgesses were the great social as well as political
event of the Old Dominion, and gave a gathering signal to the Virginian
gentry scattered far and wide on their lonely plantations. The capital
of the province was Williamsburg, a village of about a thousand
inhabitants, traversed by a straight and very wide street, and adorned
with various public buildings, conspicuous among which was William and
Mary College, a respectable structure, unjustly likened by Jefferson to
a brick kiln with a roof. The capitol, at the other end of the town, had
been burned some years before, and had just risen from its ashes. Not
far distant was the so-called Governor's Palace, where Dinwiddie with
his wife and two daughters exercised such official hospitality as his
moderate salary and Scottish thrift would permit.
<span class="superscript">[162]</span></p>

<div class="footer">
		<p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_162" name="footer_162"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[162]</span>
For a contemporary account of Williamsburg, Burnaby, <i>Travels in North 
America</i>, 6. 
Smyth, <i>Tour in America</i>, I. 17, describes it some years later.</p>
</div>

<p>
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_164-V1" id="Page_164-V1">164<br />V1</a></span> 
In these seasons of festivity the dull and quiet village was
transfigured. The broad, sandy street, scorching under a southern sun,
was thronged with coaches and chariots brought over from London at heavy
cost in tobacco, though soon to be bedimmed by Virginia roads and negro
care; racing and hard-drinking planters; clergymen of the Establishment,
not much more ascetic than their boon companions of the laity; ladies,
with manners a little rusted by long seclusion; black coachmen and
footmen, proud of their masters and their liveries; young cavaliers,
booted and spurred, sitting their thoroughbreds with the careless grace
of men whose home was the saddle. It was a proud little provincial
society, which might seem absurd in its lofty self-appreciation, had it
not soon approved itself so prolific in ability and worth.
<span class="superscript">[163]</span></p>

<div class="footer">
		<p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_163" name="footer_163"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[163]</span>
The English traveller Smyth, in his <i>Tour</i>, gives a
curious and vivid picture of Virginian life. For the social condition of
this and other colonies before the Revolution, one cannot do better than
to consult Lodge's <i>Short History of the English Colonies</i>.</p>
</div>

<p>The burgesses met, and Dinwiddie made them an opening speech, inveighing
against the aggressions of the French, their "contempt of treaties," and
"ambitious views for universal monarchy;" and he concluded: "I could
expatiate very largely on these affairs, but my heart burns with
resentment at their insolence. I think there is no room for many
arguments to induce you to raise a considerable supply to enable me to
defeat the designs of these troublesome people and enemies of mankind."
The burgesses in their turn expressed 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_165-V1" id="Page_165-V1">165<br />V1</a></span> 
the "highest and most becoming
resentment," and promptly voted twenty thousand pounds; but on the third
reading of the bill they added to it a rider which touched the old
question of the pistole fee, and which, in the view of the Governor, was
both unconstitutional and offensive. He remonstrated in vain; the
stubborn republicans would not yield, nor would he; and again he
prorogued them. This unexpected defeat depressed him greatly. "A
governor," he wrote, "is really to be pitied in the discharge of his
duty to his king and country, in having to do with such obstinate,
self-conceited people&hellip;. I cannot satisfy the burgesses unless I
prostitute the rules of government. I have gone through monstrous
fatigues. Such wrong-headed people, I thank God, I never had to do with
before." <span class="superscript">[164]</span>
A few weeks later he was comforted; for, having again
called the burgesses, they gave him the money, without trying this time
to humiliate him. <span class="superscript">[165]</span></p>

<div class="footer">
		<p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_164" name="footer_164"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[164]</span>
<i>Dinwiddie to Hamilton</i>, 6 <i>Sept</i>., 1754. 
<i>Ibid. to J. Abercrombie</i>, 1 <i>Sept</i>., 1754.</p>
   <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_165" name="footer_165"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[165]</span>
Hening, VI. 435.</p>
</div>

<p>
In straining at a gnat and swallowing a camel, aristocratic Virginia was
far outdone by democratic Pennsylvania. Hamilton, her governor, had laid
before the Assembly a circular letter from the Earl of Holdernesse
directing him, in common with other governors, to call on his province
for means to repel any invasion which might be made "within the
undoubted limits of His Majesty's dominion."
<span class="superscript">[166]</span> The Assembly of
Pennsylvania was curiously unlike 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_166-V1" id="Page_166-V1">166<br />V1</a></span> 
that of Virginia, as half and often
more than half of its members were Quaker tradesmen in sober raiment and
broad-brimmed hats; while of the rest, the greater part were Germans who
cared little whether they lived under English rule or French, provided
that they were left in peace upon their farms. The House replied to the
Governor's call: "It would be highly presumptuous in us to pretend to
judge of the undoubted limits of His Majesty's dominions;" and they
added: "the Assemblies of this province are generally composed of a
majority who are constitutionally principled against war, and represent
a well-meaning, peaceable people."
<span class="superscript">[167]</span> They then adjourned, telling the
Governor that, "As those our limits have not been clearly ascertained to
our satisfaction, we fear the precipitate call upon us as the province
invaded cannot answer any good purpose at this time."</p>


<div class="footer">
		<p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_166" name="footer_166"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[166]</span>
<i>The Earl of Holdernesse to the Governors in America</i>, 
28 <i>Aug</i>. 1753.</p>
		<p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_167" name="footer_167"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[167]</span>
<i>Colonial Records of Pa.</i>, V. 748.</p>
</div>

<p>In the next month they met again, and again Hamilton asked for means to
defend the country. The question was put, Should the Assembly give money
for the King's use? and the vote was feebly affirmative. Should the sum
be twenty thousand pounds? The vote was overwhelming in the negative.
Fifteen thousand, ten thousand, and five thousand, were successively
proposed, and the answer was always, No. The House would give nothing
but five hundred pounds for a present to the Indians; after which they
adjourned "to the sixth of the month called May."
<span class="superscript">[168]</span> At their next
meeting 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_167-V1" id="Page_167-V1">167<br />V1</a></span> 
they voted to give the Governor ten thousand pounds; but under
conditions which made them for some time independent of his veto, and
which, in other respects, were contrary to his instructions from the
King, as well as from the proprietaries of the province, to whom he had
given bonds to secure his obedience. He therefore rejected the bill, and
they adjourned. In August they passed a similar vote, with the same
result. At their October meeting they evaded his call for supplies. In
December they voted twenty thousand pounds, hampered with conditions
which were sure to be refused, since Morris, the new governor, who had
lately succeeded Hamilton, was under the same restrictions as his
predecessor. They told him, however, that in the present case they felt
themselves bound by no Act of Parliament, and added: "We hope the
Governor, notwithstanding any penal bond he may have entered into, will
on reflection think himself at liberty and find it consistent with his
safety and honor to give his assent to this bill." Morris, who had taken
the highest legal advice on the subject in England, declined to
compromise himself, saying: "Consider, gentlemen, in what light you will
appear to His Majesty while, instead of contributing towards your own
defence, you are entering into an ill-timed controversy concerning the
validity of royal instructions which may be delayed to a more convenient
time without the least injury to the rights of the people."
<span class="superscript">[169]</span> They
would not yield, and 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_168-V1" id="Page_168-V1">168<br />V1</a></span> 
told him "that they had rather the French should
conquer them than give up their privileges."
<span class="superscript">[170]</span> "Truly," remarks
Dinwiddie, "I think they have given their senses a long holiday."</p>

<div class="footer">
		<p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_168" name="footer_168"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[168]</span>
<i>Pennsylvania Archives</i>, II. 235. <i>Colonial Records of Pa.</i>, 
VI. 22-26. <i>Works of Franklin,</i> III. 265.</p>
    <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_169" name="footer_169"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[169]</span>
<i>Colonial Records of Pa.</i>, VI. 215.</p>
    <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_170" name="footer_170"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[170]</span>
<i>Morris to Penn</i>, 1 <i>Jan</i>. 1755.</p>
</div>

<p>
New York was not much behind her sisters in contentious stubbornness. In
answer to the Governor's appeal, the Assembly replied: "It appears that
the French have built a fort at a place called French Creek, at a
considerable distance from the River Ohio, which may, but does not by
any evidence or information appear to us to be an invasion of any of His
Majesty's colonies." <span class="superscript">[171]</span>
So blind were they as yet to "manifest
destiny!" Afterwards, however, on learning the defeat of Washington,
they gave five thousand pounds to aid Virginia.
<span class="superscript">[172]</span> Maryland, after
long delay, gave six thousand. New Jersey felt herself safe behind the
other colonies, and would give nothing. New England, on the other hand,
and especially Massachusetts, had suffered so much from French
war-parties that they were always ready to fight. Shirley, the governor
of Massachusetts, had returned from his bootless errand to settle the
boundary question at Paris. His leanings were strongly monarchical; yet
he believed in the New Englanders, and was more or less in sympathy with
them. Both he and they were strenuous against the French, and they had
mutually helped each other to reap laurels in the last war. Shirley was
cautious of giving 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_169-V1" id="Page_169-V1">169<br />V1</a></span> 
umbrage to his Assembly, and rarely quarrelled with
it, except when the amount of his salary was in question. He was not
averse to a war with France; for though bred a lawyer, and now past
middle life, he flattered himself with hopes of a high military command.
On the present occasion, making use of a rumor that the French were
seizing the carrying-place between the Chaudi&egrave;re and the Kennebec, he
drew from the Assembly a large grant of money, and induced them to call
upon him to march in person to the scene of danger. He accordingly
repaired to Falmouth (now Portland); and, though the rumor proved false,
sent eight hundred men under Captain John Winslow to build two forts on
the Kennebec as a measure of precaution.
<span class="superscript">[173]</span></p>

<div class="footer">
		<p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_171" name="footer_171"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[171]</span>
<i>Address of the Assembly to Lieutenant-Governor Delancey</i>,
23 <i>April</i>, 1754. <i>Lords of Trade to Delancey</i>, 5 <i>July</i>, 
1754.</p>
   <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_172" name="footer_172"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[172]</span>
   <i>Delancey to Lords of Trade</i>, 8 <i>Oct</i>. 1754.</p>
   <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_173" name="footer_173"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[173]</span>
<i>Massachusetts Archives</i>, 1754. Hutchinson, III. 26.
<i>Conduct of Major-General Shirley briefly stated. Journals of the Board
of Trade</i>, 1754.</p>
</div>

<p>
While to these northern provinces Canada was an old and pestilent enemy,
those towards the south scarcely knew her by name; and the idea of
French aggression on their borders was so novel and strange that they
admitted it with difficulty. Mind and heart were engrossed in strife
with their governors: the universal struggle for virtual self-rule. But
the war was often waged with a passionate stupidity. The colonist was
not then an American; he was simply a provincial, and a narrow one. The
time was yet distant when these dissevered and jealous communities
should weld themselves into one broad nationality, capable, at need, of
the mightiest efforts to purge 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_170-V1" id="Page_170-V1">170<br />V1</a></span> 
itself of disaffection and vindicate its
commanding unity.</p>

<p>In the interest of that practical independence which they had so much at
heart, two conditions were essential to the colonists. The one was a
field for expansion, and the other was mutual help. Their first
necessity was to rid themselves of the French, who, by shutting them
between the Alleghanies and the sea, would cramp them into perpetual
littleness. With France on their backs, growing while they had no room
to grow, they must remain in helpless wardship, dependent on England,
whose aid they would always need; but with the West open before them,
their future was their own. King and Parliament would respect perforce
the will of a people spread from the ocean to the Mississippi, and
united in action as in aims. But in the middle of the last century the
vision of the ordinary colonist rarely reached so far. The immediate
victory over a governor, however slight the point at issue, was more
precious in his eyes than the remote though decisive advantage which he
saw but dimly.</p>

<p>The governors, representing the central power, saw the situation from
the national point of view. Several of them, notably Dinwiddie and
Shirley, were filled with wrath at the proceedings of the French; and
the former was exasperated beyond measure at the supineness of the
provinces. He had spared no effort to rouse them, and had failed. His
instincts were on the side of authority; but, under the circumstances,
it is hardly to be imputed 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_171-V1" id="Page_171-V1">171<br />V1</a></span> 
to him as a very deep offence against human
liberty that he advised the compelling of the colonies to raise men and
money for their own defence, and proposed, in view of their "intolerable
obstinacy and disobedience to his Majesty's commands," that Parliament
should tax them half-a-crown a head. The approaching war offered to the
party of authority temptations from which the colonies might have saved
it by opening their purse-strings without waiting to be told.</p>

<p>The Home Government, on its part, was but half-hearted in the wish that
they should unite in opposition to the common enemy. It was very willing
that the several provinces should give money and men, but not that they
should acquire military habits and a dangerous capacity of acting
together. There was one kind of union, however, so obviously necessary,
and at the same time so little to be dreaded, that the British Cabinet,
instructed by the governors, not only assented to it, but urged it. This
was joint action in making treaties with the Indians. The practice of
separate treaties, made by each province in its own interest, had bred
endless disorders. The adhesion of all the tribes had been so shaken,
and the efforts of the French to alienate them were so vigorous and
effective, that not a moment was to be lost. Joncaire had gained over
most of the Senecas, Piquet was drawing the Onondagas more and more to
his mission, and the Dutch of Albany were alienating their best friends,
the Mohawks, by encroaching on their lands. Their chief, 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_172-V1" id="Page_172-V1">172<br />V1</a></span> 
Hendrick, came
to New York with a deputation of the tribe to complain of their wrongs;
and finding no redress, went off in anger, declaring that the covenant
chain was broken. <span class="superscript">[174]</span>
The authorities in alarm called William Johnson
to their aid. He succeeded in soothing the exasperated chief, and then
proceeded to the confederate council at Onondaga, where he found the
assembled sachems full of anxieties and doubts. "We don't know what you
Christians, English and French, intend," said one of their orators. "We
are so hemmed in by you both that we have hardly a hunting-place left.
In a little while, if we find a bear in a tree, there will immediately
appear an owner of the land to claim the property and hinder us from
killing it, by which we live. We are so perplexed between you that we
hardly know what to say or think." <span class="superscript">[175]</span>
No man had such power over the
Five Nations as Johnson. His dealings with them were at once honest,
downright, and sympathetic. They loved and trusted him as much as they
detested the Indian commissioners at Albany, whom the province of New
York had charged with their affairs, and who, being traders, grossly
abused their office.</p>

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		<p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_174" name="footer_174"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[174]</span>
<i>N.&nbsp;Y. Col. Docs.</i>, VI. 788. <i>Colonial Records of Pa.</i>, V.
625.</p>
   <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_175" name="footer_175"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[175]</span>
<i>N.&nbsp;Y. Col. Docs.</i>, VI. 813.</p>
</div>

<p>It was to remedy this perilous state of things that the Lords of Trade
and Plantations directed the several governors to urge on their
assemblies the sending of commissioners to make a joint treaty with the
wavering tribes. <span class="superscript">[176]</span> 
Seven of the 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_173-V1" id="Page_173-V1">173<br />V1</a></span> 
provinces, New York, Pennsylvania, Maryland, and the four New England 
colonies, acceded to the plan, and sent to Albany, the appointed place 
of meeting, a body of men who for character and ability had never had 
an equal on the continent, but whose powers from their respective 
assemblies were so cautiously limited as to preclude decisive action. 
They met in the court-house of the little frontier city. A large 
"chain-belt" of wampum was provided, on which the King was symbolically 
represented, holding in his embrace the colonies, the Five Nations, and 
all their allied tribes. This was presented to the assembled warriors, 
with a speech in which the misdeeds of the French were not forgotten. 
The chief, Hendrick, made a much better speech in reply. "We do now 
solemnly renew and brighten the covenant chain. We shall take the 
chain-belt to Onondaga, where our council-fire always burns, and keep 
it so safe that neither thunder nor lightning shall break it." The 
commissioners had blamed them for allowing so many of their people to 
be drawn away to Piquet's mission. "It is true," said the orator, 
"that we live disunited. We have tried to bring back our brethren, but 
in vain; for the Governor of Canada is like a wicked, deluding spirit. 
You ask why we are so dispersed. The reason is that you have neglected 
us for these three years past." Here he took a stick and threw it 
behind him. "You have thus thrown us behind your back; whereas the 
French are a subtle and vigilant people, always using their utmost endeavors 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_174-V1" id="Page_174-V1">174<br />V1</a></span> 
to seduce and bring us over to them." He then told them that
it was not the French alone who invaded the country of the Indians. "The
Governor of Virginia and the Governor of Canada are quarrelling about
lands which belong to us, and their quarrel may end in our destruction."
And he closed with a burst of sarcasm. "We would have taken Crown Point
[<i>in the last war</i>], but you prevented us. Instead, you burned your own
fort at Saratoga and ran away from it,&mdash;which was a shame and a scandal
to you. Look about your country and see: you have no fortifications; no,
not even in this city. It is but a step from Canada hither, and the
French may come and turn you out of doors. You desire us to speak from
the bottom of our hearts, and we shall do it. Look at the French: they
are men; they are fortifying everywhere. But you are all like women,
bare and open, without fortifications." <span class="superscript">[177]</span>
</p>

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		<p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_176" name="footer_176"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[176]</span>
<i>Circular Letter of Lords of Trade to Governors in America</i>, 
18 <i>Sept</i>. 1753. <i>Lords of Trade to Sir Danvers Osborne, in N.&nbsp;Y.
Col. Docs.</i>, VI. 800.</p>
    <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_177" name="footer_177"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[177]</span>
<i>Proceedings of the Congress at Albany, N.&nbsp;Y. Col. Docs.</i>,
VI. 853. A few verbal changes, for the sake of brevity, are made in the
above extracts.</p>
</div>

<p>Hendrick's brother Abraham now took up the word, and begged that Johnson
might be restored to the management of Indian affairs, which he had
formerly held; "for," said the chief, "we love him and he us, and he has
always been our good and trusty friend." The commissioners had not power
to grant the request, but the Indians were assured that it should not be
forgotten; and they returned to their villages soothed, but far from
satisfied. Nor were the commissioners empowered 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_175-V1" id="Page_175-V1">175<br />V1</a></span> 
to take any effective steps for fortifying the frontier.</p>

<p>The congress now occupied itself with another matter. Its members were
agreed that great danger was impending; that without wise and just
treatment of the tribes, the French would gain them all, build forts
along the back of the British colonies, and, by means of ships and
troops from France, master them one by one, unless they would combine
for mutual defence. The necessity of some form of union had at length
begun to force itself upon the colonial mind. A rough woodcut had lately
appeared in the <i>Pennsylvania Gazette</i>, figuring the provinces under the
not very flattering image of a snake cut to pieces, with the motto,
"Join, or die." A writer of the day held up the Five Nations for
emulation, observing that if ignorant savages could confederate, British
colonists might do as much. <span class="superscript">[178]</span>
Franklin, the leading spirit of the
congress, now laid before it his famous project of union, which has been
too often described to need much notice here. Its fate is well known.
The Crown rejected it because it gave too much power to the colonies;
the colonies, because it gave too much power to the Crown, and because
it required each of them to transfer some of its functions of
self-government to a central council. Another plan was afterwards
devised by the friends of prerogative, perfectly agreeable to the King,
since it placed all power in the hands 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_176-V1" id="Page_176-V1">176<br />V1</a></span> 
of a council of governors, and since it involved compulsory taxation of the 
colonists, who, for the same reasons, would have doggedly resisted it, had 
an attempt been made to carry it into effect. 
<span class="superscript">[179]</span></p>

<div class="footer">
		<p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_178" name="footer_178"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[178]</span>
Kennedy, <i>Importance of gaining and preserving the
Friendship of the Indians</i>.</p>
   <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_179" name="footer_179"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[179]</span>
On the Albany plan of union, <i>Franklin's Works</i>, I. 177.
Shirley thought it "a great strain upon the prerogative of the Crown,"
and was for requiring the colonies to raise money and men "without
farther consulting them upon any points whatever." <i>Shirley to Robinson</i>,
24 <i>Dec</i>. 1754.</p>
</div>

<p>Even if some plan of union had been agreed upon, long delay must have
followed before its machinery could be set in motion; and meantime there
was need of immediate action. War-parties of Indians from Canada, set
on, it was thought, by the Governor, were already burning and murdering
among the border settlements of New York and New Hampshire. In the south
Dinwiddie grew more and more alarmed, "for the French are like so many
locusts; they are collected in bodies in a most surprising manner; their
number now on the Ohio is from twelve hundred to fifteen hundred." He
writes to Lord Granville that, in his opinion, they aim to conquer the
continent, and that "the obstinacy of this stubborn generation" exposes
the country "to the merciless rage of a rapacious enemy." What vexed him
even more than the apathy of the assemblies was the conduct of his
brother-governor, Glen of South Carolina, who, apparently piqued at the
conspicuous part Dinwiddie was acting, wrote to him in a "very
dictatorial style," found fault with his measures, jested at his
activity in writing letters, and even questioned the 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_177-V1" id="Page_177-V1">177<br />V1</a></span> 
right of England to lands on the Ohio; till he was moved at last to retort: 
"I cannot help observing that your letters and arguments would have been more 
proper from a French officer than from one of His Majesty's governors. My
conduct has met with His Majesty's gracious approbation; and I am sorry
it has not received yours." Thus discouraged, even in quarters where he
had least reason to expect it, he turned all his hopes to the Home
Government; again recommended a tax by Act of Parliament, and begged, in
repeated letters, for arms, munitions, and two regiments of
infantry. <span class="superscript">[180]</span>
His petition was not made in vain.</p>

<div class="footer">
		<p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_180" name="footer_180"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[180]</span>
<i>Dinwiddie Papers</i>; letters to Granville, Albemarle,
Halifax, Fox, Holdernesse, Horace Walpole, and Lords of Trade.</p>
</div>

<p>
England at this time presented the phenomenon of a prime minister who
could not command the respect of his own servants. A more preposterous
figure than the Duke of Newcastle never stood at the head of a great
nation. He had a feverish craving for place and power, joined to a total
unfitness for both. He was an adept in personal politics, and was so
busied with the arts of winning and keeping office that he had no
leisure, even if he had had ability, for the higher work of government.
He was restless, quick in movement, rapid and confused in speech, lavish
of worthless promises, always in a hurry, and at once headlong, timid,
and rash. "A borrowed importance and real insignificance," says Walpole,
who knew him well, "gave him the perpetual air of a solicitor&hellip;. He had
no pride, though infinite self-love. He 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_178-V1" id="Page_178-V1">178<br />V1</a></span> 
loved business immoderately; yet
was only always doing it, never did it. When left to himself, he always
plunged into difficulties, and then shuddered for the consequences."
Walpole gives an anecdote showing the state of his ideas on colonial
matters. General Ligonier suggested to him that Annapolis ought to be
defended. "To which he replied with his lisping, evasive hurry:
'Annapolis, Annapolis! Oh, yes, Annapolis must be defended,&mdash;where is
Annapolis?'" <span class="superscript">[181]</span> 
Another contemporary, Smollett, ridicules him in his
novel of <i>Humphrey Clinker</i>, and tells a similar story, which, founded
in fact or not, shows in what estimation the minister was held: "Captain
C. treated the Duke's character without any ceremony. 'This wiseacre,'
said he, 'is still abed; and I think the best thing he can do is to
sleep on till Christmas; for when he gets up he does nothing but expose
his own folly. In the beginning of the war he told me in a great fright
that thirty thousand French had marched from Acadia to Cape Breton.
Where did they find transports? said I.&mdash;Transports! cried he, I tell
you they marched by land.&mdash;By land to the island of Cape Breton!&mdash;What,
is Cape Breton an island?&mdash;Certainly.&mdash;Ha! are you sure of that?&mdash;When I
pointed it out on the map, he examined it earnestly with his spectacles;
then, taking me in his arms,&mdash;My dear C., cried he, you always bring us
good news. Egad! I'll go directly and tell the King that Cape Breton is
an island.'"</p>

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		<p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_181" name="footer_181"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[181]</span>
Walpole, <i>George II.</i>, I. 344.</p>
</div>

<p>
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_179-V1" id="Page_179-V1">179<br />V1</a></span> 
His wealth, county influence, flagitious use of patronage, and
long-practised skill in keeping majorities in the House of Commons by
means that would not bear the light, made his support necessary to Pitt
himself, and placed a fantastic political jobber at the helm of England
in a time when she needed a patriot and a statesman. Newcastle was the
growth of the decrepitude and decay of a great party, which had
fulfilled its mission and done its work. But if the Whig soil had become
poor for a wholesome crop, it was never so rich for toadstools.</p>

<p>Sir Thomas Robinson held the Southern Department, charged with the
colonies; and Lord Mahon remarks of him that the Duke had achieved the
feat of finding a secretary of state more incapable than himself. He had
the lead of the House of Commons. "Sir Thomas Robinson lead us!" said
Pitt to Henry Fox; "the Duke might as well send his jackboot to lead
us." The active and aspiring Halifax was at the head of the Board of
Trade and Plantations. The Duke of Cumberland commanded the army,&mdash;an
indifferent soldier, though a brave one; harsh, violent, and headlong.
Anson, the celebrated navigator, was First Lord of the Admiralty,&mdash;a
position in which he disappointed everybody.</p>

<p>In France the true ruler was Madame de Pompadour, once the King's
mistress, now his procuress, and a sort of feminine prime minister.
Machault d'Arnouville was at the head of the Marine and Colonial
Department. The diplomatic representatives of the two Crowns were more
conspicuous 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_180-V1" id="Page_180-V1">180<br />V1</a></span> 
for social than for political talents. Of Mirepoix, French
ambassador at London, Marshal Saxe had once observed: "It is a good
appointment; he can teach the English to dance." Walpole says concerning
him: "He could not even learn to pronounce the names of our games of
cards,&mdash;which, however, engaged most of the hours of his negotiation. We
were to be bullied out of our colonies by an apprentice at whist!" Lord
Albemarle, English ambassador at Versailles, is held up by Chesterfield
as an example to encourage his son in the pursuit of the graces: "What
do you think made our friend Lord Albemarle colonel of a regiment of
Guards, Governor of Virginia, Groom of the Stole, and ambassador to
Paris,&mdash;amounting in all to sixteen or seventeen thousand pounds a year?
Was it his birth? No; a Dutch gentleman only. Was it his estate? No; he
had none. Was it his learning, his parts, his political abilities and
application? You can answer these questions as easily and as soon as I
can ask them. What was it then? Many people wondered; but I do not, for
I know, and will tell you,&mdash;it was his air, his address, his manners,
and his graces."</p>

<p>The rival nations differed widely in military and naval strength.
England had afloat more than two hundred ships of war, some of them of
great force; while the navy of France counted little more than half the
number. On the other hand, England had reduced her army to eighteen
thousand men, and France had nearly ten times as many under arms. Both
alike were weak in 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_181-V1" id="Page_181-V1">181<br />V1</a></span> 
leadership. That rare son of the tempest, a great commander, was to be found 
in neither of them since the death of Saxe.</p>

<p>In respect to the approaching crisis, the interests of the two Powers
pointed to opposite courses of action. What France needed was time. It
was her policy to put off a rupture, wreathe her face in diplomatic
smiles, and pose in an attitude of peace and good faith, while
increasing her navy, reinforcing her garrisons in America, and
strengthening her positions there. It was the policy of England to
attack at once, and tear up the young encroachments while they were yet
in the sap, before they could strike root and harden into stiff
resistance.</p>

<p>When, on the fourteenth of November, the King made his opening speech to
the Houses of Parliament, he congratulated them on the prevailing peace,
and assured them that he should improve it to promote the trade of his
subjects, "and protect those possessions which constitute one great
source of their wealth." America was not mentioned; but his hearers
understood him, and made a liberal grant for the service of the
year. <span class="superscript">[182]</span>
Two regiments, each of five hundred men, had already been
ordered to sail for Virginia, where their numbers were to be raised by
enlistment to seven hundred. <span class="superscript">[183]</span>
Major-General Braddock, a man after the 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_182-V1" id="Page_182-V1">182<br />V1</a></span> 
Duke of Cumberland's own heart, was appointed to the chief command.
The two regiments&mdash;the forty-fourth and the forty-eighth&mdash;embarked at
Cork in the middle of January. The soldiers detested the service, and
many had deserted. More would have done so had they foreseen what
awaited them.</p>

<div class="footer">
		<p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_182" name="footer_182"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[182]</span>
Entick, <i>Late War</i>, I. 118.</p>
   <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_183" name="footer_183"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[183]</span>
<i>Robinson to Lords of the Admiralty</i>, 30 <i>Sept</i>. 1754.
<i>Ibid., to Board of Ordnance</i>, 10 <i>Oct</i>. 1754. 
<i>Ibid., Circular Letter to American Governors</i>, 26 <i>Oct</i>. 1754. 
<i>Instructions to our Trusty and Well-beloved Edward Braddock</i>, 
25 <i>Nov</i>. 1754.</p>
</div>

<p>This movement was no sooner known at Versailles than a counter
expedition was prepared on a larger scale. Eighteen ships of war were
fitted for sea at Brest and Rochefort, and the six battalions of La
Reine, Bourgogne, Languedoc, Guienne, Artois, and B&eacute;arn, three thousand
men in all, were ordered on board for Canada. Baron Dieskau, a German
veteran who had served under Saxe, was made their general; and with him
went the new governor of French America, the Marquis de Vaudreuil,
destined to succeed Duquesne, whose health was failing under the
fatigues of his office. Admiral Dubois de la Motte commanded the fleet;
and lest the English should try to intercept it, another squadron of
nine ships, under Admiral Macnamara, was ordered to accompany it to a
certain distance from the coast. There was long and tedious delay.
Doreil, commissary of war, who had embarked with Vaudreuil and Dieskau
in the same ship, wrote from the harbor of Brest on the twenty-ninth of
April: "At last I think we are off. We should have been outside by four
o'clock this morning, if M. de Macnamara had not been obliged to ask
Count Dubois de la Motte to wait till noon to mend some important part
of the 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_183-V1" id="Page_183-V1">183<br />V1</a></span> 
rigging (I don't know the name of it) which was broken. It is
precious time lost, and gives the English the advantage over us of two
tides. I talk of these things as a blind man does of colors. What is
certain is that Count Dubois de la Motte is very impatient to get away,
and that the King's fleet destined for Canada is in very able and
zealous hands. It is now half-past two. In half an hour all may be
ready, and we may get out of the harbor before night." He was again
disappointed; it was the third of May before the fleet put to sea.
<span class="superscript">[184]</span></p>

<div class="footer">
		<p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_184" name="footer_184"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[184]</span>
<i>Lettres de Cremille, de Rostaing, et de Doreil au Ministre</i>, 
<i>Avril</i> 18, 24, 28, 29, 1755. <i>Liste des Vaisseaux de Guerre qui
composent l'Escadre arm&eacute;e &agrave; Brest</i>, 1755. 
<i>Journal of M. de Vaudreuil's Voyage to Canada</i>, in <i>N.&nbsp;Y. 
Col. Docs.</i>, X. 297. Pouchot, I. 25.</p>
</div>

<p>During these preparations there was active diplomatic correspondence
between the two Courts. Mirepoix demanded why British troops were sent
to America. Sir Thomas Robinson answered that there was no intention to
disturb the peace or offend any Power whatever; yet the secret orders to
Braddock were the reverse of pacific. Robinson asked on his part the
purpose of the French armament at Brest and Rochefort; and the answer,
like his own, was a protestation that no hostility was meant. At the
same time Mirepoix in the name of the King proposed that orders should
be given to the American governors on both sides to refrain from all
acts of aggression. But while making this proposal the French Court
secretly sent orders to Duquesne to attack and destroy Fort Halifax, one
of the two forts lately built by Shirley 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_184-V1" id="Page_184-V1">184<br />V1</a></span> 
on the Kennebec,&mdash;a river which, by the admission of the French themselves, 
belonged to the English. But, in making this attack, the French Governor was 
expressly enjoined to pretend that he acted without orders.
<span class="superscript">[185]</span> He was also told that, if necessary, 
he might make use of the Indians to harass the English. 
<span class="superscript">[186]</span>
Thus there was good faith on neither part; but it is clear
through all the correspondence that the English expected to gain by
precipitating an open rupture, and the French by postponing it. Projects
of convention were proposed on both sides, but there was no agreement.
The English insisted as a preliminary condition that the French should
evacuate all the western country as far as the Wabash. Then ensued a
long discussion of their respective claims, as futile as the former
discussion at Paris on Acadian boundaries.
<span class="superscript">[187]</span></p>

<div class="footer">
		<p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_185" name="footer_185"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[185]</span>
<i>Machault &agrave; Duquesne</i>, 17 <i>F&eacute;v</i>. 1755. 
The letter of Mirepoix proposing mutual abstinence from aggression, is 
dated on the 6th of the same month. The French dreaded Fort Halifax, 
because they thought it prepared the way for an advance on Quebec by way 
of the Chaudi&egrave;re.</p>
    <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_186" name="footer_186"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[186]</span>
<i>Ibid.</i></p>
   <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_187" name="footer_187"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[187]</span>
This correspondence is printed among the <i>Pi&egrave;ces
justificatives</i> of the <i>Pr&eacute;cis des Faits</i>.</p>
</div>

<p>The British Court knew perfectly the naval and military preparations of
the French. Lord Albemarle had died at Paris in December; but the
secretary of the embassy, De Cosne, sent to London full information
concerning the fleet at Brest and Rochefort. 
<span class="superscript">[188]</span> On this, Admiral
Boscawen, with eleven ships of the line and one frigate, was ordered to
intercept it; and as his force was plainly too small, Admiral Holbourne,
with seven more ships, was 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_185-V1" id="Page_185-V1">185<br />V1</a></span> 
sent, nearly three weeks after, to join him
if he could. Their orders were similar,&mdash;to capture or destroy any
French vessels bound to North America. 
<span class="superscript">[189]</span> Boscawen, who got to sea
before La Motte, stationed himself near the southern coast of
Newfoundland to cut him off; but most of the French squadron eluded him,
and safely made their way, some to Louisbourg, and the others to Quebec.
Thus the English expedition was, in the main, a failure. Three of the
French ships, however, lost in fog and rain, had become separated from
the rest, and lay rolling and tossing on an angry sea not far from Cape
Race. One of them was the "Alcide," commanded by Captain Hocquart; the
others were the "Lis" and the "Dauphin." The wind fell; but the fogs
continued at intervals; till, on the afternoon of the seventh of June,
the weather having cleared, the watchman on the maintop saw the distant
ocean studded with ships. It was the fleet of Boscawen. Hocquart, who
gives the account, says that in the morning they were within three
leagues of him, crowding all sail in pursuit. Towards eleven o'clock one
of them, the "Dunkirk," was abreast of him to windward, within short
speaking distance; and the ship of the Admiral, displaying a red flag as
a signal to engage, was not far off. Hocquart called out: "Are we at
peace, or war?" He declares that Howe, captain of the "Dunkirk," replied
in French: "La paix, la paix." 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_186-V1" id="Page_186-V1">186<br />V1</a></span> 
Hocquart then asked the name of the British admiral; and on hearing it said: 
"I know him; he is a friend of mine." Being asked his own name in return, he 
had scarcely uttered it when the batteries of the "Dunkirk" belched flame and 
smoke, and volleyed a tempest of iron upon the crowded decks of the "Alcide." 
She returned the fire, but was forced at length to strike her colors.
Rostaing, second in command of the troops, was killed; and six other
officers, with about eighty men, were killed or wounded.
<span class="superscript">[190]</span> At the same time the "Lis" was attacked 
and overpowered. She had on board eight companies of the battalions of La Reine 
and Languedoc. The third French ship, the "Dauphin," escaped under cover of a 
rising fog. <span class="superscript">[191]</span></p>

<div class="footer">
		<p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_188" name="footer_188"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[188]</span>
Particulars in Entick, I. 121.</p>
    <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_189" name="footer_189"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[189]</span>
<i>Secret Instructions for our Trusty and Well-beloved
Edward Boscawen, Esq., Vice-Admiral of the Blue</i>, 16 <i>April</i>, 1755. 
<i>Most secret Instructions for Francis Holbourne, Esq., Rear-Admiral of the
Blue</i>, 9 <i>May</i>, 1755. <i>Robinson to Lords of the Admiralty</i>, 
8 <i>May</i>, 1755.</p>
   <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_190" name="footer_190"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[190]</span>
<i>Liste des Officiers tu&eacute;s et bless&eacute;s dans le Combat de
l'Alcide et du Lis</i>.</p>
   <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_191" name="footer_191"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[191]</span>
Hocquart's account is given in full by Pichon, <i>Lettres et M&eacute;moires 
pour servir &agrave; l'Histoire du Cap-Breton</i>. The short account in 
<i>Pr&eacute;cis des Faits</i>, 272, seems, too, to be drawn from Hocquart. 
Also <i>Boscawen to Robinson</i>, 22 <i>June</i>, 1755. <i>Vaudreuil au 
Ministre</i>, 24 <i>Juillet</i>, 1755. Entick, I. 137.</p>
<p>Some English accounts say that Captain Howe, in answer to the question,
"Are we at peace, or war?" returned, "I don't know; but you had better
prepare for war." Boscawen places the action on the 10th, instead of the
8th, and puts the English loss at seven killed and twenty-seven
wounded.</p>
</div>

<p>Here at last was an end to negotiation. The sword was drawn and
brandished in the eyes of Europe.</p>

<hr />
<div class="chapterhead">
   <br /><a name="Chapter_07" id="Chapter_07"></a>
	 <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_187-V1" id="Page_187-V1">187<br />V1</a></span> 
	 <br /><br /><br />
	 <h2><a href="#Contents07">CHAPTER VII.</a><br />
	 <span class="med">1755.</span>
	 </h2> 
	 <p class="smcapheader">BRADDOCK.</p>
	 <p class="smcap noindent space-bottom">  
	    Arrival of Braddock &bull; His Character &bull; 
			Council at Alexandria &bull; Plan of the Campaign &bull;
			Apathy of the Colonists &bull; Rage of Braddock &bull; Franklin &bull;
			Fort Cumberland &bull; Composition of the Army &bull; 
			Offended Friends &bull; The March &bull; The French Fort &bull;
			Savage Allies &bull; The Captive &bull; Beaujeu &bull; 
			He goes to meet the English &bull; Passage of the Monongahela &bull;
			The Surprise &bull; The Battle &bull; Rout of Braddock &bull;
			His Death &bull; Indian Ferocity &bull; Reception of the Ill News &bull;
			Weakness of Dunbar &bull; The Frontier abandoned.
   </p> 				
	 <p class="break1"></p> 
</div>

<p class="double-space-top">
"<span class="smcap">I have</span> the pleasure to acquaint you that 
General Braddock came to my house last Sunday night," writes Dinwiddie, 
at the end of February, to
Governor Dobbs of North Carolina. Braddock had landed at Hampton from
the ship "Centurion," along with young Commodore Keppel, who commanded
the American squadron. "I am mighty glad," again writes Dinwiddie, "that
the General is arrived, which I hope will give me some ease; for these
twelve months past I have been a perfect slave." He conceived golden
opinions of his guest. "He is, I think, a very fine officer, and a
sensible, considerate gentleman. He and I live in great harmony."</p>

<p>Had he known him better, he might have praised him less. William
Shirley, son of the Governor of 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_188-V1" id="Page_188-V1">188<br />V1</a></span> 
Massachusetts, was Braddock's secretary;
and after an acquaintance of some months wrote to his friend Governor
Morris: "We have a general most judiciously chosen for being
disqualified for the service he is employed in in almost every respect.
He may be brave for aught I know, and he is honest in pecuniary
matters." <span class="superscript">[192]</span> The astute Franklin, 
who also had good opportunity of
knowing him, says: "This general was, I think, a brave man, and might
probably have made a good figure in some European war. But he had too
much self-confidence; too high an opinion of the validity of regular
troops; too mean a one of both Americans and Indians."
<span class="superscript">[193]</span> Horace
Walpole, in his function of gathering and immortalizing the gossip of
his time, has left a sharply drawn sketch of Braddock in two letters to
Sir Horace Mann, written in the summer of this year: "I love to give you
an idea of our characters as they rise upon the stage of history.
Braddock is a very Iroquois in disposition. He had a sister who, having
gamed away all her little fortune at Bath, hanged herself with a truly
English deliberation, leaving only a note upon the table with those
lines: 'To die is landing on some silent shore,' etc. When Braddock was
told of it, he only said: 'Poor Fanny! I always thought she would play
till she would be forced to <i>tuck herself up</i>.'" Under the name of Miss
Sylvia S&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;, Goldsmith, in his life of Nash, tells the story 
of this unhappy woman. 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_189-V1" id="Page_189-V1">189<br />V1</a></span> 
She was a rash but warm-hearted creature, reduced to
penury and dependence, not so much by a passion for cards as by her
lavish generosity to a lover ruined by his own follies, and with whom
her relations are said to have been entirely innocent. Walpole
continues: "But a more ridiculous story of Braddock, and which is
recorded in heroics by Fielding in his <i>Covent Garden Tragedy,</i> was an
amorous discussion he had formerly with a Mrs. Upton, who kept him. He
had gone the greatest lengths with her pin-money, and was still craving.
One day, that he was very pressing, she pulled out her purse and showed
him that she had but twelve or fourteen shillings left. He twitched it
from her: 'Let me see that.' Tied up at the other end he found five
guineas. He took them, tossed the empty purse in her face, saying: 'Did
you mean to cheat me?' and never went near her more. Now you are
acquainted with General Braddock."</p>

<div class="footer">
		<p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_192" name="footer_192"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[192]</span>
<i>Shirley the younger to Morris</i>, 23 <i>May</i>, 1755.</p>
    <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_193" name="footer_193"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[193]</span>
Franklin, <i>Autobiography</i>.</p>
</div>

<p>"He once had a duel with Colonel Gumley, Lady Bath's brother, who had
been his great friend. As they were going to engage, Gumley, who had
good-humor and wit (Braddock had the latter), said: 'Braddock, you are a
poor dog! Here, take my purse; if you kill me, you will be forced to run
away, and then you will not have a shilling to support you.' Braddock
refused the purse, insisted on the duel, was disarmed, and would not
even ask his life. However, with all his brutality, he has lately been
governor of Gibraltar, where he made himself adored, 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_190-V1" id="Page_190-V1">190<br />V1</a></span> 
and where scarce
any governor was endured before." <span class="superscript">[194]</span></p>

<div class="footer">
		<p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_194" name="footer_194"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[194]</span>
<i>Letters of Horace Walpole</i> (1866), II. 459, 461. It is
doubtful if Braddock was ever governor of Gibraltar; though, as Mr.
Sargent shows, he once commanded a regiment there.</p>
</div>

<p>Another story is told of him by an accomplished actress of the time,
George Anne Bellamy, whom Braddock had known from girlhood, and with
whom his present relations seem to have been those of an elderly adviser
and friend. "As we were walking in the Park one day, we heard a poor
fellow was to be chastised; when I requested the General to beg off the
offender. Upon his application to the general officer, whose name was
Dury, he asked Braddock how long since he had divested himself of the
brutality and insolence of his manners? To which the other replied: 'You
never knew me insolent to my inferiors. It is only to such rude men as
yourself that I behave with the spirit which I think they deserve.'"</p>

<p>Braddock made a visit to the actress on the evening before he left
London for America. "Before we parted," she says, "the General told me
that he should never see me more; for he was going with a handful of men
to conquer whole nations; and to do this they must cut their way through
unknown woods. He produced a map of the country, saying at the same
time: 'Dear Pop, we are sent like sacrifices to the altar,'" 
<span class="superscript">[195]</span>&mdash;a
strange presentiment for a man of his sturdy temper.</p>

<div class="footer">
		<p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_195" name="footer_195"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[195]</span>
<i>Apology for the Life of George Anne Bellamy, written by
herself</i>, II. 204 (London, 1786).</p>
</div>

<p>
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_191-V1" id="Page_191-V1">191<br />V1</a></span> 
Whatever were his failings, he feared nothing, and his fidelity and
honor in the discharge of public trusts were never questioned.
"Desperate in his fortune, brutal in his behavior, obstinate in his
sentiments," again writes Walpole, "he was still intrepid and
capable." <span class="superscript">[196]</span>
He was a veteran in years and in service, having entered
the Coldstream Guards as ensign in 1710.</p>

<div class="footer">
		<p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_196" name="footer_196"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[196]</span>
Walpole, <i>George II.</i>, I. 390.</p>
</div>

<p>The transports bringing the two regiments from Ireland all arrived
safely at Hampton, and were ordered to proceed up the Potomac to
Alexandria, where a camp was to be formed. Thither, towards the end of
March, went Braddock himself, along with Keppel and Dinwiddie, in the
Governor's coach; while his aide-de-camp, Orme, his secretary, Shirley,
and the servants of the party followed on horseback. Braddock had sent
for the elder Shirley and other provincial governors to meet him in
council; and on the fourteenth of April they assembled in a tent of the
newly formed encampment. Here was Dinwiddie, who thought his troubles at
an end, and saw in the red-coated soldiery the near fruition of his
hopes. Here, too, was his friend and ally, Dobbs of North Carolina; with
Morris of Pennsylvania, fresh from Assembly quarrels; Sharpe of
Maryland, who, having once been a soldier, had been made a sort of
provisional commander-in-chief before the arrival of Braddock; and the
ambitious Delancey of New York, who had lately led the opposition
against the Governor of that province, and now 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_192-V1" id="Page_192-V1">192<br />V1</a></span> 
filled the office 
himself,&mdash;a position that needed all his manifold adroitness. But, next
to Braddock, the most noteworthy man present was Shirley, governor of
Massachusetts. There was a fountain of youth in this old lawyer. A few
years before, when he was boundary commissioner in Paris, he had had the
indiscretion to marry a young Catholic French girl, the daughter of his
landlord; and now, when more than sixty years old, he thirsted for
military honors, and delighted in contriving operations of war. He was
one of a very few in the colonies who at this time entertained the idea
of expelling the French from the continent. He held that Carthage must
be destroyed; and, in spite of his Parisian marriage, was the foremost
advocate of the root-and-branch policy. He and Lawrence, governor of
Nova Scotia, had concerted an attack on the French fort of Beaus&eacute;jour;
and, jointly with others in New England, he had planned the capture of
Crown Point, the key of Lake Champlain. By these two strokes and by
fortifying the portage between the Kennebec and the Chaudi&egrave;re, he
thought that the northern colonies would be saved from invasion, and
placed in a position to become themselves invaders. Then, by driving the
enemy from Niagara, securing that important pass, and thus cutting off
the communication between Canada and her interior dependencies, all the
French posts in the West would die of inanition.
<span class="superscript">[197]</span> In order to
commend these schemes to the Home Government, he had painted 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_193-V1" id="Page_193-V1">193<br />V1</a></span> 
in gloomy colors the dangers that beset the British colonies. Our Indians, he
said, will all desert us if we submit to French encroachment. Some of
the provinces are full of negro slaves, ready to rise against their
masters, and of Roman Catholics, Jacobites, indented servants, and other
dangerous persons, who would aid the French in raising a servile
insurrection. Pennsylvania is in the hands of Quakers, who will not
fight, and of Germans, who are likely enough to join the enemy. The
Dutch of Albany would do anything to save their trade. A strong force of
French regulars might occupy that place without resistance, then descend
the Hudson, and, with the help of a naval force, capture New York and
cut the British colonies asunder. <span class="superscript">[198]</span>
</p>

<div class="footer">
		<p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_197" name="footer_197"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[197]</span>
<i>Correspondence of Shirley</i>, 1754, 1755.</p>
    <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_198" name="footer_198"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[198]</span>
<i>Shirley to Robinson</i>, 24 <i>Jan</i>. 1755.</p>
</div>

<p>The plans against Crown Point and Beaus&eacute;jour had already found the
approval of the Home Government and the energetic support of all the New
England colonies. Preparation for them was in full activity; and it was
with great difficulty that Shirley had disengaged himself from these
cares to attend the council at Alexandria. He and Dinwiddie stood in the
front of opposition to French designs. As they both defended the royal
prerogative and were strong advocates of taxation by Parliament, they
have found scant justice from American writers. Yet the British colonies
owed them a debt of gratitude, and the American States owe it still.</p>

<p>Braddock, laid his instructions before the Council, and Shirley found
them entirely to his mind; 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_194-V1" id="Page_194-V1">194<br />V1</a></span> 
while the General, on his part, fully
approved the schemes of the Governor. The plan of the campaign was
settled. The French were to be attacked at four points at once. The two
British regiments lately arrived were to advance on Fort Duquesne; two
new regiments, known as Shirley's and Pepperell's, just raised in the
provinces, and taken into the King's pay, were to reduce Niagara; a body
of provincials from New England, New York, and New Jersey was to seize
Crown Point; and another body of New England men to capture Beaus&eacute;jour
and bring Acadia to complete subjection. Braddock himself was to lead
the expedition against Fort Duquesne. He asked Shirley, who, though a
soldier only in theory, had held the rank of colonel since the last war,
to charge himself with that against Niagara; and Shirley eagerly
assented. The movement on Crown Point was intrusted to Colonel William
Johnson, by reason of his influence over the Indians and his reputation
for energy, capacity, and faithfulness. Lastly, the Acadian enterprise
was assigned to Lieutenant-Colonel Monckton, a regular officer of merit.</p>

<p>To strike this fourfold blow in time of peace was a scheme worthy of
Newcastle and of Cumberland. The pretext was that the positions to be
attacked were all on British soil; that in occupying them the French had
been guilty of invasion; and that to expel the invaders would be an act
of self-defence. Yet in regard to two of these positions, the French, if
they had no other right, might at least claim one of prescription. Crown
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_195-V1" id="Page_195-V1">195<br />V1</a></span> 
Point had been twenty-four years in their undisturbed possession, while
it was three quarters of a century since they first occupied Niagara;
and, though New York claimed the ground, no serious attempt had been
made to dislodge them.</p>

<p>Other matters now engaged the Council. Braddock, in accordance with his
instructions, asked the governors to urge upon their several assemblies
the establishment of a general fund for the service of the campaign; but
the governors were all of opinion that the assemblies would
refuse,&mdash;each being resolved to keep the control of its money in its own
hands; and all present, with one voice, advised that the colonies should
be compelled by Act of Parliament to contribute in due proportion to the
support of the war. Braddock next asked if, in the judgment of the
Council, it would not be well to send Colonel Johnson with full powers
to treat with the Five Nations, who had been driven to the verge of an
outbreak by the misconduct of the Dutch Indian commissioners at Albany.
The measure was cordially approved, as was also another suggestion of
the General, that vessels should be built at Oswego to command Lake
Ontario. The Council then dissolved.</p>

<p>Shirley hastened back to New England, burdened with the preparation for
three expeditions and the command of one of them. Johnson, who had been
in the camp, though not in the Council, went back to Albany, provided
with a commission as sole superintendent of Indian affairs, and 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_196-V1" id="Page_196-V1">196<br />V1</a></span> 
charged,
besides, with the enterprise against Crown Point; while an express was
despatched to Monckton at Halifax, with orders to set at once to his
work of capturing Beaus&eacute;jour. <span class="superscript">[199]</span>
</p>

<div class="footer">
		<p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_199" name="footer_199"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[199]</span>
<i>Minutes of a Council held at the Camp at Alexandria, in
Virginia, April</i> 14, 1755. <i>Instructions to Major-General Braddock</i>, 
25 <i>Nov</i>. 1754. <i>Secret Instructions to Major-General Braddock, same date.
Napier to Braddock, written by Order of the Duke of Cumberland</i>, 25 
<i>Nov.</i> 1754, in <i>Pr&eacute;cis des Faits, Pi&egrave;ces 
justificatives,</i> 168. Orme, <i>Journal of Braddock's Expedition. 
Instructions to Governor Shirley. Correspondence of Shirley. Correspondence of 
Braddock</i> (Public Record Office). <i>Johnson Papers. Dinwiddie Papers. 
Pennsylvania Archives</i>, II.</p>
</div>

<p>In regard to Braddock's part of the campaign, there had been a serious
error. If, instead of landing in Virginia and moving on Fort Duquesne
by the long and circuitous route of Wills Creek, the two regiments had
disembarked at Philadelphia and marched westward, the way would have
been shortened, and would have lain through one of the richest and most
populous districts on the continent, filled with supplies of every kind.
In Virginia, on the other hand, and in the adjoining province of
Maryland, wagons, horses, and forage were scarce. The enemies of the
Administration ascribed this blunder to the influence of the Quaker
merchant, John Hanbury, whom the Duke of Newcastle had consulted as a
person familiar with American affairs. Hanbury, who was a prominent
stockholder in the Ohio Company, and who traded largely in Virginia, saw
it for his interest that the troops should pass that way; and is said to
have brought the Duke to this opinion. 
<span class="superscript">[200]</span> A 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_197-V1" id="Page_197-V1">197<br />V1</a></span> 
writer of the time thinks that if they had landed in Pennsylvania, forty 
thousand pounds would have been saved in money, and six weeks in time.
<span class="superscript">[201]</span></p>


<div class="footer">
		<p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_200" name="footer_200"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[200]</span>
<i>Shebbeare's Tracts</i>, Letter I. Dr. Shebbeare was a
political pamphleteer, pilloried by one ministry, and rewarded by the
next. He certainly speaks of Hanbury, though he does not give his name.
Compare Sargent, 107, 162.</p>
   <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_201" name="footer_201"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[201]</span>
<i>Gentleman's Magazine, Aug</i>. 1755.</p>
</div>

<p>Not only were supplies scarce, but the people showed such unwillingness
to furnish them, and such apathy in aiding the expedition, that even
Washington was provoked to declare that "they ought to be
chastised." <span class="superscript">[202]</span> 
Many of them thought that the alarm about French
encroachment was a device of designing politicians; and they did not
awake to a full consciousness of the peril till it was forced upon them
by a deluge of calamities, produced by the purblind folly of their own
representatives, who, instead of frankly promoting the expedition,
displayed a perverse and exasperating narrowness which chafed Braddock
to fury. He praises the New England colonies, and echoes Dinwiddie's
declaration that they have shown a "fine martial spirit," and he
commends Virginia as having done far better than her neighbors; but for
Pennsylvania he finds no words to express his wrath. 
<span class="superscript">[203]</span> He knew
nothing of the intestine war between proprietaries and people, and hence
could see no palliation for a conduct which threatened to ruin both the
expedition and the colony. Everything depended on speed, and speed was
impossible; 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_198-V1" id="Page_198-V1">198<br />V1</a></span> 
for stores and provisions were not ready, though notice to
furnish them had been given months before. The quartermaster-general,
Sir John Sinclair, "stormed like a lion rampant," but with small
effect. <span class="superscript">[204]</span> 
Contracts broken or disavowed, want of horses, want of
wagons, want of forage, want of wholesome food, or sufficient food of
any kind, caused such delay that the report of it reached England, and
drew from Walpole the comment that Braddock was in no hurry to be
scalped. In reality he was maddened with impatience and vexation.</p>

<div class="footer">
		<p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_202" name="footer_202"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[202]</span>
<i>Writings of Washington</i>, II. 78. He speaks of the people
of Pennsylvania.</p>
    <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_203" name="footer_203"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[203]</span>
<i>Braddock to Robinson</i>, 18 <i>March</i>, 19 <i>April</i>, 5 <i>June</i>, 
1755, etc. On the attitude of Pennsylvania, <i>Colonial Records of Pa</i>., 
VI., <i>passim</i>.</p>
   <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_204" name="footer_204"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[204]</span>
<i>Colonial Records of Pa</i>., VI. 368.</p>
</div>

<p>A powerful ally presently came to his aid in the shape of Benjamin
Franklin, then postmaster-general of Pennsylvania. That sagacious
personage,&mdash;the sublime of common-sense, about equal in his instincts
and motives of character to the respectable average of the New England
that produced him, but gifted with a versatile power of brain rarely
matched on earth,&mdash;was then divided between his strong desire to repel a
danger of which he saw the imminence, and his equally strong antagonism
to the selfish claims of the Penns, proprietaries of Pennsylvania. This
last motive had determined his attitude towards their representative,
the Governor, and led him into an opposition as injurious to the
military good name of the province as it was favorable to its political
longings. In the present case there was no such conflict of
inclinations; he could help Braddock without hurting Pennsylvania. He
and his son had visited 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_199-V1" id="Page_199-V1">199<br />V1</a></span> 
the camp, and found the General waiting
restlessly for the report of the agents whom he had sent to collect
wagons. "I stayed with him," says Franklin, "several days, and dined
with him daily. When I was about to depart, the returns of wagons to be
obtained were brought in, by which it appeared that they amounted only
to twenty-five, and not all of these were in serviceable condition." On
this the General and his officers declared that the expedition was at an
end, and denounced the Ministry for sending them into a country void of
the means of transportation. Franklin remarked that it was a pity they
had not landed in Pennsylvania, where almost every farmer had his wagon.
Braddock caught eagerly at his words, and begged that he would use his
influence to enable the troops to move. Franklin went back to
Pennsylvania, issued an address to the farmers appealing to their
interest and their fears, and in a fortnight procured a hundred and
fifty wagons, with a large number of horses. 
<span class="superscript">[205]</span> Braddock, grateful to
his benefactor, and enraged at everybody else, pronounced him "Almost
the only instance of ability and honesty I have known in these
provinces." <span class="superscript">[206]</span>
More wagons and more horses gradually arrived, and at
the eleventh hour the march began.</p>

<div class="footer">
		<p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_205" name="footer_205"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[205]</span>
Franklin, <i>Autobiography</i>. <i>Advertisement of B. Franklin
for Wagons; Address to the Inhabitants of the Counties of York,
Lancaster, and Cumberland</i>, in <i>Pennsylvania Archives,</i> II. 294.</p>
    <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_206" name="footer_206"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[206]</span>
<i>Braddock to Robinson</i>, 5 <i>June</i>, 1755. The letters of
Braddock here cited are the originals in the Public Record Office.</p>
</div>

<p>
On the tenth of May Braddock reached Wills Creek, where the whole force
was now gathered, 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_200-V1" id="Page_200-V1">200<br />V1</a></span> 
having marched thither by detachments along the banks
of the Potomac. This old trading-station of the Ohio Company had been
transformed into a military post and named Fort Cumberland. During the
past winter the independent companies which had failed Washington in his
need had been at work here to prepare a base of operations for Braddock.
Their axes had been of more avail than their muskets. A broad wound had
been cut in the bosom of the forest, and the murdered oaks and chestnuts
turned into ramparts, barracks, and magazines. Fort Cumberland was an
enclosure of logs set upright in the ground, pierced with loopholes, and
armed with ten small cannon. It stood on a rising ground near the point
where Wills Creek joined the Potomac, and the forest girded it like a
mighty hedge, or rather like a paling of gaunt brown stems upholding a
canopy of green. All around spread illimitable woods, wrapping hill,
valley, and mountain. The spot was an oasis in a desert of leaves,&mdash;if
the name oasis can be given to anything so rude and harsh. In this
rugged area, or "clearing," all Braddock's force was now assembled,
amounting, regulars, provincials, and sailors, to about twenty-two
hundred men. The two regiments, Halket's and Dunbar's, had been
completed by enlistment in Virginia to seven hundred men each. Of
Virginians there were nine companies of fifty men, who found no favor in
the eyes of Braddock or his officers. To Ensign Allen of Halket's
regiment was assigned the duty of "making them as 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_201-V1" id="Page_201-V1">201<br />V1</a></span> 
much like soldiers as
possible." <span class="superscript">[207]</span>&mdash;that is, 
of drilling them like regulars. The General
had little hope of them, and informed Sir Thomas Robinson that "their
slothful and languid disposition renders them very unfit for military
service,"&mdash;a point on which he lived to change his mind. Thirty sailors,
whom Commodore Keppel had lent him, were more to his liking, and were in
fact of value in many ways. He had now about six hundred baggage-horses,
besides those of the artillery, all weakening daily on their diet of
leaves; for no grass was to be found. There was great show of
discipline, and little real order. Braddock's executive capacity seems
to have been moderate, and his dogged, imperious temper, rasped by
disappointments, was in constant irritation. "He looks upon the country,
I believe," writes Washington, "as void of honor or honesty. We have
frequent disputes on this head, which are maintained with warmth on both
sides, especially on his, as he is incapable of arguing without it, or
giving up any point he asserts, be it ever so incompatible with reason
or common sense." <span class="superscript">[208]</span>
Braddock's secretary, the younger Shirley,
writing to his friend Governor Morris, spoke thus irreverently of his
chief: "As the King said of a neighboring governor of yours [<i>Sharpe</i>],
when proposed for the command of the American forces about a twelvemonth
ago, and recommended as a very honest man, though not remarkably able,
'a little 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_202-V1" id="Page_202-V1">202<br />V1</a></span> 
more ability and a little less honesty upon the present
occasion might serve our turn better.' It is a joke to suppose that
secondary officers can make amends for the defects of the first; the
mainspring must be the mover. As to the others, I don't think we have
much to boast; some are insolent and ignorant, others capable, but
rather aiming at showing their own abilities than making a proper use of
them. I have a very great love for my friend Orme, and think it
uncommonly fortunate for our leader that he is under the influence of so
honest and capable a man; but I wish for the sake of the public he had
some more experience of business, particularly in America. I am greatly
disgusted at seeing an expedition (as it is called), so ill-concerted
originally in England, so improperly conducted since in America."
<span class="superscript">[209]</span></p>

<div class="footer">
		<p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_207" name="footer_207"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[207]</span>
Orme, <i>Journal</i>.</p>
    <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_208" name="footer_208"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[208]</span>
<i>Writings of Washington</i>, II. 77.</p>
    <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_209" name="footer_209"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[209]</span>
<i>Shirley the younger to Morris</i>, 23 <i>May</i>, 1755, in
<i>Colonial Records of Pa.</i>, VI. 404.</p>
</div>

<p>Captain Robert Orme, of whom Shirley speaks, was aide-de-camp to
Braddock, and author of a copious and excellent Journal of the
expedition, now in the British Museum.<span class="superscript">[210]</span>
His portrait, painted at
full length by Sir Joshua Reynolds, hangs in the National Gallery at
London. He stands by his horse, a gallant young figure, with a face
pale, yet rather handsome, booted to the knee, his scarlet coat, ample
waistcoat, and small three-cornered hat all heavy with gold lace. The
General had two other aides-de-camp, Captain Roger Morris 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_203-V1" id="Page_203-V1">203<br />V1</a></span> 
and Colonel
George Washington, whom he had invited, in terms that do him honor, to
become one of his military family.</p>

<div class="footer">
		<p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_210" name="footer_210"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[210]</span>
Printed by Sargent, in his excellent monograph of Braddock's 
Expedition.</p>
</div>

<p>It has been said that Braddock despised not only provincials, but
Indians. Nevertheless he took some pains to secure their aid, and
complained that Indian affairs had been so ill conducted by the
provinces that it was hard to gain their confidence. This was true; the
tribes had been alienated by gross neglect. Had they been protected from
injustice and soothed by attentions and presents, the Five Nations,
Delawares, and Shawanoes would have been retained as friends. But their
complaints had been slighted, and every gift begrudged. The trader
Croghan brought, however, about fifty warriors, with as many women and
children, to the camp at Fort Cumberland. They were objects of great
curiosity to the soldiers, who gazed with astonishment on their faces,
painted red, yellow, and black, their ears slit and hung with pendants,
and their heads close shaved, except the feathered scalp-lock at the
crown. "In the day," says an officer, "they are in our camp, and in the
night they go into their own, where they dance and make a most horrible
noise." Braddock received them several times in his tent, ordered the
guard to salute them, made them speeches, caused cannon to be fired and
drums and fifes to play in their honor, regaled them with rum, and gave
them a bullock for a feast; whereupon, being much pleased, they danced a
war-dance, described by one spectator as "droll and 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_204-V1" id="Page_204-V1">204<br />V1</a></span> 
odd, showing how
they scalp and fight;" after which, says another, "they set up the most
horrid song or cry that ever I heard." <span class="superscript">[211]</span>
These warriors, with a few others, promised the General to join him on 
the march; but he apparently grew tired of them, for a famous chief, 
called Scarroyaddy, afterwards complained: "He looked upon us as dogs, 
and would never hear anything that we said to him." Only eight of them 
remained with him to the end. <span class="superscript">[212]</span></p>

<div class="footer">
		<p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_211" name="footer_211"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[211]</span>
<i>Journal of a Naval Officer</i>, in Sargent. <i>The Expedition
of Major-General Braddock, being Extracts of Letters from an Officer</i>
(London, 1755).</p>
   <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_212" name="footer_212"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[212]</span>
<i>Statement of George Croghan</i>, in Sargent, appendix iii.</p>
</div>

<p>Another ally appeared at the camp. This was a personage long known in
Western fireside story as Captain Jack, the Black Hunter, or the Black
Rifle. It was said of him that, having been a settler on the farthest
frontier, in the Valley of the Juniata, he returned one evening to his
cabin and found it burned to the ground by Indians, and the bodies of
his wife and children lying among the ruins. He vowed undying vengeance,
raised a band of kindred spirits, dressed and painted like Indians, and
became the scourge of the red man and the champion of the white. But he
and his wild crew, useful as they might have been, shocked Braddock's
sense of military fitness; and he received them so coldly that they left
him. <span class="superscript">[213]</span></p>

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		<p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_213" name="footer_213"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[213]</span>
See several traditional accounts and contemporary letters
in <i>Hazard's Pennsylvania Register</i>, IV. 389, 390, 416; V. 191.</p>
</div>

<p>
It was the tenth of June before the army was well on its march. Three
hundred axemen led the way, to cut and clear the road; and the long
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_205-V1" id="Page_205-V1">205<br />V1</a></span> 
train of packhorses, wagons, and cannon toiled on behind, over the
stumps, roots, and stones of the narrow track, the regulars and
provincials marching in the forest close on either side. Squads of men
were thrown out on the flanks, and scouts ranged the woods to guard
against surprise; for, with all his scorn of Indians and Canadians,
Braddock did not neglect reasonable precautions. Thus, foot by foot,
they advanced into the waste of lonely mountains that divided the
streams flowing to the Atlantic from those flowing to the Gulf of
Mexico,&mdash;a realm of forests ancient as the world. The road was but
twelve feet wide, and the line of march often extended four miles. It
was like a thin, long party-colored snake, red, blue, and brown,
trailing slowly through the depth of leaves, creeping round inaccessible
heights, crawling over ridges, moving always in dampness and shadow, by
rivulets and waterfalls, crags and chasms, gorges and shaggy steps. In
glimpses only, through jagged boughs and flickering leaves, did this
wild primeval world reveal itself, with its dark green mountains,
flecked with the morning mist, and its distant summits pencilled in
dreamy blue. The army passed the main Alleghany, Meadow Mountain, and
Great Savage Mountain, and traversed the funereal pine-forest afterwards
called the Shades of Death. No attempt was made to interrupt their
march, though the commandant of Fort Duquesne had sent out parties for
that purpose. A few French and Indians hovered about them, now and then
scalping 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_206-V1" id="Page_206-V1">206<br />V1</a></span> 
a straggler or inscribing filthy insults on trees; while others
fell upon the border settlements which the advance of the troops had
left defenceless. Here they were more successful, butchering about
thirty persons, chiefly women and children.</p>

<p>It was the eighteenth of June before the army reached a place called the
Little Meadows, less than thirty miles from Fort Cumberland. Fever and
dysentery among the men, and the weakness and worthlessness of many of
the horses, joined to the extreme difficulty of the road, so retarded
them that they could move scarcely more than three miles a day. Braddock
consulted with Washington, who advised him to leave the heavy baggage
to follow as it could, and push forward with a body of chosen troops.
This counsel was given in view of a report that five hundred regulars
were on the way to reinforce Fort Duquesne. It was adopted. Colonel
Dunbar was left to command the rear division, whose powers of movement
were now reduced to the lowest point. The advance corps, consisting of
about twelve hundred soldiers, besides officers and drivers, began its
march on the nineteenth with such artillery as was thought
indispensable, thirty wagons, and a large number of packhorses. "The
prospect," writes Washington to his brother, "conveyed infinite delight
to my mind, though I was excessively ill at the time. But this prospect
was soon clouded, and my hopes brought very low indeed when I found
that, instead of pushing on with vigor without regarding a little rough
road, they 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_207-V1" id="Page_207-V1">207<br />V1</a></span> 
were halting to level every mole-hill, and to erect bridges
over every brook, by which means we were four days in getting twelve
miles." It was not till the seventh of July that they neared the mouth
of Turtle Creek, a stream entering the Monongahela about eight miles
from the French fort. The way was direct and short, but would lead them
through a difficult country and a defile so perilous that Braddock
resolved to ford the Monongahela to avoid this danger, and then ford it
again to reach his destination.</p>

<p>Fort Duquesne stood on the point of land where the Alleghany and the
Monongahela join to form the Ohio, and where now stands Pittsburg, with
its swarming population, its restless industries, the clang of its
forges, and its chimneys vomiting foul smoke into the face of heaven. At
that early day a white flag fluttering over a cluster of palisades and
embankments betokened the first intrusion of civilized men upon a scene
which, a few months before, breathed the repose of a virgin wilderness,
voiceless but for the lapping of waves upon the pebbles, or the note of
some lonely bird. But now the sleep of ages was broken, and bugle and
drum told the astonished forest that its doom was pronounced and its
days numbered. The fort was a compact little work, solidly built and
strong, compared with others on the continent. It was a square of four
bastions, with the water close on two sides, and the other two protected
by ravelins, ditch, glacis, and covered way. The ramparts on these sides
were of squared logs, filled 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_208-V1" id="Page_208-V1">208<br />V1</a></span> 
in with earth, and ten feet or more thick.
The two water sides were enclosed by a massive stockade of upright logs,
twelve feet high, mortised together and loopholed. The armament
consisted of a number of small cannon mounted on the bastions. A gate
and drawbridge on the east side gave access to the area within, which
was surrounded by barracks for the soldiers, officers' quarters, the
lodgings of the commandant, a guard-house, and a storehouse, all built
partly of logs and partly of boards. There were no casemates, and the
place was commanded by a high woody hill beyond the Monongahela. The
forest had been cleared away to the distance of more than a musket shot
from the ramparts, and the stumps were hacked level with the ground.
Here, just outside the ditch, bark cabins had been built for such of the
troops and Canadians as could not find room within; and the rest of the
open space was covered with Indian corn and other crops.
<span class="superscript">[214]</span></p>

<div class="footer">
		<p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_214" name="footer_214"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[214]</span>
<i>M'Kinney's Description of Fort Duquesne</i>, 1756, in <i>Hazard's 
Pennsylvania Register</i>, VIII. 318. <i>Letters of Robert Stobo, Hostage at 
Fort Duquesne</i>, 1754, in <i>Colonial Records of Pa.</i>, VI. 141, 161. 
Stobo's <i>Plan of Fort Duquesne</i>, 1754. <i>Journal of Thomas Forbes</i>, 
1755. <i>Letter of Captain Haslet</i>, 1758, in <i>Olden Time</i>,  I. 184.  
<i>Plan of Fort Duquesne</i> in Public Record Office.</p>
</div>

<p>The garrison consisted of a few companies of the regular troops
stationed permanently in the colony, and to these were added a
considerable number of Canadians. Contrec&oelig;ur still held the
command. <span class="superscript">[215]</span> Under him were three 
other captains, Beaujeu, Dumas, and Ligneris. Besides the troops and 
Canadians, eight hundred Indian warriors, 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_209-V1" id="Page_209-V1">209<br />V1</a></span> 
mustered from far and near, had built their wigwams and
camp-sheds on the open ground, or under the edge of the neighboring
woods,&mdash;very little to the advantage of the young corn. Some were
baptized savages settled in Canada,&mdash;Caughnawagas from Saut St. Louis,
Abenakis from St. Francis, and Hurons from Lorette, whose chief bore the
name of Anastase, in honor of that Father of the Church. The rest were
unmitigated heathen,&mdash;Pottawattamies and Ojibwas from the northern lakes
under Charles Langlade, the same bold partisan who had led them, three
years before, to attack the Miamis at Pickawillany; Shawanoes and
Mingoes from the Ohio; and Ottawas from Detroit, commanded, it is said,
by that most redoubtable of savages, Pontiac. The law of the survival of
the fittest had wrought on this heterogeneous crew through countless
generations; and with the primitive Indian, the fittest was the
hardiest, fiercest, most adroit, and most wily. Baptized and heathen
alike, they had just enjoyed a diversion greatly to their taste. A young
Pennsylvanian named James Smith, a spirited and intelligent boy of
eighteen, had been waylaid by three Indians on the western borders of
the province and led captive to the fort. When the party came to the
edge of the clearing, his captors, who had shot and scalped his
companion, raised the scalp-yell; whereupon a din of responsive whoops
and firing of guns rose from all the Indian camps, and their inmates
swarmed out like bees, while the French in the fort shot off muskets and
cannon to honor the occasion. The 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_210-V1" id="Page_210-V1">210<br />V1</a></span> 
unfortunate boy, the object of this
obstreperous rejoicing, presently saw a multitude of savages, naked,
hideously bedaubed with red, blue, black, and brown, and armed with
sticks or clubs, ranging themselves in two long parallel lines, between
which he was told that he must run, the faster the better, as they would
beat him all the way. He ran with his best speed, under a shower of
blows, and had nearly reached the end of the course, when he was knocked
down. He tried to rise, but was blinded by a handful of sand thrown into
his face; and then they beat him till he swooned. On coming to his
senses he found himself in the fort, with the surgeon opening a vein in
his arm and a crowd of French and Indians looking on. In a few days he
was able to walk with the help of a stick; and, coming out from his
quarters one morning, he saw a memorable scene. 
<span class="superscript">[216]</span></p>

<div class="footer">
		<p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_215" name="footer_215"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[215]</span>
See <a href="#appendixD">Appendix D</a>.</p>
    <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_216" name="footer_216"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[216]</span>
<i>Account of Remarkable Occurrences in the Life of Colonel
James Smith, written by himself</i>. Perhaps the best of all the numerous
narratives of captives among the Indians.</p>
</div>

<p>Three days before, an Indian had brought the report that the English
were approaching; and the Chevalier de la Perade was sent out to
reconnoitre. <span class="superscript">[217]</span>
He returned on the next day, the seventh, with news
that they were not far distant. On the eighth the brothers Normanville
went out, and found that they were within six leagues of the fort. The
French were in great excitement and alarm; but Contrec&oelig;ur at length
took a resolution, which seems to have been inspired by Beaujeu.
<span class="superscript">[218]</span> 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_211-V1" id="Page_211-V1">211<br />V1</a></span> 
It was determined to meet the enemy on the march, and ambuscade them if
possible at the crossing of the Monongahela, or some other favorable
spot. Beaujeu proposed the plan to the Indians, and offered them the
war-hatchet; but they would not take it. "Do you want to die, my father,
and sacrifice us besides?" That night they held a council, and in the
morning again refused to go. Beaujeu did not despair. "I am determined,"
he exclaimed, "to meet the English. What! will you let your father go
alone?" <span class="superscript">[219]</span> The greater part caught 
fire at his words, promised to follow him, and put on their war-paint. 
Beaujeu received the communion, then dressed himself like a savage, and 
joined the clamorous throng. Open barrels of gunpowder and bullets were 
set before the gate of the fort, and James Smith, painfully climbing the 
rampart with the help of his stick, looked down on the warrior rabble as, 
huddling together, wild with excitement, they scooped up the contents to 
fill their powder-horns and pouches. Then, band after band, they filed 
off along the forest track that led to the ford of the Monongahela. 
They numbered six hundred and thirty-seven; and with them went thirty-six 
French officers and cadets, seventy-two regular soldiers, and a hundred 
and forty-six Canadians, or about nine hundred in all. 
<span class="superscript">[220]</span> 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_212-V1" id="Page_212-V1">212<br />V1</a></span> 
At eight o'clock the tumult was over. The broad clearing lay lonely and 
still, and Contrec&oelig;ur, with what was left of his garrison, waited 
in suspense for the issue.</p>

<div class="footer">
		<p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_217" name="footer_217"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[217]</span>
<i>Relation de Godefroy</i>, in Shea, <i>Bataille du Malangueul&eacute;</i> 
(Monongahela).</p>
   <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_218" name="footer_218"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[218]</span>
Dumas, however, declares that Beaujeu adopted the plan at
his suggestion. <i>Dumas au Ministre</i>, 24 <i>Juillet</i>, 1756.</p>
   <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_219" name="footer_219"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[219]</span>
<i>Relation depuis le D&eacute;part des Trouppes de Qu&eacute;bec
jusqu'au</i> 30 <i>du Mois de Septembre</i>, 1755.</p>
   <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_220" name="footer_220"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[220]</span>
<i>Liste des Officiers, Cadets, Soldats, Miliciens, et Sauvages qui 
composaient le D&eacute;tachement qui a &eacute;t&eacute; au devant d'un Corps
de 2,000 Anglois &agrave; 3 Lieues du Fort Duquesne, le</i> 9 <i>Juillet</i>, 
1755; <i>joint &agrave; la Lettre de M. Bigot du</i> 6 <i>Ao&ucirc;t</i>, 1755.
</p>
</div>

<p>It was near one o'clock when Braddock crossed the Monongahela for the
second time. If the French made a stand anywhere, it would be, he
thought, at the fording-place; but Lieutenant-Colonel Gage, whom he sent
across with a strong advance-party, found no enemy, and quietly took
possession of the farther shore. Then the main body followed. To impose
on the imagination of the French scouts, who were doubtless on the
watch, the movement was made with studied regularity and order. The sun
was cloudless, and the men were inspirited by the prospect of near
triumph. Washington afterwards spoke with admiration of the
spectacle. <span class="superscript">[221]</span> 
The music, the banners, the mounted officers, the troop
of light cavalry, the naval detachment, the red-coated regulars, the
blue-coated Virginians, the wagons and tumbrils, cannon, howitzers, and
coehorns, the train of packhorses, and the droves of cattle, passed in
long procession through the rippling shallows, and slowly entered the
bordering forest. Here, when all were over, a short halt was ordered for
rest and refreshment.</p>

<div class="footer">
		<p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_221" name="footer_221"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[221]</span>
Compare the account of another eye-witness, Dr. Walker,
in <i>Hazard's Pennsylvania Register</i>, VI. 104.</p>
</div>

<p>Why had not Beaujeu defended the ford? This was his intention in the
morning; but he had been 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_213-V1" id="Page_213-V1">213<br />V1</a></span> 
met by obstacles, the nature of which is not
wholly clear. His Indians, it seems, had proved refractory. Three
hundred of them left him, went off in another direction, and did not
rejoin him till the English had crossed the river.
<span class="superscript">[222]</span> Hence perhaps it
was that, having left Fort Duquesne at eight o'clock, he spent half the
day in marching seven miles, and was more than a mile from the
fording-place when the British reached the eastern shore. The delay,
from whatever cause arising, cost him the opportunity of laying an
ambush either at the ford or in the gullies and ravines that channelled
the forest through which Braddock was now on the point of marching.</p>

<div class="footer">
		<p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_222" name="footer_222"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[222]</span>
<i>Relation de Godefroy</i>, in Shea, <i>Bataille du 
Malangueul&eacute;</i>.</p>
</div>

<p>Not far from the bank of the river, and close by the British line of
march, there was a clearing and a deserted house that had once belonged
to the trader Fraser. Washington remembered it well. It was here that he
found rest and shelter on the winter journey homeward from his mission
to Fort Le B&oelig;uf. He was in no less need of rest at this moment; for
recent fever had so weakened him that he could hardly sit his horse.
From Fraser's house to Fort Duquesne the distance was eight miles by a
rough path, along which the troops were now beginning to move after
their halt. It ran inland for a little; then curved to the left, and
followed a course parallel to the river along the base of a line of
steep hills that here bordered the valley. These and all the country
were buried in dense and heavy forest, 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_214-V1" id="Page_214-V1">214<br />V1</a></span> 
choked with bushes and the
carcases of fallen trees. Braddock has been charged with marching
blindly into an ambuscade; but it was not so. There was no ambuscade;
and had there been one, he would have found it. It is true that he did
not reconnoitre the woods very far in advance of the head of the column;
yet, with this exception, he made elaborate dispositions to prevent
surprise. Several guides, with six Virginian light horsemen, led the
way. Then, a musket-shot behind, came the vanguard; then three hundred
soldiers under Gage; then a large body of axemen, under Sir John
Sinclair, to open the road; then two cannon with tumbrils and
tool-wagons; and lastly the rear-guard, closing the line, while
flanking-parties ranged the woods on both sides. This was the
advance-column. The main body followed with little or no interval. The
artillery and wagons moved along the road, and the troops filed through
the woods close on either hand. Numerous flanking-parties were thrown
out a hundred yards and more to right and left; while, in the space
between them and the marching column, the pack horses and cattle, with
their drivers, made their way painfully among the trees and thickets;
since, had they been allowed to follow the road, the line of march would
have been too long for mutual support. A body of regulars and
provincials brought up the rear.</p>

<p>Gage, with his advance-column, had just passed a wide and bushy ravine
that crossed their path, and the van of the main column was on the point
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_215-V1" id="Page_215-V1">215<br />V1</a></span> 
of entering it, when the guides and light horsemen in the front suddenly
fell back; and the engineer, Gordon, then engaged in marking out the
road, saw a man, dressed like an Indian, but wearing the gorget of an
officer, bounding forward along the path. 
<span class="superscript">[223]</span> He stopped when he
discovered the head of the column, turned, and waved his hat. The forest
behind was swarming with French and savages. At the signal of the
officer, who was probably Beaujeu, they yelled the war-whoop, spread
themselves to right and left, and opened a sharp fire under cover of the
trees. Gage's column wheeled deliberately into line, and fired several
volleys with great steadiness against the now invisible assailants. Few
of them were hurt; the trees caught the shot, but the noise was
deafening under the dense arches of the forest. The greater part of the
Canadians, to borrow the words of Dumas, "fled shamefully, crying 'Sauve
qui peut!'" <span class="superscript">[224]</span>
Volley followed volley, and at the third Beaujeu
dropped dead. Gage's two cannon were now brought to bear, on which the
Indians, like the Canadians, gave way in confusion, but did not, like
them, abandon the field. The close scarlet ranks of the English were
plainly to be seen through the trees and the smoke; they were moving
forward, cheering lustily, and shouting "God save the King!" Dumas, now
chief in command, thought that all was lost. "I advanced," he says,
"with the assurance that comes 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_216-V1" id="Page_216-V1">216<br />V1</a></span> 
from despair, exciting by voice and
gesture the few soldiers that remained. The fire of my platoon was so
sharp that the enemy seemed astonished." The Indians, encouraged, began
to rally. The French officers who commanded them showed admirable
courage and address; and while Dumas and Ligneris, with the regulars and
what was left of the Canadians, held the ground in front, the savage
warriors, screeching their war-cries, swarmed through the forest along
both flanks of the English, hid behind trees, bushes, and fallen trunks,
or crouched in gullies and ravines, and opened a deadly fire on the
helpless soldiery, who, themselves completely visible, could see no
enemy, and wasted volley after volley on the impassive trees. The most
destructive fire came from a hill on the English right, where the
Indians lay in multitudes, firing from their lurking-places on the
living target below. But the invisible death was everywhere, in front,
flank, and rear. The British cheer was heard no more. The troops broke
their ranks and huddled together in a bewildered mass, shrinking from
the bullets that cut them down by scores.</p>

<div class="footer">
		<p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_223" name="footer_223"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[223]</span>
<i>Journal of the Proceeding of the Detachment of Seamen</i>,
in Sargent.</p>
    <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_224" name="footer_224"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[224]</span>
<i>Dumas au Ministre</i>, 24 <i>Juillet</i>, 1756. <i>Contrec&oelig;ur &agrave;
Vaudreuil</i>, 14 <i>Juillet</i>, 1755. 
See <a href="#appendixD">Appendix D</a>, where extracts are given.</p>
</div>

<p>When Braddock heard the firing in the front, he pushed forward with the
main body to the support of Gage, leaving four hundred men in the rear,
under Sir Peter Halket, to guard the baggage. At the moment of his
arrival Gage's soldiers had abandoned their two cannon, and were falling
back to escape the concentrated fire of the Indians. Meeting the
advancing troops, 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_217-V1" id="Page_217-V1">217<br />V1</a></span> 
they tried to find cover behind them. This threw the
whole into confusion. The men of the two regiments became mixed
together; and in a short time the entire force, except the Virginians
and the troops left with Halket, were massed in several dense bodies
within a small space of ground, facing some one way and some another,
and all alike exposed without shelter to the bullets that pelted them
like hail. Both men and officers were new to this blind and frightful
warfare of the savage in his native woods. To charge the Indians in
their hiding-places would have been useless. They would have eluded
pursuit with the agility of wildcats, and swarmed back, like angry
hornets, the moment that it ceased. The Virginians alone were equal to
the emergency. Fighting behind trees like the Indians themselves, they
might have held the enemy in check till order could be restored, had not
Braddock, furious at a proceeding that shocked all his ideas of courage
and discipline, ordered them, with oaths, to form into line. A body of
them under Captain Waggoner made a dash for a fallen tree lying in the
woods, far out towards the lurking-places of the Indians, and, crouching
behind the huge trunk, opened fire; but the regulars, seeing the smoke
among the bushes, mistook their best friends for the enemy, shot at them
from behind, killed many, and forced the rest to return. A few of the
regulars also tried in their clumsy way to fight behind trees; but
Braddock beat them with his sword, and compelled them to stand with the
rest, an 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_218-V1" id="Page_218-V1">218<br />V1</a></span> 
open mark for the Indians. The panic increased; the soldiers
crowded together, and the bullets spent themselves in a mass of human
bodies. Commands, entreaties, and threats were lost upon them. "We would
fight," some of them answered, "if we could see anybody to fight with."
Nothing was visible but puffs of smoke. Officers and men who had stood
all the afternoon under fire afterwards declared that they could not be
sure they had seen a single Indian. Braddock ordered Lieutenant-Colonel
Burton to attack the hill where the puffs of smoke were thickest, and
the bullets most deadly. With infinite difficulty that brave officer
induced a hundred men to follow him; but he was soon disabled by a
wound, and they all faced about. The artillerymen stood for some time by
their guns, which did great damage to the trees and little to the enemy.
The mob of soldiers, stupefied with terror, stood panting, their
foreheads beaded with sweat, loading and firing mechanically, sometimes
into the air, sometimes among their own comrades, many of whom they
killed. The ground, strewn with dead and wounded men, the bounding of
maddened horses, the clatter and roar of musketry and cannon, mixed with
the spiteful report of rifles and the yells that rose from the
indefatigable throats of six hundred unseen savages, formed a chaos of
anguish and terror scarcely paralleled even in Indian war. "I cannot
describe the horrors of that scene," one of Braddock's officers wrote
three weeks after; "no pen could do it. The yell of the Indians is fresh
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_219-V1" id="Page_219-V1">219<br />V1</a></span> 
on my ear, and the terrific sound will haunt me till the hour of my
dissolution." <span class="superscript">[225]</span></p>

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		<p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_225" name="footer_225"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[225]</span>
<i>Leslie to a Merchant of Philadelphia</i>, 30 <i>July</i>, 1755, in
<i>Hazard's Pennsylvania Register</i>, V. 191. Leslie was a lieutenant of the
Forty-fourth.</p>
</div>

<p>Braddock showed a furious intrepidity. Mounted on horseback, he dashed
to and fro, storming like a madman. Four horses were shot under him, and
he mounted a fifth. Washington seconded his chief with equal courage; he
too no doubt using strong language, for he did not measure words when
the fit was on him. He escaped as by miracle. Two horses were killed
under him, and four bullets tore his clothes. The conduct of the British
officers was above praise. Nothing could surpass their undaunted
self-devotion; and in their vain attempts to lead on the men, the havoc
among them was frightful. Sir Peter Halket was shot dead. His son, a
lieutenant in his regiment, stooping to raise the body of his father,
was shot dead in turn. Young Shirley, Braddock's secretary, was pierced
through the brain. Orme and Morris, his aides-de-camp, Sinclair, the
quartermaster-general, Gates and Gage, both afterwards conspicuous on
opposite sides in the War of the Revolution, and Gladwin, who, eight
years later, defended Detroit against Pontiac, were all wounded. Of
eighty-six officers, sixty-three were killed or disabled; 
<span class="superscript">[226]</span> while out
of thirteen hundred and seventy-three non-commissioned officers 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_220-V1" id="Page_220-V1">220<br />V1</a></span> 
and
privates, only four hundred and fifty-nine came off unharmed.
<span class="superscript">[227]</span></p>

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		<p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_226" name="footer_226"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[226]</span>
<i>A List of the Officers who were present, and of those
killed and wounded, in the Action on the Banks of the Monongahela</i>, 
9 <i>July</i>, 1755 (Public Record Office, <i>America and West Indies</i>, 
LXXXII.).</p>
    <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_227" name="footer_227"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[227]</span>
Statement of the engineer, Mackellar. By another account,
out of a total, officers and men, of 1,460, the number of all ranks who
escaped was 583. Braddock's force, originally 1,200, was increased, a
few days before the battle, by detachments from Dunbar.</p>
</div>

<p>Braddock saw that all was lost. To save the wreck of his force from
annihilation, he at last commanded a retreat; and as he and such of his
officers as were left strove to withdraw the half-frenzied crew in some
semblance of order, a bullet struck him down. The gallant bulldog fell
from his horse, shot through the arm into the lungs. It is said, though
on evidence of no weight, that the bullet came from one of his own men.
Be this as it may, there he lay among the bushes, bleeding, gasping,
unable even to curse. He demanded to be left where he was. Captain
Stewart and another provincial bore him between them to the rear.</p>

<p>It was about this time that the mob of soldiers, having been three hours
under fire, and having spent their ammunition, broke away in a blind
frenzy, rushed back towards the ford, "and when," says Washington, "we
endeavored to rally them, it was with as much success as if we had
attempted to stop the wild bears of the mountains." They dashed across,
helter-skelter, plunging through the water to the farther bank, leaving
wounded comrades, cannon, baggage, the military chest, and the General's
papers, a prey to the Indians. About fifty of these followed to the edge
of the river. Dumas and Ligneris, who had 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_221-V1" id="Page_221-V1">221<br />V1</a></span> 
now only about twenty
Frenchmen with them, made no attempt to pursue, and went back to the
fort, because, says Contrec&oelig;ur, so many of the Canadians had "retired
at the first fire." The field, abandoned to the savages, was a
pandemonium of pillage and murder. <span class="superscript">[228]</span>
</p>

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		<p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_228" name="footer_228"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[228]</span>
"Nous pr&icirc;mes le parti de nous retirer en vue de rallier
notre petite arm&eacute;e." <i>Dumas au Ministre</i>, 24 <i>Juillet</i>, 1756.
</p>
<p>On the defeat of Braddock, besides authorities already 
cited,&mdash;<i>Shirley to Robinson</i>, 5 <i>Nov</i>. 1755, accompanying the 
plans of the battle reproduced in this volume (Public Record Office, 
<i>America and West Indies</i>, LXXXII.). The plans were drawn at Shirley's 
request by Patrick Mackellar, chief engineer of the expedition, who was with 
Gage in the advance column when the fight began. They were examined and fully
approved by the chief surviving officers, and they closely correspond with 
another plan made by the aide-de-camp Orme,&mdash;which, however, shows
only the beginning of the affair.</p>
<p><i>Report of the Court of Inquiry into the Behavior of the Troops at the
Monongahela. Letters of Dinwiddie. Letters of Gage. Burd to Morris</i>, 25
<i>July</i>, 1755. <i>Sinclair to Robinson</i>, 3 <i>Sept</i>. <i>Rutherford 
to&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;</i>, 12 <i>July</i>. <i>Writings of Washington</i>, 
II. 68-93. <i>Review of Military Operations in North America</i>. 
Entick, I. 145. <i>Gentleman's Magazine</i> (1755), 378, 426.
<i>Letter to a Friend on the Ohio Defeat</i> (Boston, 1755).</p>
<p><i>Contrec&oelig;ur &agrave; Vaudreuil</i>, 14 <i>Juillet</i>, 1755. 
<i>Estat de l'Artillerie, etc., qui se sont trouv&eacute;s sur le Champ de 
Bataille. Vaudreuil au Ministre</i>, 5 <i>Ao&ucirc;t</i>, 1755. <i>Bigot au 
Ministre</i>, 27 <i>Ao&ucirc;t</i>. <i>Relation du Combat du 9 Juillet. 
Relation depuis le D&eacute;part des Trouppes de Qu&eacute;bec jusqu'au 30 
du Mois de Septembre. Lotbini&egrave;re &agrave; d'Argenson</i>, 24 <i>Oct</i>. 
<i>Relation officielle imprim&eacute;e au Louvre. Relation de Godefroy</i> 
(Shea). <i>Extraits du Registre du Fort Duquesne</i> (<i>Ibid.</i>). 
<i>Relation de diverses Mouvements</i> (<i>Ibid.</i>). Pouchot, I. 37.</p>
</div>

<p>James Smith, the young prisoner at Fort Duquesne, had passed a day of
suspense, waiting the result. "In the afternoon I again observed a great
noise and commotion in the fort, and, though at that time I could not
understand French, I found it was the voice of joy and triumph, and
feared that they had received what I called bad news. I had observed
some of the old-country soldiers speak Dutch; as I spoke Dutch, I went
to one of them and asked him what was 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_222-V1" id="Page_222-V1">222<br />V1</a></span> 
the news. He told me that a runner
had just arrived who said that Braddock would certainly be defeated;
that the Indians and French had surrounded him, and were concealed
behind trees and in gullies, and kept a constant fire upon the English;
and that they saw the English falling in heaps; and if they did not take
the river, which was the only gap, and make their escape, there would
not be one man left alive before sundown. Some time after this, I heard
a number of scalp-halloos, and saw a company of Indians and French
coming in. I observed they had a great number of bloody scalps,
grenadiers' caps, British canteens, bayonets, etc., with them. They
brought the news that Braddock was defeated. After that another company
came in, which appeared to be about one hundred, and chiefly Indians;
and it seemed to me that almost every one of this company was carrying
scalps. After this came another company with a number of wagon-horses,
and also a great many scalps. Those that were coming in and those that
had arrived kept a constant firing of small arms, and also the great
guns in the fort, which were accompanied with the most hideous shouts
and yells from all quarters, so that it appeared to me as though the
infernal regions had broke loose.</p>

<p>"About sundown I beheld a small party coming in with about a dozen
prisoners, stripped naked, with their hands tied behind their backs and
their faces and part of their bodies blacked; these prisoners they
burned to death on the bank of 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_223-V1" id="Page_223-V1">223<br />V1</a></span> 
Alleghany River, opposite the fort. I stood on the fort wall until I beheld 
them begin to burn one of these men; they had him tied to a stake, and kept 
touching him with firebrands, red-hot irons, etc., and he screaming in a 
most doleful manner, the Indians in the meantime yelling like infernal 
spirits. As this scene appeared too shocking for me to behold, I retired to 
my lodging, both sore and sorry. When I came into my lodgings I saw
Russel's <i>Seven Sermons</i>, which they had brought from the field of
battle, which a Frenchman made a present of to me."</p>

<p>The loss of the French was slight, but fell chiefly on the officers,
three of whom were killed, and four wounded. Of the regular soldiers,
all but four escaped untouched. The Canadians suffered still less, in
proportion to their numbers, only five of them being hurt. The Indians,
who won the victory, bore the principal loss. Of those from Canada,
twenty-seven were killed and wounded; while the casualties among the
Western tribes are not reported. 
<span class="superscript">[229]</span> All of these last went off the
next morning with their plunder and scalps, leaving Contrec&oelig;ur in great
anxiety lest the remnant of Braddock's troops, reinforced by the
division under Dunbar, should attack him again. His doubts would have
vanished had he known the condition of his defeated enemy.</p>

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		<p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_229" name="footer_229"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[229]</span>
<i>Liste des Officiers, Soldats, Miliciens, et Sauvages de Canada qui ont 
&eacute;t&eacute; tu&eacute;s et bless&eacute;s le</i> 9 <i>Juillet</i>, 
1755.</p>
</div>

<p>In the pain and languor of a mortal wound, Braddock showed unflinching
resolution. His bearers 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_224-V1" id="Page_224-V1">224<br />V1</a></span> 
stopped with him at a favorable spot beyond the Monongahela; and here he 
hoped to maintain his position till the arrival of Dunbar. By the efforts 
of the officers about a hundred men were collected around him; but to keep 
them there was impossible. Within an hour they abandoned him, and fled like 
the rest. Gage, however, succeeded in rallying about eighty beyond the 
other fording-place; and Washington, on an order from Braddock, spurred his 
jaded horse towards the camp of Dunbar to demand wagons, provisions, and 
hospital stores.</p>

<p>Fright overcame fatigue. The fugitives toiled on all night, pursued by
spectres of horror and despair; hearing still the war-whoops and the
shrieks; possessed with the one thought of escape from the wilderness of
death. In the morning some order was restored. Braddock was placed on a
horse; then, the pain being insufferable, he was carried on a litter,
Captain Orme having bribed the carriers by the promise of a guinea and a
bottle of rum apiece. Early in the succeeding night, such as had not
fainted on the way reached the deserted farm of Gist. Here they met
wagons and provisions, with a detachment of soldiers sent by Dunbar,
whose camp was six miles farther on; and Braddock ordered them to go to
the relief of the stragglers left behind.</p>

<p>At noon of that day a number of wagoners and packhorse-drivers had come
to Dunbar's camp with wild tidings of rout and ruin. More fugitives
followed; and soon after a wounded officer was brought in upon a sheet.
The drums beat to arms. 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_225-V1" id="Page_225-V1">225<br />V1</a></span> 
The camp was in commotion; and many soldiers and teamsters took to flight, 
in spite of the sentinels, who tried in vain to stop them. 
<span class="superscript">[230]</span> There was a still more disgraceful 
scene on the next day, after Braddock, with the wreck of his force, had 
arrived. Orders were given to destroy such of the wagons, stores, and 
ammunition as could not be carried back at once to Fort Cumberland. Whether 
Dunbar or the dying General gave these orders is not clear; but it is certain 
that they were executed with shameful alacrity. More than a hundred wagons
were burned; cannon, coehorns, and shells were burst or buried; barrels
of gunpowder were staved, and the contents thrown into a brook;
provisions were scattered through the woods and swamps. Then the whole
command began its retreat over the mountains to Fort Cumberland, sixty
miles distant. This proceeding, for which, in view of the condition of
Braddock, Dunbar must be held answerable, excited the utmost
indignation among the colonists. If he could not advance, they thought,
he might at least have fortified himself and held his ground till the
provinces could send him help; thus covering the frontier, and holding
French war-parties in check.</p>

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		<p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_230" name="footer_230"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[230]</span>
<i>Depositions of Matthew Laird, Michael Hoover, and Jacob
Hoover, Wagoners</i>, in <i>Colonial Records of Pa.</i>, VI. 482.</p>
</div>

<p>Braddock's last moment was near. Orme, who, though himself severely
wounded, was with him till his death, told Franklin that he was totally
silent all the first day, and at night said only, "Who would have
thought it?" that all the 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_226-V1" id="Page_226-V1">226<br />V1</a></span> 
next day he was again silent, till at last he muttered, "We shall better 
know how to deal with them another time," and died a few minutes after. 
He had nevertheless found breath to give orders at Gist's for the succor 
of the men who had dropped on the road. It is said, too, that in his last 
hours "he could not bear the sight of a red coat," but murmured praises of 
"the blues," or Virginians, and said that he hoped he should live to reward 
them. <span class="superscript">[231]</span> He died at about
eight o'clock in the evening of Sunday, the thirteenth. Dunbar had begun
his retreat that morning, and was then encamped near the Great Meadows.
On Monday the dead commander was buried in the road; and men, horses,
and wagons passed over his grave, effacing every sign of it, lest the
Indians should find and mutilate the body.</p>

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		<p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_231" name="footer_231"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[231]</span>
<i>Bolling to his Son</i>, 13 <i>Aug</i>. 1755. Bolling was a
Virginian gentleman whose son was at school in England.</p>
</div>

<p>Colonel James Innes, commanding at Fort Cumberland, where a crowd of
invalids with soldiers' wives and other women had been left when the
expedition marched, heard of the defeat, only two days after it
happened, from a wagoner who had fled from the field on horseback. He at
once sent a note of six lines to Lord Fairfax: "I have this moment
received the most melancholy news of the defeat of our troops, the
General killed, and numbers of our officers; our whole artillery taken.
In short, the account I have received is so very bad, that as, please
God, I intend to make a stand here, 'tis highly necessary to raise 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_227-V1" id="Page_227-V1">227<br />V1</a></span> 
the militia everywhere to defend the frontiers." A boy whom he sent out 
on horseback met more fugitives, and came back on the fourteenth with
reports as vague and disheartening as the first. Innes sent them to
Dinwiddie. <span class="superscript">[232]</span> Some days after, Dunbar 
and his train arrived in miserable disorder, and Fort Cumberland was 
turned into a hospital for the shattered fragments of a routed and ruined 
army.</p>

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		<p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_232" name="footer_232"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[232]</span>
<i>Innes to Dinwiddie</i>, 14 <i>July</i>, 1755.</p>
</div>

<p>On the sixteenth a letter was brought in haste to one 
Buchanan at Carlisle, on the Pennsylvanian frontier:&mdash;</p>

<blockquote>
<p>  <span class="smcap">Sir</span>,&mdash;I thought it proper to let 
     you know that I was in the battle
     where we were defeated. And we had about eleven hundred and fifty
     private men, besides officers and others. And we were attacked the
     ninth day about twelve o'clock, and held till about three in the
     afternoon, and then we were forced to retreat, when I suppose we
     might bring off about three hundred whole men, besides a vast many
     wounded. Most of our officers were either wounded or killed;
     General Braddock is wounded, but I hope not mortal; and Sir John
     Sinclair and many others, but I hope not mortal. All the train is
     cut off in a manner. Sir Peter Halket and his son, Captain Polson,
     Captain Gethan, Captain Rose, Captain Tatten killed, and many
     others. Captain Ord of the train is wounded, but I hope not mortal.
     We lost all our artillery entirely, and everything else.</p>

<p>  To Mr. John Smith and Buchannon, and give it to the next post, and
     let him show this to Mr. George Gibson in Lancaster, and Mr.
     Bingham, at the sign of the Ship, and you'll oblige,</p>

<p class="right right-indent">     Yours to command,</p>

<p class="right">     <span class="smcap">John Campbell,</span>
                      <i>Messenger</i>.<span class="superscript">[233]</span></p>
</blockquote>

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		<p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_233" name="footer_233"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[233]</span>
<i>Colonial Records of Pa.</i>, VI. 481.</p>
</div>

<p>
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_228-V1" id="Page_228-V1">228<br />V1</a></span> 
The evil tidings quickly reached Philadelphia, where such confidence had
prevailed that certain over-zealous persons had begun to collect money
for fireworks to celebrate the victory. Two of these, brother physicians
named Bond, came to Franklin and asked him to subscribe; but the sage
looked doubtful. "Why, the devil!" said one of them, "you surely don't
suppose the fort will not be taken?" He reminded them that war is always
uncertain; and the subscription was deferred. 
<span class="superscript">[234]</span> The Governor laid the news of the 
disaster before his Council, telling them at the same time that his 
opponents in the Assembly would not believe it, and had insulted him in 
the street for giving it currency. <span class="superscript">[235]</span></p>

<div class="footer">
		<p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_234" name="footer_234"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[234]</span>
<i>Autobiography of Franklin</i>.</p>
   <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_235" name="footer_235"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[235]</span>
<i>Colonial Records of Pa.</i>, VI. 480.</p>
</div>

<p>Dinwiddie remained tranquil at Williamsburg, sure that all would go
well. The brief note of Innes, forwarded by Lord Fairfax, first
disturbed his dream of triumph; but on second thought he took comfort.
"I am willing to think that account was from a deserter who, in a great
panic, represented what his fears suggested. I wait with impatience for
another express from Fort Cumberland, which I expect will greatly
contradict the former." The news got abroad, and the slaves showed signs
of excitement. "The villany of the negroes on any emergency is what I
always feared," continues the Governor. "An example of one or two at
first may prevent these creatures entering into combinations and wicked
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_229-V1" id="Page_229-V1">229<br />V1</a></span> 
designs." <span class="superscript">[236]</span>
And he wrote to Lord Halifax: "The negro slaves have been
very audacious on the news of defeat on the Ohio. These poor creatures
imagine the French will give them their freedom. We have too many here;
but I hope we shall be able to keep them in proper subjection." Suspense
grew intolerable. "It's monstrous they should be so tardy and dilatory
in sending down any farther account." He sent Major Colin Campbell for
news; when, a day or two later, a courier brought him two letters, one
from Orme, and the other from Washington, both written at Fort
Cumberland on the eighteenth. The letter of Orme began thus: "My dear
Governor, I am so extremely ill in bed with the wound I have received
that I am under the necessity of employing my friend Captain Dobson as
my scribe." Then he told the wretched story of defeat and humiliation.
"The officers were absolutely sacrificed by their unparalleled good
behavior; advancing before their men sometimes in bodies, and sometimes
separately, hoping by such an example to engage the soldiers to follow
them; but to no purpose. Poor Shirley was shot through the head, Captain
Morris very much wounded. Mr. Washington had two horses shot under him,
and his clothes shot through in several places; behaving the whole time
with the greatest courage and resolution."</p>

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		<p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_236" name="footer_236"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[236]</span>
<i>Dinwiddie to Colonel Charles Carter</i>, 18 <i>July</i>, 1755.</p>
</div>

<p>Washington wrote more briefly, saying that, as Orme was giving a full
account of the affair, it 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_230-V1" id="Page_230-V1">230<br />V1</a></span> 
was needless for him to repeat it. Like many
others in the fight, he greatly underrated the force of the enemy, which
he placed at three hundred, or about a third of the actual number,&mdash;a
natural error, as most of the assailants were invisible. "Our poor
Virginians behaved like men, and died like soldiers; for I believe that
out of three companies that were there that day, scarce thirty were left
alive. Captain Peronney and all his officers down to a corporal were
killed. Captain Polson shared almost as hard a fate, for only one of his
escaped. In short, the dastardly behavior of the English soldiers
exposed all those who were inclined to do their duty to almost certain
death. It is imagined (I believe with great justice, too) that two
thirds of both killed and wounded received their shots from our own
cowardly dogs of soldiers, who gathered themselves into a body, contrary
to orders, ten and twelve deep, would then level, fire, and shoot down
the men before them." <span class="superscript">[237]</span></p>

<div class="footer">
		<p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_237" name="footer_237"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[237]</span>
These extracts are taken from the two letters preserved
in the Public Record Office, <i>America and West Indies</i>, 
LXXIV. LXXXII.</p>
</div>

<p>To Orme, Dinwiddie replied: "I read your letter with tears in my eyes;
but it gave me much pleasure to see your name at the bottom, and more so
when I observed by the postscript that your wound is not dangerous. But
pray, dear sir, is it not possible by a second attempt to retrieve the
great loss we have sustained? I presume the General's chariot is at the
fort. In it you may come here, and my house is heartily at your command.
Pray 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_231-V1" id="Page_231-V1">231<br />V1</a></span> 
take care of your valuable health; keep your spirits up, and I
doubt not of your recovery. My wife and girls join me in most sincere
respects and joy at your being so well, and I always am, with great
truth, dear friend, your affectionate humble servant."</p>

<p>To Washington he is less effusive, though he had known him much longer.
He begins, it is true, "Dear Washington," and congratulates him on his
escape; but soon grows formal, and asks: "Pray, sir, with the number of
them remaining, is there no possibility of doing something on the other
side of the mountains before the winter months? Surely you must mistake.
Colonel Dunbar will not march to winter-quarters in the middle of
summer, and leave the frontiers exposed to the invasions of the enemy!
No; he is a better officer, and I have a different opinion of him. I
sincerely wish you health and happiness, and am, with great respect,
sir, your obedient, humble servant."</p>

<p>Washington's letter had contained the astonishing announcement that
Dunbar meant to abandon the frontier and march to Philadelphia.
Dinwiddie, much disturbed, at once wrote to that officer, though without
betraying any knowledge of his intention. "Sir, the melancholy account
of the defeat of our forces gave me a sensible and real concern"&mdash;on
which he enlarges for a while; then suddenly changes style: "Dear
Colonel, is there no method left to retrieve the dishonor done to the
British arms? As you now command all 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_232-V1" id="Page_232-V1">232<br />V1</a></span> 
the forces that remain, are you not able, after a proper refreshment of your 
men, to make a second attempt? You have four months now to come of the best 
weather of the year for such an expedition. What a fine field for honor will 
Colonel Dunbar have to confirm and establish his character as a brave 
officer." Then, after suggesting plans of operation, and entering into much 
detail, the fervid Governor concludes: "It gives me great pleasure that under 
our great loss and misfortunes the command devolves on an officer of so great
military judgment and established character. With my sincere respect and
hearty wishes for success to all your proceedings, I am, worthy sir,
your most obedient, humble servant."</p>

<p>Exhortation and flattery were lost on Dunbar. Dinwiddie received from
him in reply a short, dry note, dated on the first of August, and
acquainting him that he should march for Philadelphia on the second.
This, in fact, he did, leaving the fort to be defended by invalids and a
few Virginians. "I acknowledge," says Dinwiddie, "I was not brought up
to arms; but I think common sense would have prevailed not to leave the
frontiers exposed after having opened a road over the mountains to the
Ohio, by which the enemy can the more easily invade us&hellip;. Your great
colonel," he writes to Orme, "is gone to a peaceful colony, and left our
frontiers open&hellip;. The whole conduct of Colonel Dunbar appears to me
monstrous&hellip;. To march off all the regulars, and leave the fort and
frontiers to be defended by four hundred sick and 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_233-V1" id="Page_233-V1">233<br />V1</a></span> 
wounded, and the poor remains of our provincial forces, appears to me absurd."
<span class="superscript">[238]</span></p>

<div class="footer">
		<p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_238" name="footer_238"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[238]</span>
Dinwiddie's view of Dunbar's conduct is fully justified
by the letters of Shirley, Governor Morris, and Dunbar himself.</p>
</div>

<p>He found some comfort from the burgesses, who gave him forty thousand
pounds, and would, he thinks, have given a hundred thousand if another
attempt against Fort Duquesne had been set afoot. Shirley, too, whom the
death of Braddock had made commander-in-chief, approved the Governor's
plan of renewing offensive operations, and instructed Dunbar to that
effect; ordering him, however, should they prove impracticable, to march
for Albany in aid of the Niagara expedition. 
<span class="superscript">[239]</span> The order found him
safe in Philadelphia. Here he lingered for a while; then marched to join
the northern army, moving at a pace which made it certain that he could
not arrive in time to be of the least use.</p>

<div class="footer">
		<p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_239" name="footer_239"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[239]</span>
<i>Orders for Colonel Thomas Dunbar</i>, 12 <i>Aug</i>. 1755. These
supersede a previous order of August 6, by which Shirley had directed
Dunbar to march northward at once.</p>
</div>

<p>Thus the frontier was left unguarded; and soon, as Dinwiddie had
foreseen, there burst upon it a storm of blood and fire.</p>


<hr />
<div class="chapterhead">
   <br /><a name="Chapter_08" id="Chapter_08"></a>
	 <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_234-V1" id="Page_234-V1">234<br />V1</a></span> 
	 <br /><br /><br />
	 <h2><a href="#Contents08">CHAPTER VIII.</a><br />
	 <span class="med">1755-1763.</span>
	 </h2> 
	 <p class="smcapheader">REMOVAL OF THE ACADIANS.</p>
	 <p class="smcap noindent space-bottom">  
	    State of Acadia &bull; Threatened Invasion &bull; 
			Peril of the English &bull; Their Plans &bull; 
			French Forts to be attacked &bull; 
			Beaus&eacute;jour and its Occupants &bull; 
			French Treatment of the Acadians &bull; John Winslow &bull;
			Siege and Capture of Beaus&eacute;jour &bull; Attitude of Acadians &bull;
			Influence of their Priests &bull; 
			They Refuse the Oath of Allegiance &bull; 
			Their Condition and Character &bull; Pretended Neutrals &bull;
			Moderation of English Authorities &bull;  
			The Acadians persist in their Refusal &bull; Enemies or Subjects? &bull;
			Choice of the Acadians &bull; The Consequence &bull; 
			Their Removal determined &bull; Winslow at Grand Pr&eacute; &bull;
			Conference with Murray &bull; Summons to the Inhabitants &bull; 
			Their Seizure &bull; Their Embarkation &bull; Their Fate &bull; 
			Their Treatment in Canada &bull; Misapprehension concerning them.
   </p> 				
	 <p class="break1"></p> 
</div>

<p class="double-space-top">
<span class="smcap">By</span> the plan which the Duke of Cumberland 
had ordained and Braddock had announced in the Council at Alexandria, 
four blows were to be struck at once to force back the French 
boundaries, lop off the dependencies of Canada, and reduce her from a 
vast territory to a petty province. The first stroke had failed, and 
had shattered the hand of the striker; it remains to see what fortune 
awaited the others.</p>

<p>
It was long since a project of purging Acadia of French influence had
germinated in the fertile mind of Shirley. We have seen in a former
chapter the condition of that afflicted province. Several thousands of
its inhabitants, wrought upon 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_235-V1" id="Page_235-V1">235<br />V1</a></span> 
by intriguing agents of the French Government; taught by their priests 
that fidelity to King Louis was inseparable from fidelity to God, and 
that to swear allegiance to the British Crown was eternal perdition; 
threatened with plunder and death at the hands of the savages whom the 
ferocious missionary, Le Loutre, held over them in terror,&mdash;had 
abandoned, sometimes willingly, but oftener under constraint, the fields 
which they and their fathers had tilled, and crossing the boundary line 
of the Missaguash, had placed themselves under the French flag planted 
on the hill of Beaus&eacute;jour. <span class="superscript">[240]</span>
Here, or in the neighborhood, many of them had remained, wretched and
half starved; while others had been transported to Cape Breton, Isle St.
Jean, or the coasts of the Gulf,&mdash;not so far, however, that they could
not on occasion be used to aid in an invasion of British Acadia.
<span class="superscript">[241]</span>
Those of their countrymen who still lived under the British flag were
chiefly the inhabitants of the district of Mines and of the valley of
the River Annapolis, who, with other less important settlements,
numbered a little more than nine thousand souls. We have shown already,
by the evidence of the French themselves, that neither they nor their
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_236-V1" id="Page_236-V1">236<br />V1</a></span> 
emigrant countrymen had been oppressed or molested in matters temporal
or spiritual, but that the English authorities, recognizing their value
as an industrious population, had labored to reconcile them to a change
of rulers which on the whole was to their advantage. It has been shown
also how, with a heartless perfidy and a reckless disregard of their
welfare and safety, the French Government and its agents labored to keep
them hostile to the Crown of which it had acknowledged them to be
subjects. The result was, that though they did not, like their emigrant
countrymen, abandon their homes, they remained in a state of restless
disaffection, refused to supply English garrisons with provisions,
except at most exorbitant rates, smuggled their produce to the French
across the line, gave them aid and intelligence, and sometimes, disguised
as Indians, robbed and murdered English settlers. By the new-fangled
construction of the treaty of Utrecht which the French boundary
commissioners had devised, <span class="superscript">[242]</span> more 
than half the Acadian peninsula, including nearly all the cultivated land 
and nearly all the population of French descent, was claimed as belonging 
to France, though England had held possession of it more than forty years. 
Hence, according to the political ethics adopted at the time by both 
nations, it would be lawful for France to reclaim it by force. England, on 
her part, it will be remembered, claimed vast tracts beyond the isthmus; 
and, on the same pretext, held that 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_237-V1" id="Page_237-V1">237<br />V1</a></span> 
she might rightfully seize them and capture Beaus&eacute;jour, with the other 
French garrisons that guarded them.</p>

<div class="footer">
		<p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_240" name="footer_240"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[240]</span>
See <i>ante</i>, <a href="#Chapter_04">Chapter IV.</a></p>
   <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_241" name="footer_241"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[241]</span>
Rameau (<i>La France aux Colonies</i>, I. 63), estimates the total emigration 
from 1748 to 1755 at 8,600 souls,&mdash;which number seems much too large.
This writer, though vehemently anti-English, gives the following passage 
from a letter of a high French official: "que les Acadiens 
&eacute;migr&eacute;s et en grande mis&egrave;re comptaient se retirer 
&agrave; Qu&eacute;bec et demander des terres, mais il conviendrait mieux 
qu'ils restent o&ugrave; ils sont, afin d'avoir le voisinage de l'Acadie bien 
peupl&eacute; et d&eacute;frich&eacute;, pour approvisionner l'Isle Royale 
[<i>Cape Breton</i>] et tomber en cas de guerre sur l'Acadie." Rameau, I. 
133.</p>
		<p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_242" name="footer_242"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[242]</span>
<i>Supra</i>, <a href="#Page_123-V1">p. 123.</a></p>
</div>

<p>
On the part of France, an invasion of the Acadian peninsula seemed more
than likely. Honor demanded of her that, having incited the Acadians to
disaffection, and so brought on them the indignation of the English
authorities, she should intervene to save them from the consequences.
Moreover the loss of the Acadian peninsula had been gall and wormwood to
her; and in losing it she had lost great material advantages. Its
possession was necessary to connect Canada with the Island of Cape
Breton and the fortress of Louisbourg. Its fertile fields and
agricultural people would furnish subsistence to the troops and
garrisons in the French maritime provinces, now dependent on supplies
illicitly brought by New England traders, and liable to be cut off in
time of war when they were needed most. The harbors of Acadia, too,
would be invaluable as naval stations from which to curb and threaten
the northern English colonies. Hence the intrigues so assiduously
practised to keep the Acadians French at heart, and ready to throw off
British rule at any favorable moment. British officers believed that
should a French squadron with a sufficient force of troops on board
appear in the Bay of Fundy, the whole population on the Basin of Mines
and along the Annapolis would rise in arms, and that the emigrants
beyond the isthmus, armed and trained by French officers, 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_238-V1" id="Page_238-V1">238<br />V1</a></span> 
would come to their aid. This emigrant population, famishing in exile, looked 
back with regret to the farms they had abandoned; and, prevented as they were
by Le Loutre and his colleagues from making their peace with the English, 
they would, if confident of success, have gladly joined an invading force to 
regain their homes by reconquering Acadia for Louis XV. In other parts of the 
continent it was the interest of France to put off hostilities; if Acadia 
alone had been in question, it would have been her interest to precipitate 
them.</p>

<p>Her chances of success were good. The French could at any time send
troops from Louisbourg or Quebec to join those maintained upon the
isthmus; and they had on their side of the lines a force of militia and
Indians amounting to about two thousand, while the Acadians within the
peninsula had about an equal number of fighting men who, while calling
themselves neutrals, might be counted on to join the invaders. The
English were in no condition to withstand such an attack. Their regular
troops were scattered far and wide through the province, and were
nowhere more than equal to the local requirement; while of militia,
except those of Halifax, they had few or none whom they dared to trust.
Their fort at Annapolis was weak and dilapidated, and their other posts
were mere stockades. The strongest place in Acadia was the French fort
of Beaus&eacute;jour, in which the English saw a continual menace. 
</p>
<p>
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_239-V1" id="Page_239-V1">239<br />V1</a></span> 
Their apprehensions were well grounded. Duquesne, governor of Canada, wrote to
Le Loutre, who virtually shared the control of Beaus&eacute;jour with Vergor,
its commandant: "I invite both yourself and M. Vergor to devise a
plausible pretext for attacking them [<i>the English</i>] vigorously."
<span class="superscript">[243]</span> Three weeks after this letter was 
written, Lawrence, governor of Nova Scotia, wrote to Shirley from Halifax: 
"Being well informed that the French have designs of encroaching still 
farther upon His Majesty's rights in this province, and that they propose, 
the moment they have repaired the fortifications of Louisbourg, to attack 
our fort at Chignecto [<i>Fort Lawrence</i>], I think it high time to make 
some effort to drive them from the north side of the Bay of Fundy."
<span class="superscript">[244]</span> This letter was brought to Boston by 
Lieutenant-Colonel Monckton, who was charged by Lawrence to propose to 
Shirley the raising of two thousand men in New England for the attack of 
Beaus&eacute;jour and its dependent forts. Almost at the moment when 
Lawrence was writing these proposals to Shirley, Shirley was writing with 
the same object to Lawrence, enclosing a letter from Sir Thomas Robinson, 
concerning which he said: "I construe the contents to be orders to us to 
act in concert for taking <i>any</i> advantages to drive the French of 
Canada out of Nova Scotia. If that is your sense of them, and your honor 
will be pleased to let 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_240-V1" id="Page_240-V1">240<br />V1</a></span> 
me know whether you want any and what assistance to enable you to execute the 
orders, I will endeavor to send you such assistance from this province as you 
shall want." <span class="superscript">[245]</span></p>

<div class="footer">
		<p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_243" name="footer_243"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[243]</span>
<i>Duquesne &agrave; Le Loutre</i>, 15 <i>Oct</i>. 1754; extract in <i>Public
Documents of Nova Scotia</i>, 239.</p>
    <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_244" name="footer_244"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[244]</span>
<i>Lawrence to Shirley</i>, 5 <i>Nov</i>. 1754. <i>Instructions of
Lawrence to Monckton</i>, 7 <i>Nov</i>. 1754.</p>
   <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_245" name="footer_245"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[245]</span>
<i>Shirley to Lawrence</i>, 7 <i>Nov</i>. 1754.</p>
</div>

<p>The letter of Sir Thomas Robinson, of which a duplicate had already been
sent to Lawrence, was written in answer to one of Shirley informing the
Minister that the Indians of Nova Scotia, prompted by the French, were
about to make an attack on all the English settlements east of the
Kennebec; whereupon Robinson wrote: "You will without doubt have given
immediate intelligence thereof to Colonel Lawrence, and will have
concerted the properest measures with him for taking all possible
advantage in Nova Scotia itself from the absence of those Indians, in
case Mr. Lawrence shall have force enough to attack the forts erected by
the French in those parts, without exposing the English settlements; and
I am particularly to acquaint you that if you have not already entered
into such a concert with Colonel Lawrence, it is His Majesty's pleasure
that you should immediately proceed thereupon." 
<span class="superscript">[246]</span></p>

<div class="footer">
		<p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_246" name="footer_246"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[246]</span>
<i>Robinson to Shirley</i>, 5 <i>July</i>, 1754.</p>
</div>

<p>The Indian raid did not take place; but not the less did Shirley and
Lawrence find in the Minister's letter their authorization for the
attack of Beaus&eacute;jour. Shirley wrote to Robinson that the expulsion of
the French from the forts on the isthmus was a necessary measure of
self-defence; that they meant to seize the whole country as far as Mines
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_241-V1" id="Page_241-V1">241<br />V1</a></span> 
Basin, and probably as far as Annapolis, to supply their Acadian rebels
with land; that of these they had, without reckoning Indians, fourteen
hundred fighting men on or near the isthmus, and two hundred and fifty
more on the St. John, with whom, aided by the garrison of Beaus&eacute;jour,
they could easily take Fort Lawrence; that should they succeed in this,
the whole Acadian population would rise in arms, and the King would lose
Nova Scotia. We should anticipate them, concludes Shirley, and strike
the first blow. <span class="superscript">[247]</span></p>

<div class="footer">
		<p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_247" name="footer_247"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[247]</span>
<i>Shirley to Robinson</i>, 8 <i>Dec</i>. 1754. <i>Ibid</i>., 24 <i>Jan</i>. 
1755. The Record Office contains numerous other letters of Shirley on the
subject. "I am obliged to your Honor for communicating to me the French
M&eacute;moire, which, with other reasons, puts it out of doubt that the French
are determined to begin an offensive war on the peninsula as soon as
ever they shall think themselves strengthened enough to venture up it,
and that they have thoughts of attempting it in the ensuing spring. I
enclose your Honor extracts from two letters from Annapolis Royal, which
show that the French inhabitants are in expectation of its being begun
in the spring." <i>Shirley to Lawrence</i>, 6 <i>Jan</i>. 1755.</p>
</div>

<p>
He opened his plans to his Assembly in secret session, and found them of
one mind with himself. Preparation was nearly complete, and the men
raised for the expedition, before the Council at Alexandria, recognized
it as a part of a plan of the summer campaign.</p>

<p>
The French fort of Beaus&eacute;jour, mounted on its hill between the marshes
of Missaguash and Tantemar, was a regular work, pentagonal in form, with
solid earthern ramparts, bomb-proofs, and an armament of twenty-four
cannon and one mortar. The commandant, Duchambon de Vergor, a captain in
the colony regulars, was a dull man of no education, of stuttering
speech, unpleasing countenance, 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_242-V1" id="Page_242-V1">242<br />V1</a></span> 
and doubtful character. He owed his place to the notorious Intendant, Bigot, 
who, it is said, was in his debt for disreputable service in an affair of 
gallantry, and who had ample means of enabling his friends to enrich 
themselves by defrauding the King. Beaus&eacute;jour was one of those 
plague-spots of official corruption which dotted the whole surface of New 
France. Bigot, sailing for Europe in the summer of 1754, wrote thus to his 
confederate: "Profit by your place, my dear Vergor; clip and cut&mdash;you 
are free to do what you please&mdash;so that you can come soon to join me in 
France and buy an estate near me." <span class="superscript">[248]</span>
Vergor did not neglect his opportunities. Supplies in great quantities were 
sent from Quebec for the garrison and the emigrant Acadians. These last got 
but a small part of them. Vergor and his confederates sent the rest back to 
Quebec, or else to Louisbourg, and sold them for their own profit to the 
King's agents there, who were also in collusion with him.</p>

<div class="footer">
		<p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_248" name="footer_248"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[248]</span>
<i>M&eacute;moires sur le Canada</i>, 1749-1760. This letter is also
mentioned in another contemporary document, <i>M&eacute;moire sur les Fraudes
commises dans la Colonie</i>.</p>
</div>

<p>Vergor, however, did not reign alone. Le Loutre, by force of energy,
capacity, and passionate vehemence, held him in some awe, and divided
his authority. The priest could count on the support of Duquesne, who
had found, says a contemporary, that "he promised more than he could
perform, and that he was a knave," but who nevertheless felt compelled
to rely upon him for keeping the 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_243-V1" id="Page_243-V1">243<br />V1</a></span> 
Acadians on the side of France. There was another person in the fort worthy 
of notice. This was Thomas Pichon, commissary of stores, a man of education 
and intelligence, born in France of an English mother. He was now acting the 
part of a traitor, carrying on a secret correspondence with the commandant 
of Fort Lawrence, and acquainting him with all that passed at 
Beaus&eacute;jour. It was partly from this source that the hostile designs 
of the French became known to the authorities of Halifax, and more especially 
the proceedings of "Moses," by which name Pichon always designated Le Loutre, 
because he pretended to have led the Acadians from the land of bondage.
<span class="superscript">[249]</span></p>

<div class="footer">
		<p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_249" name="footer_249"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[249]</span>
Pichon, called also Tyrrell from the name of his mother, was author of 
<i>Genuine Letters and Memoirs relating to Cape Breton</i>,&mdash;a
book of some value. His papers are preserved at Halifax, and some of
them are printed in the <i>Public Documents of Nova Scotia</i>.</p>
</div>

<p>These exiles, who cannot be called self-exiled, in view of the
outrageous means used to force most of them from their homes, were in a
deplorable condition. They lived in constant dread of Le Loutre, backed
by Vergor and his soldiers. The savage missionary, bad as he was, had in
him an ingredient of honest fanaticism, both national and religious;
though hatred of the English held a large share in it. He would gladly,
if he could, have forced the Acadians into a permanent settlement on the
French side of the line, not out of love for them, but in the interest
of the cause with which he had identified his own ambition. His efforts
had failed. There was not land enough for their subsistence and that of
the older settlers; 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_244-V1" id="Page_244-V1">244<br />V1</a></span> 
and the suffering emigrants pined more and more for their deserted farms. 
Thither he was resolved that they should not return. "If you go," he told 
them, "you will have neither priests nor sacraments, but will die like 
miserable wretches." <span class="superscript">[250]</span> The assertion
was false. Priests and sacraments had never been denied them. It is
true that Daudin, priest of Pisiquid, had lately been sent to Halifax
for using insolent language to the commandant, threatening him with an
insurrection of the inhabitants, and exciting them to sedition; but on
his promise to change conduct, he was sent back to his parishioners.
<span class="superscript">[251]</span> Vergor sustained Le Loutre, and 
threatened to put in irons any of the exiles who talked of going back to 
the English. Some of them bethought themselves of an appeal to Duquesne, 
and drew up a petition asking leave to return home. Le Loutre told the 
signers that if they did not efface their marks from the paper they should 
have neither sacraments in this life nor heaven in the next. He nevertheless 
allowed two of them to go to Quebec as deputies, writing at the same time 
to the Governor, that his mind might be duly prepared. Duquesne replied: 
"I think that the two rascals of deputies whom you sent me will not soon 
recover from the fright I gave them, notwithstanding the emollient I 
administered after my reprimand; and since I told them that they 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_245-V1" id="Page_245-V1">245<br />V1</a></span> 
were indebted to you for not being allowed to rot in a dungeon, they have 
promised me to comply with your wishes." 
<span class="superscript">[252]</span></p>

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		<p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_250" name="footer_250"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[250]</span>
<i>Pichon to Captain Scott</i>, 14 <i>Oct</i>. 1754, in <i>Public
Documents of Nova Scotia</i>, 229.</p>
   <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_251" name="footer_251"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[251]</span>
<i>Public Documents of Nova Scotia</i>, 223, 224, 226, 227, 238.</p>
   <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_252" name="footer_252"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[252]</span>
<i>Public Documents of Nova Scotia</i>, 239.</p>
</div>

<p>
An entire heartlessness marked the dealings of the French authorities
with the Acadians. They were treated as mere tools of policy, to be
used, broken, and flung away. Yet, in using them, the sole condition of
their efficiency was neglected. The French Government, cheated of
enormous sums by its own ravenous agents, grudged the cost of sending a
single regiment to the Acadian border. Thus unsupported, the Acadians
remained in fear and vacillation, aiding the French but feebly, though a
ceaseless annoyance and menace to the English.</p>

<p>This was the state of affairs at Beaus&eacute;jour while Shirley and Lawrence
were planning its destruction. Lawrence had empowered his agent,
Monckton, to draw without limit on two Boston merchants, Apthorp and
Hancock. Shirley, as commander-in-chief of the province of
Massachusetts, commissioned John Winslow to raise two thousand
volunteers. Winslow was sprung from the early governors of Plymouth
colony; but, though well-born, he was ill-educated, which did not
prevent him from being both popular and influential. He had strong
military inclinations, had led a company of his own raising in the
luckless attack on Carthagena, had commanded the force sent in the
preceding summer to occupy the Kennebec, and on various other occasions
had left his Marshfield 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_246-V1" id="Page_246-V1">246<br />V1</a></span> 
farm to serve his country. The men enlisted
readily at his call, and were formed into a regiment, of which Shirley
made himself the nominal colonel. It had two battalions, of which
Winslow, as lieutenant-colonel, commanded the first, and George Scott
the second, both under the orders of Monckton. Country villages far and
near, from the western borders of the Connecticut to uttermost Cape Cod,
lent soldiers to the new regiment. The muster-rolls preserve their
names, vocations, birthplaces, and abode. Obadiah, Nehemiah, Jedediah,
Jonathan, Ebenezer, Joshua, and the like Old Testament names abound upon
the list. Some are set down as "farmers," "yeomen," or "husbandmen;"
others as "shopkeepers," others as "fishermen," and many as "laborers;"
while a great number were handicraftsmen of various trades, from
blacksmiths to wig-makers. They mustered at Boston early in April, where
clothing, haversacks, and blankets were served out to them at the charge
of the King; and the crooked streets of the New England capital were
filled with staring young rustics. On the next Saturday the following
mandate went forth: "The men will behave very orderly on the Sabbath
Day, and either stay on board their transports, or else go to church,
and not stroll up and down the streets." The transports, consisting of
about forty sloops and schooners, lay at Long Wharf; and here on Monday
a grand review took place,&mdash;to the gratification, no doubt, of a
populace whose amusements were few. All was ready except the 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_247-V1" id="Page_247-V1">247<br />V1</a></span> 
muskets, which were expected from England, but did not come. Hence the 
delay of a month, threatening to ruin the enterprise. When Shirley returned 
from Alexandria he found, to his disgust, that the transports still lay at
the wharf where he had left them on his departure.
<span class="superscript">[253]</span> The muskets arrived at length, and 
the fleet sailed on the twenty-second of May. Three small frigates, the 
"Success," the "Mermaid," and the "Siren," commanded by the ex-privateersman, 
Captain Rous, acted as convoy; and on the twenty-sixth the whole force safely 
reached Annapolis. Thence after some delay they sailed up the Bay of Fundy, 
and at sunset on the first of June anchored within five miles of the hill of 
Beaus&eacute;jour.</p>

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		<p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_253" name="footer_253"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[253]</span>
<i>Shirley to Robinson</i>, 20 <i>June</i>, 1755.</p>
</div>

<p>At two o'clock on the next morning a party of Acadians from Chipody
roused Vergor with the news. In great alarm, he sent a messenger to
Louisbourg to beg for help, and ordered all the fighting men of the
neighborhood to repair to the fort. They counted in all between twelve
and fifteen hundred; <span class="superscript">[254]</span>
but they had no appetite for war. The force
of the invaders daunted them; and the hundred and sixty regulars who
formed the garrison of Beaus&eacute;jour were too few to revive their
confidence. Those of them who had crossed from the English side dreaded
what might ensue should they be caught in arms; and, to prepare an
excuse beforehand, they begged Vergor to threaten them 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_248-V1" id="Page_248-V1">248<br />V1</a></span> 
with punishment if they disobeyed his order. He willingly complied, promised 
to have them killed if they did not fight, and assured them at the same time
that the English could never take the fort.  
<span class="superscript">[255]</span> Three hundred of them
thereupon joined the garrison, and the rest, hiding their families in
the woods, prepared to wage guerilla war against the invaders.</p>

<div class="footer">
		<p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_254" name="footer_254"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[254]</span>
<i>M&eacute;moires sur le Canada</i>, 1749-1760. An English document,
<i>State of the English and French Forts in Nova Scotia</i>, says 1,200 to
1,400.</p>
   <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_255" name="footer_255"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[255]</span>
<i>M&eacute;moires sur le Canada</i>, 1749-1760.</p>
</div>


<p>
Monckton, with all his force, landed unopposed, and encamped at night on
the fields around Fort Lawrence, whence he could contemplate Fort
Beaus&eacute;jour at his ease. The regulars of the English garrison joined the
New England men; and then, on the morning of the fourth, they marched to
the attack. Their course lay along the south bank of the Missaguash to
where it was crossed by a bridge called Pont-&agrave;-Buot. This bridge had
been destroyed; and on the farther bank there was a large blockhouse and
a breastwork of timber defended by four hundred regulars, Acadians, and
Indians. They lay silent and unseen till the head of the column reached
the opposite bank; then raised a yell and opened fire, causing some
loss. Three field-pieces were brought up, the defenders were driven out,
and a bridge was laid under a spattering fusillade from behind bushes,
which continued till the English had crossed the stream. Without further
opposition, they marched along the road to Beaus&eacute;jour, and, turning to
the right, encamped among the woody hills half a league from the fort.
That night there was a grand illumination, for 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_249-V1" id="Page_249-V1">249<br />V1</a></span> 
Vergor set fire to the church and all the houses outside the ramparts. 
<span class="superscript">[256]</span></p>

<div class="footer">
		<p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_256" name="footer_256"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[256]</span>
Winslow, <i>Journal and Letter Book. M&eacute;moires sur le
Canada</i>, 1749-1760. Letters from officers on the spot in <i>Boston 
Evening Post</i> and <i>Boston News Letter. Journal of Surgeon 
John Thomas</i>.</p>
</div>

<p>The English spent some days in preparing their camp and reconnoitring
the ground. Then Scott, with five hundred provincials, seized upon a
ridge within easy range of the works. An officer named Vannes came out
to oppose him with a hundred and eighty men, boasting that he would do
great things; but on seeing the enemy, quietly returned, to become the
laughing-stock of the garrison. The fort fired furiously, but with
little effect. In the night of the thirteenth, Winslow, with a part of
his own battalion, relieved Scott, and planted in the trenches two small
mortars, brought to the camp on carts. On the next day they opened fire.
One of them was disabled by the French cannon, but Captain Hazen brought
up two more, of larger size, on ox-wagons; and, in spite of heavy rain,
the fire was brisk on both sides.</p>

<p>Captain Rous, on board his ship in the harbor, watched the bombardment
with great interest. Having occasion to write to Winslow, he closed his
letter in a facetious strain. "I often hear of your success in plunder,
particularly a coach. <span class="superscript">[257]</span>
I hope you have some fine horses for it, at least four, to draw it, that it 
may be said a New England colonel [<i>rode in</i>] his coach and four in Nova 
Scotia. If 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_250-V1" id="Page_250-V1">250<br />V1</a></span> 
you have any good saddle-horses in your stable, I should be obliged to you 
for one to ride round the ship's deck on for exercise, for I am not likely 
to have any other."</p>

<div class="footer">
		<p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_257" name="footer_257"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[257]</span>
"11 June. Capt. Adams went with a Company of Raingers,
and Returned at 11 Clock with a Coach and Sum other Plunder." <i>Journal
of John Thomas</i>.</p>
</div>

<p>Within the fort there was little promise of a strong defence. Le Loutre,
it is true, was to be seen in his shirt-sleeves, with a pipe in his
mouth, directing the Acadians in their work of strengthening the
fortifications. <span class="superscript">[258]</span> They, on their part, 
thought more of escape than of fighting. Some of them vainly begged to be 
allowed to go home; others went off without leave,&mdash;which was not 
difficult, as only one side of the place was attacked. Even among the officers 
there were some in whom interest was stronger than honor, and who would rather 
rob the King than die for him. The general discouragement was redoubled when, 
on the fourteenth, a letter came from the commandant of Louisbourg to say that
he could send no help, as British ships blocked the way. On the morning
of the sixteenth, a mischance befell, recorded in these words in the
diary of Surgeon John Thomas: "One of our large shells fell through what
they called their bomb-proof, where a number of their officers were
sitting, killed six of them dead, and one Ensign Hay, which the Indians
had took prisoner a few days agone and carried to the fort." The party
was at breakfast when the unwelcome visitor burst in. Just opposite was
a second bomb-proof, where was Vergor himself, with Le Loutre, another
priest, and several 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_251-V1" id="Page_251-V1">251<br />V1</a></span> 
officers, who felt that they might at any time share the same fate. The effect 
was immediate. The English, who had not yet got a single cannon into position, 
saw to their surprise a white flag raised on the rampart. Some officers of the 
garrison protested against surrender; and Le Loutre, who thought that he had 
everything to fear at the hands of the victors, exclaimed that it was better to 
be buried under the ruins of the fort than to give it up; but all was in vain, 
and the valiant Vannes was sent out to propose terms of capitulation. They
were rejected, and others offered, to the following effect: the garrison
to march out with the honors of war and to be sent to Louisbourg at the
charge of the King of England, but not to bear arms in America for the
space of six months. The Acadians to be pardoned the part they had just
borne in the defence, "seeing that they had been compelled to take arms
on pain of death." Confusion reigned all day at Beaus&eacute;jour. The Acadians
went home loaded with plunder. The French officers were so busy in
drinking and pillaging that they could hardly be got away to sign the
capitulation. At the appointed hour, seven in the evening, Scott marched
in with a body of provincials, raised the British flag on the ramparts,
and saluted it by a general discharge of the French cannon, while Vergor
as a last act of hospitality gave a supper to the officers.
<span class="superscript">[259]</span></p>

<div class="footer">
		<p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_258" name="footer_258"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[258]</span>
<i>Journal of Pichon</i>, cited by Beamish Murdoch.</p>
   <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_259" name="footer_259"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[259]</span>
On the capture of Beaus&eacute;jour, <i>M&eacute;moires sur le Canada</i>,
1749-1760; Pichon, <i>Cape Breton</i>, 318; <i>Journal of Pichon</i>, 
cited by Murdoch; and the English accounts already mentioned.</p>
</div>

<p>
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_252-V1" id="Page_252-V1">252<br />V1</a></span> 
Le Loutre was not to be found; he had escaped in disguise with his box
of papers, and fled to Baye Verte to join his brother missionary,
Manach. Thence he made his way to Quebec, where the Bishop received him
with reproaches. He soon embarked for France; but the English captured
him on the way, and kept him eight years in Elizabeth Castle, on the
Island of Jersey. Here on one occasion a soldier on guard made a dash at
the father, tried to stab him with his bayonet, and was prevented with
great difficulty. He declared that, when he was with his regiment in
Acadia, he had fallen into the hands of Le Loutre, and narrowly escaped
being scalped alive, the missionary having doomed him to this fate, and
with his own hand drawn a knife round his head as a beginning of the
operation. The man swore so fiercely that he would have his revenge,
that the officer in command transferred him to another post.
<span class="superscript">[260]</span></p>

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		<p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_260" name="footer_260"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[260]</span>
Knox, <i>Campaigns in North America</i>, I. 114, <i>note</i>. Knox,
who was stationed in Nova Scotia, says that Le Loutre left behind him "a
most remarkable character for inhumanity."</p>
</div>

<p>Throughout the siege, the Acadians outside the fort, aided by Indians,
had constantly attacked the English, but were always beaten off with
loss. There was an affair of this kind on the morning of the surrender,
during which a noted Micmac chief was shot, and being brought into the
camp, recounted the losses of his tribe; "after which, and taking a dram
or two, he quickly died," writes Winslow in his Journal.</p>

<p>
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_253-V1" id="Page_253-V1">253<br />V1</a></span> 
Fort Gaspereau, at Baye Verte, twelve miles distant, was summoned by
letter to surrender. Villeray, its commandant, at once complied; and
Winslow went with a detachment to take possession.
<span class="superscript">[261]</span> Nothing remained
but to occupy the French post at the mouth of the St. John. Captain
Rous, relieved at last from inactivity, was charged with the task; and
on the thirtieth he appeared off the harbor, manned his boats, and rowed
for shore. The French burned their fort, and withdrew beyond his
reach. <span class="superscript">[262]</span>
A hundred and fifty Indians, suddenly converted from enemies
to pretended friends, stood on the strand, firing their guns into the
air as a salute, and declaring themselves brothers of the English. All
Acadia was now in British hands. Fort Beaus&eacute;jour became Fort
Cumberland,&mdash;the second fort in America that bore the name of the royal
Duke.</p>

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		<p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_261" name="footer_261"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[261]</span>
Winslow, <i>Journal. Villeray au Ministre</i>, 20 <i>Sept</i>. 1755.</p>
    <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_262" name="footer_262"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[262]</span>
<i>Drucour au Ministre</i>, 1 <i>D&eacute;c</i>. 1755.</p>
</div>

<p>The defence had been of the feeblest. Two years later, on pressing
demands from Versailles, Vergor was brought to trial, as was also
Villeray. The Governor, Vaudreuil, and the Intendant, Bigot, who had
returned to Canada, were in the interest of the chief defendant. The
court-martial was packed; adverse evidence was shuffled out of sight;
and Vergor, acquitted and restored to his rank, lived to inflict on New
France another and a greater injury. 
<span class="superscript">[263]</span></p>

<div class="footer">
		<p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_263" name="footer_263"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[263]</span>
<i>M&eacute;moire sur les Fraudes commises dans la Colonie</i>, 1759.
<i>M&eacute;moires sur le Canada</i>, 1749-1760.</p>
</div>

<p>Now began the first act of a deplorable drama. 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_254-V1" id="Page_254-V1">254<br />V1</a></span> 
Monckton, with his small
body of regulars, had pitched their tents under the walls of
Beaus&eacute;jour. Winslow and Scott, with the New England troops, lay not far
off. There was little intercourse between the two camps. The British
officers bore themselves towards those of the provincials with a
supercilious coldness common enough on their part throughout the war.
July had passed in what Winslow calls "an indolent manner," with prayers
every day in the Puritan camp, when, early in August, Monckton sent for
him, and made an ominous declaration. "The said Monckton was so free as
to acquaint me that it was determined to remove all the French
inhabitants out of the province, and that he should send for all the
adult males from Tantemar, Chipody, Aulac, Beaus&eacute;jour, and Baye Verte to
read the Governor's orders; and when that was done, was determined to
retain them all prisoners in the fort. And this is the first conference
of a public nature I have had with the colonel since the reduction of
Beaus&eacute;jour; and I apprehend that no officer of either corps has been
made more free with."</p>

<p>Monckton sent accordingly to all the neighboring settlements, commanding
the male inhabitants to meet him at Beaus&eacute;jour. Scarcely a third part of
their number obeyed. These arrived on the tenth, and were told to stay
all night under the guns of the fort. What then befell them will appear
from an entry in the diary of Winslow under date of August eleventh:
"This day was one extraordinary to the inhabitants of Tantemar, 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_255-V1" id="Page_255-V1">255<br />V1</a></span> 
Oueskak, Aulac, Baye Verte, Beaus&eacute;jour, and places adjacent; the male
inhabitants, or the principal of them, being collected together in Fort
Cumberland to hear the sentence, which determined their property, from
the Governor and Council of Halifax; which was that they were declared
rebels, their lands, goods, and chattels forfeited to the Crown, and
their bodies to be imprisoned. Upon which the gates of the fort were
shut, and they all confined, to the amount of four hundred men and
upwards." Parties were sent to gather more, but caught very few, the
rest escaping to the woods.</p>

<p>Some of the prisoners were no doubt among those who had joined the
garrison at Beaus&eacute;jour, and had been pardoned for doing so by the terms
of the capitulation. It was held, however, that, though forgiven this
special offence, they were not exempted from the doom that had gone
forth against the great body of their countrymen. We must look closely
at the motives and execution of this stern sentence.</p>

<p>At any time up to the spring of 1755 the emigrant Acadians were free to
return to their homes on taking the ordinary oath of allegiance required
of British subjects. The English authorities of Halifax used every means
to persuade them to do so; yet the greater part refused. This was due
not only to Le Loutre and his brother priests, backed by the military
power, but also to the Bishop of Quebec, who enjoined the Acadians to
demand of the English certain concessions, the 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_256-V1" id="Page_256-V1">256<br />V1</a></span> 
chief of which were that the priests should exercise their functions without 
being required to ask leave of the Governor, and that the inhabitants should 
not be called upon for military service of any kind. The Bishop added that the
provisions of the treaty of Utrecht were insufficient, and that others
ought to be exacted. <span class="superscript">[264]</span> The oral 
declaration of the English authorities, that for the present the Acadians 
should not be required to bear arms, was not thought enough. They, or rather 
their prompters, demanded a written pledge.</p>

<div class="footer">
		<p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_264" name="footer_264"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[264]</span>
<i>L'&Eacute;v&ecirc;que de Qu&eacute;bec &agrave; Le Loutre, Nov</i>. 1754, 
in <i>Public Documents of Nova Scotia</i>, 240.</p>
</div>

<p>
The refusal to take the oath without reservation was not confined to the
emigrants. Those who remained in the peninsula equally refused it,
though most of them were born and had always lived under the British
flag. Far from pledging themselves to complete allegiance, they showed
continual signs of hostility. In May three pretended French deserters
were detected among them inciting them to take arms against the
English. <span class="superscript">[265]</span></p>

<div class="footer">
		<p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_265" name="footer_265"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[265]</span>
<i>Ibid</i>., 242.</p>
</div>

<p>On the capture of Beaus&eacute;jour the British authorities found themselves in
a position of great difficulty. The New England troops were enlisted for
the year only, and could not be kept in Acadia. It was likely that the
French would make a strong effort to recover the province, sure as they
were of support from the great body of its people. The presence of this
disaffected population was for the French commanders a continual
inducement to invasion; and Lawrence was not strong enough 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_257-V1" id="Page_257-V1">257<br />V1</a></span> 
to cope at once with attack from without and insurrection from within.</p>

<p>Shirley had held for some time that there was no safety for Acadia but
in ridding it of the Acadians. He had lately proposed that the lands of
the district of Chignecto, abandoned by their emigrant owners, should be
given to English settlers, who would act as a check and a counterpoise
to the neighboring French population. This advice had not been acted
upon. Nevertheless Shirley and his brother Governor of Nova Scotia were
kindred spirits, and inclined to similar measures. Colonel Charles
Lawrence had not the good-nature and conciliatory temper which marked
his predecessors, Cornwallis and Hopson. His energetic will was not apt
to relent under the softer sentiments, and the behavior of the Acadians
was fast exhausting his patience. More than a year before, the Lords of
Trade had instructed him that they had no right to their lands if they
persisted in refusing the oath. <span class="superscript">[266]</span>
Lawrence replied, enlarging on their obstinacy, treachery, and "ingratitude 
for the favor, indulgence, and protection they have at all times so 
undeservedly received from His Majesty's Government;" declaring at the 
same time that, "while they remain without taking the oaths, and have 
incendiary French priests among them, there are no hopes of their amendment;" 
and that "it would be much better, if they refuse the oaths, that they 
were away." <span class="superscript">[267]</span> "We were in 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_258-V1" id="Page_258-V1">258<br />V1</a></span> 
hopes," again wrote the Lords of Trade, "that the lenity which
had been shown to those people by indulging them in the free exercise of
their religion and the quiet possession of their lands, would by degrees
have gained their friendship and assistance, and weaned their affections
from the French; but we are sorry to find that this lenity has had so
little effect, and that they still hold the same conduct, furnishing
them with labor, provisions, and intelligence, and concealing their
designs from us." In fact, the Acadians, while calling themselves
neutrals, were an enemy encamped in the heart of the province. These are
the reasons which explain and palliate a measure too harsh and
indiscriminate to be wholly justified.</p>

<div class="footer">
		<p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_266" name="footer_266"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[266]</span>
<i>Lords of Trade to Lawrence</i>, 4 <i>March</i>, 1754.</p>
    <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_267" name="footer_267"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[267]</span>
<i>Lawrence to Lords of Trade</i>, 1 <i>Aug</i>. 1754.</p>
</div>

<p>
Abb&eacute; Raynal, who never saw the Acadians, has made an ideal picture of
them, <span class="superscript">[268]</span> since copied and improved in 
prose and verse, till Acadia has become Arcadia. The plain realities of their 
condition and fate are touching enough to need no exaggeration. They were a 
simple and very ignorant peasantry, industrious and frugal till evil days 
came to discourage them; living aloof from the world, with little of that 
spirit of adventure which an easy access to the vast fur-bearing interior 
had developed in their Canadian kindred; having few wants, and those of the
rudest; fishing a little and hunting in the winter, but chiefly employed
in cultivating the meadows along the River Annapolis, or rich marshes
reclaimed by dikes from the tides of the Bay of Fundy. The British
Government left 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_259-V1" id="Page_259-V1">259<br />V1</a></span> 
them entirely free of taxation. They made clothing of
flax and wool of their own raising, hats of similar materials, and shoes
or moccasons of moose and seal skin. They bred cattle, sheep, hogs, and
horses in abundance; and the valley of the Annapolis, then as now, was
known for the profusion and excellence of its apples. For drink, they
made cider or brewed spruce-beer. French officials describe their
dwellings as wretched wooden boxes, without ornaments or conveniences,
and scarcely supplied with the most necessary furniture.
<span class="superscript">[269]</span> Two or
more families often occupied the same house; and their way of life,
though simple and virtuous, was by no means remarkable for cleanliness.
Such as it was, contentment reigned among them, undisturbed by what
modern America calls progress. Marriages were early, and population grew
apace. This humble society had its disturbing elements; for the
Acadians, like the Canadians, were a litigious race, and neighbors often
quarrelled about their boundaries. Nor were they without a bountiful
share of jealousy, gossip, and backbiting, to relieve the monotony of
their lives; and every village had its turbulent spirits, sometimes by
fits, though rarely long, contumacious even toward the cur&eacute;, the guide,
counsellor, and ruler of his flock. Enfeebled by hereditary mental
subjection, and too long kept in leading-strings to walk alone, they
needed him, not for the next world only, but for this; and their
submission, compounded of love and fear, was commonly without bounds. He
was their 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_260-V1" id="Page_260-V1">260<br />V1</a></span> 
true government; to him they gave a frank and full allegiance,
and dared not disobey him if they would. Of knowledge he gave them
nothing; but he taught them to be true to their wives and constant at
confession and Mass, to stand fast for the Church and King Louis, and to
resist heresy and King George; for, in one degree or another, the
Acadian priest was always the agent of a double-headed foreign
power,&mdash;the Bishop of Quebec allied with the Governor of Canada.
<span class="superscript">[270]</span></p>

<div class="footer">
		<p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_268" name="footer_268"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[268]</span>
<i>Histoire philosophique et politique</i>, VI. 242 (ed. 1772).</p>
   <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_269" name="footer_269"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[269]</span>
<i>Beauharnois et Hocquart au Comte de Maurepas</i>, 12 <i>Sept</i>. 1745. </p>
   <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_270" name="footer_270"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[270]</span>
Franquet, <i>Journal</i>, 1751, says of the Acadians: "Ils aiment l'argent, 
n'ont dans toute leur conduite que leur int&eacute;r&ecirc;t pour objet, 
sont, indiff&eacute;remment des deux sexes, d'une inconsid&eacute;ration dans
leurs discours qui d&eacute;note de la m&eacute;chancet&eacute;." Another 
observer, Dier&eacute;ville, gives a more favorable picture.</p>
</div>

<p>When Monckton and the Massachusetts men laid siege to Beaus&eacute;jour,
Governor Lawrence thought the moment favorable for exacting an
unqualified oath of allegiance from the Acadians. The presence of a
superior and victorious force would help, he thought, to bring them to
reason; and there were some indications that this would be the result. A
number of Acadian families, who at the promptings of Le Loutre had
emigrated to Cape Breton, had lately returned to Halifax, promising to
be true subjects of King George if they could be allowed to repossess
their lands. They cheerfully took the oath; on which they were
reinstated in their old homes, and supplied with food for the
winter. <span class="superscript">[271]</span>
Their example unfortunately found few imitators.</p>

<div class="footer">
		<p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_271" name="footer_271"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[271]</span>
<i>Public Documents of Nova Scotia</i>, 228.</p>
</div>

<p>
Early in June the principal inhabitants of Grand Pr&eacute; and other
settlements about the Basin 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_261-V1" id="Page_261-V1">261<br />V1</a></span> 
of Mines brought a memorial, signed with
their crosses, to Captain Murray, the military commandant in their
district, and desired him to send it to Governor Lawrence, to whom it
was addressed. Murray reported that when they brought it to him they
behaved with the greatest insolence, though just before they had been
unusually submissive. He thought that this change of demeanor was caused
by a report which had lately got among them of a French fleet in the Bay
of Fundy; for it had been observed that any rumor of an approaching
French force always had a similar effect. The deputies who brought the
memorial were sent with it to Halifax, where they laid it before the
Governor and Council. It declared that the signers had kept the
qualified oath they had taken, "in spite of the solicitations and
dreadful threats of another power," and that they would continue to
prove "an unshaken fidelity to His Majesty, provided that His Majesty
shall allow us the same liberty that he has [<i>hitherto</i>] granted us."
Their memorial then demanded, in terms highly offensive to the Council,
that the guns, pistols, and other weapons, which they had lately been
required to give up, should be returned to them. They were told in reply
that they had been protected for many years in the enjoyment of their
lands, though they had not complied with the terms on which the lands
were granted; "that they had always been treated by the Government with
the greatest lenity and tenderness, had enjoyed more privileges than
other English 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_262-V1" id="Page_262-V1">262<br />V1</a></span> 
subjects, and had been indulged in the free exercise of
their religion;" all which they acknowledged to be true. The Governor
then told them that their conduct had been undutiful and ungrateful;
"that they had discovered a constant disposition to assist His Majesty's
enemies and to distress his subjects; that they had not only furnished
the enemy with provisions and ammunition, but had refused to supply the
[<i>English</i>] inhabitants or Government, and when they did supply them,
had exacted three times the price for which they were sold at other
markets." The hope was then expressed that they would no longer obstruct
the settlement of the province by aiding the Indians to molest and kill
English settlers; and they were rebuked for saying in their memorial
that they would be faithful to the King only on certain conditions. The
Governor added that they had some secret reason for demanding their
weapons, and flattered themselves that French troops were at hand to
support their insolence. In conclusion, they were told that now was a
good opportunity to prove their sincerity by taking the oath of
allegiance, in the usual form, before the Council. They replied that
they had not made up their minds on that point, and could do nothing
till they had consulted their constituents. Being reminded that the oath
was personal to themselves, and that six years had already been given
them to think about it, they asked leave to retire and confer together.
This was granted, and at the end of an hour they came back with the same
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_263-V1" id="Page_263-V1">263<br />V1</a></span> 
answer as before; whereupon they were allowed till ten o'clock on the
next morning for a final decision. <span class="superscript">[272]</span>
</p>

<div class="footer">
		<p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_272" name="footer_272"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[272]</span>
<i>Minutes of Council at Halifax</i>, 3 <i>July</i>, 1755, in <i>Public
Documents of Nova Scotia</i>, 247-255.</p>
</div>

<p>At the appointed time the Council again met, and the deputies were
brought in. They persisted stubbornly in the same refusal. "They were
then informed," says the record, "that the Council could no longer look
on them as subjects to His Britannic Majesty, but as subjects to the
King of France, and as such they must hereafter be treated; and they
were ordered to withdraw." A discussion followed in the Council. It was
determined that the Acadians should be ordered to send new deputies to
Halifax, who should answer for them, once for all, whether they would
accept the oath or not; that such as refused it should not thereafter be
permitted to take it; and "that effectual measures ought to be taken to
remove all such recusants out of the province."</p>

<p>The deputies, being then called in and told this decision, became
alarmed, and offered to swear allegiance in the terms required. The
answer was that it was too late; that as they had refused the oath under
persuasion, they could not be trusted when they took it under
compulsion. It remained to see whether the people at large would profit
by their example.</p>

<p>
"I am determined," wrote Lawrence to the Lords of Trade, "to bring the
inhabitants to a compliance, or rid the province of such perfidious
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_264-V1" id="Page_264-V1">264<br />V1</a></span> 
subjects." <span class="superscript">[273]</span>
First, in answer to the summons of the Council, the
deputies from Annapolis appeared, declaring that they had always been
faithful to the British Crown, but flatly refusing the oath. They were
told that, far from having been faithful subjects, they had always
secretly aided the Indians, and that many of them had been in arms
against the English; that the French were threatening the province; and
that its affairs had reached a crisis when its inhabitants must either
pledge themselves without equivocation to be true to the British Crown,
or else must leave the country. They all declared that they would lose
their lands rather than take the oath. The Council urged them to
consider the matter seriously, warning them that, if they now persisted
in refusal, no farther choice would be allowed them; and they were given
till ten o'clock on the following Monday to make their final answer.</p>

<div class="footer">
		<p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_273" name="footer_273"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[273]</span>
<i>Lawrence to Lords of Trade</i>, 18 <i>July</i>, 1755.</p>
</div>

<p>When that day came, another body of deputies had arrived from Grand Pr&eacute;
and the other settlements of the Basin of Mines; and being called before
the Council, both they and the former deputation absolutely refused to
take the oath of allegiance. These two bodies represented nine tenths of
the Acadian population within the peninsula. "Nothing," pursues the
record of the Council, "now remained to be considered but what measures
should be taken to send the inhabitants away, and where they should be
sent to." If they were sent to Canada, Cape Breton, 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_265-V1" id="Page_265-V1">265<br />V1</a></span> 
or the neighboring
islands, they would strengthen the enemy, and still threaten the
province. It was therefore resolved to distribute them among the various
English colonies, and to hire vessels for the purpose with all
despatch. <span class="superscript">[274]</span></p>

<div class="footer">
		<p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_274" name="footer_274"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[274]</span>
<i>Minutes of Council</i>, 4 <i>July</i>&mdash;28 <i>July</i>, in <i>Public
Documents of Nova Scotia</i>, 255-267. Copies of these and other parts of
the record were sent at the time to England, and are now in the Public
Record Office, along with the letters of Lawrence.</p>
</div>

<p>
The oath, the refusal of which had brought such consequences, was a
simple pledge of fidelity and allegiance to King George II. and his
successors. Many of the Acadians had already taken an oath of fidelity,
though with the omission of the word "allegiance," and, as they
insisted, with a saving clause exempting them from bearing arms. The
effect of this was that they did not regard themselves as British
subjects, and claimed, falsely as regards most of them, the character
of neutrals. It was to put an end to this anomalous state of things that
the oath without reserve had been demanded of them. Their rejection of
it, reiterated in full view of the consequences, is to be ascribed
partly to a fixed belief that the English would not execute their
threats, partly to ties of race and kin, but mainly to superstition.
They feared to take part with heretics against the King of France, whose
cause, as already stated, they had been taught to regard as one with the
cause of God; they were constrained by the dread of perdition. "If the
Acadians are miserable, remember that the priests are the cause of it,"
writes 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_266-V1" id="Page_266-V1">266<br />V1</a></span> 
the French officer Boish&eacute;bert to the missionary Manach.
<span class="superscript">[275]</span></p>

<div class="footer">
		<p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_275" name="footer_275"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[275]</span>
On the oath and its history, compare a long note by Mr.
Akin in <i>Public Documents of Nova Scotia</i>, 263-267. Winslow in his
Journal gives an abstract of a memorial sent him by the Acadians, in
which they say that they had refused the oath, and so forfeited their
lands, from motives of religion. I have shown in a former chapter that
the priests had been the chief instruments in preventing them from
accepting the English government. Add the following:&mdash;</p>
<p>"Les malheurs des Accadiens sont beaucoup moins leur ouvrage que le
fruit des sollicitations et des d&eacute;marches des missionnaires." 
<i>Vaudreuil au Ministre</i>, 6 <i>Mai</i>, 1760.</p>
<p>
"Si nous avons la guerre, et si les Accadiens sont mis&eacute;rables, 
souvenez-vous que ce sont les pr&ecirc;tres qui en sont la cause." 
<i>Boish&eacute;bert &agrave; Manach, 21 F&eacute;v. 1760</i>. 
Both these writers had encouraged the priests in their intrigues so long 
as there were likely to profit the French Government, and only blamed them 
after they failed to accomplished what was expected of them.</p>
<p>"Nous avons six missionnaires dont l'occupation perpetuelle est de
porter les esprits au fanatisme et &agrave; la vengeance&hellip;. Je ne puis
supporter dans nos pr&ecirc;tres ces odieuses d&eacute;clamations qu'ils font 
tous les jours aux sauvages: 'Les Anglois sont les ennemis de Dieu, les
compagnons du Diable.'" Pichon, <i>Lettres et M&eacute;moires pour servir 
&agrave; l'Histoire du Cap-Breton</i>, 160, 161. (La Haye, 1760.)</p>
</div>
<p>The Council having come to a decision, Lawrence acquainted Monckton with
the result, and ordered him to seize all the adult males in the
neighborhood of Beaus&eacute;jour; and this, as we have seen, he promptly did.
It remains to observe how the rest of the sentence was carried into
effect.</p>

<p>Instructions were sent to Winslow to secure the inhabitants on or near
the Basin of Mines and place them on board transports, which, he was
told, would soon arrive from Boston. His orders were stringent: "If you
find that fair means will not do with them, you must proceed by the most
vigorous measures possible, not only in compelling them to embark, but
in depriving those who shall 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_267-V1" id="Page_267-V1">267<br />V1</a></span> 
escape of all means of shelter or support,
by burning their houses and by destroying everything that may afford
them the means of subsistence in the country." Similar orders were given
to Major Handfield, the regular officer in command at Annapolis.</p>

<p>On the fourteenth of August Winslow set out from his camp at Fort
Beaus&eacute;jour, or Cumberland, on his unenviable errand. He had with him but
two hundred and ninety-seven men. His mood of mind was not serene. He
was chafed because the regulars had charged his men with stealing sheep;
and he was doubly vexed by an untoward incident that happened on the
morning of his departure. He had sent forward his detachment under
Adams, the senior captain, and they were marching by the fort with drums
beating and colors flying, when Monckton sent out his aide-de-camp with
a curt demand that the colors should be given up, on the ground that
they ought to remain with the regiment. Whatever the soundness of the
reason, there was no courtesy in the manner of enforcing it. "This
transaction raised my temper some," writes Winslow in his Diary; and he
proceeds to record his opinion that "it is the most ungenteel,
ill-natured thing that ever I saw." He sent Monckton a quaintly
indignant note, in which he observed that the affair "looks odd, and
will appear so in future history;" but his commander, reckless of the
judgments of posterity, gave him little satisfaction.</p>

<p>Thus ruffled in spirit, he embarked with his men and sailed down
Chignecto Channel to the Bay of 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_268-V1" id="Page_268-V1">268<br />V1</a></span> 
Fundy. Here, while they waited the turn
of the tide to enter the Basin of Mines, the shores of Cumberland lay
before them dim in the hot and hazy air, and the promontory of Cape
Split, like some misshapen monster of primeval chaos, stretched its
portentous length along the glimmering sea, with head of yawning rock,
and ridgy back bristled with forests. Borne on the rushing flood, they
soon drifted through the inlet, glided under the rival promontory of
Cape Blomedon, passed the red sandstone cliffs of Lyon's Cove, and
descried the mouths of the rivers Canard and Des Habitants, where
fertile marshes, diked against the tide, sustained a numerous and
thriving population. Before them spread the boundless meadows of Grand
Pr&eacute;, waving with harvests or alive with grazing cattle; the green slopes
behind were dotted with the simple dwellings of the Acadian farmers, and
the spire of the village church rose against a background of woody
hills. It was a peaceful, rural scene, soon to become one of the most
wretched spots on earth. Winslow did not land for the present, but held
his course to the estuary of the River Pisiquid, since called the Avon.
Here, where the town of Windsor now stands, there was a stockade called
Fort Edward, where a garrison of regulars under Captain Alexander Murray
kept watch over the surrounding settlements. The New England men pitched
their tents on shore, while the sloops that had brought them slept on
the soft bed of tawny mud left by the fallen tide.</p>

<p>
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_269-V1" id="Page_269-V1">269<br />V1</a></span> 
Winslow found a warm reception, for Murray and his officers had been
reduced too long to their own society not to welcome the coming of
strangers. The two commanders conferred together. Both had been ordered
by Lawrence to "clear the whole country of such bad subjects;" and the
methods of doing so had been outlined for their guidance. Having come to
some understanding with his brother officer concerning the duties
imposed on both, and begun an acquaintance which soon grew cordial on
both sides, Winslow embarked again and retraced his course to Grand Pr&eacute;,
the station which the Governor had assigned him. "Am pleased," he wrote
to Lawrence, "with the place proposed by your Excellency for our
reception [<i>the village church</i>]. I have sent for the elders to remove
all sacred things, to prevent their being defiled by heretics." The
church was used as a storehouse and place of arms; the men pitched their
tents between it and the graveyard; while Winslow took up his quarters
in the house of the priest, where he could look from his window on a
tranquil scene. Beyond the vast tract of grassland to which Grand Pr&eacute;
owed its name, spread the blue glistening breast of the Basin of Mines;
beyond this again, the distant mountains of Cobequid basked in the
summer sun; and nearer, on the left, Cape Blomedon reared its bluff head
of rock and forest above the sleeping waves.</p>

<p>As the men of the settlement greatly outnumbered his own, Winslow set
his followers to surrounding the camp with a stockade. Card-playing 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_270-V1" id="Page_270-V1">270<br />V1</a></span> 
was
forbidden, because it encouraged idleness, and pitching quoits in camp,
because it spoiled the grass. Presently there came a letter from
Lawrence expressing a fear that the fortifying of the camp might alarm
the inhabitants. To which Winslow replied that the making of the
stockade had not alarmed them in the least, since they took it as a
proof that the detachment was to spend the winter with them; and he
added, that as the harvest was not yet got in, he and Murray had agreed
not to publish the Governor's commands till the next Friday. He
concludes: "Although it is a disagreeable part of duty we are put upon,
I am sensible it is a necessary one, and shall endeavor strictly to obey
your Excellency's orders."</p>

<p>On the thirtieth, Murray, whose post was not many miles distant, made
him a visit. They agreed that Winslow should summon all the male
inhabitants about Grand Pr&eacute; to meet him at the church and hear the
King's orders, and that Murray should do the same for those around Fort
Edward. Winslow then called in his three captains,&mdash;Adams, Hobbs, and
Osgood,&mdash;made them swear secrecy, and laid before them his instructions
and plans; which latter they approved. Murray then returned to his post,
and on the next day sent Winslow a note containing the following: "I
think the sooner we strike the stroke the better, therefore will be glad
to see you here as soon as conveniently you can. I shall have the orders
for assembling ready written for your approbation, only the day blank,
and am hopeful everything will 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_271-V1" id="Page_271-V1">271<br />V1</a></span> 
succeed according to our wishes. The
gentlemen join me in our best compliments to you and the Doctor."</p>

<p>On the next day, Sunday, Winslow and the Doctor, whose name was
Whitworth, made the tour of the neighborhood, with an escort of fifty
men, and found a great quantity of wheat still on the fields. On Tuesday
Winslow "set out in a whale-boat with Dr. Whitworth and Adjutant
Kennedy, to consult with Captain Murray in this critical conjuncture."
They agreed that three in the afternoon of Friday should be the time of
assembling; then between them they drew up a summons to the inhabitants,
and got one Beauchamp, a merchant, to "put it into French." It ran as
follows:&mdash;</p>

<blockquote>
<p><span class="smcap">By</span> John Winslow, Esquire, Lieutenant-Colonel and 
Commander of His Majesty's troops at Grand Pr&eacute;, Mines, River Canard, 
and places adjacent.</p>
<p>To the inhabitants of the districts above named, as well ancients
as young men and lads.</p>
<p>Whereas His Excellency the Governor has instructed us of his last
resolution respecting the matters proposed lately to the
inhabitants, and has ordered us to communicate the same to the
inhabitants in general in person, His Excellency being desirous
that each of them should be fully satisfied of His Majesty's
intentions, which he has also ordered us to communicate to you,
such as they have been given him.</p>
<p>We therefore order and strictly enjoin by these presents to all the
inhabitants, as well of the above-named districts as of all the
other districts, both old men and young men, as well as all the
lads of ten years of age, to attend at the church in Grand Pr&eacute; on
Friday, the fifth instant, at three of the clock in the afternoon,
that we may impart what we are ordered to communicate to them;
declaring that no 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_272-V1" id="Page_272-V1">272<br />V1</a></span> 
excuse will be admitted on any pretence
whatsoever, on pain of forfeiting goods and chattels in default.
</p>
<p>Given at Grand Pr&eacute;, the second of September, in the 
twenty-ninth year of His Majesty's reign, <span class="smcap">a.d.</span> 
1755.</p>
</blockquote>

<p>
A similar summons was drawn up in the name of Murray for the inhabitants
of the district of Fort Edward.</p>

<p>
Captain Adams made a reconnoissance of the rivers Canard and Des
Habitants, and reported "a fine country and full of inhabitants, a
beautiful church, and abundance of the goods of the world." Another
reconnoissance by Captains Hobbs and Osgood among the settlements behind
Grand Pr&eacute; brought reports equally favorable. On the fourth, another
letter came from Murray: "All the people quiet, and very busy at their
harvest; if this day keeps fair, all will be in here in their barns. I
hope to-morrow will crown all our wishes." The Acadians, like the bees,
were to gather a harvest for others to enjoy. The summons was sent out
that afternoon. Powder and ball were served to the men, and all were
ordered to keep within the lines.</p>

<p>On the next day the inhabitants appeared at the hour appointed, to the
number of four hundred and eighteen men. Winslow ordered a table to be
set in the middle of the church, and placed on it his instructions and
the address he had prepared. Here he took his stand in his laced
uniform, with one or two subalterns from the regulars at Fort Edward,
and such of the Massachusetts officers as were not on guard duty;
strong, 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_273-V1" id="Page_273-V1">273<br />V1</a></span> 
sinewy figures, bearing, no doubt, more or less distinctly, the
peculiar stamp with which toil, trade, and Puritanism had imprinted the
features of New England. Their commander was not of the prevailing type.
He was fifty-three years of age, with double chin, smooth forehead,
arched eyebrows, close powdered wig, and round, rubicund face, from
which the weight of an odious duty had probably banished the smirk of
self-satisfaction that dwelt there at other times.
<span class="superscript">[276]</span> Nevertheless, he
had manly and estimable qualities. The congregation of peasants, clad in
rough homespun, turned their sunburned faces upon him, anxious and
intent; and Winslow "delivered them by interpreters the King's orders in
the following words," which, retouched in orthography and syntax, ran
thus:&mdash;</p>

<blockquote>
<p><span class="smcap">Gentlemen</span>,&mdash;I have received from His 
Excellency, Governor Lawrence, the King's instructions, which I have in 
my hand. By his orders you are called together to hear His Majesty's 
final resolution concerning the French inhabitants of this his province 
of Nova Scotia, who for almost half a century have had more indulgence
granted them than any of his subjects in any part of his dominions.
What use you have made of it you yourselves best know.</p>
<p>The duty I am now upon, though necessary, is very disagreeable to
my natural make and temper, as I know it must be grievous to you,
who are of the same species. But it is not my business to
animadvert on the orders I have received, but to obey them; and
therefore without hesitation I shall deliver to you His Majesty's
instructions and commands, which are that your lands and tenements
and cattle and live-stock of all kinds are forfeited to the Crown,
with all your other effects, except money and household goods, and
that you yourselves are to be removed from this his province.</p>
<p>The peremptory orders of His Majesty are that all the French
inhabitants of these districts be removed; and through His
Majesty's goodness I am directed to allow you the liberty of
carrying with you your money and as many of your household 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_274-V1" id="Page_274-V1">274<br />V1</a></span> 
goods as
you can take without overloading the vessels you go in. I shall do
everything in my power that all these goods be secured to you, and
that you be not molested in carrying them away, and also that whole
families shall go in the same vessel; so that this removal, which I
am sensible must give you a great deal of trouble, may be made as
easy as His Majesty's service will admit; and I hope that in
whatever part of the world your lot may fall, you may be faithful
subjects, and a peaceable and happy people.</p>
<p>I must also inform you that it is His Majesty's pleasure that you
remain in security under the inspection and direction of the troops
that I have the honor to command.</p>
</blockquote>

<div class="footer">
		<p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_276" name="footer_276"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[276]</span>
See his portrait, at the rooms of the Massachusetts Historical 
Society.</p>
</div>

<p>
He then declared them prisoners of the King. "They were greatly struck,"
he says, "at this determination, though I believe they did not imagine
that they were actually to be removed." After delivering the address, he
returned to his quarters at the priest's house, whither he was followed
by some of the elder prisoners, who begged leave to tell their families
what had happened, "since they were fearful that the surprise of their
detention would quite overcome them." Winslow consulted with his
officers, and it was arranged that the Acadians should choose twenty of
their number each day to revisit their homes, the rest being held
answerable for their return.</p>

<p>
A letter, dated some days before, now came from Major Handfield at
Annapolis, saying that 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_275-V1" id="Page_275-V1">275<br />V1</a></span> 
he had tried to secure the men of that
neighborhood, but that many of them had escaped to the woods. Murray's
report from Fort Edward came soon after, and was more favorable: "I have
succeeded finely, and have got a hundred and eighty-three men into my
possession." To which Winslow replies: "I have the favor of yours of
this day, and rejoice at your success, and also for the smiles that have
attended the party here." But he adds mournfully: "Things are now very
heavy on my heart and hands." The prisoners were lodged in the church,
and notice was sent to their families to bring them food. "Thus," says
the Diary of the commander, "ended the memorable fifth of September, a
day of great fatigue and trouble."</p>

<p>There was one quarter where fortune did not always smile. Major Jedediah
Preble, of Winslow's battalion, wrote to him that Major Frye had just
returned from Chipody, whither he had gone with a party of men to
destroy the settlements and bring off the women and children. After
burning two hundred and fifty-three buildings he had reimbarked, leaving
fifty men on shore at a place called Peticodiac to give a finishing
stroke to the work by burning the "Mass House," or church. While thus
engaged, they were set upon by three hundred Indians and Acadians, led
by the partisan officer Boish&eacute;bert. More than half their number were
killed, wounded, or taken. The rest ensconced themselves behind the
neighboring dikes, and Frye, hastily landing 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_276-V1" id="Page_276-V1">276<br />V1</a></span> 
with the rest of his men,
engaged the assailants for three hours, but was forced at last to
reimbark. <span class="superscript">[277]</span>
Captain Speakman, who took part in the affair, also sent
Winslow an account of it, and added: "The people here are much concerned
for fear your party should meet with the same fate (being in the heart
of a numerous devilish crew), which I pray God avert."</p>

<div class="footer">
		<p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_277" name="footer_277"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[277]</span>
Also <i>Boish&eacute;bert &agrave; Drucourt</i>, 10 <i>Oct</i>. 1755, an
exaggerated account. <i>Vaudreuil au Ministre</i>, 18 <i>Oct</i>. 1755, 
sets Boish&eacute;bert's force at one hundred and twenty-five men.</p>
</div>

<p>Winslow had indeed some cause for anxiety. He had captured more Acadians
since the fifth; and had now in charge nearly five hundred able-bodied
men, with scarcely three hundred to guard them. As they were allowed
daily exercise in the open air, they might by a sudden rush get
possession of arms and make serious trouble. On the Wednesday after the
scene in the church some unusual movements were observed among them, and
Winslow and his officers became convinced that they could not safely be
kept in one body. Five vessels, lately arrived from Boston, were lying
within the mouth of the neighboring river. It was resolved to place
fifty of the prisoners on board each of these, and keep them anchored in
the Basin. The soldiers were all ordered under arms, and posted on an
open space beside the church and behind the priest's house. The
prisoners were then drawn up before them, ranked six deep,&mdash;the young
unmarried men, as the most dangerous, being told off and placed on the
left, to the number of a hundred and forty-one. Captain Adams, 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_277-V1" id="Page_277-V1">277<br />V1</a></span> 
with eighty men, was then ordered to guard them to the vessels. Though the
object of the movement had been explained to them, they were possessed
with the idea that they were to be torn from their families and sent
away at once; and they all, in great excitement, refused to go. Winslow
told them that there must be no parley or delay; and as they still
refused, a squad of soldiers advanced towards them with fixed bayonets;
while he himself, laying hold of the foremost young man, commanded him
to move forward. "He obeyed; and the rest followed, though slowly, and
went off praying, singing, and crying, being met by the women and
children all the way (which is a mile and a half) with great
lamentation, upon their knees, praying." When the escort returned, about
a hundred of the married men were ordered to follow the first party;
and, "the ice being broken," they readily complied. The vessels were
anchored at a little distance from shore, and six soldiers were placed
on board each of them as a guard. The prisoners were offered the King's
rations, but preferred to be supplied by their families, who, it was
arranged, should go in boats to visit them every day; "and thus," says
Winslow, "ended this troublesome job." He was not given to effusions of
feeling, but he wrote to Major Handfield: "This affair is more grievous
to me than any service I was ever employed in."
<span class="superscript">[278]</span></p>

<div class="footer">
		<p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_278" name="footer_278"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[278]</span>
Haliburton, who knew Winslow's Journal only by imperfect
extracts, erroneously states that the men put on board the vessels were
sent away immediately. They remained at Grand Pr&eacute; several weeks, and
were then sent off at intervals with their families.</p>
</div>

<p>
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_278-V1" id="Page_278-V1">278<br />V1</a></span> 
Murray sent him a note of congratulation: "I am extremely pleased that
things are so clever at Grand Pr&eacute;, and that the poor devils are so
resigned. Here they are more patient than I could have expected for
people in their circumstances; and what surprises me still more is the
indifference of the women, who really are, or seem, quite unconcerned. I
long much to see the poor wretches embarked and our affair a little
settled; and then I will do myself the pleasure of meeting you and
drinking their good voyage."</p>

<p>This agreeable consummation was still distant. There was a long and
painful delay. The provisions for the vessels which were to carry the
prisoners did not come; nor did the vessels themselves, excepting the
five already at Grand Pr&eacute;. In vain Winslow wrote urgent letters to
George Saul, the commissary, to bring the supplies at once. Murray, at
Fort Edward, though with less feeling than his brother officer, was quite 
as impatient of the burden of suffering humanity on his hands. "I am 
amazed what can keep the transports and Saul. Surely our friend at
Chignecto is willing to give us as much of our neighbors' company as he
well can." <span class="superscript">[279]</span> Saul came at last with a 
shipload of provisions; but the lagging transports did not appear. Winslow 
grew heartsick at the daily sight of miseries which he himself had 
occasioned, and wrote to a friend at Halifax: "I know they deserve all and 
more than they feel; yet it hurts me to hear their weeping and wailing 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_279-V1" id="Page_279-V1">279<br />V1</a></span> 
and gnashing of teeth. I am in hopes our affairs will soon put on another 
face, and we get transports, and I rid of the worst piece of service that 
ever I was in."</p>

<div class="footer">
		<p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_279" name="footer_279"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[279]</span>
<i>Murray to Winslow</i>, 26 <i>Sept</i>. 1755.</p>
</div>

<p>
After weeks of delay, seven transports came from Annapolis; and Winslow
sent three of them to Murray, who joyfully responded: "Thank God, the
transports are come at last. So soon as I have shipped off my rascals,
I will come down and settle matters with you, and enjoy ourselves a
little."</p>

<p>
Winslow prepared for the embarkation. The Acadian prisoners and their
families were divided into groups answering to their several villages,
in order that those of the same village might, as far as possible, go in
the same vessel. It was also provided that the members of each family
should remain together; and notice was given them to hold themselves in
readiness. "But even now," he writes, "I could not persuade the people I
was in earnest." Their doubts were soon ended. The first embarkation
took place on the eighth of October, under which date the Diary contains
this entry: "Began to embark the inhabitants who went off very
solentarily [<i>sic</i>] and unwillingly, the women in great distress,
carrying off their children in their arms; others carrying their
decrepit parents in their carts, with all their goods; moving in great
confusion, and appeared a scene of woe and distress."
<span class="superscript">[280]</span></p>

<div class="footer">
    <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_280" name="footer_280"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[280]</span>
In spite of Winslow's care, some cases of separation of
families occurred; but they were not numerous.</p>
</div>

<p>
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_280-V1" id="Page_280-V1">280<br />V1</a></span> 
Though a large number were embarked on this occasion, still more
remained; and as the transports slowly arrived, the dismal scene was
repeated at intervals, with more order than at first, as the Acadians
had learned to accept their fate as a certainty. So far as Winslow was
concerned, their treatment seems to have been as humane as was possible
under the circumstances; but they complained of the men, who disliked
and despised them. One soldier received thirty lashes for stealing fowls
from them; and an order was issued forbidding soldiers or sailors, on
pain of summary punishment, to leave their quarters without permission,
"that an end may be put to distressing this distressed people." Two of
the prisoners, however, while trying to escape, were shot by a
reconnoitring party.</p>

<p>At the beginning of November Winslow reported that he had sent 
off fifteen hundred and ten persons, in nine vessels, and that more than six
hundred still remained in his district. <span class="superscript">[281]</span>
The last of these were not embarked till late in December. Murray finished 
his part of the work at the end of October, having sent from the district of 
Fort Edward eleven hundred persons in four frightfully crowded transports.
<span class="superscript">[282]</span> At the close of that month sixteen 
hundred and sixty-four had been sent from the district of Annapolis, where 
many others escaped to the woods. <span class="superscript">[283]</span>
A detachment 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_281-V1" id="Page_281-V1">281<br />V1</a></span> 
which was ordered to seize the inhabitants of the district
of Cobequid failed entirely, finding the settlements abandoned. In the
country about Fort Cumberland, Monckton, who directed the operation in
person, had very indifferent success, catching in all but little more
than a thousand. <span class="superscript">[284]</span>
Le Guerne, missionary priest in this neighborhood,
gives a characteristic and affecting incident of the embarkation. "Many
unhappy women, carried away by excessive attachment to their husbands,
whom they had been allowed to see too often, and closing their ears to
the voice of religion and their missionary, threw themselves blindly and
despairingly into the English vessels. And now was seen the saddest of
spectacles; for some of these women, solely from a religious motive,
refused to take with them their grown-up sons and daughters."
<span class="superscript">[285]</span> They
would expose their own souls to perdition among heretics, but not those
of their children.</p>


<div class="footer">
    <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_281" name="footer_281"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[281]</span>
<i>Winslow to Monckton</i>, 3 <i>Nov</i>. 1755.</p>
    <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_282" name="footer_282"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[282]</span>
<i>Ibid.</i></p>
    <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_283" name="footer_283"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[283]</span>
<i>Captain Adams to Winslow</i>, 29 <i>Nov</i>. 1755; see also Knox, 
I. 85, who exactly confirms Adams's figures.</p>
    <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_284" name="footer_284"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[284]</span>
<i>Monckton to Winslow</i>, 7 <i>Oct</i>. 1755.</p>
   <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_285" name="footer_285"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[285]</span>
<i>Le Guerne &agrave; Pr&eacute;vost</i>, 10 <i>Mars</i>, 1756.</p>
</div>

<p>
When all, or nearly all, had been sent off from the various points of
departure, such of the houses and barns as remained standing were
burned, in obedience to the orders of Lawrence, that those who had
escaped might be forced to come in and surrender themselves. The whole
number removed from the province, men, women, and children, was a little
above six thousand. Many remained behind; and while some of these
withdrew to Canada, Isle St. Jean, and other distant retreats, the rest
lurked in the woods or returned to their old 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_282-V1" id="Page_282-V1">282<br />V1</a></span> 
haunts, whence they waged, for several years a guerilla warfare against 
the English. Yet their strength was broken, and they were no longer a 
danger to the province.</p>

<p>
Of their exiled countrymen, one party overpowered the crew of the vessel
that carried them, ran her ashore at the mouth of the St. John, and
escaped. <span class="superscript">[286]</span> The rest were distributed 
among the colonies from Massachusetts to Georgia, the master of each 
transport having been provided with a letter from Lawrence addressed to 
the Governor of the province to which he was bound, and desiring him to 
receive the unwelcome strangers. The provincials were vexed at the burden 
imposed upon them; and though the Acadians were not in general ill-treated,
their lot was a hard one. Still more so was that of those among them who
escaped to Canada. The chronicle of the Ursulines of Quebec, speaking of
these last, says that their misery was indescribable, and attributes it
to the poverty of the colony. But there were other causes. The exiles
found less pity from kindred and fellow Catholics than from the heretics
of the English colonies. Some of them who had made their way to Canada
from Boston, whither they had been transported, sent word to a gentleman
of that place who had befriended them, that they wished to return.
<span class="superscript">[287]</span>
Bougainville, the celebrated navigator, then aide-de-camp to Montcalm,
says concerning them: 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_283-V1" id="Page_283-V1">283<br />V1</a></span> 
"They are dying by wholesale. Their past and present misery, joined to 
the rapacity of the Canadians, who seek only to squeeze out of them all 
the money they can, and then refuse them the help so dearly bought, are 
the cause of this mortality." "A citizen of Quebec," he says farther on, 
"was in debt to one of the partners of the Great Company [<i>Government 
officials leagued for plunder</i>]. He had no means of paying. They gave 
him a great number of Acadians to board and lodge. He starved them with 
hunger and cold, got out of them what money they had, and paid the 
extortioner. <i>Quel pays! Quels m&oelig;urs</i>!"
<span class="superscript">[288]</span></p>

<div class="footer">
		<p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_286" name="footer_286"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[286]</span>
<i>Lettre commune de Drucour et Pr&eacute;vost au Ministre</i>, 
6 <i>Avril</i>, 1756. <i>Vaudreuil au Ministre</i>, 1 <i>Juin</i>, 1756.</p>
   <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_287" name="footer_287"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[287]</span>
Hutchinson, <i>Hist. Mass.</i>, III. 42, <i>note</i>.</p>
  <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_288" name="footer_288"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[288]</span>
Bougainville, <i>Journal</i>, 1756-1758. His statements are
sustained by <i>M&eacute;moires sur le Canada</i>, 1749-1760.</p>
</div>

<p>Many of the exiles eventually reached Louisiana, where their descendants
now form a numerous and distinct population. Some, after incredible
hardship, made their way back to Acadia, where, after the peace, they
remained unmolested, and, with those who had escaped seizure, became the
progenitors of the present Acadians, now settled in various parts of the
British maritime provinces, notably at Madawaska, on the upper St. John,
and at Clare, in Nova Scotia. Others were sent from Virginia to England;
and others again, after the complete conquest of the country, found
refuge in France.</p>

<p>In one particular the authors of the deportation were disappointed in
its results. They had hoped to substitute a loyal population for a
disaffected one; but they failed for some time to 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_284-V1" id="Page_284-V1">284<br />V1</a></span> 
find settlers for the vacated lands. The Massachusetts soldiers, to whom 
they were offered, would not stay in the province; and it was not till 
five years later that families of British stock began to occupy the waste 
fields of the Acadians. This goes far to show that a longing to become 
their heirs had not, as has been alleged, any considerable part in the 
motives for their removal.</p>

<p>
New England humanitarianism, melting into sentimentality at a tale of
woe, has been unjust to its own. Whatever judgment may be passed on the
cruel measure of wholesale expatriation, it was not put in execution
till every resource of patience and persuasion had been tried in vain.
The agents of the French Court, civil, military, and ecclesiastical, had
made some act of force a necessity. We have seen by what vile practices
they produced in Acadia a state of things intolerable, and impossible of
continuance. They conjured up the tempest; and when it burst on the
heads of the unhappy people, they gave no help. The Government of Louis
XV. began with making the Acadians its tools, and ended with making them
its victims. <span class="superscript">[289]</span> </p>

<div class="footer">
		<p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_289" name="footer_289"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[289]</span>
It may not be remembered that the predecessor of Louis
XV., without the slightest provocation or the pretence of any, gave
orders that the whole Protestant population of the colony of New York,
amounting to about eighteen thousand, should be seized, despoiled of
their property, placed on board his ships, and dispersed among the other
British colonies in such a way that they could not reunite. Want of
power alone prevented the execution of the order. See <i>Frontenac and 
New France under Louis XIV</i>., 189, 190.</p>
</div>



<hr />
<div class="chapterhead">
   <br /><a name="Chapter_09" id="Chapter_09"></a>
	 <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_285-V1" id="Page_285-V1">285<br />V1</a></span> 
	 <br /><br /><br />
	 <h2><a href="#Contents09">CHAPTER IX.</a><br />
	 <span class="med">1755.</span>
	 </h2> 
	 <p class="smcapheader">DIESKAU.</p>
	 <p class="smcap noindent space-bottom">  
	     Expedition against Crown Point &bull;  William Johnson &bull; 
			 Vaudreuil &bull;  Dieskau &bull;  Johnson and the Indians &bull; 
			 The Provincial Army &bull;  Doubts and Delays &bull;  
			 March to Lake George &bull;  Sunday in Camp &bull; 
			 Advance of Dieskau &bull;  He changes Plan &bull;  
			 Marches against Johnson &bull;  Ambush &bull;  Rout of Provincials &bull; 
			 Battle of Lake George &bull;  Rout of the French &bull;  
			 Rage of the Mohawks &bull;  Peril of Dieskau &bull;  
			 Inaction of Johnson &bull;  The Homeward March &bull;  
			 Laurels of Victory.
   </p> 				
	 <p class="break1"></p> 
</div>

<p class="double-space-top">
<span class="smcap">The</span> 
next stroke of the campaign was to be the capture of Crown Point,
that dangerous neighbor which, for a quarter of a century, had
threatened the northern colonies. Shirley, in January, had proposed an
attack on it to the Ministry; and in February, without waiting their
reply, he laid the plan before his Assembly. They accepted it, and
voted money for the pay and maintenance of twelve hundred men, provided
the adjacent colonies would contribute in due proportion.
<span class="superscript">[290]</span>  Massachusetts showed a military 
activity worthy of the reputation she had won. Forty-five hundred of 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_286-V1" id="Page_286-V1">286<br />V1</a></span> 
her 
men, or one in eight of her adult males, volunteered to fight the French, 
and enlisted for the various expeditions, some in the pay of the province, 
and some in that of the King. <span class="superscript">[291]</span> 
It remained to name a commander for the Crown Point
enterprise. Nobody had power to do so, for Braddock was not yet come;
but that time might not be lost, Shirley, at the request of his
Assembly, took the responsibility on himself. If he had named a
Massachusetts officer, it would have roused the jealousy of the other
New England colonies; and he therefore appointed William Johnson of New
York, thus gratifying that important province and pleasing the Five
Nations, who at this time looked on Johnson with even more than usual
favor. Hereupon, in reply to his request, Connecticut voted twelve
hundred men, New Hampshire five hundred, and Rhode Island four hundred,
all at their own charge; while New York, a little later, promised eight
hundred more. When, in April, Braddock and the Council at Alexandria
approved the plan and the commander, Shirley gave Johnson the commission
of major-general of the levies of Massachusetts; and the governors of
the other provinces contributing to the expedition gave him similar
commissions for their respective contingents. Never did general take the
field with authority so heterogeneous.</p>

<div class="footer">
    <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_290" name="footer_290"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[290]</span>
<i>Governor Shirley's Message to his Assembly</i>, 13 <i>Feb</i>.
1755. <i>Resolutions of the Assembly of Massachusetts</i>, 18 <i>Feb</i>. 1755.
Shirley's original idea was to build a fort on a rising ground near
Crown Point, in order to command it. This was soon abandoned for the
more honest and more practical plan of direct attack.</p>
   <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_291" name="footer_291"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[291]</span>
<i>Correspondence of Shirley, Feb</i>. 1755. The number was
much increased later in the season.</p>
</div>

<p>He had never seen service, and knew nothing of war. By birth he was
Irish, of good family, 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_287-V1" id="Page_287-V1">287<br />V1</a></span> 
being nephew of Admiral Sir Peter Warren, who,
owning extensive wild lands on the Mohawk, had placed the young man in
charge of them nearly twenty years before. Johnson was born to prosper.
He had ambition, energy, an active mind, a tall, strong person, a rough,
jovial temper, and a quick adaptation to his surroundings. He could
drink flip with Dutch boors, or Madeira with royal governors. He liked
the society of the great, would intrigue and flatter when he had an end
to gain, and foil a rival without looking too closely at the means; but
compared with the Indian traders who infested the border, he was a model
of uprightness. He lived by the Mohawk in a fortified house which was a
stronghold against foes and a scene of hospitality to friends, both
white and red. Here&mdash;for his tastes were not fastidious&mdash;presided for
many years a Dutch or German wench whom he finally married; and after
her death a young Mohawk squaw took her place. Over his neighbors, the
Indians of the Five Nations, and all others of their race with whom he
had to deal, he acquired a remarkable influence. He liked them, adopted
their ways, and treated them kindly or sternly as the case required, but
always with a justice and honesty in strong contrast with the
rascalities of the commission of Albany traders who had lately managed
their affairs, and whom they so detested that one of their chiefs called
them "not men, but devils." Hence, when Johnson was made Indian
superintendent there was joy through all the Iroquois 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_288-V1" id="Page_288-V1">288<br />V1</a></span> 
confederacy. When,
in addition, he was made a general, he assembled the warriors in council
to engage them to aid the expedition.</p>

<p>This meeting took place at his own house, known as Fort Johnson; and as
more than eleven hundred Indians appeared at his call, his larder was
sorely taxed to entertain them. The speeches were interminable. Johnson,
as master of Indian rhetoric, knew his audience too well not to contest
with them the palm of insufferable prolixity. The climax was reached on
the fourth day, and he threw down the war-belt. An Oneida chief took it
up; Stevens, the interpreter, began the war-dance, and the assembled
warriors howled in chorus. Then a tub of punch was brought in, and they
all drank the King's health. <span class="superscript">[292]</span> 
 They showed less alacrity, however, to
fight his battles, and scarcely three hundred of them would take the
war-path. Too many of their friends and relatives were enlisted for the
French.</p>

<div class="footer">
    <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_292" name="footer_292"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[292]</span>
<i>Report of Conference between Major-General Johnson and
the Indians, June</i>, 1755.</p>
</div>

<p>While the British colonists were preparing to attack Crown Point, the
French of Canada were preparing to defend it. Duquesne, recalled from
his post, had resigned the government to the Marquis de Vaudreuil, who
had at his disposal the battalions of regulars that had sailed in the
spring from Brest under Baron Dieskau. His first thought was to use them
for the capture of Oswego; but the letters of Braddock, found on the
battle-field, warned him of the design against 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_289-V1" id="Page_289-V1">289<br />V1</a></span> 
Crown Point; while a
reconnoitring party which had gone as far as the Hudson brought back
news that Johnson's forces were already in the field. Therefore the plan
was changed, and Dieskau was ordered to lead the main body of his
troops, not to Lake Ontario, but to Lake Champlain. He passed up the
Richelieu, and embarked in boats and canoes for Crown Point. The veteran
knew that the foes with whom he had to deal were but a mob of
countrymen. He doubted not of putting them to rout, and meant never to
hold his hand till he had chased them back to Albany. 
<span class="superscript">[293]</span> "Make all
haste," Vaudreuil wrote to him; "for when you return we shall send you
to Oswego to execute our first design." <span class="superscript">[294]</span> 
</p>

<div class="footer">
    <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_293" name="footer_293"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[293]</span>
<i>Bigot au Ministre</i>, 27 <i>Ao&ucirc;t</i>, 1755. <i>Ibid</i>., 5 
<i>Sept</i>. 1755.</p>
   <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_294" name="footer_294"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[294]</span>
<i>M&eacute;moire pour servir d'Instruction &agrave; M. le Baron de
Dieskau, Mar&eacute;chal des Camps et Arm&eacute;es du Roy</i>, 15 
<i>Ao&ucirc;t</i>,  1755.</p>
</div>
<p>Johnson on his part was preparing to advance. In July about three
thousand provincials were encamped near Albany, some on the "Flats"
above the town, and some on the meadows below. Hither, too, came a swarm
of Johnson's Mohawks,&mdash;warriors, squaws, and children. They adorned the
General's face with war-paint, and he danced the war-dance; then with
his sword he cut the first slice from the ox that had been roasted
whole for their entertainment. "I shall be glad," wrote the surgeon of a
New England regiment, "if they fight as eagerly as they ate their ox and
drank their wine."</p>

<p>Above all things the expedition needed promptness; yet everything moved
slowly. Five popular 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_290-V1" id="Page_290-V1">290<br />V1</a></span> 
legislatures controlled the troops and the
supplies. Connecticut had refused to send her men till Shirley promised
that her commanding officer should rank next to Johnson. The whole
movement was for some time at a deadlock because the five governments
could not agree about their contributions of artillery and stores.
<span class="superscript">[295]</span> 
The New Hampshire regiment had taken a short cut for Crown Point across
the wilderness of Vermont; but had been recalled in time to save them
from probable destruction. They were now with the rest in the camp at
Albany, in such distress for provisions that a private subscription was
proposed for their relief. <span class="superscript">[296]</span> </p>

<div class="footer">
    <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_295" name="footer_295"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[295]</span>
<i>The Conduct of Major-General Shirley briefly stated</i>
(London, 1758).</p>
    <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_296" name="footer_296"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[296]</span>
<i>Blanchard to Wentworth</i>, 28 <i>Aug</i>. 1755, in <i>Provincial
Papers of New Hampshire</i>, VI. 429.</p>
</div>

<p>Johnson's army, crude as it was, had in it good material. Here was
Phineas Lyman, of Connecticut, second in command, once a tutor at Yale
College, and more recently a lawyer,&mdash;a raw soldier, but a vigorous and
brave one; Colonel Moses Titcomb, of Massachusetts, who had fought with
credit at Louisbourg; and Ephraim Williams, also colonel of a
Massachusetts regiment, a tall and portly man, who had been a captain in
the last war, member of the General Court, and deputy-sheriff. He made
his will in the camp at Albany, and left a legacy to found the school
which has since become Williams College. His relative, Stephen Williams,
was chaplain of his regiment, and his brother Thomas was its surgeon.
Seth Pomeroy, gunsmith at Northampton, 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_291-V1" id="Page_291-V1">291<br />V1</a></span> 
who, like Titcomb, had seen
service at Louisbourg, was its lieutenant-colonel. He had left a wife at
home, an excellent matron, to whom he was continually writing
affectionate letters, mingling household cares with news of the camp,
and charging her to see that their eldest boy, Seth, then in college at
New Haven, did not run off to the army. Pomeroy had with him his brother
Daniel; and this he thought was enough. Here, too, was a man whose name
is still a household word in New England,&mdash;the sturdy Israel Putnam,
private in a Connecticut regiment; and another as bold as he, John
Stark, lieutenant in the New Hampshire levies, and the future victor of
Bennington.</p>

<p>The soldiers were no soldiers, but farmers and farmers' sons who had
volunteered for the summer campaign. One of the corps had a blue uniform
faced with red. The rest wore their daily clothing. Blankets had been
served out to them by the several provinces, but the greater part
brought their own guns; some under the penalty of a fine if they came
without them, and some under the inducement of a reward.
<span class="superscript">[297]</span> They had
no bayonets, but carried hatchets in their belts as a sort of
substitute. <span class="superscript">[298]</span> 
At their sides were slung powder-horns, on which, in
the leisure of the camp, they carved quaint devices with the points of
their jack-knives. They came chiefly from plain New England
homesteads,&mdash;rustic abodes, unpainted and dingy, with 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_292-V1" id="Page_292-V1">292<br />V1</a></span> 
long well-sweeps,
capacious barns, rough fields of pumpkins and corn, and vast kitchen
chimneys, above which in winter hung squashes to keep them from frost,
and guns to keep them from rust.</p>

<div class="footer">
   <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_297" name="footer_297"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[297]</span>
<i>Proclamation of Governor Shirley</i>, 1755.</p>
   <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_298" name="footer_298"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[298]</span>
<i>Second Letter to a Friend on the Battle of Lake
George</i>.</p>
</div>

<p>As to the manners and morals of the army there is conflict of evidence.
In some respects nothing could be more exemplary. "Not a chicken has
been stolen," says William Smith, of New York; while, on the other hand,
Colonel Ephraim Williams writes to Colonel Israel Williams, then
commanding on the Massachusetts frontier: "We are a wicked, profane
army, especially the New York and Rhode Island troops. Nothing to be
heard among a great part of them but the language of Hell. If Crown
Point is taken, it will not be for our sakes, but for those good people
left behind." <span class="superscript">[299]</span>  There was edifying 
regularity in respect to form. Sermons twice a week, daily prayers, and 
frequent psalm-singing alternated with the much-needed military drill. 
<span class="superscript">[300]</span>  "Prayers among us
night and morning," writes Private Jonathan Caswell, of Massachusetts,
to his father. "Here we lie, knowing not when we shall march for Crown
Point; but I hope not long to tarry. Desiring your prayers to God for me
as I am going to war, I am Your Ever Dutiful son." 
<span class="superscript">[301]</span> </p>

<div class="footer">
    <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_299" name="footer_299"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[299]</span>
<i>Papers of Colonel Israel Williams</i>.</p>
   <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_300" name="footer_300"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[300]</span>
<i>Massachusetts Archives</i>.</p>
   <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_301" name="footer_301"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[301]</span>
<i>Jonathan Caswell to John Caswell</i>, 6 <i>July</i>, 1755.</p>
</div>

<p>To Pomeroy and some of his brothers in arms it seemed that they were
engaged in a kind of crusade against the myrmidons of Rome. "As you have
at heart the Protestant cause," he wrote 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_293-V1" id="Page_293-V1">293<br />V1</a></span> 
to his friend Israel Williams,
"so I ask an interest in your prayers that the Lord of Hosts would go
forth with us and give us victory over our unreasonable, encroaching,
barbarous, murdering enemies."</p>

<p>Both Williams the surgeon and Williams the colonel chafed at the
incessant delays. "The expedition goes on very much as a snail runs,"
writes the former to his wife; "it seems we may possibly see Crown Point
this time twelve months." The Colonel was vexed because everything was
out of joint in the department of transportation: wagoners mutinous for
want of pay; ordnance stores, camp-kettles, and provisions left behind.
"As to rum," he complains, "it won't hold out nine weeks. Things appear
most melancholy to me." Even as he was writing, a report came of the
defeat of Braddock; and, shocked at the blow, his pen traced the words:
"The Lord have mercy on poor New England!"</p>

<p>Johnson had sent four Mohawk scouts to Canada. They returned on the
twenty-first of August with the report that the French were all astir
with preparation, and that eight thousand men were coming to defend
Crown Point. On this a council of war was called; and it was resolved to
send to the several colonies for reinforcements. 
<span class="superscript">[302]</span> Meanwhile the main
body had moved up the river to the spot called the Great Carrying Place,
where Lyman had begun a fortified 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_294-V1" id="Page_294-V1">294<br />V1</a></span> 
storehouse, which his men called Fort
Lyman, but which was afterwards named Fort Edward. Two Indian trails led
from this point to the waters of Lake Champlain, one by way of Lake
George, and the other by way of Wood Creek. There was doubt which course
the army should take. A road was begun to Wood Creek; then it was
countermanded, and a party was sent to explore the path to Lake George.
"With submission to the general officers," Surgeon Williams again
writes, "I think it a very grand mistake that the business of
reconnoitring was not done months agone." It was resolved at last to
march for Lake George; gangs of axemen were sent to hew out the way; and
on the twenty-sixth two thousand men were ordered to the lake, while
Colonel Blanchard, of New Hampshire, remained with five hundred to
finish and defend Fort Lyman.</p>

<div class="footer">
    <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_302" name="footer_302"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[302]</span>
<i>Minutes of Council of War</i>, 22 <i>Aug</i>. 1755. <i>Ephraim
Williams to Benjamin Dwight</i>, 22 <i>Aug</i>. 1755.</p>
</div>

<p>The train of Dutch wagons, guarded by the homely soldiery, jolted slowly
over the stumps and roots of the newly made road, and the regiments
followed at their leisure. The hardships of the way were not without
their consolations. The jovial Irishman who held the chief command made
himself very agreeable to the New England officers. "We went on about
four or five miles," says Pomeroy in his Journal, "then stopped, ate
pieces of broken bread and cheese, and drank some fresh lemon-punch and
the best of wine with General Johnson and some of the field-officers."
It was the same on the next day. "Stopped about noon and dined with
General Johnson by 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_295-V1" id="Page_295-V1">295<br />V1</a></span> 
a small brook under a tree; ate a good dinner of cold
boiled and roast venison; drank good fresh lemon-punch and wine."</p>

<p>That afternoon they reached their destination, fourteen miles from Fort
Lyman. The most beautiful lake in America lay before them; then more
beautiful than now, in the wild charm of untrodden mountains and virgin
forests. "I have given it the name of Lake George," wrote Johnson to the
Lords of Trade, "not only in honor of His Majesty, but to ascertain his
undoubted dominion here." His men made their camp on a piece of rough
ground by the edge of the water, pitching their tents among the stumps
of the newly felled trees. In their front was a forest of pitch-pine; on
their right, a marsh, choked with alders and swamp-maples; on their
left, the low hill where Fort George was afterwards built; and at their
rear, the lake. Little was done to clear the forest in front, though it
would give excellent cover to an enemy. Nor did Johnson take much pains
to learn the movements of the French in the direction of Crown Point,
though he sent scouts towards South Bay and Wood Creek. Every day stores
and bateaux, or flat boats, came on wagons from Fort Lyman; and
preparation moved on with the leisure that had marked it from the first.
About three hundred Mohawks came to the camp, and were regarded by the
New England men as nuisances. On Sunday the gray-haired Stephen Williams
preached to these savage allies a long Calvinistic sermon, which must
have 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_296-V1" id="Page_296-V1">296<br />V1</a></span> 
sorely perplexed the interpreter whose business it was to turn it
into Mohawk; and in the afternoon young Chaplain Newell, of Rhode
Island, expounded to the New England men the somewhat untimely text,
"Love your enemies." On the next Sunday, September seventh, Williams
preached again, this time to the whites from a text in Isaiah. It was a
peaceful day, fair and warm, with a few light showers; yet not wholly a
day of rest, for two hundred wagons came up from Fort Lyman, loaded with
bateaux. After the sermon there was an alarm. An Indian scout came in
about sunset, and reported that he had found the trail of a body of men
moving from South Bay towards Fort Lyman. Johnson called for a volunteer
to carry a letter of warning to Colonel Blanchard, the commander. A
wagoner named Adams offered himself for the perilous service, mounted,
and galloped along the road with the letter. Sentries were posted, and
the camp fell asleep.</p>

<p>While Johnson lay at Lake George, Dieskau prepared a surprise for him.
The German Baron had reached Crown Point at the head of three thousand
five hundred and seventy-three men, regulars, Canadians, and
Indians. <span class="superscript">[303]</span> 
He had no thought of waiting there to be attacked. The
troops were told to hold themselves ready to move at a moment's notice.
Officers&mdash;so ran the order&mdash;will take nothing with them but one spare
shirt, one spare pair of shoes, a blanket, a bearskin, and 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_297-V1" id="Page_297-V1">297<br />V1</a></span> 
provisions
for twelve days; Indians are not to amuse themselves by taking scalps
till the enemy is entirely defeated, since they can kill ten men in the
time required to scalp one. <span class="superscript">[304]</span> 
Then Dieskau moved on, with nearly all
his force, to Carillon, or Ticonderoga, a promontory commanding both the
routes by which alone Johnson could advance, that of Wood Creek and that
of Lake George.</p>

<div class="footer">
    <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_303" name="footer_303"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[303]</span>
<i>Vaudreuil au Ministre</i>, 25 <i>Sept</i>. 1755.</p>
    <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_304" name="footer_304"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[304]</span>
<i>Livre d'Ordres, Ao&ucirc;t, Sept</i>. 1755.</p>
</div>

<p>The Indians allies were commanded by Legardeur de Saint-Pierre, the
officer who had received Washington on his embassy to Fort Le B&oelig;uf.
These unmanageable warriors were a constant annoyance to Dieskau, being
a species of humanity quite new to him. "They drive us crazy," he says,
"from morning till night. There is no end to their demands. They have
already eaten five oxen and as many hogs, without counting the kegs of
brandy they have drunk. In short, one needs the patience of an angel to
get on with these devils; and yet one must always force himself to seem
pleased with them." <span class="superscript">[305]</span> </p>

<div class="footer">
    <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_305" name="footer_305"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[305]</span>
<i>Dieskau &agrave; Vaudreuil</i>, 1 <i>Sept</i>. 1755.</p>
</div>

<p>They would scarcely even go out as scouts. At last, however, on the
fourth of September, a reconnoitring party came in with a scalp and an
English prisoner caught near Fort Lyman. He was questioned under the
threat of being given to the Indians for torture if he did not tell the
truth; but, nothing daunted, he invented a patriotic falsehood; and
thinking to lure his captors into a trap, told them that the English
army had fallen back to 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_298-V1" id="Page_298-V1">298<br />V1</a></span> 
Albany, leaving five hundred men at Fort Lyman,
which he represented as indefensible. Dieskau resolved on a rapid
movement to seize the place. At noon of the same day, leaving a part of
his force at Ticonderoga, he embarked the rest in canoes and advanced
along the narrow prolongation of Lake Champlain that stretched southward
through the wilderness to where the town of Whitehall now stands. He
soon came to a point where the lake dwindled to a mere canal, while two
mighty rocks, capped with stunted forests, faced each other from the
opposing banks. Here he left an officer named Roquemaure with a
detachment of troops, and again advanced along a belt of quiet water
traced through the midst of a deep marsh, green at that season with
sedge and water-weeds, and known to the English as the Drowned Lands.
Beyond, on either hand, crags feathered with birch and fir, or hills
mantled with woods, looked down on the long procession of canoes.
<span class="superscript">[306]</span> 
As they neared the site of Whitehall, a passage opened on the right, the
entrance to a sheet of lonely water slumbering in the shadow of woody
mountains, and forming the lake then, as now, called South Bay. They
advanced to its head, landed where a small stream enters it, left the
canoes under a guard, and began their march through the forest. They
counted in all two hundred and sixteen regulars of the battalions of
Languedoc and La Reine, six hundred 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_299-V1" id="Page_299-V1">299<br />V1</a></span> 
and eighty-four Canadians, and above
six hundred Indians. <span class="superscript">[307]</span> 
Every officer and man carried provisions for
eight days in his knapsack. They encamped at night by a brook, and in
the morning, after hearing Mass, marched again. The evening of the next
day brought them near the road that led to Lake George. Fort Lyman was
but three miles distant. A man on horseback galloped by; it was Adams,
Johnson's unfortunate messenger. The Indians shot him, and found the
letter in his pocket. Soon after, ten or twelve wagons appeared in
charge of mutinous drivers, who had left the English camp without
orders. Several of them were shot, two were taken, and the rest ran off.
The two captives declared that, contrary to the assertion of the
prisoner at Ticonderoga, a large force lay encamped at the lake. The
Indians now held a council, and presently gave out that they would not
attack the fort, which they thought well supplied with cannon, but that
they were willing to attack the camp at Lake George. Remonstrance was
lost upon them. Dieskau was not young, but he was daring to rashness,
and inflamed to emulation by the victory over Braddock. The enemy were
reported greatly to outnumber him; but his Canadian advisers had assured
him that the English colony militia were the worst troops on the face of
the earth. "The more there are," he said to the Canadians and Indians,
"the more we shall kill;" and in the morning the order was given to
march for the lake.</p>

<div class="footer">
    <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_306" name="footer_306"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[306]</span>
I passed this way three weeks ago. There are some points
where the scene is not much changed since Dieskau saw it.</p>
   <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_307" name="footer_307"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[307]</span>
<i>M&eacute;moire sur l'Affaire du</i> 8 <i>Septembre</i>.</p>
</div>

<p>
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_300-V1" id="Page_300-V1">300<br />V1</a></span> 
They moved rapidly on through the waste of pines, and soon entered the
rugged valley that led to Johnson's camp. On their right was a gorge
where, shadowed in bushes, gurgled a gloomy brook; and beyond rose the
cliffs that buttressed the rocky heights of French Mountain, seen by
glimpses between the boughs. On their left rose gradually the lower
slopes of West Mountain. All was rock, thicket, and forest; there was no
open space but the road along which the regulars marched, while the
Canadians and Indians pushed their way through the woods in such order
as the broken ground would permit.</p>

<p>They were three miles from the lake, when their scouts brought in a
prisoner who told them that a column of English troops was approaching.
Dieskau's preparations were quickly made. While the regulars halted on
the road, the Canadians and Indians moved to the front, where most of
them hid in the forest along the slopes of West Mountain, and the rest
lay close among the thickets on the other side. Thus, when the English
advanced to attack the regulars in front, they would find themselves
caught in a double ambush. No sight or sound betrayed the snare; but
behind every bush crouched a Canadian or a savage, with gun cocked and
ears intent, listening for the tramp of the approaching column.</p>

<p>The wagoners who escaped the evening before had reached the camp about
midnight, and reported that there was a war-party on the road near Fort
Lyman. Johnson had at this time 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_301-V1" id="Page_301-V1">301<br />V1</a></span> 
twenty-two hundred effective men, besides his three hundred Indians. 
<span class="superscript">[308]</span> He called a council of war in
the morning, and a resolution was taken which can only be explained by a
complete misconception as to the force of the French. It was determined
to send out two detachments of five hundred men each, one towards Fort
Lyman, and the other towards South Bay, the object being, according to
Johnson, "to catch the enemy in their retreat." 
<span class="superscript">[309]</span> Hendrick, chief of
the Mohawks, a brave and sagacious warrior, expressed his dissent after
a fashion of his own. He picked up a stick and broke it; then he picked
up several sticks, and showed that together they could not be broken.
The hint was taken, and the two detachments were joined in one. Still
the old savage shook his head. "If they are to be killed," he said,
"they are too many; if they are to fight, they are too few."
Nevertheless, he resolved to share their fortunes; and mounting on a
gun-carriage, he harangued his warriors with a voice so animated and
gestures so expressive, that the New England officers listened in
admiration, though they understood not a word. One difficulty remained.
He was too old and fat to go afoot; but Johnson lent him a horse, which
he bestrode, and trotted to the head of the column, 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_302-V1" id="Page_302-V1">302<br />V1</a></span> 
followed by two
hundred of his warriors as fast as they could grease, paint, and
befeather themselves.</p>

<div class="footer">
    <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_308" name="footer_308"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[308]</span>
<i>Wraxall to Lieutenant-Governor Delancey</i>, 10 <i>Sept</i>. 1755.
Wraxall was Johnson's aide-de-camp and secretary. The <i>Second Letter to
a Friend</i> says twenty-one hundred whites and two hundred or three
hundred Indians. Blodget, who was also on the spot, sets the whites at
two thousand.</p>
   <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_309" name="footer_309"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[309]</span>
<i>Letter to the Governors of the several Colonies</i>, 9 <i>Sept</i>. 1755.</p>
</div>

<p>
Captain Elisha Hawley was in his tent, finishing a letter which he had
just written to his brother Joseph; and these were the last words: "I am
this minute agoing out in company with five hundred men to see if we can
intercept 'em in their retreat, or find their canoes in the Drowned
Lands; and therefore must conclude this letter." He closed and directed
it; and in an hour received his death-wound.</p>

<p>It was soon after eight o'clock when Ephraim Williams left the camp with
his regiment, marched a little distance, and then waited for the rest of
the detachment under Lieutenant-Colonel Whiting. Thus Dieskau had full
time to lay his ambush. When Whiting came up, the whole moved on
together, so little conscious of danger that no scouts were thrown out
in front or flank; and, in full security, they entered the fatal snare.
Before they were completely involved in it, the sharp eye of old
Hendrick detected some sign of an enemy. At that instant, whether by
accident or design, a gun was fired from the bushes. It is said that
Dieskau's Iroquois, seeing Mohawks, their relatives, in the van, wished
to warn them of danger. If so, the warning came too late. The thickets
on the left blazed out a deadly fire, and the men fell by scores. In the
words of Dieskau, the head of the column "was doubled up like a pack of
cards." Hendrick's horse was 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_303-V1" id="Page_303-V1">303<br />V1</a></span> 
shot down, and the chief was killed with a
bayonet as he tried to rise. Williams, seeing a rising ground on his
right, made for it, calling on his men to follow; but as he climbed the
slope, guns flashed from the bushes, and a shot through the brain laid
him dead. The men in the rear pressed forward to support their comrades,
when a hot fire was suddenly opened on them from the forest along their
right flank. Then there was a panic; some fled outright, and the whole
column recoiled. The van now became the rear, and all the force of the
enemy rushed upon it, shouting and screeching. There was a moment of
total confusion; but a part of Williams's regiment rallied under command
of Whiting, and covered the retreat, fighting behind trees like Indians,
and firing and falling back by turns, bravely aided by some of the
Mohawks and by a detachment which Johnson sent to their aid. "And a very
handsome retreat they made," writes Pomeroy; "and so continued till they
came within about three quarters of a mile of our camp. This was the
last fire our men gave our enemies, which killed great numbers of them;
they were seen to drop as pigeons." So ended the fray long known in New
England fireside story as the "bloody morning scout." Dieskau now
ordered a halt, and sounded his trumpets to collect his scattered men.
His Indians, however, were sullen and unmanageable, and the Canadians
also showed signs of wavering. The veteran who commanded them all,
Legardeur de Saint-Pierre, had been killed. At length they 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_304-V1" id="Page_304-V1">304<br />V1</a></span> 
were persuaded to move again, the regulars leading the way.</p>

<p>About an hour after Williams and his men had begun their march, a
distant rattle of musketry was heard at the camp; and as it grew nearer
and louder, the listeners knew that their comrades were on the retreat.
Then, at the eleventh hour, preparations were begun for defence. A sort
of barricade was made along the front of the camp, partly of wagons, and
partly of inverted bateaux, but chiefly of the trunks of trees hastily
hewn down in the neighboring forest and laid end to end in a single row.
The line extended from the southern slopes of the hill on the left
across a tract of rough ground to the marshes on the right. The forest,
choked with bushes and clumps of rank ferns, was within a few yards of
the barricade, and there was scarcely time to hack away the intervening
thickets. Three cannon were planted to sweep the road that descended
through the pines, and another was dragged up to the ridge of the hill.
The defeated party began to come in; first, scared fugitives both white
and red; then, gangs of men bringing the wounded; and at last, an hour
and a half after the first fire was heard, the main detachment was seen
marching in compact bodies down the road.</p>

<p>Five hundred men were detailed to guard the flanks of the camp. The rest
stood behind the wagons or lay flat behind the logs and inverted
bateaux, the Massachusetts men on the right, and the Connecticut men on
the left. Besides 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_305-V1" id="Page_305-V1">305<br />V1</a></span> 
Indians, this actual fighting force was between
sixteen and seventeen hundred rustics, very few of whom had been under
fire before that morning. They were hardly at their posts when they saw
ranks of white-coated soldiers moving down the road, and bayonets that
to them seemed innumerable glittering between the boughs. At the same
time a terrific burst of war-whoops rose along the front; and, in the
words of Pomeroy, "the Canadians and Indians, helter-skelter, the woods
full of them, came running with undaunted courage right down the hill
upon us, expecting to make us flee." <span class="superscript">[310]</span> 
Some of the men grew uneasy; while the chief officers, sword in hand, 
threatened instant death to any who should stir from their posts.
<span class="superscript">[311]</span> If Dieskau had made an assault at
that instant, there could be little doubt of the result.</p>

<div class="footer">
    <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_310" name="footer_310"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[310]</span>
<i>Seth Pomeroy to his Wife</i>, 10 <i>Sept</i>. 1755.</p>
   <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_311" name="footer_311"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[311]</span>
<i>Dr. Perez Marsh to William Williams</i>, 25 <i>Sept</i>. 1755.</p>
</div>

<p>This he well knew; but he was powerless. He had his small force of
regulars well in hand; but the rest, red and white, were beyond control,
scattering through the woods and swamps, shouting, yelling, and firing
from behind trees. The regulars advanced with intrepidity towards the
camp where the trees were thin, deployed, and fired by platoons, till
Captain Eyre, who commanded the artillery, opened on them with grape,
broke their ranks, and compelled them to take to cover. The fusillade
was now general on both sides, and soon grew furious. "Perhaps," Seth
Pomeroy wrote to his wife, two days after, "the 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_306-V1" id="Page_306-V1">306<br />V1</a></span> 
hailstones from heaven
were never much thicker than their bullets came; but, blessed be God!
that did not in the least daunt or disturb us." Johnson received a
flesh-wound in the thigh, and spent the rest of the day in his tent.
Lyman took command; and it is a marvel that he escaped alive, for he was
four hours in the heat of the fire, directing and animating the men. "It
was the most awful day my eyes ever beheld," wrote Surgeon Williams to
his wife; "there seemed to be nothing but thunder and lightning and
perpetual pillars of smoke." To him, his colleague Doctor Pynchon, one
assistant, and a young student called "Billy," fell the charge of the
wounded of his regiment. "The bullets flew about our ears all the time
of dressing them; so we thought best to leave our tent and retire a few
rods behind the shelter of a log-house." On the adjacent hill stood one
Blodget, who seems to have been a sutler, watching, as well as bushes,
trees, and smoke would let him, the progress of the fight, of which he
soon after made and published a curious bird's-eye view. As the wounded
men were carried to the rear, the wagoners about the camp took their
guns and powder-horns, and joined in the fray. A Mohawk, seeing one of
these men still unarmed, leaped over the barricade, tomahawked the
nearest Canadian, snatched his gun, and darted back unhurt. The brave
savage found no imitators among his tribesmen, most of whom did nothing
but utter a few war-whoops, saying that they had come to see their
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_307-V1" id="Page_307-V1">307<br />V1</a></span> 
English brothers fight. Some of the French Indians opened a distant
flank fire from the high ground beyond the swamp on the right, but were
driven off by a few shells dropped among them.</p>

<p>Dieskau had directed his first attack against the left and centre of
Johnson's position. Making no impression here, he tried to force the
right, where lay the regiments of Titcomb, Ruggles, and Williams. The
fire was hot for about an hour. Titcomb was shot dead, a rod in front of
the barricade, firing from behind a tree like a common soldier. At
length Dieskau, exposing himself within short range of the English line,
was hit in the leg. His adjutant, Montreuil, himself wounded, came to
his aid, and was washing the injured limb with brandy, when the
unfortunate commander was again hit in the knee and thigh. He seated
himself behind a tree, while the Adjutant called two Canadians to carry
him to the rear. One of them was instantly shot down. Montreuil took his
place; but Dieskau refused to be moved, bitterly denounced the Canadians
and Indians, and ordered the Adjutant to leave him and lead the regulars
in a last effort against the camp.</p>

<p>It was too late. Johnson's men, singly or in small squads, already
crossing their row of logs; and in a few moments the whole dashed
forward with a shout, falling upon the enemy with hatchets and the butts
of their guns. The French and their allies fled. The wounded General
still sat helpless by the tree, when he saw a 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_308-V1" id="Page_308-V1">308<br />V1</a></span> 
soldier aiming at him. He
signed to the man not to fire; but he pulled trigger, shot him across
the hips, leaped upon him, and ordered him in French to surrender. "I
said," writes Dieskau, "'You rascal, why did you fire? You see a man
lying in his blood on the ground, and you shoot him!' He answered: 'How
did I know that you had not got a pistol? I had rather kill the devil
than have the devil kill me.' 'You are a Frenchman?' I asked. 'Yes,' he
replied; 'it is more than ten years since I left Canada;' whereupon
several others fell on me and stripped me. I told them to carry me to
their general, which they did. On learning who I was, he sent for
surgeons, and, though wounded himself, refused all assistance till my
wounds were dressed." <span class="superscript">[312]</span> </p>

<div class="footer">
    <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_312" name="footer_312"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[312]</span>
<i>Dialogue entre le Mar&eacute;chal de Saxe et le Baron de Dieskau aux Champs 
&Eacute;lys&eacute;es</i>. This paper is in the Archives de la Guerre,
and was evidently written or inspired by Dieskau himself. In spite of
its fanciful form, it is a sober statement of the events of the
campaign. There is a translation of it in <i>N.&nbsp;Y. Col. Docs.</i>, 
X. 340.</p>
</div>

<p>It was near five o'clock when the final rout took place. Some time
before, several hundred of the Canadians and Indians had left the field
and returned to the scene of the morning fight, to plunder and scalp the
dead. They were resting themselves near a pool in the forest, close
beside the road, when their repose was interrupted by a volley of
bullets. It was fired by a scouting party from Fort Lyman, chiefly
backwoodsmen, under Captains Folsom and McGinnis. The assailants were
greatly outnumbered; but after a hard fight the Canadians and Indians
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_309-V1" id="Page_309-V1">309<br />V1</a></span> 
broke and fled. McGinnis was mortally wounded. He continued to give
orders till the firing was over; then fainted, and was carried, dying,
to the camp. The bodies of the slain, according to tradition, were
thrown into the pool, which bears to this day the name of Bloody Pond.</p>

<p>The various bands of fugitives rejoined each other towards night, and
encamped in the forest; then made their way round the southern shoulder
of French Mountain, till, in the next evening, they reached their
canoes. Their plight was deplorable; for they had left their knapsacks
behind, and were spent with fatigue and famine.</p>

<p>Meanwhile their captive general was not yet out of danger. The Mohawks
were furious at their losses in the ambush of the morning, and above all
at the death of Hendrick. Scarcely were Dieskau's wounds dressed, when
several of them came into the tent. There was a long and angry dispute
in their own language between them and Johnson, after which they went
out very sullenly. Dieskau asked what they wanted. "What do they want?"
returned Johnson. "To burn you, by God, eat you, and smoke you in their
pipes, in revenge for three or four of their chiefs that were killed.
But never fear; you shall be safe with me, or else they shall kill us
both." <span class="superscript">[313]</span> 
The Mohawks soon came back, and another talk ensued, excited
at first, and then more calm; till at length 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_310-V1" id="Page_310-V1">310<br />V1</a></span> 
the visitors, seemingly
appeased, smiled, gave Dieskau their hands in sign of friendship, and
quietly went out again. Johnson warned him that he was not yet safe; and
when the prisoner, fearing that his presence might incommode his host,
asked to be removed to another tent, a captain and fifty men were
ordered to guard him. In the morning an Indian, alone and apparently
unarmed, loitered about the entrance, and the stupid sentinel let him
pass in. He immediately drew a sword from under a sort of cloak which he
wore, and tried to stab Dieskau; but was prevented by the Colonel to
whom the tent belonged, who seized upon him, took away his sword, and
pushed him out. As soon as his wounds would permit, Dieskau was carried
on a litter, strongly escorted, to Fort Lyman, whence he was sent to
Albany, and afterwards to New York. He is profuse in expressions of
gratitude for the kindness shown him by the colonial officers, and
especially by Johnson. Of the provincial soldiers he remarked soon after
the battle that in the morning they fought like good boys, about noon
like men, and in the afternoon like devils. 
<span class="superscript">[314]</span> In the spring of 1757
he sailed for England, and was for a time at Falmouth; whence Colonel
Matthew Sewell, fearing that he might see and learn too much, wrote to
the Earl of Holdernesse: "The Baron has great penetration and quickness
of apprehension. His long service under Marshal Saxe renders him a man
of real consequence, to be 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_311-V1" id="Page_311-V1">311<br />V1</a></span> 
cautiously observed. His circumstances
deserve compassion, for indeed they are very melancholy, and I much
doubt of his being ever perfectly cured." He was afterwards a long time
at Bath, for the benefit of the waters. In 1760 the famous Diderot met
him at Paris, cheerful and full of anecdote, though wretchedly shattered
by his wounds. He died a few years later.</p>

<div class="footer">
    <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_313" name="footer_313"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[313]</span>
See the story as told by Dieskau to the celebrated Diderot, at Paris, 
in 1760. <i>M&eacute;moires de Diderot</i>, I. 402 (1830). 
Compare <i>N.&nbsp;Y. Col. Docs.</i>, X. 343.</p>
   <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_314" name="footer_314"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[314]</span>
<i>Dr. Perez Marsh to William Williams</i>, 25 <i>Sept</i>. 1755.</p>
</div>

<p>On the night after the battle the yeomen warriors felt the truth of the
saying that, next to defeat, the saddest thing is victory. Comrades and
friends by scores lay scattered through the forest. As soon as he could
snatch a moment's leisure, the overworked surgeon sent the dismal
tidings to his wife: "My dear brother Ephraim was killed by a ball
through his head; poor brother Josiah's wound I fear will prove mortal;
poor Captain Hawley is yet alive, though I did not think he would live
two hours after bringing him in." Daniel Pomeroy was shot dead; and his
brother Seth wrote the news to his wife Rachel, who was just delivered
of a child: "Dear Sister, this brings heavy tidings; but let not your
heart sink at the news, though it be your loss of a dear husband. Monday
the eighth instant was a memorable day; and truly you may say, had not
the Lord been on our side, we must all have been swallowed up. My
brother, being one that went out in the first engagement, received a
fatal shot through the middle of the head." Seth Pomeroy found a moment
to write also to his own wife, whom he tells that another attack is
expected; 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_312-V1" id="Page_312-V1">312<br />V1</a></span> 
adding, in quaintly pious phrase: "But as God hath begun to
show mercy, I hope he will go on to be gracious." Pomeroy was employed
during the next few days with four hundred men in what he calls "the
melancholy piece of business" of burying the dead. A letter-writer of
the time does not approve what was done on this occasion. "Our people,"
he says, "not only buried the French dead, but buried as many of them as
might be without the knowledge of our Indians, to prevent their being
scalped. This I call an excess of civility;" his reason being that
Braddock's dead soldiers had been left to the wolves.</p>

<p>The English loss in killed, wounded, and missing was two hundred and
sixty-two; <span class="superscript">[315]</span> and that of the French 
by their own account, two hundred and twenty-eight, 
<span class="superscript">[316]</span>&mdash;a somewhat modest result of 
five hours' fighting. The English loss was chiefly in the ambush of the morning,
where the killed greatly outnumbered the wounded, because those who fell
and could not be carried away were tomahawked by Dieskau's Indians. In
the fight at the camp, both Indians and Canadians kept themselves so
well under cover that it was very difficult for the New England men to
pick them off, while they on their part lay close behind their row of
logs. On the French side, the regular officers and troops bore the brunt
of the battle 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_313-V1" id="Page_313-V1">313<br />V1</a></span> 
and suffered the chief loss, nearly all of the former and
nearly half of the latter being killed or wounded.</p>

<div class="footer">
    <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_315" name="footer_315"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[315]</span>
<i>Return of Killed, Wounded, and Missing at the Battle of
Lake George</i>.</p>
   <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_316" name="footer_316"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[316]</span>
<i>Doreil au Ministre</i>, 20 <i>Oct</i>. 1755. Surgeon Williams
gives the English loss as two hundred and sixteen killed, and ninety-six
wounded. Pomeroy thinks that the French lost four or five hundred.
Johnson places their loss at four hundred.</p>
</div>

<p>Johnson did not follow up his success. He says that his men were tired.
Yet five hundred of them had stood still all day, and boats enough for
their transportation were lying on the beach. Ten miles down the lake, a
path led over a gorge of the mountains to South Bay, where Dieskau had
left his canoes and provisions. It needed but a few hours to reach and
destroy them; but no such attempt was made. Nor, till a week after, did
Johnson send out scouts to learn the strength of the enemy at
Ticonderoga. Lyman strongly urged him to make an effort to seize that
important pass; but Johnson thought only of holding his own position. "I
think," he wrote, "we may expect very shortly a more formidable attack."
He made a solid breastwork to defend his camp; and as reinforcements
arrived, set them at building a fort on a rising ground by the lake. It
is true that just after the battle he was deficient in stores, and had
not bateaux enough to move his whole force. It is true, also, that he
was wounded, and that he was too jealous of Lyman to delegate the
command to him; and so the days passed till, within a fortnight, his
nimble enemy were entrenched at Ticonderoga in force enough to defy him.</p>

<p>The Crown Point expedition was a failure disguised under an incidental
success. The northern provinces, especially Massachusetts and
Connecticut, 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_314-V1" id="Page_314-V1">314<br />V1</a></span> 
did what they could to forward it, and after the battle
sent a herd of raw recruits to the scene of action. Shirley wrote to
Johnson from Oswego; declared that his reasons for not advancing were
insufficient, and urged him to push for Ticonderoga at once. Johnson
replied that he had not wagons enough, and that his troops were
ill-clothed, ill-fed, discontented, insubordinate, and sickly. He
complained that discipline was out of the question, because the officers
were chosen by popular election; that many of them were no better than
the men, unfit for command, and like so many "heads of a mob."
<span class="superscript">[317]</span> The
reinforcements began to come in, till, in October, there were thirty-six
hundred men in the camp; and as most of them wore summer clothing and
had but one thin domestic blanket, they were half frozen in the chill
autumn nights.</p>


<div class="footer">
    <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_317" name="footer_317"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[317]</span>
<i>Shirley to Johnson</i>, 19 <i>Sept</i>. 1755. <i>Ibid</i>., 
24 <i>Sept</i>. 1755. <i>Johnson to Shirley</i>, 22 <i>Sept</i>. 1755. 
<i>Johnson to Phipps</i>, 10 <i>Oct</i>. 1755 (Massachusetts Archives).</p>
</div>


<p>Johnson called a council of war; and as he was suffering from inflamed
eyes, and was still kept in his tent by his wound, he asked Lyman to
preside,&mdash;not unwilling, perhaps, to shift the responsibility upon him.
After several sessions and much debate, the assembled officers decided
that it was inexpedient to proceed. <span class="superscript">[318]</span> 
Yet the army lay more than a
month longer at the lake, while the disgust of the men increased daily
under the rains, frosts, and snows of a dreary November. On the
twenty-second, Chandler, chaplain of one of the 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_315-V1" id="Page_315-V1">315<br />V1</a></span>
Massachusetts regiments, 
wrote in the interleaved almanac that served him as a diary: "The men
just ready to mutiny. Some clubbed their firelocks and marched, but
returned back. Very rainy night. Miry water standing the tents. Very
distressing time among the sick." The men grew more and more unruly, and
went off in squads without asking leave. A difficult question arose: Who
should stay for the winter to garrison the new forts, and who should
command them? It was settled at last that a certain number of soldiers
from each province should be assigned to this ungrateful service, and
that Massachusetts should have the first officer, Connecticut the
second, and New York the third. Then the camp broke up. "Thursday the
27th," wrote the chaplain in his almanac, "we set out about ten of the
clock, marched in a body, about three thousand, the wagons and baggage
in the centre, our colonel much insulted by the way." The soldiers
dispersed to their villages and farms, where in blustering winter
nights, by the blazing logs of New England hearthstones, they told
their friends and neighbors the story of the campaign.</p>

<div class="footer">
    <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_318" name="footer_318"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[318]</span>
<i>Reports of Council of War</i>, 11-21 <i>Oct</i>. 1755.</p>
</div>

<p>The profit of it fell to Johnson. If he did not gather the fruits of
victory, at least he reaped its laurels. He was a courtier in his rough
way. He had changed the name of Lac St. Sacrement to Lake George, in
compliment to the King. He now changed that of Fort Lyman to Fort Edward, 
in compliment to one of the King's grandsons; and, in compliment to 
another, called his new fort at the lake, 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_316-V1" id="Page_316-V1">316<br />V1</a></span>
William Henry. Of General Lyman he made no mention in
his report of the battle, and his partisans wrote letters traducing
that brave officer; though Johnson is said to have confessed in private
that he owed him the victory. He himself found no lack of eulogists;
and, to quote the words of an able but somewhat caustic and prejudiced
opponent, "to the panegyrical pen of his secretary, Mr. Wraxall, and the
<i>sic volo sic jubeo</i> of Lieutenant-Governor Delancey, is to be ascribed
that mighty renown which echoed through the colonies, reverberated to
Europe, and elevated a raw, inexperienced youth into a kind of second
Marlborough." <span class="superscript">[319]</span> 
Parliament gave him five thousand pounds, and the King
made him a baronet.</p>

<div class="footer">
    <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_319" name="footer_319"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[319]</span>
<i>Review of Military Operations in North America, in a
Letter to a Nobleman</i> (ascribed to William Livingston).</p>
<p>
On the Battle of Lake George a mass of papers will be found in the <i>N.&nbsp;Y.
Col. Docs.</i>, Vols. VI. and X. Those in Vol. VI., taken chiefly from the
archives of New York, consist of official and private letters, reports,
etc., on the English side. Those in Vol. X. are drawn chiefly from the
archives of the French War Department, and include the correspondence of
Dieskau and his adjutant Montreuil. I have examined most of them in the
original. Besides these I have obtained from the Archives de la Marine
and other sources a number of important additional papers, which have
never been printed, including Vaudreuil's reports to the Minister of
War, and his strictures on Dieskau, whom he accuses of disobeying orders
by dividing his force; also the translation of an English journal of the
campaign found in the pocket of a captured officer, and a long account
of the battle sent by Bigot to the Minister of Marine, 4 Oct. 1755.</p>

<p>I owe to the kindness of Theodore Pomeroy, Esq., a copy of the Journal
of Lieutenant-Colonel Seth Pomeroy, whose letters are full of interest;
as are those of Surgeon Williams, from the collection of William L.
Stone, Esq. The papers of Colonel Israel Williams, in the Library of the
Massachusetts Historical Society, contain many other curious letters
relating to the campaign, extracts from some of which are given in the
text. One of the most curious records of the battle is <i>A
Prospective-Plan of the Battle near Lake George, with an Explanation
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_317-V1" id="Page_317-V1">317<br />V1</a></span>
thereof, containing a full, though short, History of that important
Affair, by Samuel Blodget, occasionally at the Camp when the Battle was
fought</i>. It is an engraving, printed at Boston soon after the fight, of
which it gives a clear idea. Four years after, Blodget opened a shop in
Boston, where, as appears by his advertisements in the newspapers, he
sold "English Goods, also English Hatts, etc." The engraving is
reproduced in the <i>Documentary History of New York</i>, IV., and
elsewhere. The <i>Explanation thereof</i> is only to be found complete in the
original. This, as well as the anonymous <i>Second Letter to a Friend</i>,
also printed at Boston in 1755, is excellent for the information it
gives as to the condition of the ground where the conflict took place,
and the position of the combatants. The unpublished Archives of
Massachusetts; the correspondence of Sir William Johnson; the <i>Review of
Military Operations in North America</i>; Dwight, <i>Travels in New England
and New York</i>, III.; and Hoyt, <i>Antiquarian Researches on Indian
Wars,</i>&mdash;should also be mentioned. Dwight and Hoyt drew their information
from aged survivors of the battle. I have repeatedly examined the
localities.</p>

<p class="space-bottom">
In the odd effusion of the colonial muse called <i>Tilden's Poems, chiefly
to Animate and Rouse the Soldiers, printed 1756</i>, is a piece styled <i>The
Christian Hero, or New England's Triumphs</i>, beginning with the
invocation,&mdash;</p>

<div class="poem1">
<p class="poem1 indent30 left-indent10">"O Heaven, indulge my feeble Muse,</p>
<p class="poem1 indent25 left-indent10">Teach her what numbers for to choose!"</p>
</div>

<p class="noindent space-top space-bottom">and containing the following stanza:&mdash;</p>

<div class="poem1">
<p class="poem1 indent30 left-indent10">"Their Dieskau we from them detain,</p>
<p class="poem1 indent25 left-indent10">While Canada aloud complains</p>
<p class="poem1 indent25 left-indent10">And counts the numbers of their slain</p>
<p class="poem1 indent15 left-indent10">And makes a dire complaint;</p>
<p class="poem1 indent25 left-indent10">The Indians to their demon gods;</p>
<p class="poem1 indent25 left-indent10">And with the French there's little odds,</p>
<p class="poem1 indent25 left-indent10">While images receive their nods,</p>
<p class="poem1 indent15 left-indent10">Invoking rotten saints."</p>
</div>
</div>


<hr />
<div class="chapterhead">
   <br /><a name="Chapter_10" id="Chapter_10"></a>
	 <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_318-V1" id="Page_318-V1">318<br />V1</a></span> 
	 <br /><br /><br />
	 <h2><a href="#Contents10">CHAPTER X.</a><br />
	 <span class="med">1755, 1756.</span>
	 </h2> 
	 <p class="smcapheader">SHIRLEY.&nbsp;&nbsp;BORDER WAR.</p>
	 <p class="smcap noindent space-bottom">  				
	 The Niagara Campaign &bull;  Albany &bull; March to Oswego &bull; 
	 Difficulties &bull;  The Expedition abandoned &bull;  
	 Shirley and Johnson &bull; Results of the Campaign &bull; 
	 The Scourge of the Border &bull; Trials of Washington &bull; 
	 Misery of the Settlers &bull;  Horror of their Situation &bull; 
	 Philadelphia and the Quakers &bull;  Disputes with the Penns &bull; 
	 Democracy and Feudalism &bull; Pennsylvanian Population &bull; 
	 Appeals from the Frontier &bull; Quarrel of Governor and Assembly &bull; 
	 Help refused &bull;  Desperation of the Borderers &bull;  
	 Fire and Slaughter &bull;  The Assembly alarmed &bull; 
   They pass a mock Militia Law &bull; They are forced to yield.
	 </p> 				
	 <p class="break1"></p> 
</div>
    

<p class="double-space-top">
<span class="smcap">The</span> 
capture of Niagara was to finish the work of the summer. This alone
would have gained for England the control of the valley of the Ohio, and
made Braddock's expedition superfluous. One marvels at the
short-sightedness, the dissensions, the apathy which had left this key
of the interior so long in the hands of France without an effort to
wrest it from her. To master Niagara would be to cut the communications
of Canada with the whole system of French forts and settlements in the
West, and leave them to perish like limbs of a girdled tree.</p>

<p>Major-General Shirley, in the flush of his new martial honors, was to
try his prentice hand at the work. The lawyer-soldier could plan a
campaign boldly and well. It remained to see how 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_319-V1" id="Page_319-V1">319<br />V1</a></span> 
he would do his part towards executing it. In July he arrived at Albany, 
the starting-point of his own expedition as well as that of Johnson. This 
little Dutch city was an outpost of civilization. The Hudson, descending 
from the northern wilderness, connected it with the lakes and streams that 
formed the thoroughfare to Canada; while the Mohawk, flowing from the west, 
was a liquid pathway to the forest homes of the Five Nations. Before the war
was over, a little girl, Anne MacVicar, daughter of a Highland officer,
was left at Albany by her father, and spent several years there in the
house of Mrs. Schuyler, aunt of General Schuyler of the Revolution. Long
after, married and middle-aged, she wrote down her recollections of the
place,&mdash;the fort on the hill behind; the great street, grassy and broad,
that descended thence to the river, with market, guard-house, town-hall,
and two churches in the middle, and rows of quaint Dutch-built houses on
both sides, each detached from its neighbors, each with its well,
garden, and green, and its great overshadowing tree. Before every house
was a capacious porch, with seats where the people gathered in the
summer twilight; old men at one door, matrons at another, young men and
girls mingling at a third; while the cows with their tinkling bells came
from the common at the end of the town, each stopping to be milked at
the door of its owner; and children, porringer in hand, sat on the
steps, watching the process and waiting their evening meal.</p>

<p>
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_320-V1" id="Page_320-V1">320<br />V1</a></span> 
Such was the quiet picture painted on the memory of Anne MacVicar, and
reproduced by the pen of Mrs. Anne Grant. 
<span class="superscript">[320]</span> The patriarchal,
semi-rural town had other aspects, not so pleasing. The men were mainly
engaged in the fur-trade, sometimes legally with the Five Nations, and
sometimes illegally with the Indians of Canada,&mdash;an occupation which by
no means tends to soften the character. The Albany Dutch traders were a
rude, hard race, loving money, and not always scrupulous as to the means
of getting it. Coming events, too, were soon to have their effect on
this secluded community. Regiments, red and blue, trumpets, drums,
banners, artillery trains, and all the din of war transformed its
peaceful streets, and brought some attaint to domestic morals hitherto
commendable; for during the next five years Albany was to be the
principal base of military operations on the continent.</p>

<div class="footer">
    <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_320" name="footer_320"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[320]</span>
<i>Memoirs of an American Lady</i> (Mrs. Schuyler), Chap. VI.
A genuine picture of colonial life, and a charming book, though far from
being historically trustworthy. Compare the account of Albany in Kalm,
II. 102.</p>
</div>

<p>Shirley had left the place, and was now on his way up the Mohawk. His
force, much smaller than at first intended, consisted of the New Jersey
regiment, which mustered five hundred men, known as the Jersey Blues,
and of the fiftieth and fifty-first regiments, called respectively
Shirley's and Pepperell's. These, though paid by the King and counted as
regulars, were in fact raw provincials, just raised in the colonies, and
wearing their gay uniforms with an awkward, unaccustomed air. 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_321-V1" id="Page_321-V1">321<br />V1</a></span> 
How they gloried in them may be gathered from a letter of Sergeant James 
Gray, of Pepperell's, to his brother John: "I have two Holland shirts, 
found me by the King, and two pair of shoes and two pair of worsted 
stockings; a good silver-laced hat (the lace I could sell for four 
dollars); and my clothes is as fine scarlet broadcloth as ever you did 
see. A sergeant here in the King's regiment is counted as good as an 
ensign with you; and one day in every week we must have our hair or wigs 
powdered." <span class="superscript">[321]</span> Most of these gorgeous 
warriors were already on their way to Oswego, their first destination.</p>

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    <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_321" name="footer_321"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[321]</span>
<i>James Gray to John Gray</i>, 11 <i>July</i>, 1755.</p>
</div>


<p>Shirley followed, embarking at the Dutch village of Schenectady, and
ascending the Mohawk with about two hundred of the so-called regulars in
bateaux. They passed Fort Johnson, the two villages of the Mohawks, and
the Palatine settlement of German Flats; left behind the last trace of
civilized man, rowed sixty miles through a wilderness, and reached the
Great Carrying Place, which divided the waters that flow to the Hudson
from those that flow to Lake Ontario. Here now stands the city which the
classic zeal of its founders has adorned with the name of Rome. Then all
was swamp and forest, traversed by a track that led to Wood
Creek,&mdash;which is not to be confounded with the Wood Creek of Lake
Champlain. Thither the bateaux were dragged on sledges and launched on
the dark and tortuous stream, which, fed by a decoction of forest leaves
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_322-V1" id="Page_322-V1">322<br />V1</a></span> 
that oozed from the marshy shores, crept in shadow through depths of
foliage, with only a belt of illumined sky gleaming between the jagged
tree-tops. Tall and lean with straining towards the light, their rough,
gaunt stems trickling with perpetual damps, stood on either hand the
silent hosts of the forest. The skeletons of their dead, barkless,
blanched, and shattered, strewed the mudbanks and shallows; others lay
submerged, like bones of drowned mammoths, thrusting lank, white limbs
above the sullen water; and great trees, entire as yet, were flung by
age or storms athwart the current,&mdash;a bristling barricade of matted
boughs. There was work for the axe as well as for the oar; till at
length Lake Oneida opened before them, and they rowed all day over its
sunny breast, reached the outlet, and drifted down the shallow eddies of
the Onondaga, between walls of verdure, silent as death, yet haunted
everywhere with ambushed danger. It was twenty days after leaving
Schenectady when they neared the mouth of the river; and Lake Ontario
greeted them, stretched like a sea to the pale brink of the northern
sky, while on the bare hill at their left stood the miserable little
fort of Oswego.</p>

<p>Shirley's whole force soon arrived; but not the needful provisions and
stores. The machinery of transportation and the commissariat was in the
bewildered state inevitable among a peaceful people at the beginning of
a war; while the news of Braddock's defeat produced such an effect on
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_323-V1" id="Page_323-V1">323<br />V1</a></span> 
the boatmen and the draymen at the carrying-places, that the greater
part deserted. Along with these disheartening tidings, Shirley learned
the death of his eldest son, killed at the side of Braddock. He had with
him a second son, Captain John Shirley, a vivacious young man, whom his
father and his father's friends in their familiar correspondence always
called "Jack." John Shirley's letters give a lively view of the
situation.</p>

<p>"I have sat down to write to you,"&mdash;thus he addresses Governor Morris,
of Pennsylvania, who seems to have had a great liking for him,&mdash;"because
there is an opportunity of sending you a few lines; and if you will
promise to excuse blots, interlineations, and grease (for this is
written in the open air, upon the head of a pork-barrel, and twenty
people about me), I will begin another half-sheet. We are not more than
about fifteen hundred men fit for duty; but that, I am pretty sure, if we
can go in time in our sloop, schooner, row-galleys, and whale-boats, will
be sufficient to take Frontenac; after which we may venture to go upon
the attack of Niagara, but not before. I have not the least doubt with
myself of knocking down both these places yet this fall, if we can get
away in a week. If we take or destroy their two vessels at Frontenac,
and ruin their harbor there, and destroy the two forts of that and
Niagara, I shall think we have done great things. Nobody holds it out
better than my father and myself. We shall all of us relish a good house
over our heads, being all encamped, 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_324-V1" id="Page_324-V1">324<br />V1</a></span> 
except the General and some few
field-officers, who have what are called at Oswego houses; but they
would in other countries be called only sheds, except the fort, where my
father is. Adieu, dear sir; I hope my next will be directed from
Frontenac. Yours most affectionately, John Shirley."
<span class="superscript">[322]</span></p>

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    <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_322" name="footer_322"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[322]</span>
The young author of this letter was, like his brother, a
victim of the war.</p>
<p>
"Permit me, good sir, to offer you my hearty condolence upon the death
of my friend Jack, whose worth I admired, and feel for him more than I
can express&hellip;. Few men of his age had so many friends." <i>Governor
Morris to Shirley</i>, 27 <i>Nov</i>. 1755.</p>
<p>
"My heart bleeds for Mr. Shirley. He must be overwhelmed with Grief when
he hears of Capt. John Shirley's Death, of which I have an Account by
the last Post from New York, where he died of a Flux and Fever that he
had contracted at Oswego. The loss of Two Sons in one Campaign scarcely
admits of Consolation. I feel the Anguish of the unhappy Father, and mix
my Tears very heartily with his. I have had an intimate Acquaintance
with Both of Them for many Years, and know well their inestimable
Value." <i>Morris to Dinwiddie</i>, 29 <i>Nov</i>. 1755.</p>
</div>

<p>Fort Frontenac lay to the northward, fifty miles or more across the
lake. Niagara lay to the westward, at the distance of four or five days
by boat or canoe along the south shore. At Frontenac there was a French
force of fourteen hundred regulars and Canadians. 
<span class="superscript">[323]</span> They had vessels
and canoes to cross the lake and fall upon Oswego as soon as Shirley
should leave it to attack Niagara; for Braddock's captured papers had
revealed to them the English plan. If they should take it, Shirley would
be cut off from his supplies and placed in desperate jeopardy, with the
enemy in his rear. Hence it is that John Shirley insists on taking
Frontenac before attempting Niagara. But the task was not easy; for the
French force 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_325-V1" id="Page_325-V1">325<br />V1</a></span> 
at the former place was about equal in effective strength
to that of the English at Oswego. At Niagara, too, the French had, at
the end of August, nearly twelve hundred Canadians and Indians from Fort
Duquesne and the upper lakes. <span class="superscript">[324]</span>
Shirley was but imperfectly informed
by his scouts of the unexpected strength of the opposition that awaited
him; but he knew enough to see that his position was a difficult one.
His movement on Niagara was stopped, first by want of provisions, and
secondly because he was checkmated by the troops at Frontenac. He did
not despair. Want of courage was not among his failings, and he was but
too ready to take risks. He called a council of officers, told them that
the total number of men fit for duty was thirteen hundred and
seventy-six, and that as soon as provisions enough should arrive he
would embark for Niagara with six hundred soldiers and as many Indians
as possible, leaving the rest to defend Oswego against the expected
attack from Fort Frontenac. <span class="superscript">[325]</span></p>

<div class="footer">
    <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_323" name="footer_323"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[323]</span>
<i>Bigot au Ministre</i>, 27 <i>Ao&ucirc;t</i>, 1755.</p>
    <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_324" name="footer_324"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[324]</span>
<i>Bigot au Ministre</i>, 5 <i>Sept</i>. 1755.</p>
   <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_325" name="footer_325"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[325]</span>
<i>Minutes of a Council of War at Oswego</i>, 18 <i>Sept</i>. 1755.</p>
</div>

<p>"All I am uneasy about is our provisions," writes John Shirley to his
friend Morris; "our men have been upon half allowance of bread these
three weeks past, and no rum given to 'em. My father yesterday called
all the Indians together and made 'em a speech on the subject of General
Johnson's engagement, which he calculated to inspire them with a spirit
of revenge." After the 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_326-V1" id="Page_326-V1">326<br />V1</a></span> 
speech he gave them a bullock for a feast, which
they roasted and ate, pretending that they were eating the Governor of
Canada! Some provisions arriving, orders were given to embark on the
next day; but the officers murmured their dissent. The weather was
persistently bad, their vessels would not hold half the party, and the
bateaux, made only for river navigation, would infallibly founder on the
treacherous and stormy lake. "All the field-officers," says John
Shirley, "think it too rash an attempt; and I have heard so much of it
that I think it my duty to let my father know what I hear." Another
council was called; and the General, reluctantly convinced of the
danger, put the question whether to go or not. The situation admitted
but one reply. The council was of opinion that for the present the
enterprise was impracticable; that Oswego should be strengthened, more
vessels built, and preparation made to renew the attempt as soon as
spring opened. <span class="superscript">[326]</span>
All thoughts of active operations were now
suspended, and during what was left of the season the troops exchanged
the musket for the spade, saw, and axe. At the end of October, leaving
seven hundred men at Oswego, Shirley returned to Albany, and narrowly
escaped drowning on the way, while passing a rapid in a whale-boat, to
try the fitness of that species of craft for river navigation.
<span class="superscript">[327]</span></p>

<div class="footer">
    <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_326" name="footer_326"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[326]</span>
<i>Minutes of a Council of War at Oswego</i>, 27 <i>Sept.</i> 1755.</p>
   <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_327" name="footer_327"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[327]</span>
On the Niagara expedition, <i>Braddock's Instructions to
Major-General Shirley. Correspondence of Shirley</i>, 1755. 
<i>Conduct of Major-General Shirley</i> (London, 1758). 
Letters of John Shirley in <i>Pennsylvania Archives</i>, II. 
<i>Bradstreet to Shirley</i>, 17 <i>Aug.</i> 1755. 
MSS. in Massachusetts Archives. 
<i>Review of Military Operations in North America. 
Gentleman's Magazine</i>, 1757, p. 73. 
<i>London Magazine,</i> 1759, p. 594. 
Trumbull, <i>Hist. Connecticut</i>, II. 370.</p>
</div>

<p>
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_327-V1" id="Page_327-V1">327<br />V1</a></span> 
Unfortunately for him, he had fallen out with Johnson, whom he had made
what he was, but who now turned against him,&mdash;a seeming ingratitude not
wholly unprovoked. Shirley had diverted the New Jersey regiment,
destined originally for Crown Point, to his own expedition against
Niagara. Naturally inclined to keep all the reins in his own hands, he
had encroached on Johnson's new office of Indian superintendent, held
conferences with the Five Nations, and employed agents of his own to
deal with them. These agents were persons obnoxious to Johnson, being
allied with the clique of Dutch traders at Albany, who hated him because
he had supplanted them in the direction of Indian affairs; and in a
violent letter to the Lords of Trade, he inveighs against their
"licentious and abandoned proceedings," "villanous conduct," "scurrilous
falsehoods," and "base and insolent behavior."
<span class="superscript">[328]</span> "I am considerable
enough," he says, "to have enemies and to be envied;"
<span class="superscript">[329]</span> and he
declares he has proof that Shirley told the Mohawks that he, Johnson,
was an upstart of his creating, whom he had set up and could pull down.
Again, he charges Shirley's agents with trying to "debauch the Indians
from joining him;" while Shirley, on his side, retorts the same
complaint against his accuser. <span class="superscript">[330]</span> When, 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_328-V1" id="Page_328-V1">328<br />V1</a></span> 
by the death of Braddock,
Shirley became commander-in-chief, Johnson grew so restive at being
subject to his instructions that he declined to hold the management of
Indian affairs unless it was made independent of his rival. The dispute
became mingled with the teapot-tempest of New York provincial politics.
The Lieutenant-Governor, Delancey, a politician of restless ambition and
consummate dexterity, had taken umbrage at Shirley, of whose rising
honors, not borne with remarkable humility, he appears to have been
jealous. Delancey had hitherto favored the Dutch faction in the
Assembly, hostile to Johnson; but he now changed attitude, and joined
hands with him against the object of their common dislike. The one was
strong in the prestige of a loudly-trumpeted victory, and the other had
means of influence over the Ministry. Their coalition boded ill to
Shirley, and he soon felt its effects.
<span class="superscript">[331]</span></p>

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    <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_328" name="footer_328"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[328]</span>
<i>Johnson to the Lords of Trade,</i> 3 <i>Sept</i>. 1755.</p>
    <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_329" name="footer_329"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[329]</span>
<i>Johnson to the Lords of Trade</i>, 17 <i>Jan</i>. 1756.</p>
    <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_330" name="footer_330"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[330]</span>
<i>John Shirley to Governor Morris</i>, 12 <i>Aug</i>. 1755.</p>
   <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_331" name="footer_331"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[331]</span>
On this affair, see various papers in <i>N.&nbsp;Y. Col. Docs</i>.,
VI., VII. Smith, <i>Hist. New York</i>, Part II., Chaps. IV. V. <i>Review of
Military Operations in North America</i>. Both Smith and Livingston, the
author of the <i>Review</i>, were personally cognizant of the course of the
dispute.</p>
</div>

<p>The campaign was now closed,&mdash;a sufficiently active one, seeing that the
two nations were nominally at peace. A disastrous rout on the
Monongahela, failure at Niagara, a barren victory at Lake George, and
three forts captured in Acadia, were the disappointing results on the
part of England. Nor had her enemies cause to boast. The Indians, it is
true, had won a battle for them: but they had suffered mortifying defeat
from a raw 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_329-V1" id="Page_329-V1">329<br />V1</a></span> 
militia; their general was a prisoner; and they had lost
Acadia past hope.</p>

<p>The campaign was over; but not its effects. It remains to see what
befell from the rout of Braddock and the unpardonable retreat of Dunbar
from the frontier which it was his duty to defend. Dumas had replaced
Contrec&oelig;ur in the command of Fort Duquesne; and his first care was to
set on the Western tribes to attack the border settlements. His success
was triumphant. The Delawares and Shawanoes, old friends of the English,
but for years past tending to alienation through neglect and ill-usage,
now took the lead against them. Many of the Mingoes, or Five Nation
Indians on the Ohio, also took up the hatchet, as did various remoter
tribes. The West rose like a nest of hornets, and swarmed in fury
against the English frontier. Such was the consequence of the defeat of
Braddock aided by the skilful devices of the French commander. "It is by
means such as I have mentioned," says Dumas, "varied in every form to
suit the occasion, that I have succeeded in ruining the three adjacent
provinces, Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Virginia, driving off the
inhabitants, and totally destroying the settlements over a tract of
country thirty leagues wide, reckoning from the line of Fort Cumberland.
M. de Contrec&oelig;ur had not been gone a week before I had six or seven
different war-parties in the field at once, always accompanied by
Frenchmen. Thus far, we have lost only two officers and a few 
soldiers; but the 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_330-V1" id="Page_330-V1">330<br />V1</a></span> 
Indian villages are full of prisoners of every age and sex. The
enemy has lost far more since the battle than on the day of his
defeat." <span class="superscript">[332]</span></p>

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    <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_332" name="footer_332"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[332]</span>
<i>Dumas au Ministre</i>, 24 <i>Juillet</i>, 1756.</p>
</div>

<p>Dumas, required by the orders of his superiors to wage a detestable
warfare against helpless settlers and their families, did what he could
to temper its horrors, and enjoined the officers who went with the
Indians to spare no effort to prevent them from torturing
prisoners. <span class="superscript">[333]</span>
The attempt should be set down to his honor; but it did
not avail much. In the record of cruelties committed this year on the
borders, we find repeated instances of children scalped alive. "They
kill all they meet," writes a French priest; "and after having abused
the women and maidens, they slaughter or burn them."
<span class="superscript">[334]</span></p>

<div class="footer">
    <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_333" name="footer_333"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[333]</span>
<i>M&eacute;moires de Famille de l'Abb&eacute; Casgrain</i>, cited in <i>Le
Foyer Canadien,</i> III. 26, where an extract is given from an order of
Dumas to Baby, a Canadian officer. Orders of Contrec&oelig;ur and Ligneris to
the same effect are also given. A similar order, signed by Dumas, was
found in the pocket of Douville, an officer killed by the English on the
Frontier. <i>Writings of Washington</i>, II. 137, <i>note</i>.</p>
    <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_334" name="footer_334"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[334]</span>
<i>Rec. Claude Godefroy Cocquard, S.&nbsp;J., &agrave; son Fr&egrave;re, Mars
(?)</i>, 1757.</p>
</div>

<p>Washington was now in command of the Virginia regiment, consisting of a
thousand men, raised afterwards to fifteen hundred. With these he was to
protect a frontier of three hundred and fifty miles against more
numerous enemies, who could choose their time and place of attack. His
headquarters were at Winchester. His men were an ungovernable crew,
enlisted chiefly on the turbulent border, and resenting every kind of
discipline as levelling them with negroes; while the 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_331-V1" id="Page_331-V1">331<br />V1</a></span> 
sympathizing House
of Burgesses hesitated for months to pass any law for enforcing
obedience, lest it should trench on the liberties of free white men. The
service was to the last degree unpopular. "If we talk of obliging men to
serve their country," wrote London Carter, "we are sure to hear a fellow
mumble over the words 'liberty' and 'property' a thousand times."
<span class="superscript">[335]</span> The people, too, were in mortal 
fear of a slave insurrection, and therefore dared not go far from home. 
<span class="superscript">[336]</span> Meanwhile a panic reigned
along the border. Captain Waggoner, passing a gap in the Blue Ridge,
could hardly make his way for the crowd of fugitives. "Every day,"
writes Washington, "we have accounts of such cruelties and barbarities
as are shocking to human nature. It is not possible to conceive the
situation and danger of this miserable country. Such numbers of French
and Indians are all around that no road is safe."</p>

<div class="footer">
    <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_335" name="footer_335"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[335]</span>
Extract in <i>Writings of Washington</i>, II. 145, <i>note.</i></p>
    <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_336" name="footer_336"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[336]</span>
<i>Letters of Dinwiddie</i>, 1755.</p>
</div>

<p>These frontiers had always been at peace. No forts of refuge had thus
far been built, and the scattered settlers had no choice but flight.
Their first impulse was to put wife and children beyond reach of the
tomahawk. As autumn advanced, the invading bands grew more and more
audacious. Braddock had opened a road for them by which they could cross
the mountains at their ease; and scouts from Fort Cumberland reported
that this road was beaten by as many feet as when the English army
passed last summer. Washington 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_332-V1" id="Page_332-V1">332<br />V1</a></span> 
was beset with difficulties. Men and
officers alike were unruly and mutinous. He was at once blamed for their
disorders and refused the means of repressing them. Envious detractors
published slanders against him. A petty Maryland captain, who had once
had a commission from the King, refused to obey his orders, and stirred
up factions among his officers. Dinwiddie gave him cold support. The
temper of the old Scotchman, crabbed at the best, had been soured by
disappointment, vexation, weariness, and ill-health. He had, besides, a
friend and countryman, Colonel Innes, whom, had he dared, he would
gladly have put in Washington's place. He was full of zeal in the common
cause, and wanted to direct the defence of the borders from his house at
Williamsburg, two hundred miles distant. Washington never hesitated to
obey; but he accompanied his obedience by a statement of his own
convictions and his reasons for them, which, though couched in terms the
most respectful, galled his irascible chief. The Governor acknowledged
his merit; but bore him no love, and sometimes wrote to him in terms
which must have tried his high temper to the utmost. Sometimes, though
rarely, he gave words to his emotion.</p>

<p>"Your Honor," he wrote in April, "may see to what unhappy straits the
distressed inhabitants and myself are reduced. I see inevitable
destruction in so clear a light, that unless vigorous measures are taken
by the Assembly, and speedy assistance sent from below, the poor
inhabitants 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_333-V1" id="Page_333-V1">333<br />V1</a></span> 
that are now in forts must unavoidably fall, while the
remainder are flying before the barbarous foe. In fine, the melancholy
situation of the people; the little prospect of assistance; the gross
and scandalous abuse cast upon the officers in general, which is
reflecting upon me in particular for suffering misconduct of such
extraordinary kinds; and the distant prospect, if any, of gaining honor
and reputation in the service,&mdash;cause me to lament the hour that gave me
a commission, and would induce me at any other time than this of
imminent danger to resign, without one hesitating moment, a command from
which I never expect to reap either honor or benefit, but, on the
contrary, have almost an absolute certainty of incurring displeasure
below, while the murder of helpless families may be laid to my account
here.</p>

<p>"The supplicating tears of the women and moving petitions of the men
melt me into such deadly sorrow, that I solemnly declare, if I know my
own mind, I could offer myself a willing sacrifice to the butchering
enemy, provided that would contribute to the people's ease."
<span class="superscript">[337]</span></p>

<div class="footer">
    <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_337" name="footer_337"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[337]</span>
<i>Writings of Washington</i>, II. 143.</p>
</div>

<p>In the turmoil around him, patriotism and public duty seemed all to be
centred in the breast of one heroic youth. He was respected and
generally beloved, but he did not kindle enthusiasm. His were the
qualities of an unflagging courage, an all-enduring fortitude, and a
deep trust. He showed an astonishing maturing of character, and the kind
of mastery over others which begins 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_334-V1" id="Page_334-V1">334<br />V1</a></span> 
with mastery over self. At twenty-four he was the foremost man, and 
acknowledged as such, along the whole long line of the western border.
</p>

<p>To feel the situation, the nature of these frontiers must be kept in
mind. Along the skirts of the southern and middle colonies ran for six
or seven hundred miles a loose, thin, dishevelled fringe of population,
the half-barbarous pioneers of advancing civilization. Their rude
dwellings were often miles apart. Buried in woods, the settler lived in
an appalling loneliness. A low-browed cabin of logs, with moss stuffed
in the chinks to keep out the wind, roof covered with sheets of bark,
chimney of sticks and clay, and square holes closed by a shutter in
place of windows; an unkempt matron, lean with hard work, and a brood of
children with bare heads and tattered garments eked out by
deerskin,&mdash;such was the home of the pioneer in the remoter and wilder
districts. The scene around bore witness to his labors. It was the
repulsive transition from savagery to civilization, from the forest to
the farm. The victims of his axe lay strewn about the dismal "clearing"
in a chaos of prostrate trunks, tangled boughs, and withered leaves,
waiting for the fire that was to be the next agent in the process of
improvement; while around, voiceless and grim, stood the living forest,
gazing on the desolation, and biding its own day of doom. The owner of
the cabin was miles away, hunting in the woods for the wild turkey and
venison which were the chief food of himself and his 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_335-V1" id="Page_335-V1">335<br />V1</a></span> 
family till the
soil could be tamed into the bearing of crops.</p>

<p>Towards night he returned; and as he issued from the forest shadows he
saw a column of blue smoke rising quietly in the still evening air. He
ran to the spot; and there, among the smouldering logs of his dwelling,
lay, scalped and mangled, the dead bodies of wife and children. A
war-party had passed that way. Breathless, palpitating, his brain on
fire, he rushed through the thickening night to carry the alarm to his
nearest neighbor, three miles distant.</p>

<p>Such was the character and the fate of many incipient settlements of the
utmost border. Farther east, they had a different aspect. Here, small
farms with well-built log-houses, cattle, crops of wheat and Indian
corn, were strung at intervals along some woody valley of the lower
Alleghanies: yesterday a scene of hardy toil; to-day swept with
destruction from end to end. There was no warning; no time for concert,
perhaps none for flight. Sudden as the leaping panther, a pack of human
wolves burst out of the forest, did their work, and vanished.</p>

<p>If the country had been an open one, like the plains beyond the
Mississippi, the situation would have been less frightful; but the
forest was everywhere, rolled over hill and valley in billows of
interminable green,&mdash;a leafy maze, a mystery of shade, a universal
hiding-place, where murder might lurk unseen at its victim's side, and
Nature seemed formed to nurse the mind with wild and 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_336-V1" id="Page_336-V1">336<br />V1</a></span> 
dark imaginings.
The detail of blood is set down in the untutored words of those who saw
and felt it. But there was a suffering that had no record,&mdash;the mortal
fear of women and children in the solitude of their wilderness homes,
haunted, waking and sleeping, with nightmares of horror that were but
the forecast of an imminent reality. The country had in past years been
so peaceful, and the Indians so friendly, that many of the settlers,
especially on the Pennsylvanian border, had no arms, and were doubly in
need of help from the Government. In Virginia they had it, such as it
was. In Pennsylvania they had for months none whatever; and the Assembly
turned a deaf ear to their cries.</p>

<p>Far to the east, sheltered from danger, lay staid and prosperous
Philadelphia, the home of order and thrift. It took its stamp from the
Quakers, its original and dominant population, set apart from the other
colonists not only in character and creed, but in the outward symbols of
a peculiar dress and a daily sacrifice of grammar on the altar of
religion. The even tenor of their lives counteracted the effects of
climate, and they are said to have been perceptibly more rotund in
feature and person than their neighbors. Yet, broad and humanizing as
was their faith, they were capable of extreme bitterness towards
opponents, clung tenaciously to power, and were jealous for the
ascendency of their sect, which had begun to show signs of wavering. On
other sects they looked askance; and regarded the 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_337-V1" id="Page_337-V1">337<br />V1</a></span> 
Presbyterians in particular with a dislike which in moments of crisis rose 
to detestation. <span class="superscript">[338]</span> They held it sin to 
fight, and above all to fight against Indians.</p>

<div class="footer">
    <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_338" name="footer_338"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[338]</span>
See a crowd of party pamphlets, Quaker against Presbyterian, which appeared 
at Philadelphia in 1764, abusively acrimonious on both sides.</p>
</div>

<p>Here was one cause of military paralysis. It was reinforced by another.
The old standing quarrel between governor and assembly had grown more
violent than ever; and this as a direct consequence of the public
distress, which above all things demanded harmony. The dispute turned
this time on a single issue,&mdash;that of the taxation of the proprietary
estates. The estates in question consisted of vast tracts of wild land,
yielding no income, and at present to a great extent worthless, being
overrun by the enemy. <span class="superscript">[339]</span> The Quaker 
Assembly had refused to protect them; and on one occasion had rejected an 
offer of the proprietaries to join them in paying the cost of their defence. 
<span class="superscript">[340]</span> But though they would not defend the 
land, they insisted on taxing it; and farther insisted that the taxes upon 
it should be laid by the provincial assessors. By a law of the province, 
these assessors were chosen by popular vote; and in consenting to this law, 
the proprietaries had expressly provided that their estates 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_338-V1" id="Page_338-V1">338<br />V1</a></span> 
should be exempted from all taxes to be laid by officials in whose 
appointment they had no voice.<span class="superscript">[341]</span>
Thomas and Richard Penn, the present proprietaries, had debarred their
deputy, the Governor, both by the terms of his commission and by special
instruction, from consenting to such taxation, and had laid him under
heavy bonds to secure his obedience. Thus there was another side to the
question than that of the Assembly; though our American writers have
been slow to acknowledge it.</p>

<div class="footer">
    <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_339" name="footer_339"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[339]</span>
The productive estates of the proprietaries were taxed through the tenants.</p>
    <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_340" name="footer_340"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[340]</span>
The proprietaries offered to contribute to the cost of building and maintaining 
a fort on the spot where the French soon after built Fort Duquesne. This plan, 
vigorously executed, would have saved the province from a deluge of miseries. 
One of the reasons assigned by the Assembly for rejecting it was that it would 
irritate the enemy. See <i>supra</i>, <a href="#Page_060-V1">p. 60.</a></p>
   <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_341" name="footer_341"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[341]</span>
<i>A Brief View of the Conduct of Pennsylvania for the year 1755</i>.</p>
</div>

<p>Benjamin Franklin was leader in the Assembly and shared its views. The
feudal proprietorship of the Penn family was odious to his democratic
nature. It was, in truth, a pestilent anomaly, repugnant to the genius
of the people; and the disposition and character of the present
proprietaries did not tend to render it less vexatious. Yet there were
considerations which might have tempered the impatient hatred with which
the colonists regarded it. The first proprietary, William Penn, had used
his feudal rights in the interest of a broad liberalism; and through
them had established the popular institutions and universal tolerance
which made Pennsylvania the most democratic province in America, and
nursed the spirit of liberty which now revolted against his heirs. The
one absorbing passion of Pennsylvania was resistance to their deputy,
the Governor. The badge of feudalism, though light, was insufferably
irritating; and the sons of William Penn were moreover detested 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_339-V1" id="Page_339-V1">339<br />V1</a></span> 
by the Quakers as renegades from the faith of their father. Thus the immediate 
political conflict engrossed mind and heart; and in the rancor of their
quarrel with the proprietaries, the Assembly forgot the French and
Indians.</p>

<p>In Philadelphia and the eastern districts the Quakers could ply their
trades, tend their shops, till their farms, and discourse at their ease
on the wickedness of war. The midland counties, too, were for the most
part tolerably safe. They were occupied mainly by crude German peasants,
who nearly equalled in number all the rest of the population, and who,
gathered at the centre of the province, formed a mass politically
indigestible. Translated from servitude to the most ample liberty, they
hated the thought of military service, which reminded them of former
oppression, cared little whether they lived under France or England,
and, thinking themselves out of danger, had no mind to be taxed for the
defence of others. But while the great body of the Germans were
sheltered from harm, those of them who lived farther westward were not
so fortunate. Here, mixed with Scotch Irish Presbyterians and Celtic
Irish Catholics, they formed a rough border population, the discordant
elements of which could rarely unite for common action; yet, though
confused and disjointed, they were a living rampart to the rest of the
colony. Against them raged the furies of Indian war; and, maddened with
distress and terror, they cried aloud for help.</p>

<p>
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_340-V1" id="Page_340-V1">340<br />V1</a></span> 
Petition after petition came from the borders for arms and ammunition,
and for a militia law to enable the people to organize and defend
themselves. The Quakers resisted. "They have taken uncommon pains,"
writes Governor Morris to Shirley, "to prevent the people from taking up
arms." <span class="superscript">[342]</span> Braddock's defeat, they 
declared, was a just judgment on him and his soldiers for molesting the 
French in their settlements on the Ohio. 
<span class="superscript">[343]</span> A bill was passed by the Assembly 
for raising fifty thousand pounds for the King's use by a tax which included 
the proprietary lands. The Governor, constrained by his instructions and his 
bonds, rejected it. "I can only say," he told them, "that I will readily pass 
a bill for striking any sum in paper money the present exigency may require,
provided funds are established for sinking the same in five years."
Messages long and acrimonious were exchanged between the parties. The
Assembly, had they chosen, could easily have raised money enough by
methods not involving the point in dispute; but they thought they saw in
the crisis a means of forcing the Governor to yield. The Quakers had an
alternative motive: if the Governor gave way, it was a political
victory; if he stood fast, their non-resistance principles would
triumph, and in this triumph their ascendency as a sect would be
confirmed. The debate grew every day more bitter and unmannerly. The
Governor could not yield; the Assembly would not. There 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_341-V1" id="Page_341-V1">341<br />V1</a></span> 
was a complete deadlock. The Assembly requested the Governor "not to 
make himself the hateful instrument of reducing a free people to the 
abject state of vassalage." <span class="superscript">[344]</span>
As the raising of money and the control of its expenditure was in their 
hands; as he could not prorogue or dissolve them, and as they could 
adjourn on their own motion to such time as pleased them; as they paid 
his support, and could withhold it if he offended them,&mdash;which they 
did in the present case,&mdash;it seemed no easy task for him to reduce 
them to vassalage. "What must we do," pursued the Assembly, "to please 
this kind governor, who takes so much pains to render us obnoxious to our 
sovereign and odious to our fellow-subjects? If we only tell him that the 
difficulties he meets with are not owing to the causes he names,&mdash;which 
indeed have no existence,&mdash;but to his own want of skill and abilities 
for his station, he takes it extremely amiss, and says 'we forget all 
decency to those in authority.' We are apt to think there is likewise some 
decency due to the Assembly as a part of the government; and though we have 
not, like the Governor, had a courtly education, but are plain men, and must 
be very imperfect in our politeness, yet we think we have no chance of 
improving by his example." <span class="superscript">[345]</span>
Again, in another Message, the Assembly, with a thrust at Morris himself, 
tell him that colonial governors have often been "transient persons, of 
broken fortunes, greedy of money, destitute of all 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_342-V1" id="Page_342-V1">342<br />V1</a></span> 
concern for those they govern, often their enemies, and endeavoring not only 
to oppress, but to defame them." <span class="superscript">[346]</span>
In such unseemly fashion was the battle waged. Morris, who was himself a 
provincial, showed more temper and dignity; though there was not too much on 
either side. "The Assembly," he wrote to Shirley, "seem determined to take 
advantage of the country's distress to get the whole power of government 
into their own hands." And the Assembly proclaimed on their part that the 
Governor was taking advantage of the country's distress to reduce the 
province to "Egyptian bondage."</p>


<div class="footer">
    <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_342" name="footer_342"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[342]</span>
<i>Morris to Shirley</i>, 16 <i>Aug</i>. 1755.</p>
    <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_343" name="footer_343"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[343]</span>
<i>Morris to Sir Thomas Robinson</i>, 28 <i>Aug</i>. 1755.</p>
    <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_344" name="footer_344"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[344]</span>
<i>Colonial Records of Pa</i>., VI. 584.</p>
    <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_345" name="footer_345"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[345]</span>
<i>Message of the Assembly to the Governor</i>, 29 <i>Sept</i>. 1755
(written by Franklin), in <i>Colonial Records of Pa.</i>, VI. 631, 632.</p>
   <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_346" name="footer_346"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[346]</span>
<i>Writings of Franklin</i>, III. 447. The Assembly at first
suppressed this paper, but afterwards printed it.</p>
</div>

<p>Petitions poured in from the miserable frontiersmen. "How long will
those in power, by their quarrels, suffer us to be massacred?" demanded
William Trent, the Indian trader. "Two and forty bodies have been buried
on Patterson's Creek; and since they have killed more, and keep on
killing." <span class="superscript">[347]</span> Early in October news came 
that a hundred persons had been murdered near Fort Cumberland. Repeated 
tidings followed of murders on the Susquehanna; then it was announced that 
the war-parties had crossed that stream, and were at their work on the 
eastern side. Letter after letter came from the sufferers, bringing such 
complaints as this: "We are in as bad circumstances as ever any poor 
Christians were ever in; for the cries of widowers, widows, fatherless and 
motherless children, are enough to pierce the most hardest of 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_343-V1" id="Page_343-V1">343<br />V1</a></span> 
hearts. Likewise it's a very sorrowful spectacle to see those that escaped 
with their lives with not a mouthful to eat, or bed to lie on, or clothes 
to cover their nakedness, or keep them warm, but all they had consumed into 
ashes. These deplorable circumstances cry aloud for your Honor's most wise
consideration; for it is really very shocking for the husband to see the
wife of his bosom her head cut off, and the children's blood drunk like
water, by these bloody and cruel savages." 
<span class="superscript">[348]</span></p>

<div class="footer">
    <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_347" name="footer_347"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[347]</span>
<i>Trent to James Burd</i>, 4 <i>Oct</i>. 1755.</p>
   <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_348" name="footer_348"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[348]</span>
<i>Adam Hoops to Governor Morris</i>, 3 <i>Nov.</i> 1755.</p>
</div>

<p>Morris was greatly troubled. "The conduct of the Assembly," he wrote to
Shirley, "is to me shocking beyond parallel." "The inhabitants are
abandoning their plantations, and we are in a dreadful situation," wrote
John Harris from the east bank of the Susquehanna. On the next day he
wrote again: "The Indians are cutting us off every day, and I had a
certain account of about fifteen hundred Indians, besides French, being
on their march against us and Virginia, and now close on our borders,
their scouts scalping our families on our frontiers daily." The report
was soon confirmed; and accounts came that the settlements in the valley
called the Great Cove had been completely destroyed. All this was laid
before the Assembly. They declared the accounts exaggerated, but
confessed that outrages had been committed; hinted that the fault was
with the proprietaries; and asked the Governor to explain why the
Delawares and Shawanoes had become unfriendly. "If they have suffered
wrongs," 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_344-V1" id="Page_344-V1">344<br />V1</a></span> 
said the Quakers, "we are resolved to do all in our power to
redress them, rather than entail upon ourselves and our posterity the
calamities of a cruel Indian war." The Indian records were searched, and
several days spent in unsuccessful efforts to prove fraud in a late
land-purchase.</p>

<p>Post after post still brought news of slaughter. The upper part of
Cumberland County was laid waste. Edward Biddle wrote from Reading: "The
drum is beating and bells ringing, and all the people under arms. This
night we expect an attack. The people exclaim against the Quakers." "We
seem to be given up into the hands of a merciless enemy," wrote John
Elder from Paxton. And he declares that more than forty persons have
been killed in that neighborhood, besides numbers carried off. Meanwhile
the Governor and Assembly went on fencing with words and exchanging
legal subtleties; while, with every cry of distress that rose from the
west, each hoped that the other would yield.</p>

<p>On the eighth of November the Assembly laid before Morris for his
concurrence a bill for emitting bills of credit to the amount of sixty
thousand pounds, to be sunk in four years by a tax including the
proprietary estates. <span class="superscript">[349]</span> "I shall not," 
he replied, "enter into a dispute whether the proprietaries ought to be 
taxed or not. It is sufficient for me that they have given me no power in 
that case; and I cannot think it consistent either with my duty or safety 
to exceed the powers of my 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_345-V1" id="Page_345-V1">345<br />V1</a></span> 
commission, much less to do what that commission expressly prohibits." 
<span class="superscript">[350]</span> He stretched his authority, however, 
so far as to propose a sort of compromise by which the question should be 
referred to the King; but they refused it; and the quarrel and the murders 
went on as before. "We have taken," said the Assembly, "every step in our 
power, consistent with the just rights of the freemen of Pennsylvania, for 
the relief of the poor distressed inhabitants; and we have reason to believe
that they themselves would not wish us to go farther. Those who would
give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve
neither liberty nor safety." <span class="superscript">[351]</span>
Then the borderers deserved neither; for, rather than be butchered, they 
would have let the proprietary lands lie untaxed for another year. "You 
have in all," said the Governor, "proposed to me five money bills, three 
of them rejected because contrary to royal instructions; the other two on 
account of the unjust method proposed for taxing the proprietary estate. 
If you are disposed to relieve your country, you have many other ways of 
granting money to which I shall have no objection. I shall put one proof 
more both of your sincerity and mine in our professions of regard for the 
public, by offering to agree to any bill in the present exigency which it 
is consistent with my duty to pass; lest, before our present disputes can
be brought to an issue, we 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_346-V1" id="Page_346-V1">346<br />V1</a></span> 
should neither have a privilege to dispute about, nor a country to dispute 
in." <span class="superscript">[352]</span> They stood fast; and with an
obstinacy for which the Quakers were chiefly answerable, insisted that
they would give nothing, except by a bill taxing real estate, and
including that of the proprietaries.</p>

<div class="footer">
    <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_349" name="footer_349"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[349]</span>
<i>Colonial Records of Pa</i>., VI. 682.</p>
   <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_350" name="footer_350"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[350]</span>
<i>Message of the Governor to the Assembly</i>, 8 <i>Nov</i>. 1755,
in <i>Colonial Records of Pa.</i>, VI. 684.</p>
   <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_351" name="footer_351"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[351]</span>
<i>Message of the Assembly to the Governor</i>, 11 <i>Nov. 
Ibid</i>., VI. 692. The words are Franklin's.</p>
   <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_352" name="footer_352"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[352]</span>
<i>Message of the Governor to the Assembly</i>, 22 <i>Nov</i>. 1755,
in <i>Colonial Records of Pa.</i>, VI. 714.</p>
</div>

<p>But now the Assembly began to feel the ground shaking under their feet.
A paper, called a "Representation," signed by some of the chief
citizens, was sent to the House, calling for measures of defence. "You
will forgive us, gentlemen," such was its language, "if we assume
characters somewhat higher than that of humble suitors praying for the
defence of our lives and properties as a matter of grace or favor on
your side. You will permit us to make a positive and immediate demand of
it." <span class="superscript">[353]</span> This drove the Quakers mad. 
Preachers, male and female, harangued in the streets, denouncing the 
iniquity of war. Three of the sect from England, two women and a man, 
invited their brethren of the Assembly to a private house, and fervently 
exhorted them to stand firm. Some of the principal Quakers joined in an 
address to the House, in which they declared that any action on its part 
"inconsistent with the peaceable testimony we profess and have borne to 
the world appears to us in its consequences to be destructive of our 
religious liberties." <span class="superscript">[354]</span>
And they protested that they would rather "suffer" 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_347-V1" id="Page_347-V1">347<br />V1</a></span> 
than pay taxes for such ends. Consistency, even in folly, has in it something 
respectable; but the Quakers were not consistent. A few years after, when 
heated with party-passion and excited by reports of an irruption of incensed
Presbyterian borderers, some of the pacific sectaries armed for battle;
and the streets of Philadelphia beheld the curious conjunction of musket
and broad-brimmed hat. <span class="superscript">[355]</span></p>

<div class="footer">
    <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_353" name="footer_353"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[353]</span>
<i>Pennsylvania Archives</i>, II. 485.</p>
   <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_354" name="footer_354"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[354]</span>
<i>Ibid</i>., II. 487.</p>
   <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_355" name="footer_355"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[355]</span>
See <i>Conspiracy of Pontiac</i>, II. 143, 152.</p>
</div>

<p>The mayor, aldermen, and common council next addressed the Assembly,
adjuring them, "in the most solemn manner, before God and in the name of
all our fellow-citizens," to provide for defending the lives and
property of the people. <span class="superscript">[356]</span>
A deputation from a band of Indians on the Susquehanna, still friendly to 
the province, came to ask whether the English meant to fight or not; for, 
said their speaker, "if they will not stand by us, we will join the French." 
News came that the settlement of Tulpehocken, only sixty miles distant, had 
been destroyed; and then that the Moravian settlement of Gnadenh&uuml;tten 
was burned, and nearly all its inmates massacred. Colonel William Moore wrote 
to the Governor that two thousand men were coming from Chester County to 
compel him and the Assembly to defend the province; and Conrad Weiser wrote 
that more were coming from Berks on the same errand. Old friends of the 
Assembly began to cry out against them. Even the Germans, hitherto their 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_348-V1" id="Page_348-V1">348<br />V1</a></span> 
fast allies, were roused from their attitude of passivity, and four hundred 
of them came in procession to demand measures of war. A band of frontiersmen
presently arrived, bringing in a wagon the bodies of friends and relatives 
lately murdered, displaying them at the doors of the Assembly, cursing the 
Quakers, and threatening vengeance.  <span class="superscript">[357]</span></p>

<div class="footer">
    <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_356" name="footer_356"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[356]</span>
<i>A Remonstrance</i>, etc., in <i>Colonial Records of Pa.</i>, VI.
734.</p>
   <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_357" name="footer_357"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[357]</span>
Mante, 47; Entick, I. 377.</p>
</div>

<p>Finding some concession necessary, the House at length passed a militia
law,&mdash;probably the most futile ever enacted. It specially exempted the
Quakers, and constrained nobody; but declared it lawful, for such as
chose, to form themselves into companies and elect officers by ballot.
The company officers thus elected might, if they saw fit, elect, also
by ballot, colonels, lieutenant-colonels, and majors. These last might
then, in conjunction with the Governor, frame articles of war; to which,
however, no officer or man was to be subjected unless, after three days'
consideration, he subscribed them in presence of a justice of the peace,
and declared his willingness to be bound by them.
<span class="superscript">[358]</span></p>

<div class="footer">
    <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_358" name="footer_358"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[358]</span>
This remarkable bill, drawn by Franklin, was meant for
political rather than military effect. It was thought that Morris would
refuse to pass it, and could therefore be accused of preventing the
province from defending itself; but he avoided the snare by signing it.</p>
</div>

<p>This mockery could not appease the people; the Assembly must raise money
for men, arms, forts, and all the detested appliances of war. Defeat
absolute and ignominious seemed hanging over the House, when an incident
occurred which 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_349-V1" id="Page_349-V1">349<br />V1</a></span> 
gave them a decent pretext for retreat. The Governor
informed them that he had just received a letter from the proprietaries,
giving to the province five thousand pounds sterling to aid in its
defence, on condition that the money should be accepted as a free gift,
and not as their proportion of any tax that was or might be laid by the
Assembly. They had not learned the deplorable state of the country, and
had sent the money in view of the defeat of Braddock and its probable
consequences. The Assembly hereupon yielded, struck out from the bill
before them the clause taxing the proprietary estates, and, thus
amended, presented it to the Governor, who by his signature made it a
law. <span class="superscript">[359]</span></p>

<div class="footer">
    <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_359" name="footer_359"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[359]</span>
<i>Minutes of Council</i>, 27 <i>Nov</i>. 1755.</p>
</div>

<p>The House had failed to carry its point. The result disappointed
Franklin, and doubly disappointed the Quakers. His maxim was: Beat the
Governor first, and then beat the enemy; theirs: Beat the Governor, and
let the enemy alone. The measures that followed, directed in part by
Franklin himself, held the Indians in check, and mitigated the distress
of the western counties; yet there was no safety for them throughout the
two or three years when France was cheering on her hell-hounds against
this tormented frontier.</p>

<p>As in Pennsylvania, so in most of the other colonies there was conflict
between assemblies and governors, to the unspeakable detriment of the
public service. In New York, though here no obnoxious proprietary stood
between the people 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_350-V1" id="Page_350-V1">350<br />V1</a></span> 
and the Crown, the strife was long and severe. The point at issue was an 
important one,&mdash;whether the Assembly should continue their practice of 
granting yearly supplies to the Governor, or should establish a permanent 
fund for the ordinary expenses of government,&mdash;thus placing him beyond 
their control. The result was a victory for the Assembly.</p>

<p>Month after month the great continent lay wrapped in snow. Far along the
edge of the western wilderness men kept watch and ward in lonely
blockhouses, or scoured the forest on the track of prowling war-parties.
The provincials in garrison at forts Edward, William Henry, and Oswego
dragged out the dreary winter; while bands of New England rangers,
muffled against the piercing cold, caps of fur on their heads, hatchets
in their belts, and guns in the mittened hands, glided on skates along
the gleaming ice-floor of Lake George, to spy out the secrets of
Ticonderoga, or seize some careless sentry to tell them tidings of the
foe. Thus the petty war went on; but the big war was frozen into torpor,
ready, like a hibernating bear, to wake again with the birds, the bees,
and the flowers. <span class="superscript">[360]</span></p>

<div class="footer">
    <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_360" name="footer_360"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[360]</span>
On Pennsylvanian disputes,&mdash;<i>A Brief State of the
Province of Pennsylvania</i> (London, 1755). <i>A Brief View of the Conduct
of Pennsylvania</i> (London, 1756). These are pamphlets on the Governor's
side, by William Smith, D.D., Provost of the College of Pennsylvania.
<i>An Answer to an invidious Pamphlet, intituled a Brief State</i>, etc.
(London, 1755). Anonymous. <i>A True and Impartial State of the Province
of Pennsylvania</i> (Philadelphia, 1759). Anonymous. The last two works
attack the first two with great vehemence. <i>The True and Impartial
State</i> is an able presentation of the case of the Assembly, omitting,
however, essential facts. 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_351-V1" id="Page_351-V1">351<br />V1</a></span> 
But the most elaborate work on the subject is the <i>Historical Review of the 
Constitution and Government of Pennsylvania</i>, inspired and partly written 
by Franklin. It is hotly partisan, and sometimes sophistical and unfair. 
Articles on the quarrel will also be found in the provincial newspapers, 
especially the <i>New York Mercury,</i> and in the <i>Gentleman's Magazine</i> 
for 1755 and 1756.  But it is impossible to get any clear and just view of it 
without wading through the interminable documents concerning it in the 
<i>Colonial Records of Pennsylvania</i> and the <i>Pennsylvania 
Archives</i>.</p>
</div>



<hr />
<div class="chapterhead">
   <br /><a name="Chapter_11" id="Chapter_11"></a>
	 <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_352-V1" id="Page_352-V1">352<br />V1</a></span> 
	 <br /><br /><br />
	 <h2><a href="#Contents11">CHAPTER XI.</a><br />
	 <span class="med">1712-1756.</span>
	 </h2> 
	 <p class="smcapheader">MONTCALM.</p>
	 <p class="smcap noindent space-bottom">  				
	    War declared &bull; State of Europe &bull; 
			Pompadour and Maria Theresa &bull; Infatuation of the French Court &bull;
			The European War &bull; Montcalm to command in America &bull;
      His early Life &bull;  
			An intractable Pupil &bull; His Marriage &bull;
			His Family &bull; His Campaigns &bull; Preparation for America &bull;
			His Associates &bull; L&eacute;vis, Bourlamaque, Bougainville &bull;
			Embarkation &bull; The Voyage &bull; Arrival &bull; Vaudreuil &bull;
			Forces of Canada &bull; 
			Troops of the Line, Colony Troops, Militia, Indians &bull;
			The Military Situation &bull; Capture of Fort Bull &bull;
			Montcalm at Ticonderoga.
   </p> 				
	 <p class="break1"></p> 
</div> 

<p class="double-space-top">
<span class="smcap">On</span> 
the eighteenth of May, 1756, England, after a year of open hostility,
at length declared war. She had attacked France by land and sea, turned
loose her ships to prey on French commerce, and brought some three
hundred prizes into her ports. It was the act of a weak Government,
supplying by spasms of violence what it lacked in considerate
resolution. France, no match for her amphibious enemy in the game of
marine depredation, cried out in horror; and to emphasize her complaints
and signalize a pretended good faith which her acts had belied,
ostentatiously released a British frigate captured by her cruisers. She
in her turn declared war on the ninth of June: and now began the most
terrible conflict of the eighteenth century; 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_353-V1" id="Page_353-V1">353<br />V1</a></span> 
one that convulsed Europe and shook America, India, the coasts of Africa, and 
the islands of the sea.</p>

<p>In Europe the ground was trembling already with the coming earthquake.
Such smothered discords, such animosities, ambitions, jealousies,
possessed the rival governments; such entanglements of treaties and
alliances, offensive or defensive, open or secret,&mdash;that a blow at one
point shook the whole fabric. Hanover, like the heel of Achilles, was
the vulnerable part for which England was always trembling. Therefore
she made a defensive treaty with Prussia, by which each party bound
itself to aid the other, should its territory be invaded. England thus
sought a guaranty against France, and Prussia against Russia. She had
need. Her King, Frederic the Great, had drawn upon himself an avalanche.
Three women&mdash;two empresses and a concubine&mdash;controlled the forces of 
the three great nations, Austria, Russia, and France; and they all hated
him: Elizabeth of Russia, by reason of a distrust fomented by secret
intrigue and turned into gall by the biting tongue of Frederic himself,
who had jibed at her amours, compared her to Messalina, and called her
"<i>inf&acirc;me catin du Nord</i>;" Maria Theresa of Austria, because she 
saw in him a rebellious vassal of the Holy Roman Empire, and, above all,
because he had robbed her of Silesia; Madame de Pompadour, because when
she sent him a message of compliment, he answered, "<i>Je ne la connais
pas</i>," forbade his ambassador to visit her, and in his 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_354-V1" id="Page_354-V1">354<br />V1</a></span> 
mocking wit spared neither her nor her royal lover. Feminine pique, revenge, 
or vanity had then at their service the mightiest armaments of Europe.</p>

<p>The recovery of Silesia and the punishment of Frederic for his audacity
in seizing it, possessed the mind of Maria Theresa with the force of a
ruling passion. To these ends she had joined herself in secret league
with Russia; and now at the prompting of her minister Kaunitz she courted 
the alliance of France. It was a reversal of the hereditary policy of 
Austria; joining hands with an old and deadly foe, and spurning England, 
of late her most trusty ally. But France could give powerful aid against 
Frederic; and hence Maria Theresa, virtuous as she was high-born and 
proud, stooped to make advances to the all-powerful mistress of Louis XV., 
wrote her flattering letters, and addressed her, it is said, as "<i>Ma 
ch&egrave;re cousine</i>." Pompadour was delighted, and could hardly do 
enough for her imperial friend. She ruled the King, and could make and 
unmake ministers at will. They hastened to do her pleasure, disguising 
their subserviency by dressing it out in specious reasons of state. A 
conference at her summer-house, called Babiole, "Bawble," prepared the 
way for a treaty which involved the nation in the anti-Prussian war, and 
made it the instrument of Austria in the attempt to humble 
Frederic,&mdash;an attempt which if successful would give the
hereditary enemy of France a predominance over Germany. France engaged
to aid the cause with twenty-four thousand men; but in the zeal of her
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_355-V1" id="Page_355-V1">355<br />V1</a></span> 
rulers began with a hundred thousand. Thus the three great Powers stood
leagued against Prussia. Sweden and Saxony joined them; and the Empire
itself, of which Prussia was a part, took arms against its obnoxious
member.</p>

<p>Never in Europe had power been more centralized, and never in France had
the reins been held by persons so pitiful, impelled by motives so
contemptible. The levity, vanity, and spite of a concubine became a
mighty engine to influence the destinies of nations. Louis XV.,
enervated by pleasures and devoured by <i>ennui</i>, still had his emotions;
he shared Pompadour's detestation of Frederic, and he was tormented at
times by a lively fear of damnation. But how damn a king who had entered
the lists as champion of the Church? England was Protestant, and so was
Prussia; Austria was supremely Catholic. Was it not a merit in the eyes
of God to join her in holy war against the powers of heresy? The King of
the Parc-aux-Cerfs would propitiate Heaven by a new crusade.</p>

<p>Henceforth France was to turn her strength against her European foes;
and the American war, the occasion of the universal outbreak, was to
hold in her eyes a second place. The reasons were several: the vanity of
Pompadour, infatuated by the advances of the Empress-Queen, and eager to
secure her good graces; the superstition of the King; the anger of both
against Frederic; the desire of D'Argenson, minister of war, that the
army, and not the navy, should play the foremost 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_356-V1" id="Page_356-V1">356<br />V1</a></span> 
part; and the passion of courtiers and nobles, ignorant of the naval 
service, to win laurels in a continental war,&mdash;all conspired to 
one end. It was the interest of France to turn her strength against her 
only dangerous rival; to continue as she had begun, in building up a 
naval power that could face England on the seas and sustain her own 
rising colonies in America, India, and the West Indies: for she too 
might have multiplied herself, planted her language and her race over 
all the globe, and grown with the growth of her children, had she not 
been at the mercy of an effeminate profligate, a mistress turned 
procuress, and the favorites to whom they delegated power.</p>

<p>Still, something must be done for the American war; at least there must
be a new general to replace Dieskau. None of the Court favorites wanted
a command in the backwoods, and the minister of war was free to choose
whom he would. His choice fell on Louis Joseph, Marquis de
Montcalm-Gozon de Saint-V&eacute;ran.</p>

<p>Montcalm was born in the south of France, at the Ch&acirc;teau of Candiac,
near N&icirc;mes, on the twenty-ninth of February, 1712. At the age of six he
was placed in the charge of one Dumas, a natural son of his grandfather.
This man, a conscientious pedant, with many theories of education, ruled
his pupil stiffly; and, before the age of fifteen, gave him a good
knowledge of Latin, Greek, and history. Young Montcalm had a taste for
books, continued his reading in such intervals 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_357-V1" id="Page_357-V1">357<br />V1</a></span> 
of leisure as camps and garrisons afforded, and cherished to the end of his 
life the ambition of becoming a member of the Academy. Yet, with all his 
liking for study, he sometimes revolted against the sway of the pedagogue 
who wrote letters of complaint to his father protesting against the 
"judgments of the vulgar, who, contrary to the experience of ages, say that 
if children are well reproved they will correct their faults." Dumas, 
however, was not without sense, as is shown by another letter to the elder 
Montcalm, in which he says that the boy had better be ignorant of Latin 
and Greek "than know them as he does without knowing how to read, write, 
and speak French well." The main difficulty was to make him write a good 
hand,&mdash;a point in which he signally failed to the day of his death. 
So refractory was he at times, that his master despaired. "M. de Montcalm," 
Dumas informs the father, "has great need of docility, industry, and
willingness to take advice. What will become of him?" The pupil, aware
of these aspersions, met them by writing to his father his own ideas of
what his aims should be. "First, to be an honorable man, of good
morals, brave, and a Christian. Secondly, to read in moderation; to know
as much Greek and Latin as most men of the world; also the four rules of
arithmetic, and something of history, geography, and French and Latin
<i>belles-lettres</i>, as well as to have a taste for the arts and sciences.
Thirdly, and above all, to be obedient, docile, and very submissive to
your orders and those of my 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_358-V1" id="Page_358-V1">358<br />V1</a></span> 
dear mother; and also to defer to the advice of M. Dumas. Fourthly, to fence 
and ride as well as my small abilities will permit." 
<span class="superscript">[361]</span></p>

<div class="footer">
    <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_361" name="footer_361"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[361]</span>
This passage is given by Somervogel from the original letter.</p>
</div>

<p>If Louis de Montcalm failed to satisfy his preceptor, he had a brother
who made ample amends. Of this infant prodigy it is related that at six
years he knew Latin, Greek, and Hebrew, and had some acquaintance with
arithmetic, French history, geography, and heraldry. He was destined for
the Church, but died at the age of seven; his precocious brain having
been urged to fatal activity by the exertions of Dumas.</p>

<p>Other destinies and a more wholesome growth were the lot of young Louis.
At fifteen he joined the army as ensign in the regiment of Hainaut. Two
years after, his father bought him a captaincy, and he was first under
fire at the siege of Philipsbourg. His father died in 1735, and left him
heir to a considerable landed estate, much embarrassed by debt. The
Marquis de la Fare, a friend of the family, soon after sought for him an
advantageous marriage to strengthen his position and increase his prospects 
of promotion; and he accordingly espoused Mademoiselle Ang&eacute;lique 
Louise Talon du Boulay,&mdash;a union which brought him influential
alliances and some property. Madame de Montcalm bore him ten children,
of whom only two sons and four daughters were living in 1752. "May God
preserve them all," he writes in his autobiography, "and make them
prosper for this world and the next! Perhaps 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_359-V1" id="Page_359-V1">359<br />V1</a></span> 
it will be thought that the number is large for so moderate a fortune, 
especially as four of them are girls; but does God ever abandon his 
children in their need?"</p>

<div class="poem1 small">
<p class="poem1 indent30 left-indent10"
>"'Aux petits des oiseaux il donne la p&acirc;ture,</p>
<p class="poem1 indent25 left-indent10"
>Et sa bont&eacute; s'&eacute;tend sur toute la nature.'"</p>
</div>

<p class="noindent">He was pious in his soldierly way, and ardently loyal 
to Church and King.</p>

<p>His family seat was Candiac; where, in the intervals of campaigning, he
found repose with his wife, his children, and his mother, who was a
woman of remarkable force of character and who held great influence over
her son. He had a strong attachment to this home of his childhood; and
in after years, out of the midst of the American wilderness, his
thoughts turned longingly towards it. "<i>Quand reverrai-je mon cher
Candiac</i>!"</p>

<p>In 1741 Montcalm took part in the Bohemian campaign. He was made colonel
of the regiment of Auxerrois two years later, and passed unharmed through 
the severe campaign of 1744. In the next year he fought in Italy under 
Mar&eacute;chal de Maillebois. In 1746, at the disastrous action under the 
walls of Piacenza, where he twice rallied his regiment, he received five 
sabre-cuts,&mdash;two of which were in the head,&mdash;and was made prisoner.
Returning to France on parole, he was promoted in the year following to
the rank of brigadier; and being soon after exchanged, rejoined the army, and 
was again wounded by a musket-shot. The peace of Aix-la-Chapelle now 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_360-V1" id="Page_360-V1">360<br />V1</a></span> 
gave him a period of rest. <span class="superscript">[362]</span> At length, 
being on a visit to Paris late in the autumn of 1755, the minister, 
D'Argenson, hinted to him that he might be appointed to command the troops in
America. He heard no more of the matter till, after his return home, he
received from D'Argenson a letter dated at Versailles the twenty-fifth
of January, at midnight. "Perhaps, Monsieur," it began, "you did not
expect to hear from me again on the subject of the conversation I had
with you the day you came to bid me farewell at Paris. Nevertheless I
have not forgotten for a moment the suggestion I then made you; and it
is with the greatest pleasure that I announce to you that my views have
prevailed. The King has chosen you to command his troops in North
America, and will honor you on your departure with the rank of
major-general."</p>

<div class="footer">
    <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_362" name="footer_362"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[362]</span>
The account of Montcalm up to this time is chiefly from his unpublished 
autobiography, preserved by his descendants, and entitled <i>M&eacute;moires 
pour servir &agrave; l'Histoire de ma Vie</i>. Somervogel, <i>Comme on servait 
autrefois</i>; Bonnechose, <i>Montcalm et le Canada;</i> Martin, <i>Le Marquis 
de Montcalm; &Eacute;loge de Montcalm; Autre &Eacute;loge de Montcalm; 
M&eacute;moires sur le Canada</i>, 1749-1760, and other writings in print and 
manuscript have also been consulted.</p>
</div>


<p>The Chevalier de L&eacute;vis, afterwards Marshal of France, was named as his
second in command, with the rank of brigadier, and the Chevalier de
Bourlamaque as his third, with the rank of colonel; but what especially
pleased him was the appointment of his eldest son to command a regiment
in France. He set out from Candiac for the Court, and occupied himself
on the way with reading Charlevoix. "I take great pleasure in 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_361-V1" id="Page_361-V1">361<br />V1</a></span> 
it," he writes from Lyons to his mother; "he gives a pleasant account of Quebec.
But be comforted; I shall always be glad to come home." At Paris he
writes again: "Don't expect any long letter from me before the first of
March; all my business will be done by that time, and I shall begin to
breathe again. I have not yet seen the Chevalier de Montcalm [<i>his
son</i>]. Last night I came from Versailles, and am going back to-morrow.
The King gives me twenty-five thousand francs a year, as he did to M.
Dieskau, besides twelve thousand for my equipment, which will cost me
above a thousand crowns more; but I cannot stop for that. I embrace my
dearest and all the family." A few days later his son joined him. "He is
as thin and delicate as ever, but grows prodigiously tall."</p>

<p>On the second of March he informs his mother, "My affairs begin to get
on. A good part of the baggage went off the day before yesterday in the
King's wagons; an assistant-cook and two liverymen yesterday. I have got
a good cook. Est&egrave;ve, my secretary, will go on the eighth; Joseph and
D&eacute;jean will follow me. To-morrow evening I go to Versailles till Sunday,
and will write from there to Madame de Montcalm [<i>his wife</i>]. I have
three aides-de-camp; one of them, Bougainville, a man of parts, pleasant
company. Madame Mazade was happily delivered on Wednesday; in extremity
on Friday with a malignant fever; Saturday and yesterday, reports
favorable. I go there twice a day, and am just going now. She 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_362-V1" id="Page_362-V1">362<br />V1</a></span> 
has a girl. I embrace you all." Again, on the fifteenth: "In a few hours I set
out for Brest. Yesterday I presented my son, with whom I am well
pleased, to all the royal family. I shall have a secretary at Brest, and
will write more at length." On the eighteenth he writes from Rennes to
his wife: "I arrived, dearest, this morning, and stay here all day. I
shall be at Brest on the twenty-first. Everything will be on board on
the twenty-sixth. My son has been here since yesterday for me to coach
him and get him a uniform made, in which he will give thanks for his
regiment at the same time that I take leave in my embroidered coat.
Perhaps I shall leave debts behind. I wait impatiently for the bills.
You have my will; I wish you would get it copied, and send it to me
before I sail."</p>

<p>Reaching Brest, the place of embarkation, he writes to his mother: "I
have business on hand still. My health is good, and the passage will be
a time of rest. I embrace you, and my dearest, and my daughters. Love to
all the family. I shall write up to the last moment."</p>

<p>No translation can give an idea of the rapid, abrupt, elliptical style
of this familiar correspondence, where the meaning is sometimes
suggested by a single word, unintelligible to any but those for whom it
is written.</p>

<p>At the end of March Montcalm, with all his following, was ready to
embark; and three ships of the line, the "L&eacute;opard," the "H&eacute;ros," 
and the "Illustre," fitted out as transports, were ready to 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_363-V1" id="Page_363-V1">363<br />V1</a></span> 
receive the troops; while the General, with L&eacute;vis and Bourlamaque, were 
to take passage in the frigates "Licorne," "Sauvage," and "Sir&egrave;ne." 
"I like the Chevalier de L&eacute;vis," says Montcalm, "and I think he likes 
me." His first aide-de-camp, Bougainville, pleased him, if possible, still more. 
This young man, son of a notary, had begun life as an advocate in the
Parliament of Paris, where his abilities and learning had already made him 
conspicuous, when he resigned the gown for the sword, and became a captain 
of dragoons. He was destined in later life to win laurels in another career, 
and to become one of the most illustrious of French navigators. Montcalm, 
himself a scholar, prized his varied talents and accomplishments, and soon 
learned to feel for him a strong personal regard.</p>

<p>The troops destined for Canada were only two battalions, one belonging
to the regiment of La Sarre, and the other to that of Royal Roussillon.
Louis XV. and Pompadour sent a hundred thousand men to fight the battles
of Austria, and could spare but twelve hundred to reinforce New France.
These troops marched into Brest at early morning, breakfasted in the
town, and went at once on board the transports, "with an incredible
gayety," says Bougainville. "What a nation is ours! Happy he who
commands it, and commands it worthily!" 
<span class="superscript">[363]</span> Montcalm and he embarked in
the "Licorne," and sailed on the third of April, leaving 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_364-V1" id="Page_364-V1">364<br />V1</a></span> 
L&eacute;vis and Bourlamaque to follow a few days after. 
<span class="superscript">[364]</span></p>


<div class="footer">
    <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_363" name="footer_363"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[363]</span>
<i>Journal de Bougainville</i>. This is a fragment; his
Journal proper begins a few weeks later.</p>
   <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_364" name="footer_364"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[364]</span>
<i>L&eacute;vis &agrave;&mdash;&mdash;</i>, 5 <i>Avril</i>, 1756.</p>
</div>

<p>The voyage was a rough one. "I have been fortunate," writes Montcalm to
his wife, "in not being ill nor at all incommoded by the heavy gale we
had in Holy Week. It was not so with those who were with me, especially
M. Est&egrave;ve, my secretary, and Joseph, who suffered cruelly,&mdash;seventeen
days without being able to take anything but water. The season was very
early for such a hard voyage, and it was fortunate that the winter has
been so mild. We had very favorable weather till Monday the twelfth; but
since then till Saturday evening we had rough weather, with a gale that
lasted ninety hours, and put us in real danger. The forecastle was
always under water, and the waves broke twice over the quarter-deck.
From the twenty-seventh of April to the evening of the fourth of May we
had fogs, great cold, and an amazing quantity of icebergs. On the
thirtieth, when luckily the fog lifted for a time, we counted sixteen of
them. The day before, one drifted under the bowsprit, grazed it, and
might have crushed us if the deck-officer had not called out quickly,
<i>Luff</i>. After speaking of our troubles and sufferings, I must tell you
of our pleasures, which were fishing for cod and eating it. The taste is
exquisite. The head, tongue, and liver are morsels worthy of an epicure.
Still, I would not advise anybody to make the voyage for their sake. My
health is as good as it has been for a long 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_365-V1" id="Page_365-V1">365<br />V1</a></span> 
time. I found it a good plan
to eat little and take no supper; a little tea now and then, and plenty
of lemonade. Nevertheless I have taken very little liking for the sea,
and think that when I shall be so happy as to rejoin you I shall end my
voyages there. I don't know when this letter will go. I shall send it by
the first ship that returns to France, and keep on writing till then. It
is pleasant, I know, to hear particulars about the people one loves, and
I thought that my mother and you, my dearest and most beloved, would be
glad to read all these dull details. We heard Mass on Easter Day. All
the week before, it was impossible, because the ship rolled so that I
could hardly keep my legs. If I had dared, I think I should have had
myself lashed fast. I shall not soon forget that Holy Week."</p>

<p>This letter was written on the eleventh of May, in the St. Lawrence,
where the ship lay at anchor, ten leagues below Quebec, stopped by ice
from proceeding farther. Montcalm made his way to the town by land, and
soon after learned with great satisfaction that the other ships were
safe in the river below. "I see," he writes again, "that I shall have
plenty of work. Our campaign will soon begin. Everything is in motion.
Don't expect details about our operations; generals never speak of
movements till they are over. I can only tell you that the winter has
been quiet enough, though the savages have made great havoc in
Pennsylvania and Virginia, and carried off, according to their custom,
men, women, and 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_366-V1" id="Page_366-V1">366<br />V1</a></span> 
children. I beg you will have High Mass said at Montpellier or Vauvert to 
thank God for our safe arrival and ask for good success in future." 
<span class="superscript">[365]</span></p>

<div class="footer">
    <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_365" name="footer_365"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[365]</span>
These extracts are translated from copies of the original
letters, in possession of the present Marquis de Montcalm.</p>
</div>

<p>Vaudreuil, the governor-general, was at Montreal, and Montcalm sent a
courier to inform him of his arrival. He soon went thither in person,
and the two men met for the first time. The new general was not welcome
to Vaudreuil, who had hoped to command the troops himself, and had
represented to the Court that it was needless and inexpedient to send
out a general officer from France. <span class="superscript">[366]</span>
The Court had not accepted his views; <span class="superscript">[367]</span>
and hence it was with more curiosity than satisfaction that
he greeted the colleague who had been assigned him. He saw before him a
man of small stature, with a lively countenance, a keen eye, and, in
moments of animation, rapid, vehement utterance, and nervous
gesticulation. Montcalm, we may suppose, regarded the Governor with no
less attention. Pierre Fran&ccedil;ois Rigaud, Marquis de Vaudreuil, who had
governed Canada early in the century; and he himself had been governor
of Louisiana. He had not the force of character which his position
demanded, lacked decision in times of crisis; and though tenacious of
authority, was more jealous in asserting than self-reliant in exercising
it. One of his traits was a sensitive egotism, which 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_367-V1" id="Page_367-V1">367<br />V1</a></span> 
made him forward to proclaim his own part in every success, and to throw on 
others the burden of every failure. He was facile by nature, and capable of 
being led by such as had skill and temper for the task. But the impetuous
Montcalm was not of their number; and the fact that he was born in France 
would in itself have thrown obstacles in his way to the good graces of the 
Governor. Vaudreuil, Canadian by birth, loved the colony and its people, 
and distrusted Old France and all that came out of it. He had been bred, 
moreover, to the naval service; and, like other Canadian governors, his 
official correspondence was with the minister of marine, while that of 
Montcalm was with the minister of war. Even had Nature made him less 
suspicious, his relations with the General would have been critical. 
Montcalm commanded the regulars from France, whose very presence was in the 
eyes of Vaudreuil an evil, though a necessary one. Their chief was, it is 
true, subordinate to him in virtue of his office of governor; 
<span class="superscript">[368]</span> yet it was clear that for the conduct 
of the war the trust of the Government was mainly in Montcalm; and the 
Minister of War had even suggested that he should have the immediate command, 
not only of the troops from France, but of the colony regulars and the
militia. An order of the King to this effect was sent to Vaudreuil, with
instructions to communicate it to 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_368-V1" id="Page_368-V1">368<br />V1</a></span> 
Montcalm or withhold it, as he should think best.  
<span class="superscript">[369]</span> He lost no time in replying that the 
General "ought to concern himself with nothing but the command of the troops 
from France;" and he returned the order to the minister who sent it.
<span class="superscript">[370]</span> The Governor and the General 
represented the two parties which were soon to divide Canada,&mdash;those of 
New France and of Old.</p>

<div class="footer">
    <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_366" name="footer_366"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[366]</span>
<i>Vaudreuil au Ministre</i>, 30 <i>Oct</i>. 1755.</p>
   <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_367" name="footer_367"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[367]</span>
<i>Ordres du Roy et D&eacute;p&ecirc;ches des Ministres, 
F&eacute;v.</i> 1756.
</p>
   <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_368" name="footer_368"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[368]</span>
<i>Le Ministre &agrave; Vaudreuil</i>, 15 <i>Mars</i>, 1756. 
<i>Commission du Marquis de Montcalm</i>. 
<i>M&eacute;moire du Roy pour servir d'Instruction au Marquis
de Montcalm</i>.</p>
   <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_369" name="footer_369"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[369]</span>
<i>Ordres du Roy et D&eacute;p&ecirc;ches des Ministres</i>, 1756. 
<i>Le Ministre &agrave; Vaudreuil</i>, 15 <i>Mars</i>, 1756.</p>
    <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_370" name="footer_370"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[370]</span>
<i>Vaudreuil au Ministre</i>, 16 <i>Juin</i>, 1756. 
"Qu'il ne se m&ecirc;le que du commandement des troupes de terre."</p>
</div>

<p>A like antagonism was seen in the forces commanded by the two chiefs.
These were of three kinds,&mdash;the <i>troupes de terre,</i> troops of the 
line, or regulars from France; the <i>troupes de la marine</i>, or colony 
regulars; and lastly the militia. The first consisted of the four battalions 
that had come over with Dieskau and the two that had come with Montcalm,
comprising in all a little less than three thousand men.
<span class="superscript">[371]</span> Besides these, the battalions of 
Artois and Bourgogne, to the number of eleven hundred men, were in garrison 
at Louisbourg. All these troops wore a white uniform, faced with blue, red, 
yellow, or violet, <span class="superscript">[372]</span> 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_369-V1" id="Page_369-V1">369<br />V1</a></span> 
a black three-cornered hat, and gaiters, generally black, from the foot to the
knee. The subaltern officers in the French service were very numerous,
and were drawn chiefly from the class of lesser nobles. A well-informed
French writer calls them "a generation of <i>petits-ma&icirc;tres,</i> dissolute,
frivolous, heedless, light-witted; but brave always, and ready to die
with their soldiers, though not to suffer with them."
<span class="superscript">[373]</span> In fact the
course of the war was to show plainly that in Europe the regiments of
France were no longer what they had once been. It was not so with those
who fought in America. Here, for enduring gallantry, officers and men
alike deserve nothing but praise.</p>

<div class="footer">
    <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_371" name="footer_371"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[371]</span>
Of about twelve hundred who came with Montcalm, nearly
three hundred were now in hospital. The four battalions that came with
Dieskau are reported at the end of May to have sixteen hundred and
fifty-three effective men. <i>&Eacute;tat de la Situation actuelle des
Bataillons,</i> appended to Montcalm's despatch of 12 June. Another
document, <i>D&ecirc;tail de ce qui s'est pass&eacute; en Canada, Juin</i>, 
1755, <i>jusqu'&agrave; Juin</i>, 1756, sets the united effective strength 
of the battalions in Canada at twenty-six hundred and seventy-seven, 
which was increased by recruits which arrived from France about 
midsummer.</p>
   <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_372" name="footer_372"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[372]</span>
Except perhaps, the battalion of B&eacute;arn, which formerly
wore, and possibly wore still, a uniform of light blue.</p>
   <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_373" name="footer_373"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[373]</span>
Susane, <i>Ancienne Infanterie Fran&ccedil;aise</i>. In the atlas of
this work are colored plates of the uniforms of all the regiments of
foot.</p>
</div>

<p>The <i>troupes de la marine</i> had for a long time formed the permanent
military establishment of Canada. Though attached to the naval
department, they served on land, and were employed as a police within
the limits of the colony, or as garrisons of the outlying forts, where
their officers busied themselves more with fur-trading than with their
military duties. Thus they had become ill-disciplined and inefficient,
till the hard hand of Duquesne restored them to order. They originally
consisted of twenty-eight independent companies, increased in 1750 to
thirty companies, at first of fifty, and afterwards of sixty-five men
each, forming a total of nineteen hundred and fifty rank and file. In
March, 1757, ten more 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_370-V1" id="Page_370-V1">370<br />V1</a></span> 
companies were added. Their uniform was not unlike that of the troops 
attached to the War Department, being white, with black facings. They 
were enlisted for the most part in France; but when their term of service 
expired, and even before, in time of peace, they were encouraged to become 
settlers in the colony, as was also the case with their officers, of whom 
a great part were of European birth. Thus the relations of the <i>troupes 
de la marine</i> with the colony were close; and they formed a sort of 
connecting link between the troops of the line and the native militia. 
<span class="superscript">[374]</span> Besides these colony regulars, 
there was a company of colonial artillery, consisting this year of seventy 
men, and replaced in 1757 by two companies of fifty men each.</p>

<div class="footer">
    <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_374" name="footer_374"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[374]</span>
On the <i>troupes de la marine,&mdash;M&eacute;moire pour servir d'Instruction 
&agrave; MM. Jonqui&egrave;re et Bigot</i>, 30 <i>Avril</i>, 1749. 
<i>Ordres du Roy et D&eacute;p&ecirc;ches des Ministres</i>, 1750. 
<i>Ibid</i>., 1755. <i>Ibid</i>., 1757. 
<i>Instruction pour Vaudreuil</i>, 22 <i>Mars</i>, 1755. 
<i>Ordonnance pour l'Augmentation de Soldats dans les Compagnies de 
Canada</i>, 14 <i>Mars</i>, 1755. 
<i>Duquesne au Ministre</i>, 26 <i>Oct</i>. 1753. 
<i>Ibid</i>., 30 <i>Oct</i>. 1753. 
<i>Ibid</i>., 29 <i>F&eacute;v.</i> 1754.
<i>Duquesne &agrave; Marin</i>, 27 <i>Ao&ucirc;t</i>, 1753. 
<i>Atlas de Susane.</i></p>
</div>

<p>All the effective male population of Canada, from fifteen years to
sixty, was enrolled in the militia, and called into service at the will
of the Governor. They received arms, clothing, equipment, and rations
from the King, but no pay; and instead of tents they made themselves
huts of bark or branches. The best of them were drawn from the upper
parts of the colony, where habits of bushranging were still in full
activity. Their fighting qualities were much like those of the Indians,
whom they rivalled in endurance 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_371-V1" id="Page_371-V1">371<br />V1</a></span> 
and in the arts of forest war. As
bush-fighters they had few equals; they fought well behind earthworks,
and were good at a surprise or sudden dash; but for regular battle on
the open field they were of small account, being disorderly, and apt to
break and take to cover at the moment of crisis. They had no idea of the
great operations of war. At first they despised the regulars for their
ignorance of woodcraft, and thought themselves able to defend the colony
alone; while the regulars regarded them in turn with a contempt no less
unjust. They were excessively given to gasconade, and every true
Canadian boasted himself a match for three Englishmen at least. In 1750
the militia of all ranks counted about thirteen thousand; and eight
years later the number had increased to about fifteen thousand.
<span class="superscript">[375]</span>
Until the last two years of the war, those employed in actual warfare
were but few. Even in the critical year 1758 only about eleven hundred
were called to arms, except for two or three weeks in summer;
<span class="superscript">[376]</span>
though about four thousand were employed in transporting troops and
supplies, for which service they received pay.</p>

<div class="footer">
    <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_375" name="footer_375"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[375]</span>
<i>R&eacute;capitulation des Milices du Gouvernement de Canada</i>, 1750. 
<i>D&eacute;nombrement des Milices</i>, 1758, 1759. On the militia, see 
also Bougainville in Margry, <i>R&eacute;lations et M&eacute;moires 
in&eacute;dits</i>, 60, and <i>N.&nbsp;Y. Col. Docs.</i>, X. 680.</p>
   <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_376" name="footer_376"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[376]</span>
<i>Montcalm au Ministre</i>, 1 <i>Sept</i>. 1758.</p>
</div>

<p>To the white fighting force of the colony are to be added the red men.
The most trusty of them were the Mission Indians, living within or near
the settled limits of Canada, chiefly the Hurons of Lorette, the
Abenakis of St. Francis and Batiscan, 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_372-V1" id="Page_372-V1">372<br />V1</a></span> 
the Iroquois of Caughnawaga and La
Pr&eacute;sentation, and the Iroquois and Algonkins at the Two Mountains on the
Ottawa. Besides these, all the warriors of the west and north, from Lake
Superior to the Ohio, and from the Alleghanies to the Mississippi, were
now at the beck of France. As to the Iroquois or Five Nations who still
remained in their ancient seats within the present limits of New York,
their power and pride had greatly fallen; and crowded as they were
between the French and the English, they were in a state of vacillation,
some leaning to one side, some to the other, and some to each in turn.
As a whole, the best that France could expect from them was neutrality.</p>

<p>Montcalm at Montreal had more visits than he liked from his red allies.
"They are <i>vilains messieurs</i>," he informs his mother, "even when fresh
from their toilet, at which they pass their lives. You would not believe
it, but the men always carry to war, along with their tomahawk and gun,
a mirror to daub their faces with various colors, and arrange feathers
on their heads and rings in their ears and noses. They think it a great
beauty to cut the rim of the ear and stretch it till it reaches the
shoulder. Often they wear a laced coat, with no shirt at all. You would
take them for so many masqueraders or devils. One needs the patience of
an angel to get on with them. Ever since I have been here, I have had
nothing but visits, harangues, and deputations of these gentry. The
Iroquois ladies, who always take 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_373-V1" id="Page_373-V1">373<br />V1</a></span> 
part in their government, came also, and did me the honor to bring me belts 
of wampum, which will oblige me to go to their village and sing the war-song. 
They are only a little way off. Yesterday we had eighty-three warriors here, 
who have gone out to fight. They make war with astounding cruelty, sparing 
neither men, women, nor children, and take off your scalp very neatly,&mdash;an 
operation which generally kills you.</p>

<p>"Everything is horribly dear in this country; and I shall find it hard
to make the two ends of the year meet, with the twenty-five thousand
francs the King gives me. The Chevalier de L&eacute;vis did not join me till
yesterday. His health is excellent. In a few days I shall send him to
one camp, and M. de Bourlamaque to another; for we have three of them:
one at Carillon, eighty leagues from here, towards the place where M. de
Dieskau had his affair last year; another at Frontenac, sixty leagues;
and the third at Niagara, a hundred and forty leagues. I don't know when
or whither I shall go myself; that depends on the movements of the
enemy. It seems to me that things move slowly in this new world; and I
shall have to moderate my activity accordingly. Nothing but the King's
service and the wish to make a career for my son could prevent me from
thinking too much of my expatriation, my distance from you, and the dull
existence here, which would be duller still if I did not manage to keep
some little of my natural gayety."</p>

<p>
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_374-V1" id="Page_374-V1">374<br />V1</a></span> 
The military situation was somewhat perplexing. Iroquois spies had
brought reports of great preparations on the part of the English. As
neither party dared offend these wavering tribes, their warriors could
pass with impunity from one to the other, and were paid by each for
bringing information, not always trustworthy. They declared that the
English were gathering in force to renew the attempt made by Johnson the
year before against Crown Point and Ticonderoga, as well as that made by
Shirley against forts Frontenac and Niagara. Vaudreuil had spared no
effort to meet the double danger. Lotbini&egrave;re, a Canadian engineer, had
been busied during the winter in fortifying Ticonderoga, while Pouchot,
a captain in the battalion of B&eacute;arn, had rebuilt Niagara, and two French
engineers were at work in strengthening the defences of Frontenac. The
Governor even hoped to take the offensive, anticipate the movements of
the English, capture Oswego, and obtain the complete command of Lake
Ontario. Early in the spring a blow had been struck which materially
aided these schemes.</p>

<p>The English had built two small forts to guard the Great Carrying Place
on the route to Oswego. One of these, Fort Williams, was on the Mohawk;
the other, Fort Bull, a mere collection of storehouses surrounded by a
palisade, was four miles distant, on the bank of Wood Creek. Here a
great quantity of stores and ammunition had imprudently been collected
against the opening campaign. In February Vaudreuil sent L&eacute;ry, a 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_375-V1" id="Page_375-V1">375<br />V1</a></span> 
colony officer, with three hundred and sixty-two picked men, soldiers,
Canadians, and Indians, to seize these two posts. Towards the end of
March, after extreme hardship, they reached the road that connected
them, and at half-past five in the morning captured twelve men going
with wagons to Fort Bull. Learning from them the weakness of that place,
they dashed forward to surprise it. The thirty provincials of Shirley's
regiment who formed the garrison had barely time to shut the gate, while
the assailants fired on them through the loopholes, of which they got
possession in the tumult. L&eacute;ry called on the defenders to yield; but
they refused, and pelted the French for an hour with bullets and
hand-grenades. The gate was at last beat down with axes, and they were
summoned again; but again refused, and fired hotly through the opening.
The French rushed in, shouting <i>Vive le roi</i>, and a frightful struggle
followed. All the garrison were killed, except two or three who hid
themselves till the slaughter was over; the fort was set on fire and
blown to atoms by the explosion of the magazines; and L&eacute;ry then
withdrew, not venturing to attack Fort Williams. Johnson, warned by
Indians of the approach of the French, had pushed up the Mohawk with
reinforcements; but came too late. <span class="superscript">[377]</span></p>

<div class="footer">
    <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_377" name="footer_377"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[377]</span>
<i>Bigot au Ministre</i>, 12 <i>Avril</i>, 1756. 
<i>Vaudreuil au Ministre</i>, 1 <i>Juin</i>, 1756. 
<i>Ibid</i>., 8 <i>Juin</i>, 1756. 
<i>Journal de ce qui s'est pass&eacute; en Canada depuis le Mois d'Octobre</i>, 
1755, <i>jusqu'au Mois de Juin</i>, 1756. 
<i>Shirley to Fox</i>, 7 <i>May</i>, 1756. 
<i>Conduct of Major-General Shirley briefly stated. 
Information of Captain John Vicars, of the Fiftieth (Shirley's) Regiment</i>. 
Eastburn, <i>Faithful Narrative</i>. Entick, I. 471.
The French accounts place the number of English at sixty or eighty.</p>
</div>

<p>
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_376-V1" id="Page_376-V1">376<br />V1</a></span> 
Vaudreuil, who always exaggerates any success in which he has had part,
says that besides bombs, bullets, cannon-balls, and other munitions,
forty-five thousand pounds of gunpowder were destroyed on this occasion.
It is certain that damage enough was done to retard English operations
in the direction of Oswego sufficiently to give the French time for
securing all their posts on Lake Ontario. Before the end of June this
was in good measure done. The battalion of B&eacute;arn lay encamped before the
now strong fort of Niagara, and the battalions of Guienne and La Sarre,
with a body of Canadians, guarded Frontenac against attack. Those of La
Reine and Languedoc had been sent to Ticonderoga, while the Governor,
with Montcalm and L&eacute;vis, still remained at Montreal watching the turn of
events. <span class="superscript">[378]</span>
Hither, too, came the intendant Fran&ccedil;ois Bigot, the most
accomplished knave in Canada, yet indispensable for his vigor and
executive skill; Bougainville, who had disarmed the jealousy of
Vaudreuil, and now stood high in his good graces; and the
Adjutant-General, Montreuil, clearly a vain and pragmatic personage,
who, having come to Canada with Dieskau the year before, thought it
behooved him to give the General the advantage of his experience. "I
like M. de Montcalm very much," he writes to the minister, "and will do
the impossible to deserve his confidence. I have spoken to him in the
same terms as to M. Dieskau; thus: 'Trust only the French regulars for
an expedition, 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_377-V1" id="Page_377-V1">377<br />V1</a></span> 
but use the Canadians and Indians to harass the enemy.
Don't expose yourself; send me to carry your orders to points of
danger.' The colony officers do not like those from France. The
Canadians are independent, spiteful, lying, boastful; very good for
skirmishing, very brave behind a tree, and very timid when not under
cover. I think both sides will stand on the defensive. It does not seem
to me that M. de Montcalm means to attack the enemy; and I think he is
right. In this country a thousand men could stop three thousand."
<span class="superscript">[379]</span></p>

<div class="footer">
    <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_378" name="footer_378"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[378]</span>
<i>Correspondance de Montcalm, Vaudreuil, et L&eacute;vis.</i></p>
   <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_379" name="footer_379"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[379]</span>
<i>Montreuil au Ministre</i>, 12 <i>Juin</i>, 1756. 
The original is in cipher.</p>
</div>

<p>"M. de Vaudreuil overwhelms me with civilities," Montcalm
writes to the Minister of War. "I think that he is pleased with my
conduct towards him, and that it persuades him there are general
officers in France who can act under his orders without prejudice or
ill-humor." <span class="superscript">[380]</span>
"I am on good terms with him," he says again; "but not
in his confidence, which he never gives to anybody from France. His
intentions are good, but he is slow and irresolute."
<span class="superscript">[381]</span></p>

<div class="footer">
   <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_380" name="footer_380"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[380]</span>
<i>Montcalm au Ministre</i>, 12 <i>Juin</i>, 1756.</p>
   <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_381" name="footer_381"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[381]</span>
<i>Ibid</i>., 19 <i>Juin</i>, 1756. 
"Je suis bien avec luy, sans sa confiance, qu'il ne donne jamais &agrave; 
personne de la France." Erroneously rendered in <i>N.&nbsp;Y. Col. 
Docs.</i>, X. 421.</p>
</div>

<p>Indians presently brought word that ten thousand English were coming to
attack Ticonderoga. A reinforcement of colony regulars was at once
despatched to join the two battalions already there; a third battalion,
Royal Roussillon, was sent after them. The militia were called out and
ordered to
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_378-V1" id="Page_378-V1">378<br />V1</a></span> 
follow with all speed, while both Montcalm and L&eacute;vis hastened
to the supposed scene of danger. <span class="superscript">[382]</span>
They embarked in canoes on the
Richelieu, coasted the shore of Lake Champlain, passed Fort Frederic or
Crown Point, where all was activity and bustle, and reached Ticonderoga
at the end of June. They found the fort, on which Lotbini&egrave;re had been at
work all winter, advanced towards completion. It stood on the crown of
the promontory, and was a square with four bastions, a ditch, blown in
some parts out of the solid rock, bomb-proofs, barracks of stone, and a
system of exterior defences as yet only begun. The rampart consisted of
two parallel walls ten feet apart, built of the trunks of trees, and
held together by transverse logs dovetailed at both ends, the space
between being filled with earth and gravel well packed.
<span class="superscript">[383]</span> Such was
the first Fort Ticonderoga, or Carillon,&mdash;a structure quite distinct
from the later fort of which the ruins still stand on the same spot. The
forest had been hewn away for some distance around, and the tents of the
regulars and huts of the Canadians had taken its place; innumerable bark
canoes lay along the strand, and gangs of men toiled at the unfinished
works.</p>

<div class="footer">
    <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_382" name="footer_382"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[382]</span>
<i>Montcalm au Ministre</i>, 26 <i>Juin</i>, 1756. 
<i>D&eacute;tail de ce qui s'est pass&eacute;, Oct</i>. 
1755&mdash;<i>Juin</i>, 1756.</p>
   <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_383" name="footer_383"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[383]</span>
<i>Lotbini&egrave;re au Ministre</i>, 31 <i>Oct</i>. 1756.
<i>Montcalm au Ministre</i>, 20 <i>Juillet</i>, 1756.</p>
</div>

<p>Ticonderoga was now the most advanced position of the French, and Crown
Point, which had before held that perilous honor, was in the second
line. L&eacute;vis, to whom had been assigned the
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_379-V1" id="Page_379-V1">379<br />V1</a></span> 
permanent command of this
post of danger, set out on foot to explore the neighboring woods and
mountains, and slept out several nights before he reappeared at the
camp. "I do not think," says Montcalm, "that many high officers in
Europe would have occasion to take such tramps as this. I cannot speak
too well of him. Without being a man of brilliant parts, he has good
experience, good sense, and a quick eye; and, though I had served with
him before, I never should have thought that he had such promptness and
efficiency. He has turned his campaigns to good account." 
<span class="superscript">[384]</span> L&eacute;vis
writes of his chief with equal warmth. "I do not know if the Marquis de
Montcalm is pleased with me, but I am sure that I am very much so with
him, and shall always be charmed to serve under his orders. It is not
for me, Monseigneur, to speak to you of his merit and his talents. You
know him better than anybody else; but I may have the honor of assuring
you that he has pleased everybody in this colony, and manages affairs
with the Indians extremely well." <span class="superscript">[385]</span></p>

<div class="footer">
    <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_384" name="footer_384"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[384]</span>
<i>Montcalm au Ministre</i>, 20 <i>Juillet</i>, 1756.</p>
   <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_385" name="footer_385"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[385]</span>
<i>L&eacute;vis au Ministre</i>, 17 <i>Juillet</i>, 1756.</p>
</div>

<p>The danger from the English proved to be still remote, and there was
ample leisure in the camp. Duchat, a young captain in the battalion of
Languedoc, used it in writing to his father a long account of what he
saw about him,&mdash;the forests full of game; the ducks, geese, and
partridges; the prodigious flocks of wild pigeons that darkened 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_380-V1" id="Page_380-V1">380<br />V1</a></span> 
the air,
the bears, the beavers; and above all the Indians, their canoes, dress,
ball-play, and dances. "We are making here," says the military prophet,
"a place that history will not forget. The English colonies have ten
times more people than ours; but these wretches have not the least
knowledge of war, and if they go out to fight, they must abandon wives,
children, and all that they possess. Not a week passes but the French
send them a band of <i>hairdressers</i>, whom they would be very glad to
dispense with. It is incredible what a quantity of scalps they bring us.
In Virginia they have committed unheard-of cruelties, carried off
families, burned a great many houses, and killed an infinity of people.
These miserable English are in the extremity of distress, and repent too
late the unjust war they began against us. It is a pleasure to make war
in Canada. One is troubled neither with horses nor baggage; the King
provides everything. But it must be confessed that if it costs no money,
one pays for it in another way, by seeing nothing but pease and bacon on
the mess-table. Luckily the lakes are full of fish, and both officers
and soldiers have to turn fishermen." <span class="superscript">[386]</span>
</p>

<div class="footer">
    <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_386" name="footer_386"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[386]</span>
<i>Relation de M. Duchat, Capitaine au R&eacute;giment de
Languedoc, &eacute;crite au Camp de Carillon</i>, 15 
<i>Juillet</i>, 1756.</p>
</div>

<p>Meanwhile, at the head of Lake George, the raw bands of 
ever-active New England were mustering for the fray.</p>

<hr />
<div class="chapterhead">
   <br /><a name="Chapter_12" id="Chapter_12"></a>
	 <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_381-V1" id="Page_381-V1">381<br />V1</a></span> 
	 <br /><br /><br />
	 <h2><a href="#Contents12">CHAPTER XII.</a><br />
	 <span class="med">1756.</span>
	 </h2> 
	 <p class="smcapheader">OSWEGO.</p>
	 <p class="smcap noindent space-bottom">
	    The new Campaign &bull; Untimely Change of Commanders &bull;
			Eclipse of Shirley &bull; Earl of Loudon &bull; 
			Muster of Provincials &bull; New England Levies &bull;
			Winslow at Lake George &bull; Johnson and the Five Nations &bull;
			Bradstreet and his Boatmen &bull; Fight on the Onondaga &bull;
			Pestilence at Oswego &bull; Loudon and the Provincials &bull; 
			New England Camps &bull; Army Chaplains &bull; A sudden Blow &bull;
			Montcalm attacks Oswego &bull; Its Fall.
      </p> 				
	 <p class="break1"></p> 
</div> 

<p class="double-space-top">
<span class="smcap">When</span>, 
at the end of the last year, Shirley returned from his bootless
Oswego campaign, he called a council of war at New York and laid before
it his scheme for the next summer's operations. It was a comprehensive
one: to master Lake Ontario by an overpowering naval force and seize the
French forts upon it, Niagara, Frontenac, and Toronto; attack
Ticonderoga and Crown Point on the one hand, and Fort Duquesne on the
other, and at the same time perplex and divide the enemy by an inroad
down the Chaudi&egrave;re upon the settlements about Quebec.
<span class="superscript">[387]</span> The council
approved the scheme; but to execute it the provinces must raise at least
sixteen thousand men. This they 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_382-V1" id="Page_382-V1">382<br />V1</a></span> 
refused to do. Pennsylvania and Virginia would take no active part, and were 
content with defending themselves. The attack on Fort Duquesne was therefore 
abandoned, as was also the diversion towards Quebec. The New England colonies 
were discouraged by Johnson's failure to take Crown Point, doubtful of the 
military abilities of Shirley, and embarrassed by the debts of the last 
campaign; but when they learned that Parliament would grant a sum of money in
partial compensation for their former sacrifices,  
<span class="superscript">[388]</span> they plunged into new debts without 
hesitation, and raised more men than the General had asked; though, with their 
usual jealousy, they provided that their soldiers should be employed for no 
other purpose than the attack on Ticonderoga and Crown Point. Shirley chose 
John Winslow to command them, and gave him a commission to that effect; while 
he, to clinch his authority, asked and obtained supplementary commissions from 
every government that gave men to the expedition. 
<span class="superscript">[389]</span> For the movement against the forts of 
Lake Ontario, which Shirley meant to command in person, he had the remains of 
his own and Pepperell's regiments, the two shattered battalions brought over 
by Braddock, the "Jersey Blues," four provincial companies from North Carolina, 
and the four King's companies of 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_383-V1" id="Page_383-V1">383<br />V1</a></span> 
New York. His first care was to recruit their ranks and raise them to
their full complement; which, when effected, would bring them up to the
insufficient strength of about forty-four hundred men.</p>

<div class="footer">
    <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_387" name="footer_387"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[387]</span>
<i>Minutes of Council of War held at New York</i>, 12 and 13
<i>Dec</i>. 1755. <i>Shirley to Robinson</i>, 19 <i>Dec</i>. 1755. 
<i>The Conduct of Major-General Shirley briefly stated. 
Review of Military Operations in North America.</i></p>
    <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_388" name="footer_388"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[388]</span>
<i>Lords of Trade to Lords of the Treasury</i>, 12 <i>Feb.</i> 1756.
<i>Fox to American Governors</i>, 13 <i>March,</i> 1756. 
<i>Shirley to Phipps</i>, 15 <i>June</i>, 1756.
The sum was &pound;115,000, divided in proportion to the expense
incurred by the several colonies; Massachusetts having &pound;54,000,
Connecticut &pound;26,000, and New York &pound;15,000, the rest being 
given to New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and New Jersey.</p>
   <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_389" name="footer_389"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[389]</span>
<i>Letter and Order Books of General Winslow</i>, 1756.</p>
</div>

<p>While he was struggling with contradictions and cross purposes, a
withering blow fell upon him; he learned that he was superseded in the
command. The cabal formed against him, with Delancey at its head, had
won over Sir Charles Hardy, the new governor of New York, and had
painted Shirley's conduct in such colors that the Ministry removed him.
It was essential for the campaign that a successor should be sent at
once, to form plans on the spot and make preparations accordingly. The
Ministry were in no such haste. It was presently announced that Colonel
Daniel Webb would be sent to America, followed by General James
Abercromby; who was to be followed in turn by the Earl of Loudon, the
destined commander-in-chief. Shirley was to resign his command to Webb,
Webb to Abercromby, and Abercromby to Loudon.
<span class="superscript">[390]</span> It chanced that the
two former arrived in June at about the same time, while the Earl came
in July; and meanwhile it devolved on Shirley to make ready for them.
Unable to divine what their plans would be, he prepared the campaign in
accordance with his own.</p>

<div class="footer">
    <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_390" name="footer_390"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[390]</span>
<i>Fox to Shirley</i>, 13 <i>March</i>, 1756. 
<i>Ibid</i>., 31 <i>March</i>, 1756.
<i>Order to Colonel Webb</i>, 31 <i>March</i>, 1756. 
<i>Order to Major-General Abercromby</i>, 1 <i>April</i>, 1756. 
<i>Halifax to Shirley</i>, 1 <i>April</i>, 1756. 
<i>Shirley to Fox</i>, 13 <i>June</i>, 1756.</p>
</div>


<p>
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_384-V1" id="Page_384-V1">384<br />V1</a></span> 
His star, so bright a twelvemonth before, was now miserably dimmed. In
both his public and private life he was the butt of adversity. He had
lost two promising sons; he had made a mortifying failure as a soldier;
and triumphant enemies were rejoicing in his fall. It is to the credit
of his firmness and his zeal in the cause that he set himself to his
task with as much vigor as if he, and not others, were to gather the
fruits. His chief care was for his favorite enterprise in the direction
of Lake Ontario. Making Albany his headquarters, he rebuilt the fort at
the Great Carrying Place destroyed in March by the French, sent troops
to guard the perilous route to Oswego, and gathered provisions and
stores at the posts along the way.</p>

<p>Meanwhile the New England men, strengthened by the levies of New York,
were mustering at Albany for the attack of Crown Point. At the end of
May they moved a short distance up the Hudson, and encamped at a place
called Half-Moon, where the navigation was stopped by rapids. Here and
at the posts above were gathered something more than five thousand men,
as raw and untrained as those led by Johnson in the summer before.
<span class="superscript">[391]</span>
The four New England colonies were much alike in their way of raising
and equipping men, and the example of Massachusetts may serve for them
all. The Assembly or "General Court" voted the required number, and
chose a committee of war authorized to impress 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_385-V1" id="Page_385-V1">385<br />V1</a></span> 
provisions, munitions, stores, clothing, tools, and other necessaries, for 
which fair prices were to be paid within six months. The Governor issued a 
proclamation calling for volunteers. If the full number did not appear within 
the time named, the colonels of militia were ordered to muster their
regiments, and immediately draft out of them men enough to meet the
need. A bounty of six dollars was offered this year to stimulate
enlistment, and the pay of a private soldier was fixed at one pound six
shillings a month, Massachusetts currency. If he brought a gun, he had
an additional bounty of two dollars. A powder-horn, bullet-pouch,
blanket, knapsack, and "wooden bottle," or canteen, were supplied by the
province; and if he brought no gun of his own, a musket was given him,
for which, as for the other articles, he was to account at the end of
the campaign. In the next year it was announced that the soldier should
receive, besides his pay, "a coat and soldier's hat." The coat was of
coarse blue cloth, to which breeches of red or blue were afterwards
added. Along with his rations, he was promised a gill of rum each day, a
privilege of which he was extremely jealous, deeply resenting every
abridgment of it. He was enlisted for the campaign, and could not be
required to serve above a year at farthest.</p>

<div class="footer">
    <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_391" name="footer_391"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[391]</span>
<i>Letter and Order Books of Winslow</i>, 1756.</p>
</div>

<p>The complement of a regiment was five hundred, divided into companies of
fifty; and as the men and officers of each were drawn from the same
neighborhood, they generally knew each 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_386-V1" id="Page_386-V1">386<br />V1</a></span> 
other. The officers, though nominally appointed by the Assembly, were for the 
most part the virtual choice of the soldiers themselves, from whom they were 
often indistinguishable in character and social standing. Hence discipline was
weak. The pay&mdash;or, as it was called, the wages&mdash;of a colonel was 
twelve pounds sixteen shillings, Massachusetts currency, a month; that of a
captain, five pounds eight shillings,&mdash;an advance on the pay of the last
year; and that of a chaplain, six pounds eight shillings.
<span class="superscript">[392]</span> Penalties were enacted against 
"irreligion, immorality, drunkenness, debauchery, and profaneness." The 
ordinary punishments were the wooden horse, irons, or, in bad cases, flogging.
</p>

<div class="footer">
    <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_392" name="footer_392"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[392]</span>
<i>Vote of General Court</i>, 26 <i>Feb</i>. 1756.</p>
</div>

<p>Much difficulty arose from the different rules adopted by the various
colonies for the regulation of their soldiers. Nor was this the only
source of trouble. Besides its war committee, the Assembly of each of
the four New England colonies chose another committee "for clothing,
arming, paying, victualling, and transporting" its troops. They were to
go to the scene of operations, hire wagons, oxen, and horses, build
boats and vessels, and charge themselves with the conveyance of all
supplies belonging to their respective governments. They were to keep in
correspondence with the committee of war at home, to whom they were
responsible; and the officer commanding the contingent of their colony
was required to furnish them with guards and escorts. Thus four
independent committees were 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_387-V1" id="Page_387-V1">387<br />V1</a></span> 
engaged in the work of transportation at the same time, over the same roads, 
for the same object. Each colony chose to keep the control of its property 
in its own hands. The inconveniences were obvious: "I wish to God," wrote 
Lord Loudon to Winslow, "you could persuade your people to go all one way." 
The committees themselves did not always find their task agreeable. One of 
their number, John Ashley, of Massachusetts, writes in dudgeon to Governor 
Phipps: "Sir, I am apt to think that things have been misrepresented to your 
Honor, or else I am certain I should not suffer in my character, and be 
styled a damned rascal, and ought to be put in irons, etc., when I am certain 
I have exerted myself to the utmost of my ability to expedite the business
assigned me by the General Court." At length, late in the autumn, Loudon
persuaded the colonies to forego this troublesome sort of independence,
and turn over their stores to the commissary-general, receipts being
duly given. <span class="superscript">[393]</span></p>

<div class="footer">
    <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_393" name="footer_393"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[393]</span>
The above particulars are gathered from the voluminous papers in the 
State House at Boston, <i>Archives, Military</i>, Vols. LXXV.,
LXXVI. These contain the military acts of the General Court,
proclamations, reports of committees, and other papers relating to
military affairs in 1755 and 1756. The <i>Letter and Order Books of
Winslow</i>, in the Library of the Massachusetts Historical Society, have
supplied much concurrent matter. See also <i>Colonial Records of R.&nbsp;I.</i>,
V., and <i>Provincial Papers of N.&nbsp;H.</i>, VI.</p>
</div>


<p>From Winslow's headquarters at Half-Moon a road led along the banks of
the Hudson to Stillwater, whence there was water carriage to Saratoga.
Here stores were again placed in wagons and carried several miles to
Upper Falls; thence 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_388-V1" id="Page_388-V1">388<br />V1</a></span> 
by boat to Fort Edward; and thence, fourteen miles
across country, to Fort William Henry at Lake George, where the army was
to embark for Ticonderoga. Each of the points of transit below Fort
Edward was guarded by a stockade and two or more companies of
provincials. They were much pestered by Indians, who now and then
scalped a straggler, and escaped with their usual nimbleness. From time
to time strong bands of Canadians and Indians approached by way of South
Bay or Wood Creek, and threatened more serious mischief. It is
surprising that some of the trains were not cut off, for the escorts
were often reckless and disorderly to the last degree. Sometimes the
invaders showed great audacity. Early in June Colonel Fitch at Albany
scrawls a hasty note to Winslow: "Friday, 11 o'clock: Sir, about half an
hour since, a party of near fifty French and Indians had the impudence
to come down to the river opposite to this city and captivate two men;"
and Winslow replies with equal quaintness: "We daily discover the
Indians about us; but not yet have been so happy as to obtain any of
them." <span class="superscript">[394]</span></p>

<div class="footer">
    <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_394" name="footer_394"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[394]</span>
Vaudreuil, in his despatch of 12 August, gives particulars of these raids, 
with an account of the scalps taken on each occasion. He thought the 
results disappointing.</p>
</div>

<p>Colonel Jonathan Bagley commanded at Fort William Henry, where gangs of
men were busied under his eye in building three sloops and making
several hundred whaleboats to carry the army of Ticonderoga. The season
was advancing fast, 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_389-V1" id="Page_389-V1">389<br />V1</a></span> 
and Winslow urged him to hasten on the work; to which the humorous Bagley 
answered: "Shall leave no stone unturned; every wheel shall go that rum 
and human flesh can move." <span class="superscript">[395]</span> A
fortnight after he reports: "I must really confess I have almost wore
the men out, poor dogs. Pray where are the committee, or what are they
about?" He sent scouts to watch the enemy, with results not quite
satisfactory. "There is a vast deal of news here; every party brings
abundance, but all different." Again, a little later: "I constantly keep
out small scouting parties to the eastward and westward of the lake, and
make no discovery but the tracks of small parties who are plaguing us
constantly; but what vexes me most, we can't catch one of the sons
of&mdash;&mdash;. I have sent out skulking parties some distance from the 
sentries in the night, to lie still in the bushes to intercept them; but 
the flies are so plenty, our people can't bear them."
<span class="superscript">[396]</span> Colonel David
Wooster, at Fort Edward, was no more fortunate in his attempts to take
satisfaction on his midnight visitors; and reports that he has not thus
far been able "to give those villains a dressing."
<span class="superscript">[397]</span> The English,
however, were fast learning the art of forest war, and the partisan
chief, Captain Robert Rogers, began already to be famous. On the
seventeenth of June he and his band lay hidden in the bushes within the
outposts of Ticonderoga, 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_390-V1" id="Page_390-V1">390<br />V1</a></span> 
and made a close survey of the fort and surrounding camps.
<span class="superscript">[398]</span> His report was not cheering. 
Winslow's so-called army had now grown to nearly seven thousand men; 
and these, it was plain, were not too many to drive the French from 
their stronghold.</p>

<div class="footer">
    <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_395" name="footer_395"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[395]</span>
<i>Bagley to Winslow</i>, 2 <i>July</i>, 1756.</p>
   <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_396" name="footer_396"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[396]</span>
<i>Ibid</i>., 15 <i>July</i>, 1756.</p>
   <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_397" name="footer_397"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[397]</span>
<i>Wooster to Winslow</i>, 2 <i>June</i>, 1756.</p>
   <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_398" name="footer_398"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[398]</span>
<i>Report of Rogers</i>, 19 <i>June</i>, 1756. Much abridged in his
published <i>Journals</i>.</p>
</div>

<p>While Winslow pursued his preparations, tried to settle disputes of rank
among the colonels of the several colonies, and strove to bring order
out of the little chaos of his command, Sir William Johnson was engaged
in a work for which he was admirably fitted. This was the attaching of
the Five Nations to the English interest. Along with his patent of
baronetcy, which reached him about this time, he received, direct from
the Crown, the commission of "Colonel, Agent, and Sole Superintendent of
the Six Nations and other Northern Tribes."
<span class="superscript">[399]</span> Henceforth he was
independent of governors and generals, and responsible to the Court
alone. His task was a difficult one. The Five Nations would fain have
remained neutral, and let the European rivals fight it out; but, on
account of their local position, they could not. The exactions and lies
of the Albany traders, the frauds of land-speculators, the contradictory
action of the different provincial governments, joined to English
weakness and mismanagement in the last war, all conspired to alienate
them and to aid the efforts of the French agents, who cajoled and
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_391-V1" id="Page_391-V1">391<br />V1</a></span> 
threatened them by turns. But for Johnson these intrigues would have
prevailed. He had held a series of councils with them at Fort Johnson
during the winter, and not only drew from them a promise to stand by the
English, but persuaded all the confederated tribes, except the Cayugas,
to consent that the English should build forts near their chief towns,
under the pretext of protecting them from the French.
<span class="superscript">[400]</span></p>

<div class="footer">
    <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_399" name="footer_399"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[399]</span>
<i>Fox to Johnson</i>, 13 <i>March</i>, 1756. 
<i>Papers of Sir William Johnson.</i></p>
    <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_400" name="footer_400"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[400]</span>
<i>Conferences between Sir William Johnson and the Indians,
Dec</i>. 1755, <i>to Feb</i>. 1756, in <i>N.&nbsp;Y. Col. Docs.</i>, 
VII. 44-74.  <i>Account of Conferences held and Treaties made between 
Sir William Johnson, Bart., and the Indian Nations of North America</i> 
(London, 1756).</p>
</div>

<p>In June he went to Onondaga, well escorted, for the way was dangerous.
This capital of the Confederacy was under a cloud. It had just lost one
Red Head, its chief sachem; and first of all it behooved the baronet to
condole their affliction. The ceremony was long, with compliments,
lugubrious speeches, wampum-belts, the scalp of an enemy to replace the
departed, and a final glass of rum for each of the assembled mourners.
The conferences lasted a fortnight; and when Johnson took his leave, the
tribes stood pledged to lift the hatchet for the English.
<span class="superscript">[401]</span></p>

<div class="footer">
    <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_401" name="footer_401"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[401]</span>
<i>Minutes of Councils of Onondaga</i>, 19 <i>June</i> to 3 <i>July</i>,
1756, in <i>N.&nbsp;Y. Col. Docs.</i>, VII. 134-150.</p>
</div>

<p>When he returned to Fort Johnson a fever seized him, and he lay helpless
for a time; then rose from his sick bed to meet another congregation of
Indians. These were deputies of the Five Nations, with Mohegans from the
Hudson, and Delawares and Shawanoes from the Susquehanna, 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_392-V1" id="Page_392-V1">392<br />V1</a></span> 
whom he had persuaded to visit him in hope that he might induce them to cease 
from murdering the border settlers. All their tribesmen were in arms against
the English; but he prevailed at last, and they accepted the war-belt at
his hands. The Delawares complained that their old conquerors, the Five
Nations, had forced them "to wear the petticoat," that is, to be counted
not as warriors but as women. Johnson, in presence of all the Assembly,
now took off the figurative garment, and pronounced them henceforth men.
A grand war-dance followed. A hundred and fifty Mohawks, Oneidas,
Onondagas, Delawares, Shawanoes, and Mohegans stamped, whooped, and
yelled all night. <span class="superscript">[402]</span>
In spite of Piquet, the two Joncaires, and the rest of the French agents, 
Johnson had achieved a success. But would the Indians keep their word? It 
was more than doubtful. While some of them treated with him on the Mohawk, 
others treated with Vaudreuil at Montreal. 
<span class="superscript">[403]</span> A display of military vigor on the 
English side, crowned by some signal victory, would alone make their 
alliance sure.</p>

<div class="footer">
    <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_402" name="footer_402"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[402]</span>
<i>Minutes of Councils at Fort Johnson</i>, 9 <i>July</i> to 12 <i>July</i>,
in <i>N.&nbsp;Y. Col. Docs.</i>, VII. 152-160.</p>
   <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_403" name="footer_403"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[403]</span>
<i>Conferences between M. de Vaudreuil and the Five Nations</i>, 
28 <i>July</i> to 20 <i>Aug.</i>, 
in <i>N.&nbsp;Y. Col. Docs.</i>, X. 445-453.</p>
</div>

<p>It was not the French only who thwarted the efforts of Johnson; for
while he strove to make friends of the Delawares and Shawanoes, Governor
Morris of Pennsylvania declared war against them, and Governor Belcher
of New Jersey followed his example; though persuaded at last to hold his
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_393-V1" id="Page_393-V1">393<br />V1</a></span> 
hand till the baronet had tried the virtue of pacific measures.
<span class="superscript">[404]</span></p>

<div class="footer">
    <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_404" name="footer_404"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[404]</span>
<i>Johnson to Lords of Trade</i>, 28 <i>May</i>, 1756. 
<i>Ibid</i>., 17 <i>July</i>, 1756. 
<i>Johnson to Shirley</i>, 24 <i>April</i>, 1756.
<i>Colonial Records of Pa.</i>, VII.
75, 88, 194.</p>
</div>

<p>What Shirley longed for was the collecting of a body of Five Nation
warriors at Oswego to aid him in his cherished enterprise against
Niagara and Frontenac. The warriors had promised him to come; but there
was small hope that they would do so. Meanwhile he was at Albany
pursuing his preparations, posting his scanty force in the forts newly
built on the Mohawk and the Great Carrying Place, and sending forward
stores and provisions. Having no troops to spare for escorts, he
invented a plan which, like everything he did, was bitterly criticised.
He took into pay two thousand boatmen, gathered from all parts of the
country, including many whalemen from the eastern coasts of New
England, divided them into companies of fifty, armed each with a gun and
a hatchet, and placed them under the command of Lieutenant-Colonel John
Bradstreet. <span class="superscript">[405]</span>
Thus organized, they would, he hoped, require no
escort. Bradstreet was a New England officer who had been a captain in
the last war, somewhat dogged and self-opinioned, but brave, energetic,
and well fitted for this kind of service.</p>

<div class="footer">
    <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_405" name="footer_405"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[405]</span>
<i>Shirley to Fox</i>, 7 <i>May</i>, 1756. 
<i>Shirley to Abercromby</i>, 27 <i>June</i>, 
1756. <i>London to Fox</i>, 19 <i>Aug.</i> 1756.</p>
</div>

<p>In May Vaudreuil sent Coulon de Villiers with eleven hundred soldiers,
Canadians, and Indians, to harass Oswego and cut its communications 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_394-V1" id="Page_394-V1">394<br />V1</a></span> 
with Albany. <span class="superscript">[406]</span>
Nevertheless Bradstreet safely conducted a convoy of provisions and 
military stores to the garrison; and on the third of July set out on 
his return with the empty boats. The party were pushing their way up 
the river in three divisions. The first of these, consisting of a
hundred boats and three hundred men, with Bradstreet at their head, were
about nine miles from Oswego, when, at three in the afternoon, they
received a heavy volley from the forest on the east bank. It was fired
by a part of Villiers' command, consisting, by English accounts, of
about seven hundred men. A considerable number of the boatmen were
killed or disabled, and the others made for the shelter of the western
shore. Some prisoners were taken in the confusion; and if the French had
been content to stop here, they might fairly have claimed a kind of
victory: but, eager to push their advantage, they tried to cross under
cover of an island just above. Bradstreet saw the movement, and landed
on the island with six or eight followers, among whom was young Captain
Schuyler, afterwards General Schuyler of the Revolution. Their fire kept
the enemy in check till others joined them, to the number of about
twenty. These a second and a third time beat back the French, who now
gave over the attempt, and made for another ford at some distance above.
Bradstreet saw their intention; and collecting two hundred and fifty
men, was about to advance up the west bank to oppose them, when Dr.
Kirkland, 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_395-V1" id="Page_395-V1">395<br />V1</a></span> 
a surgeon, came to tell him that the second division of boats
had come up, and that the men had landed. Bradstreet ordered them to
stay where they were, and defend the lower crossing: then hastened
forward; but when he reached the upper ford, the French had passed the
river, and were ensconced in a pine-swamp near the shore. Here he
attacked them; and both parties fired at each other from behind trees
for an hour, with little effect. Bradstreet at length encouraged his men
to make a rush at the enemy, who were put to flight and driven into the
river, where many were shot or drowned as they tried to cross. Another
party of the French had meanwhile passed by a ford still higher up to
support their comrades; but the fight was over before they reached the
spot, and they in their turn were set upon and driven back across the
stream. Half an hour after, Captain Patten arrived from Onondaga with
the grenadiers of Shirley's regiment; and late in the evening two
hundred men came from Oswego to reinforce the victors. In the morning
Bradstreet prepared to follow the French to their camp, twelve miles
distant; but was prevented by a heavy rain which lasted all day. On the
Monday following, he and his men reached Albany, bringing two prisoners,
eighty French muskets, and many knapsacks picked up in the woods. He had
lost between sixty and seventy killed, wounded, and taken.
<span class="superscript">[407]</span></p>

<div class="footer">
    <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_406" name="footer_406"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[406]</span>
<i>D&eacute;tail de ce qui s'est pass&eacute; en Canada, 
Oct</i>. 1755&mdash;<i>Juin</i>, 1756.</p>
   <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_407" name="footer_407"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[407]</span>
<i>Letter of J. Choate, Albany</i>, 12 <i>July</i>, 1756, in Massachusetts 
Archives, LV. <i>Three Letters from Albany, July, Aug</i>. 1756, in 
<i>Doc. Hist. of N.&nbsp;Y.</i>, I. 482. <i>Review of Military Operations.
Shirley to Fox</i>, 26 <i>July</i>, 1756. 
<i>Abercromby to Sir Charles Hardy</i>, 11 <i>July</i>, 1756. 
Niles, in <i>Mass. His. Coll., Fourth Series</i>, V. 417. 
Lossing, <i>Life of Schuyler</i>, I. 131 (1860). 
Mante, 60.  Bradstreet's conduct on this occasion afterwards 
gained for him the warm praises of Wolfe.</p>
</div>

<p>
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_396-V1" id="Page_396-V1">396<br />V1</a></span> 
This affair was trumpeted through Canada as a victory of the French.
Their notices of it are discordant, though very brief. One of them says
that Villiers had four hundred men. Another gives him five hundred, and
a third eight hundred, against fifteen hundred English, of whom they
killed eight hundred, or an Englishman apiece. A fourth writer boasts
that six hundred Frenchmen killed nine hundred English. A fifth contents
himself with four hundred; but thinks that forty more would have been
slain if the Indians had not fired too soon. He says further that there
were three hundred boats; and presently forgetting himself, adds that
five hundred were taken or destroyed. A sixth announces a great capture
of stores and provisions, though all the boats were empty. A seventh
reports that the Canadians killed about three hundred, and would have
killed more but for the bad quality of their tomahawks. An eighth, with
rare modesty, puts the English loss at fifty or sixty. That of Villiers
is given in every proportion of killed or wounded, from one up to ten.
Thus was Canada roused to martial ardor, and taught to look for future
triumphs cheaply bought. <span class="superscript">[408]</span></p>

<div class="footer">
    <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_408" name="footer_408"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[408]</span>
<i>Nouvelles du Camp &eacute;tabli au Portage de Chouaguen, 
premi&egrave;re  Relation. 
Ibid., S&eacute;conde Relation</i>, 10 <i>Juillet</i>, 1756. 
Bougainville, <i>Journal</i>, who gives the report as he heard it. 
<i>Lettre du R.&nbsp;P. Cocquard, S.&nbsp;J.</i>, 1756. 
<i>Vaudreuil au Ministre</i>, 10 <i>Juillet</i>, 1756. 
<i>Ursulines de Qu&eacute;bec</i>, II. 292. 
<i>N.&nbsp;Y. Col. Docs.</i>, X. 434, 467, 477, 483. 
Some prisoners taken in the first attack were brought to Montreal, 
where their presence gave countenance to  these fabrications.</p>
</div>

<p>
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_397-V1" id="Page_397-V1">397<br />V1</a></span> 
The success of Bradstreet silenced for a time the enemies of Shirley.
His cares, however, redoubled. He was anxious for Oswego, as the two
prisoners declared that the French meant to attack it, instead of
waiting to be attacked from it. Nor was the news from that quarter
reassuring. The engineer, Mackellar, wrote that the works were incapable
of defence; and Colonel Mercer, the commandant, reported general
discontent in the garrison. <span class="superscript">[409]</span>
Captain John Vicars, an invalid officer
of Shirley's regiment, arrived at Albany with yet more deplorable
accounts. He had passed the winter at Oswego, where he declared the
dearth of food to have been such that several councils of war had been
held on the question of abandoning the place from sheer starvation. More
than half his regiment died of hunger or disease; and, in his own words,
"had the poor fellows lived they must have eaten one another." Some of
the men were lodged in barracks, though without beds, while many lay all
winter in huts on the bare ground. Scurvy and dysentery made frightful
havoc. "In January," says Vicars, "we were informed by the Indians that
we were to be attacked. The garrison was then so weak that the strongest
guard we proposed to mount was a subaltern and twenty men; but we were
seldom able to mount more than sixteen or eighteen, and half of those
were obliged to have sticks in their hands to support them. The men were
so weak that the sentries often fell down on their posts, and lay there
till 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_398-V1" id="Page_398-V1">398<br />V1</a></span> 
the relief came and lifted them up." His own company of fifty was
reduced to ten. The other regiment of the garrison, Pepperell's, or the
fifty-first, was quartered at Fort Ontario, on the other side of the
river; and being better sheltered, suffered less.</p>

<div class="footer">
    <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_409" name="footer_409"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[409]</span>
<i>Mackellar to Shirley, June</i>, 1756. 
<i>Mercer to Shirley</i>, 2 <i>July</i>, 1756.</p>
</div>

<p>The account given by Vicars of the state of the defences was scarcely
more flattering. He reported that the principal fort had no cannon on
the side most exposed to attack. Two pieces had been mounted on the
trading-house in the centre; but as the concussion shook down stones
from the wall whenever they were fired, they had since been removed. The
second work, called Fort Ontario, he had not seen since it was finished,
having been too ill to cross the river. Of the third, called New Oswego,
or "Fort Rascal," he testifies thus: "It never was finished, and there
were no loopholes in the stockades; so that they could not fire out of
the fort but by opening the gate and firing out of that."
<span class="superscript">[410]</span></p>

<div class="footer">
    <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_410" name="footer_410"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[410]</span>
<i>Information of Captain John Vicars, of the Fiftieth (Shirley's) 
Regiment,</i> enclosed with a despatch of Lord Loudon. Vicars was a 
veteran British officer who left Oswego with Bradstreet on the
third of July. <i>Shirley to Loudon</i>, 5 <i>Sept</i>. 1756.</p>
</div>

<p>Through the spring and early summer Shirley was gathering recruits,
often of the meanest quality, and sending them to Oswego to fill out the
two emaciated regiments. The place must be defended at any cost. Its
fall would ruin not only the enterprise against Niagara and Frontenac,
but also that against Ticonderoga and Crown Point; since, having nothing
more to fear on Lake 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_399-V1" id="Page_399-V1">399<br />V1</a></span> 
Ontario, the French could unite their whole force
on Lake Champlain, whether for defence or attack.</p>

<p>Towards the end of June Abercromby and Webb arrived at Albany, bringing
a reinforcement of nine hundred regulars, consisting of Otway's
regiment, or a part of it, and a body of Highlanders. Shirley resigned
his command, and Abercromby requested him to go to New York, wait there
till Lord Loudon arrived, and lay before him the state of affairs.
<span class="superscript">[411]</span>
Shirley waited till the twenty-third of July, when the Earl at length
appeared. He was a rough Scotch lord, hot and irascible; and the
communications of his predecessor, made, no doubt, in a manner somewhat
pompous and self-satisfied, did not please him. "I got from
Major-General Shirley," he says, "a few papers of very little use; only
he insinuated to me that I would find everything prepared, and have
nothing to do but to pull laurels; which I understand was his constant
conversation before my arrival."
<span class="superscript">[412]</span></p>

<div class="footer">
    <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_411" name="footer_411"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[411]</span>
<i>Shirley to Fox</i>, 4 <i>July</i>, 1756.</p>
    <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_412" name="footer_412"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[412]</span>
<i>Loudon (to Fox?)</i>, 19 <i>Aug</i>. 1756.</p>
</div>

<p>Loudon sailed up the Hudson in no placid mood. On reaching Albany he
abandoned the attempt against Niagara and Frontenac; and had resolved to
turn his whole force against Ticonderoga, when he was met by an obstacle
that both perplexed and angered him. By a royal order lately issued,
all general and field officers with provincial commissions were to take
rank only as eldest 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_400-V1" id="Page_400-V1">400<br />V1</a></span> 
captains when serving in conjunction with regular troops. 
<span class="superscript">[413]</span> Hence the whole provincial 
army, as Winslow observes, might be put under the command of any 
British major. <span class="superscript">[414]</span> The announcement 
of this regulation naturally caused great discontent. The New England
officers held a meeting, and voted with one voice that in their belief
its enforcement would break up the provincial army and prevent the
raising of another. Loudon, hearing of this, desired Winslow to meet him
at Albany for a conference on the subject. Thither Winslow went with
some of his chief officers. The Earl asked them to dinner, and there was
much talk, with no satisfactory result; whereupon, somewhat chafed, he
required Winslow to answer in writing, yes or no, whether the provincial
officers would obey the commander-in-chief and act in conjunction with
the regulars. Thus forced to choose between acquiescence and flat
mutiny, they declared their submission to his orders, at the same time
asking as a favor that they might be allowed to act independently; to
which Loudon gave for the present an unwilling assent. Shirley, who, in
spite of his removal from command, had the good of the service deeply at
heart, was much troubled at this affair, and wrote strong letters to
Winslow in the interest of harmony.
<span class="superscript">[415]</span></p>

<div class="footer">
    <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_413" name="footer_413"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[413]</span>
<i>Order concerning the Rank of Provincial General and Field Officers in 
North America. Given at our Court at Kensington</i>, 12 <i>May</i>, 1756.</p>
    <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_414" name="footer_414"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[414]</span>
<i>Winslow to Shirley</i>, 21 <i>Aug</i>. 1756.</p>
    <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_415" name="footer_415"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[415]</span>
<i>Correspondence of Loudon, Abercromby, and Shirley, July, Aug</i>. 1756. 
<i>Record of Meeting of Provincial Officers, July</i>, 1756. 
<i>Letter and Order Books of Winslow.</i></p>
</div>

<p>
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_401-V1" id="Page_401-V1">401<br />V1</a></span> 
Loudon next proceeded to examine the state of the provincial forces, and
sent Lieutenant-Colonel Burton, of the regulars, to observe and report
upon it. Winslow by this time had made a forward movement, and was now
at Lake George with nearly half his command, while the rest were at Fort
Edward under Lyman, or in detachments at Saratoga and the other small
posts below. Burton found Winslow's men encamped with their right on
what are now the grounds of Fort William Henry Hotel, and their left
extending southward between the mountain in their front and the marsh in
their rear. "There are here," he reports, "about twenty-five hundred
men, five hundred of them sick, the greatest part of them what they
call poorly; they bury from five to eight daily, and officers in
proportion; extremely indolent, and dirty to a degree." Then, in
vernacular English, he describes the infectious condition of the fort,
which was full of the sick. "Their camp," he proceeds, "is nastier than
anything I could conceive; their&mdash;&mdash;, kitchens, graves, and places for
slaughtering cattle all mixed through their encampment; a great waste of
provisions, the men having just what they please; no great command kept
up. Colonel Gridley governs the general; not in the least alert; only
one advanced guard of a subaltern and twenty-four men. The cannon and
stores in great confusion." Of the camp at Fort Edward he gives a better
account. "It is much cleaner than at Fort William Henry, but not
sufficiently so to 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_402-V1" id="Page_402-V1">402<br />V1</a></span> 
keep the men healthy; a much better command kept up
here. General Lyman very ready to order out to work and to assist the
engineers with any number of men they require, and keeps a succession of
scouting-parties out towards Wood Creek and South Bay."
<span class="superscript">[416]</span></p>

<div class="footer">
    <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_416" name="footer_416"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[416]</span>
<i>Burton to Loudon</i>, 27 <i>Aug</i>. 1756.</p>
</div>

<p>The prejudice of the regular officer may have colored the picture, but
it is certain that the sanitary condition of the provincial camps was
extremely bad. "A grievous sickness among the troops," writes a
Massachusetts surgeon at Fort Edward; "we bury five or six a day. Not
more than two thirds of our army fit for duty. Long encampments are the
bane of New England men." <span class="superscript">[417]</span>
Like all raw recruits, they did not know
how to take care of themselves; and their officers had not the
experience, knowledge, or habit of command to enforce sanitary rules.
The same evils were found among the Canadians when kept long in one
place. Those in the camp of Villiers are reported at this time as nearly
all sick. <span class="superscript">[418]</span></p>

<div class="footer">
    <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_417" name="footer_417"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[417]</span>
<i>Dr. Thomas Williams to Colonel Israel Williams</i>, 28 <i>Aug</i>. 
1756.</p>
    <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_418" name="footer_418"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[418]</span>
Bougainville, <i>Journal</i>.</p>
</div>

<p>Another penman, very different from the military critic, was also on the
spot, noting down every day what he saw and felt. This was John Graham,
minister of Suffield, in Connecticut, and now chaplain of Lyman's
regiment. His spirit, by nature far from buoyant, was depressed by
bodily ailments, and still more by the extremely 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_403-V1" id="Page_403-V1">403<br />V1</a></span> 
secular character of
his present surroundings. It appears by his Diary that he left home
"under great exercise of mind," and was detained at Albany for a time,
being, as he says, taken with an ague-fit and a quinsy; but at length he
reached the camp at Fort Edward, where deep despondency fell upon him.
"Labor under great discouragements," says the Diary, under date of July
twenty-eighth; "for find my business but mean in the esteem of many, and
think there's not much for a chaplain to do." Again, Tuesday, August
seventeenth: "Breakfasted this morning with the General. But a graceless
meal; never a blessing asked, nor thanks given. At the evening sacrifice
a more open scene of wickedness. The General and head officers, with
some of the regular officers, in General Lyman's tent, within four rods
of the place of public prayers. None came to prayers; but they fixed a
table without the door of the tent, where a head colonel was posted to
make punch in the sight of all, they within drinking, talking, and
laughing during the whole of the service, to the disturbance and
disaffection of most present. This was not only a bare neglect, but an
open contempt, of the worship of God by the heads of this army. 'Twas
but last Sabbath that General Lyman spent the time of divine service in
the afternoon in his tent, drinking in company with Mr. Gordon, a
regular officer. I have oft heard cursing and swearing in his presence
by some provincial field-officers, but never heard a reproof nor so much
as a check to them come from his 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_404-V1" id="Page_404-V1">404<br />V1</a></span> 
mouth, though he never uses such
language himself. Lord, what is man! Truly, the May-game of Fortune!
Lord, make me know my duty, and what I ought to do!"</p>

<p>That night his sleep was broken and his soul troubled by angry voices
under his window, where one Colonel Glasier was berating, in unhallowed
language, the captain of the guard; and here the chaplain's Journal
abruptly ends. <span class="superscript">[419]</span></p>

<div class="footer">
    <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_419" name="footer_419"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[419]</span>
I owe to my friend George S. Hale, Esq., the opportunity of examining the 
autograph Journal; it has since been printed in the <i>Magazine of 
American History</i> for March, 1882.</p>
</div>

<p>A brother minister, bearing no likeness to the worthy Graham, appeared
on the same spot some time after. This was Chaplain William Crawford, of
Worcester, who, having neglected to bring money to the war, suffered
much annoyance, aggravated by what he thought a want of due
consideration for his person and office. His indignation finds vent in a
letter to his townsman, Timothy Paine, member of the General Court: "No
man can reasonably expect that I can with any propriety discharge the
duty of a chaplain when I have nothing either to eat or drink, nor any
conveniency to write a line other than to sit down upon a stump and put
a piece of paper upon my knee. As for Mr. Weld [<i>another chaplain</i>], he
is easy and silent whatever treatment he meets with, and I suppose they
thought to find me the same easy and ductile person; but may the wide
yawning earth devour me first! The state of the camp is just such as one
at 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_405-V1" id="Page_405-V1">405<br />V1</a></span> 
home would guess it to be,&mdash;nothing but a hurry and confusion of vice
and wickedness, with a stygian atmosphere to breathe in."
<span class="superscript">[420]</span> The vice and wickedness of which 
he complains appear to have consisted in a frequent infraction of the 
standing order against "Curseing and Swareing," as well as of that which 
required attendance on daily prayers, and enjoined "the people to appear in 
a decent manner, clean and shaved," at the two Sunday sermons. 
<span class="superscript">[421]</span>
</p>

<div class="footer">
    <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_420" name="footer_420"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[420]</span>
The autograph letter is in Massachusetts Archives, LVI. no. 142. The same 
volume contains a letter from Colonel Frye, of Massachusetts, in which he 
speaks of the forlorn condition in which Chaplain Weld reached the camp. Of 
Chaplain Crawford, he says that he came decently clothed, but without bed or 
blanket, till he, Frye, lent them to him, and got Captain Learned to take him 
into his tent. Chaplains usually had a separate tent, or shared that of the 
colonel.</p>
   <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_421" name="footer_421"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[421]</span>
<i>Letter and Order Books of Winslow</i>.</p>
</div>
<p>At the beginning of August Winslow wrote to the committees of the
several provinces: "It looks as if it won't be long before we are fit
for a remove,"&mdash;that is, for an advance on Ticonderoga. On the twelfth
Loudon sent Webb with the forty-fourth regiment and some of Bradstreet's
boatmen to reinforce Oswego. <span class="superscript">[422]</span>
They had been ready for a month; but confusion and misunderstanding arising 
from the change of command had prevented their departure. 
<span class="superscript">[423]</span> Yet the utmost anxiety had prevailed 
for the safety of that important post, and on the twenty-eighth Surgeon
Thomas Williams wrote: "Whether Oswego is yet ours is uncertain. Would
hope it is, as the 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_406-V1" id="Page_406-V1">406<br />V1</a></span> 
reverse would be such a terrible shock as the country
never felt, and may be a sad omen of what is coming upon poor sinful New
England. Indeed we can't expect anything but to be severely chastened
till we are humbled for our pride and haughtiness."
<span class="superscript">[424]</span></p>

<div class="footer">
    <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_422" name="footer_422"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[422]</span>
<i>Loudon (to Fox?)</i>, 19 <i>Aug.</i> 1756.</p>
    <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_423" name="footer_423"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[423]</span>
<i>Conduct of Major-General Shirley briefly stated. Shirley to Loudon</i>, 
4 <i>Sept.</i> 1756. <i>Shirley to Fox</i>, 16 <i>Sept.</i> 1756.</p>
   <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_424" name="footer_424"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[424]</span>
<i>Thomas Williams to Colonel Israel Williams</i>, 28 <i>Aug.</i> 1756.</p>
</div>

<p>His foreboding proved true. Webb had scarcely reached the Great Carrying
Place, when tidings of disaster fell upon him like a thunderbolt. The
French had descended in force upon Oswego, taken it with all its
garrison; and, as report ran, were advancing into the province, six
thousand strong. Wood Creek had just been cleared, with great labor, of
the trees that choked it. Webb ordered others to be felled and thrown
into the stream to stop the progress of the enemy; then, with shameful
precipitation, he burned the forts of the Carrying Place, and retreated
down the Mohawk to German Flats. Loudon ordered Winslow to think no more
of Ticonderoga, but to stay where he was and hold the French in check.
All was astonishment and dismay at the sudden blow. "Oswego has changed
masters, and I think we may justly fear that the whole of our country
will soon follow, unless a merciful God prevent, and awake a sinful
people to repentance and reformation." Thus wrote Dr. Thomas Williams to
his wife from the camp at Fort Edward. "Such a shocking affair has never
found a place in English annals," wrote the surgeon's young relative,
Colonel William Williams. "The loss 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_407-V1" id="Page_407-V1">407<br />V1</a></span> 
is beyond account; but the dishonor done His Majesty's arms is infinitely 
greater." <span class="superscript">[425]</span> It remains to see
how the catastrophe befell.</p>


<div class="footer">
    <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_425" name="footer_425"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[425]</span>
<i>Colonel William Williams to Colonel Israel Williams</i>, 
30 <i>Aug.</i> 1756.</p>
</div>

<p>Since Vaudreuil became chief of the colony he had nursed the plan of
seizing Oswego, yet hesitated to attempt it. Montcalm declares that he
confirmed the Governor's wavering purpose; but Montcalm himself had
hesitated. In July, however, there came exaggerated reports that the
English were moving upon Ticonderoga in greatly increased numbers; and
both Vaudreuil and the General conceived that a feint against Oswego
would draw off the strength of the assailants, and, if promptly and
secretly executed, might even be turned successfully into a real attack.
Vaudreuil thereupon recalled Montcalm from Ticonderoga.
<span class="superscript">[426]</span> Leaving the
post in the keeping of L&eacute;vis and three thousand men, he embarked on Lake
Champlain, rowed day and night, and reached Montreal on the nineteenth.
Troops were arriving from Quebec, and Indians from the far west. A band
of Menomonies from beyond Lake Michigan, naked, painted, plumed,
greased, stamping, uttering sharp yelps, shaking feathered lances,
brandishing tomahawks, danced the war-dance before the Governor, to the
thumping of the Indian drum. Bougainville looked on astonished, and
thought of the Pyrrhic dance of the Greeks.</p>

<div class="footer">
    <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_426" name="footer_426"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[426]</span>
<i>Vaudreuil au Ministre</i>, 12 <i>Ao&ucirc;t</i>, 1756. 
<i>Montcalm &agrave; sa Femme</i>, 20 <i>Juillet</i>, 1756.</p>
</div>

<p>Montcalm and he left Montreal on the twenty-first, and reached Fort
Frontenac in eight days. 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_408-V1" id="Page_408-V1">408<br />V1</a></span> 
Rigaud, brother of the Governor, had gone
thither some time before, and crossed with seven hundred Canadians to
the south side of the lake, where Villiers was encamped at Niaour&eacute; Bay,
now Sackett's Harbor, with such of his detachment as war and disease had
spared. Rigaud relieved him, and took command of the united bands. With
their aid the engineer, Descombles, reconnoitred the English forts, and
came back with the report that success was certain.
<span class="superscript">[427]</span> It was but a
confirmation of what had already been learned from deserters and
prisoners, who declared that the main fort was but a loopholed wall held
by six or seven hundred men, ill fed, discontented, and mutinous.
<span class="superscript">[428]</span>
Others said that they had been driven to desert by the want of good
food, and that within a year twelve hundred men had died of disease at
Oswego. <span class="superscript">[429]</span></p>

<div class="footer">
    <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_427" name="footer_427"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[427]</span>
<i>Vaudreuil au Ministre</i>, 4 <i>Ao&ucirc;t</i>, 1756. 
<i>Vaudreuil &agrave; Bourlamaque,&mdash;Juin</i>, 1756.</p>
    <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_428" name="footer_428"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[428]</span>
Bougainville, <i>Journal</i>.</p>
   <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_429" name="footer_429"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[429]</span>
<i>Vaudreuil au Ministre</i>, 10 <i>Juillet</i>, 1756. 
<i>R&eacute;sum&eacute; des Nouvelles du Canada, Sept. 1756</i>.</p>
</div>

<p>The battalions of La Sarre, Guienne, and B&eacute;arn, with the colony
regulars, a body of Canadians, and about two hundred and fifty Indians,
were destined for the enterprise. The whole force was a little above
three thousand, abundantly supplied with artillery. La Sarre and Guienne
were already at Fort Frontenac. B&eacute;arn was at Niagara, whence it arrived
in a few days, much buffeted by the storms of Lake Ontario. On the
fourth of August all was ready. Montcalm embarked at night with 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_409-V1" id="Page_409-V1">409<br />V1</a></span> 
the first division, crossed in darkness to Wolf Island, lay there hidden all
day, and embarking again in the evening, joined Rigaud at Niaour&eacute; Bay at
seven o'clock in the morning of the sixth. The second division followed,
with provisions, hospital train, and eighty artillery boats; and on the
eighth all were united at the bay. On the ninth Rigaud, covered by the
universal forest, marched in advance to protect the landing of the
troops. Montcalm followed with the first division; and, coasting the
shore in bateaux, landed at midnight of the tenth within half a league
of the first English fort. Four cannon were planted in battery upon the
strand, and the men bivouacked by their boats. So skilful were the
assailants and so careless the assailed that the English knew nothing of
their danger, till in the morning, a reconnoitring canoe discovered the
invaders. Two armed vessels soon came to cannonade them; but their light
guns were no match for the heavy artillery of the French, and they were
forced to keep the offing.</p>

<p>Descombles, the engineer, went before dawn to reconnoitre the fort, with
several other officers and a party of Indians. While he was thus
employed, one of these savages, hungry for scalps, took him in the gloom
for an Englishman, and shot him dead. Captain Pouchot, of the battalion
of B&eacute;arn, replaced him; and the attack was pushed vigorously. The
Canadians and Indians, swarming through the forest, fired all day on the
fort under cover of the trees. The second division 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_410-V1" id="Page_410-V1">410<br />V1</a></span> 
came up with
twenty-two more cannon; and at night the first parallel was marked out
at a hundred and eighty yards from the rampart. Stumps were grubbed up,
fallen trunks shoved aside, and a trench dug, sheltered by fascines,
gabions, and a strong abattis.</p>

<p>Fort Ontario, counted as the best of the three forts at Oswego, stood on
a high plateau at the east or right side of the river where it entered
the lake. It was in the shape of a star, and was formed of trunks of
trees set upright in the ground, hewn flat on two sides, and closely
fitted together,&mdash;an excellent defence against musketry or swivels, but
worthless against cannon. The garrison, three hundred and seventy in
all, were the remnant of Pepperell's regiment, joined to raw recruits
lately sent up to fill the places of the sick and dead. They had eight
small cannon and a mortar, with which on the next day, Friday, the
thirteenth, they kept up a brisk fire till towards night; when, after
growing more rapid for a time, it ceased, and the fort showed no sign of
life. Not a cannon had yet opened on them from the trenches; but it was
certain that with the French artillery once in action, their wooden
rampart would be shivered to splinters. Hence it was that Colonel
Mercer, commandant at Oswego, thinking it better to lose the fort than
to lose both fort and garrison, signalled to them from across the river
to abandon their position and join him on the other side. Boats were
sent to bring them off; and they passed over unmolested, after 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_411-V1" id="Page_411-V1">411<br />V1</a></span> 
spiking their cannon and firing off their ammunition or throwing it into the
well.</p>

<p>The fate of Oswego was now sealed. The principal work, called Old
Oswego, or Fort Pepperell, stood at the mouth of the river on the west
side, nearly opposite Fort Ontario, and less than five hundred yards
distant from it. The trading-house, which formed the centre of the
place, was built of rough stone laid in clay, and the wall which
enclosed it was of the same materials; both would crumble in an instant
at the touch of a twelve-pound shot. Towards the west and south they had
been protected by an outer line of earthworks, mounted with cannon, and
forming an entrenched camp; while the side towards Fort Ontario was left
wholly exposed, in the rash confidence that this work, standing on the
opposite heights, would guard against attack from that quarter. On a
hill, a fourth of a mile beyond Old Oswego, stood the unfinished
stockade called New Oswego, Fort George, or, by reason of its
worthlessness, Fort Rascal. It had served as a cattle pen before the
French appeared, but was now occupied by a hundred and fifty Jersey
provincials. Old Oswego with its outwork was held by Shirley's regiment,
chiefly invalids and raw recruits, to whom were now joined the garrison
of Fort Ontario and a number of sailors, boatmen, and laborers.</p>

<p>Montcalm lost no time. As soon as darkness set in he began a battery at
the brink of the height on which stood the captured fort. His whole
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_412-V1" id="Page_412-V1">412<br />V1</a></span> 
force toiled all night, digging, setting gabions, and dragging up
cannon, some of which had been taken from Braddock. Before daybreak
twenty heavy pieces had been brought to the spot, and nine were already
in position. The work had been so rapid that the English imagined their
enemies to number six thousand at least. The battery soon opened fire.
Grape and round shot swept the intrenchment and crashed through the
rotten masonry. The English, says a French officer, "were exposed to
their shoe-buckles." Their artillery was pointed the wrong way, in
expectation of an attack, not from the east, but from the west. They now
made a shelter of pork-barrels, three high and three deep, planted
cannon behind them, and returned the French fire with some effect.</p>

<p>Early in the morning Montcalm had ordered Rigaud to cross the river with
the Canadians and Indians. There was a ford three quarters of a league
above the forts; <span class="superscript">[430]</span>
and here they passed over unopposed, the English
not having discovered the movement. <span class="superscript">[431]</span>
The only danger was from the
river. Some of the men were forced to swim, others waded to the waist,
others to the neck; but they all crossed safely, and presently showed
themselves at the edge of the woods, yelling and firing their guns, too
far for much execution, but not too far to discourage the garrison.</p>

<div class="footer">
    <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_430" name="footer_430"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[430]</span>
Bougainville, <i>Journal</i>.</p>
    <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_431" name="footer_431"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[431]</span>
Pouchot, I. 76.</p>
</div>

<p>The garrison were already disheartened. Colonel Mercer, the soul of the
defence, had just been cut in 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_413-V1" id="Page_413-V1">413<br />V1</a></span> 
two by a cannon-shot while directing the
gunners. Up to this time the defenders had behaved with spirit; but
despair now seized them, increased by the screams and entreaties of the
women, of whom there were more than a hundred in the place. There was a
council of officers, and then the white flag was raised. Bougainville
went to propose terms of capitulation. "The cries, threats, and hideous
howling of our Canadians and Indians," says Vaudreuil, "made them
quickly decide." "This," observes the Reverend Father Claude Godefroy
Cocquard, "reminds me of the fall of Jericho before the shouts of the
Israelites." The English surrendered prisoners of war, to the number,
according to the Governor, of sixteen hundred,
<span class="superscript">[432]</span> which included the
sailors, laborers, and women. The Canadians and Indians broke through
all restraint, and fell to plundering. There was an opening of
rum-barrels and a scene of drunkenness, in which some of the prisoners
had their share; while others tried to escape in the confusion, and were
tomahawked by the excited savages. Many more would have been butchered,
but for the efforts of Montcalm, who by unstinted promises succeeded in
appeasing his ferocious 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_414-V1" id="Page_414-V1">414<br />V1</a></span> 
allies, whom he dared not offend. "It will cost
the King," he says, "eight or ten thousand livres in presents."
<span class="superscript">[433]</span></p>

<div class="footer">
    <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_432" name="footer_432"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[432]</span>
<i>Vaudreuil au Ministre</i>, 20 <i>Ao&ucirc;t</i>, 1756. He elsewhere
makes the number somewhat greater. That the garrison, exclusive of
civilians, did not exceed at the utmost fourteen hundred, is shown by
<i>Shirley to Loudon</i>, 5 <i>Sept</i>. 1756. Loudon had charged Shirley with
leaving Oswego weakly garrisoned; and Shirley replies by alleging that
the troops there were in the number as above. It was of course his
interest to make them appear as numerous as possible. In the printed
<i>Conduct of Major-General Shirley briefly stated</i>, they are put at only
ten hundred and fifty.</p>
    <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_433" name="footer_433"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[433]</span>
Several English writers say, however, that fifteen or
twenty young men were given up to the Indians to be adopted in place of
warriors lately killed.</p>
</div>

<p>The loss on both sides is variously given. By the most trustworthy
accounts, that of the English did not reach fifty killed, and that of
the French was still less. In the forts and vessels were found above a
hundred pieces of artillery, most of them swivels and other light guns,
with a large quantity of powder, shot, and shell. The victors burned the
forts and the vessels on the stocks, destroyed such provisions and
stores as they could not carry away, and made the place a desert. The
priest Piquet, who had joined the expedition, planted amid the ruin a
tall cross, graven with the words, <i>In hoc signo vincunt</i>; and near it
was set a pole bearing the arms of France, with the inscription,
<i>Manibus date lilia plenis</i>. Then the army decamped, loaded with
prisoners and spoil, descended to Montreal, hung the captured flags in
the churches, and sang Te Deum in honor of their triumph.</p>

<p>It was the greatest that the French arms had yet achieved in America.
The defeat of Braddock was an Indian victory; this last exploit was the
result of bold enterprise and skilful tactics. With its laurels came its
fruits. Hated Oswego had been laid in ashes, and the would-be 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_415-V1" id="Page_415-V1">415<br />V1</a></span> 
assailants
forced to a vain and hopeless defence. France had conquered the
undisputed command of Lake Ontario, and her communications with the West
were safe. A small garrison at Niagara and another at Frontenac would
now hold those posts against any effort that the English could make this
year; and the whole French force could concentrate at Ticonderoga, repel
the threatened attack, and perhaps retort it by seizing Albany. If the
English, on the other side, had lost a great material advantage, they
had lost no less in honor. The news of the surrender was received with
indignation in England and in the colonies. Yet the behaviour of the
garrison was not so discreditable as it seemed. The position was
indefensible, and they could have held out at best but a few days more.
They yielded too soon; but unless Webb had come to their aid, which was
not to be expected, they must have yielded at last.</p>

<p>The French had scarcely gone, when two English scouts, Thomas Harris and
James Conner, came with a party of Indians to the scene of desolation.
The ground was strewn with broken casks and bread sodden with rain. The
remains of burnt bateaux and whaleboats were scattered along the shore.
The great stone trading-house in the old fort was a smoking ruin; Fort
Rascal was still burning on the neighboring hill; Fort Ontario was a
mass of ashes and charred logs, and by it stood two poles on which 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_416-V1" id="Page_416-V1">416<br />V1</a></span> 
were written words which the visitors did not understand. They went back to
Fort Johnson with their story; and Oswego reverted for a time to the
bears, foxes, and wolves. <span class="superscript">[434]</span></p>

<div class="footer">
    <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_434" name="footer_434"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[434]</span>
On the capture of Oswego, the authorities examined have been very numerous, 
and only the best need be named. <i>Livre d'Ordres, Campagne de 1756</i>, 
contains all orders from headquarters. <i>M&eacute;moire pour servir 
d'Instruction &agrave; M. le Marquis de Montcalm</i>, 21 <i>Juillet</i>; 
1756, <i>sign&eacute; Vaudreuil</i>. 
Bougainville, <i>Journal. 
Vaudreuil au Ministre</i>, 15 <i>Juin</i>, 1756 (designs against Oswego). 
<i>Ibid</i>., 13 <i>Ao&ucirc;t</i>, 1755. 
<i>Ibid</i>., 30 <i>Ao&ucirc;t</i>. 
Pouchot, I. 67-81. <i>Relation de la Prise des Forts de Chouaguen.
Bigot au Ministre</i>, 3 <i>Sept</i>. 1756 
<i>Journal du Si&eacute;ge de Chouaguen.  
Pr&eacute;cis des &Eacute;v&eacute;nements</i>, 1756. 
<i>Montcalm au Ministre</i>, 20 <i>Juillet</i>, 1756. 
<i>Ibid</i>., 28 <i>Ao&ucirc;t</i>, 1756. 
Desandrouins &agrave;&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;, m&ecirc;me date. 
Montcalm &agrave; sa Femme, 30 <i>Ao&ucirc;t</i>. 
Translations of several of the above papers, along with others
less important, will be found in <i>N.&nbsp;Y. Col. Docs.</i>, X., 
and <i>Doc. Hist. N.&nbsp;Y.</i>, I.</p>

<p>
<i>State of Facts relating to the Loss of Oswego</i>, in <i>London Magazine</i>
for 1757, p. 14. <i>Correspondence of Shirley. Correspondence of Loudon.
Littlehales to Loudon</i>, 30 <i>Aug.</i> 1756. 
<i>Hardy to Lords of Trade</i>, 5 <i>Sept</i>. 1756. 
<i>Conduct of Major-General Shirley briefly stated. 
Declaration of some Soldiers of Shirley's Regiment</i>, 
in <i>N.&nbsp;Y. Col. Docs.</i>, VII. 126.
Letter from an officer present, in <i>Boston Evening Post</i> 
of 16 <i>May</i>, 1757. The published plans and drawings of 
Oswego at this time are very inexact.</p>
</div>

<hr />

<div class="chapterhead">
   <br /><a name="Chapter_13" id="Chapter_13"></a>
	 <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_417-V1" id="Page_417-V1">417<br />V1</a></span> 
	 <br /><br /><br />
	 <h2><a href="#Contents13">CHAPTER XIII.</a><br />
	 <span class="med">1756, 1757.</span>
	 </h2> 
	 <p class="smcapheader">PARTISAN WAR.</p>
	 <p class="smcap noindent space-bottom">
	    Failure of Shirley's Plan &bull; Causes &bull; 
			Loudon and Shirley &bull; Close of the Campaign &bull;
			The Western Border &bull; Armstrong destroys Kittanning &bull;
			The Scouts of Lake George &bull; War Parties from Ticonderoga &bull;
			Robert Rogers &bull; The Rangers &bull; Their Hardihood and Daring &bull;
			Disputes as to Quarters of Troops &bull; Expedition of Rogers &bull;
			A Desperate Bush-fight &bull; Enterprise of Vaudreuil &bull;
			Rigaud attacks Fort William Henry.
      </p> 				
	 <p class="break1"></p> 
</div> 

<p class="double-space-top">
<span class="smcap">Shirley's</span> 
grand scheme for cutting New France in twain had come to
wreck. There was an element of boyishness in him. He made bold plans
without weighing too closely his means of executing them. The year's
campaign would in all likelihood have succeeded if he could have acted
promptly; if he had had ready to his hand a well-trained and
well-officered force, furnished with material of war and means of
transportation, and prepared to move as soon as the streams and lakes of
New York were open, while those of Canada were still sealed with ice.
But timely action was out of his power. The army that should have moved
in April was not ready to move till August. Of the nine discordant
semi-republics whom he asked to join in the work, three or four refused,
some of the others were lukewarm, and all were 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_418-V1" id="Page_418-V1">418<br />V1</a></span> 
slow. Even Massachusetts,
usually the foremost, failed to get all her men into the field till the
season was nearly ended. Having no military establishment, the colonies
were forced to improvise a new army for every campaign. Each of them
watched its neighbors, or, jealous lest it should do more than its just
share, waited for them to begin. Each popular assembly acted under the
eye of a frugal constituency, who, having little money, were as chary of
it as their descendants are lavish; and most of them were shaken by
internal conflicts, more absorbing than the great question on which hung
the fate of the continent. Only the four New England colonies were fully
earnest for the war, and one, even of these, was ready to use the crisis
as a means of extorting concessions from its Governor in return for
grants of money and men. When the lagging contingents came together at
last, under a commander whom none of them trusted, they were met by
strategical difficulties which would have perplexed older soldiers and
an abler general; for they were forced to act on the circumference of a
vast semicircle, in a labyrinth of forests, without roads, and choked
with every kind of obstruction.</p>

<p>Opposed to them was a trained army, well organized and commanded,
focused at Montreal, and moving for attack or defence on two radiating
lines,&mdash;one towards Lake Ontario, and the other towards Lake
Champlain,&mdash;supported by a martial peasantry, supplied from France with
money and 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_419-V1" id="Page_419-V1">419<br />V1</a></span> 
material, dependent on no popular vote, having no will but
that of its chief, and ready on the instant to strike to right or left
as the need required. It was a compact military absolutism confronting a
heterogeneous group of industrial democracies, where the force of
numbers was neutralized by diffusion and incoherence. A long and dismal
apprenticeship waited them before they could hope for success; nor could
they ever put forth their full strength without a radical change of
political conditions and an awakened consciousness of common interests
and a common cause. It was the sense of powerlessness arising from the
want of union that, after the fall of Oswego, spread alarm through the
northern and middle colonies, and drew these desponding words from
William Livingston, of New Jersey: "The colonies are nearly exhausted,
and their funds already anticipated by expensive unexecuted projects.
Jealous are they of each other; some ill-constituted, others shaken with
intestine divisions, and, if I may be allowed the expression,
parsimonious even to prodigality. Our assemblies are diffident of their
governors, governors despise their assemblies; and both mutually
misrepresent each other to the Court of Great Britain." Military
measures, he proceeds, demand secrecy and despatch; but when so many
divided provinces must agree to join in them, secrecy and despatch are
impossible. In conclusion he exclaims: 
"Canada must be demolished,&mdash;<i>Delenda est Carthago</i>,&mdash;or 
we are undone."
<span class="superscript">[435]</span> But Loudon
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_420-V1" id="Page_420-V1">420<br />V1</a></span> 
was not Scipio, and cis-Atlantic Carthage was to stand for some time
longer.</p>

<div class="footer">
    <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_435" name="footer_435"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[435]</span>
<i>Review of Military Operations</i>, 187, 189 (Dublin, 1757).</p>
</div>

<p>The Earl, in search of a scapegoat for the loss of Oswego, naturally
chose Shirley, attacked him savagely, told him that he was of no use in
America, and ordered him to go home to England without delay.
<span class="superscript">[436]</span>
Shirley, who was then in Boston, answered this indecency with dignity
and effect. <span class="superscript">[437]</span>
The chief fault was with Loudon himself, whose late
arrival in America had caused a change of command and of plans in the
crisis of the campaign. Shirley well knew the weakness of Oswego; and in
early spring had sent two engineers to make it defensible, with
particular instructions to strengthen Fort Ontario.
<span class="superscript">[438]</span> But they,
thinking that the chief danger lay on the west and south, turned all
their attention thither, and neglected Ontario till it was too late.
Shirley was about to reinforce Oswego with a strong body of troops when
the arrival of Abercromby took the control out of his hands and caused
ruinous delay. He cannot, however, be acquitted of mismanagement in
failing to supply the place with wholesome provisions in the preceding
autumn, before the streams were stopped with ice. Hence came the ravages
of disease and famine which, before spring, reduced the garrison to a
hundred and 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_421-V1" id="Page_421-V1">421<br />V1</a></span> 
forty effective men. Yet there can be no doubt that the
change of command was a blunder. This is the view of Franklin, who knew
Shirley well, and thus speaks of him: "He would in my opinion, if
continued in place, have made a much better campaign than that of
Loudon, which was frivolous, expensive, and disgraceful to our nation
beyond conception. For though Shirley was not bred a soldier, he was
sensible and sagacious in himself, and attentive to good advice from
others, capable of forming judicious plans, and quick and active in
carrying them into execution." <span class="superscript">[439]</span> 
He sailed for England in the autumn,
disappointed and poor; the bull-headed Duke of Cumberland had been
deeply prejudiced against him, and it was only after long waiting that
this strenuous champion of British interests was rewarded in his old age
with the petty government of the Bahamas.</p>

<div class="footer">
    <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_436" name="footer_436"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[436]</span>
<i>Loudon to Shirley</i>, 6 <i>Sept</i>. 1756.</p>
    <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_437" name="footer_437"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[437]</span>
The correspondence on both sides is before me, copied from the originals 
in the Public Record Office.</p>
   <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_438" name="footer_438"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[438]</span>
"The principal thing for which I sent Mr. Mackellar to Oswego was to 
strengthen Fort Ontario as much as he possibly could."
<i>Shirley to Loudon</i>, 4 <i>Sept</i>. 1756.</p>
   <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_439" name="footer_439"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[439]</span>
<i>Works of Franklin</i>, I. 220.</p>
</div>

<p>Loudon had now about ten thousand men at his command, though not all fit
for duty. They were posted from Albany to Lake George. The Earl himself
was at Fort Edward, while about three thousand of the provincials still
lay, under Winslow, at the lake. Montcalm faced them at Ticonderoga,
with five thousand three hundred regulars and Canadians, in a position
where they could defy three times their number.
<span class="superscript">[440]</span> "The sons of Belial
are too strong for me," jocosely wrote 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_422-V1" id="Page_422-V1">422<br />V1</a></span> 
Winslow; <span class="superscript">[441]</span> and he set himself
to intrenching his camp; then had the forest cut down for the space of a
mile from the lake to the mountains, so that the trees, lying in what he
calls a "promiscuous manner," formed an almost impenetrable abatis. An
escaped prisoner told him that the French were coming to visit him with
fourteen thousand men; <span class="superscript">[442]</span>
but Montcalm thought no more of stirring
than Loudon himself; and each stood watching the other, with the lake
between them, till the season closed.</p>

<div class="footer">
    <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_440" name="footer_440"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[440]</span>
"Nous sommes tant &agrave; Carillon qu'aux postes avanc&eacute;s 5,300
hommes." Bougainville, <i>Journal</i>.</p>
   <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_441" name="footer_441"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[441]</span>
<i>Winslow to Loudon</i>, 29 <i>Sept</i>. 1756.</p>
   <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_442" name="footer_442"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[442]</span>
<i>Examination of Sergeant James Archibald</i>.</p>
</div>

<p>Meanwhile the western borders were still ravaged by the tomahawk. New
York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Virginia all writhed under
the infliction. Each had made a chain of blockhouses and wooden forts to
cover its frontier, and manned them with disorderly bands, lawless, and
almost beyond control. <span class="superscript">[443]</span> The case was 
at the worst in Pennsylvania,
where the tedious quarrelling of Governor and Assembly, joined to the
doggedly pacific attitude of the Quakers, made vigorous defence
impossible. Rewards were offered for prisoners and scalps, so bountiful
that the hunting of men would have been a profitable vocation, but for
the extreme wariness and agility of the game.
<span class="superscript">[444]</span> Some of the forts
were well built stockades; others were almost worthless; but the 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_423-V1" id="Page_423-V1">423<br />V1</a></span> 
enemy
rarely molested even the feeblest of them, preferring to ravage the
lonely and unprotected farms. There were two or three exceptions. A
Virginian fort was attacked by a war-party under an officer named
Douville, who was killed, and his followers were put to flight.
<span class="superscript">[445]</span> The
assailants were more fortunate at a small stockade called Fort
Granville, on the Juniata. A large body of French and Indians attacked
it in August while most of the garrison were absent protecting the
farmers at their harvest; they set it on fire, and, in spite of a most
gallant resistance by the young lieutenant left in command, took it, and
killed all but one of the defenders. <span class="superscript">[446]</span></p>

<div class="footer">
    <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_443" name="footer_443"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[443]</span>
In the Public Record Office, <i>America and West Indies</i>,
LXXXII., is a manuscript map showing the positions of such of these
posts as were north of Virginia. They are thirty-five in number, from
the head of James River to a point west of Esopus, on the Hudson.</p>
   <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_444" name="footer_444"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[444]</span>
<i>Colonial Records of Pa.</i>, VII. 76.</p>
   <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_445" name="footer_445"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[445]</span>
<i>Washington to Morris</i>,&mdash;<i>April</i>, 1756</p>
   <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_446" name="footer_446"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[446]</span>
<i>Colonial Records of Pa.</i>, VII. 232, 242; 
<i>Pennsylvania Archives</i>, II. 744.</p>
</div>

<p>What sort of resistance the Pennsylvanian borderers would have made
under political circumstances less adverse may be inferred from an
exploit of Colonel John Armstrong, a settler of Cumberland. After the
loss of Fort Granville the Governor of the province sent him with three
hundred men to attack the Delaware town of Kittanning, a populous nest
of savages on the Alleghany, between the two French posts of Duquesne
and Venango. Here most of the war-parties were fitted out, and the place
was full of stores and munitions furnished by the French. Here, too,
lived the redoubted chief called Captain Jacobs, the terror of the
English border. Armstrong set out from Fort Shirley, the farthest
outpost, on the last of August, and, a week after, was within 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_424-V1" id="Page_424-V1">424<br />V1</a></span> 
six miles
of the Indian town. By rapid marching and rare good luck, his party had
escaped discovery. It was ten o'clock at night, with a bright moon. The
guides were perplexed, and knew neither the exact position of the place
nor the paths that led to it. The adventurers threaded the forest in
single file, over hills and through hollows, bewildered and anxious,
stopping to watch and listen. At length they heard in the distance the
beating of an Indian drum and the whooping of warriors in the war-dance.
Guided by the sounds, they cautiously moved forward, till those in the
front, scrambling down a rocky hill, found themselves on the banks of
the Alleghany, about a hundred rods below Kittanning. The moon was near
setting; but they could dimly see the town beyond a great intervening
field of corn. "At that moment," says Armstrong, "an Indian whistled in
a very singular manner, about thirty perches from our front, in the foot
of the cornfield." He thought they were discovered; but one Baker, a
soldier well versed in Indian ways, told him that it was only some
village gallant calling to a young squaw. The party then crouched in the
bushes, and kept silent. The moon sank behind the woods, and fires soon
glimmered through the field, kindled to drive off mosquitoes by some of
the Indians who, as the night was warm, had come out to sleep in the
open air. The eastern sky began to redden with the approach of day. Many
of the party, spent with a rough march of thirty miles, had fallen
asleep. They were now cautiously roused; and 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_425-V1" id="Page_425-V1">425<br />V1</a></span> 
Armstrong ordered nearly
half of them to make their way along the ridge of a bushy hill that
overlooked the town, till they came opposite to it, in order to place it
between two fires. Twenty minutes were allowed them for the movement;
but they lost their way in the dusk, and reached their station too late.
When the time had expired, Armstrong gave the signal to those left with
him, who dashed into the cornfield, shooting down the astonished savages
or driving them into the village, where they turned and made desperate
fight.</p>

<p>It was a cluster of thirty log-cabins, the principal being that of the
chief, Jacobs, which was loopholed for musketry, and became the centre
of resistance. The fight was hot and stubborn. Armstrong ordered the
town to be set on fire, which was done, though not without loss; for the
Delawares at this time were commonly armed with rifles, and used them
well. Armstrong himself was hit in the shoulder. As the flames rose and
the smoke grew thick, a warrior in one of the houses sang his
death-song, and a squaw in the same house was heard to cry and scream.
Rough voices silenced her, and then the inmates burst out, but were
instantly killed. The fire caught the house of Jacobs, who, trying to
escape through an opening in the roof, was shot dead. Bands of Indians
were gathering beyond the river, firing from the other bank, and even
crossing to help their comrades; but the assailants held to their work
till the whole place was destroyed. "During 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_426-V1" id="Page_426-V1">426<br />V1</a></span> 
the burning of the houses,"
says Armstrong, "we were agreeably entertained by the quick succession
of charged guns, gradually firing off as reached by the fire; but much
more so with the vast explosion of sundry bags and large kegs of
gunpowder, wherewith almost every house abounded; the prisoners
afterwards informing us that the Indians had frequently said they had a
sufficient stock of ammunition for ten years' war with the English."</p>

<p>These prisoners were eleven men, women, and children, captured in the
border settlements, and now delivered by their countrymen. The day was
far spent when the party withdrew, carrying their wounded on Indian
horses, and moving perforce with extreme slowness, though expecting an
attack every moment. None took place; and they reached the settlements
at last, having bought their success with the loss of seventeen killed
and thirteen wounded. <span class="superscript">[447]</span>
A medal was given to each officer, not by the
Quaker-ridden Assembly, but by the city council of Philadelphia.</p>

<div class="footer">
    <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_447" name="footer_447"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[447]</span>
<i>Report of Armstrong to Governor Denny</i>, 14 <i>Sept</i>. 1756,
in <i>Colonial Records of Pa.</i>, VII. 257,&mdash;a modest yet very minute
account. <i>A List of the Names of the Persons killed, wounded, and
missing in the late Expedition against the Kittanning</i>. Hazard,
<i>Pennsylvania Register</i>, I. 366.</p>
</div>

<p>The report of this affair made by Dumas, commandant at Fort Duquesne, is
worth noting. He says that Attiqu&eacute;, the French name of Kittanning, was
attacked by "le G&eacute;n&eacute;ral Wachinton," with three or four hundred men on
horseback; that the Indians gave way; but that five or six Frenchmen who
were in the town held the English in check 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_427-V1" id="Page_427-V1">427<br />V1</a></span> 
till the fugitives rallied;
that Washington and his men then took to flight, and would have been
pursued but for the loss of some barrels of gunpowder which chanced to
explode during the action. Dumas adds that several large parties are now
on the track of the enemy, and he hopes will cut them to pieces. He then
asks for a supply of provisions and merchandise to replace those which
the Indians of Attiqu&eacute; had lost by a fire.
<span class="superscript">[448]</span> Like other officers of
the day, he would admit nothing but successes in the department under
his command.</p>

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    <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_448" name="footer_448"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[448]</span>
<i>Dumas &agrave; Vaudreuil</i>, 9 <i>Sept</i>. 1756, cited in <i>Bigot au
Ministre</i>, 6 <i>Oct</i>. 1756, and in Bougainville, <i>Journal</i>.</p>
</div>

<p>Vaudreuil wrote singular despatches at this time to the minister at
Versailles. He takes credit to himself for the number of war-parties
that his officers kept always at work, and fills page after page with
details of the <i>coups</i> they had struck; how one brought in two English
scalps, another three, another one, and another seven. He owns that they
committed frightful cruelties, mutilating and sometimes burning their
prisoners; but he expresses no regret, and probably felt none, since he
declares that the object of this murderous warfare was to punish the
English till they longed for peace. <span class="superscript">[449]</span></p>

<div class="footer">
    <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_449" name="footer_449"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[449]</span>
<i>D&eacute;p&ecirc;ches de Vaudreuil</i>, 1756.</p>
</div>

<p>The waters and mountains of Lake George, and not the western borders,
were the chief centre of partisan war. Ticonderoga was a hornet's nest,
pouring out swarms of savages to infest the highways 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_428-V1" id="Page_428-V1">428<br />V1</a></span> 
and byways of the wilderness. The English at Fort William Henry, having 
few Indians, could not retort in kind; but they kept their scouts and 
rangers in active movement. What they most coveted was prisoners, as 
sources of information. One Kennedy, a lieutenant of provincials, with 
five followers, white and red, made a march of rare audacity, passed 
all the French posts, took a scalp and two prisoners on the Richelieu, 
and burned a magazine of provisions between Montreal and St. John. The party
were near famishing on the way back; and Kennedy was brought into Fort
William Henry in a state of temporary insanity from starvation.
<span class="superscript">[450]</span>
Other provincial officers, Peabody, Hazen, Waterbury, and Miller, won a
certain distinction in this adventurous service, though few were so
conspicuous as the blunt and sturdy Israel Putnam. Winslow writes in
October that he has just returned from the best "scout" yet made, and
that, being a man of strict truth, he may be entirely trusted.
<span class="superscript">[451]</span>
Putnam had gone with six followers down Lake George in a whaleboat to a
point on the east side, opposite the present village of Hague, hid the
boat, crossed northeasterly to Lake Champlain, three miles from the
French fort, climbed the mountain that overlooks it, and made a complete
reconnoissance; then approached it, chased three Frenchmen, who escaped
within the lines, climbed the mountain again, and moving 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_429-V1" id="Page_429-V1">429<br />V1</a></span> 
westward along the ridge, made a minute survey of every outpost between the 
fort and Lake George. <span class="superscript">[452]</span> These adventures 
were not always fortunate. On the nineteenth of September Captain Hodges 
and fifty men were ambushed a few miles from Fort William Henry by thrice 
their number of Canadians and Indians, and only six escaped. Thus the record 
stands in the <i>Letter Book</i> of Winslow. 
<span class="superscript">[453]</span> By visiting the encampments of 
Ticonderoga, one may learn how the blow was struck.</p>

<div class="footer">
    <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_450" name="footer_450"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[450]</span>
<i>Minute of Lieutenant Kennedy's Scout. Winslow to Loudon</i>,
20 <i>Sept</i>. 1756.</p>
   <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_451" name="footer_451"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[451]</span>
<i>Winslow to Loudon</i>, 16 <i>Oct</i>. 1756.</p>
   <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_452" name="footer_452"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[452]</span>
<i>Report of a Scout to Ticonderoga, Oct.</i> 1756, signed Israel Putnam.
</p>
   <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_453" name="footer_453"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[453]</span>
Compare Massachusetts Archives, LXXVI. 81.</p>
</div>

<p>After much persuasion, much feasting, and much consumption of tobacco
and brandy, four hundred Indians, Christians from the Missions and
heathen from the far west, were persuaded to go on a grand war-party
with the Canadians. Of these last there were a hundred,&mdash;a wild crew,
bedecked and bedaubed like their Indian companions. Peri&egrave;re, an officer
of colony regulars, had nominal command of the whole; and among the
leaders of the Canadians was the famous bushfighter, Marin. Bougainville
was also of the party. In the evening of the sixteenth they all embarked
in canoes at the French advance-post commanded by Contrec&oelig;ur, near the
present steamboat-landing, passed in the gloom under the bare steeps of
Rogers Rock, paddled a few hours, landed on the west shore, and sent
scouts to reconnoitre. These came back with their reports on the next
day, and an Indian crier called the chiefs to council. Bougainville
describes them as they stalked gravely to the 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_430-V1" id="Page_430-V1">430<br />V1</a></span> 
place of meeting, wrapped in colored blankets, with lances in their hands. 
The accomplished young aide-de-camp studied his strange companions with 
an interest not unmixed with disgust. "Of all caprice," he says, "Indian 
caprice is the most capricious." They were insolent to the French, made 
rules for them which they did not observe themselves, and compelled the 
whole party to move when and whither they pleased. Hiding the canoes, and 
lying close in the forest by day, they all held their nocturnal course 
southward, by the lofty heights of Black Mountain, and among the islets 
of the Narrows, till the eighteenth. That night the Indian scouts reported 
that they had seen the fires of an encampment on the west shore; on which 
the whole party advanced to the attack, an hour before dawn, filing 
silently under the dark arches of the forest, the Indians nearly naked, 
and streaked with their war-paint of vermilion and soot. When they reached 
the spot, they found only the smouldering fires of a deserted bivouac. 
Then there was a consultation; ending, after much dispute, with the choice 
by the Indians of a hundred and ten of their most active warriors to attempt
some stroke in the neighborhood of the English fort. Marin joined them
with thirty Canadians, and they set out on their errand; while the rest
encamped to await the result. At night the adventurers returned, raising
the death-cry and firing their guns; somewhat depressed by losses they
had suffered, but boasting that they had surprised 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_431-V1" id="Page_431-V1">431<br />V1</a></span> 
fifty-three English,
and killed or taken all but one. It was a modest and perhaps an
involuntary exaggeration. "The very recital of the cruelties they
committed on the battle-field is horrible," writes Bougainville. "The
ferocity and insolence of these black-souled barbarians makes one
shudder. It is an abominable kind of war. The air one breathes is
contagious of insensibility and hardness." 
<span class="superscript">[454]</span> This was but one of the
many such parties sent out from Ticonderoga this year.</p>

<div class="footer">
    <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_454" name="footer_454"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[454]</span>
Bougainville, <i>Journal</i>.</p>
</div>

<p>Early in September a band of New England rangers came to Winslow's camp,
with three prisoners taken within the lines of Ticonderoga. Their
captain was Robert Rogers, of New Hampshire,&mdash;a strong, well-knit
figure, in dress and appearance more woodsman than soldier, with a
clear, bold eye, and features that would have been good but for the
ungainly proportions of the nose. <span class="superscript">[455]</span> 
He had passed his boyhood in the rough surroundings of a frontier village. 
Growing to manhood, he engaged in some occupation which, he says, led him 
to frequent journeyings in the wilderness between the French and English 
settlements, and gave him a good knowledge of both.
<span class="superscript">[456]</span> It taught him also to speak a little
French. He does not disclose the nature of this mysterious employment;
but there can be little doubt that it was a smuggling trade with Canada.
His character leaves much to be desired. He had been charged with
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_432-V1" id="Page_432-V1">432<br />V1</a></span> 
forgery, or complicity in it, seems to have had no scruple in matters of
business, and after the war was accused of treasonable dealings with the
French and Spaniards in the west. <span class="superscript">[457]</span>
He was ambitious and violent, yet
able in more ways than one, by no means uneducated, and so skilled in
woodcraft, so energetic and resolute, that his services were invaluable.
In recounting his own adventures, his style is direct, simple, without
boasting, and to all appearance without exaggeration. During the past
summer he had raised a band of men, chiefly New Hampshire borderers, and
made a series of daring excursions which gave him a prominent place in
this hardy by-play of war. In the spring of the present year he raised
another company, and was commissioned as its captain, with his brother
Richard as his first lieutenant, and the intrepid John Stark as his
second. In July still another company was formed, and Richard Rogers was
promoted to command it. Before the following spring there were seven
such; and more were afterwards added, forming a battalion dispersed on
various service, but all under the orders of Robert Rogers, with the
rank of major. <span class="superscript">[458]</span>
These rangers wore a sort of woodland uniform, which
varied in the different companies, and were armed with smooth-bore guns,
loaded with buckshot, bullets, or sometimes both.</p>

<div class="footer">
    <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_455" name="footer_455"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[455]</span>
A large engraved portrait of him, nearly at full length,
is before me, printed at London in 1776.</p>
   <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_456" name="footer_456"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[456]</span>
Rogers, <i>Journals, Introduction</i> (1765).</p>
   <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_457" name="footer_457"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[457]</span>
<i>Provincial Papers of New Hampshire</i>, VI. 364.
<i>Correspondence of Gage</i>, 1766. 
<i>N.&nbsp;Y. Col. Docs.</i>, VII. 990. 
Caleb Stark, <i>Memoir and Correspondence of John Stark</i>, 386.</p>
   <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_458" name="footer_458"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[458]</span>
Rogers, <i>Journals. Report of the Adjutant-General of New Hampshire</i> 
(1866), II. 158, 159.<br/>
</p>
</div>

<p>
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_433-V1" id="Page_433-V1">433<br />V1</a></span> 
The best of them were commonly employed on Lake George; and nothing can
surpass the adventurous hardihood of their lives. Summer and winter, day
and night, were alike to them. Embarked in whaleboats or birch-canoes,
they glided under the silent moon or in the languid glare of a
breathless August day, when islands floated in dreamy haze, and the hot
air was thick with odors of the pine; or in the bright October, when the
jay screamed from the woods, squirrels gathered their winter hoard, and
congregated blackbirds chattered farewell to their summer haunts; when
gay mountains basked in light, maples dropped leaves of rustling gold,
sumachs glowed like rubies under the dark green of the unchanging
spruce, and mossed rocks with all their painted plumage lay double in
the watery mirror: that festal evening of the year, when jocund Nature
disrobes herself, to wake again refreshed in the joy of her undying
spring. Or, in the tomb-like silence of the winter forest, with breath
frozen on his beard, the ranger strode on snow-shoes over the spotless
drifts; and, like D&uuml;rer's knight, a ghastly death stalked ever at his
side. There were those among them for whom this stern life had a
fascination that made all other existence tame.</p>

<p>Rogers and his men had been in active movement since midwinter. In
January they skated down Lake George, passed Ticonderoga, hid themselves
by the forest-road between that post and Crown Point, intercepted two
sledges loaded with provisions, and carried the drivers to Fort William
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_434-V1" id="Page_434-V1">434<br />V1</a></span> 
Henry. In February they climbed a hill near Crown Point and made a plan
of the works; then lay in ambush by the road from the fort to the
neighboring village, captured a prisoner, burned houses and barns,
killed fifty cattle, and returned without loss. At the end of the month
they went again to Crown Point, burned more houses and barns, and
reconnoitred Ticonderoga on the way back. Such excursions were repeated
throughout the spring and summer. The reconnoissance of Ticonderoga and
the catching of prisoners there for the sake of information were always
capital objects. The valley, four miles in extent, that lay between the
foot of Lake George and the French fort, was at this time guarded by
four distinct outposts or fortified camps. Watched as it was at all
points, and ranged incessantly by Indians in the employ of France,
Rogers and his men knew every yard of the ground. On a morning in May he
lay in ambush with eleven followers on a path between the fort and the
nearest camp. A large body of soldiers passed; the rangers counted a
hundred and eighteen, and lay close in their hiding-place. Soon after
came a party of twenty-two. They fired on them, killed six, captured
one, and escaped with him to Fort William Henry. In October Rogers was
passing with twenty men in two whaleboats through the seeming solitude
of the Narrows when a voice called to them out of the woods. It was that
of Captain Shepherd, of the New Hampshire regiment, who had been
captured two months before, and had lately made 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_435-V1" id="Page_435-V1">435<br />V1</a></span> 
his escape. He told them
that the French had the fullest information of the numbers and movements
of the English; that letters often reached them from within the English
lines; and that Lydius, a Dutch trader at Albany, was their principal
correspondent. <span class="superscript">[459]</span>
Arriving at Ticonderoga, Rogers cautiously
approached the fort, till, about noon, he saw a sentinel on the road
leading thence to the woods. Followed by five of his men, he walked
directly towards him. The man challenged, and Rogers answered in French.
Perplexed for a moment, the soldier suffered him to approach; till,
seeing his mistake, he called out in amazement, "<i>Qui &ecirc;tes vous</i>?"
"Rogers," was the answer; and the sentinel was seized, led in hot haste
to the boats, and carried to the English fort, where he gave important
information.</p>

<div class="footer">
    <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_459" name="footer_459"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[459]</span>
<i>Letter and Order Books of Winslow</i>. "One Lydiass &hellip;
whom we suspect for a French spy; he lives better than anybody, without
any visible means, and his daughters have had often presents from Mr.
Vaudreuil." <i>Loudon</i> (<i>to Fox?</i>), 19 <i>Aug</i>. 1756.</p>
</div>

<p>An exploit of Rogers towards midsummer greatly perplexed the French. He
embarked at the end of June with fifty men in five whaleboats, made
light and strong, expressly for this service, rowed about ten miles down
Lake George, landed on the east side, carried the boats six miles over a
gorge of the mountains, launched them again in South Bay, and rowed down
the narrow prolongation of Lake Champlain under cover of darkness. At
dawn they were within six miles of Ticonderoga. They landed, hid their
boats, and lay close all day. Embarking again in the evening, 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_436-V1" id="Page_436-V1">436<br />V1</a></span> 
they rowed
with muffled oars under the shadow of the eastern shore, and passed so
close to the French fort that they heard the voices of the sentinels
calling the watchword. In the morning they had left it five miles
behind. Again they hid in the woods; and from their lurking-place saw
bateaux passing, some northward, and some southward, along the narrow
lake.  Crown Point was ten or twelve miles farther on. They tried to pass it
after nightfall, but the sky was too clear and the stars too bright; and
as they lay hidden the next day, nearly a hundred boats passed before
them on the way to Ticonderoga. Some other boats which appeared about
noon landed near them, and they watched the soldiers at dinner, within a
musket-shot of their lurking-place. The next night was more favorable.
They embarked at nine in the evening, passed Crown Point unseen, and hid
themselves as before, ten miles below. It was the seventh of July.
Thirty boats and a schooner passed them, returning towards Canada. On
the next night they rowed fifteen miles farther, and then sent men to
reconnoitre, who reported a schooner at anchor about a mile off. They
were preparing to board her, when two sloops appeared, coming up the
lake at but a short distance from the land. They gave them a volley, and
called on them to surrender; but the crews put off in boats and made
for the opposite shore. They followed and seized them. Out of twelve men
their fire had killed three and wounded two, one of whom, says Rogers in
his report, "could 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_437-V1" id="Page_437-V1">437<br />V1</a></span> 
not march, therefore we put an end to him, to prevent
discovery." <span class="superscript">[460]</span> They sank the vessels, 
which were laden with wine, brandy, and flour, hid their boats on the west 
shore, and returned on foot with their prisoners.
<span class="superscript">[461]</span></p>

<div class="footer">
    <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_460" name="footer_460"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[460]</span>
<i>Report of Rogers to Sir William Johnson</i>, <i>July</i>, 1756.
This incident is suppressed in the printed <i>Journals</i>, which merely say
that the man "soon died."</p>
   <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_461" name="footer_461"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[461]</span>
<i>Rogers, Journals</i>, 20. <i>Shirley to Fox</i>, 26 <i>July</i>, 1756.
"This afternoon Capt. Rogers came down with 4 scalps and 8 prisoners
which he took on Lake Champlain, between 20 and 30 miles beyond Crown
Point." <i>Surgeon Williams to his Wife</i>, 16 <i>July</i>, 1756.</p>
</div>

<p>Some weeks after, Rogers returned to the place where he had left the
boats, embarked in them, reconnoitred the lake nearly to St. John, hid
them again eight miles north of Crown Point, took three prisoners near
that post, and carried them to Fort William Henry. In the next month the
French found several English boats in a small cove north of Crown Point.
Bougainville propounds five different hypotheses to account for their
being there; and exploring parties were sent out in the vain attempt to
find some water passage by which they could have reached the spot
without passing under the guns of two French forts.
<span class="superscript">[462]</span></p>

<div class="footer">
    <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_462" name="footer_462"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[462]</span>
Bougainville, <i>Journal</i>.</p>
</div>

<p>The French, on their side, still kept their war-parties in motion, and
Vaudreuil faithfully chronicled in his despatches every English scalp
they brought in. He believed in Indians, and sent them to Ticonderoga in
numbers that were sometimes embarrassing. Even Pottawattamies from Lake
Michigan were prowling about Winslow's camp and silently killing his
sentinels with arrows, while 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_438-V1" id="Page_438-V1">438<br />V1</a></span> 
their "medicine men" remained at Ticonderoga practising sorcery and 
divination to aid the warriors or learn how it fared with them. 
Bougainville writes in his Journal on the fifteenth of October: 
"Yesterday the old Pottawattamies who have stayed here 'made 
medicine' to get news of their brethren. The lodge trembled, the 
sorcerer sweated drops of blood, and the devil came at last and told
him that the warriors would come back with scalps and prisoners. A
sorcerer in the medicine lodge is exactly like the Pythoness on the
tripod or the witch Canidia invoking the shades." The diviner was not
wholly at fault. Three days after, the warriors came back with a
prisoner. <span class="superscript">[463]</span></p>

<div class="footer">
    <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_463" name="footer_463"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[463]</span>
This kind of divination was practised by Algonkin tribes
from the earliest times. See <i>Pioneers of France in the 
New World</i>, 315.</p>
</div>

<p>Till November, the hostile forces continued to watch each other from the
opposite ends of Lake George. Loudon repeated his orders to Winslow to
keep the defensive, and wrote sarcastically to the Colonial Minister: "I
think I shall be able to prevent the provincials doing anything very
rash, without their having it in their power to talk in the language of
this country that they could have taken all Canada if they had not been
prevented by the King's servants." Winslow tried to console himself for
the failure of the campaign, and wrote in his odd English to Shirley:
"Am sorry that this year's performance has not succeeded as was
intended; have only to say I pushed things to the utmost of my power to
have been sooner in motion, which was the only thing that should have
carried 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_439-V1" id="Page_439-V1">439<br />V1</a></span> 
us to Crown Point; and though I am sensible that we are doing
our duty in acting on the defensive, yet it makes no <i>eclate</i> [<i>sic</i>],
and answers to little purpose in the eyes of my constituents."</p>

<p>On the first of the month the French began to move off towards Canada,
and before many days Ticonderoga was left in the keeping of five or six
companies. <span class="superscript">[464]</span>
Winslow's men followed their example. Major Eyre, with
four hundred regulars, took possession of Fort William Henry, and the
provincials marched for home, their ranks thinned by camp diseases and
small-pox. <span class="superscript">[465]</span>
In Canada the regulars were quartered on the
inhabitants, who took the infliction as a matter of course. In the
English provinces the question was not so simple. Most of the British
troops were assigned to Philadelphia, New York, and Boston; and Loudon
demanded free quarters for them, according to usage then prevailing in
England during war. Nor was the demand in itself unreasonable, seeing
that the troops were sent over to fight the battles of the colonies. In
Philadelphia lodgings were given them in the public-houses, which,
however, could not hold them all. A long dispute followed between the
Governor, who seconded Loudon's demand, and the Assembly, during which
about half the soldiers lay on straw in outhouses and sheds till near
midwinter, many sickening, and some dying from exposure. Loudon grew
furious, and threatened, if shelter were not provided, to send Webb with
another regiment and 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_440-V1" id="Page_440-V1">440<br />V1</a></span> 
billet the whole on the inhabitants; on which the Assembly yielded, 
and quarters were found. <span class="superscript">[466]</span></p>

<div class="footer">
    <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_464" name="footer_464"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[464]</span>
Bougainville, <i>Journal</i>. Malartic, <i>Journal</i>.</p>
    <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_465" name="footer_465"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[465]</span>
<i>Letter and Order Books of Winslow. Winslow to Halifax</i>, 30 <i>Dec</i>. 
1756.</p>
    <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_466" name="footer_466"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[466]</span>
<i>Loudon to Denny, 28 Oct. 1756. Colonial Records of Pa</i>., VII. 358-380. 
<i>Loudon to Pitt</i>, 10 <i>March</i>, 1757. 
<i>Notice of Colonel Bouquet</i>, in <i>Pennsylvania Magazine</i>, III. 124. 
<i>The Conduct of a Noble Commander in America impartially reviewed</i> 
(1758).</p>
</div>

<p>In New York the privates were quartered in barracks, but the officers
were left to find lodging for themselves. Loudon demanded that provision
should be made for them also. The city council hesitated, afraid of
incensing the people if they complied. Cruger, the mayor, came to
remonstrate. "God damn my blood!" replied the Earl; "if you do not
billet my officers upon free quarters this day, I'll order here all the
troops in North America, and billet them myself upon this city." Being
no respecter of persons, at least in the provinces, he began with Oliver
Delancey, brother of the late acting Governor, and sent six soldiers to
lodge under his roof. Delancey swore at the unwelcome guests, on which
Loudon sent him six more. A subscription was then raised among the
citizens, and the required quarters were provided.
<span class="superscript">[467]</span> In Boston there
was for the present less trouble. The troops were lodged in the barracks
of Castle William, and furnished with blankets, cooking utensils, and
other necessaries. <span class="superscript">[468]</span></p>

<div class="footer">
    <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_467" name="footer_467"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[467]</span>
Smith, <i>Hist. of N.&nbsp;Y.</i>, Part II. 242. 
<i>William Corry to Johnson</i>, 15 <i>Jan</i>., 1757, in Stone, 
<i>Life of Sir William Johnson</i>, II. 24, <i>note</i>. 
<i>Loudon to Hardy</i>, 21 <i>Nov</i>. 1756.</p>
   <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_468" name="footer_468"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[468]</span>
Massachusetts Archives, LXXVI. 153.</p>
</div>
<p>Major Eyre and his soldiers, in their wilderness exile by the borders of
Lake George, whiled the winter away with few other excitements than the
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_441-V1" id="Page_441-V1">441<br />V1</a></span> 
evening howl of wolves from the frozen mountains, or some nocturnal
savage shooting at a sentinel from behind a stump on the moonlit fields
of snow. A livelier incident at last broke the monotony of their lives.
In the middle of January Rogers came with his rangers from Fort Edward,
bound on a scouting party towards Crown Point. They spent two days at
Fort William Henry in making snow-shoes and other preparation, and set
out on the seventeenth. Captain Spikeman was second in command, with
Lieutenants Stark and Kennedy, several other subalterns, and two
gentlemen volunteers enamoured of adventure. They marched down the
frozen lake and encamped at the Narrows. Some of them, unaccustomed to
snow-shoes, had become unfit for travel, and were sent back, thus
reducing the number to seventy-four. In the morning they marched again,
by icicled rocks and icebound waterfalls, mountains gray with naked
woods and fir-trees bowed down with snow. On the nineteenth they reached
the west shore, about four miles south of Rogers Rock, marched west of
north eight miles, and bivouacked among the mountains. On the next
morning they changed their course, marched east of north all day, passed
Ticonderoga undiscovered, and stopped at night some five miles beyond
it. The weather was changing, and rain was coming on. They scraped away
the snow with their snow-shoes, piled it in a bank around them, made
beds of spruce-boughs, built fires, and lay down to sleep, while the
sentinels kept watch in the outer gloom. 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_442-V1" id="Page_442-V1">442<br />V1</a></span> 
In the morning there was a drizzling rain, and the softened snow stuck 
to their snow-shoes. They marched eastward three miles through the 
dripping forest, till they reached the banks of Lake Champlain, near 
what is now called Five Mile Point, and presently saw a sledge, drawn 
by horses, moving on the ice from Ticonderoga towards Crown Point. 
Rogers sent Stark along the shore to the left to head it off, while he 
with another party, covered by the woods, moved in the opposite direction 
to stop its retreat. He soon saw eight or ten more sledges following the 
first, and sent a messenger to prevent Stark from showing himself too 
soon; but Stark was already on the ice. All the sledges turned back in 
hot haste. The rangers ran in pursuit and captured three of them, with 
seven men and six horses, while the rest escaped to Ticonderoga. The 
prisoners, being separately examined, told an ominous tale. There were 
three hundred and fifty regulars at Ticonderoga; two hundred Canadians 
and forty-five Indians had lately arrived there, and more Indians were 
expected that evening,&mdash;all destined to waylay the communications 
between the English forts, and all prepared to march at a moment's notice. 
The rangers were now in great peril. The fugitives would give warning of 
their presence, and the French and Indians, in overwhelming force, would 
no doubt cut off their retreat.</p>

<p>Rogers at once ordered his men to return to their last night's
encampment, rekindle the fires, and dry their guns, which were wet by
the rain of 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_443-V1" id="Page_443-V1">443<br />V1</a></span> 
the morning. Then they marched southward in single file
through the snow-encumbered forest, Rogers and Kennedy in the front,
Spikeman in the centre, and Stark in the rear. In this order they moved
on over broken and difficult ground till two in the afternoon, when they
came upon a valley, or hollow, scarcely a musket-shot wide, which ran
across their line of march, and, like all the rest of the country, was
buried in thick woods. The front of the line had descended the first
hill, and was mounting that on the farther side, when the foremost men
heard a low clicking sound, like the cocking of a great number of guns;
and in an instant a furious volley blazed out of the bushes on the ridge
above them. Kennedy was killed outright, as also was Gardner, one of the
volunteers. Rogers was grazed in the head by a bullet, and others were
disabled or hurt. The rest returned the fire, while a swarm of French
and Indians rushed upon them from the ridge and the slopes on either
hand, killing several more, Spikeman among the rest, and capturing
others. The rangers fell back across the hollow and regained the hill
they had just descended. Stark with the rear, who were at the top when
the fray began, now kept the assailants in check by a brisk fire till
their comrades joined them. Then the whole party, spreading themselves
among the trees that covered the declivity, stubbornly held their ground
and beat back the French in repeated attempts to dislodge them. As the
assailants were more than two to one, what Rogers had most to dread was
a 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_444-V1" id="Page_444-V1">444<br />V1</a></span> 
movement to outflank him and get into his rear. This they tried twice,
and were twice repulsed by a party held in reserve for the purpose. The
fight lasted several hours, during which there was much talk between the
combatants. The French called out that it was a pity so many brave men
should be lost, that large reinforcements were expected every moment,
and that the rangers would then be cut to pieces without mercy; whereas
if they surrendered at once they should be treated with the utmost
kindness. They called to Rogers by name, and expressed great esteem for
him. Neither threats nor promises had any effect, and the firing went on
till darkness stopped it. Towards evening Rogers was shot through the
wrist; and one of the men, John Shute, used to tell in his old age how
he saw another ranger trying to bind the captain's wound with the ribbon
of his own queue.</p>

<p>As Ticonderoga was but three miles off, it was destruction to stay where
they were; and they withdrew under cover of night, reduced to
forty-eight effective and six wounded men. Fourteen had been killed, and
six captured. Those that were left reached Lake George in the morning,
and Stark, with two followers, pushed on in advance to bring a sledge
for the wounded. The rest made their way to the Narrows, where they
encamped, and presently descried a small dark object on the ice far
behind them. It proved to be one of their own number, Sergeant Joshua
Martin, who had received a severe wound in the fight, and was left 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_445-V1" id="Page_445-V1">445<br />V1</a></span> 
for
dead; but by desperate efforts had followed on their tracks, and was now
brought to camp in a state of exhaustion. He recovered, and lived to an
advanced age. The sledge sent by Stark came in the morning, and the
whole party soon reached the fort. Abercromby, on hearing of the affair,
sent them a letter of thanks for gallant conduct.</p>

<p>Rogers reckons the number of his assailants at about two hundred and
fifty in all. Vaudreuil says that they consisted of eighty-nine regulars
and ninety Canadians and Indians. With his usual boastful exaggeration,
he declares that forty English were left dead on the field, and that
only three reached Fort William Henry alive. He says that the fight was
extremely hot and obstinate, and admits that the French lost
thirty-seven killed and wounded. Rogers makes the number much greater.
That it was considerable is certain, as Lusignan, commandant at
Ticonderoga, wrote immediately for reinforcements.
<span class="superscript">[469]</span></p>

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    <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_469" name="footer_469"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[469]</span>
Rogers, <i>Journals</i>, 38-44. 
Caleb Stark, <i>Memoir and Correspondence of John Stark</i>, 18, 412. 
<i>Return of Killed, Wounded, and Missing in the Action near Ticonderoga, 
Jan</i>. 1757; all the names are here given. 
James Abercromby, aide-de-camp to his uncle, General Abercromby, wrote to 
Rogers from Albany: "You cannot imagine how all ranks of people here are 
pleased with your conduct and your men's behavior."</p>
<p>The accounts of the French writers differ from each other, but agree in
placing the English force at from seventy to eighty, and their own much
higher. The principal report is that of <i>Vaudreuil au Ministre</i>, 19
<i>Avril</i>, 1757 (his second letter of this date). 
Bougainville, Montcalm, Malartic, and Montreuil all speak of the affair, 
placing the English loss much higher than is shown by the returns. The 
story, repeated in most of the French narratives, that only three of the 
rangers reached Fort William Henry, seems to have arisen from the fact 
that Stark with two men went thither in advance of the rest. As regards 
the antecedents of the combat, the French and English accounts agree.</p>
</div>

<p>
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_446-V1" id="Page_446-V1">446<br />V1</a></span> 
The effects of his wound and an attack of small-pox kept Rogers quiet
for a time. Meanwhile the winter dragged slowly away, and the ice of
Lake George, cracking with change of temperature, uttered its strange
cry of agony, heralding that dismal season when winter begins to relax
its <ins title="Changed gripe to grip.">grip,</ins>
but spring still holds aloof; when the sap stirs in the
sugar-maples, but the buds refuse to swell, and even the catkins of the
willows will not burst their brown integuments; when the forest is
patched with snow, though on its sunny slopes one hears in the stillness
the whisper of trickling waters that ooze from the half-thawed soil and
saturated beds of fallen leaves; when clouds hang low on the darkened
mountains, and cold mists entangle themselves in the tops of the pines;
now a dull rain, now a sharp morning frost, and now a storm of snow
powdering the waste, and wrapping it again in the pall of winter.</p>

<p>In this cheerless season, on St. Patrick's Day, the seventeenth of
March, the Irish soldiers who formed a part of the garrison of Fort
William Henry were paying homage to their patron saint in libations of
heretic rum, the product of New England stills; and it is said that John
Stark's rangers forgot theological differences in their zeal to share
the festivity. The story adds that they were restrained by their
commander, and that their enforced sobriety proved the saving of the
fort. This may be doubted; for without counting the English soldiers of
the garrison who had no special call to be drunk that day, the fort was
in no 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_447-V1" id="Page_447-V1">447<br />V1</a></span> 
danger till twenty-four hours after, when the revellers had had
time to rally from their pious carouse. Whether rangers or British
soldiers, it is certain that watchmen were on the alert during the night
between the eighteenth and nineteenth, and that towards one in the
morning they heard a sound of axes far down the lake, followed by the
faint glow of a distant fire. The inference was plain, that an enemy was
there, and that the necessity of warming himself had overcome his
caution. Then all was still for some two hours, when, listening in the
pitchy darkness, the watchers heard the footsteps of a great body of men
approaching on the ice, which at the time was bare of snow. The garrison
were at their posts, and all the cannon on the side towards the lake
vomited grape and round-shot in the direction of the sound, which
thereafter was heard no more.</p>

<p>Those who made it were a detachment, called by Vaudreuil an army, sent
by him to seize the English fort. Shirley had planned a similar stroke
against Ticonderoga a year before; but the provincial levies had come in
so slowly, and the ice had broken up so soon, that the scheme was
abandoned. Vaudreuil was more fortunate. The whole force, regulars,
Canadians, and Indians, was ready to his hand. No pains were spared in
equipping them. Overcoats, blankets, bearskins to sleep on, tarpaulins
to sleep under, spare moccasons, spare mittens, kettles, axes, needles,
awls, flint and steel, and many miscellaneous articles 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_448-V1" id="Page_448-V1">448<br />V1</a></span> 
were provided, to
be dragged by the men on light Indian sledges, along with provisions for
twelve days. The cost of the expedition is set at a million francs,
answering to more than as many dollars of the present time. To the
disgust of the officers from France, the Governor named his brother
Rigaud for the chief command; and before the end of February the whole
party was on its march along the ice of Lake Champlain. They rested
nearly a week at Ticonderoga, where no less than three hundred short
scaling-ladders, so constructed that two or more could be joined in one,
had been made for them; and here, too, they received a reinforcement,
which raised their number to sixteen hundred. Then, marching three days
along Lake George, they neared the fort on the evening of the
eighteenth, and prepared for a general assault before daybreak.</p>

<p>The garrison, including rangers, consisted of three hundred and
forty-six effective men. <span class="superscript">[470]</span>
The fort was not strong, and a resolute
assault by numbers so superior must, it seems, have overpowered the
defenders; but the Canadians and Indians who composed most of the
attacking force were not suited for such work; and, disappointed in his
hope of a surprise, Rigaud withdrew them at daybreak, after trying in
vain to burn the buildings outside. A few hours after, the whole body
reappeared, filing off to surround the fort, on which they kept up a
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_449-V1" id="Page_449-V1">449<br />V1</a></span> 
brisk but harmless fire of musketry. In the night they were heard again
on the ice, approaching as if for an assault; and the cannon, firing
towards the sound, again drove them back. There was silence for a while,
till tongues of flame lighted up the gloom, and two sloops, ice-bound in
the lake, and a large number of bateaux on the shore were seen to be on
fire. A party sallied to save them; but it was too late. In the morning
they were all consumed, and the enemy had vanished.</p>

<div class="footer">
    <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_470" name="footer_470"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[470]</span>
<i>Strength of the Garrison of Fort William Henry when the Enemy came 
before it</i>, enclosed in the letter of <i>Major Eyre to Loudon</i>,
26 <i>March</i>, 1757. There were also one hundred and twenty-eight 
invalids.</p>
</div>

<p>It was Sunday, the twentieth. Everything was quiet till noon, when the
French filed out of the woods and marched across the ice in procession,
ostentatiously carrying their scaling-ladders, and showing themselves to
the best effect. They stopped at a safe distance, fronting towards the
fort, and several of them advanced, waving a red flag. An officer with a
few men went to meet them, and returned bringing Le Mercier, chief of
the Canadian artillery, who, being led blindfold into the fort,
announced himself as bearer of a message from Rigaud. He was conducted
to the room of Major Eyre, where all the British officers were
assembled; and, after mutual compliments, he invited them to give up the
place peaceably, promising the most favorable terms, and threatening a
general assault and massacre in case of refusal. Eyre said that he
should defend himself to the last; and the envoy, again blindfolded, was
led back to whence he came.</p>

<p>The whole French force now advanced as if to storm the works, and the
garrison prepared to 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_450-V1" id="Page_450-V1">450<br />V1</a></span> 
receive them. Nothing came of it but a fusillade,
to which the British made no reply. At night the French were heard
advancing again, and each man nerved himself for the crisis. The real
attack, however, was not against the fort, but against the buildings
outside, which consisted of several storehouses, a hospital, a saw-mill,
and the huts of the rangers, besides a sloop on the stocks and piles of
planks and cord-wood. Covered by the night, the assailants crept up with
fagots of resinous sticks, placed them against the farther side of the
buildings, kindled them, and escaped before the flame rose; while the
garrison, straining their ears in the thick darkness, fired wherever
they heard a sound. Before morning all around them was in a blaze, and
they had much ado to save the fort barracks from the shower of burning
cinders. At ten o'clock the fires had subsided, and a thick fall of snow
began, filling the air with a restless chaos of large moist flakes. This
lasted all day and all the next night, till the ground and the ice were
covered to a depth of three feet and more. The French lay close in their
camps till a little before dawn on Tuesday morning, when twenty
volunteers from the regulars made a bold attempt to burn the sloop on
the stocks, with several storehouses and other structures, and several
hundred scows and whaleboats which had thus far escaped. They were only
in part successful; but they fired the sloop and some buildings near it,
and stood far out on the ice watching the flaming vessel, a superb
bonfire amid the wilderness of snow. The 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_451-V1" id="Page_451-V1">451<br />V1</a></span> 
spectacle cost the volunteers a fourth of their number killed and wounded.</p>

<p>On Wednesday morning the sun rose bright on a scene of wintry splendor,
and the frozen lake was dotted with Rigaud's retreating followers
toiling towards Canada on snow-shoes. Before they reached it many of
them were blinded for a while by the insufferable glare, and their
comrades led them homewards by the hand. <span class="superscript">[471]</span>
</p>

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    <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_471" name="footer_471"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[471]</span>
<i>Eyre to Loudon</i>, 24 <i>March</i>, 1757. 
<i>Ibid.</i>, 25 <i>March</i>, 
enclosed in Loudon's despatch of 25 April, 1757. 
<i>Message of Rigaud to Major Eyre</i>, 20 <i>March</i>, 1757. 
<i>Letter from Fort William Henry</i>, 26 <i>March</i>, 1757, 
in <i>Boston Gazette, No</i>. 106, and <i>Boston Evening Post, No</i>. 1,128. 
<i>Abstract of Letters from Albany</i>, 
in <i>Boston News Letter, No</i>. 2,860. 
Caleb Stark, <i>Memoir and Correspondence of John Stark</i>, 22, a
curious mixture of truth and error. 
<i>Relation de la Campagne sur le Lac St. Sacrement pendant l'Hiver</i>, 1757. 
Bougainville, <i>Journal</i>. Malartic, <i>Journal</i>. 
<i>Montcalm au Ministre</i>, 24 <i>Avril</i>, 1757. 
<i>Montreuil au Ministre</i>, 23 <i>Avril</i>, 1757. 
<i>Montcalm &agrave; sa M&egrave;re</i>, 1 <i>Avril</i>, 1757. 
<i>M&eacute;moires sur le Canada</i>, 1749-1760.</p>

<p>The French loss in killed and wounded is set by Montcalm at eleven. That
of the English was seven, slightly wounded, chiefly in sorties. They
took three prisoners. Stark was touched by a bullet, for the only time
in his adventurous life.</p>	 
</div>

<div class="chapterhead">
   <br /><a name="Chapter_14" id="Chapter_14"></a>
	 <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_452-V1" id="Page_452-V1">452<br />V1</a></span> 
	 <br /><br /><br />
	 <h2><a href="#Contents14">CHAPTER XIV.</a><br />
	 <span class="med">1757.</span>
	 </h2> 
	 <p class="smcapheader">MONTCALM AND VAUDREUIL.</p>
	 <p class="smcap noindent space-bottom">
	 The Seat of War &bull; Social Life at Montreal &bull;
	 Familiar Correspondence of Montcalm &bull; His Employments &bull;
	 His Impressions of Canada &bull; His Hospitalities &bull;
   Misunderstandings with the Governor &bull; Character of Vaudreuil &bull;
	 His Accusations &bull; Frenchmen and Canadians &bull; 
	 Foibles of Montcalm &bull; The opening Campaign &bull; 
	 Doubts and Suspense &bull; London's Plan &bull; His Character &bull;
	 Fatal Delays &bull; Abortive Attempt against Louisbourg &bull;
	 Disaster to the British Fleet.
   </p> 				
	 <p class="break1"></p> 

</div> 


<p class="double-space-top">
<span class="smcap">Spring</span> 
came at last, and the Dutch burghers of Albany heard, faint from
the far height, the clamor of the wild-fowl, streaming in long files
northward to their summer home. As the a&euml;rial travellers winged their
way, the seat of war lay spread beneath them like a map. First the blue
Hudson, slumbering among its forests, with the forts along its banks,
Half-Moon, Stillwater, Saratoga, and the geometric lines and earthen
mounds of Fort Edward. Then a broad belt of dingy evergreen; and beyond,
released from wintry fetters, the glistening breast of Lake George, with
Fort William Henry at its side, amid charred ruins and a desolation of
prostrate forests. Hence the lake stretched northward, like some broad
river, 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_453-V1" id="Page_453-V1">453<br />V1</a></span> 
trenched between mountain ranges still leafless and gray. Then
they looked down on Ticonderoga, with the flag of the Bourbons, like a
flickering white speck, waving on its ramparts; and next on Crown Point
with its tower of stone. Lake Champlain now spread before them, widening
as they flew: on the left, the mountain wilderness of the Adirondacks,
like a stormy sea congealed; on the right, the long procession of the
Green Mountains; and, far beyond, on the dim verge of the eastern sky,
the White Mountains throned in savage solitude. They passed over the
bastioned square of Fort St. John, Fort Chambly guarding the rapids of
the Richelieu, and the broad belt of the St. Lawrence, with Montreal
seated on its bank. Here we leave them, to build their nests and hatch
their brood among the fens of the lonely North.</p>

<p>Montreal, the military heart of Canada, was in the past winter its
social centre also, where were gathered conspicuous representatives both
of Old France and of New; not men only, but women. It was a sparkling
fragment of the reign of Louis XV. dropped into the American wilderness.
Montcalm was here with his staff and his chief officers, now pondering
schemes of war, and now turning in thought to his beloved Ch&acirc;teau of
Candiac, his mother, children, and wife, to whom he sent letters with
every opportunity. To his wife he writes: "Think of me affectionately;
give love to my girls. I hope next year I may be with you all. I love
you tenderly, dearest." He says that he has sent 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_454-V1" id="Page_454-V1">454<br />V1</a></span> 
her a packet of marten-skins for a muff; "and another time I shall send 
some to our daughter; but I should like better to bring them myself." Of 
this eldest daughter he writes in reply to a letter of domestic news from 
Madame de Montcalm: "The new gown with blonde trimmings must be becoming, 
for she is pretty." Again, "There is not an hour in the day when I do not 
think of you, my mother and my children." He had the tastes of a country
gentleman, and was eager to know all that was passing on his estate.
Before leaving home he had set up a mill to grind olives for oil, and
was well pleased to hear of its prosperity. "It seems to be a good
thing, which pleases me very much. Bougainville and I talk a great deal
about the oil-mill." Some time after, when the King sent him the coveted
decoration of the <i>cordon rouge</i>, he informed Madame de Montcalm of the
honor done him, and added: "But I think I am better pleased with what
you tell me of the success of my oil-mill."</p>

<p>To his mother he writes of his absorbing occupations, and says: "You can
tell my dearest that I have no time to occupy myself with the ladies,
even if I wished to." Nevertheless he now and then found leisure for
some little solace in his banishment; for he writes to Bourlamaque,
whom he had left at Quebec, after a visit which he had himself made
there early in the winter: "I am glad you sometimes speak of me to the
three ladies in the Rue du Parloir; and I am flattered by their
remembrance, especially by that of one of them, in 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_455-V1" id="Page_455-V1">455<br />V1</a></span> 
whom I find at certain moments too much wit and too many charms for my 
tranquillity." These ladies of the Rue du Parloir are several times 
mentioned in his familiar correspondence with Bourlamaque.</p>

<p>His station obliged him to maintain a high standard of living, to his
great financial detriment, for Canadian prices were inordinate. "I must
live creditably, and so I do; sixteen persons at table every day. Once a
fortnight I dine with the Governor-General and with the Chevalier de
L&eacute;vis, who lives well too. He has given three grand balls. As for me, 
up to Lent I gave, besides dinners, great suppers, with ladies, three times
a week. They lasted till two in the morning; and then there was dancing,
to which company came uninvited, but sure of a welcome from those who
had been at supper. It is very expensive, not very amusing, and often
tedious. At Quebec, where we spent a month, I gave receptions or parties, 
often at the Intendant's house. I like my gallant Chevalier de L&eacute;vis 
very much. Bourlamaque was a good choice; he is steady and cool, with good 
parts. Bougainville has talent, a warm head, and warm heart; he will ripen 
in time. Write to Madame Cornier that I like her husband; he is perfectly 
well, and as impatient for peace as I am. Love to my daughters, and all 
affection and respect to my mother. I live only in the hope of joining you 
all again. Nevertheless, Montreal is as good a place as Alais even in time 
of peace, and better now, because the Government 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_456-V1" id="Page_456-V1">456<br />V1</a></span> 
is here; for the Marquis de Vaudreuil, like me, spent only a month at 
Quebec. As for Quebec, it is as good as the best cities of France, 
except ten or so. Clear sky, bright sun; neither spring nor autumn, 
only summer and winter. July, August, and September, hot as in Languedoc: 
winter insupportable; one must keep always indoors. The ladies 
<i>spirituelles, galantes, d&eacute;votes</i>. Gambling at Quebec, dancing
and conversation at Montreal. My friends the Indians, who are often
unbearable, and whom I treat with perfect tranquillity and patience, are
fond of me. If I were not a sort of general, though very subordinate to
the Governor, I could gossip about the plans of the campaign, which it
is likely will begin on the tenth or fifteenth of May. I worked at the
plan of the last affair [<i>Rigaud's expedition to Fort William Henry</i>],
which might have turned out better, though good as it was. I wanted
only eight hundred men. If I had had my way, Monsieur de L&eacute;vis or
Monsieur de Bougainville would have had charge of it. However, the thing
was all right, and in good hands. The Governor, who is extremely civil
to me, gave it to his brother; he thought him more used to winter
marches. Adieu, my heart; I adore and love you!"</p>

<p>To meet his manifold social needs, he sends to his wife orders for
prunes, olives, anchovies, muscat wine, capers, sausages, confectionery,
cloth for liveries, and many other such items; also for scent-bags of
two kinds, and perfumed pomatum for presents; closing in postscript with an 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_457-V1" id="Page_457-V1">457<br />V1</a></span> 
injunction not to forget a dozen pint-bottles of English lavender.
Some months after, he writes to Madame de Saint-V&eacute;ran: "I have got
everything that was sent me from Montpellier except the sausages. I have
lost a third of what was sent from Bordeaux. The English captured it on
board the ship called 'La Superbe;' and I have reason to fear that
everything sent from Paris is lost on board 'La Libert&eacute;.' I am running
into debt here. Pshaw! I must live. I do not worry myself. Best love to
you, my mother."</p>

<p>When Rigaud was about to march with his detachment against Fort William
Henry, Montcalm went over to La Prairie to see them. "I reviewed them,"
he writes to Bourlamaque, "and gave the officers a dinner, which, if
anybody else had given it, I should have said was a grand affair. There
were two tables, for thirty-six persons in all. On Wednesday there was
an Assembly at Madame Varin's; on Friday the Chevalier de L&eacute;vis gave a
ball. He invited sixty-five ladies, and got only thirty, with a great
crowd of men. Rooms well lighted, excellent order, excellent service,
plenty of refreshments of every sort all through the night; and the
company stayed till seven in the morning. As for me, I went to bed
early. I had had that day eight ladies at a supper given to Madame
Varin. To-morrow I shall have half-a-dozen at another supper, given to I
don't know whom, but incline to think it will be La Roche Beaucour. The
gallant Chevalier is to give us still another ball."</p>

<p>
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_458-V1" id="Page_458-V1">458<br />V1</a></span> 
Lent put a check on these festivities. "To-morrow," he tells Bourlamaque, 
"I shall throw myself into devotion with might and main (<i>&agrave; corps 
perdu</i>). It will be easier for me to detach myself from the world and 
turn heavenward here at Montreal than it would be at Quebec." And, some 
time after, "Bougainville spent Monday delightfully at Isle Ste. 
H&eacute;l&egrave;ne, and Tuesday devoutly with the Sulpitian Fathers at 
the Mountain. I was there myself at four o'clock, and did them the civility 
to sup in their refectory at a quarter before six."</p>

<p>In May there was a complete revival of social pleasures, and Montcalm
wrote to Bourlamaque: "Madame de Beaubassin's supper was very gay. There
were toasts to the Rue du Parloir and to the General. To-day I must give
a dinner to Madame de Saint-Ours, which will be a little more serious.
P&eacute;an is gone to establish himself at La Chine, and will come back with
La Barolon, who goes thither with a husband of hers, bound to the Ohio
with Villejoin and Louvigny. The Chevalier de L&eacute;vis amuses himself very
much here. He and his friends spend all their time with Madame de
Lenisse."</p>

<p>Under these gayeties and gallantries there were bitter heart-burnings.
Montcalm hints at some of them in a letter to Bourlamaque, written at
the time of the expedition to Fort William Henry, which, in the words of
Montcalm, who would have preferred another commander, the Governor had
ordered to march "under the banners of brother 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_459-V1" id="Page_459-V1">459<br />V1</a></span> 
Rigaud." "After he got my
letter on Sunday evening," says the disappointed General, "Monsieur de
Vaudreuil sent me his secretary with the instructions he had given his
brother," which he had hitherto withheld. "This gave rise after dinner
to a long conversation with him; and I hope for the good of the service
that his future conduct will prove the truth of his words. I spoke to
him with frankness and firmness of the necessity I was under of
communicating to him my reflections; but I did not name any of the
persons who, to gain his good graces, busy themselves with destroying
his confidence in me. I told him that he would always find me disposed
to aid in measures tending to our success, even should his views, which
always ought to prevail, be different from mine; but that I dared
flatter myself that he would henceforward communicate his plans to me
sooner; for, though his knowledge of the country gave greater weight to
his opinions, he might rest satisfied that I should second him in
methods and details. This explanation passed off becomingly enough, and
ended with a proposal to dine on a moose's nose [<i>an estimed morsel</i>]
the day after to-morrow. I burn your letters, Monsieur, and I beg you to
do the same with mine, after making a note of anything you may want to
keep." But Bourlamaque kept all the letters, and bound them in a volume,
which still exists. <span class="superscript">[472]</span></p>

<div class="footer">
    <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_472" name="footer_472"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[472]</span>
The preceding extracts are from <i>Lettres de Montcalm &agrave; Madame de 
Saint-V&eacute;ran, sa M&egrave;re, et &agrave; Madame de Montcalm, sa 
Femme</i>, 1756, 1757 (<i>Papiers de Famille</i>); and <i>Lettres de
Montcalm &agrave; Bourlamaque</i>, 1757. 
See <a href="#appendixE">Appendix E</a>.</p>
</div>

<p>
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_460-V1" id="Page_460-V1">460<br />V1</a></span> 
Montcalm was not at this time fully aware of the feeling of Vaudreuil
towards him. The touchy egotism of the Governor and his jealous
attachment to the colony led him to claim for himself and the Canadians
the merit of every achievement and to deny it to the French troops and
their general. Before the capture of Oswego was known, he wrote to the
naval minister that Montcalm would never have dared attack that place if
he had not encouraged him and answered his timid objections.
<span class="superscript">[473]</span> "I am
confident that I shall reduce it," he adds; "my expedition is sure to
succeed if Monsieur de Montcalm follows the directions I have given
him." When the good news came he immediately wrote again, declaring that
the victory was due to his brother Rigaud and the Canadians, who, he
says, had been ill-used by the General, and not allowed either to enter
the fort or share the plunder, any more than the Indians, who were so
angry at the treatment they had met that he had great difficulty in
appeasing them. He hints that the success was generally ascribed to him.
"There has been a great deal of talk here; but I will not do myself the
honor of repeating it to you, especially as it relates to myself. I know
how to do violence to my self-love. The measures I took assured our
victory, in spite of opposition. If I had been less vigilant and firm,
Oswego would still be in the hands of the English. I cannot sufficiently
congratulate myself on the zeal which my brother and the Canadians and
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_461-V1" id="Page_461-V1">461<br />V1</a></span> 
Indians showed on this occasion; for without them my orders would have
been given in vain. The hopes of His Britannic Majesty have vanished,
and will hardly revive again; for I shall take care to crush them in the
bud." <span class="superscript">[474]</span></p>

<div class="footer">
    <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_473" name="footer_473"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[473]</span>
<i>Vaudreuil au Ministre de la Marine</i>, 13 <i>Ao&ucirc;t</i>, 1756.</p>
   <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_474" name="footer_474"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[474]</span>
<i>Vaudreuil au Ministre de la Marine</i>, 1 <i>Sept.</i> 1756.</p>
</div>

<p>The pronouns "I" and "my" recur with monotonous frequency in his
correspondence. "I have laid waste all the British provinces." "By
promptly uniting my forces at Carillon, I have kept General Loudon in
check, though he had at his disposal an army of about twenty thousand
men;" <span class="superscript">[475]</span> and so without end, in all 
varieties of repetition. It is no less characteristic that he here assigns 
to his enemies double their actual force.</p>

<div class="footer">
    <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_475" name="footer_475"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[475]</span>
<i>Ibid.</i>, 6 <i>Nov.</i> 1756.</p>
</div>

<p>He has the faintest of praise for the troops from France. "They are
generally good, but thus far they have not absolutely distinguished
themselves. I do justice to the firmness they showed at Oswego; but it
was only the colony troops, Canadians, and Indians who attacked the
forts. Our artillery was directed by the Chevalier Le Mercier and M.
Fr&eacute;mont [<i>colony officers</i>], and was served by our colony troops and our
militia. The officers from France are more inclined to defence than
attack. Far from spending the least thing here, they lay by their pay.
They saved the money allowed them for refreshments, and had it in pocket
at the end of the campaign. They get a profit, too, out of their
provisions, by having certificates made under borrowed names, so that
they can draw 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_462-V1" id="Page_462-V1">462<br />V1</a></span> 
cash for them on their return. It is the same with the
soldiers, who also sell their provisions to the King and get paid for
them. In conjunction with M. Bigot, I labor to remedy all these abuses;
and the rules we have established have saved the King a considerable
expense. M. de Montcalm has complained very much of these rules." The
Intendant Bigot, who here appears as a reformer, was the centre of a
monstrous system of public fraud and robbery; while the charges against
the French officers are unsupported. Vaudreuil, who never loses an
opportunity of disparaging them, proceeds thus:&mdash;</p>

<p>"The troops from France are not on very good terms with our Canadians.
What can the soldiers think of them when they see their officers
threaten them with sticks or swords? The Canadians are obliged to carry
these gentry on their shoulders, through the cold water, over rocks that
cut their feet; and if they make a false step they are abused. Can
anything be harder? Finally, Monsieur de Montcalm is so quick-tempered
that he goes to the length of striking the Canadians. How can he
restrain his officers when he cannot restrain himself? Could any example
be more contagious? This is the way our Canadians are treated. They
deserve something better." He then enlarges on their zeal, hardihood,
and bravery, and adds that nothing but their blind submission to his
commands prevents many of them from showing resentment at the usage they
had to endure. The Indians, he goes on to say, are not so gentle and
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_463-V1" id="Page_463-V1">463<br />V1</a></span> 
yielding; and but for his brother Rigaud and himself, might have gone
off in a rage. "After the campaign of Oswego they did not hesitate to
tell me that they would go wherever I sent them, provided I did not put
them under the orders of M. de Montcalm. They told me positively that
they could not bear his quick temper. I shall always maintain the most
perfect union and understanding with M. le Marquis de Montcalm, but I
shall be forced to take measures which will assure to our Canadians and
Indians treatment such as their zeal and services merit."
<span class="superscript">[476]</span></p>

<div class="footer">
    <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_476" name="footer_476"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[476]</span>
<i>Vaudreuil au Ministre de la Marine</i>, 23 <i>Oct</i>. 1756. The
above extracts are somewhat condensed in the translation. See the letter
in Dussieux, 279.</p>
</div>

<p>To the subject of his complaints Vaudreuil used a different language;
for Montcalm says, after mentioning that he had had occasion to punish
some of the Canadians at Oswego: "I must do Monsieur de Vaudreuil the
justice to say that he approved my proceedings." He treated the General
with the blandest politeness. "He is a good-natured man," continues
Montcalm, "mild, with no character of his own, surrounded by people who
try to destroy all his confidence in the general of the troops from
France. I am praised excessively, in order to make him jealous, excite
his Canadian prejudices, and prevent him from dealing with me frankly,
or adopting my views when he can help it." <span class="superscript">[477]</span>
He elsewhere complains that Vaudreuil gave to both him and L&eacute;vis orders 
couched in such equivocal 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_464-V1" id="Page_464-V1">464<br />V1</a></span> 
terms that he could throw the blame on them in case of
reverse. <span class="superscript">[478]</span>
Montcalm liked the militia no better than the Governor
liked the regulars. "I have used them with good effect, though not in
places exposed to the enemy's fire. They know neither discipline nor
subordination, and think themselves in all respects the first nation on
earth." He is sure, however, that they like him: "I have gained the
utmost confidence of the Canadians and Indians; and in the eyes of the
former, when I travel or visit their camps, I have the air of a tribune
of the people." <span class="superscript">[479]</span> "The affection of 
the Indians for me is so strong that there are moments when it astonishes 
the Governor." <span class="superscript">[480]</span> "The
Indians are delighted with me," he says in another letter; "the
Canadians are pleased with me; their officers esteem and fear me, and
would be glad if the French troops and their general could be dispensed
with; and so should I."
<span class="superscript">[481]</span> And he writes to his mother: "The part I
have to play is unique: I am a general-in-chief subordinated; sometimes
with everything to do, and sometimes nothing; I am esteemed, respected,
beloved, envied, hated; I pass for proud, supple, stiff, yielding,
polite, devout, gallant, etc.; and I long for peace."
<span class="superscript">[482]</span></p>

<div class="footer">
    <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_477" name="footer_477"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[477]</span>
<i>Montcalm au Ministre de la Guerre</i>, 11 <i>Juillet</i>, 1757.</p>
   <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_478" name="footer_478"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[478]</span>
<i>Montcalm au Ministre de la Guerre</i>, 1 <i>Nov</i>. 1756.</p>
   <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_479" name="footer_479"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[479]</span>
<i>Ibid</i>., 18 <i>Sept</i>. 1757.</p>
  <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_480" name="footer_480"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[480]</span>
<i>Ibid</i>., 4 <i>Nov</i>. 1757.</p>
   <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_481" name="footer_481"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[481]</span>
<i>Ibid</i>., 28 <i>Ao&ucirc;t</i>, 1756.</p>
   <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_482" name="footer_482"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[482]</span>
<i>Montcalm &agrave; Madame de Saint-V&eacute;ran</i>, 23 <i>Sept</i>. 
1757.</p>
</div>

<p>The letters of the Governor and those of the General, it will be seen,
contradict each other flatly at several points. Montcalm is sustained by
his 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_465-V1" id="Page_465-V1">465<br />V1</a></span> 
friend Bougainville, who says that the Indians had a great liking
for him, and that he "knew how to manage them as well as if he had been
born in their wigwams." <span class="superscript">[483]</span>
And while Vaudreuil complains that the
Canadians are ill-used by Montcalm, Bougainville declares that the
regulars are ill-used by Vaudreuil. "One must be blind not to see that
we are treated as the Spartans treated the Helots." Then he comments on
the jealous reticence of the Governor. "The Marquis de Montcalm has not
the honor of being consulted; and it is generally through public rumor
that he first hears of Monsieur de Vaudreuil's military plans." He calls
the Governor "a timid man, who can neither make a resolution nor keep
one;" and he gives another trait of him, illustrating it, after his
usual way, by a parallel from the classics: "When V. produces an idea he
falls in love with it, as Pygmalion did with his statue. I can forgive
Pygmalion, for what he produced was a masterpiece." 
<span class="superscript">[484]</span></p>

<div class="footer">
    <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_483" name="footer_483"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[483]</span>
<i>Bougainville &agrave; Saint-Laurens</i>, 19 <i>Ao&ucirc;t</i>, 1757.</p>
   <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_484" name="footer_484"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[484]</span>
Bougainville, <i>Journal</i>.</p>
</div>

<p>The exceeding touchiness of the Governor was sorely tried by certain
indiscretions on the part of the General, who in his rapid and vehement
utterances sometimes forgot the rules of prudence. His anger, though not
deep, was extremely impetuous; and it is said that his irritation
against Vaudreuil sometimes found escape in the presence of servants and
soldiers. <span class="superscript">[485]</span>
There was no lack of 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_466-V1" id="Page_466-V1">466<br />V1</a></span> 
reporters, and the Governor was told
everything. The breach widened apace, and Canada divided itself into two
camps: that of Vaudreuil with the colony officers, civil and military,
and that of Montcalm with the officers from France. The principal
exception was the Chevalier de L&eacute;vis. This brave and able commander had
an easy and adaptable nature, which made him a sort of connecting link
between the two parties. "One should be on good terms with everybody,"
was a maxim which he sometimes expressed, and on which he shaped his
conduct with notable success. The Intendant Bigot also, an adroit and
accomplished person, had the skill to avoid breaking with either side.</p>

<div class="footer">
    <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_485" name="footer_485"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[485]</span>
<i>&Eacute;v&eacute;nements de la Guerre en Canada</i>, 1759, 1760.</p>
</div>

<p>But now the season of action was near, and domestic strife must give
place to efforts against the common foe. "God or devil!" Montcalm wrote
to Bourlamaque, "we must do something and risk a fight. If we succeed,
we can, all three of us [<i>you, L&eacute;vis, and I</i>], ask for promotion. Burn
this letter." The prospects, on the whole, were hopeful. The victory at
Oswego had wrought marvels among the Indians, inspired the faithful,
confirmed the wavering, and daunted the ill-disposed. The whole West was
astir, ready to pour itself again in blood and fire against the English
border; and even the Cherokees and Choctaws, old friends of the British
colonies, seemed on the point of turning against them.
<span class="superscript">[486]</span> The Five
Nations were half won for France. In 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_467-V1" id="Page_467-V1">467<br />V1</a></span> 
November a large deputation of them
came to renew the chain of friendship at Montreal. "I have laid Oswego
in ashes," said Vaudreuil; "the English quail before me. Why do you
nourish serpents in your bosom? They mean only to enslave you." The
deputies trampled under foot the medals the English had given them, and
promised the "Devourer of Villages," for so they styled the Governor,
that they would never more lift the hatchet against his children. The
chief difficulty was to get rid of them; for, being clothed and fed at
the expense of the King, they were in no haste to take leave; and
learning that New Year's Day was a time of visits, gifts, and
health-drinking, they declared that they would stay to share its
pleasures; which they did, to their own satisfaction and the annoyance
of those who were forced to entertain them and their squaws.
<span class="superscript">[487]</span> An
active siding with France was to be expected only from the western bands
of the Confederacy. Neutrality alone could be hoped for from the others,
who were too near the English safely to declare against them; while from
one of the tribes, the Mohawks, even neutrality was doubtful.</p>

<div class="footer">
    <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_486" name="footer_486"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[486]</span>
<i>Vaudreuil au Ministre de la Marine</i>, 19 <i>Avril</i>, 1757.</p>
    <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_487" name="footer_487"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[487]</span>
<i>Montcalm au Ministre de la Guerre</i>, 24 <i>Avril</i>, 1757; 
<i>Relation de l'Ambassade des Cinq Nations &agrave; Montreal, 
jointe &agrave; la lettre pr&eacute;c&eacute;dente. 
Proc&egrave;s-verbal de diff&eacute;rentes Entrevues entre M. de 
Vaudreuil et les D&eacute;put&eacute;s des Nations sauvages du</i> 
13 <i>au</i> 30 <i>D&eacute;c</i>. 1756. 
<i>Malartic, Journal. 
Montcalm &agrave; Madame de Saint-V&eacute;ran</i>, 1 <i>Avril</i>, 1757.
</p>
</div>

<p>Vaudreuil, while disliking the French regulars, felt that he could not
dispense with them, and had asked for a reinforcement. His request was
granted; and the Colonial Minister informed him 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_468-V1" id="Page_468-V1">468<br />V1</a></span> 
that twenty-four hundred
men had been ordered to Canada to strengthen the colony regulars and the
battalions of Montcalm. <span class="superscript">[488]</span>
This, according to the estimate of the
Minister, would raise the regular force in Canada to sixty-six hundred
rank and file. <span class="superscript">[489]</span>
The announcement was followed by another, less
agreeable. It was to the effect that a formidable squadron was fitting
out in British ports. Was Quebec to be attacked, or Louisbourg?
Louisbourg was beyond reach of succor from Canada; it must rely on its
own strength and on help from France. But so long as Quebec was
threatened, all the troops in the colony must be held ready to defend
it, and the hope of attacking England in her own domains must be
abandoned. Till these doubts were solved, nothing could be done; and
hence great activity in catching prisoners for the sake of news. A few
were brought in, but they knew no more of the matter than the French
themselves; and Vaudreuil and Montcalm rested for a while in suspense.</p>

<div class="footer">
    <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_488" name="footer_488"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[488]</span>
<i>Ordres du Roy et D&eacute;p&ecirc;ches des Ministres, Mars</i>, 1757.</p>
   <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_489" name="footer_489"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[489]</span>
<i>Ministerial Minute on the Military Force in Canada</i>, 1757, in 
<i>N.&nbsp;Y. Col. Docs</i>., X. 523.</p>
</div>

<p>The truth, had they known it, would have gladdened their hearts. The
English preparations were aimed at Louisbourg. In the autumn before,
Loudon, prejudiced against all plans of his predecessor, Shirley,
proposed to the Ministry a scheme of his own, involving a possible
attack on Quebec, but with the reduction of Louisbourg as its immediate
object,&mdash;an important object, no doubt, but 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_469-V1" id="Page_469-V1">469<br />V1</a></span> 
one that had no direct
bearing on the main question of controlling the interior of the
continent. Pitt, then for a brief space at the head of the Government,
accepted the suggestion, and set himself to executing it; but he was
hampered by opposition, and early in April was forced to resign. Then,
followed a contest of rival claimants to office; and the war against
France was made subordinate to disputes of personal politics. Meanwhile
one Florence Hensey, a spy at London, had informed the French Court that
a great armament was fitting out for America, though he could not tell
its precise destination. Without loss of time three French squadrons
were sent across the Atlantic, with orders to rendezvous at Louisbourg,
the conjectured point of attack.</p>

<p>The English were as tardy as their enemies were prompt. Everything
depended on speed; yet their fleet, under Admiral Holbourne, consisting
of fifteen ships of the line and three frigates, with about five
thousand troops on board, did not get to sea till the fifth of May, when
it made sail for Halifax, where Loudon was to meet it with additional
forces.</p>

<p>Loudon had drawn off the best part of the troops from the northern
frontier, and they were now at New York waiting for embarkation. That
the design might be kept secret, he laid an embargo on colonial
shipping,&mdash;a measure which exasperated the colonists without answering
its purpose. Now ensued a long delay, during which the troops, the
provincial levies, the transports destined to carry 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_470-V1" id="Page_470-V1">470<br />V1</a></span> 
them, and the ships
of war which were to serve as escort, all lay idle. In the interval
Loudon showed great activity in writing despatches and other avocations
more or less proper to a commander, being always busy, without,
according to Franklin, accomplishing anything. One Innis, who had come
with a message from the Governor of Pennsylvania, and had waited above a
fortnight for the General's reply, remarked of him that he was like St.
George on a tavern sign, always on horseback, and never riding on.
<span class="superscript">[490]</span>
Yet nobody longed more than he to reach the rendezvous at Halifax. He
was waiting for news of Holbourne, and he waited in vain. He knew only
that a French fleet had been seen off the coast strong enough to
overpower his escort and sink all his transports.
<span class="superscript">[491]</span> But the season
was growing late; he must act quickly if he was to act at all. He and
Sir Charles Hardy agreed between them that the risk must be run; and on
the twentieth of June the whole force put to sea. They met no enemy, and
entered Halifax harbor on the thirtieth. Holbourne and his fleet had not
yet appeared; but his ships soon came straggling in, and before the
tenth of July all were at anchor before the town. Then there was more
delay. The troops, nearly twelve thousand in all, were landed, and weeks
were spent in drilling them and planting vegetables for their
refreshment. 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_471-V1" id="Page_471-V1">471<br />V1</a></span> 
Sir Charles Hay was put under arrest for saying that the
nation's money was spent in sham battles and raising cabbages. Some
attempts were made to learn the state of Louisbourg; and Captain Gorham,
of the rangers, who reconnoitred it from a fishing vessel, brought back
an imperfect report, upon which, after some hesitation, it was resolved
to proceed to the attack. The troops were embarked again, and all was
ready, when, on the fourth of August, a sloop came from Newfoundland,
bringing letters found on board a French vessel lately captured. From
these it appeared that all three of the French squadrons were united in
the harbor of Louisbourg, to the number of twenty-two ships of the line,
besides several frigates, and that the garrison had been increased to a
total force of seven thousand men, ensconced in the strongest fortress
of the continent. So far as concerned the naval force, the account was
true. La Motte, the French admiral, had with him a fleet carrying an
aggregate of thirteen hundred and sixty cannon, anchored in a sheltered
harbor under the guns of the town. Success was now hopeless, and the
costly enterprise was at once abandoned. Loudon with his troops sailed
back for New York, and Admiral Holbourne, who had been joined by four
additional ships, steered for Louisbourg, in hopes that the French fleet
would come out and fight him. He cruised off the port; but La Motte did
not accept the challenge.</p>


<div class="footer">
    <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_490" name="footer_490"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[490]</span>
<i>Works of Franklin</i>, I. 219. Franklin intimates that while Loudon was 
constantly writing, he rarely sent off despatches. This is a mistake; there 
is abundance of them, often tediously long, in the Public Record Office.</p>
   <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_491" name="footer_491"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[491]</span>
<i>Loudon to Pitt</i>, 30 <i>May</i>, 1757. He had not learned
Pitt's resignation.</p>
</div>

<p>
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_472-V1" id="Page_472-V1">472<br />V1</a></span> 
The elements declared for France. A September gale, of fury rare even on
that tempestuous coast, burst upon the British fleet. "It blew a perfect
hurricane," says the unfortunate Admiral, "and drove us right on shore."
One ship was dashed on the rocks, two leagues from Louisbourg. A
shifting of the wind in the nick of time saved the rest from total
wreck. Nine were dismasted; others threw their cannon into the sea. Not
one was left fit for immediate action; and had La Motte sailed out of
Louisbourg, he would have had them all at his mercy.</p>

<p>Delay, the source of most of the disasters that befell England and her
colonies at this dismal epoch, was the ruin of the Louisbourg
expedition. The greater part of La Motte's fleet reached its destination
a full month before that of Holbourne. Had the reverse taken place, the
fortress must have fallen. As it was, the ill-starred attempt, drawing
off the British forces from the frontier, where they were needed most,
did for France more than she could have done for herself, and gave
Montcalm and Vaudreuil the opportunity to execute a scheme which they
had nursed since the fall of Oswego. <span class="superscript">[492]</span></p>

<div class="footer">
    <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_492" name="footer_492"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[492]</span>
<i>Despatches of Loudon, Feb. to Aug</i>. 1757. 
Knox, <i>Campaigns in North America, I</i>. 6-28. 
Knox was in the expedition. 
<i>Review of Mr. Pitt's Administration</i> (London, 1763). 
<i>The Conduct of a Noble Commander in America impartially reviewed</i> 
(London, 1758). 
Beatson, <i>Naval and Military Memoirs</i>, II. 49-59. 
<i>Answer to the Letter to two Great Men</i> (London, 1760). 
Entick, II. 168, 169. 
<i>Holbourne to Loudon</i>, 4 <i>Aug</i>. 1757. 
<i>Holbourne to Pitt</i>, 29 <i>Sept</i>. 1757. 
<i>Ibid</i>., 30 <i>Sept</i>. 1757. 
<i>Holbourne to Pownall</i>, 2 <i>Nov.</i> 1757. 
Mante, 86, 97.
<i>Relation du D&eacute;sastre arriv&eacute; &agrave; la Flotte 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_473-V1" id="Page_473-V1">473<br />V1</a></span> 
Anglaise command&eacute;e par l'Amiral Holbourne</i>. 
Chevalier Johnstone, <i>Campaign of Louisbourg. London Magazine</i>, 
1757, 514. <i>Gentleman's Magazine</i>, 1757, 463, 476. 
<i>Ibid</i>., 1758, 168-173.</p>

<p>It has been said that Loudon was scared from his task by false reports
of the strength of the French at Louisbourg. This was not the case. The
<i>Gazette de France</i>, 621, says that La Motte had twenty-four ships of
war. Bougainville says that as early as the ninth of June there were
twenty-one ships of war, including five frigates, at Louisbourg. To this
the list given by Knox closely answers.</p>
</div>

<hr />
<div class="chapterhead">
   <br /><a name="Chapter_15" id="Chapter_15"></a>
	 <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_474-V1" id="Page_474-V1">474<br />V1</a></span> 
	 <br /><br /><br />
	 <h2><a href="#Contents15">CHAPTER XV.</a><br />
	 <span class="med">1757.</span>
	 </h2> 
	 <p class="smcapheader">FORT WILLIAM HENRY.</p>
	 <p class="smcap noindent space-bottom">
	 Another Blow &bull; The War-song &bull; The Army at Ticonderoga &bull;
	 Indian Allies &bull; The War-feast &bull; Treatment of Prisoners &bull;
	 Cannibalism &bull; Surprise and Slaughter &bull; The War Council &bull;
	 March of L&eacute;vis &bull; The Army embarks &bull; 
	 Fort William Henry &bull; Nocturnal Scene &bull; Indian Funeral &bull;
	 Advance upon the Fort &bull; General Webb &bull; His Difficulties &bull;
	 His Weakness &bull; The Siege begun &bull; Conduct of the Indians &bull; 
	 The Intercepted Letter &bull; Desperate Position of the Besieged &bull; 
	 Capitulation &bull; Ferocity of the Indians &bull; 
	 Mission of Bougainville &bull; Murder of Wounded Men &bull; 
	 A Scene of Terror &bull; The Massacre &bull; Efforts of Montcalm &bull; 
	 The Fort burned.
   </p> 				
	 <p class="break1"></p> 
</div> 

<p class="double-space-top">
"<span class="smcap">I am</span> going on the ninth to sing the war-song 
at the Lake of Two Mountains, and on the next day at Saut St. 
Louis,&mdash;a long, tiresome ceremony. On the twelfth I am off; and I 
count on having news to tell you by the end of this month or the 
beginning of next." Thus Montcalm wrote to his wife from Montreal 
early in July. All doubts had been solved. Prisoners taken on the Hudson 
and despatches from Versailles had made it certain that Loudon was bound 
to Louisbourg, carrying with him the best of the troops that had guarded 
the New York frontier. The time was come, not only to strike the English 
on Lake George, but perhaps to seize Fort Edward and carry terror to 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_475-V1" id="Page_475-V1">475<br />V1</a></span> 
Albany itself. Only one difficulty remained, the want of provisions. 
Agents were sent to collect corn and bacon among the inhabitants; the 
cur&eacute;s and militia captains were ordered to aid in the work; 
and enough was presently found to feed twelve thousand men for a 
month. <span class="superscript">[493]</span></p>

<div class="footer">
    <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_493" name="footer_493"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[493]</span>
Vaudreuil, <i>Lettres circulates aux Cur&eacute;s et aux
Capitaines de Milice des Paroisses du Gouvernement de Montreal</i>, 
16 <i>Juin</i>, 1757.</p>
</div>

<p>The emissaries of the Governor had been busy all winter among the tribes
of the West and North; and more than a thousand savages, lured by
prospect of gifts, scalps, and plunder, were now encamped at Montreal.
Many of them had never visited a French settlement before. All were
eager to see Montcalm, whose exploit in taking Oswego had inflamed their
imagination; and one day, on a visit of ceremony, an orator from
Michillimackinac addressed the General thus: "We wanted to see this
famous man who tramples the English under his feet. We thought we should
find him so tall that his head would be lost in the clouds. But you are
a little man, my Father. It is when we look into your eyes that we see
the greatness of the pine-tree and the fire of the eagle."
<span class="superscript">[494]</span></p>

<div class="footer">
    <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_494" name="footer_494"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[494]</span>
Bougainville, <i>Journal</i>.</p>
</div>

<p>It remained to muster the Mission Indians settled in or near the limits
of the colony; and it was to this end that Montcalm went to sing the
war-song with the converts of the Two Mountains. Rigaud, Bougainville,
young Longueuil, and others were of the party; and when they landed, the
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_476-V1" id="Page_476-V1">476<br />V1</a></span> 
Indians came down to the shore, their priests at their head, and greeted
the General with a volley of musketry; then received him after dark in
their grand council-lodge, where the circle of wild and savage visages,
half seen in the dim light of a few candles, suggested to Bougainville a
midnight conclave of wizards. He acted vicariously the chief part in the
ceremony. "I sang the war-song in the name of M. de Montcalm, and was
much applauded. It was nothing but these words: 'Let us trample the
English under our feet,' chanted over and over again, in cadence with
the movements of the savages." Then came the war-feast, against which
occasion Montcalm had caused three oxen to be roasted.
<span class="superscript">[495]</span> On the next
day the party went to Caughnawaga, or Saut St. Louis, where the ceremony
was repeated; and Bougainville, who again sang the war-song in the name
of his commander, was requited by adoption into the clan of the Turtle.
Three more oxen were solemnly devoured, and with one voice the warriors
took up the hatchet.</p>

<div class="footer">
    <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_495" name="footer_495"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[495]</span>
Bougainville describes a ceremony in the Mission Church
of the Two Mountains in which warriors and squaws sang in the choir.
Ninety-nine years after, in 1856, I was present at a similar ceremony on
the same spot, and heard the descendants of the same warriors and squaws
sing like their ancestors. Great changes have since taken place at this
old mission.</p>
</div>

<p>Meanwhile troops, Canadians and Indians, were moving by detachments up
Lake Champlain. Fleets of bateaux and canoes followed each other day by
day along the capricious lake, in calm or storm, sunshine or rain, till,
towards the end of 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_477-V1" id="Page_477-V1">477<br />V1</a></span> 
July, the whole force was gathered at Ticonderoga,
the base of the intended movement. Bourlamaque had been there since May
with the battalions of B&eacute;arn and Royal Roussillon, finishing the fort,
sending out war-parties, and trying to discover the force and designs of
the English at Fort William Henry.</p>

<p>Ticonderoga is a high rocky promontory between Lake Champlain on the
north and the mouth of the outlet of Lake George on the south. Near its
extremity and close to the fort were still encamped the two battalions
under Bourlamaque, while bateaux and canoes were passing incessantly up
the river of the outlet. There were scarcely two miles of navigable
water, at the end of which the stream fell foaming over a high ledge of
rock that barred the way. Here the French were building a saw-mill; and
a wide space had been cleared to form an encampment defended on all
sides by an abattis, within which stood the tents of the battalions of
La Reine, La Sarre, Languedoc, and Guienne, all commanded by L&eacute;vis.
Above the cascade the stream circled through the forest in a series of
beautiful rapids, and from the camp of L&eacute;vis a road a mile and a half
long had been cut to the navigable water above. At the end of this road
there was another fortified camp, formed of colony regulars, Canadians,
and Indians, under Rigaud. It was scarcely a mile farther to Lake
George, where on the western side there was an outpost, chiefly of
Canadians and Indians; while advanced parties were stationed at Bald
Mountain, 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_478-V1" id="Page_478-V1">478<br />V1</a></span> 
now called Rogers Rock, and elsewhere on the lake, to watch
the movements of the English. The various encampments just mentioned
were ranged along a valley extending four miles from Lake Champlain to
Lake George, and bordered by mountains wooded to the top.</p>

<p>Here was gathered a martial population of eight thousand men, including
the brightest civilization and the darkest barbarism: from the
scholar-soldier Montcalm and his no less accomplished aide-de-camp; from
L&eacute;vis, conspicuous for graces of person; from a throng of courtly young
officers, who would have seemed out of place in that wilderness had they
not done their work so well in it; from these to the foulest man-eating
savage of the uttermost northwest.</p>

<p>Of Indian allies there were nearly two thousand. One of their tribes,
the Iowas, spoke a language which no interpreter understood; and they
all bivouacked where they saw fit: for no man could control them. "I see
no difference," says Bougainville, "in the dress, ornaments, dances, and
songs of the various western nations. They go naked, excepting a strip
of cloth passed through a belt, and paint themselves black, red, blue,
and other colors. Their heads are shaved and adorned with bunches of
feathers, and they wear rings of brass wire in their ears. They wear
beaver-skin blankets, and carry lances, bows and arrows, and quivers
made of the skins of beasts. For the rest they are straight, well made,
and generally very tall. Their religion is brute 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_479-V1" id="Page_479-V1">479<br />V1</a></span> 
paganism. I will say it once for all, one must be the slave of these savages, 
listen to them day and night, in council and in private, whenever the fancy 
takes them, or whenever a dream, a fit of the vapors, or their perpetual 
craving for brandy, gets possession of them; besides which they are always 
wanting something for their equipment, arms, or toilet, and the general of the
army must give written orders for the smallest trifle,&mdash;an eternal,
wearisome detail, of which one has no idea in Europe."</p>

<p>It was not easy to keep them fed. Rations would be served to them for a
week; they would consume them in three days, and come for more. On one
occasion they took the matter into their own hands, and butchered and
devoured eighteen head of cattle intended for the troops; nor did any
officer dare oppose this "St. Bartholomew of the oxen," as Bougainville
calls it. "Their paradise is to be drunk," says the young officer. Their
paradise was rather a hell; for sometimes, when mad with brandy, they
grappled and tore each other with their teeth like wolves. They were
continually "making medicine," that is, consulting the Manitou, to whom
they hung up offerings, sometimes a dead dog, and sometimes the
belt-cloth which formed their only garment.</p>

<p>The Mission Indians were better allies than these heathen of the west;
and their priests, who followed them to the war, had great influence
over them. They were armed with guns, which they well knew how to use.
Their dress, though savage, 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_480-V1" id="Page_480-V1">480<br />V1</a></span> 
was generally decent, and they were not cannibals; though in other respects 
they retained all their traditional ferocity and most of their traditional 
habits. They held frequent war-feasts, one of which is described by Roubaud, 
Jesuit missionary of the Abenakis of St. Francis, whose flock formed a part
of the company present.</p>

<p>"Imagine," says the father, "a great assembly of savages adorned with
every ornament most suited to disfigure them in European eyes, painted
with vermilion, white, green, yellow, and black made of soot and the
scrapings of pots. A single savage face combines all these different
colors, methodically laid on with the help of a little tallow, which
serves for pomatum. The head is shaved except at the top, where there is
a small tuft, to which are fastened feathers, a few beads of wampum, or
some such trinket. Every part of the head has its ornament. Pendants
hang from the nose and also from the ears, which are split in infancy
and drawn down by weights till they flap at last against the shoulders.
The rest of the equipment answers to this fantastic decoration: a shirt
bedaubed with vermilion, wampum collars, silver bracelets, a large knife
hanging on the breast, moose-skin moccasons, and a belt of various
colors always absurdly combined. The sachems and war-chiefs are
distinguished from the rest: the latter by a gorget, and the former by a
medal, with the King's portrait on one side, and on the other Mars and
Bellona joining hands, with the device, <i>Virtues et Honor</i>."</p>

<p>
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_481-V1" id="Page_481-V1">481<br />V1</a></span> 
Thus attired, the company sat in two lines facing each other, with
kettles in the middle filled with meat chopped for distribution. To a
dignified silence succeeded songs, sung by several chiefs in succession,
and compared by the narrator to the howling of wolves. Then followed a
speech from the chief orator, highly commended by Roubaud, who could not
help admiring this effort of savage eloquence. "After the harangue," he
continues, "they proceeded to nominate the chiefs who were to take
command. As soon as one was named he rose and took the head of some
animal that had been butchered for the feast. He raised it aloft so that
all the company could see it, and cried: 'Behold the head of the enemy!'
Applause and cries of joy rose from all parts of the assembly. The
chief, with the head in his hand, passed down between the lines, singing
his war-song, bragging of his exploits, taunting and defying the enemy,
and glorifying himself beyond all measure. To hear his self-laudation in
these moments of martial transport one would think him a conquering hero
ready to sweep everything before him. As he passed in front of the other
savages, they would respond by dull broken cries jerked up from the
depths of their stomachs, and accompanied by movements of their bodies
so odd that one must be well used to them to keep countenance. In the
course of his song the chief would utter from time to time some
grotesque witticism; then he would stop, as if pleased with himself, or
rather to listen to the thousand confused 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_482-V1" id="Page_482-V1">482<br />V1</a></span> 
cries of applause that greeted his ears. He kept up his martial promenade 
as long as he liked the sport; and when he had had enough, ended by flinging 
down the head of the animal with an air of contempt, to show that his warlike 
appetite craved meat of another sort." <span class="superscript">[496]</span> 
Others followed with similar songs and pantomime, and the festival was 
closed at last by ladling out the meat from the kettles, and devouring it.
</p>

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    <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_496" name="footer_496"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[496]</span>
<i>Lettre du P&egrave;re</i> &hellip; (Roubaud), <i>Missionnaire chez les
Abnakis</i>, 21 <i>Oct</i>. 1757, in <i>Lettres Edifiantes et Curieuses</i>, 
VI. 189 (1810).</p>
</div>

<p>Roubaud was one day near the fort, when he saw the shore lined with a
thousand Indians, watching four or five English prisoners, who, with the
war-party that had captured them, were approaching in a boat from the
farther side of the water. Suddenly the whole savage crew broke away
together and ran into the neighboring woods, whence they soon emerged,
yelling diabolically, each armed with a club. The wretched prisoners
were to be forced to "run the gauntlet," which would probably have killed
them. They were saved by the chief who commanded the war-party, and who,
on the persuasion of a French officer, claimed them as his own and
forbade the game; upon which, according to rule in such cases, the rest
abandoned it. On this same day the missionary met troops of Indians
conducting several bands of English prisoners along the road that led
through the forest from the camp of L&eacute;vis. Each of the captives was held
by a cord made fast about the neck; and the sweat was 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_483-V1" id="Page_483-V1">483<br />V1</a></span> 
starting from
their brows in the extremity of their horror and distress. Roubaud's
tent was at this time in the camp of the Ottawas. He presently saw a
large number of them squatted about a fire, before which meat was
roasting on sticks stuck in the ground; and, approaching, he saw that it
was the flesh of an Englishman, other parts of which were boiling in a
kettle, while near by sat eight or ten of the prisoners, forced to see
their comrade devoured. The horror-stricken priest began to remonstrate;
on which a young savage fiercely replied in broken French: "You have
French taste; I have Indian. This is good meat for me;" and the feasters
pressed him to share it.</p>

<p>Bougainville says that this abomination could not be prevented; which
only means that if force had been used to stop it, the Ottawas would
have gone home in a rage. They were therefore left to finish their meal
undisturbed. Having eaten one of their prisoners, they began to treat
the rest with the utmost kindness, bringing them white bread, and
attending to all their wants,&mdash;a seeming change of heart due to the fact
that they were a valuable commodity, for which the owners hoped to get a
good price at Montreal. Montcalm wished to send them thither at once, to
which after long debate the Indians consented, demanding, however, a
receipt in full, and bargaining that the captives should be supplied
with shoes and blankets.
<span class="superscript">[497]</span></p>


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    <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_497" name="footer_497"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[497]</span>
<i>Journal de l'Exp&eacute;dition contre le Fort George</i> [William
Henry] <i>du</i> 12 <i>Juillet au</i> 16 <i>Ao&ucirc;t</i>, 1757. 
Bougainville, <i>Journal. Lettre du P. Roubaud</i>.</p>
</div>

<p>
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_484-V1" id="Page_484-V1">484<br />V1</a></span> 
These unfortunates belonged to a detachment of three hundred
provincials, chiefly New Jersey men, sent from Fort William Henry under
command of Colonel Parker to reconnoitre the French outposts. Montcalm's
scouts discovered them; on which a band of Indians, considerably more
numerous, went to meet them under a French partisan named Corbi&egrave;re, and
ambushed themselves not far from Sabbath Day Point. Parker had rashly
divided his force; and at daybreak of the twenty-sixth of July three of
his boats fell into the snare, and were captured without a shot. Three
others followed, in ignorance of what had happened, and shared the fate
of the first. When the rest drew near, they were greeted by a deadly
volley from the thickets, and a swarm of canoes darted out upon them.
The men were seized with such a panic that some of them jumped into the
water to escape, while the Indians leaped after them and speared them
with their lances like fish. "Terrified," says Bougainville, "by the
sight of these monsters, their agility, their firing, and their yells,
they surrendered almost without resistance." About a hundred, however,
made their escape. The rest were killed or captured, and three of the
bodies were eaten on the spot. The journalist adds that the victory so
elated the Indians that they became insupportable; "but here in the
forests of America we can no more do without them than without cavalry
on the plain." <span class="superscript">[498]</span></p>

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    <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_498" name="footer_498"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[498]</span>
Bougainville, <i>Journal</i>. Malartic, <i>Journal</i>. 
<i>Montcalm &agrave; Vaudreuil</i>, 27 <i>Juillet</i>, 1757. 
<i>Webb to Loudon</i>, 1 <i>Aug.</i> 1757. 
<i>Webb to Delancey</i>, 30 <i>July</i>, 1757. 
<i>Journal de l'Exp&eacute;dition contre le Fort George.
London Magazine</i>, 1757, 457. 
Miles, <i>French and Indian Wars. Boston Gazette</i>, 15 <i>Aug</i>. 1757.</p>
</div>

<p>
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_485-V1" id="Page_485-V1">485<br />V1</a></span> 
Another success at about the same time did not tend to improve their
manners. A hundred and fifty of them, along with a few Canadians under
Marin, made a dash at Fort Edward, killed or drove in the pickets, and
returned with thirty-two scalps and a prisoner. It was found, however,
that the scalps were far from representing an equal number of heads, the
Indians having learned the art of making two or three out of one by
judicious division. <span class="superscript">[499]</span></p>


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    <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_499" name="footer_499"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[499]</span>
This affair was much exaggerated at the time. I follow
Bougainville, who had the facts from Marin. According to him, the
thirty-two scalps represented eleven killed; which exactly answers to
the English loss as stated by Colonel Frye in a letter from Fort
Edward.</p>
</div>

<p>Preparations were urged on with the utmost energy. Provisions, camp
equipage, ammunition, cannon, and bateaux were dragged by gangs of men
up the road from the camp of L&eacute;vis to the head of the rapids. The work
went on through heat and rain, by day and night, till, at the end of
July, all was done. Now, on the eve of departure, Montcalm, anxious for
harmony among his red allies, called them to a grand council near the
camp of Rigaud. Forty-one tribes and sub-tribes, Christian and heathen,
from the east and from the west, were represented in it. Here were the
mission savages,&mdash;Iroquois of Caughnawaga, Two Mountains, and La
Pr&eacute;sentation; Hurons of Lorette and Detroit; Nipissings of Lake
Nipissing; Abenakis of St. Francis, Becancour, Missisqui, and the
Penobscot; Algonkins of Three 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_486-V1" id="Page_486-V1">486<br />V1</a></span> 
Rivers and Two Mountains; Micmacs and
Malecites from Acadia: in all eight hundred chiefs and warriors. With
these came the heathen of the west,&mdash;Ottawas of seven distinct bands;
Ojibwas from Lake Superior, and Mississagas from the region of Lakes
Erie and Huron; Pottawattamies and Menomonies from Lake Michigan; Sacs,
Foxes, and Winnebagoes from Wisconsin; Miamis from the prairies of
Illinois, and Iowas from the banks of the Des Moines: nine hundred and
seventy-nine chiefs and warriors, men of the forests and men of the
plains, hunters of the moose and hunters of the buffalo, bearers of
steel hatchets and stone war-clubs, of French guns and of flint-headed
arrows. All sat in silence, decked with ceremonial paint, scalp-locks,
eagle plumes, or horns of buffalo; and the dark and wild assemblage was
edged with white uniforms of officers from France, who came in numbers
to the spectacle. Other officers were also here, all belonging to the
colony. They had been appointed to the command of the Indian allies,
over whom, however, they had little or no real authority. First among
them was the bold and hardy Saint-Luc de la Corne, who was called
general of the Indians; and under him were others, each assigned to some
tribe or group of tribes,&mdash;the intrepid Marin; Charles Langlade, who had
left his squaw wife at Michillimackinac to join the war; Niverville,
Langis, La Plante, Hertel, Longueuil, Herbin, Lorimier, Sabrevois, and
Fleurimont; men familiar from childhood with forests and savages. 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_487-V1" id="Page_487-V1">487<br />V1</a></span> 
Each tribe had its interpreter, often as lawless as those with whom he had
spent his life; and for the converted tribes there were three
missionaries,&mdash;Piquet for the Iroquois, Mathevet for the Nipissings, who
were half heathen, and Roubaud for the Abenakis.
<span class="superscript">[500]</span></p>

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    <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_500" name="footer_500"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[500]</span>
The above is chiefly from <i>Tableau des Sauvages qui se trouvent &agrave; 
l'Arm&eacute;e du Marquis de Montcalm, le</i> 28 <i>Juillet</i>, 1757.
Forty-one tribes and sub-tribes are here named, some, however,
represented by only three or four warriors. Besides those set down under
the head of Christians, it is stated that a few of the Ottawas of
Detroit and Michillimackinac still retained the faith.</p>
</div>

<p>There was some complaint among the Indians because they were crowded
upon by the officers who came as spectators. This difficulty being
removed, the council opened, Montcalm having already explained his plans
to the chiefs and told them the part he expected them to play.</p>

<p>Pennahouel, chief of the Ottawas, and senior of all the Assembly, rose
and said: "My father, I, who have counted more moons than any here,
thank you for the good words you have spoken. I approve them. Nobody
ever spoke better. It is the Manitou of War who inspires you."</p>

<p>Kikensick, chief of the Nipissings, rose in behalf of the Christian
Indians, and addressed the heathen of the west. "Brothers, we thank you
for coming to help us defend our lands against the English. Our cause is
good. The Master of Life is on our side. Can you doubt it, brothers,
after the great blow you have just struck? It covers you with glory. The
lake, red with the blood of Corlaer [<i>the English</i>] bears witness
forever 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_488-V1" id="Page_488-V1">488<br />V1</a></span> 
to your achievement. We too share your glory, and are proud of
what you have done." Then, turning to Montcalm: "We are even more glad
than you, my father, who have crossed the great water, not for your own
sake, but to obey the great King and defend his children. He has bound
us all together by the most solemn of ties. Let us take care that
nothing shall separate us."</p>

<p>The various interpreters, each in turn, having explained this speech to
the Assembly, it was received with ejaculations of applause; and when
they had ceased, Montcalm spoke as follows: "Children, I am delighted to
see you all joined in this good work. So long as you remain one, the
English cannot resist you. The great King has sent me to protect and
defend you; but above all he has charged me to make you happy and
unconquerable, by establishing among you the union which ought to
prevail among brothers, children of one father, the great Onontio." Then
he held out a prodigious wampum belt of six thousand beads: "Take this
sacred pledge of his word. The union of the beads of which it is made is
the sign of your united strength. By it I bind you all together, so that
none of you can separate from the rest till the English are defeated and
their fort destroyed."</p>

<p>Pennahouel took up the belt and said: "Behold, brothers, a circle drawn
around us by the great Onontio. Let none of us go out from it; for so
long as we keep in it, the Master of Life will help all our
undertakings." Other chiefs spoke to the 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_489-V1" id="Page_489-V1">489<br />V1</a></span> 
same effect, and the council
closed in perfect harmony. <span class="superscript">[501]</span> 
Its various members bivouacked together at the camp by the lake, and by their 
carelessness soon set it on fire; whence the place became known as the Burned 
Camp. Those from the missions confessed their sins all day; while their 
heathen brothers hung an old coat and a pair of leggings on a pole as tribute 
to the Manitou. This greatly embarrassed the three priests, who were about to 
say Mass, but doubted whether they ought to say it in presence of a sacrifice 
to the devil. Hereupon they took counsel of Montcalm. "Better say it so
than not at all," replied the military casuist. Brandy being prudently
denied them, the allies grew restless; and the greater part paddled up
the lake to a spot near the place where Parker had been defeated. Here
they encamped to wait the arrival of the army, and amused themselves
meantime with killing rattlesnakes, there being a populous "den" of
those reptiles among the neighboring rocks.</p>

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    <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_501" name="footer_501"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[501]</span>
Bougainville, <i>Journal</i>.</p>
</div>

<p>Montcalm sent a circular letter to the regular officers, urging them to
dispense for a while with luxuries, and even comforts. "We have but few
bateaux, and these are so filled with stores that a large division of
the army must go by land;" and he directed that everything not
absolutely necessary should be left behind, and that a canvas shelter to
every two officers should serve them for a tent, and a bearskin for a
bed. "Yet I do not forbid a mattress," he adds. "Age and infirmities 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_490-V1" id="Page_490-V1">490<br />V1</a></span> 
may
make it necessary to some; but I shall not have one myself, and make no
doubt that all who can will willingly imitate me."
<span class="superscript">[502]</span></p>

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    <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_502" name="footer_502"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[502]</span>
<i>Circulaire du Marquis de Montcalm</i>, 25 <i>Juillet</i>, 1757.</p>
</div>

<p>The bateaux lay ready by the shore, but could not carry the whole force;
and L&eacute;vis received orders to march by the side of the lake with
twenty-five hundred men, Canadians, regulars, and Iroquois. He set out
at daybreak of the thirtieth of July, his men carrying nothing but their
knapsacks, blankets, and weapons. Guided by the unerring Indians, they
climbed the steep gorge at the side of Rogers Rock, gained the valley
beyond, and marched southward along a Mohawk trail which threaded the
forest in a course parallel to the lake. The way was of the roughest;
many straggled from the line, and two officers completely broke down.
The first destination of the party was the mouth of Ganouskie Bay, now
called Northwest Bay, where they were to wait for Montcalm, and kindle
three fires as a signal that they had reached the rendezvous.
<span class="superscript">[503]</span></p>

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    <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_503" name="footer_503"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[503]</span>
<i>Guerre du Canada, par le Chevalier de L&eacute;vis</i>. This
manuscript of L&eacute;vis is largely in the nature of a journal.</p>
</div>

<p>Montcalm left a detachment to hold Ticonderoga; and then, on the first
of August, at two in the afternoon, he embarked at the Burned Camp with
all his remaining force. Including those with L&eacute;vis, the expedition
counted about seven thousand six hundred men, of whom more than sixteen
hundred were Indians. <span class="superscript">[504]</span>
At five in the 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_491-V1" id="Page_491-V1">491<br />V1</a></span> 
afternoon they reached the
place where the Indians, having finished their rattlesnake hunt, were
smoking their pipes and waiting for the army. The red warriors embarked,
and joined the French flotilla; and now, as evening drew near, was seen
one of those wild pageantries of war which Lake George has often
witnessed. A restless multitude of birch canoes, filled with painted
savages, glided by shores and islands, like troops of swimming
water-fowl. Two hundred and fifty bateaux came next, moved by sail and
oar, some bearing the Canadian militia, and some the battalions of Old
France in trim and gay attire: first, La Reine and Languedoc; then the
colony regulars; then La Sarre and Guienne; then the Canadian brigade of
Courtemanche; then the cannon and mortars, each on a platform sustained
by two bateaux lashed side by side, and rowed by the militia of
Saint-Ours; then the battalions of B&eacute;arn and Royal Roussillon; then the
Canadians of Gasp&eacute;, with the provision-bateaux and the field-hospital;
and, lastly, a rear guard of regulars closed the line. So, under the
flush of sunset, they held their course along the romantic lake, to play
their part in the historic drama that lends a stern enchantment to its
fascinating scenery. They passed the Narrows in mist and darkness; and
when, a little before dawn, they rounded the high promontory of Tongue
Mountain, 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_492-V1" id="Page_492-V1">492<br />V1</a></span> 
they saw, far on the right, three fiery sparks shining through
the gloom. These were the signal-fires of L&eacute;vis, to tell them that he
had reached the appointed spot. <span class="superscript">[505]</span></p>

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    <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_504" name="footer_504"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[504]</span>
<i>&Eacute;tat de l'Arm&eacute;e Fran&ccedil;aise devant le Fort George,
autrement Guillaume-Henri, le</i> 3 <i>Ao&ucirc;t</i>, 1757. 
<i>Tableau des Sauvages qui se trouvent &agrave; l'Arm&eacute;e du Marquis de 
Montcalm, le</i> 28 <i>Juillet</i>, 1757. This gives a total of 1,799 Indians, 
of whom some afterwards left the army. <i>&Eacute;tat de l'Arm&eacute;e du Roi 
en Canada, sur le Lac St. Sacrement et dans les Camps de Carillon, le</i> 29 
<i>Juillet</i>, 1757. This gives a total of 8,019 men, of whom about four 
hundred were left in garrison at Ticonderoga.</p>
   <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_505" name="footer_505"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[505]</span>
The site of the present village of Bolton.</p>
</div>

<p>L&eacute;vis had arrived the evening before, after his hard march through the
sultry midsummer forest. His men had now rested for a night, and at ten
in the morning he marched again. Montcalm followed at noon, and coasted
the western shore, till, towards evening, he found L&eacute;vis waiting for him
by the margin of a small bay not far from the English fort, though
hidden from it by a projecting point of land. Canoes and bateaux were
drawn up on the beach, and the united forces made their bivouac
together.</p>

<p>The earthen mounds of Fort William Henry still stand by the brink of
Lake George; and seated at the sunset of an August day under the pines
that cover them, one gazes on a scene of soft and soothing beauty, where
dreamy waters reflect the glories of the mountains and the sky. As it
is to-day, so it was then; all breathed repose and peace. The splash of
some leaping trout, or the dipping wing of a passing swallow, alone
disturbed the summer calm of that unruffled mirror.</p>

<p>About ten o'clock at night two boats set out from the fort to
reconnoitre. They were passing a point of land on their left, two miles
or more down the lake, when the men on board descried through the gloom
a strange object against the bank; and they rowed towards it to learn
what it 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_493-V1" id="Page_493-V1">493<br />V1</a></span> 
might be. It was an awning over the bateaux that carried Roubaud
and his brother missionaries. As the rash oarsmen drew near, the
bleating of a sheep in one of the French provision-boats warned them of
danger; and turning, they pulled for their lives towards the eastern
shore. Instantly more than a thousand Indians threw themselves into
their canoes and dashed in hot pursuit, making the lake and the
mountains ring with the din of their war-whoops. The fugitives had
nearly reached land when their pursuers opened fire. They replied; shot
one Indian dead, and wounded another; then snatched their oars again,
and gained the beach. But the whole savage crew was upon them. Several
were killed, three were taken, and the rest escaped in the dark
woods.<span class="superscript">[506]</span>
 The prisoners were brought before Montcalm, and gave him
valuable information of the strength and position of the English.
<span class="superscript">[507]</span></p>

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    <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_506" name="footer_506"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[506]</span>
<i>Lettre du P&egrave;re Roubaud</i>, 21 <i>Oct</i>. 1757. Roubaud, who saw
the whole, says that twelve hundred Indians joined the chase, and that
their yells were terrific.</p>
   <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_507" name="footer_507"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[507]</span>
The remains of Fort William Henry are now&mdash;1882&mdash;crowded
between a hotel and the wharf and station of a railway. While I write, a
scheme is on foot to level the whole for other railway structures. When
I first knew the place the ground was in much the same state as in the
time of Montcalm.</p>
</div>

<p>The Indian who was killed was a noted chief of the Nipissings; and his
tribesmen howled in grief for their bereavement. They painted his face
with vermilion, tied feathers in his hair, hung pendants in his ears and
nose, clad him in a resplendent war-dress, put silver bracelets on his
arms, hung a gorget on his breast with a flame 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_494-V1" id="Page_494-V1">494<br />V1</a></span> 
colored ribbon, and
seated him in state on the top of a hillock, with his lance in his hand,
his gun in the hollow of his arm, his tomahawk in his belt, and his
kettle by his side. Then they all crouched about him in lugubrious
silence. A funeral harangue followed; and next a song and solemn dance
to the booming of the Indian drum. In the gray of the morning they
buried him as he sat, and placed food in the grave for his journey to
the land of souls. <span class="superscript">[508]</span></p>

<div class="footer">
    <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_508" name="footer_508"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[508]</span>
<i>Lettre du P&egrave;re Roubaud</i>.</p>
</div>

<p>As the sun rose above the eastern mountains the French camp was all
astir. The column of L&eacute;vis, with Indians to lead the way, moved through
the forest towards the fort, and Montcalm followed with the main body;
then the artillery boats rounded the point that had hid them from the
sight of the English, saluting them as they did so with musketry and
cannon; while a host of savages put out upon the lake, ranged their
canoes abreast in a line from shore to shore, and advanced slowly, with
measured paddle-strokes and yells of defiance.</p>

<p>The position of the enemy was full in sight before them. At the head of
the lake, towards the right, stood the fort, close to the edge of the
water. On its left was a marsh; then the rough piece of ground where
Johnson had encamped two years before; then a low, flat, rocky hill,
crowned with an entrenched camp; and, lastly, on the extreme left,
another marsh. Far around the fort and up the slopes of the western
mountain the 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_495-V1" id="Page_495-V1">495<br />V1</a></span> 
forest had been cut down and burned, and the ground was cumbered with 
blackened stumps and charred carcasses and limbs of fallen trees, 
strewn in savage disorder one upon another. 
<span class="superscript">[509]</span> This was the
work of Winslow in the autumn before. Distant shouts and war-cries, the
clatter of musketry, white puffs of smoke in the dismal clearing and
along the scorched edge of the bordering forest, told that L&eacute;vis'
Indians were skirmishing with parties of the English, who had gone out
to save the cattle roaming in the neighborhood, and burn some
out-buildings that would have favored the besiegers. Others were taking
down the tents that stood on a plateau near the foot of the mountain on
the right, and moving them to the entrenchment on the hill. The garrison
sallied from the fort to support their comrades, and for a time the
firing was hot.</p>


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    <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_509" name="footer_509"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[509]</span>
<i>Pr&eacute;cis des &Eacute;v&eacute;nements de la Campagne de</i> 
1757 <i>en la Nouvelle France.</i></p>
</div>

<p>Fort William Henry was an irregular bastioned square, formed by
embankments of gravel surmounted by a rampart of heavy logs, laid in
tiers crossed one upon another, the interstices filled with earth. The
lake protected it on the north, the marsh on the east, and ditches with
<i>chevaux-de-frise</i> on the south and west. Seventeen cannon, great and
small, besides several mortars and swivels, were mounted upon it;
<span class="superscript">[510]</span> and a brave Scotch veteran, 
Lieutenant-Colonel Monro, of the thirty-fifth regiment, was in command.</p>

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    <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_510" name="footer_510"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[510]</span>
<i>&Eacute;tat des Effets et Munitions de Guerre qui se sont trouv&eacute;s au 
Fort Guillaume-Henri.</i> There were six more guns in the entrenched camp.</p>
</div>

<p>
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_496-V1" id="Page_496-V1">496<br />V1</a></span> 
General Webb lay fourteen miles distant at Fort Edward, with twenty-six
hundred men, chiefly provincials. On the twenty-fifth of July he had
made a visit to Fort William Henry, examined the place, given some
orders, and returned on the twenty-ninth. He then wrote to the Governor
of New York, telling him that the French were certainly coming, begging
him to send up the militia, and saying: "I am determined to march to
Fort William Henry with the whole army under my command as soon as I
shall hear of the farther approach of the enemy." Instead of doing so he
waited three days, and then sent up a detachment of two hundred regulars
under Lieutenant-Colonel Young, and eight hundred Massachusetts men
under Colonel Frye. This raised the force at the lake to two thousand
and two hundred, including sailors and mechanics, and reduced that of
Webb to sixteen hundred, besides half as many more distributed at Albany
and the intervening forts. <span class="superscript">[511]</span>
If, according to his spirited intention, he should go to the rescue of 
Monro, he must leave some of his troops behind him to protect the lower 
posts from a possible French inroad by way of South Bay. Thus his power 
of aiding Monro was slight, so rashly had Loudon, intent on Louisburg, 
left this frontier open to attack. The defect, however, was as much in 
Webb himself as in his resources. His conduct in the past year had raised 
doubts of his 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_497-V1" id="Page_497-V1">497<br />V1</a></span> 
personal courage; and this was the moment for answering them. Great as was 
the disparity of numbers, the emergency would have justified an attempt to 
save Monro at any risk. That officer sent him a hasty note, written at 
nine o'clock on the morning of the third, telling him that the French were 
in sight on the lake; and, in the next night, three rangers came to Fort 
Edward, bringing another short note, dated at six in the evening, announcing
that the firing had begun, and closing with the words: "I believe you
will think it proper to send a reinforcement as soon as possible." Now,
if ever, was the time to move, before the fort was invested and access
cut off. But Webb lay quiet, sending expresses to New England for help
which could not possibly arrive in time. On the next night another note
came from Monro to say that the French were upon him in great numbers,
well supplied with artillery, but that the garrison were all in good
spirits. "I make no doubt," wrote the hard-pressed officer, "that you
will soon send us a reinforcement;" and again on the same day: "We are
very certain that a part of the enemy have got between you and us upon
the high road, and would therefore be glad (if it meets with your
approbation) the whole army was marched." <span class="superscript">[512]</span>
But Webb gave no sign. <span class="superscript">[513]</span></p>


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    <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_511" name="footer_511"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[511]</span>
Frye, <i>Journal of the Attack of Fort William Henry</i>. 
<i>Webb to Loudon</i>, 1 <i>Aug</i>. 1757. 
<i>Ibid</i>., 5 <i>Aug</i>. 1757.
</p>
    <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_512" name="footer_512"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[512]</span>
<i>Copy of four Letters from Lieutenant-Colonel Monro to Major-General Webb, 
enclosed in the General's Letter of the fifth of August to the Earl of 
Loudon</i>.</p>
    <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_513" name="footer_513"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[513]</span>
"The number of troops remaining under my Command at this place 
[<i>Fort Edward</i>], excluding the Posts on Hudson's River, amounts to
but sixteen hundred men fit for duty, with which Army, so much inferior
to that of the enemy, I did not think it prudent to pursue my first
intentions of Marching to their Assistance." 
<i>Webb to Loudon</i>, 5 <i>Aug</i>. 1757.</p>
</div>

<p>
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_498-V1" id="Page_498-V1">498<br />V1</a></span> 
When the skirmishing around the fort was over, La Corne, with a body of
Indians, occupied the road that led to Fort Edward, and L&eacute;vis encamped
hard by to support him, while Montcalm proceeded to examine the ground
and settle his plan of attack. He made his way to the rear of the
entrenched camp and reconnoitred it, hoping to carry it by assault; but
it had a breastwork of stones and logs, and he thought the attempt too
hazardous. The ground where he stood was that where Dieskau had been
defeated; and as the fate of his predecessor was not of flattering
augury, he resolved to besiege the fort in form.</p>

<p>He chose for the site of his operations the ground now covered by the
village of Caldwell. A little to the north of it was a ravine, beyond
which he formed his main camp, while L&eacute;vis occupied a tract of dry
ground beside the marsh, whence he could easily move to intercept
succors from Fort Edward on the one hand, or repel a sortie from Fort
William Henry on the other. A brook ran down the ravine and entered the
lake at a small cove protected from the fire of the fort by a point of
land; and at this place, still called Artillery Cove, Montcalm prepared
to debark his cannon and mortars.</p>

<p>Having made his preparations, he sent Fontbrune, one of his aides-de-camp, 
with a letter to Monro. "I owe it to humanity," he wrote, "to 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_499-V1" id="Page_499-V1">499<br />V1</a></span> 
summon you to surrender. At present I can restrain the savages, and
make them observe the terms of a capitulation, as I might not have power
to do under other circumstances; and an obstinate defence on your part
could only retard the capture of the place a few days, and endanger an
unfortunate garrison which cannot be relieved, in consequence of the
dispositions I have made. I demand a decisive answer within an hour."
Monro replied that he and his soldiers would defend themselves to the
last. While the flags of truce were flying, the Indians swarmed over the
fields before the fort; and when they learned the result, an Abenaki
chief shouted in broken French: "You won't surrender, eh! Fire away
then, and fight your best; for if I catch you, you shall get no
quarter." Monro emphasized his refusal by a general discharge of his
cannon.</p>

<p>The trenches were opened on the night of the fourth,&mdash;a task of extreme
difficulty, as the ground was covered by a profusion of half-burned
stumps, roots, branches, and fallen trunks. Eight hundred men toiled
till daylight with pick, spade, and axe, while the cannon from the fort
flashed through the darkness, and grape and round-shot whistled and
screamed over their heads. Some of the English balls reached the camp
beyond the ravine, and disturbed the slumbers of the officers off duty,
as they lay wrapped in their blankets and bear-skins. Before daybreak
the first parallel was made; a battery was nearly finished on the left,
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_500-V1" id="Page_500-V1">500<br />V1</a></span> 
and another was begun on the right. The men now worked under cover, safe
in their burrows; one gang relieved another, and the work went on all
day.</p>

<p>The Indians were far from doing what was expected of them. Instead of
scouting in the direction of Fort Edward to learn the movements of the
enemy and prevent surprise, they loitered about the camp and in the
trenches, or amused themselves by firing at the fort from behind stumps
and logs. Some, in imitation of the French, dug little trenches for
themselves, in which they wormed their way towards the rampart, and now
and then picked off an artillery-man, not without loss on their own
side. On the afternoon of the fifth, Montcalm invited them to a council,
gave them belts of wampum, and mildly remonstrated with them. "Why
expose yourselves without necessity? I grieve bitterly over the losses
that you have met, for the least among you is precious to me. No doubt
it is a good thing to annoy the English; but that is not the main point.
You ought to inform me of everything the enemy is doing, and always
keep parties on the road between the two forts." And he gently hinted
that their place was not in his camp, but in that of L&eacute;vis, where
missionaries were provided for such of them as were Christians, and food
and ammunition for them all. They promised, with excellent docility, to
do everything he wished, but added that there was something on their
hearts. Being encouraged to relieve themselves of the 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_501-V1" id="Page_501-V1">501<br />V1</a></span> 
burden, they complained that they had not been consulted as to the management 
of the siege, but were expected to obey orders like slaves. "We know more about
fighting in the woods than you," said their orator; "ask our advice, and
you will be the better for it." <span class="superscript">[514]</span></p>

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    <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_514" name="footer_514"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[514]</span>
Bougainville, <i>Journal</i>.</p>
</div>

<p>Montcalm assured them that if they had been neglected, it was only
through the hurry and confusion of the time; expressed high appreciation
of their talents for bush-fighting, promised them ample satisfaction,
and ended by telling them that in the morning they should hear the big
guns. This greatly pleased them, for they were extremely impatient for
the artillery to begin. About sunrise the battery of the left opened
with eight heavy cannon and a mortar, joined, on the next morning, by
the battery of the right, with eleven pieces more. The fort replied with
spirit. The cannon thundered all day, and from a hundred peaks and crags
the astonished wilderness roared back the sound. The Indians were
delighted. They wanted to point the guns; and to humor them, they were
now and then allowed to do so. Others lay behind logs and fallen trees,
and yelled their satisfaction when they saw the splinters fly from the
wooden rampart.</p>

<p>Day after day the weary roar of the distant cannonade fell on the ears
of Webb in his camp at Fort Edward. "I have not yet received the least
reinforcement," he writes to Loudon; "this is the 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_502-V1" id="Page_502-V1">502<br />V1</a></span> 
disagreeable situation we are at present in. The fort, by the heavy firing 
we hear from the lake, is still in our possession; but I fear it cannot 
long hold out against so warm a cannonading if I am not reinforced by a 
sufficient number of militia to march to their relief." The militia were 
coming; but it was impossible that many could reach him in less than a week.
Those from New York alone were within call, and two thousand of them
arrived soon after he sent Loudon the above letter. Then, by stripping
all the forts below, he could bring together forty-five hundred men;
while several French deserters assured him that Montcalm had nearly
twelve thousand. To advance to the relief of Monro with a force so
inferior, through a defile of rocks, forests, and mountains, made by
nature for ambuscades,&mdash;and this too with troops who had neither the
steadiness of regulars nor the bush-fighting skill of Indians,&mdash;was an
enterprise for firmer nerve than his.</p>

<p>He had already warned Monro to expect no help from him. At midnight of
the fourth, Captain Bartman, his aide-de-camp, wrote: "The General has
ordered me to acquaint you he does not think it prudent to attempt a
junction or to assist you till reinforced by the militia of the
colonies, for the immediate march of which repeated expresses have been
sent." The letter then declared that the French were in complete
possession of the road between the two forts, that a prisoner just
brought in reported their force in men and cannon to be very great, and
that, unless the militia came soon, 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_503-V1" id="Page_503-V1">503<br />V1</a></span> 
Monro had better make what terms he could with the enemy. 
<span class="superscript">[515]</span></p>

<div class="footer">
    <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_515" name="footer_515"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[515]</span>
Frye, in his <i>Journal</i>, gives the letter in full. A spurious translation 
of it is appended to a piece called <i>Jugement impartial sur les 
Op&eacute;rations militaires en Canada</i>.</p>
</div>

<p>The chance was small that this letter would reach its destination; and
in fact the bearer was killed by La Corne's Indians, who, in stripping
the body, found the hidden paper, and carried it to the General.
Montcalm kept it several days, till the English rampart was half
battered down; and then, after saluting his enemy with a volley from all
his cannon, he sent it with a graceful compliment to Monro. It was
Bougainville who carried it, preceded by a drummer and a flag. He was
met at the foot of the glacis, blindfolded, and led through the fort and
along the edge of the lake to the entrenched camp, where Monro was at
the time. "He returned many thanks," writes the emissary in his Diary,
"for the courtesy of our nation, and protested his joy at having to do
with so generous an enemy. This was his answer to the Marquis de
Montcalm. Then they led me back, always with eyes blinded; and our
batteries began to fire again as soon as we thought that the English
grenadiers who escorted me had had time to re-enter the fort. I hope
General Webb's letter may induce the English to surrender the
sooner." <span class="superscript">[516]</span></p>

<div class="footer">
    <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_516" name="footer_516"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[516]</span>
Bougainville, <i>Journal</i>. 
<i>Bougainville au Ministre</i>, 19 <i>Ao&ucirc;t</i>, 1757.
</p>
</div>

<p>By this time the sappers had worked their way to the angle of the lake,
where they were stopped by a marshy hollow, beyond which was a tract of
high ground, reaching to the fort and serving as 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_504-V1" id="Page_504-V1">504<br />V1</a></span> 
the garden of the garrison. <span class="superscript">[517]</span>
Logs and fascines in large quantities were thrown into the hollow, and 
hurdles were laid over them to form a causeway for the cannon. Then the 
sap was continued up the acclivity beyond, a trench was opened in the 
garden, and a battery begun, not two hundred and fifty yards from the 
fort. The Indians, in great number, crawled forward among the beans, 
maize, and cabbages, and lay there ensconced. On the night of the seventh, 
two men came out of the fort, apparently to reconnoitre, with a view to a 
sortie, when they were greeted by a general volley and a burst of yells 
which echoed among the mountains; followed by responsive whoops pealing 
through the darkness from the various camps and lurking-places of the 
savage warriors far and near.</p>

<div class="footer">
    <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_517" name="footer_517"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[517]</span>
Now (1882) the site of Fort William Henry Hotel, with its grounds. 
The hollow is partly filled by the main road of Caldwell.</p>
</div>

<p>The position of the besieged was now deplorable. More than three hundred
of them had been killed and wounded; small-pox was raging in the fort;
the place was a focus of infection, and the casemates were crowded with
the sick. A sortie from the entrenched camp and another from the fort
had been repulsed with loss. All their large cannon and mortars had been
burst, or disabled by shot; only seven small pieces were left fit for
service; <span class="superscript">[518]</span>
and the whole of Montcalm's thirty-one cannon and fifteen
mortars and howitzers would soon open fire, while the walls were already
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_505-V1" id="Page_505-V1">505<br />V1</a></span> 
breached, and an assault was imminent. Through the night of the eighth
they fired briskly from all their remaining pieces. In the morning the
officers held a council, and all agreed to surrender if honorable terms
could be had. A white flag was raised, a drum was beat, and
Lieutenant-Colonel Young, mounted on horseback, for a shot in the foot
had disabled him from walking, went, followed by a few soldiers, to the
tent of Montcalm.</p>

<div class="footer">
    <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_518" name="footer_518"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[518]</span>
Frye, <i>Journal</i>.</p>
</div>

<p>It was agreed that the English troops should march out with the honors
of war, and be escorted to Fort Edward by a detachment of French troops;
that they should not serve for eighteen months; and that all French
prisoners captured in America since the war began should be given up
within three months. The stores, munitions, and artillery were to be the
prize of the victors, except one field-piece, which the garrison were to
retain in recognition of their brave defence.</p>

<p>Before signing the capitulation Montcalm called the Indian chiefs to
council, and asked them to consent to the conditions, and promise to
restrain their young warriors from any disorder. They approved
everything and promised everything. The garrison then evacuated the
fort, and marched to join their comrades in the entrenched camp, which
was included in the surrender. No sooner were they gone than a crowd of
Indians clambered through the embrasures in search of rum and plunder.
All the sick men unable to leave their beds were instantly
butchered. <span class="superscript">[519]</span>
"I was 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_506-V1" id="Page_506-V1">506<br />V1</a></span> 
witness of this spectacle," says the missionary Roubaud; "I saw one of 
these barbarians come out of the casemates with a human head in his hand, 
from which the blood ran in streams, and which he paraded as if he had 
got the finest prize in the world." There was little left to plunder; 
and the Indians, joined by the more lawless of the Canadians, turned 
their attention to the entrenched camp, where all the English were now 
collected.</p>

<div class="footer">
    <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_519" name="footer_519"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[519]</span>
<i>Attestation of William Arbuthnot, Captain in Frye's Regiment.</i></p>
</div>

<p>The French guard stationed there could not or would not keep out the
rabble. By the advice of Montcalm the English stove their rum-barrels;
but the Indians were drunk already with homicidal rage, and the glitter
of their vicious eyes told of the devil within. They roamed among the
tents, intrusive, insolent, their visages besmirched with war-paint;
grinning like fiends as they handled, in anticipation of the knife, the
long hair of cowering women, of whom, as well as of children, there were
many in the camp, all crazed with fright. Since the last war the New
England border population had regarded Indians with a mixture of
detestation and horror. Their mysterious warfare of ambush and surprise,
their midnight onslaughts, their butcheries, their burnings, and all
their nameless atrocities, had been for years the theme of fireside
story; and the dread they excited was deepened by the distrust and
dejection of the time. The confusion in the camp lasted through the
afternoon. "The Indians," says Bougainville, "wanted to plunder the
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_507-V1" id="Page_507-V1">507<br />V1</a></span> 
chests of the English; the latter resisted; and there was fear that
serious disorder would ensue. The Marquis de Montcalm ran thither
immediately, and used every means to restore tranquillity: prayers,
threats, caresses, interposition of the officers and interpreters who
have some influence over these savages." <span class="superscript">[520]</span>
"We shall be but too happy if we can prevent a massacre. Detestable 
position! of which nobody who has not been in it can have any idea, 
and which makes victory itself a sorrow to the victors. The Marquis 
spared no efforts to prevent the rapacity of the savages and, I must 
say it, of certain persons associated with them, from resulting in 
something worse than plunder. At last, at nine o'clock in the evening, 
order seemed restored. The Marquis even induced the Indians to promise 
that, besides the escort agreed upon in the capitulation, two chiefs 
for each tribe should accompany the English on their way to Fort Edward."
<span class="superscript">[521]</span> He also ordered La Corne and the 
other Canadian officers attached to the Indians to see that no violence 
took place. He might well have done more. In view of the disorders of the 
afternoon, it would not have been too much if he had ordered the whole 
body of regular troops, whom alone he could trust for the purpose, to hold 
themselves ready to move to the spot in case of outbreak, and shelter their 
defeated foes behind a hedge of bayonets.</p>

<div class="footer">
    <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_520" name="footer_520"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[520]</span>
<i>Bougainville au Ministre</i>, 19 <i>Ao&ucirc;t</i>, 1757.</p>
   <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_521" name="footer_521"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[521]</span>
Bougainville, <i>Journal</i>.</p>
</div>

<p>
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_508-V1" id="Page_508-V1">508<br />V1</a></span> 
Bougainville was not to see what ensued; for Montcalm now sent him to
Montreal, as a special messenger to carry news of the victory. He
embarked at ten o'clock. Returning daylight found him far down the lake;
and as he looked on its still bosom flecked with mists, and its quiet
mountains sleeping under the flush of dawn, there was nothing in the
wild tranquillity of the scene to suggest the tragedy which even then
was beginning on the shore he had left behind.</p>

<p>The English in their camp had passed a troubled night, agitated by
strange rumors. In the morning something like a panic seized them; for
they distrusted not the Indians only, but the Canadians. In their haste
to be gone they got together at daybreak, before the escort of three
hundred regulars had arrived. They had their muskets, but no ammunition;
and few or none of the provincials had bayonets. Early as it was, the
Indians were on the alert; and, indeed, since midnight great numbers of
them had been prowling about the skirts of the camp, showing, says
Colonel Frye, "more than usual malice in their looks." Seventeen wounded
men of his regiment lay in huts, unable to join the march. In the
preceding afternoon Miles Whitworth, the regimental surgeon, had passed
them over to the care of a French surgeon, according to an agreement
made at the time of the surrender; but, the Frenchman being absent, the
other remained with them attending to their wants. The French surgeon
had 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_509-V1" id="Page_509-V1">509<br />V1</a></span> 
caused special sentinels to be posted for their protection. These
were now removed, at the moment when they were needed most; upon which,
about five o'clock in the morning, the Indians entered the huts,
dragged out the inmates, and tomahawked and scalped them all, before the
eyes of Whitworth, and in presence of La Corne and other Canadian
officers, as well as of a French guard stationed within forty feet of
the spot; and, declares the surgeon under oath, "none, either officer or
soldier, protected the said wounded men."
<span class="superscript">[522]</span> The opportune butchery
relieved them of a troublesome burden.</p>

<div class="footer">
    <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_522" name="footer_522"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[522]</span>
   <i>Affidavit of Miles Whitworth</i>. 
   See <a href="#appendixF">Appendix F</a>.
</p>
</div>

<p>A scene of plundering now began. The escort had by this time arrived,
and Monro complained to the officers that the capitulation was broken;
but got no other answer than advice to give up the baggage to the
Indians in order to appease them. To this the English at length agreed;
but it only increased the excitement of the mob. They demanded rum; and
some of the soldiers, afraid to refuse, gave it to them from their
canteens, thus adding fuel to the flame. When, after much difficulty,
the column at last got out of the camp and began to move along the road
that crossed the rough plain between the entrenchment and the forest,
the Indians crowded upon them, impeded their march, snatched caps,
coats, and weapons from men and officers, tomahawked those that
resisted, and, seizing upon shrieking women and children, dragged them
off or murdered them 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_510-V1" id="Page_510-V1">510<br />V1</a></span> 
on the spot. It is said that some of the interpreters secretly fomented the 
disorder.  <span class="superscript">[523]</span> Suddenly there rose
the screech of the war-whoop. At this signal of butchery, which was
given by Abenaki Christians from the mission of the Penobscot,
<span class="superscript">[524]</span> a mob of savages rushed upon the New 
Hampshire men at the rear of the column, and killed or dragged away eighty 
of them. <span class="superscript">[525]</span> A frightful tumult ensued, 
when Montcalm, L&eacute;vis, Bourlamaque, and many other French
officers, who had hastened from their camp on the first news of
disturbance, threw themselves among the Indians, and by promises and
threats tried to allay their frenzy. "Kill me, but spare the English who
are under my protection," exclaimed Montcalm. He took from one of them a
young officer whom the savage had seized; upon which several other
Indians immediately tomahawked their prisoners, lest they too should be
taken from them. One writer says that a French grenadier was killed and
two wounded in attempting to restore order; but the statement is
doubtful. The English seemed paralyzed, and fortunately did not attempt
a resistance, which, without ammunition as they were, would have ended
in a general massacre. Their broken column straggled forward in wild
disorder, amid the din of whoops and shrieks, till they reached the
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_511-V1" id="Page_511-V1">511<br />V1</a></span> 
French advance-guard, which consisted of Canadians; and here they
demanded protection from the officers, who refused to give it, telling
them that they must take to the woods and shift for themselves. Frye was
seized by a number of Indians, who, brandishing spears and tomahawks,
threatened him with death and tore off his clothing, leaving nothing but
breeches, shoes, and shirt. Repelled by the officers of the guard, he
made for the woods. A Connecticut soldier who was present says of him
that he leaped upon an Indian who stood in his way, disarmed and killed
him, and then escaped; but Frye himself does not mention the incident.
Captain Burke, also of the Massachusetts regiment, was stripped, after a
violent struggle, of all his clothes; then broke loose, gained the
woods, spent the night shivering in the thick grass of a marsh, and on
the next day reached Fort Edward. Jonathan Carver, a provincial
volunteer, declares that, when the tumult was at its height, he saw
officers of the French army walking about at a little distance and
talking with seeming unconcern. Three or four Indians seized him,
brandished their tomahawks over his head, and tore off most of his
clothes, while he vainly claimed protection from a sentinel, who called
him an English dog, and violently pushed him back among his tormentors.
Two of them were dragging him towards the neighboring swamp, when an
English officer, stripped of everything but his scarlet breeches, ran
by. One of Carver's captors sprang upon him, but was 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_512-V1" id="Page_512-V1">512<br />V1</a></span> 
thrown to the ground; whereupon the other went to the aid of his comrade 
and drove his tomahawk into the back of the Englishman. As Carver turned 
to run, an English boy, about twelve years old, clung to him and begged 
for help. They ran on together for a moment, when the boy was seized, 
dragged from his protector, and, as Carver judged by his shrieks, was 
murdered. He himself escaped to the forest, and after three days of 
famine reached Fort Edward.</p>

<div class="footer">
    <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_523" name="footer_523"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[523]</span>
This is stated by Pouchot and Bougainville; the latter of whom confirms the 
testimony of the English witnesses, that Canadian officers present did nothing 
to check the Indians.</p>
   <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_524" name="footer_524"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[524]</span>
See <a href="#footer_526">note,</a> end of chapter.</p>
   <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_525" name="footer_525"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[525]</span>
Belknap, <i>History of New Hampshire</i>, says that eighty were killed. 
Governor Wentworth, writing immediately after the event, says "killed 
or captivated."</p>
</div>

<p>The bonds of discipline seem for the time to have been completely
broken; for while Montcalm and his chief officers used every effort to
restore order, even at the risk of their lives, many other officers,
chiefly of the militia, failed atrociously to do their duty. How many
English were killed it is impossible to tell with exactness. Roubaud
says that he saw forty or fifty corpses scattered about the field. L&eacute;vis
says fifty; which does not include the sick and wounded before murdered
in the camp and fort. It is certain that six or seven hundred persons
were carried off, stripped, and otherwise maltreated. Montcalm succeeded
in recovering more than four hundred of them in the course of the day;
and many of the French officers did what they could to relieve their
wants by buying back from their captors the clothing that had been torn
from them. Many of the fugitives had taken refuge in the fort, whither
Monro himself had gone to demand protection for his followers; and here
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_513-V1" id="Page_513-V1">513<br />V1</a></span> 
Roubaud presently found a crowd of half-frenzied women, crying in
anguish for husbands and children. All the refugees and redeemed
prisoners were afterwards conducted to the entrenched camp, where food
and shelter were provided for them and a strong guard set for their
protection until the fifteenth, when they were sent under an escort to
Fort Edward. Here cannon had been fired at intervals to guide those who
had fled to the woods, whence they came dropping in from day to day,
half dead with famine.</p>

<p>On the morning after the massacre the Indians decamped in a body and set
out for Montreal, carrying with them their plunder and some two hundred
prisoners, who, it is said, could not be got out of their hands. The
soldiers were set to the work of demolishing the English fort; and the
task occupied several days. The barracks were torn down, and the huge
pine-logs of the rampart thrown into a heap. The dead bodies that filled
the casemates were added to the mass, and fire was set to the whole. The
mighty funeral pyre blazed all night. Then, on the sixteenth, the army
reimbarked. The din of ten thousand combatants, the rage, the terror,
the agony, were gone; and no living thing was left but the wolves that
gathered from the mountains to feast upon the dead.
<span class="superscript">[526]</span></p>

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    <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_526" name="footer_526"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[526]</span>
The foregoing chapter rests largely on evidence never before brought to light, 
including the minute <i>Journal</i> of Bougainville,&mdash;a document which can 
hardly be commended too much,&mdash;the correspondence of Webb, a letter of 
Colonel Frye, written just after the massacre, and a journal of the siege, 
sent by him to Governor Pownall as his official report. Extracts 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_514-V1" id="Page_514-V1">514<br />V1</a></span> 
from these, as well as from the affidavit of Dr. Whitworth, which is also 
new evidence, are given in <a href="#appendixF">Appendix F</a>.</p>

<p>The Diary of Malartic and the correspondence of Montcalm, L&eacute;vis,
Vaudreuil, and Bigot, also throw light on the campaign, as well as
numerous reports of the siege, official and semi-official. The long
letter of the Jesuit Roubaud, printed anonymously in the <i>Lettres
&Eacute;difiantes et Curieuses</i>, gives a remarkably vivid account of what he
saw. He was an intelligent person, who may be trusted where he has no
motive for lying. Curious particulars about him will be found in a paper
called, <i>The deplorable Case of Mr. Roubaud</i>, printed in the <i>Historical
Magazine, Second Series</i>, VIII. 282. Compare Verreau, <i>Report on
Canadian Archives</i>, 1874.</p>

<p>Impressions of the massacre at Fort William Henry have hitherto been
derived chiefly from the narrative of Captain Jonathan Carver, in his
<i>Travels</i>. He has discredited himself by his exaggeration of the number
killed; but his account of what he himself saw tallies with that of the
other witnesses. He is outdone in exaggeration by an anonymous French
writer of the time, who seems rather pleased at the occurrence, and
affirms that all the English were killed except seven hundred, these
last being captured, so that none escaped (<i>Nouvelles du Canada 
envoy&eacute;es de Montr&eacute;al, Ao&ucirc;t</i>, 1757). Carver puts 
killed and captured together at fifteen hundred. Vaudreuil, who always 
makes light of Indian barbarities, goes to the other extreme, and avers 
that no more than five or six were killed. L&eacute;vis and Roubaud, who 
saw everything, and were certain not to exaggerate the number, give the 
most trustworthy evidence on this point. The capitulation, having been 
broken by the allies of France, was declared void by the British Government.
</p>

<p><i>The Signal of Butchery</i>. Montcalm, Bougainville, and several others say
that the massacre was begun by the Abenakis of Panaouski. Father Martin,
in quoting the letter in which Montcalm makes this statement, inserts
the word <i>idol&acirc;tres</i>, which is not in the original. Dussieux and
O'Callaghan give the passage correctly. This Abenaki band, ancestors of
the present Penobscots, were no idolaters, but had been converted more
than half a century. In the official list of the Indian allies they are
set down among the Christians. Roubaud, who had charge of them during
the expedition, speaks of these and other converts with singular candor:
"Vous avez d&ucirc; vous apercevoir &hellip; que nos sauvages, pour 
&ecirc;tre Chr&eacute;tiens, n'en sont pas plus irr&eacute;pr&eacute;hensibles 
dans leur conduite."</p>
</div>

<p class="double-space-top noindent center">END OF VOL. I.</p>

<hr />



<div class="titlepage">
   <p class="quad-space-top"><br /></p>
   <p class="xl bold">Montcalm and Wolfe</p> 
   <p class="title-author">by Francis Parkman</p>
	 <p class="double-space-top">
			 France and England<br /> in North America
	 </p>
	 <p>
	     A Series<br /> of Historical Narratives
	 </p>
	 <p>
			 Part Seventh.<br />
	 </p>
	 <p class="double-space-top center small">
	    BOSTON:<br />
			LITTLE, BROWN, AND COMPANY.<br />
			1885.<br />
	 </p>

	 <hr />
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    <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_ii-V2" id="Page_ii-V2">ii<br />V2</a></span>
                  <i>Copyright, 1884,</i><br />
                  by <span class="smcap">Francis Parkman.</span><br />
									<br /><br />
									University Press:<br />
									<span class="smcap">John Wilson and Son, Cambridge.</span>
   </p>
	 
	 <hr />
	 <p class="quad-space-top">
	 <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_iii-V2" id="Page_iii-V2">iii<br />V2</a></span>
	 <br /></p>
   <h2>Montcalm and Wolfe<br />
	     Vol. II.</h2> 
   <p class="title-author">by Francis Parkman</p>
	 <p class="double-space-top smcap">
	     sixth edition.
	</p>
	 <p class="quad-space-top center small">
	    BOSTON:<br />
			LITTLE, BROWN, AND COMPANY.<br />
			1885.<br />
	 </p>
	 </div>
	 
   <hr />
	 <p class="quad-space-top center small">
    <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_iv-V2" id="Page_iv-V2">iv<br />V2</a></span>
                  <i>Copyright, 1884,</i><br />
                  by <span class="smcap">Francis Parkman.</span><br />
   </p>




<hr />
    
	 <p class="noindent">
			<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_v-V2" id="Page_v-V2">v<br />V2</a></span>
			<a name="contentsV2" id="contentsV2"></a> 
	 </p>
   <h2>Contents - Vol 2.</h2>
	 <p class="smcapheader">
	    Montcalm and Wolfe: Volume 2
	 </p>
      <p class="noindent double-space-top">
			<a href="#Contents">Contents of Volume I.</a> 
	 </p>
	 <p class="noindent double-space-top">
	    <a id="Contents16" name="Contents16"></a>
			<a href="#Chapter_16">CHAPTER XVI.</a> 1757, 1758. 
	 </p>
	 <p class="noindent">A WINTER OF DISCONTENT.</p>
	 <p class="topics">	
	  Boasts of Loudon &bull; A Mutinous Militia &bull; Panic &bull;
		Accusations of Vaudreuil &bull; His Weakness &bull; 
		Indian Barbarities &bull; Destruction of German Flats &bull;
    Discontent of Montcalm &bull; Festivities at Montreal &bull;
		Montcalm's Relations with the Governor &bull; Famine &bull;
		Riots &bull; Mutiny &bull; Winter at Ticonderoga &bull; 
		A desperate Bush-fight &bull; Defeat of the Rangers &bull; 
		 Adventures of Roche and Pringle.
   </p>

   <p class="noindent">
	    <a id="Contents17" name="Contents17"></a>
			<a href="#Chapter_17">CHAPTER XVII.</a> 1753-1760. 
	 </p>
	 <p class="noindent">BIGOT.</p>
	 <p class="topics">	
	  His Life and Character &bull;  Canadian Society &bull; 
		Official Festivities &bull;  A Party of Pleasure &bull;  
		Hospitalities of Bigot &bull;  Desperate Gambling &bull; 
		Ch&acirc;teau Bigot &bull;  Canadian Ladies &bull; Cadet &bull; 
		La Friponne &bull; Official Rascality &bull; Methods of Peculation &bull; 
		Cruel Frauds on the Acadians &bull; Military Corruption &bull; 
		P&eacute;an &bull;  Love and Knavery &bull; Varin and his Partners &bull; 
		Vaudreuil and the Peculators &bull;  
		He defends Bigot; praises Cadet and P&eacute;an &bull; 
		Canadian Finances &bull; Peril of Bigot &bull; 
		Threats of the Minister &bull; Evidence of Montcalm &bull; 
		Impending Ruin of the Confederates.
   </p>

   <p class="noindent">
	    <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_vi-V2" id="Page_vi-V2">vi<br />V2</a></span>
	    <a id="Contents18" name="Contents18"></a>
			<a href="#Chapter_18">CHAPTER XVIII.</a> 1757, 1758. 
	 </p>
	 <p class="noindent">PITT.</p>
	 <p class="topics">	
	    Frederic of Prussia &bull; The Coalition against him &bull; 
			His desperate Position &bull;  Rossbach &bull; Leuthen &bull; 
			Reverses of England &bull; Weakness of the Ministry &bull; 
			A Change &bull; Pitt and Newcastle &bull; Character of Pitt &bull; 
			Sources of his Power &bull;  His Aims &bull; Louis XV &bull; 
			Pompadour &bull; She controls the Court, and directs the War &bull; 
      Gloomy Prospects of England &bull; Disasters &bull; 
			The New Ministry &bull; Inspiring Influence of Pitt &bull;
			The Tide turns &bull; British Victories &bull; 
			Pitt's Plans for America &bull; Louisbourg, Ticonderoga, Duquesne &bull; 
			New Commanders &bull; Naval Battles.
   </p>
	 
	 <p class="noindent">
	    <a id="Contents19" name="Contents19"></a>
			<a href="#Chapter_19">CHAPTER XIX.</a> 1758. 
	 </p>
	 <p class="noindent">LOUISBOURG.</p>
	 <p class="topics">
	   Condition of the Fortress &bull; Arrival of the English &bull; 
		 Gallantry of Wolfe &bull; The English Camp &bull; The Siege begun &bull;
		 Progress of the Besiegers &bull; Sallies of the French &bull; 
		 Madame Drucour &bull; Courtesies of War &bull; 
		 French Ships destroyed &bull; Conflagration &bull; 
		 Fury of the Bombardment &bull; Exploit of English Sailors &bull;
		 The End near &bull; The White Flag &bull; Surrender &bull; 
		 Reception of the News in England and America &bull; 
		 Wolfe not satisfied &bull; His Letters to Amherst &bull;
		 He destroys Gasp&eacute; &bull; Returns to England.
   </p>
	 
   <p class="noindent">
	    <a id="Contents20" name="Contents20"></a>
			<a href="#Chapter_20">CHAPTER XX.</a> 1758. 
	 </p>
	 <p class="noindent">TICONDEROGA.</p>
	 <p class="topics">
	   Activity of the Provinces &bull; Sacrifices of Massachusetts &bull; 
		 The Army at Lake George &bull; Proposed Incursion of L&eacute;vis &bull; 
		 Perplexities of Montcalm &bull; His Plan of Defence &bull; 
		 Camp of Abercromby &bull; His Character &bull; 
		 Lord Howe &bull; His Popularity &bull; Embarkation of Abercromby &bull; 
		 Advance down Lake George &bull; Landing &bull;  Forest Skirmish &bull; 
		 Death of Howe &bull; Its Effects &bull; Position of the French &bull; 
		 The Lines of Ticonderoga &bull; Blunders of Abercromby &bull; 
		 The Assault &bull; A Frightful Scene &bull; Incidents of the Battle &bull; 
		 British Repulse &bull; Panic &bull; Retreat &bull; Triumph of Montcalm.
   </p>

   <p class="noindent">
	    <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_vii-V2" id="Page_vii-V2">vii<br />V2</a></span>
	    <a id="Contents21" name="Contents21"></a>
			<a href="#Chapter_21">CHAPTER XXI.</a> 1758. 
	 </p>
	 <p class="noindent">FORT FRONTENAC.</p>
	 <p class="topics">
	   The Routed Army &bull; Indignation at Abercromby &bull; 
		 John Cleaveland and his Brother Chaplains &bull; 
		 Regulars and Provincials &bull; Provincial Surgeons &bull; 
		 French Raids &bull; Rogers defeats Marin &bull; Adventures of Putnam &bull;  
		 Expedition of Bradstreet &bull; Capture of Fort Frontenac.
   </p>

   <p class="noindent">
	    <a id="Contents22" name="Contents22"></a>
			<a href="#Chapter_22">CHAPTER XXII.</a> 1758. 
	 </p>
	 <p class="noindent">FORT DUQUESNE.</p>
	 <p class="topics">
	   Dinwiddie and Washington &bull; Brigadier Forbes &bull; His Army &bull;
		 Conflicting Views &bull; Difficulties &bull; Illness of Forbes &bull; 
		 His Sufferings &bull; His Fortitude &bull; 
		 His Difference with Washington &bull; Sir John Sinclair &bull; 
		 Troublesome Allies &bull; Scouting Parties &bull; 
		 Boasts of Vaudreuil &bull; Forbes and the Indians &bull; 
		 Mission of Christian Frederic Post &bull; Council of Peace &bull; 
		 Second Mission of Post &bull; Defeat of Grant &bull; 
		 Distress of Forbes &bull; Dark Prospects &bull; 
		 Advance of the Army &bull; Capture of the French Fort &bull; 
		 The Slain of Braddock's Field &bull; Death of Forbes.
   </p>

   <p class="noindent">
	    <a id="Contents23" name="Contents23"></a>
			<a href="#Chapter_23">CHAPTER XXIII.</a> 1758, 1759. 
	 </p>
	 <p class="noindent">THE BRINK OF RUIN.</p>
	 <p class="topics">
	   Jealousy of Vaudreuil &bull; He asks for Montcalm's Recall &bull; 
		 His Discomfiture &bull; Scene at the Governor's House &bull;
		 Disgust of Montcalm &bull; The Canadians Despondent &bull;
		 Devices to encourage them &bull; Gasconade of the Governor &bull;
		 Deplorable State of the Colony &bull; Mission of Bougainville &bull;
		 Duplicity of Vaudreuil &bull; Bougainville at Versailles &bull;
		 Substantial Aid refused to Canada &bull; A Matrimonial Treaty &bull;
		 Return of Bougainville &bull; Montcalm abandoned by the Court &bull;
		 His Plans of Defence &bull; Sad News from Candiac &bull;
		 Promises of Vaudreuil.
   </p>

   <p class="noindent">
	    <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_viii-V2" id="Page_viii-V2">viii<br />V2</a></span>
	    <a id="Contents24" name="Contents24"></a>
			<a href="#Chapter_24">CHAPTER XXIV.</a> 1758, 1759. 
	 </p>
	 <p class="noindent">WOLFE.</p>
	 <p class="topics">
	   The Exiles of Fort Cumberland &bull; Relief &bull; 
		 The Voyage to Louisbourg &bull; The British Fleet &bull;
		 Expedition against Quebec &bull; Early Life of Wolfe &bull;
		 His Character &bull; His Letters to his Parents &bull;
		 His Domestic Qualities &bull; Appointed to command the Expedition &bull;
		 Sails for America.
	 </p>

	 <p class="noindent">
	    <a id="Contents25" name="Contents25"></a>
			<a href="#Chapter_25">CHAPTER XXV.</a> 1759. 
	 </p>
	 <p class="noindent">WOLFE AT QUEBEC.</p>
	 <p class="topics">
	   French Preparation &bull; Muster of Forces &bull; 
		 Gasconade of Vaudreuil &bull; Plan of Defence &bull;
		 Strength of Montcalm &bull; Advance of Wolfe &bull;
		 British Sailors &bull; Landing of the English &bull;
		 Difficulties before them &bull; Storm &bull; 
		 Fireships &bull; Confidence of French Commanders &bull;
		 Wolfe occupies Point Levi &bull; A Futile Night Attack &bull;
		 Quebec bombarded &bull; Wolfe at the Montmorenci &bull;
		 Skirmishes &bull; Danger of the English Position &bull;
		 Effects of the Bombardment &bull;  Desertion of Canadians &bull;
		 The English above Quebec &bull; Severities of Wolfe &bull;
		 Another Attempt to burn the Fleet &bull; 
		 Desperate Enterprise of Wolfe &bull; The Heights of Montmorenci &bull;
		 Repulse of the English.
	 </p>

   <p class="noindent">
	    <a id="Contents26" name="Contents26"></a>
			<a href="#Chapter_26">CHAPTER XXVI.</a> 1759. 
	 </p>
	 <p class="noindent">AMHERST. NIAGARA.</p>
	 <p class="topics">
	    Amherst on Lake George &bull; 
			Capture of Ticonderoga and Crown Point &bull; 
			Delays of Amherst &bull; Niagara Expedition &bull; 
			La Corne attacks Oswego &bull; His Repulse &bull; Niagara besieged &bull;
			Aubry comes to its Relief &bull; Battle &bull; 
			Rout of the French &bull; The Fort taken &bull; Isle-aux-Noix &bull;
			Amherst advances to attack it &bull; Storm &bull; 
			The Enterprise abandoned &bull; Rogers attacks St. Francis &bull;
			Destroys the Town &bull; Sufferings of the Rangers.
	 </p>
	 
	  <p class="noindent">
		  <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_ix-V2" id="Page_ix-V2">ix<br />V2</a></span>
	    <a id="Contents27" name="Contents27"></a>
			<a href="#Chapter_27">CHAPTER XXVII.</a> 1759. 
	 </p>
	 <p class="noindent">THE HEIGHTS OF ABRAHAM.</p>
	 <p class="topics">
	    Elation of the French &bull; Despondency of Wolfe &bull;
			The Parishes laid waste &bull; Operations above Quebec &bull;
			Illness of Wolfe &bull; A New Plan of Attack &bull;
			Faint Hope of Success &bull; Wolfe's Last Despatch &bull;
			Confidence of Vaudreuil &bull; Last Letters of Montcalm &bull;
			French Vigilance &bull; British Squadron at Cap-Rouge &bull;
			Last Orders of Wolfe &bull; Embarkation &bull; 
			Descent of the St. Lawrence &bull; The Heights scaled &bull;
			The British Line &bull; Last Night of Montcalm &bull; The Alarm &bull;
			March of French Troops &bull; The Battle &bull; The Rout &bull;
			The Pursuit &bull; Fall of Wolfe and of Montcalm.
	 </p>
	 
   <p class="noindent">
	    <a id="Contents28" name="Contents28"></a>
			<a href="#Chapter_28">CHAPTER XXVIII.</a> 1759. 
	 </p>
	 <p class="noindent">FALL OF QUEBEC.</p>
	 <p class="topics">
	    After the Battle &bull; Canadians resist the Pursuit &bull; 
			Arrival of Vaudreuil &bull; Scene in the Redoubt &bull; Panic &bull;
			Movements of the Victors &bull; Vaudreuil's Council of War &bull;
			Precipitate Retreat of the French Army &bull;
			Last Hours of Montcalm &bull; His Death and Burial &bull;
			Quebec abandoned to its Fate &bull; Despair of the Garrison &bull;
			L&eacute;vis joins the Army &bull; Attempts to relieve the Town &bull;
			Surrender &bull; The British occupy Quebec &bull; 
			Slanders of Vaudreuil &bull; 
			Reception in England of the News of Wolfe's Victory and Death &bull;
			Prediction of Jonathan Mayhew.
	 </p>

    <p class="noindent">
	    <a id="Contents29" name="Contents29"></a>
			<a href="#Chapter_29">CHAPTER XXIX.</a> 1759, 1760. 
	 </p>
	 <p id="id00147" class="noindent">SAINTE-FOY.</p>
	 <p id="id00148" class="topics">
	    Quebec after the Siege &bull; Captain Knox and the Nuns &bull; 
			Escape of French Ships &bull; Winter at Quebec &bull;
			Threats of L&eacute;vis &bull; Attacks &bull; Skirmishes &bull;
			Feat of the Rangers &bull; State of the Garrison &bull; 
			The French prepare to retake Quebec &bull; Advance of L&eacute;vis &bull;
			The Alarm &bull; Sortie of the English &bull; 
			Rash Determination of Murray &bull; Battle of Ste.-Foy &bull;
			Retreat of the English &bull; L&eacute;vis besieges Quebec &bull;
			Spirit of the Garrison &bull; Peril of their Situation &bull;
			Relief &bull; Quebec saved &bull; Retreat of L&eacute;vis &bull;
			The News in England.
	 </p>
   
	 <p class="noindent">
	    <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_x-V2" id="Page_x-V2">x<br />V2</a></span>
	    <a id="Contents30" name="Contents30"></a>
			<a href="#Chapter_30">CHAPTER XXX.</a> 1760. 
	 </p>
	 <p class="noindent">FALL OF CANADA.</p>
	 <p class="topics">
	    Desperate Situation &bull; Efforts of Vaudreuil and L&eacute;vis &bull; 
			Plans of Amherst &bull; A Triple Attack &bull;  Advance of Murray &bull; 
			Advance of Haviland &bull;  Advance of Amherst &bull; 
			Capitulation of Montreal &bull;  Protest of L&eacute;vis &bull; 
			Injustice of Louis XV. &bull; Joy in the British Colonies &bull; 
			Character of the War.
	 </p>

   <p class="noindent">
	    <a id="Contents31" name="Contents31"></a>
			<a href="#Chapter_31">CHAPTER XXXI.</a> 1758-1763.
	 </p>
	 <p class="noindent">THE PEACE OF PARIS.</p>
	 <p class="topics">
	    Exodus of Canadian Leaders &bull; Wreck of the "Auguste" &bull; 
			Trial of Bigot and his Confederates &bull; Frederic of Prussia &bull; 
			His Triumphs &bull; His Reverses &bull; His Peril &bull; 
			His Fortitude &bull;  Death of George II. &bull; Change of Policy &bull; 
			Choiseul &bull;  His Overtures of Peace &bull;  The Family Compact &bull; 
			Fall of Pitt &bull;  Death of the Czarina &bull;  Frederic saved &bull; 
			War with Spain &bull;  Capture of Havana &bull;  Negotiations &bull; 
			Terms of Peace &bull;  Shall Canada be restored? &bull;  
			Speech of Pitt &bull;  The Treaty signed &bull; 
			End of the Seven Years War.
	 </p>
      
   <p class="noindent">
	    <a id="Contents32" name="Contents32"></a>
			<a href="#Chapter_32">CHAPTER XXXII.</a> 1763-1884. 
	 </p>
	 <p class="noindent">CONCLUSION.</p>
	 <p class="topics">
	    Results of the War &bull; Germany &bull; France &bull; England &bull; 
			Canada &bull; The British Provinces.
   </p>
   <p class="noindent">
	    <a id="Contents33" name="Contents33"></a>
			<a href="#Appendix">APPENDIX.</a>  
	 </p>
   <p class="noindent">
	    <a id="Contents34" name="Contents34"></a>
			<a href="#indexChapter">INDEX.</a>  
	 </p>
   


	 
	 <hr />
<div class="chapterhead">
   <br /><a name="Chapter_16" id="Chapter_16"></a>
	 <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_001-V2" id="Page_001-V2">1<br />V2</a></span> 
	 <br /><br /><br />
	 <h2><a href="#Contents16">CHAPTER XVI.</a><br />
	 <span class="med">1757, 1758.</span>
	 </h2> 
	 <p class="smcapheader">A WINTER OF DISCONTENT.</p>
	 <p class="smcap noindent space-bottom">		
	 Boasts of Loudon &bull; A Mutinous Militia &bull; Panic &bull;
		Accusations of Vaudreuil &bull; His Weakness &bull; 
		Indian Barbarities &bull; Destruction of German Flats &bull;
    Discontent of Montcalm &bull; Festivities at Montreal &bull;
		Montcalm's Relations with the Governor &bull; Famine &bull;
		Riots &bull; Mutiny &bull; Winter at Ticonderoga &bull; 
		A desperate Bush-fight &bull; Defeat of the Rangers &bull; 
		 Adventures of Roche and Pringle.	
	 </p>
	 <p class="break1"></p> 
</div>

<p class="double-space-top">
<span class="smcap">Loudon</span>, on his way back from Halifax, 
was at sea off the coast of Nova
Scotia when a despatch-boat from Governor Pownall of Massachusetts
startled him with news that Fort William Henry was attacked; and a few
days after he learned by another boat that the fort was taken and the
capitulation "inhumanly and villanously broken." On this he sent Webb
orders to hold the enemy in check without risking a battle till he
should himself arrive. "I am on the way," these were his words, "with a
force sufficient to turn the scale, with God's assistance; and then I
hope we shall teach the French to comply with the laws of nature and
humanity. For although I abhor barbarity, the knowledge I have of Mr.
Vaudreuil's 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_002-V2" id="Page_002-V2">2<br />V2</a></span> 
behavior when in Louisiana, from his own letters in my
possession, and the murders committed at Oswego and now at Fort William
Henry, will oblige me to make those gentlemen sick of such inhuman
villany whenever it is in my power." He reached New York on the last day
of August, and heard that the French had withdrawn. He nevertheless sent
his troops up the Hudson, thinking, he says, that he might still attack
Ticonderoga; a wild scheme, which he soon abandoned, if he ever
seriously entertained it. <span class="superscript">[527]</span></p>

<div class="footer">
		<p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_527" name="footer_527"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[527]</span>
<i>Loudon to Webb</i>, 20 <i>Aug</i>. 1757. 
<i>London to Holdernesse</i>, <i>Oct</i>. 1757. 
<i>Loudon to Pownall</i>, 16 [18?] <i>Aug</i>. 1757. 
A passage in this last letter, 
in which Loudon says that he shall, if prevented by head-winds from getting 
into New York, disembark the troops on Long Island, is perverted by that 
ardent partisan, William Smith, the historian of New York, into the absurd 
declaration "that he should encamp on Long Island for the defence of the 
continent."</p>
</div>

<p>Webb had remained at Fort Edward in mortal dread of attack. Johnson had
joined him with a band of Mohawks; and on the day when Fort William
Henry surrendered there had been some talk of attempting to throw
succors into it by night. Then came the news of its capture; and now,
when it was too late, tumultuous mobs of militia came pouring in from
the neighboring provinces. In a few days thousands of them were
bivouacked on the fields about Fort Edward, doing nothing, disgusted
and mutinous, declaring that they were ready to fight, but not to lie
still without tents, blankets, or kettles. Webb writes on the fourteenth
that most of those from New York had deserted, threatening to kill their
officers if 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_003-V2" id="Page_003-V2">3<br />V2</a></span> 
they tried to stop them. Delancey ordered them to be fired
upon. A sergeant was shot, others were put in arrest, and all was
disorder till the seventeenth; when Webb, learning that the French were
gone, sent them back to their homes. <span class="superscript">[528]</span></p>

<div class="footer">
		<p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_528" name="footer_528"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[528]</span>
<i>Delancey to</i> [<i>Holdernesse?</i>], 24 <i>Aug</i>. 1757.</p>
</div>

<p>Close on the fall of Fort William Henry came crazy rumors of disaster,
running like wildfire through the colonies. The number and ferocity of
the enemy were grossly exaggerated; there was a cry that they would
seize Albany and New York itself; <span class="superscript">[529]</span>
while it was reported that Webb, as much frightened as the rest, was for 
retreating to the Highlands of the Hudson. 
<span class="superscript">[530]</span> This was the day after the 
capitulation, when a part only of the militia had yet appeared. If Montcalm 
had seized the moment, and marched that afternoon to Fort Edward, it is not 
impossible that in the confusion he might have carried it by a 
<i>coup-de-main.</i></p>

<div class="footer">
		<p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_529" name="footer_529"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[529]</span>
<i>Captain Christie to Governor Wentworth</i>, 11 <i>Aug</i>. 1757.
<i>Ibid., to Governor Pownall, same date.</i></p>
    <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_530" name="footer_530"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[530]</span>
Smith, <i>Hist. N.Y.</i>, Part II. 254.</p>
</div>

<p>Here was an opportunity for Vaudreuil, and he did not fail to use it.
Jealous of his rival's exploit, he spared no pains to tarnish it;
complaining that Montcalm had stopped half way on the road to success,
and, instead of following his instructions, had contented himself with
one victory when he should have gained two. But the Governor had
enjoined upon him as a matter of the last necessity that the Canadians
should be at their homes before September to gather the crops, and he
would have been the first to complain had 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_004-V2" id="Page_004-V2">4<br />V2</a></span> 
the injunction been
disregarded. To besiege Fort Edward was impossible, as Montcalm had no
means of transporting cannon thither; and to attack Webb without them
was a risk which he had not the rashness to incur.</p>

<p>It was Bougainville who first brought Vaudreuil the news of the success
on Lake George. A day or two after his arrival, the Indians, who had
left the army after the massacre, appeared at Montreal, bringing about
two hundred English prisoners. The Governor rebuked them for breaking
the capitulation, on which the heathen savages of the West declared that
it was not their fault, but that of the converted Indians, who, in
fact, had first raised the war-whoop. Some of the prisoners were
presently bought from them at the price of two kegs of brandy each; and
the inevitable consequences followed.</p>

<p>"I thought," writes Bougainville, "that the Governor would have told
them they should have neither provisions nor presents till all the
English were given up; that he himself would have gone to their huts and
taken the prisoners from them; and that the inhabitants would be
forbidden, under the severest penalties, from selling or giving them
brandy. I saw the contrary; and my soul shuddered at the sights my eyes
beheld. On the fifteenth, at two o'clock, in the presence of the whole
town, they killed one of the prisoners, put him into the kettle, and
forced his wretched countrymen to eat of him." The Intendant Bigot, the
friend of the Governor, confirms this story; and 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_005-V2" id="Page_005-V2">5<br />V2</a></span> 
another French writer says that they "compelled mothers to eat the flesh 
of their children." <span class="superscript">[531]</span> 
Bigot declares that guns, canoes, and other presents
were given to the Western tribes before they left Montreal; and he adds,
"they must be sent home satisfied at any cost." Such were the pains
taken to preserve allies who were useful chiefly through the terror
inspired by their diabolical cruelties. This time their ferocity cost
them dear. They had dug up and scalped the corpses in the graveyard of
Fort William Henry, many of which were remains of victims of the
small-pox; and the savages caught the disease, which is said to have
made great havoc among them. <span class="superscript">[532]</span> </p>

<div class="footer">
		<p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_531" name="footer_531"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[531]</span>
"En chemin faisant et m&ecirc;me en entrant &agrave; Montr&eacute;al ils les
ont mang&eacute;s et fait manger aux autres prisonniers." 
<i>Bigot au Ministre</i>, 24 <i>Ao&ucirc;t</i>, 1757.</p>
<p>"Des sauvages ont fait manger aux m&egrave;res la chair de leurs enfants."
<i>Jugement impartial sur les Op&eacute;rations militaires en Canada</i>. 
A French diary kept in Canada at this time, and captured at sea, is cited by
Hutchinson as containing similar statements.</p>
		<p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_532" name="footer_532"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[532]</span>
One of these corpses was that of Richard Rogers, brother
of the noted partisan Robert Rogers. He had died of small-pox some time
before. Rogers, <i>Journals</i>, 55, <i>note</i>.</p>
</div>

<p>Vaudreuil, in reporting what he calls "my capture of Fort William
Henry," takes great credit to himself for his "generous procedures"
towards the English prisoners; alluding, it seems, to his having bought
some of them from the Indians with the brandy which was sure to cause
the murder of others. <span class="superscript">[533]</span> 
His obsequiousness to his red allies did not
cease with permitting them to kill and devour before his eyes those whom
he was bound in honor and duty to protect. "He let 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_006-V2" id="Page_006-V2">6<br />V2</a></span> 
them do what they
pleased," says a French contemporary; "they were seen roaming about
Montreal, knife in hand, threatening everybody, and often insulting
those they met. When complaint was made, he said nothing. Far from it;
instead of reproaching them, he loaded them with gifts, in the belief
that their cruelty would then relent." <span class="superscript">[534]</span>
</p>

<div class="footer">
		<p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_533" name="footer_533"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[533]</span>
<i>Vaudreuil au Ministre</i>, 15 <i>Sept</i>. 1757.</p>
    <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_534" name="footer_534"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[534]</span>
<i>M&eacute;moires sur le Canada</i>, 1749-1760.</p>
</div>

<p>Nevertheless, in about a fortnight all, or nearly all, the surviving
prisoners were bought out of their clutches; and then, after a final
distribution of presents and a grand debauch at La Chine, the whole
savage rout paddled for their villages.</p>

<p>The campaign closed in November with a partisan exploit on the Mohawk.
Here, at a place called German Flats, on the farthest frontier, there
was a thriving settlement of German peasants from the Palatinate, who
were so ill-disposed towards the English that Vaudreuil had had good
hope of stirring them to revolt, while at the same time persuading their
neighbors, the Oneida Indians, to take part with France.
<span class="superscript">[535]</span>  As his
measures to this end failed, he resolved to attack them. Therefore, at
three o'clock in the morning of the twelfth of November, three hundred
colony troops, Canadians and Indians, under an officer named Bel&ecirc;tre,
wakened the unhappy peasants by a burst of yells, and attacked the small
picket forts which they had built as places of refuge. These were taken
one by one and set on fire. The sixty dwellings of the settlement, with
their barns and 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_007-V2" id="Page_007-V2">7<br />V2</a></span> 
outhouses, were all burned, forty or fifty of the
inhabitants were killed, and about three times that number, chiefly
women and children, were made prisoners, including Johan Jost Petrie,
the magistrate of the place. Fort Herkimer was not far off, with a
garrison of two hundred men under Captain Townshend, who at the first
alarm sent out a detachment too weak to arrest the havoc; while Bel&ecirc;tre,
unable to carry off his booty, set on his followers to the work of
destruction, killed a great number of hogs, sheep, cattle, and horses,
and then made a hasty retreat. Lord Howe, pushing up the river from
Schenectady with troops and militia, found nothing but an abandoned
slaughter-field. Vaudreuil reported the affair to the Court, and summed
up the results with pompous egotism: "I have ruined the plans of the
English; I have disposed the Five Nations to attack them; I have carried
consternation and terror into all those parts." 
<span class="superscript">[536]</span></p>

<div class="footer">
		<p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_535" name="footer_535"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[535]</span>
<i>D&eacute;p&ecirc;ches de Vaudreuil</i>, 1757.</p>
    <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_536" name="footer_536"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[536]</span>
<i>Loudon to Pitt</i>, 14 <i>Feb</i>. 1758. 
<i>Vaudreuil au Ministre</i>, 12 <i>F&eacute;v</i>. 1758. 
<i>Ibid</i>., 28 <i>Nov</i>. 1758. 
Bougainville, <i>Journal. 
Summary of M. de Bel&ecirc;tre's Campaign</i>, in <i>N.Y. Col. Docs.</i>, 
X. 672. Extravagant reports of the havoc made were sent to France. It was 
pretended that three thousand cattle, three thousand sheep (Vaudreuil 
says four thousand), and from five hundred to fifteen hundred horses were
destroyed, with other personal property to the amount of 1,500,000
livres. These official falsehoods are contradicted in a letter from
Quebec, <i>Daine au Mar&eacute;chal de Belleisle</i>, 19 <i>Mai</i>, 1758. 
L&eacute;vis says that the whole population of the settlement, men, women, 
and children, was not above three hundred.</p>
</div>

<p>Montcalm, his summer work over, went to Montreal; and thence in
September to Quebec, a place more to his liking. "Come as soon as you
can," he wrote to Bourlamaque, "and I will tell a certain 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_008-V2" id="Page_008-V2">8<br />V2</a></span> 
fair lady how
eager you are." Even Quebec was no paradise for him; and he writes again
to the same friend: "My heart and my stomach are both ill at ease, the
latter being the worse." To his wife he says: "The price of everything
is rising. I am ruining myself; I owe the treasurer twelve thousand
francs. I long for peace and for you. In spite of the public distress,
we have balls and furious gambling." In February he returned to Montreal
in a sleigh on the ice of the St. Lawrence,&mdash;a mode of travelling which
he describes as cold but delicious. Montreal pleased him less than ever,
especially as he was not in favor at what he calls the Court, meaning
the circle of the Governor-General. "I find this place so amusing," he
writes ironically to Bourlamaque, "that I wish Holy Week could be
lengthened, to give me a pretext for neither making nor receiving
visits, staying at home, and dining there almost alone. Burn all my
letters, as I do yours." And in the next week: "Lent and devotion have
upset my stomach and given me a cold; which does not prevent me from
having the Governor-General at dinner to-day to end his lenten fast,
according to custom here." Two days after he announces: "To-day a grand
dinner at Martel's; twenty-three persons, all big-wigs (<i>les grosses
perruques</i>); no ladies. We still have got to undergo those of P&eacute;an,
Deschambault, and the Chevalier de L&eacute;vis. I spend almost every evening
in my chamber, the place I like best, and where I am least bored."</p>

<p>
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_009-V2" id="Page_009-V2">9<br />V2</a></span> 
With the opening spring there were changes in the modes of amusement.
Picnics began, Vaudreuil and his wife being often of the party, as too
was L&eacute;vis. The Governor also made visits of compliment at the houses of
the seigniorial proprietors along the river; "very much," says Montcalm,
as "Henri IV. did to the bourgeois notables of Paris. I live as usual,
fencing in the morning, dining, and passing the evening at home or at
the Governor's. P&eacute;an has gone up to La Chine to spend six days with the
reigning sultana [<i>P&eacute;an's wife, mistress of Bigot</i>]. As for me, my
<i>ennui</i> increases. I don't know what to do, or say, or read, or where to
go; and I think that at the end of the next campaign I shall ask
bluntly, blindly, for my recall, only because I am bored."
<span class="superscript">[537]</span></p>

<div class="footer">
		<p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_537" name="footer_537"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[537]</span>
<i>Montcalm &agrave; Bourlamaque</i>, 22 <i>Mai</i>, 1758.</p>
</div>

<p>
His relations with Vaudreuil were a constant annoyance to him,
notwithstanding the mask of mutual civility. "I never," he tells his
mother, "ask for a place in the colony troops for anybody. You need not
be an &OElig;dipus to guess this riddle. Here are four lines from
Corneille:&mdash;</p>

<div class="poem1 small">
<p class="poem1 indent30">"'Mon crime v&eacute;ritable est d'avoir aujourd'hui</p>
<p class="poem1 indent25">Plus de nom que &hellip; [<i>Vaudreuil</i>], plus de vertus que lui,</p>
<p class="poem1 indent25">Et c'est de l&agrave; que part cette secr&egrave;te haine</p>
<p class="poem1 indent25">Que le temps ne rendra que plus forte et plus pleine.'</p>
</div>

<p>Nevertheless I live here on good terms with everybody, and do my best to
serve the King. If they could but do without me; if they could but
spring some trap on me, or if I should happen to meet with some check!"</p>

<p>
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_010-V2" id="Page_010-V2">10<br />V2</a></span> 
Vaudreuil meanwhile had written to the Court in high praise of L&eacute;vis,
hinting that he, and not Montcalm, ought to have the chief command.
<span class="superscript">[538]</span></p>

<div class="footer">
		<p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_538" name="footer_538"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[538]</span>
<i>Vaudreuil au Ministre de la Marine</i>, 16 <i>Sept</i>. 1757.
<i>Ibid., au Ministre de la Guerre, m&ecirc;me date</i>.</p>
</div>

<p>Under the hollow gayeties of the ruling class lay a great public
distress, which broke at last into riot. Towards midwinter no flour was
to be had in Montreal; and both soldiers and people were required to
accept a reduced ration, partly of horse-flesh. A mob gathered before
the Governor's house, and a deputation of women beset him, crying out
that the horse was the friend of man, and that religion forbade him to
be eaten. In reply he threatened them with imprisonment and hanging; but
with little effect, and the crowd dispersed, only to stir up the
soldiers quartered in the houses of the town. The colony regulars,
ill-disciplined at the best, broke into mutiny, and excited the
battalion of B&eacute;arn to join them. Vaudreuil was helpless; Montcalm was in
Quebec; and the task of dealing with the mutineers fell upon L&eacute;vis, who
proved equal to the crisis, took a high tone, threatened death to the
first soldier who should refuse horse-flesh, assured them at the same
time that he ate it every day himself, and by a characteristic mingling
of authority and tact, quelled the storm. <span class="superscript">[539]</span>
</p>

<div class="footer">
		<p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_539" name="footer_539"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[539]</span>
Bougainville, <i>Journal. Montcalm &agrave; Mirepoix</i>, 
20 <i>Avril</i>, 1758. L&eacute;vis, <i>Journal de la 
Guerre du Canada</i>.</p>
</div>

<p>The prospects of the next campaign began to open. Captain Pouchot had
written from Niagara that three thousand savages were waiting to 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_011-V2" id="Page_011-V2">11<br />V2</a></span> 
be let
loose against the English borders. "What a scourge!" exclaims
Bougainville. "Humanity groans at being forced to use such monsters.
What can be done against an invisible enemy, who strikes and vanishes,
swift as the lightning? It is the destroying angel." Captain Hebecourt
kept watch and ward at Ticonderoga, begirt with snow and ice, and much
plagued by English rangers, who sometimes got into the ditch
itself. <span class="superscript">[540]</span> 
This was to reconnoitre the place in preparation for a
winter attack which Loudon had planned, but which, like the rest of his
schemes, fell to the ground. <span class="superscript">[541]</span> 
Towards midwinter a band of these
intruders captured two soldiers and butchered some fifteen cattle close
to the fort, leaving tied to the horns of one of them a note addressed
to the commandant in these terms: "I am obliged to you, sir, for the
rest you have allowed me to take and the fresh meat you have sent me. I
shall take good care of my prisoners. My compliments to the Marquis of
Montcalm." Signed, Rogers. <span class="superscript">[542]</span> </p>

<div class="footer">
		<p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_540" name="footer_540"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[540]</span>
<i>Montcalm &agrave; Bourlamaque</i>, 28 <i>Mars</i>, 1758.</p>
     <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_541" name="footer_541"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[541]</span>
<i>Loudon to Pitt</i>, 14 <i>Feb</i>. 1758.</p>
     <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_542" name="footer_542"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[542]</span>
<i>Journal de ce qui s'est pass&eacute; en Canada</i>, 1757, 1758.
Compare Rogers, <i>Journals</i>, 72-75.</p>
</div>

<p>
A few weeks later Hebecourt had his revenge. About the middle of March a
report came to Montreal that a large party of rangers had been cut to
pieces a few miles from Ticonderoga, and that Rogers himself was among
the slain. This last announcement proved false; but the rangers had
suffered a crushing defeat. Colonel Haviland, commanding at Fort Edward,
sent a hundred and 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_012-V2" id="Page_012-V2">12<br />V2</a></span> 
eighty of them, men and officers, on a scouting party
towards Ticonderoga; and Captain Pringle and Lieutenant Roche, of the
twenty-seventh regiment, joined them as volunteers, no doubt through a
love of hardy adventure, which was destined to be fully satisfied.
Rogers commanded the whole. They passed down Lake George on the ice
under cover of night, and then, as they neared the French outposts,
pursued their way by land behind Rogers Rock and the other mountains of
the western shore. On the preceding day, the twelfth of March, Hebecourt
had received a reinforcement of two hundred Mission Indians and a body
of Canadians. The Indians had no sooner arrived than, though nominally
Christians, they consulted the spirits, by whom they were told that the
English were coming. On this they sent out scouts, who came back
breathless, declaring that they had found a great number of snow-shoe
tracks. The superhuman warning being thus confirmed, the whole body of
Indians, joined by a band of Canadians and a number of volunteers from
the regulars, set out to meet the approaching enemy, and took their way
up the valley of Trout Brook, a mountain gorge that opens from the west
upon the valley of Ticonderoga.</p>

<p>Towards three o'clock on the afternoon of that day Rogers had reached a
point nearly west of the mountain that bears his name. The rough and
rocky ground was buried four feet in snow, and all around stood the gray
trunks of the forest, bearing aloft their skeleton arms and tangled
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_013-V2" id="Page_013-V2">13<br />V2</a></span> 
intricacy of leafless twigs. Close on the right was a steep hill, and at
a little distance on the left was the brook, lost under ice and snow. A
scout from the front told Rogers that a party of Indians was approaching
along the bed of the frozen stream, on which he ordered his men to halt,
face to that side, and advance cautiously. The Indians soon appeared,
and received a fire that killed some of them and drove back the rest in
confusion.</p>

<p>Not suspecting that they were but an advance-guard, about half the
rangers dashed in pursuit, and were soon met by the whole body of the
enemy. The woods rang with yells and musketry. In a few minutes some
fifty of the pursuers were shot down, and the rest driven back in
disorder upon their comrades. Rogers formed them all on the slope of the
hill; and here they fought till sunset with stubborn desperation, twice
repulsing the overwhelming numbers of the assailants, and thwarting all
their efforts to gain the heights in the rear. The combatants were often
not twenty yards apart, and sometimes they were mixed together. At
length a large body of Indians succeeded in turning the right flank of
the rangers. Lieutenant Phillips and a few men were sent by Rogers to
oppose the movement; but they quickly found themselves surrounded, and
after a brave defence surrendered on a pledge of good treatment. Rogers
now advised the volunteers, Pringle and Roche, to escape while there was
time, and offered them a sergeant as guide; 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_014-V2" id="Page_014-V2">14<br />V2</a></span> 
but they gallantly resolved
to stand by him. Eight officers and more than a hundred rangers lay dead
and wounded in the snow. Evening was near and the forest was darkening
fast, when the few survivors broke and fled. Rogers with about twenty
followers escaped up the mountain; and gathering others about him, made
a running fight against the Indian pursuers, reached Lake George, not
without fresh losses, and after two days of misery regained Fort Edward
with the remnant of his band. The enemy on their part suffered heavily,
the chief loss falling on the Indians; who, to revenge themselves,
murdered all the wounded and nearly all the prisoners, and tying
Lieutenant Phillips and his men to trees, hacked them to pieces.</p>

<p>Captain Pringle and Lieutenant Roche had become separated from the other
fugitives; and, ignorant of woodcraft, they wandered by moonlight amid
the desolation of rocks and snow, till early in the night they met a man
whom they knew as a servant of Rogers, and who said that he could guide
them to Fort Edward. One of them had lost his snow-shoes in the fight;
and, crouching over a miserable fire of broken sticks, they worked till
morning to make a kind of substitute with forked branches, twigs, and a
few leather strings. They had no hatchet to cut firewood, no blankets,
no overcoats, and no food except part of a Bologna sausage and a little
ginger which Pringle had brought with him. There was no game; not even a
squirrel was astir; and their 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_015-V2" id="Page_015-V2">15<br />V2</a></span> 
chief sustenance was juniper-berries and
the inner bark of trees. But their worst calamity was the helplessness
of their guide. His brain wandered; and while always insisting that he
knew the country well, he led them during four days hither and thither
among a labyrinth of nameless mountains, clambering over rocks, wading
through snowdrifts, struggling among fallen trees, till on the fifth day
they saw with despair that they had circled back to their own
starting-point. On the next morning, when they were on the ice of Lake
George, not far from Rogers Rock, a blinding storm of sleet and snow
drove in their faces. Spent as they were, it was death to stop; and
bending their heads against the blast, they fought their way forward,
now on the ice, and now in the adjacent forest, till in the afternoon
the storm ceased, and they found themselves on the bank of an unknown
stream. It was the outlet of the lake; for they had wandered into the
valley of Ticonderoga, and were not three miles from the French fort.
In crossing the torrent Pringle lost his gun, and was near losing his
life. All three of the party were drenched to the skin; and, becoming
now for the first time aware of where they were, they resolved on
yielding themselves prisoners to save their lives. Night, however, again
found them in the forest. Their guide became delirious, saw visions of
Indians all around, and, murmuring incoherently, straggled off a little
way, seated himself in the snow, and was soon dead. The two officers,
themselves but half alive, 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_016-V2" id="Page_016-V2">16<br />V2</a></span> 
walked all night round a tree to keep the
blood in motion. In the morning, again toiling on, they presently saw
the fort across the intervening snowfields, and approached it, waving a
white handkerchief. Several French officers dashed towards them at full
speed, and reached them in time to save them from the clutches of the
Indians, whose camps were near at hand. They were kindly treated,
recovered from the effects of their frightful ordeal, and were
afterwards exchanged. Pringle lived to old age, and died in 1800, senior
major-general of the British army. <span class="superscript">[543]</span></p>

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		<p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_543" name="footer_543"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[543]</span>
Rogers, two days after reaching Fort Edward, made a detailed report of the 
fight, which was printed in the <i>New Hampshire Gazette</i> and other 
provincial papers. It is substantially incorporated in his published 
<i>Journals</i>, which also contain a long letter from Pringle to Colonel 
Haviland, dated at Carillon (Ticonderoga), 28 March, and giving an excellent 
account of his and Roche's adventures. It was sent by a flag of truce, which 
soon after arrived from Fort Edward with a letter for Vaudreuil. The French 
accounts of the fight are <i>Hebecourt &agrave; [Vaudreuil?]</i>, 15 
<i>Mars</i>, 1758.  <i>Montcalm au Ministre de la Guerre</i>, 10 <i>Avril</i>, 
1758. <i>Doreil &agrave; Belleisle</i>, 30 <i>Avril</i>, 1758. 
Bougainville, <i>Journal. Relation de l'Affaire de Roger</i>, 19 <i>Mars</i>, 
1758. <i>Autre Relation, m&ecirc;me date</i>. L&eacute;vis, <i>Journal</i>. 
According to L&eacute;vis, the French force consisted of 250 Indians and 
Canadians, and a number of officers, cadets, and soldiers. Roger puts it 
at 700. Most of the French writers put the force of the rangers, correctly, 
at about 180. Rogers reports his loss at 125. None of the wounded seem to 
have escaped, being either murdered after the fight, or killed by exposure 
in the woods. The Indians brought in 144 scalps, having no doubt divided 
some of them, after their ingenious custom. Rogers threw off his overcoat 
during the fight, and it was found on the field, with his commission in 
the pocket; whence the report of his death. There is an unsupported 
tradition that he escaped by sliding on his snow-shoes down a precipice of 
Rogers Rock.</p>
</div>

<hr />
<div class="chapterhead">
   <br /><a name="Chapter_17" id="Chapter_17"></a>
	 <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_017-V2" id="Page_017-V2">17<br />V2</a></span> 
	 <br /><br /><br />
	 <h2><a href="#Contents17">CHAPTER XVII.</a><br />
	 <span class="med">1753-1760.</span>
	 </h2> 
	 <p class="smcapheader">BIGOT.</p>
	 <p class="smcap noindent space-bottom">		
	  His Life and Character &bull;  Canadian Society &bull; 
		Official Festivities &bull;  A Party of Pleasure &bull;  
		Hospitalities of Bigot &bull;  Desperate Gambling &bull; 
		Ch&acirc;teau Bigot &bull;  Canadian Ladies &bull; Cadet &bull; 
		La Friponne &bull; Official Rascality &bull; Methods of Peculation &bull; 
		Cruel Frauds on the Acadians &bull; Military Corruption &bull; 
		P&eacute;an &bull;  Love and Knavery &bull; Varin and his Partners &bull; 
		Vaudreuil and the Peculators &bull;  
		He defends Bigot; praises Cadet and P&eacute;an &bull; 
		Canadian Finances &bull; Peril of Bigot &bull; 
		Threats of the Minister &bull; Evidence of Montcalm &bull; 
		Impending Ruin of the Confederates.
	 </p>
	 <p class="break1"></p> 
</div>


<p class="double-space-top">
<span class="smcap">At</span> 
this stormy epoch of Canadian history the sinister figure of the
Intendant Bigot moves conspicuous on the scene. Not that he was
answerable for all the manifold corruption that infected the colony, for
much of it was rife before his time, and had a vitality of its own; but
his office and character made him the centre of it, and, more than any
other man, he marshalled and organized the forces of knavery.</p>

<p>
In the dual government of Canada the Governor represented the King and
commanded the troops; while the Intendant was charged with trade,
finance, justice, and all other departments of civil administration. 
<span class="superscript">[544]</span>
In former times the two 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_018-V2" id="Page_018-V2">18<br />V2</a></span> 
functionaries usually quarrelled; but between
Vaudreuil and Bigot there was perfect harmony.</p>

<div class="footer">
		<p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_544" name="footer_544"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[544]</span>
See <i>Old R&eacute;gime in Canada</i>.</p>
</div>

<p>
Fran&ccedil;ois Bigot, in the words of his biographer, was "born in the bosom
of the magistracy," both his father and his grandfather having held
honorable positions in the parliament of Bordeaux.
<span class="superscript">[545]</span> In appearance he
was not prepossessing, though his ugly, pimpled face was joined with
easy and agreeable manners. In spite of indifferent health, he was
untiring both in pleasure and in work, a skilful man of business, of
great official experience, energetic, good-natured, free-handed, ready
to oblige his friends and aid them in their needs at the expense of the
King, his master; fond of social enjoyments, lavish in hospitality.</p>

<div class="footer">
		<p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_545" name="footer_545"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[545]</span>
<i>Proc&egrave;s de Bigot, Cadet, et autres, M&eacute;moire pour Messire
Fran&ccedil;ois Bigot, accus&eacute;, contre Monsieur le 
Procureur-G&eacute;n&eacute;ral du Roi, accusateur.</i></p>
</div>

<p>A year or two before the war began, the engineer Franquet was sent from
France to strengthen Louisbourg and inspect the defences of Canada. He
kept a copious journal, full of curious observation, and affording
bright glimpses not only of the social life of the Intendant, but of
Canadian society in the upper or official class. Thus, among various
matters of the kind, he gives us the following. Bigot, who was in
Quebec, had occasion to go to Montreal to meet the Governor; and this
official journey was turned into a pleasure excursion, of which the King
paid all the costs. Those favored with invitations, a privilege highly
prized, were Franquet, with seven or eight military officers and a
corresponding number of ladies, including the 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_019-V2" id="Page_019-V2">19<br />V2</a></span> 
wife of Major P&eacute;an, of
whom Bigot was enamoured. A chief steward, cooks, servants, and other
attendants, followed the party. The guests had been requested to send
their portmanteaus to the Intendant's Palace six days before, that they
might be sent forward on sledges along with bedding, table service,
cooking utensils, and numberless articles of comfort and luxury. Orders
were given to the inhabitants along the way, on pain of imprisonment, to
level the snowdrifts and beat the road smooth with ox-teams, as also to
provide relays of horses. It is true that they were well paid for this
last service; so well that the hire of a horse to Montreal and back
again would cost the King the entire value of the animal. On the eighth
of February the party met at the palace; and after a grand dinner set
out upon their journey in twenty or more sleighs, some with two guests
and a driver, and the rest with servants and attendants. The procession
passed at full trot along St. Vallier street amid the shouts of an
admiring crowd, stopped towards night at Pointe-aux-Trembles, where each
looked for lodging; and then they all met and supped with the Intendant.
The militia captain of the place was ordered to have fresh horses ready
at seven in the morning, when Bigot regaled his friends with tea,
coffee, and chocolate, after which they set out again, drove to
Cap-Sant&eacute;, and stopped two hours at the house of the militia captain to
breakfast and warm themselves. In the afternoon they reached Ste.
Anne-de-la-P&eacute;rade, when Bigot gave them a supper at the house in 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_020-V2" id="Page_020-V2">20<br />V2</a></span> 
which he lodged, and they spent the evening at cards.</p>

<p>The next morning brought them to Three Rivers, where Madame Marin,
Franquet's travelling companion, wanted to stop to see her sister, the
wife of Rigaud, who was then governor of the place. Madame de Rigaud,
being ill, received her visitors in bed, and ordered an ample dinner to
be provided for them; after which they returned to her chamber for
coffee and conversation. Then they all set out again, saluted by the
cannon of the fort.</p>

<p>Their next stopping-place was Isle-au-Castor, where, being seated at
cards before supper, they were agreeably surprised by the appearance of
the Governor, who had come down from Montreal to meet them with four
officers, Duchesnaye, Marin, Le Mercier, and P&eacute;an. Many were the
embraces and compliments; and in the morning they all journeyed on
together, stopping towards night at the largest house they could find,
where their servants took away the partitions to make room, and they sat
down to a supper, followed by the inevitable game of cards. On the next
night they reached Montreal and were lodged at the intendency, the
official residence of the hospitable Bigot. The succeeding day was spent
in visiting persons of eminence and consideration, among whom are to be
noted the names, soon to become notorious, of Varin, naval commissary,
Martel, King's storekeeper, Antoine Penisseault, and Fran&ccedil;ois Maurin. A
succession of festivities followed, including the 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_021-V2" id="Page_021-V2">21<br />V2</a></span> 
benediction of three flags for a band of militia on their way to the Ohio. 
All persons of quality in Montreal were invited on this occasion, and the 
Governor gave them a dinner and a supper. Bigot, however, outdid him in 
the plenitude of his hospitality, since, in the week before Lent, forty 
guests supped every evening at his table, and dances, masquerades, and 
cards consumed the night. <span class="superscript">[546]</span></p>

<div class="footer">
		<p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_546" name="footer_546"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[546]</span>
Franquet, <i>Journal</i>.</p>
</div>

<p>His chief abode was at Quebec, in the capacious but somewhat ugly
building known as the Intendant's Palace. Here it was his custom during
the war to entertain twenty persons at dinner every day; and there was
also a hall for dancing, with a gallery to which the citizens were
admitted as spectators. <span class="superscript">[547]</span>
The bounteous Intendant provided a separate dancing-hall for the populace; 
and, though at the same time he plundered and ruined them, his gracious 
demeanor long kept him a place in their hearts. Gambling was the chief 
feature of his entertainments, and the stakes grew deeper as the war went 
on. He played desperately himself, and early in 1758 lost two hundred and 
four thousand francs,&mdash;a loss which he well knew how to repair. 
Besides his official residence on the banks of the St. Charles, he had a 
country house about five miles distant, a massive old stone building in the 
woods at the foot of the mountain of Charlebourg; its ruins are now known 
as Ch&acirc;teau Bigot.  In its day it was called the Hermitage; 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_022-V2" id="Page_022-V2">22<br />V2</a></span> 
though the uses to which it was applied savored nothing of asceticism. 
Tradition connects it and its owner with a romantic, but more than doubtful, 
story of love, jealousy, and murder.</p>

<div class="footer">
		<p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_547" name="footer_547"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[547]</span>
De Gasp&eacute;, <i>M&eacute;moires</i>, 119.</p>
</div>

<p>The chief Canadian families were so social in their habits and so
connected by intermarriage that, along with the French civil and
military officers of the colonial establishment, they formed a society
whose members all knew each other, like the corresponding class in
Virginia. There was among them a social facility and ease rare in
democratic communities; and in the ladies of Quebec and Montreal were
often seen graces which visitors from France were astonished to find at
the edge of a wilderness. Yet this small though lively society had
anomalies which grew more obtrusive towards the close of the war.
Knavery makes strange companions; and at the tables of high civil
officials and colony officers of rank sat guests as boorish in manners
as they were worthless in character.</p>

<p>Foremost among these was Joseph Cadet, son of a butcher at Quebec, who
at thirteen went to sea as a pilot's boy, then kept the cows of an
inhabitant of Charlebourg, and at last took up his father's trade and
prospered in it. <span class="superscript">[548]</span>
In 1756 Bigot got him appointed commissary-general, and made a contract 
with him which flung wide open the doors of peculation. In the next two 
years Cadet and his associates, P&eacute;an, Maurin, Corpron, and
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_023-V2" id="Page_023-V2">23<br />V2</a></span> 
Penisseault, sold to the King, for about twenty-three million francs,
provisions which cost them eleven millions, leaving a net profit of about
twelve millions. It was not legally proved that the Intendant shared
Cadet's gains; but there is no reasonable doubt that he did so.
Bigot's chief profits rose, however, from other sources. It was his
business to see that the King's storehouses for the supply of troops,
militia, and Indians were kept well stocked. To this end he and Br&eacute;ard,
naval comptroller at Quebec, made a partnership with the commercial house
of Gradis and Son at Bordeaux. He next told the Colonial Minister that
there were stores enough already in Canada to last three years, and that it
would be more to the advantage of the King to buy them in the colony than
to take the risk of sending them from France.
<span class="superscript">[549]</span> Gradis and Son then
shipped them to Canada in large quantities, while Br&eacute;ard or his agent
declared at the custom-house that they belonged to the King, and so
escaped the payment of duties. They were then, as occasion rose, sold to
the King at a huge profit, always under fictitious names. Often they were
sold to some favored merchant or speculator, who sold them in turn to
Bigot's confederate, the King's storekeeper; and sometimes they passed
through several successive hands, till the price rose to double or triple
the first cost, the Intendant and his partners sharing the gains with
friends and allies. They would let nobody else sell to the King; and
thus a grinding 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_024-V2" id="Page_024-V2">24<br />V2</a></span> 
monopoly was established, to the great profit of those
who held it. <span class="superscript">[550]</span></p>

<div class="footer">
		<p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_548" name="footer_548"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[548]</span>
<i>Proc&egrave;s de Bigot, Cadet, et autres, M&eacute;moire pour Messire
Fran&ccedil;ois Bigot</i>. Compare <i>M&eacute;moires sur le Canada</i>, 
1749-1760.</p>
   <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_549" name="footer_549"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[549]</span>
<i>Bigot au Ministre, 8 Oct. 1749.</i></p>
   <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_550" name="footer_550"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[550]</span>
<i>Proc&eacute;s de Bigot, Cadet, et autres. M&eacute;moire sur les
Fraudes commises dans la Colonie.</i> Compare <i>M&eacute;moires sur 
le Canada</i>, 1749-1760.</p>
</div>

<p>Under the name of a trader named Claverie, Bigot, some time before the
war, set up a warehouse on land belonging to the King and not far from
his own palace. Here the goods shipped from Bordeaux were collected, to
be sold in retail to the citizens, and in wholesale to favored merchants
and the King. This establishment was popularly known as La Friponne, or 
The Cheat.  There was another Friponne at Montreal, which was leagued 
with that of Quebec, and received goods from it.</p>

<p>Bigot and his accomplices invented many other profitable frauds. Thus he
was charged with the disposal of the large quantity of furs belonging to
his master, which it was his duty to sell at public auction, after due
notice, to the highest bidder. Instead of this, he sold them privately
at a low price to his own confederates. It was also his duty to provide
transportation for troops, artillery, provisions, and stores, in which
he made good profit by letting to the King, at high prices, boats or
vessels which he had himself bought or hired for the purpose.
<span class="superscript">[551]</span></p>

<div class="footer">
		<p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_551" name="footer_551"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[551]</span>
<i>Jugement rendu souverainement dans l'Affaire du Canada.</i></p>
</div>

<p>Yet these and other illicit gains still left him but the second place as
public plunderer. Cadet, the commissary-general, reaped an ampler
harvest, and became the richest man in the colony. One of the 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_025-V2" id="Page_025-V2">25<br />V2</a></span> 
operations
of this scoundrel, accomplished with the help of Bigot, consisted in
buying for six hundred thousand francs a quantity of stores belonging to
the King, and then selling them back to him for one million four hundred
thousand. <span class="superscript">[552]</span>
It was further shown on his trial that in 1759 he
received 1,614,354 francs for stores furnished at the post of
Miramichi, while the value of those actually furnished was but 889,544
francs; thus giving him a fraudulent profit of more than seven hundred
and twenty-four thousand. <span class="superscript">[553]</span>
Cadet's chief resource was the
falsification of accounts. The service of the King in Canada was fenced
about by rigid formalities. When supplies were wanted at any of the
military posts, the commandant made a requisition specifying their
nature and quantity, while, before pay could be drawn for them, the
King's storekeeper, the local commissary, and the inspector must set
their names as vouchers to the list, and finally Bigot must sign
it. <span class="superscript">[554]</span>
But precautions were useless where all were leagued to rob the
King. It appeared on Cadet's trial that by gifts of wine, brandy, or
money he had bribed the officers, both civil and military, at all the
principal forts to attest the truth of accounts in which the supplies
furnished by him were set at more than twice their true amount. Of the
many frauds charged against him there was one peculiarly 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_026-V2" id="Page_026-V2">26<br />V2</a></span> 
odious. Large
numbers of refugee Acadians were to be supplied with rations to keep
them alive. Instead of wholesome food, mouldered and unsalable salt cod
was sent them, and paid for by the King at inordinate prices.
<span class="superscript">[555]</span> It
was but one of many heartless outrages practised by Canadian officials
on this unhappy people.</p>

<div class="footer">
		<p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_552" name="footer_552"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[552]</span>
<i>Proc&egrave;s de Bigot, Cadet, et autres, Requ&ecirc;te du
Procureur-G&eacute;n&eacute;ral</i>, 19 <i>Dec</i>. 1761.</p>
   <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_553" name="footer_553"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[553]</span>
<i>Proc&egrave;s de Bigot, Cadet, et autres, M&eacute;moire pour Messire
Fran&ccedil;ois Bigot</i>.</p>
  <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_554" name="footer_554"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[554]</span>
<i>M&eacute;moire sur le Canada</i> (Archives Nationales).</p>
   <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_555" name="footer_555"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[555]</span>
<i>M&eacute;moires sur le Canada</i>, 1749-1760.</p>
</div>

<p>Cadet told the Intendant that the inhabitants were hoarding their grain,
and got an order from him requiring them to sell it at a low fixed
price, on pain of having it seized. Thus nearly the whole fell into his
hands. Famine ensued; and he then sold it at a great profit, partly to
the King, and partly to its first owners. Another of his devices was to
sell provisions to the King which, being sent to the outlying forts,
were falsely reported as consumed; on which he sold them to the King a
second time. Not without reason does a writer of the time exclaim: "This
is the land of abuses, ignorance, prejudice, and all that is monstrous
in government. Peculation, monopoly, and plunder have become a
bottomless abyss." <span class="superscript">[556]</span></p>

<div class="footer">
		<p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_556" name="footer_556"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[556]</span>
<i>Consid&eacute;rations sur l'&Eacute;tat pr&eacute;sent du Canada</i>.</p>
</div>

<p>The command of a fort brought such opportunities of making money that,
according to Bougainville, the mere prospect of appointment to it for
the usual term of three years was thought enough for a young man to
marry upon. It was a favor in the gift of the Governor, who was accused
of sharing the profits. These came partly 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_027-V2" id="Page_027-V2">27<br />V2</a></span> 
from the fur-trade, and still more from frauds of various kinds. For example, 
a requisition was made for supplies as gifts to the Indians in order to keep 
them friendly or send them on the war-path; and their number was put many 
times above the truth in order to get more goods, which the commandant and 
his confederates then bartered for furs on their own account, instead of
giving them as presents. "And," says a contemporary, addressing the
Colonial Minister, "those who treat the savages so basely are officers
of the King, depositaries of his authority, ministers of that Great
Onontio whom they call their father."
<span class="superscript">[557]</span> At the post of Green Bay, the
partisan officer Marin, and Rigaud, the Governor's brother, made in a
short time a profit of three hundred and twelve thousand francs.
<span class="superscript">[558]</span>
"Why is it," asks Bougainville, "that of all which the King sends to the
Indians two thirds are stolen, and the rest sold to them instead of
being given?" <span class="superscript">[559]</span></p>

<div class="footer">
		<p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_557" name="footer_557"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[557]</span>
<i>Consid&eacute;rations sur l'&Eacute;tat pr&eacute;sent du Canada</i>.</p>
    <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_558" name="footer_558"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[558]</span>
<i>M&eacute;moire sur les Fraudes commises dans la Colonie</i>.
Bougainville, <i>M&eacute;moire sur l'&Eacute;tat de la Nouvelle 
France</i>.</p>
   <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_559" name="footer_559"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[559]</span>
Bougainville, <i>Journal</i>.</p>
</div>

<p>The transportation of military stores gave another opportunity of
plunder. The contractor would procure from the Governor or the local
commandant an order requiring the inhabitants to serve him as boatmen,
drivers, or porters, under a promise of exemption that year from duty as
soldiers. This saved him his chief item of expense, and the profits of
his contract rose in proportion.</p>

<p>
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_028-V2" id="Page_028-V2">28<br />V2</a></span> 
A contagion of knavery ran through the official life of the colony; and
to resist it demanded no common share of moral robustness. The officers
of the troops of the line were not much within its influence; but those
of the militia and colony regulars, whether of French or Canadian birth,
shared the corruption of the civil service. Seventeen of them, including
six chevaliers of St. Louis and eight commandants of forts, were
afterwards arraigned for fraud and malversation, though some of the
number were acquitted. Bougainville gives the names of four other
Canadian officers as honorable exceptions to the general
demoralization,&mdash;Beno&icirc;t, Repentigny, Lain&eacute;, and Le Borgne; 
"not enough," he observes, "to save Sodom."</p>

<p>Conspicuous among these military thieves was Major P&eacute;an, whose qualities
as a soldier have been questioned, but who nevertheless had shown almost
as much vigor in serving the King during the Ohio campaign of 1753 as
he afterwards displayed effrontery in cheating him. "Le petit P&eacute;an" had
married a young wife, Mademoiselle Desm&eacute;loizes, Canadian like himself,
well born, and famed for beauty, vivacity, and wit. Bigot, who was near
sixty, became her accepted lover; and the fortune of P&eacute;an was made. His
first success seems to have taken him by surprise. He had bought as a
speculation a large quantity of grain, with money of the King lent him
by the Intendant. Bigot, officially omnipotent, then issued an order
raising the commodity to a price far above that paid by P&eacute;an, who thus
made a profit of fifty 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_029-V2" id="Page_029-V2">29<br />V2</a></span> 
thousand crowns. <span class="superscript">[560]</span>
A few years later his
wealth was estimated at from two to four million francs. Madame P&eacute;an
became a power in Canada, the dispenser of favors and offices; and all
who sought opportunity to rob the King hastened to pay her their court.
P&eacute;an, jilted by his own wife, made prosperous love to the wife of his
partner, Penisseault; who, though the daughter of a Montreal tradesman,
had the air of a woman of rank, and presided with dignity and grace at a
hospitable board where were gathered the clerks of Cadet and other
lesser lights of the administrative hierarchy. It was often honored by
the presence of the Chevalier de L&eacute;vis, who, captivated by the charms of
the hostess, condescended to a society which his friends condemned as
unworthy of his station. He succeeded P&eacute;an in the graces of Madame
Penisseault, and after the war took her with him to France; while the
aggrieved husband found consolation in the wives of the small
functionaries under his orders. <span class="superscript">[561]</span></p>

<div class="footer">
		<p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_560" name="footer_560"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[560]</span>
<i>M&eacute;moires sur le Canada</i>, 1749-1760. 
<i>M&eacute;moire sur les Fraudes</i>, etc. Compare Pouchot, I. 8.</p>
		<p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_561" name="footer_561"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[561]</span>
<i>M&eacute;moires sur le Canada</i>, 1749-1760.</p>
</div>

<p>Another prominent name on the roll of knavery was that of Varin,
commissary of marine, and Bigot's deputy at Montreal, a Frenchman of low
degree, small in stature, sharp witted, indefatigable, conceited,
arrogant, headstrong, capricious, and dissolute. Worthless as he was, he
found a place in the Court circle of the Governor, and aspired to
supplant Bigot in the intendancy. To 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_030-V2" id="Page_030-V2">30<br />V2</a></span> 
this end, as well as to save
himself from justice, he had the fatuity to turn informer and lay bare
the sins of his confederates, though forced at the same time to betray
his own. Among his comrades and allies may be mentioned Deschenaux, son
of a shoemaker at Quebec, and secretary to the Intendant; Martel, King's
storekeeper at Montreal; the humpback Maurin, who is not to be
confounded with the partisan officer Marin; and Corpron, a clerk whom
several tradesmen had dismissed for rascality, but who was now in the
confidence of Cadet, to whom he made himself useful, and in whose
service he grew rich.</p>

<p>Canada was the prey of official jackals,&mdash;true lion's providers, since
they helped to prepare a way for the imperial beast, who, roused at last
from his lethargy, was gathering his strength to seize her for his own.
Honesty could not be expected from a body of men clothed with arbitrary
and ill-defined powers, ruling with absolute sway an unfortunate people
who had no voice in their own destinies, and answerable only to an
apathetic master three thousand miles away. Nor did the Canadian Church,
though supreme, check the corruptions that sprang up and flourished
under its eye. The Governor himself was charged with sharing the
plunder; and though he was acquitted on his trial, it is certain that
Bigot had him well in hand, that he was intimate with the chief robbers,
and that they found help in his weak compliances and wilful blindness.
He put his stepson, Le Verrier, in command at 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_031-V2" id="Page_031-V2">31<br />V2</a></span> 
Michillimackinac, where,
by fraud and the connivance of his stepfather, the young man made a
fortune. <span class="superscript">[562]</span>
When the Colonial Minister berated the Intendant for
maladministration, Vaudreuil became his advocate, and wrote thus in his
defence: "I cannot conceal from you, Monseigneur, how deeply M. Bigot
feels the suspicions expressed in your letters to him. He does not
deserve them, I am sure. He is full of zeal for the service of the King;
but as he is rich, or passes as such, and as he has merit, the
ill-disposed are jealous, and insinuate that he has prospered at the
expense of His Majesty. I am certain that it is not true, and that
nobody is a better citizen than he, or has the King's interest more at
heart." <span class="superscript">[563]</span> For Cadet, the butcher's son, 
the Governor asked a patent of nobility as a reward for his services. 
<span class="superscript">[564]</span> When P&eacute;an went to France
in 1758, Vaudreuil wrote to the Colonial Minister: "I have great
confidence in him. He knows the colony and its needs. You can trust all
he says. He will explain everything in the best manner. I shall be
extremely sensible to any kindness you may show him, and hope that when
you know him you will like him as much as I do." 
<span class="superscript">[565]</span></p>

<div class="footer">
		<p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_562" name="footer_562"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[562]</span>
<i>M&eacute;moires sur le Canada</i>, 1749-1760.</p>
   <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_563" name="footer_563"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[563]</span>
<i>Vaudreuil au Ministre</i>, 15 <i>Oct</i>. 1759.</p>
   <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_564" name="footer_564"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[564]</span>
<i>Ibid</i>., 7 <i>Nov</i>. 1759.</p>
   <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_565" name="footer_565"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[565]</span>
<i>Ibid</i>., 6 <i>Ao&ucirc;t</i>, 1758.</p>
</div>

<p>Administrative corruption was not the only bane of Canada. Her financial
condition was desperate. The ordinary circulating medium consisted of
what was known as card money, and amounted to only 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_032-V2" id="Page_032-V2">32<br />V2</a></span> 
a million of francs. This being insufficient, Bigot, like his predecessor 
Hocquart, issued promissory notes on his own authority, and made them legal 
tender. They were for sums from one franc to a hundred, and were called
<i>ordonnances</i>. Their issue was blamed at Versailles as an encroachment
on the royal prerogative, though they were recognized by the Ministry in
view of the necessity of the case. Every autumn those who held them to
any considerable amount might bring them to the colonial treasurer, who
gave in return bills of exchange on the royal treasury in France. At
first these bills were promptly paid; then delays took place, and the
notes depreciated; till in 1759 the Ministry, aghast at the amount,
refused payment, and the utmost dismay and confusion followed.
<span class="superscript">[566]</span></p>

<div class="footer">
		<p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_566" name="footer_566"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[566]</span>
<i>R&eacute;flexions sommaires sur le Commerce qui s'est fait en
Canada. &Eacute;tat pr&eacute;sent du Canada</i>. Compare Stevenson, 
<i>Card Money of Canada</i>, in <i>Transactions of the Historical 
Society of Quebec</i>, 1873-1875.</p>
</div>

<p>The vast jarring, discordant mechanism of corruption grew
incontrollable; it seized upon Bigot, and dragged him, despite himself,
into perils which his prudence would have shunned. He was becoming a
victim to the rapacity of his own confederates, whom he dared not offend
by refusing his connivance and his signature of frauds which became more
and more recklessly audacious. He asked leave to retire from office, in
the hope that his successor would bear the brunt of the ministerial
displeasure. P&eacute;an had withdrawn already, and with the fruits of his
plunder bought land in 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_033-V2" id="Page_033-V2">33<br />V2</a></span> 
France, where he thought himself safe. But though the Intendant had long 
been an object of distrust, and had often been warned to mend his ways, 
<span class="superscript">[567]</span> yet such was his energy, his 
executive power, and his fertility of resource, that in the crisis of the 
war it was hard to dispense with him. Neither his abilities, however, nor 
his strong connections in France, nor an ally whom he had secured in the
bureau of the Colonial Minister himself, could avail him much longer;
and the letters from Versailles became appalling in rebuke and menace.</p>

<div class="footer">
		<p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_567" name="footer_567"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[567]</span>
<i>Ordres du Roy et D&eacute;p&ecirc;ches des Ministres</i>, 1751-1758.</p>
</div>

<p>"The ship 'Britannia,'" wrote the Minister, Berryer, "laden with goods
such as are wanted in the colony, was captured by a privateer from St.-Malo, 
and brought into Quebec. You sold the whole cargo for eight hundred thousand 
francs. The purchasers made a profit of two millions. You bought back a part 
for the King at one million, or two hundred thousand more than the price for 
which you sold the whole. With conduct like this it is no wonder that the 
expenses of the colony become insupportable. The amount of your drafts on 
the treasury is frightful. The fortunes of your subordinates throw suspicion 
on your administration." And in another letter on the same day: "How could it
happen that the small-pox among the Indians cost the King a million francs? 
What does this expense mean? Who is answerable for it? Is it the
officers who command the posts, or is it the storekeepers? 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_034-V2" id="Page_034-V2">34<br />V2</a></span> 
You give me no particulars. What has become of the immense quantity of 
provisions sent to Canada last year? I am forced to conclude that the King's 
stores are set down as consumed from the moment they arrive, and then sold 
to His Majesty at exorbitant prices. Thus the King buys stores in France,
and then buys them again in Canada. I no longer wonder at the immense
fortunes made in the colony." <span class="superscript">[568]</span>
Some months later the Minister writes: "You pay bills without examination, 
and then find an error in your accounts of three million six hundred thousand 
francs. In the letters from Canada I see nothing but incessant speculation in
provisions and goods, which are sold to the King for ten times more than
they cost in France. For the last time, I exhort you to give these
things your serious attention, for they will not escape from mine."
<span class="superscript">[569]</span></p>

<div class="footer">
		<p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_568" name="footer_568"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[568]</span>
<i>Le Ministre &agrave; Bigot</i>, 19 <i>Jan</i>. 1759.</p>
   <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_569" name="footer_569"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[569]</span>
<i>Ibid</i>., 29 <i>Ao&ucirc;t</i>, 1759.</p>
</div>

<p>"I write, Monsieur, to answer your last two letters, in which you tell
me that instead of sixteen millions, your drafts on the treasury for
1758 will reach twenty-four millions, and that this year they will rise
to from thirty-one to thirty-three millions. It seems, then, that there
are no bounds to the expenses of Canada. They double almost every year,
while you seem to give yourself no concern except to get them paid. Do
you suppose that I can advise the King to approve such an
administration? or do you think that you can take the immense sum of
thirty-three millions out 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_035-V2" id="Page_035-V2">35<br />V2</a></span> 
of the royal treasury by merely assuring me that you have signed drafts for 
it? This, too, for expenses incurred irregularly, often needlessly, always 
wastefully; which make the fortune of everybody who has the least hand in 
them, and about which you know so little that after reporting them at 
sixteen millions, you find two months after that they will reach twenty-four. 
You are accused of having given the furnishing of provisions to one man, who, 
under the name of commissary-general, has set what prices he pleased; of 
buying for the King at second or third hand what you might have got from the 
producer at half the price; of having in this and other ways made the fortunes 
of persons connected with you; and of living in splendor in the midst of a
public misery, which all the letters from the colony agree in ascribing
to bad administration, and in charging M. de Vaudreuil with weakness in
not preventing." <span class="superscript">[570]</span></p>

<div class="footer">
		<p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_570" name="footer_570"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[570]</span>
<i>Le Ministre &agrave; Bigot&ucirc;</i>, 29 <i>Ao&ucirc;t</i>, 1759 
(second letter of this date).</p>
</div>

<p>These drastic utterances seem to have been partly due to a letter
written by Montcalm in cipher to the Mar&eacute;chal de Belleisle, then
minister of war. It painted the deplorable condition of Canada, and
exposed without reserve the peculations and robberies of those intrusted
with its interests. "It seems," said the General, "as if they were all
hastening to make their fortunes before the loss of the colony; which
many of them perhaps desire as a veil to their conduct." He gives among
other cases that of Le Mercier, chief of Canadian artillery, who had
come to 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_036-V2" id="Page_036-V2">36<br />V2</a></span> 
Canada as a private soldier twenty years before, and had so prospered on 
fraudulent contracts that he would soon be worth nearly a million. "I have 
often," continues Montcalm, "spoken of these expenditures to M. de 
Vaudreuil and M. Bigot; and each throws the blame on the other." 
<span class="superscript">[571]</span> And yet at the same time Vaudreuil 
was assuring the Minister that Bigot was without blame.</p>

<div class="footer">
		<p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_571" name="footer_571"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[571]</span>
<i>Montcalm au Ministre de la Guerre, Lettre confidentielle</i>, 
12 <i>Avril,</i> 1759.</p>
</div>

<p>Some two months before Montcalm wrote this letter, the Minister,
Berryer, sent a despatch to the Governor and Intendant which filled them
with ire and mortification. It ordered them to do nothing without
consulting the general of the French regulars, not only in matters of
war, but in all matters of administration touching the defence and
preservation of the colony. A plainer proof of confidence on one hand
and distrust on the other could not have been given.
<span class="superscript">[572]</span></p>

<div class="footer">
		<p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_572" name="footer_572"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[572]</span>
<i>Le Ministre &agrave; Vaudreuil et Bigot</i>, 20 
<i>F&eacute;v</i>. 1759.</p>
</div>

<p>One Querdisien-Tremais was sent from Bordeaux as an agent of Government
to make investigation. He played the part of detective, wormed himself
into the secrets of the confederates, and after six months of patient
inquisition traced out four distinct combinations for public plunder.
Explicit orders were now given to Bigot, who, seeing no other escape,
broke with Cadet, and made him disgorge two millions of stolen money.
The Commissary-General and his partners became so terrified that they
afterwards gave up nearly seven 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_037-V2" id="Page_037-V2">37<br />V2</a></span> 
millions more. <span class="superscript">[573]</span> Stormy events
followed, and the culprits found shelter for a time amid the tumults of
war. Peculation did not cease, but a day of reckoning was at hand.</p>

<div class="footer">
		<p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_573" name="footer_573"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[573]</span>
<i>Proc&egrave;s de Bigot, Cadet, et autres, M&eacute;moire pour 
Fran&ccedil;ois Bigot, 3<span class="superscript">me</span> partie</i>.
</p>

<p class="double-space-top">
        <a id="footer_17Note" name="footer_17Note"></a>
<span class="smcap">Note</span>.&mdash;The printed documents of the trial 
of Bigot and the other peculators include the defence of Bigot, of which 
the first part occupies 303 quarto pages, and the second part 764. Among 
the other papers are the arguments for P&eacute;an, Varin, Saint-Blin, 
Boish&eacute;bert, Martel, Joncaire-Chabert and several  more, along with 
the elaborate <i>Jugement rendu</i>, the <i>Requ&ecirc;tes du 
Procureur-G&eacute;n&eacute;ral,</i> the <i>R&eacute;ponse aux
M&eacute;moires de M. Bigot et du Sieur P&eacute;an,</i> etc., forming 
together five quarto volumes, all of which I have carefully examined. 
These are in the Library of Harvard University. There is another set, 
also of five volumes, in the Library of the Historical Society of Quebec, 
containing most of the papers just mentioned, and, bound with them, 
various others in manuscript, among which are documents in defence of 
Vaudreuil (printed in part), Est&egrave;be, Corpron, Penisseault, Maurin, 
and Br&eacute;ard. I have examined this collection also. The manuscript 
<i>Ordres du Roy et D&eacute;p&ecirc;ches des Ministres</i>, 1751-1760, 
as well as the letters of Vaudreuil, Bougainville, Daine, Doreil, and 
Montcalm throw much light on the maladministration of the time; as do many 
contemporary documents, notably those entitled <i>M&eacute;moire sur les 
Fraudes commises dans la Colonie, &Eacute;tat pr&eacute;sent du Canada,</i> 
and <i>M&eacute;moire sur le Canada</i> (Archives Nationales). The remarkable 
anonymous work printed by the Historical Society of Quebec under the title 
<i>M&eacute;moires sur le Canada depuis 1749 jusqu'&agrave; 1760</i>, 
is full of curious matter concerning Bigot and his associates which squares 
well with other evidence. This is the source from which Smith, in his 
<i>History of Canada</i> (Quebec, 1815), drew most of his information on the 
subject. A manuscript which seems to be the original draft of this valuable 
document was preserved at the Bastile, and, with other papers, was thrown 
into the street when that castle was destroyed. They were gathered up, and 
afterwards bought by a Russian named Dubrowski, who carried them to St. 
Petersburg. Lord Dufferin, when minister there, procured a copy of the 
manuscript in question, which is now in the keeping of Abb&eacute; H. Verreau 
at Montreal, to whose kindness I owe the opportunity of examining it. In 
substance it differs little from the printed work, though the language and the 
arrangement often vary from it. The author, whoever he may have been, was 
deeply versed in Canadian affairs of the time, and though often caustic, is 
generally trustworthy.</p>
</div>


<hr />
<div class="chapterhead">
   <br /><a name="Chapter_18" id="Chapter_18"></a>
	 <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_038-V2" id="Page_038-V2">38<br />V2</a></span> 
	 <br /><br /><br />
	 <h2><a href="#Contents18">CHAPTER XVIII.</a><br />
	 <span class="med">1757, 1758.</span>
	 </h2> 
	 <p class="smcapheader"> PITT.</p>
	 <p class="smcap noindent space-bottom">		
	    Frederic of Prussia &bull; The Coalition against him &bull; 
			His desperate Position &bull;  Rossbach &bull; Leuthen &bull; 
			Reverses of England &bull; Weakness of the Ministry &bull; 
			A Change &bull; Pitt and Newcastle &bull; Character of Pitt &bull; 
			Sources of his Power &bull;  His Aims &bull; Louis XV. &bull; 
			Pompadour &bull; She controls the Court, and directs the War &bull; 
      Gloomy Prospects of England &bull; Disasters &bull; 
			The New Ministry &bull; Inspiring Influence of Pitt &bull;
			The Tide turns &bull; British Victories &bull; 
			Pitt's Plans for America &bull; Louisbourg, Ticonderoga, Duquesne &bull; 
			New Commanders &bull; Naval Battles.
	 </p>
	 <p class="break1"></p> 
</div>

<p class="double-space-top">
<span class="smcap">The</span>
war kindled in the American forest was now raging in full
conflagration among the kingdoms of Europe; and in the midst stood
Frederic of Prussia, a veritable fire-king. He had learned through
secret agents that he was to be attacked, and that the wrath of Maria
Theresa with her two allies, Pompadour and the Empress of Russia, was
soon to wreak itself upon him. With his usual prompt audacity he
anticipated his enemies, marched into Saxony, and began the Continental
war. His position seemed desperate. England, sundered from Austria, her
old ally, had made common cause with him; but he had no other friend
worth the counting. France, Russia, Austria, Sweden, Saxony, the
collective Germanic Empire, and most of the smaller German States had
joined 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_039-V2" id="Page_039-V2">39<br />V2</a></span> 
hands for his ruin, eager to crush him and divide the spoil,
parcelling out his dominions among themselves in advance by solemn
mutual compact. Against the five millions of Prussia were arrayed
populations of more than a hundred million. The little kingdom was open
on all sides to attack, and her enemies were spurred on by the bitterest
animosity. It was thought that one campaign would end the war. The war
lasted seven years, and Prussia came out of it triumphant. Such a
warrior as her indomitable king Europe has rarely seen. If the Seven
Years War made the maritime and colonial greatness of England, it also
raised Prussia to the rank of a first-class Power.</p>

<p>Frederic began with a victory, routing the Austrians in one of the
fiercest of recorded conflicts, the battle of Prague. Then in his turn
he was beaten at Kolin. All seemed lost. The hosts of the coalition were
rolling in upon him like a deluge. Surrounded by enemies, in the jaws of
destruction, hoping for little but to die in battle, this strange hero
solaced himself with an exhaustless effusion of bad verses, sometimes
mournful, sometimes cynical, sometimes indignant, and sometimes
breathing a dauntless resolution; till, when his hour came, he threw
down his pen to achieve those feats of arms which stamp him one of the
foremost soldiers of the world.</p>

<p>The French and Imperialists, in overwhelming force, thought to crush him
at Rossbach. He put them to shameful rout; and then, instead of bonfires
and Te Deums, mocked at them in doggerel 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_040-V2" id="Page_040-V2">40<br />V2</a></span> 
rhymes of amazing indecency.
While he was beating the French, the Austrians took Silesia from him. He
marched to recover it, found them strongly posted at Leuthen, eighty
thousand men against thirty thousand, and without hesitation resolved to
attack them. Never was he more heroic than on the eve of this, his
crowning triumph. "The hour is at hand," he said to his generals. "I
mean, in spite of the rules of military art, to attack Prince Karl's
army, which is nearly thrice our own. This risk I must run, or all is
lost. We must beat him or die, all of us, before his batteries." He
burst unawares upon the Austrian right, and rolled their whole host
together, corps upon corps, in a tumult of irretrievable ruin.</p>

<p>While her great ally was reaping a full harvest of laurels, England,
dragged into the Continental war because that apple of discord, Hanover,
belonged to her King, found little but humiliation. Minorca was wrested
from her, and the Ministry had an innocent man shot to avert from
themselves the popular indignation; while the same Ministry, scared by a
phantom of invasion, brought over German troops to defend British soil.
But now an event took place pregnant with glorious consequence. The
reins of power fell into the hands of William Pitt. He had already held
them for a brief space, forced into office at the end of 1756 by popular
clamor, in spite of the Whig leaders and against the wishes of the King.
But the place was untenable. Newcastle's Parliament would not support
him; the Duke of Cumberland 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_041-V2" id="Page_041-V2">41<br />V2</a></span> 
opposed him; the King hated him; and in April, 1757, he was dismissed. Then 
ensued eleven weeks of bickering and dispute, during which, in the midst of 
a great war, England was left without a government. It became clear that 
none was possible without Pitt; and none with him could be permanent and 
strong unless joined with those influences which had thus far controlled 
the majorities of Parliament. Therefore an extraordinary union was brought 
about; Lord Chesterfield acting as go-between to reconcile the ill-assorted 
pair. One of them brought to the alliance the confidence and support of the
people; the other, Court management, borough interest, and parliamentary
connections. Newcastle was made First Lord of the Treasury, and Pitt,
the old enemy who had repeatedly browbeat and ridiculed him, became
Secretary of State, with the lead of the House of Commons and full control 
of the war and foreign affairs. It was a partnership of magpie and eagle. 
The dirty work of government, intrigue, bribery, and all the patronage 
that did not affect the war, fell to the share of the old politician. If 
Pitt could appoint generals, admirals, and ambassadors, Newcastle was 
welcome to the rest. "I will borrow the Duke's majorities to carry on the 
government," said the new secretary; and with the audacious self-confidence 
that was one of his traits, he told the Duke of Devonshire, "I am sure that 
I can save this country, and that nobody else can." England hailed with one 
acclaim the undaunted leader who asked for no 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_042-V2" id="Page_042-V2">42<br />V2</a></span> 
reward but the honor of serving her. The hour had found the man. For the next 
four years this imposing figure towers supreme in British history.</p>

<p>He had glaring faults, some of them of a sort not to have been expected
in him. Vanity, the common weakness of small minds, was the most
disfiguring foible of this great one. He had not the simplicity which
becomes greatness so well. He could give himself theatrical airs, strike
attitudes, and dart stage lightnings from his eyes; yet he was
formidable even in his affectations. Behind his great intellectual
powers lay a burning enthusiasm, a force of passion and fierce intensity
of will, that gave redoubled impetus to the fiery shafts of his
eloquence; and the haughty and masterful nature of the man had its share
in the ascendency which he long held over Parliament. He would blast the
labored argument of an adversary by a look of scorn or a contemptuous
wave of the hand.</p>

<p>The Great Commoner was not a man of the people in the popular sense of
that hackneyed phrase. Though himself poor, being a younger son, he came
of a rich and influential family; he was patrician at heart; both his
faults and his virtues, his proud incorruptibility and passionate,
domineering patriotism, bore the patrician stamp. Yet he loved liberty
and he loved the people, because they were the English people. The
effusive humanitarianism of to-day had no part in him, and the democracy
of to-day would detest him. Yet to the middle-class England of his own
time, that unenfranchised England which 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_043-V2" id="Page_043-V2">43<br />V2</a></span> 
had little representation in Parliament, he was a voice, an inspiration, 
and a tower of strength. He would not flatter the people; but, turning 
with contempt from the tricks and devices of official politics, he threw 
himself with a confidence that never wavered on their patriotism and 
public spirit. They answered him with a boundless trust, asked but to 
follow his lead, gave him without stint their money and their blood, 
loved him for his domestic virtues and his disinterestedness, believed 
him even in his self-contradiction, and idolized him even in his bursts 
of arrogant passion. It was he who waked England from her lethargy, 
shook off the spell that Newcastle and his fellow-enchanters had cast 
over her, and taught her to know herself again. A heart that beat in 
unison with all that was British found responsive throbs in every corner 
of the vast empire that through him was to become more vast. With the 
instinct of his fervid patriotism he would join all its far-extended 
members into one, not by vain assertions of parliamentary supremacy, 
but by bonds of sympathy and ties of a common freedom and a common cause.</p>

<p>The passion for power and glory subdued in him all the sordid parts of
humanity, and he made the power and glory of England one with his own.
He could change front through resentment or through policy; but in
whatever path he moved, his objects were the same: not to curb the power
of France in America, but to annihilate it; crush her navy, cripple her
foreign trade, ruin her in 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_044-V2" id="Page_044-V2">44<br />V2</a></span> 
India, in Africa, and wherever else, east or west, she had found foothold; 
gain for England the mastery of the seas, open to her the great highways of 
the globe, make her supreme in commerce and colonization; and while limiting 
the activities of her rival to the European continent, give to her the whole 
world for a sphere.</p>

<p>To this British Roman was opposed the pampered Sardanapalus of
Versailles, with the silken favorite who by calculated adultery had
bought the power to ruin France. The Marquise de Pompadour, who began
life as Jeanne Poisson,&mdash;Jane Fish,&mdash;daughter of the head clerk of a
banking house, who then became wife of a rich financier, and then, as
mistress of the King, rose to a pinnacle of gilded ignominy, chose this
time to turn out of office the two ministers who had shown most ability
and force,&mdash;Argenson, head of the department of war, and Machault, head
of the marine and colonies; the one because he was not subservient to
her will, and the other because he had unwittingly touched the self-love
of her royal paramour. She aspired to a share in the conduct of the war,
and not only made and unmade ministers and generals, but discussed
campaigns and battles with them, while they listened to her prating with
a show of obsequious respect, since to lose her favor was to risk losing
all. A few months later, when blows fell heavy and fast, she turned a
deaf ear to representations of financial straits and military disasters,
played the heroine, affected a greatness of soul superior to misfortune,
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_045-V2" id="Page_045-V2">45<br />V2</a></span> 
and in her perfumed boudoir varied her tiresome graces by posing as a
Roman matron. In fact she never wavered in her spite against Frederic,
and her fortitude was perfect in bearing the sufferings of others and
defying dangers that could not touch her.</p>

<p>When Pitt took office it was not over France, but over England that the
clouds hung dense and black. Her prospects were of the gloomiest.
"Whoever is in or whoever is out," wrote Chesterfield, "I am sure we are
undone both at home and abroad: at home by our increasing debt and
expenses; abroad by our ill-luck and incapacity. We are no longer a
nation." And his despondency was shared by many at the beginning of the
most triumphant Administration in British history. The shuffling
weakness of his predecessors had left Pitt a heritage of tribulation.
From America came news of Loudon's manifold failures; from Germany that
of the miscarriage of the Duke of Cumberland, who, at the head of an
army of Germans in British pay, had been forced to sign the convention
of Kloster-Zeven, by which he promised to disband them. To these
disasters was added a third, of which the new Government alone had to
bear the burden. At the end of summer Pitt sent a great expedition to
attack Rochefort; the military and naval commanders disagreed, and the
consequence was failure. There was no light except from far-off India,
where Clive won the great victory of Plassey, avenged the Black Hole of
Calcutta, and prepared the 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_046-V2" id="Page_046-V2">46<br />V2</a></span> 
ruin of the French power and the undisputed ascendency of England.</p>

<p>If the English had small cause as yet to rejoice in their own successes,
they found comfort in those of their Prussian allies. The rout of the
French at Rossbach and of the Austrians at Leuthen spread joy through
their island. More than this, they felt that they had found at last a
leader after their own heart; and the consciousness regenerated them.
For the paltering imbecility of the old Ministry they had the
unconquerable courage, the iron purpose, the unwavering faith, the
inextinguishable hope, of the new one. "England has long been in labor,"
said Frederic of Prussia, "and at last she has brought forth a man." It
was not only that instead of weak commanders Pitt gave her strong ones;
the same men who had served her feebly under the blight of the Newcastle
Administration served her manfully and well under his robust impulsion.
"Nobody ever entered his closet," said Colonel Barr&eacute;, "who did not 
come out of it a braver man." That inspiration was felt wherever the 
British flag waved. Zeal awakened with the assurance that conspicuous 
merit was sure of its reward, and that no officer who did his duty would 
now be made a sacrifice, like Admiral Byng, to appease public indignation 
at ministerial failures. As Nature, languishing in chill vapors and dull
smothering fogs, revives at the touch of the sun, so did England spring
into fresh life under the kindling influence of one great man.</p>

<p>
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_047-V2" id="Page_047-V2">47<br />V2</a></span> 
With the opening of the year 1758 her course of Continental victories
began. The Duke of Cumberland, the King's son, was recalled in disgrace,
and a general of another stamp, Prince Ferdinand of Brunswick, was
placed in command of the Germans in British pay, with the contingent of
English troops now added to them. The French, too, changed commanders.
The Duke of Richelieu, a dissolute old beau, returned to Paris to spend
in heartless gallantries the wealth he had gained by plunder; and a
young soldier-churchman, the Comte de Clermont, took his place. Prince
Ferdinand pushed him hard with an inferior force, drove him out of
Hanover, and captured eleven thousand of his soldiers. Clermont was
recalled, and was succeeded by Contades, another incapable. One of his
subordinates won for him the battle of Lutterberg; but the generalship
of Ferdinand made it a barren victory, and the campaign remained a
success for the English. They made descents on the French coasts,
captured St.-Servan, a suburb of St.-Malo, and burned three ships of
the line, twenty-four privateers, and sixty merchantmen; then entered
Cherbourg, destroyed the forts, carried off or spiked the cannon, and
burned twenty-seven vessels,&mdash;a success partially offset by a failure on
the coast of Brittany, where they were repulsed with some loss. In
Africa they drove the French from the Guinea coast, and seized their
establishment at Senegal.</p>

<p>It was towards America that Pitt turned his heartiest efforts. His first
aim was to take Louisbourg, 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_048-V2" id="Page_048-V2">48<br />V2</a></span> 
as a step towards taking Quebec; then Ticonderoga, that thorn in the side of 
the northern colonies; and lastly Fort Duquesne, the Key of the Great West. 
He recalled Loudon, for whom he had a fierce contempt; but there were 
influences which he could not disregard, and Major-General Abercromby, who was 
next in order of rank, an indifferent soldier, though a veteran in years, was 
allowed to succeed him, and lead in person the attack on Ticonderoga.
<span class="superscript">[574]</span> Pitt hoped that Brigadier Lord Howe, 
an admirable officer, who was joined with Abercromby, would be the real 
commander, and make amends for all shortcomings of his chief. To command the 
Louisbourg expedition, Colonel Jeffrey Amherst was recalled from the German 
war, and made at one leap a major-general. <span class="superscript">[575]</span>
He was energetic and resolute, somewhat cautious and slow, but with a bulldog 
tenacity of grip. Under him were three brigadiers, Whitmore, Lawrence, and 
Wolfe, of whom the youngest is the most noteworthy. In the luckless Rochefort 
expedition, Colonel James Wolfe was conspicuous by a dashing gallantry that did 
not escape the eye of Pitt, always on the watch for men to do his work. The 
young officer was ardent, headlong, void of fear, often rash, almost fanatical 
in his devotion to military duty, and reckless of life when the glory of
England or his own was at stake. The third 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_049-V2" id="Page_049-V2">49<br />V2</a></span> 
expedition, that against Fort Duquesne, was given to Brigadier John Forbes, 
whose qualities well fitted him for the task.</p>

<div class="footer">
		<p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_574" name="footer_574"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[574]</span>
<i>Order, War Office</i>, 19 <i>Dec</i>. 1757.</p>
   <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_575" name="footer_575"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[575]</span>
<i>Pitt to Abercromby</i>, 27 <i>Jan</i>. 1758. <i>Instructions for our Trusty 
and Well-beloved Jeffrey Amherst, Esq., Major-General of our Forces in North 
America</i>, 3 <i>March</i>, 1758.</p>
</div>

<p>During his first short term of office, Pitt had given a new species of
troops to the British army. These were the Scotch Highlanders, who had
risen against the House of Hanover in 1745, and would rise against it
again should France accomplish her favorite scheme of throwing a force
into Scotland to excite another insurrection for the Stuarts. But they
would be useful to fight the French abroad, though dangerous as their
possible allies at home; and two regiments of them were now ordered to
America.</p>

<p>Delay had been the ruin of the last year's attempt against Louisbourg.
This time preparation was urged on apace; and before the end of winter
two fleets had put to sea: one, under Admiral Boscawen, was destined for
Louisbourg; while the other, under Admiral Osborn, sailed for the
Mediterranean to intercept the French fleet of Admiral La Clue, who was
about to sail from Toulon for America. Osborn, cruising between the
coasts of Spain and Africa, barred the way to the Straits of Gibraltar,
and kept his enemy imprisoned. La Clue made no attempt to force a
passage; but several combats of detached ships took place, one of which
is too remarkable to pass unnoticed. Captain Gardiner of the "Monmouth,"
a ship of four hundred and seventy men and sixty-four guns, engaged the
French ship "Foudroyant," carrying a thousand men and eighty-four guns of 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_050-V2" id="Page_050-V2">50<br />V2</a></span> 
heavier metal than those of the Englishman. Gardiner had lately been
reproved by Anson, First Lord of the Admiralty, for some alleged
misconduct or shortcoming, and he thought of nothing but retrieving his
honor. "We must take her," he said to his crew as the "Foudroyant" hove
in sight. "She looks more than a match for us, but I will not quit her
while this ship can swim or I have a soul left alive;" and the sailors
answered with cheers. The fight was long and furious. Gardiner was
killed by a musket shot, begging his first lieutenant with his dying
breath not to haul down his flag. The lieutenant nailed it to the mast.
At length the "Foudroyant" ceased from thundering, struck her colors,
and was carried a prize to England. <span class="superscript">[576]</span>
</p>

<div class="footer">
		<p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_576" name="footer_576"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[576]</span>
Entick, III. 56-60.</p>
</div>


<p>The typical British naval officer of that time was a rugged sea-dog, a
tough and stubborn fighter, though no more so than the politer generations 
that followed, at home on the quarter-deck, but no ornament to the 
drawing-room, by reason of what his contemporary, Entick, the strenuous 
chronicler of the war, calls, not unapprovingly, "the ferocity of his 
manners." While Osborn held La Clue imprisoned at Toulon, Sir Edward Hawke, 
worthy leader of such men, sailed with seven ships of the line and three 
frigates to intercept a French squadron from Rochefort convoying a fleet 
of transports with troops for America. The French ships cut their cables 
and ran for the shore, where most of them stranded in 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_051-V2" id="Page_051-V2">51<br />V2</a></span> 
the mud, and some threw cannon and munitions overboard to float themselves. 
The expedition was broken up. Of the many ships fitted out this year for the 
succor of Canada and Louisbourg, comparatively few reached their destination, 
and these for the most part singly or by twos and threes.</p>

<p>Meanwhile Admiral Boscawen with his fleet bore away for Halifax, the
place of rendezvous, and Amherst, in the ship "Dublin," followed in his
wake.</p>

<hr />
<div class="chapterhead">
   <br /><a name="Chapter_19" id="Chapter_19"></a>
	 <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_052-V2" id="Page_052-V2">52<br />V2</a></span> 
	 <br /><br /><br />
	 <h2><a href="#Contents19">CHAPTER XIX.</a><br />
	 <span class="med">1758.</span>
	 </h2> 
	 <p class="smcapheader">LOUISBOURG.</p>
	 <p class="smcap noindent space-bottom">		
	   Condition of the Fortress &bull; Arrival of the English &bull; 
		 Gallantry of Wolfe &bull; The English Camp &bull; The Siege begun &bull;
		 Progress of the Besiegers &bull; Sallies of the French &bull; 
		 Madame Drucour &bull; Courtesies of War &bull; 
		 French Ships destroyed &bull; Conflagration &bull; 
		 Fury of the Bombardment &bull; Exploit of English Sailors &bull;
		 The End near &bull; The White Flag &bull; Surrender &bull; 
		 Reception of the News in England and America &bull; 
		 Wolfe not satisfied &bull; His Letters to Amherst &bull;
		 He destroys Gasp&eacute; &bull; Returns to England.	 
	 </p>
	 <p class="break1"></p> 
</div>


<p class="double-space-top">
<span class="smcap">The</span> 
stormy coast of Cape Breton is indented by a small land-locked bay,
between which and the ocean lies a tongue of land dotted with a few
grazing sheep, and intersected by rows of stone that mark more or less
distinctly the lines of what once were streets. Green mounds and
embankments of earth enclose the whole space, and beneath the highest of
them yawn arches and caverns of ancient masonry. This grassy solitude
was once the "Dunkirk of America;" the vaulted caverns where the sheep
find shelter from the rain were casemates where terrified women sought
refuge from storms of shot and shell, and the shapeless green mounds
were citadel, bastion, rampart, and glacis. Here stood Louisbourg; and
not all the efforts of its conquerors, nor all the  
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_053-V2" id="Page_053-V2">53<br />V2</a></span> 
havoc of succeeding times, have availed to efface it. Men in hundreds toiled 
for months with lever, spade, and gunpowder in the work of destruction, and 
for more than a century it has served as a stone quarry; but the remains of 
its vast defences still tell their tale of human valor and human woe.</p>

<p>
Stand on the mounds that were once the King's Bastion. The glistening
sea spreads eastward three thousand miles, and its waves meet their
first rebuff against this iron coast. Lighthouse Point is white with
foam; jets of spray spout from the rocks of Goat Island; mist curls in
clouds from the seething surf that lashes the crags of Black Point, and
the sea boils like a caldron among the reefs by the harbor's mouth; but
on the calm water within, the small fishing vessels rest tranquil at
their moorings. Beyond lies a hamlet of fishermen by the edge of the
water, and a few scattered dwellings dot the rough hills, bristled with
stunted firs, that gird the quiet basin; while close at hand, within the
precinct of the vanished fortress, stand two small farmhouses. All else
is a solitude of ocean, rock, marsh, and forest.
<span class="superscript">[577]</span></p>

<div class="footer">
		<p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_577" name="footer_577"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[577]</span>
Louisbourg is described as I saw it ten days before
writing the above, after an easterly gale.</p>
</div>

<p>At the beginning of June, 1758, the place wore another aspect. Since the
peace of Aix-la-Chapelle vast sums had been spent in repairing and
strengthening it; and Louisbourg was the strongest fortress in French or
British America. Nevertheless it had its weaknesses. The original plan
of 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_054-V2" id="Page_054-V2">54<br />V2</a></span> 
the works had not been fully carried out; and owing, it is said, to
the bad quality of the mortar, the masonry of the ramparts was in so
poor a condition that it had been replaced in some parts with fascines.
The circuit of the fortifications was more than a mile and a half, and
the town contained about four thousand inhabitants. The best buildings
in it were the convent, the hospital, the King's storehouses, and the
chapel and governor's quarters, which were under the same roof. Of the
private houses, only seven or eight were of stone, the rest being humble
wooden structures, suited to a population of fishermen. The garrison
consisted of the battalions of Artois, Bourgogne, Cambis, and
Volontaires &Eacute;trangers, with two companies of artillery and twenty-four
of colony troops from Canada,&mdash;in all three thousand and eighty regular
troops, besides officers; <span class="superscript">[578]</span> 
and to these were added a body of armed inhabitants and a band of Indians. 
In the harbor were five ships of the line and seven frigates, carrying in 
all five hundred and forty-four guns and about three thousand men. 
<span class="superscript">[579]</span> Two hundred and nineteen cannon
and seventeen mortars were mounted on the walls and outworks.
<span class="superscript">[579]</span> Of these last the most 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_055-V2" id="Page_055-V2">55<br />V2</a></span> 
important were the Grand Battery on the shore of the harbor opposite its mouth, 
and the Island Battery on the rocky islet at its entrance.</p>

<div class="footer">
		<p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_578" name="footer_578"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[578]</span>
<i>Journal du Si&eacute;ge de Louisbourg</i>. Twenty-nine hundred
regulars were able to bear arms when the siege began. <i>Houlli&egrave;re,
Commandant des Troupes, au Ministre</i>, 6 <i>Ao&ucirc;t</i>, 1758.</p>
   <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_579" name="footer_579"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[579]</span>
Le Prudent, 74 guns; Entreprenant, 74; Capricieux, 64; C&eacute;l&egrave;bre, 
64; Bienfaisant, 64; Apollon, 50; Ch&egrave;vre, 22; Biche, 18; 
Fid&egrave;le, 22; &Eacute;cho, 26; Ar&eacute;thuse, 36; Com&egrave;te, 30. 
The Bizarre, 64, sailed for France on the eighth of June, and was followed by 
the Com&egrave;te.</p>
   <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_580" name="footer_580"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[580]</span>
<i>&Eacute;tat d'Artillerie</i>, appended to the Journal of Drucour.
There were also forty-four cannon in reserve.</p>
</div> 

<p>The strongest front of the works was on the land side, along the base of
the peninsular triangle on which the town stood. This front, about
twelve hundred yards in extent, reached from the sea on the left to the
harbor on the right, and consisted of four bastions with their connecting
curtains, the Princess's, the Queen's, the King's, and the Dauphin's.
The King's Bastion formed part of the citadel. The glacis before it
sloped down to an extensive marsh, which, with an adjacent pond,
completely protected this part of the line. On the right, however,
towards the harbor, the ground was high enough to offer advantages to an
enemy, as was also the case, to a less degree, on the left, towards the
sea. The best defence of Louisbourg was the craggy shore, that, for
leagues on either hand, was accessible only at a few points, and even
there with difficulty. All these points were vigilantly watched.</p>

<p>There had been signs of the enemy from the first opening of spring. In
the intervals of fog, rain, and snow-squalls, sails were seen hovering
on the distant sea; and during the latter part of May a squadron of nine
ships cruised off the mouth of the harbor, appearing and disappearing,
sometimes driven away by gales, sometimes lost in fogs, and sometimes
approaching to within cannon-shot of the batteries. Their object was to
blockade the port,&mdash;in which they failed; for 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_056-V2" id="Page_056-V2">56<br />V2</a></span> 
French ships had come in at intervals, till, as we have seen, twelve of 
them lay safe anchored in the harbor, with more than a year's supply of 
provisions for the garrison.</p>

<p>At length, on the first of June, the southeastern horizon was white with
a cloud of canvas. The long-expected crisis was come. Drucour, the
governor, sent two thousand regulars, with about a thousand militia and
Indians, to guard the various landing-places; and the rest, aided by the
sailors, remained to hold the town. <span class="superscript">[581]</span>
</p>

<div class="footer">
		<p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_581" name="footer_581"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[581]</span>
<i>Rapport de Grucour. Journal du Si&eacute;ge</i>.</p>
</div>

<p>At the end of May Admiral Boscawen was at Halifax with twenty-three
ships of the line, eighteen frigates and fire-ships, and a fleet of
transports, on board of which were eleven thousand and six hundred
soldiers, all regulars, except five hundred provincial rangers.
<span class="superscript">[582]</span>
Amherst had not yet arrived, and on the twenty-eighth, Boscawen, in
pursuance of his orders and to prevent loss of time, put to sea without
him; but scarcely had the fleet sailed out of Halifax, when they met the
ship that bore the expected general. Amherst took command of the troops;
and the expedition held its way till the second of June, when they saw
the rocky shore-line of Cape Breton, and descried the masts of the
French squadron in the harbor of Louisbourg.</p>

<div class="footer">
		<p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_582" name="footer_582"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[582]</span>
Of this force, according to Mante, only 9,900 were fit
for duty. The table printed by Knox (I. 127) shows a total of 11,112,
besides officers, artillery, and rangers. The <i>Authentic Account of the
Reduction of Louisbourg, by a Spectator</i>, puts the force at 11,326 men,
besides officers. Entick makes the whole 11,936.</p>
</div>

<p>
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_057-V2" id="Page_057-V2">57<br />V2</a></span> 
Boscawen sailed into Gabarus Bay. The sea was rough; but in the
afternoon Amherst, Lawrence, and Wolfe, with a number of naval officers,
reconnoitred the shore in boats, coasting it for miles, and approaching
it as near as the French batteries would permit. The rocks were white
with surf, and every accessible point was strongly guarded. Boscawen saw
little chance of success. He sent for his captains, and consulted them
separately. They thought, like him, that it would be rash to attempt a
landing, and proposed a council of war. One of them alone, an old sea
officer named Ferguson, advised his commander to take the responsibility
himself, hold no council, and make the attempt at every risk. Boscawen
took his advice, and declared that he would not leave Gabarus Bay till
he had fulfilled his instructions and set the troops on shore.
<span class="superscript">[583]</span></p>

<div class="footer">
		<p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_583" name="footer_583"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[583]</span>
Entick, III. 224.</p>
</div>

<p>West of Louisbourg there were three accessible places, Freshwater Cove,
four miles from the town, and Flat Point, and White Point, which were
nearer, the last being within a mile of the fortifications. East of the
town there was an inlet called Lorambec, also available for landing. In
order to distract the attention of the enemy, it was resolved to
threaten all these places, and to form the troops into three divisions,
two of which, under Lawrence and Whitmore, were to advance towards Flat
Point and White Point, while a detached regiment was to make a feint at
Lorambec. Wolfe, with the third division, was to make the 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_058-V2" id="Page_058-V2">58<br />V2</a></span> 
real attack and try to force a landing at Freshwater Cove, which, as it proved, 
was the most strongly defended of all. When on shore Wolfe was an habitual
invalid, and when at sea every heave of the ship made him wretched; but
his ardor was unquenchable. Before leaving England he wrote to a friend:
"Being of the profession of arms, I would seek all occasions to serve;
and therefore have thrown myself in the way of the American war, though
I know that the very passage threatens my life, and that my constitution
must be utterly ruined and undone."</p>

<p>On the next day, the third, the surf was so high that nothing could be
attempted. On the fourth there was a thick fog and a gale. The frigate
"Trent" struck on a rock, and some of the transports were near being
stranded. On the fifth there was another fog and a raging surf. On the
sixth there was fog, with rain in the morning and better weather towards
noon, whereupon the signal was made and the troops entered the boats;
but the sea rose again, and they were ordered back to the ships. On the
seventh more fog and more surf till night, when the sea grew calmer, and
orders were given for another attempt. At two in the morning of the
eighth the troops were in the boats again. At daybreak the frigates of
the squadron, anchoring before each point of real or pretended attack,
opened a fierce cannonade on the French intrenchments; and, a quarter of
an hour after, the three divisions rowed towards the shore. That of the
left, under Wolfe, 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_059-V2" id="Page_059-V2">59<br />V2</a></span> 
consisted of four companies of grenadiers, with the light infantry and New 
England rangers, followed and supported by Fraser's Highlanders and eight 
more companies of grenadiers. They pulled for Freshwater Cove. Here there 
was a crescent-shaped beach, a quarter of a mile long, with rocks at each 
end. On the shore above, about a thousand Frenchmen, under Lieutenant-Colonel 
de Saint-Julien, lay behind entrenchments covered in front by spruce and fir 
trees, felled and laid on the ground with the tops outward. 
<span class="superscript">[584]</span> Eight cannon and swivels were
planted to sweep every part of the beach and its approaches, and these
pieces were masked by young evergreens stuck in the ground before them.</p>

<div class="footer">
		<p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_584" name="footer_584"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[584]</span>
Drucour reports 985 soldiers as stationed here under Saint-Julien;
there were also some Indians. Freshwater Cove, otherwise Kennington 
Cove, was called La Cormorandi&egrave;re by the French.</p>
</div>

<p>The English were allowed to come within close range unmolested. Then the
batteries opened, and a deadly storm of grape and musketry was poured
upon the boats. It was clear in an instant that to advance farther would
be destruction; and Wolfe waved his hand as a signal to sheer off. At
some distance on the right, and little exposed to the fire, were three
boats of light infantry under Lieutenants Hopkins and Brown and Ensign
Grant; who, mistaking the signal or wilfully misinterpreting it, made
directly for the shore before them. It was a few rods east of the
beach; a craggy coast and a strand strewn with rocks and lashed with
breakers, but sheltered from 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_060-V2" id="Page_060-V2">60<br />V2</a></span> 
the cannon by a small projecting point. The three officers leaped ashore, 
followed by their men. Wolfe saw the movement, and hastened to support it. 
The boat of Major Scott, who commanded the light infantry and rangers, next 
came up, and was stove in an instant; but Scott gained the shore, climbed 
the crags, and found himself with ten men in front of some seventy French 
and Indians. Half his followers were killed and wounded, and three bullets 
were shot through his clothes; but with admirable gallantry he held his 
ground till others came to his aid. <span class="superscript">[585]</span>
The remaining boats now reached the landing. Many were stove among the 
rocks, and others were overset; some of the men were dragged back by the 
surf and drowned; some lost their muskets, and were drenched to the skin: 
but the greater part got safe ashore. Among the foremost was seen the 
tall, attenuated form of Brigadier Wolfe, armed with nothing but a cane, 
as he leaped into the surf and climbed the crags with his soldiers. As 
they reached the top they formed in compact order, and attacked and 
carried with the bayonet the nearest French battery, a few rods distant. 
The division of Lawrence soon came up; and as the attention of the enemy 
was now distracted, they made their landing with little opposition at the
farther end of the beach, whither they were followed by Amherst himself.
The French, attacked on right and left, and fearing, with good reason,
that they would be cut off from the town, 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_061-V2" id="Page_061-V2">61<br />V2</a></span> 
abandoned all their cannon and fled into the woods. About seventy of them 
were captured and fifty killed. The rest, circling among the hills and 
around the marshes, made their way to Louisbourg, and those at the 
intermediate posts joined their flight. The English followed through a 
matted growth of firs till they reached the cleared ground; when the cannon, 
opening on them from the ramparts, stopped the pursuit. The first move of 
the great game was played and won. <span class="superscript">[586]</span></p>

<div class="footer">
		<p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_585" name="footer_585"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[585]</span>
Pichon, <i>M&eacute;moires du Cap-Breton</i>, 284.</p>
   <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_586" name="footer_586"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[586]</span>
<i>Journal of Amherst</i>, in Mante, 117. <i>Amherst to Pitt</i>, 11
<i>June</i>, 1758. <i>Authentic Account of the Reduction of Louisbourg, 
by a Spectator</i>, 11. <i>General Orders of Amherst</i>, 3-7 <i>June</i>, 
1759. <i>Letter from an Officer</i>, in Knox, I. 191; Entick, III. 225. 
The French accounts generally agree in essentials with the English. 
The English lost one hundred and nine, killed, wounded, and drowned.</p>
</div>

<p>Amherst made his camp just beyond range of the French cannon, and Flat
Point Cove was chosen as the landing-place of guns and stores. Clearing
the ground, making roads, and pitching tents filled the rest of the day.
At night there was a glare of flames from the direction of the town. The
French had abandoned the Grand Battery after setting fire to the
buildings in it and to the houses and fish-stages along the shore of the
harbor. During the following days stores were landed as fast as the surf
would permit: but the task was so difficult that from first to last more
than a hundred boats were stove in accomplishing it; and such was the
violence of the waves that none of the siege-guns could be got ashore
till the eighteenth. The camp extended two miles along a stream that
flowed down 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_062-V2" id="Page_062-V2">62<br />V2</a></span> 
to the Cove among the low, woody hills that curved around the town and harbor. 
Redoubts were made to protect its front, and blockhouses to guard its left 
and rear from the bands of Acadians known to be hovering in the woods.</p>

<p>Wolfe, with twelve hundred men, made his way six or seven miles round
the harbor, took possession of the battery at Lighthouse Point which the
French had abandoned, planted guns and mortars, and opened fire on the
Island Battery that guarded the entrance. Other guns were placed at
different points along the shore, and soon opened on the French ships.
The ships and batteries replied. The artillery fight raged night and
day; till on the twenty-fifth the island guns were dismounted and
silenced. Wolfe then strengthened his posts, secured his communications,
and returned to the main army in front of the town.</p>

<p>Amherst had reconnoitred the ground and chosen a hillock at the edge of
the marsh, less than half a mile from the ramparts, as the point for
opening his trenches. A road with an epaulement to protect it must first
be made to the spot; and as the way was over a tract of deep mud
covered with water-weeds and moss, the labor was prodigious. A thousand
men worked at it day and night under the fire of the town and ships.</p>

<p>When the French looked landward from their ramparts they could see
scarcely a sign of the impending storm. Behind them Wolfe's cannon were
playing busily from Lighthouse Point and the heights around the harbor;
but, before them, the 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_063-V2" id="Page_063-V2">63<br />V2</a></span> 
broad flat marsh and the low hills seemed almost a solitude. Two miles distant, 
they could descry some of the English tents; but the greater part were hidden 
by the inequalities of the ground. On the right, a prolongation of the harbor 
reached nearly half a mile beyond the town, ending in a small lagoon formed by 
a projecting sandbar, and known as the Barachois. Near this bar lay moored the 
little frigate "Ar&eacute;thuse," under a gallant officer named Vauquelin. Her
position was a perilous one; but so long as she could maintain it she could 
sweep with her fire the ground before the works, and seriously impede the 
operations of the enemy. The other naval captains were less venturous; and 
when the English landed, they wanted to leave the harbor and save their ships. 
Drucour insisted that they should stay to aid the defence, and they complied; 
but soon left their moorings and anchored as close as possible under the guns 
of the town, in order to escape the fire of Wolfe's batteries. Hence there was 
great murmuring among the military officers, who would have had them engage the 
hostile guns at short range. The frigate "&Eacute;cho," under cover of a fog, 
had been sent to Quebec for aid; but she was chased and captured; and, a day or 
two after, the French saw her pass the mouth of the harbor with an English
flag at her mast-head.</p>

<p>When Wolfe had silenced the Island Battery, a new and imminent danger
threatened Louisbourg. Boscawen might enter the harbor, overpower the
French naval force, and cannonade the town on 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_064-V2" id="Page_064-V2">64<br />V2</a></span> 
its weakest side. Therefore Drucour resolved to sink four large ships at the 
entrance; and on a dark and foggy night this was successfully accomplished. 
Two more vessels were afterwards sunk, and the harbor was then thought safe.
</p>

<p>The English had at last finished their preparations, and were urging on
the siege with determined vigor. The landward view was a solitude no
longer. They could be seen in multitudes piling earth and fascines
beyond the hillock at the edge of the marsh. On the twenty-fifth they
occupied the hillock itself, and fortified themselves there under a
shower of bombs. Then they threw up earth on the right, and pushed
their approaches towards the Barachois, in spite of a hot fire from the
frigate "Ar&eacute;thuse." Next they appeared on the left towards the sea about
a third of a mile from the Princess's Bastion. It was Wolfe, with a
strong detachment, throwing up a redoubt and opening an entrenchment.
Late on the night of the ninth of July six hundred French troops sallied
to interrupt the work. The English grenadiers in the trenches fought
stubbornly with bayonet and sword, but were forced back to the second
line, where a desperate conflict in the dark took place; and after
severe loss on both sides the French were driven back. Some days before,
there had been another sortie on the opposite side, near the Barachois,
resulting in a repulse of the French and the seizure by Wolfe of a more
advanced position.</p>

<p>Various courtesies were exchanged between the two commanders. Drucour,
on occasion of a flag 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_065-V2" id="Page_065-V2">65<br />V2</a></span> 
of truce, wrote to Amherst that there was a
surgeon of uncommon skill in Louisbourg, whose services were at the
command of any English officer who might need them. Amherst on his part
sent to his enemy letters and messages from wounded Frenchmen in his
hands, adding his compliments to Madame Drucour, with an expression of
regret for the disquiet to which she was exposed, begging her at the
same time to accept a gift of pineapples from the West Indies. She
returned his courtesy by sending him a basket of wine; after which
amenities the cannon roared again. Madame Drucour was a woman of heroic
spirit. Every day she was on the ramparts, where her presence roused the
soldiers to enthusiasm; and every day with her own hand she fired three
cannon to encourage them.</p>

<p>The English lines grew closer and closer, and their fire more and more
destructive. Desgouttes, the naval commander, withdrew the "Ar&eacute;thuse"
from her exposed position, where her fire had greatly annoyed the
besiegers. The shot-holes in her sides were plugged up, and in the dark
night of the fourteenth of July she was towed through the obstructions
in the mouth of the harbor, and sent to France to report the situation
of Louisbourg. More fortunate than her predecessor, she escaped the
English in a fog. Only five vessels now remained afloat in the harbor,
and these were feebly manned, as the greater part of their officers and
crews had come ashore, to the number of two thousand, lodging under
tents in the town, 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_066-V2" id="Page_066-V2">66<br />V2</a></span> 
amid the scarcely suppressed murmurs of the army officers.</p>

<p>On the eighth of July news came that the partisan Boish&eacute;bert was
approaching with four hundred Acadians, Canadians, and Micmacs to
attack the English outposts and detachments. He did little or nothing,
however, besides capturing a few stragglers. On the sixteenth, early in
the evening, a party of English, led by Wolfe, dashed forward, drove off
a band of French volunteers, seized a rising ground called
Hauteur-de-la-Potence, or Gallows Hill, and began to entrench themselves
scarcely three hundred yards from the Dauphin's Bastion. The town opened
on them furiously with grape-shot; but in the intervals of the firing the
sound of their picks and spades could plainly be heard. In the morning
they were seen throwing up earth like moles as they burrowed their way
forward; and on the twenty-first they opened another parallel, within
two hundred yards of the rampart. Still their sappers pushed on. Every
day they had more guns in position, and on right and left their fire
grew hotter. Their pickets made a lodgment along the foot of the glacis,
and fired up the slope at the French in the covered way.</p>

<p>The twenty-first was a memorable day. In the afternoon a bomb fell on
the ship "C&eacute;l&egrave;bre" and set her on fire. An explosion followed. The few
men on board could not save her, and she drifted from her moorings. The
wind blew the flames into the rigging of the "Entreprenant," and then
into that 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_067-V2" id="Page_067-V2">67<br />V2</a></span> 
of the "Capricieux." At night all three were in full blaze;
for when the fire broke out the English batteries turned on them a
tempest of shot and shell to prevent it from being extinguished. The
glare of the triple conflagration lighted up the town, the trenches, the
harbor, and the surrounding hills, while the burning ships shot off
their guns at random as they slowly drifted westward, and grounded at
last near the Barachois. In the morning they were consumed to the
water's edge; and of all the squadron the "Prudent" and the
"Bienfaisant" alone were left.</p>

<p>In the citadel, of which the King's Bastion formed the front, there was
a large oblong stone building containing the chapel, lodgings for men
and officers, and at the southern end the quarters of the Governor. On
the morning after the burning of the ships a shell fell through the roof
among a party of soldiers in the chamber below, burst, and set the place
on fire. In half an hour the chapel and all the northern part of the
building were in flames; and no sooner did the smoke rise above the
bastion than the English threw into it a steady shower of missiles. Yet
soldiers, sailors, and inhabitants hastened to the spot, and labored
desperately to check the fire. They saved the end occupied by Drucour
and his wife, but all the rest was destroyed. Under the adjacent
rampart were the casemates, one of which was crowded with wounded
officers, and the rest with women and children seeking shelter in these
subterranean dens. Before the entrances there
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_068-V2" id="Page_068-V2">68<br />V2</a></span> 
was a long barrier of timber to protect them from exploding shells; and as 
the wind blew the flames towards it, there was danger that it would take fire 
and suffocate those within. They rushed out, crazed with fright, and ran
hither and thither with outcries and shrieks amid the storm of iron.</p>

<p>In the neighboring Queen's Bastion was a large range of barracks built
of wood by the New England troops after their capture of the fortress in
1745. So flimsy and combustible was it that the French writers call it a
"house of cards" and "a paper of matches." Here were lodged the greater
part of the garrison: but such was the danger of fire, that they were
now ordered to leave it; and they accordingly lay in the streets or
along the foot of the ramparts, under shelters of timber which gave some
little protection against bombs. The order was well timed; for on the
night after the fire in the King's Bastion, a shell filled with
combustibles set this building also in flames. A fearful scene ensued.
All the English batteries opened upon it. The roar of mortars and
cannon, the rushing and screaming of round-shot and grape, the hissing
of fuses and the explosion of grenades and bombs mingled with a storm of
musketry from the covered way and trenches; while, by the glare of the
conflagration, the English regiments were seen drawn up in battle array,
before the ramparts, as if preparing for an assault.</p>

<p>Two days after, at one o'clock in the morning, a burst of loud cheers
was heard in the distance, followed by confused cries and the noise of
musketry, 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_069-V2" id="Page_069-V2">69<br />V2</a></span> 
which lasted but a moment. Six hundred English sailors had silently rowed 
into the harbor and seized the two remaining ships, the "Prudent" and the 
"Bienfaisant." After the first hubbub all was silent for half an hour. 
Then a light glowed through the thick fog that covered the water. The 
"Prudent" was burning. Being aground with the low tide, her captors had 
set her on fire, allowing the men on board to escape to the town in her 
boats. The flames soon wrapped her from stem to stern; and as the broad 
glare pierced the illumined mists, the English sailors, reckless of shot 
and shell, towed her companion-ship, with all on board, to a safe anchorage 
under Wolfe's batteries.</p>

<p>The position of the besieged was deplorable. Nearly a fourth of their
number were in the hospitals; while the rest, exhausted with incessant
toil, could find no place to snatch an hour of sleep; "and yet," says an
officer, "they still show ardor." "To-day," he again says, on the
twenty-fourth, "the fire of the place is so weak that it is more like
funeral guns than a defence." On the front of the town only four cannon
could fire at all. The rest were either dismounted or silenced by the
musketry from the trenches. The masonry of the ramparts had been shaken
by the concussion of their own guns; and now, in the Dauphin's and
King's bastions, the English shot brought it down in masses. The
trenches had been pushed so close on the rising grounds at the right
that a great part of the covered way was enfiladed, while a battery on a
hill across the 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_070-V2" id="Page_070-V2">70<br />V2</a></span> 
harbor swept the whole front with a flank fire. Amherst
had ordered the gunners to spare the houses of the town; but, according
to French accounts, the order had little effect, for shot and shell fell
everywhere. "There is not a house in the place," says the Diary just
quoted, "that has not felt the effects of this formidable artillery.
From yesterday morning till seven o'clock this evening we reckon that a
thousand or twelve hundred bombs, great and small, have been thrown into
the town, accompanied all the time by the fire of forty pieces of
cannon, served with an activity not often seen. The hospital and the
houses around it, which also serve as hospitals, are attacked with
cannon and mortar. The surgeon trembles as he amputates a limb amid
cries of <i>Gare la bombe!</i> and leaves his patient in the midst of the
operation, lest he should share his fate. The sick and wounded,
stretched on mattresses, utter cries of pain, which do not cease till a
shot or the bursting of a shell ends them." 
<span class="superscript">[587]</span> On the twenty-sixth the
last cannon was silenced in front of the town, and the English batteries
had made a breach which seemed practicable for assault.</p>

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		<p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_587" name="footer_587"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[587]</span>
Early in the siege Drucour wrote to Amherst asking that
the hospitals should be exempt from fire. Amherst answered that shot and
shell might fall on any part of so small a town, but promised to insure
the sick and wounded from molestation if Drucour would send them either
to the island at the mouth of the harbor, or to any of the ships, if
anchored apart from the rest. The offer was declined, for reasons not
stated. Drucour gives the correspondence in his Diary.</p>
</div>

<p>On the day before, Drucour, with his chief officers and the engineer,
Franquet, had made the 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_071-V2" id="Page_071-V2">71<br />V2</a></span> 
tour of the covered way, and examined the state
of the defences. All but Franquet were for offering to capitulate. Early
on the next morning a council of war was held, at which were present
Drucour, Franquet, Desgouttes, naval commander, Houlli&egrave;re, commander of
the regulars, and the several chiefs of battalions. Franquet presented a
memorial setting forth the state of the fortifications. As it was he who
had reconstructed and repaired them, he was anxious to show the quality
of his work in the best light possible; and therefore, in the view of
his auditors, he understated the effects of the English fire. Hence an
altercation arose, ending in a unanimous decision to ask for terms.
Accordingly, at ten o'clock, a white flag was displayed over the breach
in the Dauphin's Bastion, and an officer named Loppinot was sent out
with offers to capitulate. The answer was prompt and stern: the garrison
must surrender as prisoners of war; a definite reply must be given
within an hour; in case of refusal the place will be attacked by land
and sea. <span class="superscript">[588]</span></p>

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		<p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_588" name="footer_588"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[588]</span>
Mante and other English writers give the text of this
reply.</p>
</div>

<p>Great was the emotion in the council; and one of its members,
D'Anthonay, lieutenant-colonel of the battalion of Volontaires
&Eacute;trangers, was sent to propose less rigorous terms. Amherst 
would not speak with him; and jointly with Boscawen despatched this 
note to the Governor:&mdash;</p>
   
<blockquote>
<p>
     <span class="smcap">Sir</span>,&mdash;We have just received the reply 
		 which it has pleased your Excellency to make as to the conditions of 
		 the capitulation offered you. We shall not change in the least 
		 <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_072-V2" id="Page_072-V2">72<br />V2</a></span> 
		 our views regarding them. It
     depends on your Excellency to accept them or not; and you will have
     the goodness to give your answer, yes or no, within half an hour.</p>
		 <p class="bigindent">
     We have the honor to be, etc.,</p>
<p class="right smcap no-space-top no-space-bottom">
        <span class="one-em-space">E. Boscawen.</span><br />
        J. Amherst. <span class="superscript">[589]</span></p>
</blockquote>

<p>Drucour answered as follows:&mdash;</p>

<blockquote>
<p><span class="smcap">Gentlemen</span>,&mdash;To reply to your Excellencies 
in as few words as possible, I have the honor to repeat that my position 
also remains the same, and that I persist in my first resolution.</p>
<p class="bigindent">I have the honor to be, etc.,</p>
<p class="right no-space-top smcap">The Chevalier de Drucour.</p>
</blockquote>

<div class="footer">
		<p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_589" name="footer_589"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[589]</span>
Translated from the Journal of Drucour.</p>
</div>

<p>In other words, he refused the English terms, and declared his purpose
to abide the assault. Loppinot was sent back to the English camp with
this note of defiance. He was no sooner gone than Pr&eacute;vost, the
intendant, an officer of functions purely civil, brought the Governor a
memorial which, with or without the knowledge of the military
authorities, he had drawn up in anticipation of the emergency. "The
violent resolution which the council continues to hold," said this
document, "obliges me, for the good of the state, the preservation of
the King's subjects, and the averting of horrors shocking to humanity,
to lay before your eyes the consequences that may ensue. What will
become of the four thousand souls who compose the families of this town,
of the thousand or twelve hundred sick in the hospitals, and the
officers and crews of our unfortunate ships? They will be delivered over
to carnage and the rage of 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_073-V2" id="Page_073-V2">73<br />V2</a></span> 
an unbridled soldiery, eager for plunder, and impelled to deeds of horror by 
pretended resentment at what has formerly happened in Canada. Thus they will 
all be destroyed, and the memory of their fate will live forever in our 
colonies&hellip;. It remains, Monsieur," continues the paper, "to remind you 
that the councils you have held thus far have been composed of none but 
military officers. I am not surprised at their views. The glory of the King's 
arm and the honor of their several corps have inspired them. You and I alone 
are charged with the administration of the colony and the care of the King's 
subjects who compose it. These gentlemen, therefore, have had no regard for 
them. They think only of themselves and their soldiers, whose business it is
to encounter the utmost extremity of peril. It is at the prayer of an
intimidated people that I lay before you the considerations specified in
this memorial."</p>

<p>"In view of these considerations," writes Drucour, "joined to the
impossibility of resisting an assault, M. le Chevalier de Courserac
undertook in my behalf to run after the bearer of my answer to the
English commander and bring it back." It is evident that the bearer of
the note had been in no hurry to deliver it, for he had scarcely got
beyond the fortifications when Courserac overtook and stopped him.
D'Anthonay, with Duvivier, major of the battalion of Artois, and
Loppinot, the first messenger, was then sent to the English camp,
empowered to accept the terms imposed. An English spectator thus
describes their arrival: "A lieutenant-colonel 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_074-V2" id="Page_074-V2">74<br />V2</a></span> 
came running out of the garrison, making signs at a distance, and bawling out 
as loud as he could, '<i>We accept! We accept!</i>' He was followed by two 
others; and they were all conducted to General Amherst's headquarters."
<span class="superscript">[590]</span> At eleven o'clock at night they 
returned with the articles of capitulation and the following letter:&mdash;</p>
<blockquote>
<p>  <span class="smcap">Sir</span>,&mdash;We have the honor to send your 
Excellency the articles of capitulation signed.</p>

<p>Lieutenant-Colonel D'Anthonay has not failed to speak in behalf of
the inhabitants of the town; and it is nowise our intention to
distress them, but to give them all the aid in our power.</p>

<p>Your Excellency will have the goodness to sign a duplicate of the
articles and send it to us.</p>

<p>It only remains to assure your Excellency that we shall with great
pleasure seize every opportunity to convince your Excellency that
we are with the most perfect consideration,</p>

<p>Sir, your Excellency's most obedient servants,</p>

<p class="right smcap">E. Boscawen.<br /> 
                 <span class="three-quarter-em-space">J. Amherst.</span></p>
</blockquote>

<div class="footer">
		<p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_590" name="footer_590"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[590]</span>
<i>Authentic Account of the Siege of Louisbourg, by a Spectator</i>.</p>
</div>


<p>The articles stipulated that the garrison should be sent to England,
prisoners of war, in British ships; that all artillery, arms, munitions,
and stores, both in Louisbourg and elsewhere on the Island of Cape
Breton, as well as on Isle St.-Jean, now Prince Edward's Island, should
be given up intact; that the gate of the Dauphin's Bastion should be
delivered to the British troops at eight o'clock in the morning; and
that the garrison should lay down their arms at noon. The victors, 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_075-V2" id="Page_075-V2">75<br />V2</a></span> 
on their part, promised to give the French sick and wounded the same care
as their own, and to protect private property from pillage.</p>

<p>Drucour signed the paper at midnight, and in the morning a body of
grenadiers took possession of the Dauphin's Gate. The rude soldiery
poured in, swarthy with wind and sun, and begrimed with smoke and dust;
the garrison, drawn up on the esplanade, flung down their muskets and
marched from the ground with tears of rage; the cross of St. George
floated over the shattered rampart; and Louisbourg, with the two great
islands that depended on it, passed to the British Crown. Guards were
posted, a stern discipline was enforced, and perfect order maintained.
The conquerors and the conquered exchanged greetings, and the English
general was lavish of courtesies to the brave lady who had aided the
defence so well. "Every favor she asked was granted," says a Frenchman
present.</p>

<p>Drucour and his garrison had made a gallant defence. It had been his aim
to prolong the siege till it should be too late for Amherst to
co-operate with Abercromby in an attack on Canada; and in this, at
least, he succeeded.</p>

<p>Five thousand six hundred and thirty-seven officers, soldiers, and
sailors were prisoners in the hands of the victors. Eighteen mortars and
two hundred and twenty-one cannon were found in the town, along with a
great quantity of arms, munitions, and stores. 
<span class="superscript">[591]</span> At the middle of August such 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_076-V2" id="Page_076-V2">76<br />V2</a></span> 
of the prisoners as were not disabled by wounds or sickness
were embarked for England, and the merchants and inhabitants were sent
to France. Brigadier Whitmore, as governor of Louisbourg, remained with
four regiments to hold guard over the desolation they had made.</p>

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		<p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_591" name="footer_591"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[591]</span>
<i>Account of the Guns, Mortars, Shot, Shell, etc., found in the Town of 
Louisbourg upon its Surrender this day</i>, signed <i>Jeffrey
Amherst</i>, 27 <i>July</i>, 1758.</p>
</div>

<p>The fall of the French stronghold was hailed in England with noisy
rapture. Addresses of congratulation to the King poured in from all the
cities of the kingdom, and the captured flags were hung in St. Paul's
amid the roar of cannon and the shouts of the populace. The provinces
shared these rejoicings. Sermons of thanksgiving resounded from
countless New England pulpits. At Newport there were fireworks and
illuminations; and, adds the pious reporter, "We have reason to believe
that Christians will make wise and religious improvement of so signal a
favor of Divine Providence." At Philadelphia a like display was seen,
with music and universal ringing of bells. At Boston "a stately bonfire
like a pyramid was kindled on the top of Fort Hill, which made a lofty
and prodigious blaze;" though here certain jealous patriots protested
against celebrating a victory won by British regulars, and not by New
England men. At New York there was a grand official dinner at the
Province Arms in Broadway, where every loyal toast was echoed by the
cannon of Fort George; and illuminations and fireworks closed the
day. <span class="superscript">[592]</span> In the camp of Abercromby 
at Lake George, Chaplain Cleaveland, of Bagley's 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_077-V2" id="Page_077-V2">77<br />V2</a></span> 
Massachusetts regiment, wrote: "The General put out orders that the 
breastwork should be lined with troops, and to fire three rounds for 
joy, and give thanks to God in a religious way."
<span class="superscript">[593]</span> But
nowhere did the tidings find a warmer welcome than in the small detached
forts scattered through the solitudes of Nova Scotia, where the military
exiles, restless from inaction, listened with greedy ears for every word
from the great world whence they were banished. So slow were their
communications with it that the fall of Louisbourg was known in England
before it had reached them all. Captain John Knox, then in garrison at
Annapolis, tells how it was greeted there more than five weeks after the
event. It was the sixth of September. A sloop from Boston was seen
coming up the bay. Soldiers and officers ran down to the wharf to ask
for news. "Every soul," says Knox, "was impatient, yet shy of asking; at
length, the vessel being come near enough to be spoken to, I called out,
'What news from Louisbourg?' To which the master simply replied, and
with some gravity, 'Nothing strange.' This answer, which was so coldly
delivered, threw us all into great consternation, and we looked at each
other without being able to speak; some of us even turned away with an
intent to return to the fort. At length one of our soldiers, not yet
satisfied, called out with some warmth: 'Damn you, Pumpkin, isn't
Louisbourg taken yet?' The poor New England man then answered: 'Taken,
yes, above a month 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_078-V2" id="Page_078-V2">78<br />V2</a></span> 
ago, and I have been there since; but if you have
never heard it before, I have got a good parcel of letters for you now.'
If our apprehensions were great at first, words are insufficient to
express our transports at this speech, the latter part of which we
hardly waited for; but instantly all hats flew off, and we made the
neighboring woods resound with our cheers and huzzas for almost half an
hour. The master of the sloop was amazed beyond expression, and declared
he thought we had heard of the success of our arms eastward before, and
had sought to banter him." <span class="superscript">[594]</span> At night 
there was a grand bonfire and universal festivity in the fort and village.</p>

<div class="footer">
		<p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_592" name="footer_592"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[592]</span>
These particulars are from the provincial newspapers.</p>
   <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_593" name="footer_593"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[593]</span>
Cleaveland, <i>Journal</i>.</p>
   <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_594" name="footer_594"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[594]</span>
Knox, <i>Historical Journal</i>, I. 158.</p>
</div>

<p>Amherst proceeded to complete his conquest by the subjection of all the
adjacent possessions of France. Major Dalling was sent to occupy Port
Espagnol, now Sydney. Colonel Monckton was despatched to the Bay of
Fundy and the River St. John with an order "to destroy the vermin who
are settled there." <span class="superscript">[595]</span> Lord Rollo, 
with the thirty-fifth regiment and two battalions of the sixtieth, received 
the submission of Isle St.-Jean, and tried to remove the 
inhabitants,&mdash;with small success; for out of more than four thousand 
he could catch but seven hundred. <span class="superscript">[595]</span></p>

<div class="footer">
		<p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_595" name="footer_595"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[595]</span>
<i>Orders of Amherst to Wolfe</i>, 15 <i>Aug</i>. 1758; 
<i>Ibid. to Monckton</i>, 24 <i>Aug</i>. 1758; 
<i>Report of Monckton</i>, 12 <i>Nov</i>. 1758.</p>
   <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_596" name="footer_596"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[596]</span>
<i>Villejouin, commandant &agrave; l'Isle St.-Jean, au Ministre</i>, 
8 <i>Sept</i>. 1758.</p>
</div>

<p>The ardent and indomitable Wolfe had been the life of the siege.
Wherever there was need of a quick eye, a prompt decision, and a bold
dash, 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_079-V2" id="Page_079-V2">79<br />V2</a></span> 
there his lank figure was always in the front. Yet he was only
half pleased with what had been done. The capture of Louisbourg, he
thought, should be but the prelude of greater conquests; and he had
hoped that the fleet and army would sail up the St. Lawrence and attack
Quebec. Impetuous and impatient by nature, and irritable with disease,
he chafed at the delay that followed the capitulation, and wrote to his
father a few days after it: "We are gathering strawberries and other
wild fruits of the country, with a seeming indifference about what is
doing in other parts of the world. Our army, however, on the continent
wants our help." Growing more anxious, he sent Amherst a note to ask his
intentions; and the General replied, "What I most wish to do is to go
to Quebec. I have proposed it to the Admiral, and yesterday he seemed to
think it impracticable." On which Wolfe wrote again: "If the Admiral
will not carry us to Quebec, reinforcements should certainly be sent to
the continent without losing a moment. This damned French garrison take
up our time and attention, which might be better bestowed. The
transports are ready, and a small convoy would carry a brigade to Boston
or New York. With the rest of the troops we might make an offensive and
destructive war in the Bay of Fundy and the Gulf of St. Lawrence. I beg
pardon for this freedom, but I cannot look coolly upon the bloody
inroads of those hell-hounds, the Canadians; and if nothing further is
to be done, I must desire leave to quit the army."</p>

<p>
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_080-V2" id="Page_080-V2">80<br />V2</a></span> 
Amherst answered that though he had meant at first to go to Quebec with
the whole army, late events on the continent made it impossible; and
that he now thought it best to go with five or six regiments to the aid
of Abercromby. He asked Wolfe to continue to communicate his views to
him, and would not hear for a moment of his leaving the army; adding, "I
know nothing that can tend more to His Majesty's service than your
assisting in it." Wolfe again wrote to his commander, with whom he was
on terms of friendship: "An offensive, daring kind of war will awe the
Indians and ruin the French. Blockhouses and a trembling defensive
encourage the meanest scoundrels to attack us. If you will attempt to
cut up New France by the roots, I will come with pleasure to assist."</p>

<p>Amherst, with such speed as his deliberate nature would permit, sailed
with six regiments for Boston to reinforce Abercromby at Lake George,
while Wolfe set out on an errand but little to his liking. He had orders
to proceed to Gasp&eacute;, Miramichi, and other settlements on the Gulf of St.
Lawrence, destroy them, and disperse their inhabitants; a measure of
needless and unpardonable rigor, which, while detesting it, he executed
with characteristic thoroughness. "Sir Charles Hardy and I," he wrote to
his father, "are preparing to rob the fishermen of their nets and burn
their huts. When that great exploit is at an end, I return to
Louisbourg, and thence to England." Having finished the work, he wrote
to 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_081-V2" id="Page_081-V2">81<br />V2</a></span> 
Amherst: "Your orders were carried into execution. We have done a
great deal of mischief, and spread the terror of His Majesty's arms
through the Gulf, but have added nothing to the reputation of them." The
destruction of property was great; yet, as Knox writes, "he would not
suffer the least barbarity to be committed upon the persons of the
wretched inhabitants." <span class="superscript">[597]</span></p>

<div class="footer">
		<p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_597" name="footer_597"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[597]</span>
"Les Anglais ont tr&egrave;s-bien trait&eacute;s les prisonniers qu'ils
ont faits dans cette partie" [<i>Gasp&eacute;</i>, etc]. <i>Vaudreuil 
au Ministre</i>, 4 <i>Nov</i>. 1758.</p>
</div>

<p>He returned to Louisbourg, and sailed for England to recruit his
shattered health for greater conflicts.</p>

<div class="footer">
		<p class="double-space-top">
        <a id="footer_19Note" name="footer_19Note"></a>
<span class="smcap">Note</span>.&mdash;Four 
long and minute French diaries of the siege of Louisbourg are
before me. The first, that of Drucour, covers a hundred and six folio
pages, and contains his correspondence with Amherst, Boscawen, and
Desgouttes. The second is that of the naval captain Tourville, commander
of the ship "Capricieux," and covers fifty pages. The third is by an
officer of the garrison whose name does not appear. The fourth, of about
a hundred pages, is by another officer of the garrison, and is also
anonymous. It is an excellent record of what passed each day, and of the
changing conditions, moral and physical, of the besieged. These four
Journals, though clearly independent of each other, agree in nearly all
essential particulars. I have also numerous letters from the principal
officers, military, naval, and civil, engaged in the defence,&mdash;Drucour,
Desgouttes, Houlli&egrave;re, Beaussier, Marolles, Tourville, Courserac,
Franquet, Villejouin, Pr&eacute;vost, and Querdisien. These, with various other
documents relating to the siege, were copied from the originals in the
Archives de la Marine. Among printed authorities on the French side may
be mentioned Pichon, <i>Lettres et M&eacute;moires pour servir &agrave; 
l'Histoire du Cap-Breton,</i> and the <i>Campaign of Louisbourg</i>, by 
the Chevalier Johnstone, a Scotch Jacobite serving under Drucour.</p>

<p>The chief authorities on the English side are the official Journal of
Amherst, printed in the <i>London Magazine</i> and in other contemporary
periodicals, and also in Mante, <i>History of the Late War;</i> five letters
from Amherst to Pitt, written during the siege (Public Record Office);
an excellent private Journal called <i>An Authentic Account of the
Reduction of Louisbourg, by a Spectator</i>, parts of which have been
copied verbatim by Entick without acknowledgement; the admirable Journal
of Captain John Knox, which contains numerous letters and orders
relating to the
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_082-V2" id="Page_082-V2">82<br />V2</a></span> 
siege; and the correspondence of Wolfe contained in his Life by Wright. 
Before me is the Diary of a captain or subaltern in the army of Amherst 
at Louisbourg, found in the garret of an old house at Windsor, Nova 
Scotia, on an estate belonging in 1760 to Chief Justice Deschamps. I 
owe the use of it to the kindness of George Wiggins, Esq., of Windsor, 
N.&nbsp;S. Mante gives an excellent plan of the siege operations, and 
another will be found in Jefferys, <i>Natural and Civil History of
French Dominions in North America</i>.</p>
</div>

<hr />
<div class="chapterhead">
   <br /><a name="Chapter_20" id="Chapter_20"></a>
	 <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_083-V2" id="Page_083-V2">83<br />V2</a></span> 
	 <br /><br /><br />
	 <h2><a href="#Contents20">CHAPTER XX.</a><br />
	 <span class="med">1758.</span>
	 </h2> 
	 <p class="smcapheader">TICONDEROGA.</p>
	 <p class="smcap noindent space-bottom">
	   Activity of the Provinces &bull; Sacrifices of Massachusetts &bull; 
		 The Army at Lake George &bull; Proposed Incursion of L&eacute;vis &bull; 
		 Perplexities of Montcalm &bull; His Plan of Defence &bull; 
		 Camp of Abercromby &bull; His Character &bull; 
		 Lord Howe &bull; His Popularity &bull; Embarkation of Abercromby &bull; 
		 Advance down Lake George &bull; Landing &bull;  Forest Skirmish &bull; 
		 Death of Howe &bull; Its Effects &bull; Position of the French &bull; 
		 The Lines of Ticonderoga &bull; Blunders of Abercromby &bull; 
		 The Assault &bull; A Frightful Scene &bull; Incidents of the Battle &bull; 
		 British Repulse &bull; Panic &bull; Retreat &bull; Triumph of Montcalm.
	 </p>
	 <p class="break1"></p> 
</div>

<p class="double-space-top">
<span class="smcap">In</span> 
the last year London called on the colonists for four thousand men.
This year Pitt asked them for twenty thousand, and promised that the
King would supply arms, ammunition, tents, and provisions, leaving to
the provinces only the raising, clothing, and pay of their soldiers; and
he added the assurance that Parliament would be asked to make some
compensation even for these. <span class="superscript">[598]</span>
Thus encouraged, cheered by the removal of Loudon, and animated by the 
unwonted vigor of British military preparation, the several provincial 
assemblies voted men in abundance, though the usual vexatious delays took 
place in raising, equipping, and sending them to the field. 
</p>
<div class="footer">
		<p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_598" name="footer_598"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[598]</span>
<i>Pitt to the Colonial Governors</i>, 30 <i>Dec</i>. 1757.</p>
</div>
<p>
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_084-V2" id="Page_084-V2">84<br />V2</a></span> 
In this connection, an able
English writer has brought against the colonies, and especially against
Massachusetts, charges which deserve attention. Viscount Bury says: "Of
all the colonies, Massachusetts was the first which discovered the
designs of the French and remonstrated against their aggressions; of all
the colonies she most zealously promoted measures of union for the
common defence, and made the greatest exertions in furtherance of her
views." But he adds that there is a reverse to the picture, and that
"this colony, so high-spirited, so warlike, and apparently so loyal,
would never move hand or foot in her own defence till certain of
repayment by the mother country." <span class="superscript">[599]</span>
The groundlessness of this charge is shown by abundant proofs, one of which 
will be enough. The Englishman Pownall, who had succeeded Shirley as royal 
governor of the province, made this year a report of its condition to Pitt. 
Massachusetts, he says, "has been the frontier and advanced guard of all the 
colonies against the enemy in Canada," and has always taken the lead in military
affairs. In the three past years she has spent on the expeditions of Johnson, 
Winslow, and Loudon &pound;242,356, besides about &pound;45,000 a year to 
support the provincial government, at the same time maintaining a number of 
forts and garrisons, keeping up scouting-parties, and building, equipping, and 
manning a ship of twenty guns for the service of the King. In the first two 
months of the present year, 1758, she made 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_085-V2" id="Page_085-V2">85<br />V2</a></span> 
a further military outlay of &pound;172,239. Of all these sums she has received
from Parliament a reimbursement of only &pound;70,117, and hence she is deep
in debt; yet, in addition, she has this year raised, paid, maintained, and 
clothed seven thousand soldiers placed under the command of General Abercromby, 
besides above twenty-five hundred more serving the King by land or sea; 
amounting in all to about one in four of her able-bodied men.</p>

<div class="footer">
   <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_599" name="footer_599"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[599]</span>
Bury, <i>Exodus of the Western Nations</i>, II., 250, 251.</p>
</div>

<p> 
Massachusetts was extremely poor by the standards of the present day,
living by fishing, farming, and a trade sorely hampered by the British
navigation laws. Her contributions of money and men were not ordained by
an absolute king, but made by the voluntary act of a free people.
Pownall goes on to say that her present war-debt, due within three
years, is 366,698 pounds sterling, and that to meet it she has imposed
on herself taxes amounting, in the town of Boston, to thirteen
shillings and twopence to every pound of income from real and personal
estate; that her people are in distress, that she is anxious to continue
her efforts in the public cause, but that without some further
reimbursement she is exhausted and helpless.  
<span class="superscript">[600]</span> Yet in the next year she incurred a 
new and heavy debt. In 1760 Parliament repaid her &pound;59,575. 
<span class="superscript">[601]</span> Far from being fully reimbursed, the 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_086-V2" id="Page_086-V2">86<br />V2</a></span> 
end of the war found her on the brink of bankruptcy. Connecticut made equal 
sacrifices in the common cause,&mdash;highly to her honor, for she was little 
exposed to danger, being covered by the neighboring provinces; while 
impoverished New Hampshire put one in three of her able-bodied men into the
field. <span class="superscript">[602]</span></p>

<div class="footer">
		<p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_600" name="footer_600"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[600]</span>
<i>Pownall to Pitt</i>, 30 <i>Sept</i>. 1758 
(Public Record Office, <i>America and West Indies</i>, LXXI.). 
"The province of Massachusetts Bay has exerted itself with great zeal 
and at vast expense for the public service." 
<i>Registers of Privy Council</i>, 26 <i>July</i>, 1757.</p>
   <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_601" name="footer_601"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[601]</span>
<i>Bollan, Agent of Massachusetts, to Speaker of Assembly</i>,
20 <i>March</i>, 1760. It was her share of &pound;200,000 granted to all the
colonies in the proportion of their respective efforts.</p>
   <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_602" name="footer_602"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[602]</span>
<i>Address to His Majesty from the Governor, Council, and Assembly of 
New Hampshire, Jan</i>. 1759.</p>
</div>

<p>In June the combined British and provincial force which Abercromby was
to lead against Ticonderoga was gathered at the head of Lake George;
while Montcalm lay at its outlet around the walls of the French
stronghold, with an army not one fourth so numerous. Vaudreuil had
devised a plan for saving Ticonderoga by a diversion into the valley of
the Mohawk under L&eacute;vis, Rigaud, and Longueuil, with sixteen hundred
men, who were to be joined by as many Indians. The English forts of that
region were to be attacked, Schenectady threatened, and the Five Nations
compelled to declare for France. <span class="superscript">[603]</span>
Thus, as the Governor gave out, the English would be forced to cease from 
aggression, leave Montcalm in peace, and think only of defending themselves. 
<span class="superscript">[604]</span> "This," writes Bougainville on the 
fifteenth of June, "is what M. de Vaudreuil thinks will happen, because he 
never doubts anything. Ticonderoga, which is the point really threatened, 
is abandoned without support to the troops of the line and their general. 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_087-V2" id="Page_087-V2">87<br />V2</a></span> 
It would even be wished that they might meet a reverse, if the consequences 
to the colony would not be too disastrous."</p>

<div class="footer">
		<p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_603" name="footer_603"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[603]</span>
<i>L&eacute;vis au Ministre</i>, 17 <i>Juin</i>, 1758. 
<i>Doreil au Ministre</i>, 16 <i>Juin</i>, 1758. 
<i>Montcalm &agrave; sa Femme</i>, 18 <i>Avril</i>, 1758.</p>
   <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_604" name="footer_604"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[604]</span>
<i>Correspondance de Vaudreuil</i>, 1758. <i>Livre d'Ordres, Juin</i>,
1758.</p>
</div>

<p>The proposed movement promised, no doubt, great advantages; but it was
not destined to take effect. Some rangers taken on Lake George by a
partisan officer named Langy declared with pardonable exaggeration that
twenty-five or thirty thousand men would attack Ticonderoga in less than
a fortnight. Vaudreuil saw himself forced to abandon his Mohawk
expedition, and to order L&eacute;vis and his followers, who had not yet left
Montreal, to reinforce Montcalm. <span class="superscript">[605]</span>
Why they did not go at once is not clear. The Governor declares that there 
were not boats enough. From whatever cause, there was a long delay, and 
Montcalm was left to defend himself as he could.</p>

<div class="footer">
		<p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_605" name="footer_605"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[605]</span>
<i>Bigot au Ministre</i>, 21 <i>Juillet</i>, 1758.</p>
</div>

<p>He hesitated whether he should not fall back to Crown Point. The
engineer, Lotbini&egrave;re, opposed the plan, as did also Le Mercier.
<span class="superscript">[606]</span> It was but a choice of difficulties, 
and he stayed at Ticonderoga. His troops were disposed as they had been in 
the summer before; one battalion, that of Berry, being left near the fort, 
while the main body, under Montcalm himself, was encamped by the saw-mill at 
the Falls, and the rest, under Bourlamaque, occupied the head of the portage, 
with a small advanced force at the landing-place 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_088-V2" id="Page_088-V2">88<br />V2</a></span> 
on Lake George. It remained to determine at which of these points he should 
concentrate them and make his stand against the English. Ruin threatened him 
in any case; each position had its fatal weakness or its peculiar danger, and 
his best hope was in the ignorance or blundering of his enemy. He seems to 
have been several days in a state of indecision.</p>

<div class="footer">
		<p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_606" name="footer_606"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[606]</span>
<i>N.Y. Col. Docs.</i>, X. 893. Lotbini&egrave;re's relative,
Vaudreuil, confirms the statement. Montcalm had not, as has been said,
begun already to fall back.</p>
</div>

<p>In the afternoon of the fifth of July the partisan Langy, who had again
gone out to reconnoitre towards the head of Lake George, came back in
haste with the report that the English were embarked in great force.
Montcalm sent a canoe down Lake Champlain to hasten L&eacute;vis to his aid,
and ordered the battalion of Berry to begin a breastwork and abattis on
the high ground in front of the fort. That they were not begun before
shows that he was in doubt as to his plan of defence; and that his whole
army was not now set to work at them shows that his doubt was still
unsolved.</p>

<p>It was nearly a month since Abercromby had begun his camp at the head of
Lake George. Here, on the ground where Johnson had beaten Dieskau, where
Montcalm had planted his batteries, and Monro vainly defended the wooden
ramparts of Fort William Henry, were now assembled more than fifteen
thousand men; and the shores, the foot of the mountains, and the broken
plains between them were studded thick with tents. Of regulars there
were six thousand three hundred and sixty-seven, officers and soldiers,
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_089-V2" id="Page_089-V2">89<br />V2</a></span> 
and of provincials nine thousand and thirty-four.
<span class="superscript">[607]</span> To the New
England levies, or at least to their chaplains, the expedition seemed a
crusade against the abomination of Babylon; and they discoursed in their
sermons of Moses sending forth Joshua against Amalek. Abercromby, raised
to his place by political influence, was little but the nominal
commander. "A heavy man," said Wolfe in a letter to his father; "an aged
gentleman, infirm in body and mind," wrote William Parkman, a boy of
seventeen, who carried a musket in a Massachusetts regiment, and kept in
his knapsack a dingy little note-book, in which he jotted down what
passed each day. <span class="superscript">[608]</span>
The age of the aged gentleman was fifty-two.</p>

<div class="footer">
		<p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_607" name="footer_607"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[607]</span>
<i>Abercromby to Pitt</i>, 12 <i>July</i>, 1758.</p>
   <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_608" name="footer_608"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[608]</span>
Great-uncle of the writer, and son of the Rev. Ebenezer 
<ins title="add comma after Parkman.">Parkman,</ins> 
a graduate of Harvard, and minister of Westborough, Mass.</p>
</div>

<p>Pitt meant that the actual command of the army should be in the hands of
Brigadier Lord Howe, <span class="superscript">[609]</span> and he was in 
fact its real chief; "the noblest Englishman that has appeared in my time, 
and the best soldier in the British army," says Wolfe. 
<span class="superscript">[610]</span> And he elsewhere speaks of him as
"that great man." Abercromby testifies to the universal respect and love
with which officers and men regarded him, and Pitt calls him "a
character of ancient times; a complete model of military virtue."
<span class="superscript">[611]</span> High as this praise is, it seems to 
have been deserved. The young nobleman, who was 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_090-V2" id="Page_090-V2">90<br />V2</a></span> 
then in his thirty-fourth year, had the qualities of a leader of men. The 
army felt him, from general to drummer-boy. He was its soul; and while 
breathing into it his own energy and ardor, and bracing it by stringent 
discipline, he broke through the traditions of the service and gave it new 
shapes to suit the time and place. During the past year he had studied the 
art of forest warfare, and joined Rogers and his rangers in their 
scouting-parties, sharing all their hardships and making himself one of 
them. Perhaps the reforms that he introduced were fruits of this rough 
self-imposed schooling. He made officers and men throw off all useless 
incumbrances, cut their hair close, wear leggings to protect them from 
briers, brown the barrels of their muskets, and carry in their knapsacks 
thirty pounds of meal, which they cooked for themselves; so that, according 
to an admiring Frenchman, they could live a month without their 
supply-trains. <span class="superscript">[612]</span> "You would
laugh to see the droll figure we all make," writes an officer. "Regulars
as well as provincials have cut their coats so as scarcely to reach
their waists. No officer or private is allowed to carry more than one
blanket and a bearskin. A small portmanteau is allowed each officer. No
women follow the camp to wash our linen. Lord Howe has already shown an
example by going to the brook and washing his own."
<span class="superscript">[613]</span></p>

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		<p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_609" name="footer_609"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[609]</span>
Chesterfield, <i>Letters</i>, IV. 260 (ed. Mahon).</p>
   <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_610" name="footer_610"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[610]</span>
<i>Wolfe to his Father</i>, 7 <i>Aug</i>. 1758, in Wright, 450.</p>
  <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_611" name="footer_611"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[611]</span>
<i>Pitt to Grenville</i>, 22 <i>Aug</i>. 1758, in <i>Grenville Papers</i>,
I. 262.</p>
   <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_612" name="footer_612"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[612]</span>
Pouchot, <i>Derni&egrave;re Guerre de l'Am&eacute;rique</i>, I. 140.</p>
   <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_613" name="footer_613"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[613]</span>
<i>Letter from Camp</i>, 12 <i>June</i>, 1758, in <i>Boston Evening 
Post.</i> Another, in <i>Boston News Letter</i>, contains similar statements.
</p>
</div>

<p>Here, as in all things, he shared the lot of the soldier, and required
his officers to share it. A 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_091-V2" id="Page_091-V2">91<br />V2</a></span> 
story is told of him that before the army embarked he invited some of them 
to dinner in his tent, where they found no seats but logs, and no carpet 
but bearskins. A servant presently placed on the ground a large dish of 
pork and peas, on which his lordship took from his pocket a sheath 
containing a knife and fork and began to cut the meat. The guests looked 
on in some embarrassment; upon which he said: "Is it possible, gentlemen, 
that you have come on this campaign without providing yourselves with what 
is necessary?" And he gave each of them a sheath, with a knife and fork, 
like his own.</p>

<p>Yet this Lycurgus of the camp, as a contemporary calls him, is described
as a man of social accomplishments rare even in his rank. He made
himself greatly beloved by the provincial officers, with many of whom he
was on terms of intimacy, and he did what he could to break down the
barriers between the colonial soldiers and the British regulars. When he
was at Albany, sharing with other high officers the kindly hospitalities
of Mrs. Schuyler, he so won the heart of that excellent matron that she
loved him like a son; and, though not given to such effusion, embraced
him with tears on the morning when he left her to lead his division to
the lake. <span class="superscript">[614]</span> In Westminster Abbey may 
be seen the tablet on which Massachusetts pays grateful tribute to his 
virtues, and commemorates "the affection her officers and soldiers bore to 
his command."</p>

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		<p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_614" name="footer_614"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[614]</span>
Mrs. Grant, <i>Memoirs of an American Lady</i>, 226 (ed. 1876).</p>
</div>

<p>
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_092-V2" id="Page_092-V2">92<br />V2</a></span> 
On the evening of the fourth of July, baggage, stores, and ammunition
were all on board the boats, and the whole army embarked on the morning
of the fifth. The arrangements were perfect. Each corps marched without
confusion to its appointed station on the beach, and the sun was
scarcely above the ridge of French Mountain when all were afloat. A
spectator watching them from the shore says that when the fleet was
three miles on its way, the surface of the lake at that distance was
completely hidden from sight. <span class="superscript">[615]</span>
There were nine hundred bateaux, a hundred and thirty-five whaleboats, 
and a large number of heavy flatboats carrying the artillery. The whole 
advanced in three divisions, the regulars in the centre, and the provincials 
on the flanks. Each corps had its flags and its music. The day was fair and 
men and officers were in the highest spirits.</p>

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		<p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_615" name="footer_615"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[615]</span>
<i>Letter from Lake George</i>, in <i>Boston News Letter</i>.</p>
</div>

<p>Before ten o'clock they began to enter the Narrows; and the boats of the
three divisions extended themselves into long files as the mountains
closed on either hand upon the contracted lake. From front to rear the
line was six miles long. The spectacle was superb: the brightness of the
summer day; the romantic beauty of the scenery; the sheen and sparkle of
those crystal waters; the countless islets, tufted with pine, birch, and
fir; the bordering mountains, with their green summits and sunny crags;
the flash of oars and glitter of weapons; the banners, the varied uniforms, 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_093-V2" id="Page_093-V2">93<br />V2</a></span> 
and the notes of bugle, trumpet, bagpipe, and drum, answered and prolonged 
by a hundred woodland echoes. "I never beheld so delightful a prospect," 
wrote a wounded officer at Albany a fortnight after.</p>

<p>Rogers with the rangers, and Gage with the light infantry, led the way
in whaleboats, followed by Bradstreet with his corps of boatmen, armed
and drilled as soldiers. Then came the main body. The central column of
regulars was commanded by Lord Howe, his own regiment, the fifty-fifth,
in the van, followed by the Royal Americans, the twenty-seventh,
forty-fourth, forty-sixth, and eightieth infantry, and the Highlanders
of the forty-second, with their major, Duncan Campbell of Inverawe,
silent and gloomy amid the general cheer, for his soul was dark with
foreshadowings of death. <span class="superscript">[616]</span>
With this central column came what are described as two floating castles, 
which were no doubt batteries to cover the landing of the troops. On the 
right hand and the left were the provincials, uniformed in blue, regiment 
after regiment, from Massachusetts, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, and 
Rhode Island. Behind them all came the bateaux, loaded with stores and 
baggage, and the heavy flatboats that carried the artillery, while a 
rear-guard of provincials and regulars closed the long procession.
<span class="superscript">[617]</span></p>

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		<p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_616" name="footer_616"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[616]</span>
See <a href="#appendixG">Appendix G</a>.</p>
   <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_617" name="footer_617"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[617]</span>
<i>Letter from Lake George</i>, in <i>Boston News Letter</i>. Even
Rogers, the ranger, speaks of the beauty of the scene.</p>
</div>

<p>At five in the afternoon they reached Sabbath-Day Point, twenty-five
miles down the lake, where 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_094-V2" id="Page_094-V2">94<br />V2</a></span> 
they stopped till late in the evening, waiting for the baggage and 
artillery, which had lagged behind; and here Lord Howe, lying on a 
bearskin by the side of the ranger, John Stark, questioned him as to 
the position of Ticonderoga and its best points of approach. At about 
eleven o'clock they set out again, and at daybreak entered what was 
then called the Second Narrows; that is to say, the contraction of the 
lake where it approaches its outlet. Close on their left, ruddy in the 
warm sunrise, rose the vast bare face of Rogers Rock, whence a French 
advanced party, under Langy and an officer named Trepezec, was watching 
their movements. Lord Howe, with Rogers and Bradstreet, went in 
whaleboats to reconnoitre the landing. At the place which the French 
called the Burnt Camp, where Montcalm had embarked the summer before, 
they saw a detachment of the enemy too weak to oppose them. Their men 
landed and drove them off. At noon the whole army was on shore. Rogers, 
with a party of rangers, was ordered forward to reconnoitre, and the 
troops were formed for the march.</p>

<p>From this part of the shore <span class="superscript">[618]</span>
a plain covered with forest stretched northwestward half a mile or more 
to the mountains behind which lay the valley of Trout Brook. On this 
plain the army began its march in four columns, with the intention of 
passing round the western bank of the river of the outlet, since the 
bridge over it had been destroyed. Rogers, with the provincial regiments 
of Fitch 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_095-V2" id="Page_095-V2">95<br />V2</a></span> 
and Lyman, led the way, at some distance before the rest. The forest was 
extremely dense and heavy, and so obstructed with undergrowth that it was 
impossible to see more than a few yards in any direction, while the ground 
was encumbered with fallen trees in every stage of decay. The ranks were 
broken, and the men struggled on as they could in dampness and shade, under 
a canopy of boughs that the sun could scarcely pierce. The difficulty 
increased when, after advancing about a mile, they came upon undulating and 
broken ground. They were now not far from the upper rapids of the outlet. The
guides became bewildered in the maze of trunks and boughs; the marching
columns were confused, and fell in one upon the other. They were in the
strange situation of an army lost in the woods.</p>

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		<p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_618" name="footer_618"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[618]</span>
Between the old and new steamboat-landings, and parts adjacent.</p>
</div>

<p>The advanced party of French under Langy and Trepezec, about three
hundred and fifty in all, regulars and Canadians, had tried to retreat;
but before they could do so, the whole English army had passed them,
landed, and placed itself between them and their countrymen. They had no
resource but to take to the woods. They seem to have climbed the steep
gorge at the side of Rogers Rock and followed the Indian path that led
to the valley of Trout Brook, thinking to descend it, and, by circling
along the outskirts of the valley of Ticonderoga, reach Montcalm's camp
at the saw-mill. Langy was used to bushranging; but he too became
perplexed in the blind intricacies of the forest. Towards the close of
the day he 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_096-V2" id="Page_096-V2">96<br />V2</a></span> 
and his men had come out from the valley of Trout Brook, and
were near the junction of that stream with the river of the outlet, in a
state of some anxiety, for they could see nothing but brown trunks and
green boughs. Could any of them have climbed one of the great pines that
here and there reared their shaggy spires high above the surrounding
forest, they would have discovered where they were, but would have
gained not the faintest knowledge of the enemy. Out of the woods on the
right they would have seen a smoke rising from the burning huts of the
French camp at the head of the portage, which Bourlamaque had set on
fire and abandoned. At a mile or more in front, the saw-mill at the
Falls might perhaps have been descried, and, by glimpses between the
trees, the tents of the neighboring camp where Montcalm still lay with
his main force. All the rest seemed lonely as the grave; mountain and
valley lay wrapped in primeval woods, and none could have dreamed that,
not far distant, an army was groping its way, buried in foliage; no
rumbling of wagons and artillery trains, for none were there; all silent
but the cawing of some crow flapping his black wings over the sea of
tree-tops.</p>

<p>Lord Howe, with Major Israel Putnam and two hundred rangers, was at the
head of the principal column, which was a little in advance of the three
others. Suddenly the challenge, <i>Qui vive!</i> rang sharply from the
thickets in front. <i>Fran&ccedil;ais!</i> was the reply. Langy's men were not
deceived; they fired out of the bushes. The shots were 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_097-V2" id="Page_097-V2">97<br />V2</a></span> 
returned; a hot skirmish followed; and Lord Howe dropped dead, shot through 
the breast. All was confusion. The dull, vicious reports of musketry in thick 
woods, at first few and scattering, then in fierce and rapid volleys, reached
the troops behind. They could hear, but see nothing. Already harassed
and perplexed, they became perturbed. For all they knew, Montcalm's
whole army was upon them. Nothing prevented a panic but the steadiness
of the rangers, who maintained the fight alone till the rest came back
to their senses. Rogers, with his reconnoitring party, and the regiments
of Fitch and Lyman, were at no great distance in front. They all turned
on hearing the musketry, and thus the French were caught between two
fires. They fought with desperation. About fifty of them at length
escaped; a hundred and forty-eight were captured, and the rest killed or
drowned in trying to cross the rapids. The loss of the English was small
in numbers, but immeasurable in the death of Howe. "The fall of this
noble and brave officer," says Rogers, "seemed to produce an almost
general languor and consternation through the whole army." "In Lord
Howe," writes another contemporary, Major Thomas Mante, "the soul of
General Abercromby's army seemed to expire. From the unhappy moment the
General was deprived of his advice, neither order nor discipline was
observed, and a strange kind of infatuation usurped the place of
resolution." The death of one man was the ruin of fifteen thousand.</p>

<p>
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_098-V2" id="Page_098-V2">98<br />V2</a></span> 
The evil news was despatched to Albany, and in two or three days the
messenger who bore it passed the house of Mrs. Schuyler on the meadows
above the town. "In the afternoon," says her biographer, "a man was seen
coming from the north galloping violently without his hat. Pedrom, as he
was familiarly called, Colonel Schuyler's only surviving brother, was
with her, and ran instantly to inquire, well knowing that he rode
express. The man galloped on, crying out that Lord Howe was killed. The
mind of our good aunt had been so engrossed by her anxiety and fears for
the event impending, and so impressed with the merit and magnanimity of
her favorite hero, that her wonted firmness sank under the stroke, and
she broke out into bitter lamentations. This had such an effect on her
friends and domestics that shrieks and sobs of anguish echoed through
every part of the house."</p>

<p>The effect of the loss was seen at once. The army was needlessly kept
under arms all night in the forest, and in the morning was ordered back
to the landing whence it came. <span class="superscript">[619]</span>
Towards noon, however, Bradstreet was sent with a detachment of regulars 
and provincials to take possession of the saw-mill at the Falls, which 
Montcalm had abandoned the evening before. Bradstreet rebuilt the bridges 
destroyed by the retiring enemy, and sent word to his commander that the 
way was open; on which Abercromby again put his army in motion, reached 
the Falls late in the afternoon, 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_099-V2" id="Page_099-V2">99<br />V2</a></span> 
and occupied the deserted encampment of the French.</p>

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		<p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_619" name="footer_619"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[619]</span>
<i>Abercromby to Pitt</i>, 12 <i>July</i>, 1758.</p>
</div>

<p>Montcalm with his main force had held this position at the Falls through
most of the preceding day, doubtful, it seems, to the last whether he
should not make his final stand there. Bourlamaque was for doing so; but
two old officers, Bern&egrave;s and Montguy, pointed out the danger that the
English would occupy the neighboring heights;
<span class="superscript">[620]</span> whereupon Montcalm at
length resolved to fall back. The camp was broken up at five o'clock.
Some of the troops embarked in bateaux, while others marched a mile and
a half along the forest road, passed the place where the battalion of
Berry was still at work on the breastwork begun in the morning, and made
their bivouac a little farther on, upon the cleared ground that
surrounded the fort.</p>

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		<p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_620" name="footer_620"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[620]</span>
Pouchot, I. 145.</p>
</div>

<p>The peninsula of Ticonderoga consists of a rocky plateau, with low
grounds on each side, bordering Lake Champlain on the one hand, and the
outlet of Lake George on the other. The fort stood near the end of the
peninsula, which points towards the southeast. Thence, as one goes
westward, the ground declines a little, and then slowly rises, till,
about half a mile from the fort, it reaches its greatest elevation, and
begins still more gradually to decline again. Thus a ridge is formed
across the plateau between the steep declivities that sink to the low
grounds on right and left. Some weeks before, a French officer named
Hugues had suggested 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_100-V2" id="Page_100-V2">100<br />V2</a></span> 
the defence of this ridge by means of an abattis.  
<span class="superscript">[621]</span> Montcalm approved his plan; and 
now, at the eleventh hour, he resolved to make his stand here. The two 
engineers, Pontleroy and Desandrouin, had already traced the outline of 
the works, and the soldiers of the battalion of Berry had made some 
progress in constructing them. At dawn of the seventh, while Abercromby, 
fortunately for his enemy, was drawing his troops back to the landing-place, 
the whole French army fell to their task. The regimental colors were 
planted along the line, and the officers, stripped to the shirt, took axe 
in hand and labored with their men. The trees that covered the ground were 
hewn down by thousands, the tops lopped off, and the trunks piled one upon 
another to form a massive breastwork. The line followed the top of the ridge, 
along which it zig-zagged in such a manner that the whole front could be swept 
by flank-fires of musketry and grape. Abercromby describes the wall of logs
as between eight and nine feet high; <span class="superscript">[622]</span>
in which case there must have been a rude <i>banquette</i>, or platform 
to fire from, on the inner side. It was certainly so high that nothing 
could be seen over it but the crowns of the soldiers' hats. The upper 
tier was formed of single logs, in which notches were cut to serve as 
loopholes; and in some places sods and bags of sand were piled along the 
top, with narrow spaces to fire through. <span class="superscript">[623]</span>
From the central part of 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_101-V2" id="Page_101-V2">101<br />V2</a></span> 
the line the ground sloped away like a natural glacis; while at the sides, 
and especially on the left, it was undulating and broken. Over this whole 
space, to the distance of a musket-shot from the works, the forest was cut 
down, and the trees left lying where they fell among the stumps, with tops 
turned outwards, forming one vast abattis, which, as a Massachusetts officer 
says, looked like a forest laid flat by a hurricane. 
<span class="superscript">[624]</span> But the most formidable
obstruction was immediately along the front of the breastwork, where the
ground was covered with heavy boughs, overlapping and interlaced, with
sharpened points bristling into the face of the assailant like the
quills of a porcupine. As these works were all of wood, no vestige of
them remains. The earthworks now shown to tourists as the lines of
Montcalm are of later construction; and though on the same ground, are
not on the same plan. <span class="superscript">[625]</span></p>


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		<p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_621" name="footer_621"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[621]</span>
<i>N.&nbsp;Y. Col. Docs.</i>, X. 708.</p>
		<p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_622" name="footer_622"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[622]</span>
<i>Abercromby to Barrington</i>, 12 <i>July</i>, 1758. "At least
eight feet high." Rogers, <i>Journals</i>, 116.</p>
   <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_623" name="footer_623"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[623]</span>
A Swiss officer of the Royal Americans, writing on the 14th, says that there 
were two, and in some parts three, rows of loopholes. See the letter in 
<i>Pennsylvania Archives</i>, III. 472.</p>
   <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_624" name="footer_624"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[624]</span>
<i>Colonel Oliver Partridge to his Wife</i>, 12 <i>July</i>, 1758.</p>
   <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_625" name="footer_625"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[625]</span>
A new line of works was begun four days after the battle, to replace the log 
breastwork. Malartic, <i>Journal. Travaux faits &agrave; Carillon</i>, 
1758.</p>
</div>

<p>Here, then, was a position which, if attacked in front with musketry
alone, might be called impregnable. But would Abercromby so attack it?
He had several alternatives. He might attempt the flank and rear of his
enemy by way of the low grounds on the right and left of the plateau, a
movement which the precautions of Montcalm had made difficult, but not
impossible. Or, instead of leaving his artillery idle on the strand 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_102-V2" id="Page_102-V2">102<br />V2</a></span> 
of Lake George, he might bring it to the front and batter the breastwork,
which, though impervious to musketry, was worthless against heavy
cannon. Or he might do what Burgoyne did with success a score of years
later, and plant a battery on the heights of Rattlesnake Hill, now
called Mount Defiance, which commanded the position of the French, and
whence the inside of their breastwork could be scoured with round-shot
from end to end. Or, while threatening the French front with a part of
his army, he could march the rest a short distance through the woods on
his left to the road which led from Ticonderoga to Crown Point, and
which would soon have brought him to the place called Five-Mile Point,
where Lake Champlain narrows to the width of an easy rifle-shot, and
where a battery of field-pieces would have cut off all Montcalm's
supplies and closed his only way of retreat. As the French were
provisioned for but eight days, their position would thus have been
desperate. They plainly saw the danger; and Doreil declares that had the
movement been made, their whole army must have surrendered.
<span class="superscript">[626]</span>
Montcalm had done what he could; but the danger of his position was
inevitable and extreme. His hope lay in Abercromby; and it was a hope
well founded. The action of the English general answered the utmost
wishes of his enemy.</p>

<div class="footer">
		<p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_626" name="footer_626"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[626]</span>
<i>Doreil au Ministre</i>, 28 <i>Juillet</i>, 1758. The Chevalier
Johnstone thought that Montcalm was saved by Abercromby's ignorance of
the ground. <i>A Dialogue in Hades</i> (Quebec Historical Society).</p>
</div>

<p>
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_103-V2" id="Page_103-V2">103<br />V2</a></span> 
Abercromby had been told by his prisoners that Montcalm had six thousand
men, and that three thousand more were expected every hour. Therefore he
was in haste to attack before these succors could arrive. As was the
general, so was the army. "I believe," writes an officer, "we were one
and all infatuated by a notion of carrying every obstacle by a mere
<i>coup de mousqueterie</i>." <span class="superscript">[627]</span>
Leadership perished with Lord Howe, and nothing was left but blind, 
headlong valor.</p>

<div class="footer">
		<p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_627" name="footer_627"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[627]</span>
See the letter in Knox, I. 148.</p>
</div>

<p>Clerk, chief engineer, was sent to reconnoitre the French works from
Mount Defiance; and came back with the report that, to judge from what
he could see, they might be carried by assault. Then, without waiting to
bring up his cannon, Abercromby prepared to storm the lines.</p>

<p>The French finished their breastwork and abattis on the evening of the
seventh, encamped behind them, slung their kettles, and rested after
their heavy toil. L&eacute;vis had not yet appeared; but at twilight one of his
officers, Captain Pouchot, arrived with three hundred regulars, and
announced that his commander would come before morning with a hundred
more. The reinforcement, though small, was welcome, and L&eacute;vis was a host
in himself. Pouchot was told that the army was half a mile off. Thither
he repaired, made his report to Montcalm, and looked with amazement at
the prodigious amount of work accomplished in one day.
<span class="superscript">[628]</span> L&eacute;vis himself arrived in the 
course of the night, and approved the arrangement of the troops. They 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_104-V2" id="Page_104-V2">104<br />V2</a></span> 
lay behind their lines till daybreak; then the drums beat, and they formed 
in order of battle. <span class="superscript">[629]</span> The battalions 
of La Sarre and Languedoc were posted on the left, under Bourlamaque, the
first battalion of Berry with that of Royal Roussillon in the centre, under 
Montcalm, and those of La Reine, B&eacute;arn, and Guienne on the right,
under L&eacute;vis. A detachment of volunteers occupied the low grounds between
the breastwork and the outlet of Lake George; while, at the foot of the
declivity on the side towards Lake Champlain, were stationed four
hundred and fifty colony regulars and Canadians, behind an abattis which
they had made for themselves; and as they were covered by the cannon of
the fort, there was some hope that they would check any flank movement
which the English might attempt on that side. Their posts being thus
assigned, the men fell to work again to strengthen their defences.
Including those who came with L&eacute;vis, the total force of effective
soldiers was now thirty-six hundred. <span class="superscript">[630]</span></p>

<div class="footer">
		<p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_628" name="footer_628"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[628]</span>
Pouchot, I. 137.</p>
   <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_629" name="footer_629"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[629]</span>
<i>Livre d'Ordres, Disposition de D&eacute;fense des Retranchements</i>, 
8 <i>Juillet</i>, 1758.</p>
   <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_630" name="footer_630"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[630]</span>
Montcalm, <i>Relation de la Victoire remport&eacute;e &agrave; Carillon</i>,
8 <i>Juillet</i>, 1758. Vaudreuil puts the number at 4,760, besides officers,
which includes the garrison and laborers at the fort. <i>Vaudreuil au
Ministre</i>, 28 <i>Juillet</i>, 1758.</p>
</div>

<p>Soon after nine o'clock a distant and harmless fire of small-arms began
on the slopes of Mount Defiance. It came from a party of Indians who had
just arrived with Sir William Johnson, and who, after amusing themselves
in this manner for a time, remained for the rest of the day safe
spectators of the fight. The soldiers worked 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_105-V2" id="Page_105-V2">105<br />V2</a></span> 
undisturbed till noon, when volleys of musketry were heard from the forest 
in front. It was the English light troops driving in the French pickets. A 
cannon was fired as a signal to drop tools and form for battle. The white 
uniforms lined the breastwork in a triple row, with the grenadiers behind 
them as a reserve, and the second battalion of Berry watching the flanks 
and rear.</p>

<p>Meanwhile the English army had moved forward from its camp by the
saw-mill. First came the rangers, the light infantry, and Bradstreet's
armed boatmen, who, emerging into the open space, began a spattering
fire. Some of the provincial troops followed, extending from left to
right, and opening fire in turn; then the regulars, who had formed in
columns of attack under cover of the forest, advanced their solid red
masses into the sunlight, and passing through the intervals between the
provincial regiments, pushed forward to the assault. Across the rough
ground, with its maze of fallen trees whose leaves hung withering in the
July sun, they could see the top of the breastwork, but not the men
behind it; when, in an instant, all the line was obscured by a gush of
smoke, a crash of exploding firearms tore the air, and grapeshot and
musket-balls swept the whole space like a tempest; "a damnable fire,"
says an officer who heard them screaming about his ears. The English had
been ordered to carry the works with the bayonet; but their ranks were
broken by the obstructions through which they 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_106-V2" id="Page_106-V2">106<br />V2</a></span> 
struggled in vain to force their way, and they soon began to fire in turn. 
The storm raged in full fury for an hour. The assailants pushed close to 
the breastwork; but there they were stopped by the bristling mass of 
sharpened branches, which they could not pass under the murderous 
cross-fires that swept them from front and flank. At length they fell back, 
exclaiming that the works were impregnable. Abercromby, who was at the 
saw-mill, a mile and a half in the rear, sent order to attack again, and 
again they came on as before.</p>

<p>The scene was frightful: masses of infuriated men who could not go
forward and would not go back; straining for an enemy they could not
reach, and firing on an enemy they could not see; caught in the
entanglement of fallen trees; tripped by briers, stumbling over logs,
tearing through boughs; shouting, yelling, cursing, and pelted all the
while with bullets that killed them by scores, stretched them on the
ground, or hung them on jagged branches in strange attitudes of death.
The provincials supported the regulars with spirit, and some of them
forced their way to the foot of the wooden wall.</p>

<p>The French fought with the intrepid gayety of their nation, and shouts
of <i>Vive le Roi!</i> and <i>Vive notre G&eacute;n&eacute;ral!</i> mingled 
with the din of musketry. Montcalm, with his coat off, for the day was hot, 
directed the defence of the centre, and repaired to any part of the line 
where the danger for the time seemed greatest. He is warm in praise of 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_107-V2" id="Page_107-V2">107<br />V2</a></span> 
his enemy, and declares that between one and seven o'clock they attacked 
him six successive times. Early in the action Abercromby tried to turn 
the French left by sending twenty bateaux, filled with troops, down the
outlet of Lake George. They were met by the fire of the volunteers
stationed to defend the low grounds on that side, and, still advancing,
came within range of the cannon of the fort, which sank two of them and
drove back the rest.</p>

<p>A curious incident happened during one of the attacks. De Bassignac, a
captain in the battalion of Royal Roussillon, tied his handkerchief to
the end of a musket and waved it over the breastwork in defiance. The
English mistook it for a sign of surrender, and came forward with all
possible speed, holding their muskets crossed over their heads in both
hands, and crying <i>Quarter</i>. The French made the same mistake; and
thinking that their enemies were giving themselves up as prisoners,
ceased firing, and mounted on the top of the breastwork to receive them.
Captain Pouchot, astonished, as he says, to see them perched there,
looked out to learn the cause, and saw that the enemy meant anything but
surrender. Whereupon he shouted with all his might: "<i>Tirez! Tirez! Ne
voyez-vous pas que ces gens-l&agrave; vont vous enlever?</i>" The soldiers, 
still standing on the breastwork, instantly gave the English a volley, 
which killed some of them, and sent back the rest discomfited.
<span class="superscript">[631]</span></p>

<div class="footer">
		<p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_631" name="footer_631"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[631]</span>
Pouchot, I. 153. Both Niles and Entick mention the incident.</p>
</div>

<p>
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_108-V2" id="Page_108-V2">108<br />V2</a></span> 
This was set to the account of Gallic treachery. "Another deceit the
enemy put upon us," says a military letter-writer: "they raised their
hats above the breastwork, which our people fired at; they, having
loopholes to fire through, and being covered by the sods, we did them
little damage, except shooting their hats to pieces."
<span class="superscript">[632]</span> In one of the
last assaults a soldier of the Rhode Island regiment, William Smith,
managed to get through all obstructions and ensconce himself close under
the breastwork, where in the confusion he remained for a time unnoticed,
improving his advantages meanwhile by shooting several Frenchmen. Being
at length observed, a soldier fired vertically down upon him and wounded
him severely, but not enough to prevent his springing up, striking at
one of his enemies over the top of the wall, and braining him with his
hatchet. A British officer who saw the feat, and was struck by the
reckless daring of the man, ordered two regulars to bring him off;
which, covered by a brisk fire of musketry, they succeeded in doing. A
letter from the camp two or three weeks later reports him as in a fair
way to recover, being, says the writer, much braced and invigorated by
his anger against the French, on whom he was swearing to have his
revenge. <span class="superscript">[633]</span></p>

<div class="footer">
		<p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_632" name="footer_632"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[632]</span>
<i>Letter from Saratoga</i>, 12 <i>July</i>, 1758, in <i>New Hampshire
Gazette</i>. Compare <i>Pennsylvania Archives</i>, III. 474.</p>
   <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_633" name="footer_633"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[633]</span>
<i>Letter from Lake George</i>, 26 <i>July</i>, 1758, in <i>Boston
Gazette</i>. The story is given, without much variation, in several other
letters.</p>
</div>

<p>Toward five o'clock two English columns joined in a most determined
assault on the extreme 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_109-V2" id="Page_109-V2">109<br />V2</a></span> 
right of the French, defended by the battalions of Guienne and B&eacute;arn. 
The danger for a time was imminent. Montcalm hastened to the spot with the 
reserves. The assailants hewed their way to the foot of the breastwork; and 
though again and again repulsed, they again and again renewed the attack. 
The Highlanders fought with stubborn and unconquerable fury. "Even those 
who were mortally wounded," writes one of their lieutenants, "cried to 
their companions not to lose a thought upon them, but to follow their 
officers and mind the honor of their country. Their ardor was such that it 
was difficult to bring them off." <span class="superscript">[634]</span> 
Their major, Campbell of Inverawe, found his foreboding true.
He received a mortal shot, and his clansmen bore him from the field.
Twenty-five of their officers were killed or wounded, and half the men
fell under the deadly fire that poured from the loopholes. Captain John
Campbell and a few followers tore their way through the abattis, climbed
the breastwork, leaped down among the French, and were bayoneted
there. <span class="superscript">[635]</span></p>

<div class="footer">
		<p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_634" name="footer_634"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[634]</span>
<i>Letter of Lieutenant William Grant</i>, in <i>Maclachlan's Highlands</i>, 
II. 340 (ed. 1875).</p>
   <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_635" name="footer_635"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[635]</span>
<i>Ibid.</i>, II. 339.</p>
</div>

<p>As the colony troops and Canadians on the low ground were left
undisturbed, L&eacute;vis sent them an order to make a sortie and attack the
left flank of the charging columns. They accordingly posted themselves
among the trees along the declivity, and fired upwards at the enemy, who
presently shifted their position to the right, out of the line of shot.
The assault still continued, but 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_110-V2" id="Page_110-V2">110<br />V2</a></span> 
in vain; and at six there was another effort, equally fruitless. From this 
time till half-past seven a lingering fight was kept up by the rangers and 
other provincials, firing from the edge of the woods and from behind the 
stumps, bushes, and fallen trees in front of the lines. Its only objects 
were to cover their comrades, who were collecting and bringing off the 
wounded, and to protect the retreat of the regulars, who fell back in 
disorder to the Falls. As twilight came on, the last combatant withdrew, 
and none were left but the dead. Abercromby had lost in killed, wounded, 
and missing, nineteen hundred and forty-four officers and men.
<span class="superscript">[636]</span> The loss of the French, not counting 
that of Langy's detachment, was three hundred and seventy-seven. Bourlamaque 
was dangerously wounded; Bougainville slightly; and the hat of L&eacute;vis 
was twice shot through. <span class="superscript">[637]</span></p>

<div class="footer">
		<p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_636" name="footer_636"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[636]</span>
See <a href="#appendixG">Appendix G</a>.</p>
    <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_637" name="footer_637"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[637]</span>
<i>L&eacute;vis au Ministre</i>, 13 <i>Juillet</i>, 1758</p>
</div>

<p>Montcalm, with a mighty load lifted from his soul, passed along the
lines, and gave the tired soldiers the thanks they nobly deserved. Beer,
wine, and food were served out to them, and they bivouacked for the
night on the level ground between the breastwork and the fort. The enemy
had met a terrible rebuff; yet the danger was not over. Abercromby still
had more than thirteen thousand men, and he might renew the attack with
cannon. But, on the morning of the ninth, a band of volunteers who had
gone out to watch him brought back the report that he was in full
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_111-V2" id="Page_111-V2">111<br />V2</a></span> 
retreat. The saw-mill at the Falls was on fire, and the last English
soldier was gone. On the morning of the tenth, L&eacute;vis, with a strong
detachment, followed the road to the landing-place, and found signs that
a panic had overtaken the defeated troops. They had left behind several
hundred barrels of provisions and a large quantity of baggage; while in
a marshy place that they had crossed was found a considerable number of
their shoes, which had stuck in the mud, and which they had not stopped
to recover. They had embarked on the morning after the battle, and
retreated to the head of the lake in a disorder and dejection wofully
contrasted with the pomp of their advance. A gallant army was sacrificed
by the blunders of its chief.</p>

<p>Montcalm announced his victory to his wife in a strain of exaggeration
that marks the exaltation of his mind. "Without Indians, almost without
Canadians or colony troops,&mdash;I had only four hundred,&mdash;alone with 
L&eacute;vis and Bourlamaque and the troops of the line, thirty-one hundred 
fighting men, I have beaten an army of twenty-five thousand. They repassed 
the lake precipitately, with a loss of at least five thousand. This glorious
day does infinite honor to the valor of our battalions. I have no time
to write more. I am well, my dearest, and I embrace you." And he wrote
to his friend Doreil: "The army, the too-small army of the King, has
beaten the enemy. What a day for France! If I had had two hundred
Indians to send out at the head of a thousand 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_112-V2" id="Page_112-V2">112<br />V2</a></span> 
picked men under the Chevalier de L&eacute;vis, not many would have escaped. 
Ah, my dear Doreil, what soldiers are ours! I never saw the like. Why were 
they not at Louisbourg?"</p>

<p>On the morrow of his victory he caused a great cross to be planted on
the battle-field, inscribed with these lines, composed by the
soldier-scholar himself,&mdash;</p>

<div class="poem1 small double-space-top">
<p class="poem1 indent30">"Quid dux? quid miles? quid strata ingentia ligna?</p>
<p class="poem1 indent25">En Signum! en victor! Deus h&icirc;c, Deus ipse triumphat."
<br /><br /></p>

<p class="poem1 indent30">"Soldier and chief and rampart's strength are nought;</p>
<p class="poem1 indent25">Behold the conquering Cross! 'T is God the triumph wrought."
<span class="superscript">[638]</span></p>
</div>

<p><br /></p>

<div class="footer">
		<p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_638" name="footer_638"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[638]</span>
Along with the above paraphrase I may give that of Montcalm himself, which was 
also inscribed on the cross:&mdash;</p>

<div class="poem1 double-space-top">
<p class="poem1 indent30">"Chr&eacute;tien! ce ne fut point Montcalm et la prudence,</p>
<p class="poem1 indent15">Ces arbres renvers&eacute;s, ces h&eacute;ros, leurs exploits,</p>
<p class="poem1 indent25">Qui des Anglais confus ont bris&eacute; l'esp&eacute;rance;</p>
<p class="poem1 indent15">C'est le bras de ton Dieu, vainqueur sur cette croix."</p>
</div>


<p class="double-space-top">
In the same letter in which Montcalm sent these lines to his mother he
says: "Je vous envoie, pour vous amuser, deux chansons sur le combat du
8 Juillet, dont l'une est en style des poissardes de Paris." One of
these songs, which were written by soldiers after the battle, begins,&mdash;</p>

<div class="poem1 double-space-top">
<p class="poem1 indent30 left-indent10">"Je chante des Fran&ccedil;ois</p>
<p class="poem1 indent25 left-indent10">La valeur et la gloire,</p>
<p class="poem1 indent25 left-indent10">Qui toujours sur l'Anglois</p>
<p class="poem1 indent25 left-indent10">Remportent la victoire.</p>
<p class="poem1 indent25 left-indent10">Ce sont des h&eacute;ros,</p>
<p class="poem1 indent25 left-indent10">Tous nos g&eacute;n&eacute;raux,</p>
<p class="poem1 indent25 left-indent10">Et Montcalm et L&eacute;vis,</p>
<p class="poem1 indent25 left-indent10">Et Bourlamaque aussi.<br /><br /></p>
<p class="poem1 indent30 left-indent10">"Mars, qui les engendra</p>
<p class="poem1 indent25 left-indent10">Pour l'honneur de la France,</p>
<p class="poem1 indent25 left-indent10">D'abord les anima</p>
<p class="poem1 indent25 left-indent10">De sa haute vaillance,</p>
<p class="poem1 indent25 left-indent10">Et les transporta</p>
<p class="poem1 indent25 left-indent10">Dans le Canada,</p>
<p class="poem1 indent25 left-indent10">O&ugrave; l'on voit les Fran&ccedil;ois</p>
<p class="poem1 indent25 left-indent10">Culbuter les Anglois."</p>
</div>

<p class="double-space-top">
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_113-V2" id="Page_113-V2">113<br />V2</a></span> 
The other effusion of the military muse is in a different strain, "en
style des poissardes de Paris." The following is a specimen, given
<i>literatim</i>:&mdash;</p>

<div class="poem1 double-space-top">
<p class="poem1 indent30 left-indent10">"L'aum&ocirc;nier fit l'exhortation,</p>
<p class="poem1 indent25 left-indent10">Puis il donnit l'absolution;</p>
<p class="poem1 indent25 left-indent10">Ais&eacute;ment cela se peut croire.</p>
<p class="poem1 indent25 left-indent10">Enfants, dit-il, animez-vous!</p>
<p class="poem1 indent25 left-indent10">L'bon Dieu, sa m&egrave;re, tout est pour vous.</p>
<p class="poem1 indent30"><i>S&mdash;&eacute;! j'sommes catholiques. Les Anglois sont des h&eacute;r&eacute;tiques.</i></p>
</div>


<p class="double-space-top">"Ce sont des chiens; &agrave; coups d'pieds, a coups d'poings faut leur casser
la gueule et la m&acirc;choire."</p>

<div class="poem1 double-space-top">
<p class="poem1 indent30 left-indent10">"Soldats, officiers, g&eacute;n&eacute;raux,</p>
<p class="poem1 indent25 left-indent10">Chacun en ce jour fut h&eacute;ros.</p>
<p class="poem1 indent25 left-indent10">Ais&eacute;ment cela se peut croire.</p>
<p class="poem1 indent25 left-indent10">Montcalm, comme d&eacute;funt Annibal,</p>
<p class="poem1 indent25 left-indent10">S'montroit soldat et g&eacute;n&eacute;ral.</p>
<p class="poem1 indent30"><i>S&mdash;&eacute;! sil y avoit quelqu'un qui ne l'aimit point!</i>"</p>
</div>


<p class="double-space-top">"Je veux &ecirc;tre un chien; &agrave; coups d'pieds, a coups d'poings, j'lui
cass'rai la gueule et la m&acirc;choire."</p>

<p>This is an allusion to Vaudreuil. On the battle of Ticonderoga, see
<a href="#appendixG">Appendix G</a>.</p>
</div>


<hr />
<div class="chapterhead">
   <br /><a name="Chapter_21" id="Chapter_21"></a>
	 <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_114-V2" id="Page_114-V2">114<br />V2</a></span> 
	 <br /><br /><br />
	 <h2><a href="#Contents21">CHAPTER XXI.</a><br />
	 <span class="med">1758.</span>
	 </h2> 
	 <p class="smcapheader">FORT FRONTENAC.</p>
	 <p class="smcap noindent space-bottom">	
	   The Routed Army &bull; Indignation at Abercromby &bull; 
		 John Cleaveland and his Brother Chaplains &bull; 
		 Regulars and Provincials &bull; Provincial Surgeons &bull; 
		 French Raids &bull; Rogers defeats Marin &bull; Adventures of Putnam &bull;  
		 Expedition of Bradstreet &bull; Capture of Fort Frontenac.
	 </p>
	 <p class="break1"></p> 
</div>

<p class="double-space-top">
<span class="smcap">The</span>
rashness of Abercromby before the fight was matched by his
poltroonery after it. Such was his terror that on the evening of his
defeat he sent an order to Colonel Cummings, commanding at Fort William
Henry, to send all the sick and wounded and all the heavy artillery to
New York without delay. <span class="superscript">[639]</span>
He himself followed so closely upon this disgraceful missive that Cummings 
had no time to obey it.</p>

<div class="footer">
		<p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_639" name="footer_639"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[639]</span>
<i>Cunningham, aide-de-camp of Abercromby, to Cummings</i>, 8 <i>July</i>, 
1758.</p>
</div>

<p>The defeated and humbled troops proceeded to reoccupy the ground they
had left a few days before in the flush of confidence and pride; and
young Colonel Williams, of Massachusetts, lost no time in sending the
miserable story to his uncle Israel. His letter, which is dated "Lake
George (sorrowful situation), July y<span class="superscript">e</span> 
11<span class="superscript">th</span>," ends thus: "I have told facts; 
you may put the epithets upon them. In one word, what with fatigue, want of 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_115-V2" id="Page_115-V2">115<br />V2</a></span> 
sleep, exercise of mind, and leaving the place we went to capture, the 
best part of the army is unhinged. I have told enough to make you sick, 
if the relation acts on you as the facts have on me."</p>

<p>In the routed army was the sturdy John Cleaveland, minister of Ipswich,
and now chaplain of Bagley's Massachusetts regiment, who regarded the
retreat with a disgust that was shared by many others. "This day," he
writes in his Diary, at the head of Lake George, two days after the
battle, "wherever I went I found people, officers and soldiers,
astonished that we left the French ground, and commenting on the strange
conduct in coming off." From this time forth the provincials called
their commander Mrs. Nabbycromby. <span class="superscript">[640]</span>
He thought of nothing but fortifying himself. "Towards evening," continues 
the chaplain, "the General, with his Rehoboam counsellors, came over to line 
out a fort on the rocky hill where our breastwork was last year. Now we 
begin to think strongly that the grand expedition against Canada is laid 
aside, and a foundation made totally to impoverish our country." The whole 
army was soon intrenched. The chaplain of Bagley's, with his brother Ebenezer,
chaplain of another regiment, one day walked round the camp and carefully 
inspected it. The tour proved satisfactory to the militant divines, and John 
Cleaveland reported to his wife: "We have built an extraordinary good 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_116-V2" id="Page_116-V2">116<br />V2</a></span> 
breastwork, sufficient to defend ourselves against twenty thousand of the 
enemy, though at present we have not above a third part of that number fit 
for duty." Many of the troops had been sent to the Mohawk, and others to the 
Hudson.</p>

<div class="footer">
		<p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_640" name="footer_640"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[640]</span>
Trumbull, <i>Hist. Connecticut</i>, II. 392. "Nabby" (Abigail)
was then a common female name in New England.</p>
</div>

<p>In the regiment of which Cleaveland was chaplain there was a young
surgeon from Danvers, Dr. Caleb Rea, who also kept a copious diary, and,
being of a serious turn, listened with edification to the prayers and
exhortations to which the yeoman soldiery were daily summoned. In his
zeal, he made an inquest among them for singers, and chose the most
melodious to form a regimental choir, "the better to carry on the daily
service of singing psalms;" insomuch that the New England camp was vocal
with rustic harmony, sincere, if somewhat nasal. These seemly
observances were not inconsistent with a certain amount of disorder
among the more turbulent spirits, who, removed from the repressive
influence of tight-laced village communities, sometimes indulged in
conduct which grieved the conscientious surgeon. The rural New England
of that time, with its narrowness, its prejudices, its oddities, its
combative energy, and rugged, unconquerable strength, is among the
things of the past, or lingers in remote corners where the whistle of
the locomotive is never heard. It has spread itself in swarming millions
over half a continent, changing with changing conditions; and even the
part of it that clings to the ancestral hive has transformed and
continues to transform itself.</p>

<p>
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_117-V2" id="Page_117-V2">117<br />V2</a></span> 
The provincials were happy in their chaplains, among whom there reigned
a marvellous harmony, Episcopalians, Presbyterians, and
Congregationalists meeting twice a week to hold prayer-meetings
together. "A rare instance indeed," says Dr. Rea, "and perhaps scarce
ever was an army blessed with such a set of chaplains before." On one
occasion, just before the fatal expedition, nine of them, after prayers
and breakfast, went together to call upon the General. "He treated us
very kindly," says the chaplain of Bagley's, "and told us that he hoped
we would teach the people to do their duty and be courageous; and told
us a story of a chaplain in Germany, where he was, who just before the
action told the soldiers he had not time to say much, and therefore
should only say: 'Be courageous; for no cowards go to heaven.' The
General treated us to a bowl of punch and a bottle of wine, and then we
took our leave of him." <span class="superscript">[641]</span></p>

<div class="footer">
		<p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_641" name="footer_641"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[641]</span>
For the use of the Diary of Chaplain Cleaveland, as well as of his letters to 
his wife, I am indebted to the kindness of Miss Abby E. Cleaveland, his 
descendant.</p>
</div>

<p>When Cleaveland and the more gifted among his brethren preached of a
Sunday, officers and men of the regulars, no less than the provincials,
came to listen; yet that pious Sabbatarian, Dr. Rea, saw much to afflict
his conscience. "Sad, sad it is to see how the Sabbath is profaned in
the camp," above all by "the horrid custom of swearing, more especially
among the regulars; and I can't but charge our defeat on this sin."</p>

<p>It would have been well had the harmony that prevailed among the
chaplains found its counterpart 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_118-V2" id="Page_118-V2">118<br />V2</a></span> 
among the men of the sword; but between the British regular officers and 
those of the provinces there was anything but an equal brotherhood. It is 
true that Pitt, in the spirit of conciliation which he always showed 
towards the colonies, had procured a change in the regulations concerning 
the relative rank of British and provincial officers, thus putting them in 
a position much nearer equality; but this, while appeasing the provincials, 
seems to have annoyed the others. Till the campaign was nearly over, not a 
single provincial colonel had been asked to join in a council of war; and,
complains Cleaveland, "they know no more of what is to be done than a
sergeant, till the orders come out." Of the British officers, the
greater part had seen but little active service. Most of them were men
of family, exceedingly prejudiced and insular, whose knowledge of the
world was limited to certain classes of their own countrymen, and who
looked down on all others, whether domestic or foreign. Towards the
provincials their attitude was one of tranquil superiority, though its
tranquillity was occasionally disturbed by what they regarded as absurd
pretension on the part of the colony officers. One of them gave vent to
his feelings in an article in the <i>London Chronicle</i>, in which he
advanced the very reasonable proposition that "a farmer is not to be
taken from the plough and made an officer in a day;" and he was answered
wrathfully, at great length, in the <i>Boston Evening Post</i>, by a writer
signing himself "A New England Man." The 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_119-V2" id="Page_119-V2">119<br />V2</a></span> 
provincial officers, on the other hand, and especially those of New England, 
being no less narrow and prejudiced, filled with a sensitive pride and a 
jealous local patriotism, and bred up in a lofty appreciation of the merits 
and importance of their country, regarded British superciliousness with a
resentment which their strong love for England could not overcome. This
feeling was far from being confined to the officers. A provincial
regiment stationed at Half-Moon, on the Hudson, thought itself affronted
by Captain Cruikshank, a regular officer; and the men were so incensed
that nearly half of them went off in a body. The deportment of British
officers in the Seven Years War no doubt had some part in hastening on
the Revolution.</p>

<p>What with levelling Montcalm's siege works, planting palisades, and
grubbing up stumps in their bungling and laborious way, the regulars
found abundant occupation. Discipline was stiff and peremptory. The
wooden horse and the whipping-post were conspicuous objects in the camp,
and often in use. Caleb Rea, being tender-hearted, never went to see the
lash laid on; for, as he quaintly observes, "the cries were satisfactory
to me, without the sight of the strokes." He and the rest of the doctors
found active exercise for such skill as they had, since fever and
dysentery were making scarcely less havoc than the bullets at
Ticonderoga. This came from the bad state of the camps and unwholesome
food. The provincial surgeons seem to have been very little 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_120-V2" id="Page_120-V2">120<br />V2</a></span> 
impressed with the importance of sanitary regulations, and to have thought 
it their business not to prevent disease, but only to cure it. The one
grand essential in their eyes was a well-stocked medicine-chest, rich in
exhaustless stores of rhubarb, ipecacuanha, and calomel. Even this sometimes 
failed. Colonel Williams reports "the sick destitute of everything proper 
for them; medicine-chest empty; nothing but their dirty blankets for beds; 
Dr. Ashley dead, Dr. Wright gone home, low enough; Bille worn off his 
legs,&mdash;such is our case. I have near a hundred sick. Lost a sergeant 
and a private last night." <span class="superscript">[642]</span> Chaplain
Cleaveland himself, though strong of frame, did not escape; but he found
solace in his trouble from the congenial society of a brother chaplain,
Mr. Emerson, of New Hampshire, "a right-down hearty Christian minister,
of savory conversation," who came to see him in his tent, breakfasted
with him, and joined him in prayer. Being somewhat better, he one day
thought to recreate himself with the apostolic occupation of fishing.
The sport was poor; the fish bit slowly; and as he lay in his boat,
still languid with his malady, he had leisure to reflect on the
contrasted works of Providence and man,&mdash;the bright lake basking amid
its mountains, a dream of wilderness beauty, and the swarms of harsh
humanity on the shore beside him, with their passions, discords, and
miseries. But it was with the strong meat of Calvinistic theology, and
not with reveries like these, 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_121-V2" id="Page_121-V2">121<br />V2</a></span> 
that he was accustomed to nourish his military flock.</p>

<div class="footer">
		<p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_642" name="footer_642"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[642]</span>
<i>Colonel William Williams to Colonel Israel Williams</i>, 4 <i>Sept</i>. 
1758.</p>
</div>

<p>While at one end of the lake the force of Abercromby was diminished by
detachments and disease, that of Montcalm at the other was so increased
by reinforcements that a forward movement on his part seemed possible.
He contented himself, however, with strengthening the fort,
reconstructing the lines that he had defended so well, and sending out
frequent war-parties by way of Wood Creek and South Bay, to harass
Abercromby's communications with Fort Edward. These parties, some of
which consisted of several hundred men, were generally more or less
successful; and one of them, under La Corne, surprised and destroyed a
large wagon train escorted by forty soldiers. When Abercromby heard of
it, he ordered Rogers, with a strong detachment of provincials, light
infantry, and rangers, to go down the lake in boats, cross the mountains
to the narrow waters of Lake Champlain, and cut off the enemy. But
though Rogers set out at two in the morning, the French retreated so
fast that he arrived too late. As he was on his way back, he was met by
a messenger from the General with orders to intercept other French
parties reported to be hovering about Fort Edward. On this he retraced
his steps, marched through the forest to where Whitehall now stands, and
thence made his way up Wood Creek to old Fort Anne, a relic of former
wars, abandoned and falling to decay. Here, on the neglected "clearing"
that surrounded the ruin, 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_122-V2" id="Page_122-V2">122<br />V2</a></span> 
his followers encamped. They counted seven hundred in all, and consisted of 
about eighty rangers, a body of Connecticut men under Major Putnam, and a 
small regular force, chiefly light infantry, under Captain Dalzell, the brave 
officer who was afterwards killed by Pontiac's warriors at Detroit.</p>

<p>Up to this time Rogers had observed his usual caution, commanding
silence on the march, and forbidding fires at night; but, seeing no
signs of an enemy, he forgot himself; and on the following morning, the
eighth of August, he and Lieutenant Irwin, of the light infantry, amused
themselves by firing at a mark on a wager. The shots reached the ears of
four hundred and fifty French and Indians under the famous partisan
Marin, who at once took steps to reconnoitre and ambuscade his rash
enemy. For nearly a mile from the old fort the forest had formerly been
cut down and burned; and Nature had now begun to reassert herself,
covering the open tract with a dense growth of bushes and saplings
almost impervious to anything but a wild-cat, had it not been traversed
by a narrow Indian path. Along this path the men were forced to march in
single file. At about seven o'clock, when the two marksmen had decided
their bet, and before the heavy dew of the night was dried upon the
bushes, the party slung their packs and set out. Putnam was in the front
with his Connecticut men; Dalzell followed with the regulars; and
Rogers, with his rangers, brought up the rear of the long and slender
line. Putnam himself led the way, shouldering through the bushes, gun in
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_123-V2" id="Page_123-V2">123<br />V2</a></span> 
hand; and just as the bluff yeoman emerged from them to enter the
forest-growth beyond, the air was rent with yells, the thickets before
him were filled with Indians, and one of them, a Caughnawaga chief,
sprang upon him, hatchet in hand. He had time to cock his gun and snap
it at the breast of his assailant; but it missed fire, and he was
instantly seized and dragged back into the forest, as were also a
lieutenant named Tracy and three private men. Then the firing began. The
French and Indians, lying across the path in a semicircle, had the
advantage of position and surprise. The Connecticut men fell back among
the bushes in disorder; but soon rallied, and held the enemy in check
while Dalzell and Rogers&mdash;the latter of whom was nearly a mile
behind&mdash;were struggling through briers and thickets to their aid. So
close was the brushwood that it was full half an hour before they could
get their followers ranged in some kind of order in front of the enemy;
and even then each man was forced to fight for himself as best he could.
Humphreys, the biographer of Putnam, blames Rogers severely for not
coming at once to the aid of the Connecticut men; but two of their
captains declare that he came with all possible speed; while a regular
officer present highly praised him to Abercromby for cool and
officer-like conduct. <span class="superscript">[643]</span>
As a man his deserts were small; as a
bushfighter he was beyond reproach.</p>

<div class="footer">
		<p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_643" name="footer_643"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[643]</span>
<i>Letter from the Camp at Lake George</i>, 5 <i>Sept</i>. 1758,
signed by Captains Maynard and Giddings, and printed in the <i>Boston
Weekly Advertiser</i>. "Rogers deserves much to be commended." 
<i>Abercromby to Pitt</i>, 19 <i>Aug</i>. 1758.</p>
</div>

<p>
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_124-V2" id="Page_124-V2">124<br />V2</a></span> 
Another officer recounts from hearsay the remarkable conduct of an
Indian, who sprang into the midst of the English and killed two of them
with his hatchet; then mounted on a log and defied them all. One of the
regulars tried to knock him down with the butt of his musket; but though
the blow made him bleed, he did not fall, and would have killed his
assailant if Rogers had not shot him dead.
<span class="superscript">[644]</span> The firing lasted about
two hours. At length some of the Canadians gave way, and the rest of the
French and Indians followed. <span class="superscript">[645]</span>
They broke into small parties to elude pursuit, and reuniting towards evening, 
made their bivouac on a spot surrounded by impervious swamps.</p>


<div class="footer">
		<p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_644" name="footer_644"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[644]</span>
<i>Thomas Barnsley to Bouquet</i>, 7 <i>Sept</i>. 1758.</p>
   <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_645" name="footer_645"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[645]</span>
<i>Doreil au Ministre</i>, 31 <i>Ao&ucirc;t</i>, 1757.</p>
</div>

<p>Rogers remained on the field and buried all his own dead, forty-nine in
number. Then he resumed his march to Fort Edward, carrying the wounded
on litters of branches till the next day, when he met a detachment
coming with wagons to his relief. A party sent out soon after for the
purpose reported that they had found and buried more than a hundred
French and Indians. From this time forward the war-parties from
Ticonderoga greatly relented in their activity.</p>

<p>The adventures of the captured Putnam were sufficiently remarkable. The
Indians, after dragging him to the rear, lashed him fast to a tree so
that he could not move a limb, and a young savage amused himself by
throwing a hatchet at 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_125-V2" id="Page_125-V2">125<br />V2</a></span> 
his head, striking it into the wood as close as
possible to the mark without hitting it. A French petty officer then
thrust the muzzle of his gun violently against the prisoner's body,
pretended to fire it at him, and at last struck him in the face with the
butt; after which dastardly proceeding he left him. The French and
Indians being forced after a time to fall back, Putnam found himself
between the combatants and exposed to bullets from both sides; but the
enemy, partially recovering the ground they had lost, unbound him, and
led him to a safe distance from the fight. When the retreat began, the
Indians hurried him along with them, stripped of coat, waistcoat, shoes,
and stockings, his back burdened with as many packs of the wounded as
could be piled upon it, and his wrists bound so tightly together that
the pain became intense. In his torment he begged them to kill him; on
which a French officer who was near persuaded them to untie his hands
and take off some of the packs, and the chief who had captured him gave
him a pair of moccasons to protect his lacerated feet. When they
encamped at night, they prepared to burn him alive, stripped him naked,
tied him to a tree, and gathered dry wood to pile about him. A sudden
shower of rain interrupted their pastime; but when it was over they
began again, and surrounded him with a circle of brushwood which they
set on fire. As they were yelling and dancing their delight at the
contortions with which he tried to avoid the rising flames, Marin,
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_126-V2" id="Page_126-V2">126<br />V2</a></span> 
hearing what was going forward, broke through the crowd, and with a
courageous humanity not too common among Canadian officers, dashed aside
the burning brush, untied the prisoner, and angrily upbraided his
tormentors. He then restored him to the chief who had captured him, and
whose right of property in his prize the others had failed to respect.
The Caughnawaga treated him at first with kindness; but, with the help
of his tribesmen, took effectual means to prevent his escape, by laying
him on his back, stretching his arms and legs in the form of a St.
Andrew's cross, and binding the wrists and ankles fast to the stems of
young trees. This was a mode of securing prisoners in vogue among
Indians from immemorial time; but, not satisfied with it, they placed
brushwood upon his body, and then laid across it the long slender stems
of saplings, on the ends of which several warriors lay down to sleep, so
that the slightest movement on his part would rouse them. Thus he passed
a night of misery, which did not prevent him from thinking of the
ludicrous figure he made in the hands of the tawny Philistines.</p>

<p>On the next night, after a painful march, he reached Ticonderoga, where
he was questioned by Montcalm, and afterwards sent to Montreal in charge
of a French officer, who showed him the utmost kindness. On arriving,
wofully tattered, bruised, scorched, and torn, he found a friend in
Colonel Schuyler, himself a prisoner on parole, who helped him in his
need, and through whose 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_127-V2" id="Page_127-V2">127<br />V2</a></span> 
good offices the future major-general of the Continental Army was included 
in the next exchange of prisoners. <span class="superscript">[646]</span></p>

<div class="footer">
		<p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_646" name="footer_646"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[646]</span>
On Putnam's adventures, Humphreys, 57 (1818). He had the story from Putnam 
himself, and seems to give it with substantial correctness, though his account 
of the battle is at several points erroneous. The "Molang" of his account is 
Marin. On the battle, besides authorities already cited, <i>Recollections of 
Thomson Maxwell</i>, a soldier present (<i>Essex Institute</i>, VII. 97). 
Rogers, <i>Journals</i>, 117. Letter from camp in <i>Boston Gazette</i>, 
no. 117. Another in <i>New Hampshire Gazette</i>, no. 104. <i>Gentleman's 
Magazine, 1758</i>, p. 498. Malartic, <i>Journal du R&eacute;giment de 
B&eacute;arn</i>. L&eacute;vis, <i>Journal de la Guerre en Canada</i>.
The French notices of the affair are few and brief. They admit a
defeat, but exaggerate the force and the losses of the English, and
underrate their own. Malartic, however, says that Marin set out with
four hundred men, and was soon after joined by an additional number of
Indians; which nearly answers to the best English accounts.</p>
</div>

<p>The petty victory over Marin was followed by a more substantial success.
Early in September Abercromby's melancholy camp was cheered with the
tidings that the important French post of Fort Frontenac, which
controlled Lake Ontario, which had baffled Shirley in his attempt
against Niagara, and given Montcalm the means of conquering Oswego, had
fallen into British hands. "This is a glorious piece of news, and may
God have all the glory of the same!" writes Chaplain Cleaveland in his
Diary. Lieutenant-Colonel Bradstreet had planned the stroke long before,
and proposed it first to Loudon, and then to Abercromby. Loudon accepted
it; but his successor received it coldly, though Lord Howe was warm in
its favor. At length, under the pressure of a council of war, Abercromby
consented that the attempt should be made, and gave Bradstreet three
thousand men, nearly all provincials. With these he made his 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_128-V2" id="Page_128-V2">128<br />V2</a></span> 
way, up the Mohawk and down the Onondaga, to the lonely and dismal spot 
where Oswego had once stood. By dint of much persuasion a few Oneidas joined 
him; though, like most of the Five Nations, they had been nearly lost to the
English through the effects of the defeat at Ticonderoga. On the
twenty-second of August his fleet of whaleboats and bateaux pushed out
on Lake Ontario; and, three days after, landed near the French fort. On
the night of the twenty-sixth Bradstreet made a lodgment within less
than two hundred yards of it; and early in the morning De Noyan, the
commandant, surrendered himself and his followers, numbering a hundred
and ten soldiers and laborers, prisoners of war. With them were taken
nine armed vessels, carrying from eight to eighteen guns, and forming
the whole French naval force on Lake Ontario. The crews escaped. An
enormous quantity of provisions, naval stores, munitions, and Indian
goods intended for the supply of the western posts fell into the hands
of the English, who kept what they could carry off, and burned the rest.
In the fort were found sixty cannon and sixteen mortars, which the
victors used to batter down the walls; and then, reserving a few of the
best, knocked off the trunnions of the others. The Oneidas were bent on
scalping some of the prisoners. Bradstreet forbade it. They begged that
he would do as the French did,&mdash;turn his back and shut his eyes; but he
forced them to abstain from all violence, and consoled them by a lion's
share of the plunder. In accordance 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_129-V2" id="Page_129-V2">129<br />V2</a></span> 
with the orders of Abercromby, the fort was dismantled, and all the buildings 
in or around it burned, as were also the vessels, except the two largest, 
which were reserved to carry off some of the captured goods. Then, with boats 
deeply laden, the detachment returned to Oswego; where, after unloading and 
burning the two vessels, they proceeded towards Albany, leaving a thousand of 
their number at the new fort which Brigadier Stanwix was building at the 
Great Carrying Place of the Mohawk.</p>

<p>Next to Louisbourg, this was the heaviest blow that the French had yet
received. Their command of Lake Ontario was gone. New France was cut in
two; and unless the severed parts could speedily reunite, all the posts
of the interior would be in imminent jeopardy. If Bradstreet had been
followed by another body of men to reoccupy and rebuild Oswego, thus
recovering a harbor on Lake Ontario, all the captured French vessels
could have been brought thither, and the command of this inland sea
assured at once. Even as it was, the advantages were immense. A host of
savage warriors, thus far inclined to France or wavering between the two
belligerents, stood henceforth neutral, or gave themselves to England;
while Fort Duquesne, deprived of the supplies on which it depended,
could make but faint resistance to its advancing enemy.</p>

<p>Amherst, with five regiments from Louisbourg, came, early in October, to
join Abercromby at Lake George, and the two commanders discussed 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_130-V2" id="Page_130-V2">130<br />V2</a></span> 
the question of again attacking Ticonderoga. Both thought the season too
late. A fortnight after, a deserter brought news that Montcalm was breaking 
up his camp. Abercromby followed his example. The opposing armies filed off 
each to its winter quarters, and only a few scouting parties kept alive the 
embers of war on the waters and mountains of Lake George.</p>

<p>Meanwhile Brigadier Forbes was climbing the Alleghanies, hewing his way
through the forests of western Pennsylvania, and toiling inch by inch
towards his goal of Fort Duquesne. <span class="superscript">[647]</span>
</p>

<div class="footer">
		<p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_647" name="footer_647"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[647]</span>
On the capture of Fort Frontenac, <i>Bradstreet to Abercromby</i>, 31 
<i>Aug</i>. 1758. <i>Impartial Account of Lieutenant-Colonel Bradstreet's 
Expedition, by a Volunteer in the Expedition</i> (London, 1759). Letter from 
a New York officer to his colonel, in <i>Boston Gazette</i>, no. 182. Several 
letters from persons in the expedition, in <i>Boston Evening Post</i>, no. 
1,203, <i>New Hampshire Gazette</i>, no. 104, and <i>Boston News Letter</i>, 
no. 2,932. <i>Abercromby to Pitt</i>, 25 <i>Nov</i>. 1758. <i>Lieutenant 
Macauley to Horatio Gates</i>, 30 <i>Aug</i>. 1758. <i>Vaudreuil au
Ministre</i>, 30 <i>Oct</i>. 1758. Pouchot, I. 162. <i>M&eacute;moires sur 
le Canada</i>, 1749-1760.</p>
</div>

<hr />
<div class="chapterhead">
   <br /><a name="Chapter_22" id="Chapter_22"></a>
	 <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_131-V2" id="Page_131-V2">131<br />V2</a></span> 
	 <br /><br /><br />
	 <h2><a href="#Contents22">CHAPTER XXII.</a><br />
	 <span class="med">1758.</span>
	 </h2> 
	 <p class="smcapheader">FORT DUQUESNE.</p>
	 <p class="smcap noindent space-bottom">	
	   Dinwiddie and Washington &bull; Brigadier Forbes &bull; His Army &bull;
		 Conflicting Views &bull; Difficulties &bull; Illness of Forbes &bull; 
		 His Sufferings &bull; His Fortitude &bull; 
		 His Difference with Washington &bull; Sir John Sinclair &bull; 
		 Troublesome Allies &bull; Scouting Parties &bull; 
		 Boasts of Vaudreuil &bull; Forbes and the Indians &bull; 
		 Mission of Christian Frederic Post &bull; Council of Peace &bull; 
		 Second Mission of Post &bull; Defeat of Grant &bull; 
		 Distress of Forbes &bull; Dark Prospects &bull; 
		 Advance of the Army &bull; Capture of the French Fort &bull; 
		 The Slain of Braddock's Field &bull; Death of Forbes.
	 </p>
	 <p class="break1"></p> 
</div>


<p class="double-space-top">
<span class="smcap">During</span> 
the last year Loudon, filled with vain schemes against
Louisbourg, had left the French scalping-parties to their work of havoc
on the western borders. In Virginia Washington still toiled at his
hopeless task of defending with a single regiment a forest frontier of
more than three hundred miles; and in Pennsylvania the Assembly thought
more of quarrelling with their governor than of protecting the tormented
settlers. Fort Duquesne, the source of all the evil, was left
undisturbed. In vain Washington urged the futility of defensive war, and
the necessity of attacking the enemy in his stronghold. His position,
trying at the best, was made more so by the behavior of Dinwiddie. That
crusty Scotchman had conceived a dislike to 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_132-V2" id="Page_132-V2">132<br />V2</a></span> 
him, and sometimes treated him in a manner that must have been unspeakably 
galling to the proud and passionate young man, who nevertheless, unconquerable 
in his sense of public duty, curbed himself to patience, or the semblance of 
it.</p>

<p>Dinwiddie was now gone, and a new governor had taken his place. The
conduct of the war, too, had changed, and in the plans of Pitt the
capture of Fort Duquesne held an important place. Brigadier John Forbes
was charged with it. He was a Scotch veteran, forty-eight years of age,
who had begun life as a student of medicine, and who ended it as an able
and faithful soldier. Though a well-bred man of the world, his tastes
were simple; he detested ceremony, and dealt frankly and plainly with
the colonists, who both respected and liked him. In April he was in
Philadelphia waiting for his army, which as yet had no existence; for
the provincials were not enlisted, and an expected battalion of
Highlanders had not arrived. It was the end of June before they were all
on the march; and meanwhile the General was attacked with a painful and
dangerous malady, which would have totally disabled a less resolute man.</p>

<p>His force consisted of provincials from Pennsylvania, Virginia,
Maryland, and North Carolina, with twelve hundred Highlanders of
Montgomery's regiment and a detachment of Royal Americans, amounting in
all, with wagoners and camp followers, to between six and seven thousand
men. The Royal American regiment was a new corps raised, in the
colonies, largely from among the Germans of 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_133-V2" id="Page_133-V2">133<br />V2</a></span> 
Pennsylvania. Its officers were from Europe; and conspicuous among them was 
Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Bouquet, a brave and accomplished Swiss, who 
commanded one of the four battalions of which the regiment was composed. 
Early in July he was encamped with the advance-guard at the hamlet of 
Raystown, now the town of Bedford, among the eastern heights of the 
Alleghanies. Here his tents were pitched in an opening of the forest by 
the banks of a small stream; and Virginians in hunting-shirts, Highlanders 
in kilt and plaid, and Royal Americans in regulation scarlet, labored at 
throwing up intrenchments and palisades, while around stood the silent 
mountains in their mantles of green.</p>

<p>Now rose the question whether the army should proceed in a direct course
to Fort Duquesne, hewing a new road through the forest, or march
thirty-four miles to Fort Cumberland, and thence follow the road made by
Braddock. It was the interest of Pennsylvania that Forbes should choose
the former route, and of Virginia that he should choose the latter. The
Old Dominion did not wish to see a highway cut for her rival to those
rich lands of the Ohio which she called her own. Washington, who was
then at Fort Cumberland with a part of his regiment, was earnest for the
old road; and in an interview with Bouquet midway between that place and
Raystown, he spared no effort to bring him to the same opinion. But the
quartermaster-general, Sir John Sinclair, who was supposed to know the
country, had advised the Pennsylvania route; and both Bouquet and Forbes
were resolved to take it. 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_134-V2" id="Page_134-V2">134<br />V2</a></span> 
It was shorter, and when once made would furnish readier and more abundant 
supplies of food and forage; but to make it would consume a vast amount of 
time and labor. Washington foretold the ruin of the expedition unless it 
took Braddock's road. Ardent Virginian as he was, there is no cause to 
believe that his decision was based on any but military reasons; but 
Forbes thought otherwise, and found great fault with him. Bouquet did him 
more justice. "Colonel Washington," he writes to the General, "is filled 
with a sincere zeal to aid the expedition, and is ready to march with equal
activity by whatever way you choose."</p>

<p>The fate of Braddock had impressed itself on all the army, and inspired
a caution that was but too much needed; since, except Washington's men
and a few others among the provincials, the whole, from general to
drummer-boy, were total strangers to that insidious warfare of the
forest in which their enemies, red and white, had no rival. Instead of
marching, like Braddock, at one stretch for Fort Duquesne, burdened with
a long and cumbrous baggage-train, it was the plan of Forbes to push on
by slow stages, establishing fortified magazines as he went, and at
last, when within easy distance of the fort, to advance upon it with all
his force, as little impeded as possible with wagons and pack-horses. He
bore no likeness to his predecessor, except in determined resolution,
and he did not hesitate to embrace military heresies which would have
driven Braddock to fury. To Bouquet, in whom he placed a well-merited
trust, he wrote, 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_135-V2" id="Page_135-V2">135<br />V2</a></span> 
"I have been long in your opinion of equipping numbers of our men like the 
savages, and I fancy Colonel Burd, of Virginia, has most of his best people 
equipped in that manner. In this country we must learn the art of war from 
enemy Indians, or anybody else who has seen it carried on here."</p>

<p>His provincials displeased him, not without reason; for the greater part
were but the crudest material for an army, unruly, and recalcitrant to
discipline. Some of them came to the rendezvous at Carlisle with old
province muskets, the locks tied on with a string; others brought
fowling-pieces of their own, and others carried nothing but
walking-sticks; while many had never fired a gun in their lives.
<span class="superscript">[648]</span> Forbes reported to Pitt that their 
officers, except a few in the higher ranks, were "an extremely bad 
collection of broken inn-keepers, horse-jockeys, and Indian traders;" 
nor is he more flattering towards the men, though as to some of them he 
afterwards changed his mind. <span class="superscript">[649]</span></p>

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		<p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_648" name="footer_648"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[648]</span>
<i>Correspondence of Forbes and Bouquet, July, August</i>,
1758.</p>
   <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_649" name="footer_649"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[649]</span>
<i>Forbes to Pitt</i>, 6 <i>Sept</i>. 1758.</p>
</div>

<p>While Bouquet was with the advance at Raystown, Forbes was still in
Philadelphia, trying to bring the army into shape, and collecting
provisions, horses, and wagons; much vexed meantime by the Assembly,
whose tedious disputes about taxing the proprietaries greatly obstructed
the service. "No sergeant or quartermaster of a regiment," he says, "is
obliged to look into more details than I am; and if I did not see to
everything myself, we should never get out of this town." July had 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_136-V2" id="Page_136-V2">136<br />V2</a></span> 
begun before he could reach the frontier village of Carlisle, where he 
found everything in confusion. After restoring some order, he wrote to
Bouquet: "I have been and still am but poorly, with a cursed flux, but
shall move day after to-morrow." He was doomed to disappointment; and it
was not till the ninth of August that he sent another letter from the
same place to the same military friend. "I am now able to write after
three weeks of a most violent and tormenting distemper, which, thank
God, seems now much abated as to pain, but has left me as weak as a
new-born infant. However, I hope to have strength enough to set out from
this place on Friday next." The disease was an inflammation of the
stomach and other vital organs; and when he should have been in bed,
with complete repose of body and mind, he was racked continually with
the toils and worries of a most arduous campaign.</p>

<p>He left Carlisle on the eleventh, carried on a kind of litter made of a
hurdle slung between two horses; and two days later he wrote from
Shippensburg: "My journey here from Carlisle raised my disorder and
pains to so intolerable a degree that I was obliged to stop, and may not
get away for a day or two." Again, on the eighteenth: "I am better, and
partly free from the excruciating pain I suffered; but still so weak
that I can scarce bear motion." He lay helpless at Shippensburg till
September was well advanced. On the second he says: "I really cannot
describe how I have suffered both in body and mind of late, and the
relapses 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_137-V2" id="Page_137-V2">137<br />V2</a></span> 
have been worse as the disappointment was greater;" and on the
fourth, still writing to Bouquet, who in the camp at Raystown was
struggling with many tribulations: "I am sorry you have met with so many
cross accidents to vex you, and have such a parcel of scoundrels as the
provincials to work with; <i>mais le vin est tir&eacute;</i>, and you must drop a
little of the gentleman and treat them as they deserve. Seal and send
off the enclosed despatch to Sir John by some sure hand. He is a very
odd man, and I am sorry it has been my fate to have any concern with
him. I am afraid our army will not admit of division, lest one half meet
with a check; therefore I would consult Colonel Washington, though
perhaps not follow his advice, as his behavior about the roads was
noways like a soldier. I thank my good cousin for his letter, and have
only to say that I have all my life been subject to err; but I now
reform, as I go to bed at eight at night, if able to sit up so late."</p>

<p>Nobody can read the letters of Washington at this time without feeling
that the imputations of Forbes were unjust, and that here, as elsewhere,
his ruling motive was the public good. <span class="superscript">[650]</span>
Forbes himself, seeing the rugged and difficult nature of the country, 
began to doubt whether after all he had not better have chosen the old 
road of Braddock. He soon had an interview with its chief advocates, 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_138-V2" id="Page_138-V2">138<br />V2</a></span> 
the two Virginia colonels, Washington and Burd, and reported the result to 
Bouquet, adding: "I told them that, whatever they thought, I had acted on 
the best information to be had, and could safely say for myself, and 
believed I might answer for you, that the good of the service was all we 
had at heart, not valuing provincial interests, jealousies, or suspicions 
one single twopence." It must be owned that, considering the slow and sure 
mode of advance which he had wisely adopted, the old soldier was probably 
right in his choice; since before the army could reach Fort Duquesne, the 
autumnal floods would have made the Youghiogany and the Monongahela 
impassable.</p>

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		<p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_650" name="footer_650"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[650]</span>
Besides the printed letters, there is an autograph collection of his 
correspondence with Bouquet in 1758 (forming vol. 21,641, <i>Additional 
Manuscripts</i>, British Museum). Copies of the whole are before me.</p>
</div>

<p>The Sir John mentioned by Forbes was the quartermaster-general, Sir John
Sinclair, who had gone forward with Virginians and other troops from the
camp of Bouquet to make the road over the main range of the Alleghanies,
whence he sent back the following memorandum of his requirements:
"Pickaxes, crows, and shovels; likewise more whiskey. Send me the
newspapers, and tell my black to send me a candlestick and half a loaf
of sugar." He was extremely inefficient; and Forbes, out of all patience
with him, wrote confidentially to Bouquet that his only talent was for
throwing everything into confusion. Yet he found fault with everybody
else, and would discharge volleys of oaths at all who met his
disapproval. From this cause or some other, Lieutenant-Colonel Stephen,
of the Virginians, told him that he would break his sword rather than be
longer under his 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_139-V2" id="Page_139-V2">139<br />V2</a></span> 
orders. "As I had not sufficient strength," says Sinclair, "to take him by 
the neck from among his own men, I was obliged to let him have his own way, 
that I might not be the occasion of bloodshed." He succeeded at last in 
arresting him, and Major Lewis, of the same regiment, took his place.</p>

<p>The aid of Indians as scouts and skirmishers was of the last importance
to an army so weak in the arts of woodcraft, and efforts were made to
engage the services of the friendly Cherokees and Catawbas, many of whom
came to the camp, where their caprice, insolence, and rapacity tried to
the utmost the patience of the commanders. That of Sir John Sinclair had
already been overcome by his dealings with the provincial authorities;
and he wrote in good French, at the tail of a letter to the Swiss
colonel: "Adieu, my dear Bouquet. The greatest curse that our Lord can
pronounce against the worst of sinners is to give them business to do
with provincial commissioners and friendly Indians." A band of sixty
warriors told Colonel Burd that they would join the army on condition
that it went by Braddock's road. "This," wrote Forbes, on hearing of the
proposal, "is a new system of military discipline truly, and shows that
my good friend Burd is either made a cat's-foot of himself, or little
knows me if he imagines that sixty scoundrels are to direct me in my
measures." <span class="superscript">[651]</span> Bouquet, with a pliant 
tact rarely seen in the born Briton, took great pains to please these 
troublesome allies, 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_140-V2" id="Page_140-V2">140<br />V2</a></span> 
and went so far as to adopt one of them as his son.
<span class="superscript">[652]</span> A considerable number
joined the army; but they nearly all went off when the stock of presents
provided for them was exhausted.</p>

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		<p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_651" name="footer_651"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[651]</span>
The above extracts are from the <i>Bouquet and Haldimand Papers</i>, 
British Museum.</p>
   <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_652" name="footer_652"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[652]</span>
<i>Bouquet to Forbes</i>, 3 <i>June</i>, 1758.</p>
</div>

<p>Forbes was in total ignorance of the strength and movements of the
enemy. The Indians reported their numbers to be at least equal to his
own; but nothing could be learned from them with certainty, by reason of
their inveterate habit of lying. Several scouting-parties of whites were
therefore sent forward, of which the most successful was that of a young
Virginian officer, accompanied by a sergeant and five Indians. At a
little distance from the French fort, the Indians stopped to paint
themselves and practise incantations. The chief warrior of the party
then took certain charms from an otter-skin bag and tied them about the
necks of the other Indians. On that of the officer he hung the
otter-skin itself; while to the sergeant he gave a small packet of paint
from the same mystic receptacle. "He told us," reports the officer,
"that none of us could be shot, for those things would turn the balls
from us; and then shook hands with us, and told us to go and fight like
men." Thus armed against fate, they mounted the high ground afterwards
called Grant's Hill, where, covered by trees and bushes, they had a good
view of the fort, and saw plainly that the reports of the French force
were greatly exaggerated. <span class="superscript">[653]</span></p>

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		<p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_653" name="footer_653"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[653]</span>
<i>Journal of a Reconnoitring Party, Aug</i>. 1758. The writer
seems to have been Ensign Chew, of Washington's regiment.</p>
</div>

<p>
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_141-V2" id="Page_141-V2">141<br />V2</a></span> 
Meanwhile Bouquet's men pushed on the heavy work of road-making up the
main range of the Alleghanies, and, what proved far worse, the parallel
mountain ridge of Laurel Hill, hewing, digging, blasting, laying
fascines and gabions to support the track along the sides of steep
declivities, or worming their way like moles through the jungle of swamp
and forest. Forbes described the country to Pitt as an "immense
uninhabited wilderness, overgrown everywhere with trees and brushwood,
so that nowhere can one see twenty yards." In truth, as far as eye or
mind could reach, a prodigious forest vegetation spread its impervious
canopy over hill, valley, and plain, and wrapped the stern and awful
waste in the shadows of the tomb.</p>

<p>Having secured his magazines at Raystown, and built a fort there named
Fort Bedford, Bouquet made a forward movement of some forty miles,
crossed the main Alleghany and Laurel Hill, and, taking post on a stream
called Loyalhannon Creek, began another depot of supplies as a base for
the final advance on Fort Duquesne, which was scarcely fifty miles
distant.</p>

<p>Vaudreuil had learned from prisoners the march of Forbes, and, with his
usual egotism, announced to the Colonial Minister what he had done in
consequence. "I have provided for the safety for Fort Duquesne." "I have
sent reinforcements to M. de Ligneris, who commands there." "I have done
the impossible to supply him with provisions, and I am now sending them
in abundance, in order that 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_142-V2" id="Page_142-V2">142<br />V2</a></span> 
the troops I may perhaps have occasion to send to drive off the English may 
not be delayed." "A stronger fort is needed on the Ohio; but I cannot build 
one till after the peace; then I will take care to build such a one as will 
thenceforth keep the English out of that country." Some weeks later he was 
less confident, and very anxious for news from Ligneris. He says that he 
has sent him all the succors he could, and ordered troops to go to his aid 
from Niagara, Detroit, and Illinois, as well as the militia of Detroit, 
with the Indians there and elsewhere in the West,&mdash;Hurons, Ottawas,
Pottawattamies, Miamis, and other tribes. What he fears is that the
English will not attack the fort till all these Indians have grown tired
of waiting, and have gone home again. <span class="superscript">[654]</span>
This was precisely the intention of Forbes, and the chief object of his long 
delays.</p>

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		<p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_654" name="footer_654"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[654]</span>
<i>Vaudreuil au Ministre, Juillet, Ao&ucirc;t, Octobre</i> 1758.</p>
</div>

<p>He had another good reason for making no haste. There was hope that the
Delawares and Shawanoes, who lived within easy reach of Fort Duquesne,
and who for the past three years had spread havoc throughout the English
border, might now be won over from the French alliance. Forbes wrote to
Bouquet from Shippensburg: "After many intrigues with Quakers, the
Provincial Commissioners, the Governor, etc., and by the downright
bullying of Sir William Johnson, I hope I have now brought about a
general convention of the Indians." <span class="superscript">[655]</span>
The convention was to include the Five 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_143-V2" id="Page_143-V2">143<br />V2</a></span> 
Nations, the Delawares, the Shawanoes, and other tribes, who
had accepted wampum belts of invitation, and promised to meet the
Governor and Commissioners of the various provinces at the town of
Easton, before the middle of September. This seeming miracle was wrought
by several causes. The Indians in the French interest, always greedy for
presents, had not of late got enough to satisfy them. Many of those
destined for them had been taken on the way from France by British
cruisers, and the rest had passed through the hands of official knaves,
who sold the greater part for their own profit. Again, the goods
supplied by French fur-traders were few and dear; and the Indians
remembered with regret the abundance and comparative cheapness of those
they had from the English before the war. At the same time it was
reported among them that a British army was marching to the Ohio strong
enough to drive out the French from all that country; and the Delawares
and Shawanoes of the West began to waver in their attachment to the
falling cause. The eastern Delawares, living at Wyoming and elsewhere on
the upper Susquehanna, had made their peace with the English in the
summer before; and their great chief, Teedyuscung, thinking it for his
interest that the tribes of the Ohio should follow his example, sent
them wampum belts, inviting them to lay down the hatchet. The Five
Nations, with Johnson at one end of the Confederacy and Joncaire at the
other,&mdash;the one cajoling them in behalf of England, and the other in
behalf of 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_144-V2" id="Page_144-V2">144<br />V2</a></span> 
France,&mdash;were still divided in counsel; but even among the
Senecas, the tribe most under Joncaire's influence, there was a party so
far inclined to England that, like the Delaware chief, they sent wampum
to the Ohio, inviting peace. But the influence most potent in reclaiming
the warriors of the West was of a different kind. Christian Frederic
Post, a member of the Moravian brotherhood, had been sent at the
instance of Forbes as an envoy to the hostile tribes from the Governor
and Council of Pennsylvania. He spoke the Delaware language, knew the
Indians well, had lived among them, had married a converted squaw, and,
by his simplicity of character, directness, and perfect honesty, gained
their full confidence. He now accepted his terrible mission, and calmly
prepared to place himself in the clutches of the tiger. He was a plain
German, upheld by a sense of duty and a single-hearted trust in God;
alone, with no great disciplined organization to impel and support him,
and no visions and illusions such as kindled and sustained the splendid
heroism of the early Jesuit martyrs. Yet his errand was no whit less
perilous. And here we may notice the contrast between the mission
settlements of the Moravians in Pennsylvania and those which the later
Jesuits and the Sulpitians had established at Caughnawaga, St. Francis,
La Pr&eacute;sentation, and other places. The Moravians were apostles of peace,
and they succeeded to a surprising degree in weaning their converts from
their ferocious instincts and warlike habits; while the Mission Indians
of Canada 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_145-V2" id="Page_145-V2">145<br />V2</a></span> 
retained all their native fierceness, and were systematically impelled to 
use their tomahawks against the enemies of the Church. Their wigwams were 
hung with scalps, male and female, adult and infant; and these so-called 
missions were but nests of baptized savages, who wore the crucifix instead 
of the medicine-bag, and were encouraged by the Government for purposes 
of war. <span class="superscript">[656]</span></p>

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		<p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_655" name="footer_655"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[655]</span>
<i>Forbes to Bouquet</i>, 18 <i>Aug</i>. 1758.</p>
   <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_656" name="footer_656"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[656]</span>
Of the Hurons of the mission of Lorette, Bougainville says: "Ils sont toujours 
sauvages autant que ceux qui sont les moins apprivois&eacute;s." And yet they 
had been converts under Jesuit control for more than four generations. The case 
was no better at the other missions; and at St. Francis it seems to have been 
worse.</p>
</div>

<p>The Moravian envoy made his way to the Delaware town of Kushkushkee, on
Beaver Creek, northwest of Fort Duquesne, where the three chiefs known
as King Beaver, Shingas, and Delaware George received him kindly, and
conducted him to another town on the same stream. Here his reception was
different. A crowd of warriors, their faces distorted with rage,
surrounded him, brandishing knives and threatening to kill him; but
others took his part, and, order being at last restored, he read them
his message from the Governor, which seemed to please them. They
insisted, however, that he should go with them to Fort Duquesne, in
order that the Indians assembled there might hear it also. Against this
dangerous proposal he protested in vain. On arriving near the fort, the
French demanded that he should be given up to them, and, being refused,
offered a great reward for his scalp; on which his friends advised him
to keep close by the camp-fire, as 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_146-V2" id="Page_146-V2">146<br />V2</a></span> 
parties were out with intent to kill him. "Accordingly," says Post, "I stuck 
to the fire as if I had been chained there. On the next day the Indians, 
with a great many French officers, came out to hear what I had to say. The 
officers brought with them a table, pens, ink, and paper. I spoke in the 
midst of them with a free conscience, and perceived by their looks that they 
were not pleased with what I said." The substance of his message was an 
invitation to the Indians to renew the old chain of friendship, joined with 
a warning that an English army was on its way to drive off the French, and 
that they would do well to stand neutral.</p>

<p>He addressed an audience filled with an inordinate sense of their own
power and importance, believing themselves greater and braver than
either of the European nations, and yet deeply jealous of both. "We have
heard," they said, "that the French and English mean to kill all the
Indians and divide the land among themselves." And on this string they
harped continually. If they had known their true interest, they would
have made no peace with the English, but would have united as one man to
form a barrier of fire against their farther progress; for the West in
English hands meant farms, villages, cities, the ruin of the forest, the
extermination of the game, and the expulsion of those who lived on it;
while the West in French hands meant but scattered posts of war and
trade, with the native tribes cherished as indispensable allies.</p>

<p>
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_147-V2" id="Page_147-V2">147<br />V2</a></span> 
After waiting some days, the three tribes of the Delawares met in
council, and made their answer to the message brought by Post. It was
worthy of a proud and warlike race, and was to the effect that since
their brothers of Pennsylvania wished to renew the old peace-chain, they
on their part were willing to do so, provided that the wampum belt
should be sent them in the name, not of Pennsylvania alone, but of the
rest of the provinces also.</p>

<p>Having now accomplished his errand, Post wished to return home; but the
Indians were seized with an access of distrust, and would not let him
go. This jealousy redoubled when they saw him writing in his notebook.
"It is a troublesome cross and heavy yoke to draw this people," he says;
"they can punish and squeeze a body's heart to the utmost. There came
some together and examined me about what I had wrote yesterday. I told
them I writ what was my duty. 'Brothers, I tell you I am not afraid of
you. I have a good conscience before God and man. I tell you, brothers,
there is a bad spirit in your hearts, which breeds jealousy, and will
keep you ever in fear.'" At last they let him go; and, eluding a party
that lay in wait for his scalp, he journeyed twelve days through the
forest, and reached Fort Augusta with the report of his mission.
<span class="superscript">[657]</span></p>

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		<p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_657" name="footer_657"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[657]</span>
<i>Journal of Christian Frederic Post, July, August, September</i>, 1758.
</p>
</div>

<p>As the result of it, a great convention of white men and red was held at
Easton in October. 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_148-V2" id="Page_148-V2">148<br />V2</a></span> 
The neighboring provinces had been asked to send their delegates, and 
some of them did so; while belts of invitation were sent to the Indians 
far and near. Sir William Johnson, for reasons best known to himself, at 
first opposed the plan; but was afterwards led to favor it and to induce 
tribes under his influence to join in the grand pacification. The Five 
Nations, with the smaller tribes lately admitted into their confederacy, 
the Delawares of the Susquehanna, the Mohegans, and several kindred 
bands, all had their representatives at the meeting. The conferences 
lasted nineteen days, with the inevitable formalities of such occasions, 
and the weary repetition of conventional metaphors and long-winded 
speeches. At length, every difficulty being settled, the Governor of 
Pennsylvania, in behalf of all the English, rose with a wampum belt in 
his hand, and addressed the tawny congregation thus: "By this belt we 
heal your wounds; we remove your grief; we take the hatchet out of your 
heads; we make a hole in the earth, and bury it so deep that nobody can 
dig it up again." Then, laying the first belt before them, he took 
another, very large, made of white wampum beads, in token of peace:
"By this belt we renew all our treaties; we brighten the chain of
friendship; we put fresh earth to the roots of the tree of peace, that
it may bear up against every storm, and live and flourish while the sun
shines and the rivers run." And he gave them the belt with the request
that they would send it to their friends and allies, and invite 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_149-V2" id="Page_149-V2">149<br />V2</a></span> 
them to take hold also of the chain of friendship. Accordingly all present
agreed on a joint message of peace to the tribes of the Ohio.
<span class="superscript">[658]</span></p>

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		<p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_658" name="footer_658"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[658]</span>
<i>Minutes of Conferences at Easton, October</i>, 1758.</p>
</div>

<p>Frederic Post, with several white and Indian companions, was chosen to
bear it. A small escort of soldiers that attended him as far as the
Alleghany was cut to pieces on its return by a band of the very warriors
to whom he was carrying his offers of friendship; and other tenants of
the grim and frowning wilderness met the invaders of their domain with
inhospitable greetings. "The wolves made a terrible music this night,"
he writes at his first bivouac after leaving Loyalhannon. When he
reached the Delaware towns his reception was ominous. The young warriors
said: "Anybody can see with half an eye that the English only mean to
cheat us. Let us knock the messengers in the head." Some of them had
attacked an English outpost, and had been repulsed; hence, in the words
of Post, "They were possessed with a murdering spirit, and with bloody
vengeance were thirsty and drunk. I said: 'As God has stopped the mouths
of the lions that they could not devour Daniel, so he will preserve us
from their fury.'" The chiefs and elders were of a different mind from
their fierce and capricious young men. They met during the evening in
the log-house where Post and his party lodged; and here a French officer
presently arrived with a string of wampum from the commandant, inviting
them to help him drive back the army of Forbes. 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_150-V2" id="Page_150-V2">150<br />V2</a></span> 
The string was scornfully rejected. "They kicked it from one to another as 
if it were a snake. Captain Peter took a stick, and with it flung the string 
from one end of the room to the other, and said: 'Give it to the French 
captain; he boasted of his fighting, now let us see him fight. We have often
ventured our lives for him, and got hardly a loaf of bread in return;
and now he thinks we shall jump to serve him.' Then we saw the French
captain mortified to the uttermost. He looked as pale as death. The
Indians discoursed and joked till midnight, and the French captain sent
messengers at midnight to Fort Duquesne."</p>

<p>There was a grand council, at which the French officer was present; and
Post delivered the peace message from the council at Easton, along with
another with which Forbes had charged him. "The messages pleased all the
hearers except the French captain. He shook his head in bitter grief,
and often changed countenance. Isaac Still [<i>an Indian</i>] ran him down
with great boldness, and pointed at him, saying, 'There he sits!' They
all said: 'The French always deceived us!' pointing at the French
captain; who, bowing down his head, turned quite pale, and could look no
one in the face. All the Indians began to mock and laugh at him. He
could hold it no longer, and went out."
<span class="superscript">[659]</span></p>

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		<p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_659" name="footer_659"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[659]</span>
<i>Journal of Christian Frederic Post, October, November</i>,
1758.</p>
</div>

<p>The overtures of peace were accepted, and the Delawares, Shawanoes, and
Mingoes were no longer enemies of the English. The loss was the more
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_151-V2" id="Page_151-V2">151<br />V2</a></span> 
disheartening to the French, since, some weeks before, they had gained a
success which they hoped would confirm the adhesion of all their
wavering allies. Major Grant, of the Highlanders, had urged Bouquet to
send him to reconnoitre Fort Duquesne, capture prisoners, and strike a
blow that would animate the assailants and discourage the assailed.
Bouquet, forgetting his usual prudence, consented; and Grant set out
from the camp at Loyalhannon with about eight hundred men, Highlanders,
Royal Americans, and provincials. On the fourteenth of September, at two
in the morning, he reached the top of the rising ground thenceforth
called Grant's Hill, half a mile or more from the French fort. The
forest and the darkness of the night hid him completely from the enemy.
He ordered Major Lewis, of the Virginians, to take with him half the
detachment, descend to the open plain before the fort, and attack the
Indians known to be encamped there; after which he was to make a feigned
retreat to the hill, where the rest of the troops were to lie in ambush
and receive the pursuers. Lewis set out on his errand, while Grant
waited anxiously for the result. Dawn was near, and all was silent; till
at length Lewis returned, and incensed his commander by declaring that
his men had lost their way in the dark woods, and fallen into such
confusion that the attempt was impracticable. The morning twilight now
began, but the country was wrapped in thick fog. Grant abandoned his
first plan, and sent a few Highlanders into the 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_152-V2" id="Page_152-V2">152<br />V2</a></span> 
cleared ground to burn a warehouse that had been seen there. He was convinced 
that the French and their Indians were too few to attack him, though their 
numbers in fact were far greater than his own. 
<span class="superscript">[660]</span> Infatuated with this idea, and bent
on taking prisoners, he had the incredible rashness to divide his force
in such a way that the several parts could not support each other.
Lewis, with two hundred men, was sent to guard the baggage two miles in
the rear, where a company of Virginians, under Captain Bullitt, was
already stationed. A hundred Pennsylvanians were posted far off on the
right, towards the Alleghany, while Captain Mackenzie, with a detachment
of Highlanders, was sent to the left, towards the Monongahela. Then, the
fog having cleared a little, Captain Macdonald, with another company of
Highlanders, was ordered into the open plain to reconnoitre the fort and
make a plan of it, Grant himself remaining on the hill with a hundred
of his own regiment and a company of Maryland men. "In order to put on a
good countenance," he says, "and convince our men they had no reason to
be afraid, I gave directions to our drums to beat the reveille. The
troops were in an advantageous post, and I must own I thought we had
nothing to fear." Macdonald 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_153-V2" id="Page_153-V2">153<br />V2</a></span> 
was at this time on the plain, midway between the woods and the fort, and 
in full sight of it. The roll of the drums from the hill was answered by a 
burst of war-whoops, and the French came swarming out like hornets, many of 
them in their shirts, having just leaped from their beds. They all rushed 
upon Macdonald and his men, who met them with a volley that checked their 
advance; on which they surrounded him at a distance, and tried to cut off 
his retreat. The Highlanders broke through, and gained the woods, with the 
loss of their commander, who was shot dead. A crowd of French followed close, 
and soon put them to rout, driving them and Mackenzie's party back to the 
hill where Grant was posted. Here there was a hot fight in the forest,
lasting about three quarters of an hour. At length the force of numbers,
the novelty of the situation, and the appalling yells of the Canadians
and Indians, completely overcame the Highlanders, so intrepid in the
ordinary situations of war. They broke away in a wild and disorderly
retreat. "Fear," says Grant, "got the better of every other passion; and
I trust I shall never again see such a panic among troops."</p>

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		<p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_660" name="footer_660"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[660]</span>
<i>Grant to Forbes, no date.</i> "Les rapports sur le nombre des 
Fran&ccedil;ais varient de 3,000 &agrave; 1,200." <i>Bouquet &agrave; 
Forbes</i>, 17 <i>Sept</i>. 1758. Bigot says that 3,500 daily rations 
were delivered at Fort Duquesne throughout the summer. <i>Bigot au 
Ministre</i>, 22 <i>Nov</i>. 1758. In October the number had fallen to 
1,180, which included Indians. <i>Ligneris &agrave; Vaudreuil</i>, 18 
<i>Oct</i>. 1758.</p>
</div>

<p>His only hope was in the detachment he had sent to the rear under Lewis
to guard the baggage. But Lewis and his men, when they heard the firing
in front, had left their post and pushed forward to help their comrades,
taking a straight course through the forest; while Grant was retreating
along the path by which he had advanced the night before. 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_154-V2" id="Page_154-V2">154<br />V2</a></span> 
Thus they missed each other; and when Grant reached the spot where he 
expected to find Lewis, he saw to his dismay that nobody was there but 
Captain Bullitt and his company. He cried in despair that he was a ruined 
man; not without reason, for the whole body of French and Indians was 
upon him. Such of his men as held together were forced towards the
Alleghany, and, writes Bouquet, "would probably have been cut to pieces
but for Captain Bullitt and his Virginians, who kept up the fight
against the whole French force till two thirds of them were killed."
They were offered quarter, but refused it; and the survivors were driven
at last into the Alleghany, where some were drowned, and others swam
over and escaped. Grant was surrounded and captured, and Lewis, who
presently came up, was also made prisoner, along with some of his men,
after a stiff resistance. Thus ended this mismanaged affair, which cost
the English two hundred and seventy three killed, wounded, and taken.
The rest got back safe to Loyalhannon. <span class="superscript">[661]</span>
</p>

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		<p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_661" name="footer_661"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[661]</span>
On Grant's defeat, <i>Grant to Forbes, no date</i>, a long and minute report, 
written while a prisoner. 
<i>Bouquet &agrave; Forbes</i>, 17 <i>Sept</i>. 1758. 
<i>Forbes to Pitt</i>, 20 <i>Oct</i>. 1758. 
<i>Vaudreuil au Ministre</i>, 1 <i>Nov</i>. 1758. 
Letters from camp in <i>Boston Evening Post, Boston Weekly  Advertiser, 
Boston News Letter</i>, and other provincial newspapers of the time. 
<i>List of Killed, Wounded, and Missing in the Action of Sept</i>. 14. 
<i>Gentleman's Magazine</i>, XXIX. 173. 
<i>Hazard's Pennsylvania Register</i>, VIII. 141.
<i>Olden Time</i>, I. 179. Vaudreuil, with characteristic exaggeration,
represents all Grant's party as killed or taken, except a few who died
of starvation. The returns show that 540 came back safe, out of 813.</p>
</div>

<p>The invalid General was deeply touched by this reverse, yet expressed
himself with a moderation that does him honor. He wrote to Bouquet from
Raystown: "Your letter of the seventeenth I read 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_155-V2" id="Page_155-V2">155<br />V2</a></span> 
with no less surprise than concern, as I could not believe that such an 
attempt would have been made without my knowledge and concurrence. The 
breaking in upon our fair and flattering hopes of success touches me most 
sensibly. There are two wounded Highland officers just now arrived, who 
give so lame an account of the matter that one can draw nothing from them, 
only that my friend Grant most certainly lost his wits, and by his thirst 
of fame brought on his own perdition, and ran great risk of ours."
<span class="superscript">[662]</span></p>

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		<p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_662" name="footer_662"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[662]</span>
<i>Forbes to Bouquet</i>, 23 <i>Sept</i>. 1758.</p>
</div>

<p>The French pushed their advantage with spirit. Early in October a large
body of them hovered in the woods about the camp at Loyalhannon, drove
back a detachment sent against them, approached under cover of the
trees, and, though beaten off, withdrew deliberately, after burying
their dead and killing great numbers of horses and cattle.
<span class="superscript">[663]</span> But, with all their courageous 
energy, their position was desperate. The militia of Louisiana and the 
Illinois left the fort in November and went home; the Indians of Detroit 
and the Wabash would stay no longer; and, worse yet, the supplies destined 
for Fort Duquesne had been destroyed by Bradstreet at Fort Frontenac. 
Hence Ligneris was compelled by prospective starvation to dismiss the 
greater part of his force, and await the approach of his enemy with those 
that remained.</p>

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		<p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_663" name="footer_663"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[663]</span>
<i>Burd to Bouquet</i>, 12 <i>Oct</i>. 1758. <i>Bouquet &agrave; Forbes</i>, 
13 <i>Oct</i>. 1758. <i>Forbes to Pitt</i>, 20 <i>Oct</i>. 1758. 
<i>Letter from Loyalhannon</i>, 14 <i>Oct.</i>, in <i>Olden Time</i>, I. 180. 
<i>Letters from camp</i>, in <i>Boston News Letter. Ligneris &agrave; 
Vaudreuil</i>, 18 <i>Oct</i>. 1758. <i>Vaudreuil au Ministre</i>, 20 <i>Nov</i>.
1758.</p>
</div>

<p>
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_156-V2" id="Page_156-V2">156<br />V2</a></span> 
His enemy was in a plight hardly better than his own. Autumnal rains,
uncommonly heavy and persistent, had ruined the newly-cut road. On the
mountains the torrents tore it up, and in the valleys the wheels of the
wagons and cannon churned it into soft mud. The horses, overworked and
underfed, were fast breaking down. The forest had little food for them,
and they were forced to drag their own oats and corn, as well as
supplies for the army, through two hundred miles of wilderness. In the
wretched condition of the road this was no longer possible. The
magazines of provisions formed at Raystown and Loyalhannon to support
the army on its forward march were emptied faster than they could be
filled. Early in October the elements relented; the clouds broke, the
sky was bright again, and the sun shone out in splendor on mountains
radiant in the livery of autumn. A gleam of hope revisited the heart of
Forbes. It was but a flattering illusion. The sullen clouds returned,
and a chill, impenetrable veil of mist and rain hid the mountains and
the trees. Dejected Nature wept and would not be comforted. Above,
below, around, all was trickling, oozing, pattering, gushing. In the
miserable encampments the starved horses stood steaming in the rain, and
the men crouched, disgusted, under their dripping tents, while the
drenched picket-guard in the neighboring forest paced dolefully through
black mire and spongy mosses. The rain turned to snow; the descending
flakes clung to the many-colored foliage, or melted from sight in the
trench of half-liquid clay that 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_157-V2" id="Page_157-V2">157<br />V2</a></span> 
was called a road. The wheels of the wagons sank in it to the hub, and to 
advance or retreat was alike impossible.</p>

<p>Forbes from his sick bed at Raystown wrote to Bouquet: "Your description
of the road pierces me to the very soul." And a few days later to Pitt:
"I am in the greatest distress, occasioned by rains unusual at this
season, which have rendered the clay roads absolutely impracticable. If
the weather does not favor, I shall be absolutely locked up in the
mountains. I cannot form any judgment how I am to extricate myself, as
everything depends on the weather, which snows and rains frightfully."
There was no improvement. In the next week he writes to Bouquet: "These
four days of constant rain have completely ruined the road. The wagons
would cut it up more in an hour than we could repair in a week. I have
written to General Abercromby, but have not had one scrape of a pen from
him since the beginning of September; so it looks as if we were either
forgot or left to our fate." <span class="superscript">[664]</span>
Wasted and tortured by disease, the perplexed commander was forced to 
burden himself with a multitude of details which would else have been 
neglected, and to do the work of commissary and quartermaster as well 
as general. "My time," he writes, "is disagreeably spent between 
business and medicine."</p>

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		<p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_664" name="footer_664"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[664]</span>
<i>Forbes to Bouquet</i>, 15 <i>Oct</i>. 1758. <i>Ibid.</i>, 25 
<i>Oct</i>. 1758. <i>Forbes to Pitt</i>, 20 <i>Oct</i>. 1758.</p>
</div>

<p>In the beginning of November he was carried to Loyalhannon, where the
whole army was then 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_158-V2" id="Page_158-V2">158<br />V2</a></span> 
gathered. There was a council of officers, and they
resolved to attempt nothing more that season; but, a few days later,
three prisoners were brought in who reported the defenceless condition
of the French, on which Forbes gave orders to advance again. The wagons
and all the artillery, except a few light pieces, were left behind; and
on the eighteenth of November twenty-five hundred picked men marched for
Fort Duquesne, without tents or baggage, and burdened only with
knapsacks and blankets. Washington and Colonel Armstrong, of the
Pennsylvanians, had opened a way for them by cutting a road to within a
day's march of the French fort. On the evening of the twenty-fourth, the
detachment encamped among the hills of Turkey Creek; and the men on
guard heard at midnight a dull and heavy sound booming over the western
woods. Was it a magazine exploded by accident, or were the French
blowing up their works? In the morning the march was resumed, a strong
advance-guard leading the way. Forbes came next, carried in his litter;
and the troops followed in three parallel columns, the Highlanders in
the centre under Montgomery, their colonel, and the Royal Americans and
provincials on the right and left, under Bouquet and Washington.
<span class="superscript">[665]</span>
Thus, guided by the tap of the drum at the head of each column, they
moved slowly through the forest, over damp, fallen leaves, crisp with
frost, beneath an endless entanglement of bare gray twigs that sighed
and 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_159-V2" id="Page_159-V2">159<br />V2</a></span> 
moaned in the bleak November wind. It was dusk when they emerged
upon the open plain and saw Fort Duquesne before them, with its
background of wintry hills beyond the Monongahela and the Alleghany.
During the last three miles they had passed the scattered bodies of
those slain two months before at the defeat of Grant; and it is said
that, as they neared the fort, the Highlanders were goaded to fury at
seeing the heads of their slaughtered comrades stuck on poles, round
which the kilts were hung derisively, in imitation of petticoats. Their
rage was vain; the enemy was gone. Only a few Indians lingered about the
place, who reported that the garrison, to the number of four or five
hundred, had retreated, some down the Ohio, some overland towards
Presquisle, and the rest, with their commander, up the Alleghany to
Venango, called by the French, Fort Machault. They had burned the
barracks and storehouses, and blown up the fortifications.</p>

<div class="footer">
		<p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_665" name="footer_665"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[665]</span>
<i>Letter from a British Officer in the Expedition</i>, 25 
<i>Feb</i>. 1759, <i>Gentleman's Magazine</i>, XXIX. 171.</p>
</div>

<p>The first care of the victors was to provide defence and shelter for
those of their number on whom the dangerous task was to fall of keeping
what they had won. A stockade was planted around a cluster of traders'
cabins and soldiers' huts, which Forbes named Pittsburg, in honor of the
great minister. It was not till the next autumn that General Stanwix
built, hard by, the regular fortified work called Fort Pitt.
<span class="superscript">[666]</span> Captain West, brother of Benjamin 
West, the painter, led a detachment of Pennsylvanians, with Indian 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_160-V2" id="Page_160-V2">160<br />V2</a></span> 
guides, through the forests of the Monongahela, to search for the bones 
of those who had fallen under Braddock. In the heart of the savage wood 
they found them in abundance, gnawed by wolves and foxes, and covered 
with the dead leaves of four successive autumns. Major Halket, of 
Forbes' staff, had joined the party; and, with the help of an Indian 
who was in the fight, he presently found two skeletons lying under a 
tree. In one of them he recognized, by a peculiarity of the teeth, the 
remains of his father, Sir Peter Halket, and in the other he believed 
that he saw the bones of a brother who had fallen at his father's side. 
The young officer fainted at the sight. The two skeletons were buried 
together, covered with a Highland plaid, and the Pennsylvanian woodsmen 
fired a volley over the grave. The rest of the bones were 
undistinguishable; and, being carefully gathered up, they were all 
interred in a deep trench dug in the freezing ground. 
<span class="superscript">[667]</span></p>

<div class="footer">
		<p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_666" name="footer_666"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[666]</span>
<i>Stanwix to Pitt</i>, 20 <i>Nov</i>. 1759.</p>
   <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_667" name="footer_667"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[667]</span>
Galt, <i>Life of Benjamin West</i>, I. 64 (ed. 1820).</p>
</div>

<p>The work of the new fort was pushed on apace, and the task of holding it
for the winter was assigned to Lieutenant-Colonel Mercer, of the
Virginians, with two hundred provincials. The number was far too small.
It was certain that, unless vigorously prevented by a counter attack,
the French would gather in early spring from all their nearer western
posts, Niagara, Detroit, Presquisle, Le B&oelig;uf, and Venango, to retake
the place; but there was no food for a larger garrison, and the risk
must be run.</p>

<p>
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_161-V2" id="Page_161-V2">161<br />V2</a></span> 
The rest of the troops, with steps quickened by hunger, began their
homeward march early in December. "We would soon make M. de Ligneris
shift his quarters at Venango," writes Bouquet just after the fort was
taken, "if we only had provisions; but we are scarcely able to maintain
ourselves a few days here. After God, the success of this expedition is
entirely due to the General, who, by bringing about the treaty with the
Indians at Easton, struck the French a stunning blow, wisely delayed our
advance to wait the effects of that treaty, secured all our posts and
left nothing to chance, and resisted the urgent solicitation to take
Braddock's road, which would have been our destruction. In all his
measures he has shown the greatest prudence, firmness, and
ability." <span class="superscript">[668]</span> No sooner was his work 
done, than Forbes fell into a state of entire prostration, so that for a 
time he could neither write a letter nor dictate one. He managed, however, 
two days after reaching Fort Duquesne, to send Amherst a brief notice of 
his success, adding: "I shall leave this place as soon as I am able to 
stand; but God knows when I shall reach Philadelphia, if I ever do."
<span class="superscript">[669]</span> On the way back, a hut
with a chimney was built for him at each stopping-place, and on the
twenty-eighth of December Major Halket writes from "Tomahawk Camp:" "How
great was our disappointment, on coming to this ground last night, to
find that the chimney was unlaid, no fire made, 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_162-V2" id="Page_162-V2">162<br />V2</a></span> 
nor any wood cut that would burn. This distressed the General to the 
greatest degree, by obliging him after his long journey to sit above 
two hours without any fire, exposed to a snowstorm, which had very 
near destroyed him entirely; but with great difficulty, by the 
assistance of some cordials, he was brought to." 
<span class="superscript">[670]</span> At length, carried all the way 
in his litter, he reached Philadelphia, where, after lingering through 
the winter, he died in March, and was buried with military honors in 
the chancel of Christ Church.</p>

<div class="footer">
		<p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_668" name="footer_668"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[668]</span>
<i>Bouquet to Chief Justice Allen</i>, 25 <i>Nov</i>. 1758.</p>
   <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_669" name="footer_669"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[669]</span>
<i>Forbes to Amherst</i>, 26 <i>Nov</i>. 1758.</p>
   <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_670" name="footer_670"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[670]</span>
<i>Halket to Bouquet</i>, 28 <i>Dec</i>. 1758.</p>
</div>

<p>If his achievement was not brilliant, its solid value was above price.
It opened the Great West to English enterprise, took from France half
her savage allies, and relieved the western borders from the scourge of
Indian war. From southern New York to North Carolina, the frontier
populations had cause to bless the memory of the steadfast and
all-enduring soldier.</p>

<p>So ended the campaign of 1758. The centre of the French had held its own
triumphantly at Ticonderoga; but their left had been forced back by the
capture of Louisbourg, and their right by that of Fort Duquesne, while
their entire right wing had been well nigh cut off by the destruction of
Fort Frontenac. The outlook was dark. Their own Indians were turning
against them. "They have struck us," wrote Doreil to the Minister of
War; "they have seized three canoes loaded with furs on Lake Ontario,
and murdered the men in them: sad forerunner of what 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_163-V2" id="Page_163-V2">163<br />V2</a></span> 
we have to fear! Peace, Monseigneur, give us peace! Pardon me, but I cannot 
repeat that word too often."</p>

<div class="footer">
		<p class="noindent double-space-top">
        <a id="footer_22Note" name="footer_22Note"></a>
<span class="smcap">Note</span>.&mdash;The <i>Bouquet and Haldimand Papers</i> 
in the British Museum contain a mass of curious correspondence of the principal 
persons engaged in the expedition under Forbes; copies of it all are before me. 
The Public Record Office, <i>America and West Indies</i>, has also furnished 
much material, including the official letters of Forbes. The <i>Writings of
Washington</i>, the <i>Archives</i> and <i>Colonial Records</i> of Pennsylvania, 
and the magazines and newspapers of the time may be mentioned among the
sources of information, along with a variety of miscellaneous
contemporary letters. The Journals of Christian Frederic Post are
printed in full in the <i>Olden Time</i> and elsewhere.</p>
</div>


<hr />
<div class="chapterhead">
   <br /><a name="Chapter_23" id="Chapter_23"></a>
	 <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_164-V2" id="Page_164-V2">164<br />V2</a></span> 
	 <br /><br /><br />
	 <h2><a href="#Contents23">CHAPTER XXIII.</a><br />
	 <span class="med">1758, 1759.</span>
	 </h2> 
	 <p class="smcapheader">THE BRINK OF RUIN.</p>
	 <p class="smcap noindent space-bottom">	
	   Jealousy of Vaudreuil &bull; He asks for Montcalm's Recall &bull; 
		 His Discomfiture &bull; Scene at the Governor's House &bull;
		 Disgust of Montcalm &bull; The Canadians Despondent &bull;
		 Devices to encourage them &bull; Gasconade of the Governor &bull;
		 Deplorable State of the Colony &bull; Mission of Bougainville &bull;
		 Duplicity of Vaudreuil &bull; Bougainville at Versailles &bull;
		 Substantial Aid refused to Canada &bull; A Matrimonial Treaty &bull;
		 Return of Bougainville &bull; Montcalm abandoned by the Court &bull;
		 His Plans of Defence &bull; Sad News from Candiac &bull;
		 Promises of Vaudreuil.
	 </p>
	 <p class="break1"></p> 
</div>

<p class="double-space-top">
<span class="smcap">"Never</span> was general in a more critical position 
than I was: God has delivered me; his be the praise! He gives me health, 
though I am worn out with labor, fatigue, and miserable dissensions that 
have determined me to ask for my recall. Heaven grant that I may get it!"</p>

<p>Thus wrote Montcalm to his mother after his triumph at Ticonderoga. That
great exploit had entailed a train of vexations, for it stirred the envy
of Vaudreuil, more especially as it was due to the troops of the line,
with no help from Indians, and very little from Canadians. The Governor
assured the Colonial Minister that the victory would have bad results,
though he gives no hint what these might be; that Montcalm had
mismanaged the whole affair; that he would 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_165-V2" id="Page_165-V2">165<br />V2</a></span> 
have been beaten but for the manifest interposition of Heaven;
<span class="superscript">[671]</span> and, finally, that he had failed
to follow his (Vaudreuil's) directions, and had therefore enabled the
English to escape. The real directions of the Governor, dictated,
perhaps, by dread lest his rival should reap laurels, were to avoid a
general engagement; and it was only by setting them at nought that
Abercromby had been routed. After the battle a sharp correspondence
passed between the two chiefs. The Governor, who had left Montcalm to
his own resources before the crisis, sent him Canadians and Indians in
abundance after it was over; while he cautiously refrained from
committing himself by positive orders, repeated again and again that if
these reinforcements were used to harass Abercromby's communications,
the whole English army would fall back to the Hudson, and leave baggage
and artillery a prey to the French. These preposterous assertions and
tardy succors were thought by Montcalm to be a device for giving color
to the charge that he had not only failed to deserve victory, but had
failed also to make use of it. <span class="superscript">[672]</span>
He did what was possible, and sent strong detachments to act in the 
English rear; which, though they did not, and could not, compel the 
enemy to fall back, caused no slight annoyance, till Rogers checked 
them by the defeat of Marin. Nevertheless Vaudreuil pretended 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_166-V2" id="Page_166-V2">166<br />V2</a></span> 
on one hand that Montcalm had done nothing with the Canadians and Indians 
sent him, and on the other that these same Canadians and Indians had 
triumphed over the enemy by their mere presence at Ticonderoga. "It was 
my activity in sending these succors to Carillon [<i>Ticonderoga</i>] 
that forced the English to retreat. The Marquis de Montcalm might have 
made their retreat difficult; but it was in vain that I wrote to him, in 
vain that the colony troops, Canadians and Indians, begged him to pursue 
the enemy." <span class="superscript">[673]</span> The succors he speaks 
of were sent in July and August, while the English did not fall back till
the first of November. Neither army left its position till the season
was over, and Abercromby did so only when he learned that the French
were setting the example. Vaudreuil grew more and more bitter. "As the
King has intrusted this colony to me, I cannot help warning you of the
unhappy consequences that would follow if the Marquis de Montcalm should
remain here. I shall keep him by me till I receive your orders. It is
essential that they reach me early." "I pass over in silence all the
infamous conduct and indecent talk he has held or countenanced; but I
should be wanting in my duty to the King if I did not beg you to ask for
his recall." <span class="superscript">[674]</span></p>

<div class="footer">
		<p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_671" name="footer_671"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[671]</span>
<i>Vaudreuil au Ministre</i>, 8 <i>Ao&ucirc;t</i>, 1758.</p>
   <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_672" name="footer_672"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[672]</span>
Much of the voluminous correspondence on these matters will be found in 
<i>N.&nbsp;Y. Col. Docs.</i>, X.</p>
   <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_673" name="footer_673"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[673]</span>
<i>Vaudreuil au Ministre</i>, 8 <i>Avril</i>, 1759.</p>
   <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_674" name="footer_674"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[674]</span>
<i>Ibid.</i></p>
</div>

<p>He does not say what is meant by infamous conduct and indecent talk; but
the allusion is probably to irreverent utterances touching the Governor
in which the officers from France were 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_167-V2" id="Page_167-V2">167<br />V2</a></span> 
apt to indulge, not always without the knowledge of their chief. Vaudreuil 
complained of this to Montcalm, adding, "I am greatly above it, and I 
despise it." <span class="superscript">[675]</span> To which the General 
replied: "You are right to despise gossip, supposing that there has been 
any. For my part, though I hear that I have been torn to pieces without 
mercy in your presence, I do not believe it." 
<span class="superscript">[676]</span> In these infelicities Bigot 
figures as peacemaker, though with no perceptible success. Vaudreuil's 
cup of bitterness was full when letters came from Versailles ordering 
him to defer to Montcalm on all questions of war, or of civil 
administration bearing upon war. <span class="superscript">[677]</span> 
He had begged hard for his rival's recall, and in reply his rival was 
set over his head.</p>

<div class="footer">
		<p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_675" name="footer_675"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[675]</span>
<i>Vaudreuil &agrave; Montcalm</i>, 1 <i>Ao&ucirc;t</i>, 1758.</p>
   <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_676" name="footer_676"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[676]</span>
<i>Montcalm &agrave; Vaudreuil</i>, 6 <i>Ao&ucirc;t</i>, 1758.</p>
		<p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_677" name="footer_677"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[677]</span>
<i>Ordres du Roy et D&eacute;p&ecirc;ches des Ministres</i>, 1758, 1759.</p>
</div>

<p>The two yokefellows were excellently fitted to exasperate each other:
Montcalm, with his southern vivacity of emotion and an impetuous,
impatient volubility that sometimes forgot prudence; and Vaudreuil,
always affable towards adherents, but full of suspicious egotism and
restless jealousy that bristled within him at the very thought of his
colleague. Some of the byplay of the quarrel may be seen in Montcalm's
familiar correspondence with Bourlamaque. One day the Governor, in his
own house, brought up the old complaint that Montcalm, after taking Fort
William Henry, did not take Fort Edward also. The General, for the
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_168-V2" id="Page_168-V2">168<br />V2</a></span> 
twentieth time, gave good reasons for not making the attempt. "I ended,"
he tells Bourlamaque, "by saying quietly that when I went to war I did
the best I could; and that when one is not pleased with one's
lieutenants, one had better take the field in person. He was very much
moved, and muttered between his teeth that perhaps he would; at which I
said that I should be delighted to serve under him. Madame de Vaudreuil
wanted to put in her word. I said: 'Madame, saving due respect, permit
me to have the honor to say that ladies ought not to talk war.' She kept
on. I said: 'Madame, saving due respect, permit me to have the honor to
say that if Madame de Montcalm were here, and heard me talking war with
Monsieur le Marquis de Vaudreuil, she would remain silent.' This scene
was in presence of eight officers, three of them belonging to the colony
troops; and a pretty story they will make of it."</p>

<p>These letters to Bourlamaque, in their detestable handwriting, small,
cramped, confused, without stops, and sometimes almost indecipherable,
betray the writer's state of mind. "I should like as well as anybody to
be Marshal of France; but to buy the honor with the life I am leading
here would be too much." He recounts the last news from Fort Duquesne,
just before its fall. "Mutiny among the Canadians, who want to come
home; the officers busy with making money, and stealing like mandarins.
Their commander sets the example, and will come back with three or four
hundred thousand francs; the pettiest ensign, 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_169-V2" id="Page_169-V2">169<br />V2</a></span> 
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 all night with thinking of the robberies and 
mismanagement and folly. <i>Pauvre Roi, pauvre France, cara patria!</i>" 
"Oh, when shall we get out of this country! I think I would give half that 
I have to go home. Pardon this digression to a melancholy man. It is not 
that I have not still some remnants of gayety; but what would seem such in 
anybody else is melancholy for a Languedocian. Burn my letter, and never 
doubt my attachment." "I shall always say, Happy he who is free from the 
proud yoke to which I am bound. When shall I see my ch&acirc;teau of Candiac, 
my plantations, my chestnut grove, my oil-mill, my mulberry-trees? <i>O bon
Dieu! Bon soir; br&ucirc;lez ma lettre."</i>
<span class="superscript">[678]</span></p>

<div class="footer">
		<p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_678" name="footer_678"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[678]</span>
The above extracts are from letters of 5 and 27 Nov. and 9 Dec. 1758, and 18 
and 23 March, 1759.</p>
</div>

<p>Never was dispute more untimely than that between these ill-matched
colleagues. The position of the colony was desperate. Thus far the
Canadians had never lost heart, but had obeyed with admirable alacrity
the Governor's call to arms, borne with patience the burdens and
privations of the war, and submitted without revolt to the exactions and
oppressions of Cadet and his crew; loyal to their native soil, loyal to
their Church, loyal to the wretched government that crushed and
belittled them. When the able-bodied were ordered to the war, where 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_170-V2" id="Page_170-V2">170<br />V2</a></span> 
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 of the King. Yet the least destitute among them were
forced every winter to lodge soldiers in their houses, for each of whom
they were paid fifteen francs a month, in return for substance devoured
and wives and daughters debauched. <span class="superscript">[679]</span></p>

<div class="footer">
		<p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_679" name="footer_679"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[679]</span>
<i>M&eacute;moire sur le moyen d'entretenir 10,000 Hommes de Troupes 
dans les Colonies</i>, 1759.</p>
</div>

<p>No pains had been spared to keep up the courage of the people and feed
them with flattering illusions. When the partisan officer Boish&eacute;bert was
tried for peculation, his counsel met the charge by extolling the manner
in which he had fulfilled the arduous duty of encouraging the Acadians,
"putting on an air of triumph even in defeat; using threats, caresses,
stratagems; painting our victories in vivid colors; hiding the strength
and successes of the enemy; promising succors that did not and could not
come; inventing plausible reasons why they did not come, and making new
promises to set off the failure of the old; persuading a starved people
to forget their misery; taking from some to give to others; and doing
all this continually in the face of a superior enemy, that this country
might be snatched from England and saved to France."
<span class="superscript">[680]</span> What Boish&eacute;bert was doing 
in Acadia, Vaudreuil was doing on a 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_171-V2" id="Page_171-V2">171<br />V2</a></span> 
larger scale in Canada. By indefatigable lying, by exaggerating every success 
and covering over every reverse, he deceived the people and in some measure
himself. He had in abundance the Canadian gift of gasconade, and boasted
to the Colonial Minister that one of his countrymen was a match for from
three to ten Englishmen. It is possible that he almost believed it; for
the midnight surprise of defenceless families and the spreading of
panics among scattered border settlements were inseparable from his idea
of war. Hence the high value he set on Indians, who in such work outdid
the Canadians themselves. Sustained by the intoxication of flattering
falsehoods, and not doubting that the blunders and weakness of the first
years of the war gave the measure of English efficiency, the colonists
had never suspected that they could be subdued.</p>

<div class="footer">
		<p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_680" name="footer_680"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[680]</span>
<i>Proc&egrave;s de Bigot, Cadet, et autres, M&eacute;moire pour le Sieur
de Boish&eacute;bert.</i></p>
</div>

<p>But now there was a change. The reverses of the last campaign, hunger,
weariness, and possibly some incipient sense of atrocious misgovernment,
began to produce their effect; and some, especially in the towns, were
heard to murmur that further resistance was useless. The Canadians,
though brave and patient, needed, like Frenchmen, the stimulus of
success. "The people are alarmed," said the modest Governor, "and would
lose courage if my firmness did not rekindle their zeal to serve the
King." <span class="superscript">[681]</span></p>

<div class="footer">
		<p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_681" name="footer_681"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[681]</span>
<i>Vaudreuil au Ministre</i>, 10 <i>Avril</i>, 1759.</p>
</div>

<p>"Rapacity, folly, intrigue, falsehood, will soon ruin this colony which
has cost the King so dear," 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_172-V2" id="Page_172-V2">172<br />V2</a></span> 
wrote Doreil to the Minister of War. "We must not flatter ourselves with 
vain hope; Canada is lost if we do not have peace this winter." "It has 
been saved by miracle in these past three years; nothing but peace can 
save it now, in spite of all the efforts and the talents of M. de Montcalm." 
<span class="superscript">[682]</span> Vaudreuil himself became thoroughly 
alarmed, and told the Court in the autumn of 1758 that food, arms, 
munitions, and everything else were fast failing, and that without 
immediate peace or heavy reinforcements all was lost.</p>

<div class="footer">
		<p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_682" name="footer_682"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[682]</span>
<i>Doreil au Ministre</i>, 31 <i>Juillet</i>, 1758. <i>Ibid</i>. 12 
<i>Ao&ucirc;t</i>, 1758. <i>Ibid</i>. 31 <i>Ao&ucirc;t</i>, 1758. 
<i>Ibid</i>. 1 <i>Sept.</i> 1758.</p>
</div>

<p>The condition of Canada was indeed deplorable. The St. Lawrence was
watched by British ships; the harvest was meagre; a barrel of flour cost
two hundred francs; most of the cattle and many of the horses had been
killed for food. The people lived chiefly on a pittance of salt cod or
on rations furnished by the King; all prices were inordinate; the
officers from France were starving on their pay; while a legion of
indigenous and imported scoundrels fattened on the general distress.
"What a country!" exclaims Montcalm. "Here all the knaves grow rich, and
the honest men are ruined." Yet he was resolved to stand by it to the
last, and wrote to the Minister of War that he would bury himself under
its ruins. "I asked for my recall after the glorious affair of the
eighth of July; but since the state of the colony is so bad, I must do
what I can to help it and retard 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_173-V2" id="Page_173-V2">173<br />V2</a></span> 
its fall." The only hope was in a strong appeal to the Court; and he 
thought himself fortunate in persuading Vaudreuil to consent that 
Bougainville should be commissioned to make it, seconded by Doreil. 
They were to sail in different ships, in order that at least one of 
them might arrive safe.</p>

<p>Vaudreuil gave Bougainville a letter introducing him to the Colonial
Minister in high terms of praise: "He is in all respects better fitted
than anybody else to inform you of the state of the colony. I have given
him my instructions, and you can trust entirely in what he tells
you." <span class="superscript">[683]</span> Concerning Doreil he wrote 
to the Minister of War: "I have full confidence in him, and he may be 
entirely trusted. Everybody here likes him."  
<span class="superscript">[684]</span>
While thus extolling the friends of his rival, the Governor took care 
to provide against the effects of his politic commendations, and wrote 
thus to his patron, the Colonial Minister: "In order to condescend to 
the wishes of M. de Montcalm, and leave no means untried to keep in 
harmony with him, I have given letters to MM. Doreil and Bougainville; 
but I have the honor to inform you, Monseigneur, that they do not 
understand the colony, and to warn you that they are creatures of M. 
de Montcalm." <span class="superscript">[685]</span></p>

<div class="footer">
		<p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_683" name="footer_683"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[683]</span>
<i>Vaudreuil au Ministre de la Marine</i>, 4 <i>Nov</i>. 1758.</p>
   <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_684" name="footer_684"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[684]</span>
<i>Vaudreuil au Ministre de la Guerre</i>, 11 <i>Oct</i>. 1758.</p>
   <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_685" name="footer_685"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[685]</span>
<i>Vaudreuil au Ministre de la Marine</i>, 3 <i>Nov</i>. 1758.</p>
</div>

<p>The two envoys had sailed for France. Winter was close at hand, and the
harbor of Quebec was nearly empty. One ship still lingered, the last of
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_174-V2" id="Page_174-V2">174<br />V2</a></span> 
the season, and by her Montcalm sent a letter to his mother: "You will
be glad to have me write to you up to the last moment to tell you for
the hundredth time that, occupied as I am with the fate of New France,
the preservation of the troops, the interest of the state, and my own
glory, I think continually of you all. We did our best in 1756, 1757,
and 1758; and so, God helping, we will do in 1759, unless you make peace
in Europe." Then, shut from the outer world for half a year by barriers
of ice, he waited what returning spring might bright forth.</p>

<p>Both Bougainville and Doreil escaped the British cruisers and safely
reached Versailles, where, in the slippery precincts of the Court, as
new to him as they were treacherous, the young aide-de-camp justified
all the confidence of his chief. He had interviews with the ministers,
the King, and, more important than all, with Madame de Pompadour, whom
he succeeded in propitiating, though not, it seems, without difficulty
and delay. France, unfortunate by land and sea, with finances ruined and
navy crippled, had gained one brilliant victory, and she owed it to
Montcalm. She could pay for it in honors, if in nothing else. Montcalm
was made lieutenant-general, L&eacute;vis major-general, Bourlamaque brigadier,
and Bougainville colonel and chevalier of St. Louis; while Vaudreuil was
solaced with the grand cross of that order.
<span class="superscript">[686]</span> But when the two envoys asked 
substantial aid for the imperilled colony, the response was chilling. The 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_175-V2" id="Page_175-V2">175<br />V2</a></span> 
Colonial Minister, Berryer, prepossessed against
Bougainville by the secret warning of Vaudreuil, received him coldly,
and replied to his appeal for help: "Eh, Monsieur, when the house is on
fire one cannot occupy one's self with the stable." "At least, Monsieur,
nobody will say that you talk like a horse," was the irreverent answer.</p>

<div class="footer">
		<p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_686" name="footer_686"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[686]</span>
<i>Ordres du Roy et D&eacute;p&ecirc;ches des Ministres, Janvier, 
F&eacute;vrier</i>, 1759.</p>
</div>

<p>Bougainville laid 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, they are united against her, and
prepared to put forth their strength. And he begged for troops, arms,
munitions, food, and a squadron to defend the mouth of the St.
Lawrence. <span class="superscript">[687]</span> The reply, couched in a 
letter to Montcalm, was to the effect that it was necessary to concentrate 
all the strength of the kingdom for a decisive operation in Europe; that, 
therefore, the aid required could not be sent; and that the King trusted 
everything to his zeal and generalship, joined with the valor of the victors 
of Ticonderoga. <span class="superscript">[688]</span> All that could be 
obtained was between three and four hundred recruits for the regulars, 
sixty engineers, sappers, and artillerymen, and gunpowder, arms, and 
provisions sufficient, along with the supplies brought over by the 
contractor, Cadet, to carry the colony through the next campaign. 
<span class="superscript">[689]</span></p>

<div class="footer">
		<p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_687" name="footer_687"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[687]</span>
<i>M&eacute;moire remis au Ministre par M. de Bougainville, D&eacute;cembre</i>, 
1758.</p>
   <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_688" name="footer_688"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[688]</span>
<i>Le Ministre &agrave; Montcalm</i>, 3 <i>F&eacute;v</i>. 1759.</p>
   <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_689" name="footer_689"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[689]</span>
<i>Ordres du Roy et D&eacute;p&ecirc;ches des Ministres, F&eacute;vrier</i>,
1759.</p>
</div>

<p>
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_176-V2" id="Page_176-V2">176<br />V2</a></span> 
Montcalm had intrusted Bougainville with another mission, widely
different. This was no less than the negotiating of suitable marriages
for the eldest son and daughter of his commander, with whom, in the
confidence of friendship, he had had many conversations on the matter.
"He and I," Montcalm wrote to his mother, Madame de Saint-V&eacute;ran, "have
two ideas touching these marriages,&mdash;the first, romantic and chimerical;
the second, good, practicable." <span class="superscript">[690]</span>
Bougainville, invoking the aid of a lady of rank, a friend of the family, 
acquitted himself well of his delicate task. Before he embarked for Canada, 
in early spring, a treaty was on foot for the marriage of the young Comte 
de Montcalm to an heiress of sixteen; while Mademoiselle de Montcalm had 
already become Madame d'Espineuse. "Her father will be delighted," says the 
successful negotiator. <span class="superscript">[691]</span></p>

<div class="footer">
		<p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_690" name="footer_690"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[690]</span>
<i>Montcalm &agrave; Madame de Saint-V&eacute;ran</i>, 24 <i>Sept</i>. 
1758.</p>
   <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_691" name="footer_691"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[691]</span>
<i>Lettres de Bougainville &agrave; Madame de Saint-V&eacute;ran</i>, 
1758, 1759.</p>
</div>

<p>Again he crossed the Atlantic and sailed up the St. Lawrence as the
portentous spring of 1759 was lowering over the dissolving snows of
Canada. With him came a squadron bearing the supplies and the petty
reinforcement which the Court had vouchsafed. "A little is precious to
those who have nothing," said Montcalm on receiving them. Despatches
from the ministers gave warning of a great armament fitted out in
English ports for the attack of Quebec, while a letter to the General
from the Mar&eacute;chal de Belleisle, minister of war, told what was expected
of him, and why he and 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_177-V2" id="Page_177-V2">177<br />V2</a></span> 
the colony were abandoned to their fate. "If we sent a large reinforcement 
of troops," said Belleisle, "there would be great fear that the English 
would intercept them on the way; and as the King could never send you 
forces equal to those which the English are prepared to oppose to you, the 
attempt would have no other effect than to excite the Cabinet of London to 
increased efforts for preserving its superiority on the American continent."
</p>

<p>"As we must expect the English to turn all their force against Canada,
and attack you on several sides at once, it is necessary that you limit
your plans of defence to the most essential points and those most
closely connected, so that, being concentrated within a smaller space,
each part may be within reach of support and succor from the rest. How
small soever may be the space you are able to hold, it is indispensable
to keep a footing in North America; for if we once lose the country
entirely, its recovery will be almost impossible. The King counts on
your zeal, courage, and persistency to accomplish this object, and
relies on you to spare no pains and no exertions. Impart this
resolution to your chief officers, and join with them to inspire your
soldiers with it. I have answered for you to the King; I am confident
that you will not disappoint me, and that for the glory of the nation,
the good of the state, and your own preservation, you will go to the
utmost extremity rather than submit to conditions as shameful as those
imposed at Louisbourg, the memory of which 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_178-V2" id="Page_178-V2">178<br />V2</a></span> 
you will wipe out." <span class="superscript">[692]</span> "We
will save this unhappy colony, or perish," was the answer of Montcalm.</p>

<div class="footer">
   <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_692" name="footer_692"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[692]</span>
<i>Belleisle &agrave; Montcalm</i>, 19 <i>F&eacute;v</i>. 1759.</p>
</div>

<p>It was believed that Canada would be attacked with at least fifty
thousand men. Vaudreuil had caused a census to be made of the
governments of Montreal, Three Rivers, and Quebec. It showed a little
more than thirteen thousand effective men.
<span class="superscript">[693]</span> To these were to be
added thirty-five hundred troops of the line, including the late
reinforcement, fifteen hundred colony troops, a body of irregulars in
Acadia, and the militia and <i>coureurs-de-bois</i> of Detroit and the other
upper posts, along with from one to two thousand Indians who could still
be counted on. Great as was the disparity of numbers, there was good
hope that the centre of the colony could be defended; for the only
avenues by which an enemy could approach were barred by the rock of
Quebec, the rapids of the St. Lawrence, and the strong position of
Isle-aux-Noix, at the outlet of Lake Champlain. Montcalm had long
inclined to the plan of concentration enjoined on him by the Minister of
War. Vaudreuil was of another mind; he insisted on still occupying
Acadia and the forts of the upper country: matters on which he and the
General exchanged a correspondence that widened the breach between them.</p>

<div class="footer">
   <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_693" name="footer_693"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[693]</span>
<i>Vaudreuil au Ministre</i>, 8 <i>Avril</i>, 1759. The <i>M&eacute;moires sur
le Canada,</i> 1749-1760, says 15,229 effective men.</p>
</div>

<p>Should every effort of resistance fail, and the invaders force their way
into the heart of Canada, 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_179-V2" id="Page_179-V2">179<br />V2</a></span> 
Montcalm proposed the desperate resort of abandoning the valley of the St. 
Lawrence, descending the Mississippi with his troops and as many as possible 
of the inhabitants, and making a last stand for France among the swamps of 
Louisiana. <span class="superscript">[694]</span></p>

<div class="footer">
   <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_694" name="footer_694"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[694]</span>
<i>M&eacute;moire sur le Canada remis au Ministre</i>, 27 <i>D&eacute;c</i>. 
1758.</p>
</div>

<p>In April, before Bougainville's return, he wrote to his wife: "Can we
hope for another miracle to save us? I trust in God; he fought for us on
the eighth of July. Come what may, his will be done! I wait the news
from France with impatience and dread. We have had none for eight
months; and who knows if much can reach us at all this year? How dearly
I have to pay for the dismal privilege of figuring two or three times in
the gazettes!" A month later, after Bougainvile had come: "Our daughter
is well married. I think I would renounce every honor to join you again;
but the King must be obeyed. The moment when I see you once more will be
the brightest of my life. Adieu, my heart! I believe that I love you
more than ever."</p>

<p>Bougainville had brought sad news. He had heard before sailing from
France that one of Montcalm's daughters was dead, but could not learn
which of them. "I think," says the father, "that it must be poor Mir&egrave;te,
who was like me, and whom I loved very much." He was never to know if
this conjecture was true.</p>

<p>To Vaudreuil came a repetition of the detested order that he should
defer to Montcalm on all questions of war; and moreover that he should
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_180-V2" id="Page_180-V2">180<br />V2</a></span> 
not take command in person except when the whole body of the militia was
called out; nor, even then, without consulting his rival.
<span class="superscript">[695]</span> His ire
and vexation produced an access of jealous self-assertion, and drove him
into something like revolt against the ministerial command. "If the
English attack Quebec, I shall always hold myself free to go thither
myself with most of the troops and all the militia and Indians I can
assemble. On arriving I shall give battle to the enemy; and I shall do
so again and again, till I have forced him to retire, or till he has
entirely crushed me by excessive superiority of numbers. My obstinacy in
opposing his landing will be the more <i>&agrave; propos</i>, as I have not the
means of sustaining a siege. If I succeed as I wish, I shall next march
to Carillon to arrest him there. You see, Monseigneur, that the
slightest change in my arrangements would have the most unfortunate
consequences."
<span class="superscript">[696]</span></p>

<div class="footer">
		<p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_695" name="footer_695"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[695]</span>
<i>Ordres du Roy et D&eacute;p&ecirc;ches des Ministres, Lettre &agrave;
Vaudreuil</i>, 3 <i>F&eacute;v</i>. 1759.</p>
   <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_696" name="footer_696"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[696]</span>
<i>Vaudreuil au Ministre</i>, 8 <i>Avril</i>, 1759.</p>
</div>

<p>Whether he made good this valorous declaration will presently be seen.</p>


<div class="footer">
		<p class="noindent double-space-top">
        <a id="footer_23Note" name="footer_23Note"></a>
<span class="smcap">Note</span>.&mdash;The Archives de la Guerre and 
the Archives de la Marine contain a mass of letters and documents on the 
subjects treated in the above chapter; these I have carefully read and 
collated. The other principal authorities are the correspondence of 
Montcalm with Bourlamaque and with his own family; the letters of 
Vaudreuil preserved in the Archives Nationales; and the letters of 
Bougainville and Doreil to Montcalm and Madame de Saint-V&eacute;ran 
while on their mission to France. For copies of these last I am 
indebted to the present Marquis de Montcalm.</p>
</div>



<hr />
<div class="chapterhead">
   <br /><a name="Chapter_24" id="Chapter_24"></a>
	 <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_181-V2" id="Page_181-V2">181<br />V2</a></span> 
	 <br /><br /><br />
	 <h2><a href="#Contents24">CHAPTER XXIV.</a><br />
	 <span class="med">1758, 1759.</span>
	 </h2> 
	 <p class="smcapheader">WOLFE.</p>
	 <p class="smcap noindent space-bottom">	
	   The Exiles of Fort Cumberland &bull; Relief &bull; 
		 The Voyage to Louisbourg &bull; The British Fleet &bull;
		 Expedition against Quebec &bull; Early Life of Wolfe &bull;
		 His Character &bull; His Letters to his Parents &bull;
		 His Domestic Qualities &bull; Appointed to command the Expedition &bull;
		 Sails for America.
	 </p>
	 <p class="break1"></p> 
</div>

<p class="double-space-top">
<span class="smcap">Captain John Knox</span>, 
of the forty-third regiment, had spent the winter in
garrison at Fort Cumberland, on the hill of Beaus&eacute;jour. For nearly two
years he and his comrades had been exiles amid the wilds of Nova Scotia,
and the monotonous inaction was becoming insupportable. The great marsh
of Tantemar on the one side, and that of Missaguash on the other, two
vast flat tracts of glaring snow, bounded by dark hills of spruce and
fir, were hateful to their sight. Shooting, fishing, or skating were a
dangerous relief; for the neighborhood was infested by "vermin," as they
called the Acadians and their Micmac allies. In January 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 frozen like marble statues. 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_182-V2" id="Page_182-V2">182<br />V2</a></span> 
St. Patrick's Day brought more cheerful excitements. The Irish officers of
the garrison gave their comrades a feast, having laid in during the
autumn a stock of frozen provisions, that the festival of their saint
might be duly honored. All was hilarity at Fort Cumberland, where it is
recorded that punch to the value of twelve pounds sterling, with a
corresponding supply of wine and beer, was consumed on this joyous
occasion. <span class="superscript">[697]</span></p>

<div class="footer">
   <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_697" name="footer_697"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[697]</span>
Knox, <i>Historical Journal</i>, I. 228.</p>
</div>

<p>About the middle of April a schooner came up the bay, bringing letters
that filled men and officers with delight. The regiment was ordered to
hold itself ready to embark for Louisbourg and join an expedition to the
St. Lawrence, under command of Major-General Wolfe. All that afternoon
the soldiers were shouting and cheering in their barracks; and when they
mustered for the evening roll-call, there was another burst of huzzas.
They waited in expectancy nearly three weeks, and then the transports
which were to carry them arrived, bringing the provincials who had been
hastily raised in New England to take their place. These Knox describes
as a mean-looking set of fellows, of all ages and sizes, and without any
kind of discipline; adding that their officers are sober, modest men,
who, though of confined ideas, talk very clearly and sensibly, and make
a decent appearance in blue, faced with scarlet, though the privates
have no uniform at all.</p>

<p>At last the forty-third set sail, the cannon of the fort saluting them,
and the soldiers cheering 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_183-V2" id="Page_183-V2">183<br />V2</a></span> 
lustily, overjoyed to escape from their long imprisonment. A gale soon began; 
the transports became separated; Knox's vessel sheltered herself for a time 
in Passamaquoddy Bay; then passed the Grand Menan, and steered southward and 
eastward along the coast of Nova Scotia. A calm followed the gale; and they 
moved so slowly that Knox beguiled the time by fishing over the stern, and 
caught a halibut so large that he was forced to call for help to pull it in. 
Then they steered northeastward, now lost in fogs, and now tossed mercilessly 
on those boisterous waves; till, on the twenty-fourth of May, they saw a
rocky and surf-lashed shore, with a forest of masts rising to all appearance 
out of it. It was the British fleet in the land-locked harbor of Louisbourg.
</p>

<p>On the left, as they sailed through the narrow passage, lay the town,
scarred with shot and shell, the red cross floating over its battered
ramparts; and around in a wide semicircle rose the bristling back of
rugged hills, set thick with dismal evergreens. They passed the great
ships of the fleet, and anchored among the other transports towards the
head of the harbor. It was not yet free from ice; and the floating
masses lay so thick in some parts that the reckless sailors, returning
from leave on shore, jumped from one to another to regain their ships.
There was a review of troops, and Knox went to see it; but it was over
before he reached the place, where he was presently told of a
characteristic reply just made by Wolfe to some officers who had
apologized for not having 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_184-V2" id="Page_184-V2">184<br />V2</a></span> 
taught their men the new exercise. "Poh, poh!&mdash;new exercise&mdash;new 
fiddlestick. If they are otherwise well disciplined, and will fight, that's 
all I shall require of them."</p>

<p>Knox does not record his impressions of his new commander, which must
have been disappointing. He called him afterwards a British Achilles;
but in person at least Wolfe bore no likeness to the son of Peleus, for
never was the soul of a hero cased in a frame so incongruous. His face,
when seen in profile, was singular as that of the Great Cond&eacute;. The
forehead and chin receded; the nose, slightly upturned, formed with the
other features the point of an obtuse triangle; the mouth was by no
means shaped to express resolution; and nothing but the clear, bright,
and piercing eye bespoke the spirit within. On his head he wore a black
three-cornered hat; his red hair was tied in a queue behind; his narrow
shoulders, slender body, and long, thin limbs were cased in a scarlet
frock, with broad cuffs and ample skirts that reached the knee; while on
his left arm he wore a band of crape in mourning for his father, of
whose death he had heard a few days before.</p>

<p>James Wolfe was in his thirty-third year. His father was an officer of
distinction, Major-General Edward Wolfe, and he himself, a delicate and
sensitive child, but an impetuous and somewhat headstrong youth, had
served the King since the age of fifteen. From childhood he had dreamed
of the army and the wars. At sixteen he was in Flanders, adjutant of his
regiment, discharging the 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_185-V2" id="Page_185-V2">185<br />V2</a></span> 
duties of the post in a way that gained him early promotion and, along with 
a painstaking assiduity, showing a precocious faculty for commanding men. 
He passed with credit through several campaigns, took part in the victory 
of Dettingen, and then went to Scotland to fight at Culloden. Next we find 
him at Stirling, Perth, and Glasgow, always ardent and always diligent, 
constant in military duty, and giving his spare hours to mathematics and 
Latin. He presently fell in love; and being disappointed, plunged into a 
variety of dissipations, contrary to his usual habits, which were far above 
the standard of that profligate time.</p>

<p>At twenty-three he was a lieutenant-colonel, commanding his regiment in
the then dirty and barbarous town of Inverness, amid a disaffected and
turbulent population whom it was his duty to keep in order: a difficult
task, which he accomplished so well as to gain the special commendation
of the King, and even the goodwill of the Highlanders themselves. He
was five years among these northern hills, battling with ill-health, and
restless under the intellectual barrenness of his surroundings. He felt
his position to be in no way salutary, and wrote to his mother: "The
fear of becoming a mere ruffian and of imbibing the tyrannical
principles of an absolute commander, or giving way insensibly to the
temptations of power till I became proud, insolent, and
intolerable,&mdash;these considerations will make me wish to leave the
regiment before next winter; that by frequenting men above myself I may
know my true condition, and by discoursing 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_186-V2" id="Page_186-V2">186<br />V2</a></span> 
with the other sex may learn some civility and mildness of carriage." He got 
leave of absence, and spent six months in Paris, where he was presented at 
Court and saw much of the best society. This did not prevent him from 
working hard to perfect himself in French, as well as in horsemanship, 
fencing, dancing, and other accomplishments, and from earnestly seeking an 
opportunity to study the various armies of Europe. In this he was thwarted 
by the stupidity and prejudice of the commander-in-chief; and he made what
amends he could by extensive reading in all that bore on military
matters.</p>

<p>His martial instincts were balanced by strong domestic inclinations. He
was fond of children; and after his disappointment in love used to say
that they were the only true inducement to marriage. He was a most
dutiful son, and wrote continually to both his parents. Sometimes he
would philosophize on the good and ill of life; sometimes he held
questionings with his conscience; and once he wrote to his mother in a
strain of self-accusation not to be expected from a bold and determined
soldier. His nature was a compound of tenderness and fire, which last
sometimes showed itself in sharp and unpleasant flashes. His excitable
temper was capable almost of fierceness, and he could now and then be
needlessly stern; but towards his father, mother, and friends he was a
model of steady affection. He made friends readily, and kept them, and
was usually a pleasant companion, though subject to sallies of imperious
irritability which occasionally broke through his strong 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_187-V2" id="Page_187-V2">187<br />V2</a></span> 
sense of good breeding. For this his susceptible constitution was largely 
answerable, for he was a living barometer, and his spirits rose and fell 
with every change of weather. In spite of his impatient outbursts, the 
officers whom he had commanded remained attached to him for life; and, 
in spite of his rigorous discipline, he was beloved by his soldiers, to 
whose comfort he was always attentive. Frankness, directness, essential 
good feeling, and a high integrity atoned for all his faults.</p>

<p>In his own view, as expressed to his mother, he was a person of very
moderate abilities, aided by more than usual diligence; but this modest
judgment of himself by no means deprived him of self-confidence, nor,
in time of need, of self-assertion. He delighted in every kind of
hardihood; and, in his contempt for effeminacy, once said to his mother:
"Better be a savage of some use than a gentle, amorous puppy, obnoxious
to all the world." He was far from despising fame; but the controlling
principles of his life were duty to his country and his profession,
loyalty to the King, and fidelity to his own ideal of the perfect
soldier. To the parent who was the confidant of his most intimate
thoughts he said: "All that I wish for myself is that I may at all times
be ready and firm to meet that fate we cannot shun, and to die
gracefully and properly when the hour comes." Never was wish more
signally fulfilled. Again he tells her: "My utmost desire and ambition
is to look steadily upon danger;" and his desire was accomplished. His
intrepidity was complete. No 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_188-V2" id="Page_188-V2">188<br />V2</a></span> 
form of death had power to daunt him. Once and again, when bound on some 
deadly enterprise of war, he calmly counts the chances whether or not he 
can compel his feeble body to bear him on till the work is done. A frame 
so delicately strung could not have been insensible to danger; but 
forgetfulness of self, and the absorption of every faculty in the object 
before him, shut out the sense of fear. He seems always to have been at 
his best in the thick of battle; most complete in his mastery over himself 
and over others.</p>

<p>But it is in the intimacies of domestic life that one sees him most
closely, and especially in his letters to his mother, from whom he
inherited his frail constitution, without the beauty that distinguished
her. "The greatest happiness that I wish for here is to see you happy."
"If you stay much at home I will come and shut myself up with you for
three weeks or a month, and play at piquet from morning till night; and
you shall laugh at my short red hair as much as you please." The playing
at piquet was a sacrifice to filial attachment; for the mother loved
cards, and the son did not. "Don't trouble yourself about my room or my
bedclothes; too much care and delicacy at this time would enervate me
and complete the destruction of a tottering constitution. Such as it is,
it must serve me now, and I'll make the best of it while it holds." At
the beginning of the war his father tried to dissuade him from offering
his services on board the fleet; and he replies in a letter to Mrs.
Wolfe: "It is no time to think of what is 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_189-V2" id="Page_189-V2">189<br />V2</a></span> 
convenient or agreeable; that service is certainly the best in which we are 
the most useful. For my part, I am determined never to give myself a moment's 
concern about the nature of the duty which His Majesty is pleased to order us 
upon. It will be a sufficient comfort to you two, as far as my person is
concerned,&mdash;at least it will be a reasonable consolation,&mdash;to 
reflect that the Power which has hitherto preserved me may, if it be his
pleasure, continue to do so; if not, that it is but a few days or a few
years more or less, and that those who perish in their duty and in the
service of their country die honorably." Then he proceeds to give
particular directions about his numerous dogs, for the welfare of which
in his absence he provides with anxious solicitude, especially for "my
friend C&aelig;sar, who has great merit and much good-humor."</p>

<p>After the unfortunate expedition against Rochefort, when the board of
general officers appointed to inquire into the affair were passing the
highest encomiums upon his conduct, his parents were at Bath, and he
took possession of their house at Blackheath, whence he wrote to his
mother: "I lie in your chamber, dress in the General's little parlor,
and dine where you did. The most perceptible difference and change of
affairs (exclusive of the bad table I keep) is the number of dogs in the
yard; but by coaxing Ball [<i>his father's dog</i>] and rubbing his back with
my stick, I have reconciled him with the new ones, and put them in some
measure under his protection."</p>

<p>
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_190-V2" id="Page_190-V2">190<br />V2</a></span> 
When about to sail on the expedition against Louisbourg, he was anxious
for his parents, and wrote to his uncle, Major Wolfe, at Dublin: "I
trust you will give the best advice to my mother, and such assistance,
if it should be wanted, as the distance between you will permit. I
mention this because the General seems to decline apace, and narrowly
escaped being carried off in the spring. She, poor woman, is in a bad
state of health, and needs the care of some friendly hand. She has long
and painful fits of illness, which by succession and inheritance are
likely to devolve on me, since I feel the early symptoms of them." Of
his friends Guy Carleton, afterwards Lord Dorchester, and George Warde,
the companion of his boyhood, he also asks help for his mother in his
absence.</p>

<p>His part in the taking of Louisbourg greatly increased his reputation.
After his return he went to Bath to recruit his health; and it seems to
have been here that he wooed and won Miss Katherine Lowther, daughter of
an ex-Governor of Barbadoes, and sister of the future Lord Lonsdale. A
betrothal took place, and Wolfe wore her portrait till the night before
his death. It was a little before this engagement that he wrote to his
friend Lieutenant-Colonel Rickson: "I have this day signified to Mr.
Pitt that he may dispose of my slight carcass as he pleases, and that I
am ready for any undertaking within the compass of my skill and
cunning. I am in a very bad condition both with the gravel and
rheumatism; 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_191-V2" id="Page_191-V2">191<br />V2</a></span> 
but I had much rather die than decline any kind of service
that offers. If I followed my own taste it would lead me into Germany.
However, it is not our part to choose, but to obey. My opinion is that I
shall join the army in America."</p>

<p>Pitt chose him to command the expedition then fitting out against
Quebec; made him a major-general, though, to avoid giving offence to
older officers, he was to hold that rank in America alone; and permitted
him to choose his own staff. Appointments made for merit, and not
through routine and patronage, shocked the Duke of Newcastle, to whom a
man like Wolfe was a hopeless enigma; and he told George II. that Pitt's
new general was mad. "Mad is he?" returned the old King; "then I hope he
will bite some others of my generals."</p>

<p>At the end of January the fleet was almost ready, and Wolfe wrote to his
uncle Walter: "I am to act a greater part in this business than I
wished. The backwardness of some of the older officers has in some
measure forced the Government to come down so low. I shall do my best,
and leave the rest to fortune, as perforce we must when there are not
the most commanding abilities. We expect to sail in about three weeks. A
London life and little exercise disagrees entirely with me, but the sea
still more. If I have health and constitution enough for the campaign, I
shall think myself a lucky man; what happens afterwards is of no great
consequence." He sent to his 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_192-V2" id="Page_192-V2">192<br />V2</a></span> 
mother an affectionate letter of farewell, went to Spithead, embarked with 
Admiral Saunders in the ship "Neptune," and set sail on the seventeenth of 
February. In a few hours the whole squadron was at sea, the transports, 
the frigates, and the great line-of-battle ships, with their ponderous 
armament and their freight of rude humanity armed and trained for 
destruction; while on the heaving deck of the "Neptune," wretched with 
sea-sickness and racked with pain, stood the gallant invalid who was 
master of it all.</p>

<p>The fleet consisted of twenty-two ships of the line, with frigates,
sloops-of-war, and a great number of transports. When Admiral Saunders
arrived with his squadron off Louisbourg, he found the entrance blocked
by ice, and was forced to seek harborage at Halifax. The squadron of
Admiral Holmes, which had sailed a few days earlier, proceeded to New
York to take on board troops destined for the expedition, while the
squadron of Admiral Durell steered for the St. Lawrence to intercept the
expected ships from France. 
</p>
<p>
In May the whole fleet, except the ten ships with Durell, was united in the 
harbor of Louisbourg. Twelve thousand troops were to have been employed for 
the expedition; but several regiments expected from the West Indies were 
for some reason countermanded, while the accessions from New York and the 
Nova Scotia garrisons fell far short of the looked-for numbers. Three weeks 
before leaving Louisbourg, Wolfe writes to his uncle Walter that he has an 
army of nine thousand 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_193-V2" id="Page_193-V2">193<br />V2</a></span> 
men. The actual number seems to have been somewhat less. 
<span class="superscript">[698]</span> "Our troops are good," he informs 
Pitt; "and if valor can make amends for the want of numbers, we shall 
probably succeed."</p>

<div class="footer">
   <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_698" name="footer_698"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[698]</span>
See <i>Grenville Correspondence,</i> I. 305.</p>
</div>

<p>Three brigadiers, all in the early prime of life, held command under
him: Monckton, Townshend, and Murray. They were all his superiors in
birth, and one of them, Townshend, never forgot that he was so. "George
Townshend," says Walpole, "has thrust himself again into the service;
and, as far as wrongheadedness will go, is very proper for a hero."
<span class="superscript">[699]</span> The same caustic writer says further 
that he was of "a proud, sullen, and contemptuous temper," and that he 
"saw everything in an ill-natured and ridiculous light." 
<span class="superscript">[700]</span>  Though his perverse and envious 
disposition made him a difficult colleague, Townshend had both talents and 
energy; as also had Monckton, the same officer who commanded at the capture 
of Beaus&eacute;jour in 1755. Murray, too, was well matched to the work in 
hand, in spite of some lingering remains of youthful rashness.</p>

<div class="footer">
   <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_699" name="footer_699"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[699]</span>
Horace Walpole, <i>Letters</i> III. 207 (ed. Cunningham, 1857).</p>
   <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_700" name="footer_700"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[700]</span>
Ibid. <i>George II.</i>, II. 345.</p>
</div>

<p>On the sixth of June the last ship of the fleet sailed out of
Louisbourg harbor, the troops cheering and the officers drinking to the
toast, "British colors on every French fort, port, and garrison in
America." The ships that had gone before lay to till the whole fleet was
reunited, and then all 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_194-V2" id="Page_194-V2">194<br />V2</a></span> 
steered together for the St. Lawrence. From the headland of Cape Egmont, 
the Micmac hunter, gazing far out over the shimmering sea, saw the horizon 
flecked with their canvas wings, as they bore northward on their errand of 
havoc.</p>

<div class="footer">
   <p class="double-space-top">
        <a id="footer_24Note" name="footer_24Note"></a>	 
<span class="smcap">Note</span>.&mdash;For the material of the foregoing 
sketch of Wolfe I am indebted to
Wright's excellent Life of him and the numerous letters contained in it.
Several autograph letters which have escaped the notice of Mr. Wright
are preserved in the Public Record Office. The following is a
characteristic passage from one of these, written on board the
"Neptune," at sea, on the sixth of June, the day when the fleet sailed
from Louisbourg. It is directed to a nobleman of high rank in the army,
whose name does not appear, the address being lost (War Office Records:
<i>North America, various,</i> 1756-1763): "I have had the honour to receive
two letters from your Lordship, one of an old date, concerning my stay
in this country [<i>after the capture of Louisbourg</i>], in answer to which
I shall only say that the Marshal told me I was to return at the end of
the campaign; and as General Amherst had no other commands than to send
me to winter at Halifax under the orders of an officer [<i>Brigadier
Lawrence</i>] who was but a few months before put over my head, I thought
it was much better to get into the way of service and out of the way of
being insulted; and as the style of your Lordship's letter is pretty
strong, I must take the liberty to inform you that &hellip; rather than
receive orders in the Government [<i>of Nova Scotia</i>] from an officer
younger than myself (though a very worthy man), I should certainly have
desired leave to resign my commission; for as I neither ask nor expect
any favour, so I never intend to submit to any ill-usage whatsoever."</p>

<p>Many other papers in the Public Record Office have been consulted in
preparing the above chapter, including the secret instructions of the
King to Wolfe and to Saunders, and the letters of Amherst to Wolfe and
to Pitt. Other correspondence touching the same subjects is printed in
<i>Selections from the Public Documents of Nova Scotia,</i> 441-450. Knox,
Mante, and Entick are the best contemporary printed sources.</p>

<p>A story has gained currency respecting the last interview of Wolfe with
Pitt, in which he is said to have flourished his sword and boasted of
what he would achieve. This anecdote was told by Lord Temple, who was
present at the interview, to Mr. Grenville, who, many years after, told
it to Earl Stanhope, by whom it was made public. That the incident
underwent essential changes in the course of these transmissions,&mdash;which
extended over more than half a century, for Earl Stanhope was not born
till 1805,&mdash;can never be doubted by one who considers the known
character of Wolfe, who may have uttered some vehement expression, but
who can never be suspected of gasconade.</p>
</div>




<hr />
<div class="chapterhead">
   <br /><a name="Chapter_25" id="Chapter_25"></a>
	 <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_195-V2" id="Page_195-V2">195<br />V2</a></span> 
	 <br /><br /><br />
	 <h2><a href="#Contents25">CHAPTER XXV.</a><br />
	 <span class="med">1759.</span>
	 </h2> 
	 <p class="smcapheader">WOLFE AT QUEBEC.</p>
	 <p class="smcap noindent space-bottom">	
	   French Preparation &bull; Muster of Forces &bull; 
		 Gasconade of Vaudreuil &bull; Plan of Defence &bull;
		 Strength of Montcalm &bull; Advance of Wolfe &bull;
		 British Sailors &bull; Landing of the English &bull;
		 Difficulties before them &bull; Storm &bull; 
		 Fireships &bull; Confidence of French Commanders &bull;
		 Wolfe occupies Point Levi &bull; A Futile Night Attack &bull;
		 Quebec bombarded &bull; Wolfe at the Montmorenci &bull;
		 Skirmishes &bull; Danger of the English Position &bull;
		 Effects of the Bombardment &bull;  Desertion of Canadians &bull;
		 The English above Quebec &bull; Severities of Wolfe &bull;
		 Another Attempt to burn the Fleet &bull; 
		 Desperate Enterprise of Wolfe &bull; The Heights of Montmorenci &bull;
		 Repulse of the English. 
	 </p>
	 <p class="break1"></p> 
</div>


<p class="double-space-top">
<span class="smcap">In</span> 
early spring the chiefs of Canada met at Montreal to settle a plan of
defence. What at first they most dreaded was an advance of the enemy by
way of Lake Champlain. Bourlamaque, with three battalions, was ordered
to take post at Ticonderoga, hold it if he could, or, if overborne by
numbers, fall back to Isle-aux-Noix, at the outlet of the lake. La Corne
was sent with a strong detachment to intrench himself at the head of the
rapids of the St. Lawrence, and oppose any hostile movement from Lake
Ontario. Every able-bodied man in the colony, and every boy who could
fire a gun, was to be called to the field. Vaudreuil sent a circular
letter to the militia captains of all the parishes, with orders to read
it to 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_196-V2" id="Page_196-V2">196<br />V2</a></span> 
the parishioners. It exhorted them to defend their religion, their
wives, their children, and their goods from the fury of the heretics;
declared that he, the Governor, would never yield up Canada on any terms
whatever; and ordered them to join the army at once, leaving none behind
but the old, the sick, the women, and the children.
<span class="superscript">[701]</span> The Bishop
issued a pastoral mandate: "On every side, dearest brethren, the enemy
is making immense preparations. His 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 destitute, or threatened
with an attack so fierce, so general, and so obstinate. Now, in truth,
we may say, more than ever before, that our only resource is in the
powerful succor of our Lord. Then, dearest brethren, make every effort
to deserve it. 'Seek first the kingdom of God; and all these things
shall be added unto you.'" And he reproves their sins, exhorts them to
repentance, and ordains processions, masses, and prayers.
<span class="superscript">[702]</span></p>

<div class="footer">
   <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_701" name="footer_701"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[701]</span>
<i>M&eacute;moires sur le Canada</i>, 1749-1760.</p>
   <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_702" name="footer_702"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[702]</span>
I am indebted for a copy of this mandate to the kindness
of Abb&eacute; Bois. As printed by Knox, it is somewhat different, though the
spirit is the same.</p>
</div>

<p>Vaudreuil bustled and boasted. In May he wrote to the Minister: "The
zeal with which I am animated for the service of the King will always
make me surmount the greatest obstacles. I am taking the most proper
measures to give the enemy a good reception whenever he may attack us. I
keep in view the defence of Quebec. I have given orders in the parishes
below to muster the
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_197-V2" id="Page_197-V2">197<br />V2</a></span> 
inhabitants who are able to bear arms, and place women, children, cattle, 
and even hay and grain, in places of safety. Permit me, Monseigneur, to 
beg you to have the goodness to assure His Majesty that, to whatever hard 
extremity I may be reduced, my zeal will be equally ardent and indefatigable, 
and that I shall do the impossible to prevent our enemies from making 
progress in any direction, or, at least, to make them pay extremely dear 
for it." <span class="superscript">[703]</span> Then he writes
again to say that Amherst with a great army will, as he learns, attack
Ticonderoga; that Bradstreet, with six thousand men, will advance to
Lake Ontario; and that six thousand more will march to the Ohio.
"Whatever progress they may make," he adds, "I am resolved to yield them
nothing, but hold my ground even to annihilation." He promises to do his
best to keep on good terms with Montcalm, and ends with a warm eulogy of
Bigot. <span class="superscript">[704]</span></p>

<div class="footer">
   <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_703" name="footer_703"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[703]</span>
<i>Vaudreuil au Ministre</i>, 8 <i>Mai</i>, 1759.</p>
   <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_704" name="footer_704"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[704]</span>
<i>Vaudreuil au Ministre</i>, 20 [?] <i>Mai</i>, 1759.</p>
</div>

<p>It was in the midst of all these preparations that Bougainville arrived
from France with news that a great fleet was on its way to attack
Quebec. The town was filled with consternation mixed with surprise, for
the Canadians had believed that the dangerous navigation of the St.
Lawrence would deter their enemies from the attempt. "Everybody," writes
one of them, "was stupefied at an enterprise that seemed so bold." In a
few days a crowd of sails was seen approaching. They were not enemies,
but friends. It was the fleet 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_198-V2" id="Page_198-V2">198<br />V2</a></span> 
of the contractor Cadet, commanded by officer named Kanon, and loaded with 
supplies for the colony. They anchored in the harbor, eighteen sail in all, 
and their arrival spread universal joy. Admiral Durell had come too late to 
intercept them, catching but three stragglers that had lagged behind the 
rest. Still others succeeded in eluding him, and before the first of June 
five more ships had come safely into port.</p>

<p>When the news brought by Bougainville reached Montreal, nearly the whole
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 of Canada rested in him. Such, he says, was
his activity, that, though very busy, he reached Quebec only a day and a
half after Montcalm; and, on arriving, learned from his scouts that
English ships-of-war had already appeared at Isle-aux-Coudres. These
were the squadron of Durell. "I expect," Vaudreuil goes on, "to be
sharply attacked, and that our enemies will make their most powerful
efforts to conquer this colony; but there is no ruse, no resource, no
means which my zeal does not suggest to lay snares for them, and
finally, when the exigency demands it, to fight them with an ardor, and
even a fury, which exceeds the range of their ambitious designs. The
troops, the Canadians, and the Indians are not ignorant of the
resolution I have taken, and from which I shall not recoil under 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_199-V2" id="Page_199-V2">199<br />V2</a></span> 
any circumstance whatever. The burghers of this city have already put 
their goods and furniture in places of safety. The old men, women, and
children hold themselves ready to leave town. My firmness is generally
applauded. It has penetrated every heart; and each man says aloud:
'Canada, our native land, shall bury us under its ruins before we
surrender to the English!' This is decidedly my own determination, and I
shall hold to it inviolably." He launches into high praise of the
contractor Cadet, whose zeal for the service of the King and the defence
of the colony he declares to be triumphant over every difficulty. It is
necessary, he adds, that ample supplies of all kinds should be sent out
in the autumn, with the distribution of which Cadet offers to charge
himself, and to account for them at their first cost; but he does not
say what prices his disinterested friend will compel the destitute
Canadians to pay for them. <span class="superscript">[705]</span></p>

<div class="footer">
   <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_705" name="footer_705"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[705]</span>
<i>Vaudreuil au Ministre</i>, 28 <i>Mai</i>, 1759.</p>
</div>


<p>Five battalions from France, nearly all the colony troops, and the
militia from every part of Canada poured into Quebec, along with a
thousand or more Indians, who, at the call of Vaudreuil, came to lend
their scalping-knives to the defence. Such was the ardor of the people
that boys of fifteen and men of eighty were to be seen in the camp.
Isle-aux-Coudres and Isle d'Orl&eacute;ans were ordered to be evacuated, and an
excited crowd on the rock of Quebec watched hourly for the approaching
fleet. Days passed and weeks passed, yet it did not appear. Meanwhile
Vaudreuil held 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_200-V2" id="Page_200-V2">200<br />V2</a></span> 
council after council to settle a plan of defence, They were strange scenes: 
a crowd of officers of every rank, mixed pell-mell in a small room, pushing, 
shouting, elbowing each other, interrupting each other; till Montcalm, in 
despair, took each aside after the meeting was over, and made him give his 
opinion in writing. <span class="superscript">[706]</span></p>

<div class="footer">
   <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_706" name="footer_706"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[706]</span>
<i>Journal du Si&eacute;ge de Qu&eacute;bec d&eacute;pos&eacute; &agrave; la 
Biblioth&ecirc;que de Hartwell, en Angleterre</i>. (Printed at Quebec, 1836.)
</p>
</div>

<p>He himself had at first proposed to encamp the army on the plains of
Abraham and the meadows of the St. Charles, making that river his line
of defence; <span class="superscript">[707]</span> but he changed his 
plan, and, with the concurrence of Vaudreuil, resolved to post his whole 
force on the St. Lawrence below the city, with his right resting on the 
St. Charles, and his left on the Montmorenci. Here, accordingly, the 
troops and militia were stationed as they arrived. Early in June, 
standing at the northeastern brink of the rock of Quebec, one could have 
seen the whole position at a glance. On the curving shore from the St. 
Charles to the rocky gorge of the Montmorenci, a distance of seven or 
eight miles, the whitewashed dwellings of the parish of Beauport 
stretched down the road in a double chain, and the fields on both sides 
were studded with tents, huts, and Indian wigwams. Along the borders of 
the St. Lawrence, as far as the eye could distinguish them, gangs of men 
were throwing up redoubts, batteries, and lines of intrenchment. About 
midway between the two extremities of the
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_201-V2" id="Page_201-V2">201<br />V2</a></span> 
encampment ran the little river of Beauport; and on the rising ground just 
beyond it stood a large stone house, round which the tents were thickly 
clustered; for here Montcalm had made his headquarters.</p>

<div class="footer">
   <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_707" name="footer_707"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[707]</span>
<i>Livre d'Ordres, Disposition pour s'opposer &agrave; la Descente</i>.
</p>
</div>

<p>A boom of logs chained together was drawn across the mouth of the St.
Charles, which was further guarded by two hulks mounted with cannon. The
bridge of boats that crossed the stream nearly a mile above, formed the
chief communication between the city and the camp. Its head towards
Beauport was protected by a strong and extensive earthwork; and the
banks of the stream on the Quebec side were also intrenched, to form a
second line of defence in case the position at Beauport should be
forced.</p>

<p>In the city itself every gate, except the Palace Gate, which gave access
to the bridge, was closed and barricaded. A hundred and six cannon were
mounted on the walls. <span class="superscript">[708]</span> A floating 
battery of twelve heavy pieces, a number of gunboats, eight fireships, and 
several firerafts formed the river defences. The largest merchantmen of 
Kanon's fleet were sacrificed to make the fireships; and the rest, along 
with the frigates that came with them, were sent for safety up the St. 
Lawrence beyond the River Richelieu, whence about a thousand of their 
sailors returned to man the batteries and gunboats.</p>

<div class="footer">
   <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_708" name="footer_708"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[708]</span>
This number was found after the siege. Knox, II. 151. Some French writers make 
it much greater.</p>
</div>

<p>In the camps along the Beauport shore were about fourteen thousand men,
besides Indians. The 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_202-V2" id="Page_202-V2">202<br />V2</a></span> 
regulars held the centre; the militia of Quebec and
Three Rivers were on the right, and those of Montreal on the left. In
Quebec itself there was a garrison of between one and two thousand men
under the Chevalier de Ramesay. Thus the whole number, including
Indians, amounted to more than sixteen thousand;  
<span class="superscript">[709]</span> and though the Canadians who formed 
the greater part of it were of little use in the open field, they could be 
trusted to fight well behind intrenchments. Against this force, posted 
behind defensive works, on positions almost impregnable by nature, Wolfe 
brought less than nine thousand men available for operations on land. 
<span class="superscript">[710]</span> The steep and lofty heights that
lined the river made the cannon of the ships for the most part useless,
while the exigencies of the naval service forbade employing the sailors
on shore. In two or three instances only, throughout the siege, small
squads of them landed to aid in moving and working cannon; and the
actual fighting fell to the troops alone.</p>

<div class="footer">
   <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_709" name="footer_709"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[709]</span>
See <a href="#appendixH">Appendix H</a>.</p>
   <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_710" name="footer_710"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[710]</span>
Ibid.</p>
</div>

<p>Vaudreuil and Bigot took up their quarters with the army. The
Governor-General had delegated the command of the land-forces to
Montcalm, whom, in his own words, he authorized "to give orders
everywhere, provisionally." His relations with him were more than ever
anomalous and critical; for while Vaudreuil, in virtue of his office,
had a right to supreme command, Montcalm, now a lieutenant-general, held
a military grade far above him; and the Governor, while always writing
himself down 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_203-V2" id="Page_203-V2">203<br />V2</a></span> 
in his despatches as the head and front of every movement,
had too little self-confidence not to leave the actual command in the
hands of his rival.</p>

<p>Days and weeks wore on, and the first excitement gave way to restless
impatience. Why did not the English come? Many of the Canadians thought
that Heaven would interpose and wreck the English fleet, as it had
wrecked that of Admiral Walker half a century before. There were
processions, prayers, and vows towards this happy consummation. Food was
scarce. Bigot and Cadet lived in luxury; fowls by thousands were
fattened with wheat for their tables, while the people were put on
rations of two ounces of bread a day. <span class="superscript">[711]</span>
Durell and his ships were reported to be still at Isle-aux-Coudres. 
Vaudreuil sent thither a party of Canadians, and they captured three 
midshipmen, who, says Montcalm, had gone ashore <i>pour polissonner,</i> 
that is, on a lark. These youths were brought to Quebec, where they 
increased the general anxiety by grossly exaggerating the English force.</p>

<div class="footer">
   <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_711" name="footer_711"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[711]</span>
<i>M&eacute;moires sur le Canada</i>, 1749-1760.</p>
</div>

<p>At length it became known that eight English vessels were anchored in
the north channel of Orleans, and on the twenty-first of June the masts
of three of them could plainly be seen. One of the fireships was
consumed in a vain attempt to burn them, and several firerafts and a
sort of infernal machine were tried with no better success; the
unwelcome visitors still held their posts.</p>

<p>Meanwhile the whole English fleet had slowly advanced, piloted by Denis
de Vitr&eacute;, a Canadian of
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_204-V2" id="Page_204-V2">204<br />V2</a></span> 
good birth, captured at sea some time before,
and now compelled to serve, under a threat of being hanged if he
refused. <span class="superscript">[712]</span>
Nor was he alone; for when Durell reached the place where
the river pilots were usually taken on board, he raised a French flag to
his mast-head, causing great rejoicings among the Canadians on shore,
who thought that a fleet was come to their rescue, and that their
country was saved. The pilots launched their canoes and came out to the
ships, where they were all made prisoners; then the French flag was
lowered, and the red cross displayed in its stead. The spectators on
shore turned from joy to despair; and a priest who stood watching the
squadron with a telescope is said to have dropped dead with the
revulsion of feeling.</p>

<div class="footer">
   <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_712" name="footer_712"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[712]</span>
<i>M&eacute;morial de Jean-Denis de Vitr&eacute; au Tr&egrave;s-honorable
William Pitt.</i></p>
</div>

<p>Towards the end of June the main fleet was near the mountain of Cape
Tourmente. The passage called the Traverse, between the Cape and the
lower end of the Island of Orleans, was reputed one of the most
dangerous parts of the St. Lawrence; and as the ships successively came
up, the captive pilots were put on board to carry them safely through,
on pain of death. One of these men was assigned to the transport
"Goodwill," in which was Captain Knox, who spoke French, and who reports
thus in his Diary: "He gasconaded at a most extravagant rate, and gave
us to understand that it was much against his will that he was become an
English pilot. The poor fellow assumed great latitude in his
conversation, and said 'he made no doubt that 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_205-V2" id="Page_205-V2">205<br />V2</a></span> 
some of the fleet would return to England, but they should have a dismal 
tale to carry with them; for Canada should be the grave of the whole army, 
and he expected in a short time to see the walls of Quebec ornamented with 
English scalps.' Had it not been in obedience to the Admiral, who gave 
orders that he should not be ill-used, he would certainly have been thrown
overboard." The master of the transport was an old sailor named Killick,
who despised the whole Gallic race, and had no mind to see his ship in
charge of a Frenchman. "He would not let the pilot speak," continues
Knox, "but fixed his mate at the helm, charged him not to take orders
from any person but himself, and going forward with his trumpet to the
forecastle, gave the necessary instructions. All that could be said by
the commanding officer and the other gentlemen on board was to no
purpose; the pilot declared we should be lost, for that no French ship
ever presumed to pass there without a pilot. 'Ay, ay, my dear,' replied
our son of Neptune, 'but, damn me, I'll convince you that an Englishman
shall go where a Frenchman dare not show his nose.' The 'Richmond'
frigate being close astern of us, the commanding officer called out to
the captain and told him our case; he inquired who the master was, and
was answered from the forecastle by the man himself, who told him 'he
was old Killick, and that was enough.' I went forward with this
experienced mariner, who pointed out the channel to me as we passed;
showing me by the ripple and color of the water where there was any
danger, and distinguishing 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_206-V2" id="Page_206-V2">206<br />V2</a></span> 
the places where there were ledges of rocks
(to me invisible) from banks of sand, mud, or gravel. He gave his orders
with great unconcern, joked with the sounding-boats which lay off on
each side with different colored flags for our guidance; and when any of
them called to him and pointed to the deepest water, he answered: 'Ay,
ay, my dear, chalk it down, a damned dangerous navigation, eh! If you
don't make a sputter about it you'll get no credit in England.' After we
had cleared this remarkable place, where the channel forms a complete
zigzag, the master called to his mate to give the helm to somebody else,
saying, 'Damn me if there are not a thousand places in the Thames fifty
times more hazardous than this; I am ashamed that Englishmen should make
such a rout about it.' The Frenchman asked me if the captain had not
been there before. I assured him in the negative; upon which he viewed
him with great attention, lifting at the same time his hands and eyes to
heaven with astonishment and fervency." <span class="superscript">[713]</span>
</p>

<div class="footer">
   <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_713" name="footer_713"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[713]</span>
Others, as well as the pilot, were astonished. "The enemy
passed sixty ships of war where we hardly dared risk a vessel of a
hundred tons." "Notwithstanding all our precautions, the English,
without any accident, by night, as well as by day, passed through it
[<i>the Traverse</i>] their ships of seventy and eighty guns, and even many
of them together." <i>Vaudreuil au Ministre</i>, 22 <i>Oct</i>. 1759.</p>
</div>

<p>Vaudreuil was blamed for not planting cannon at a certain plateau on the
side of the mountain of Cape Tourmente, where the gunners would have
been inaccessible, and whence they could have battered every passing
ship with a plunging fire. As it was, the whole fleet sailed safely
through. 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_207-V2" id="Page_207-V2">207<br />V2</a></span> 
On the twenty-sixth they were all anchored off the south shore
of the Island of Orleans, a few miles from Quebec; and, writes Knox,
"here we are entertained with a most agreeable prospect of a delightful
country on every side; windmills, watermills, churches, chapels, and
compact farmhouses, all built with stone, and covered, some with wood,
and others with straw. The lands appear to be everywhere well
cultivated; and with the help of my glass I can discern that they are
sowed with flax, wheat, barley, peas, etc., and the grounds are enclosed
with wooden pales. The weather to-day is agreeably warm. A light fog
sometimes hangs over the highlands, but in the river we have a fine
clear air. In the curve of the river, while we were under sail, we had a
transient view of a stupendous natural curiosity called the waterfall of
Montmorenci."</p>

<p>That night Lieutenant Meech, with forty New England rangers, landed on
the Island of Orleans, and found a body of armed inhabitants, who tried
to surround him. He beat them off, and took possession of a neighboring
farmhouse, where he remained till daylight; then pursued the enemy, and
found that they had crossed to the north shore. The whole army now
landed, and were drawn up on the beach. As they were kept there for some
time, Knox and several brother officers went to visit the neighboring
church of Saint-Laurent, where they found a letter from the parish
priest, directed to "The Worthy Officers of the British Army," praying
that they would protect the
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_208-V2" id="Page_208-V2">208<br />V2</a></span> 
sacred edifice, and also his own adjoining house, and adding, with somewhat 
needless civility, that he wished they had come sooner, that they might have 
enjoyed the asparagus and radishes of his garden, now unhappily going to seed. 
The letter concluded with many compliments and good wishes, in which the 
Britons to whom they were addressed saw only "the frothy politeness so 
peculiar to the French." The army marched westward and encamped. Wolfe, with 
his chief engineer, Major Mackellar, and an escort of light infantry, 
advanced to the extreme point of the island.</p>

<p>Here he could see, in part, the desperate nature of the task he had
undertaken. Before him, three or four miles away, Quebec sat perched
upon her rock, a congregation of stone houses, churches, palaces,
convents, and hospitals; the green trees of the Seminary garden and the
spires of the Cathedral, the Ursulines, the Recollets, and the Jesuits.
Beyond rose the loftier height of Cape Diamond, edged with palisades and
capped with redoubt and parapet. Batteries frowned everywhere; the
Ch&acirc;teau battery, the Clergy battery, the Hospital battery, on the 
rock above, and the Royal, Dauphin's, and Queen's batteries on the strand,
where the dwellings and warehouses of the lower town clustered beneath
the cliff.</p>

<p>Full in sight lay the far-extended camp of Montcalm, stretching from the
St. Charles, beneath the city walls, to the chasm and cataract of the
Montmorenci. From the cataract to the river of Beauport, its front was
covered by earthworks along 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_209-V2" id="Page_209-V2">209<br />V2</a></span> 
the brink of abrupt and lofty heights; and from the river of Beauport to 
the St. Charles, by broad flats of mud swept by the fire of redoubts, 
intrenchments, a floating battery, and the city itself. Above the city, 
Cape Diamond hid the view; but could Wolfe have looked beyond it, he would 
have beheld a prospect still more disheartening. Here, mile after mile, the 
St. Lawrence was walled by a range of steeps, often inaccessible, and always 
so difficult that a few men at the top could hold an army in check; while at 
Cap-Rouge, about eight miles distant, the high plateau was cleft by the 
channel of a stream which formed a line of defence as strong as that of the
Montmorenci. Quebec was a natural fortress. Bougainville had long before
examined the position, and reported that "by the help of intrenchments,
easily and quickly made, and defended by three or four thousand men, I
think the city would be safe. I do not believe that the English will
make any attempt against it; but they may have the madness to do so, and
it is well to be prepared against surprise."</p>

<p>Not four thousand men, but four times four thousand, now stood in its
defence; and their chiefs wisely resolved not to throw away the
advantages of their position. Nothing more was heard of Vaudreuil's bold
plan of attacking the invaders at their landing; and Montcalm had
declared that he would play the part, not of Hannibal, but of Fabius.
His plan was to avoid a general battle, run no risks, and protract the
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_210-V2" id="Page_210-V2">210<br />V2</a></span> 
defence till the resources of the enemy were exhausted, or till
approaching winter forced them to withdraw. Success was almost certain
but for one contingency. Amherst, with a force larger than that of
Wolfe, was moving against Ticonderoga. If he should capture it, and
advance into the colony, Montcalm would be forced to weaken his army by
sending strong detachments to oppose him. Here was Wolfe's best hope.
This failing, his only chance was in audacity. The game was desperate;
but, intrepid gamester as he was in war, he was a man, in the last
resort, to stake everything on the cast of the dice.</p>

<p>The elements declared for France. On the afternoon of the day when
Wolfe's army landed, a violent squall swept over the St. Lawrence,
dashed the ships together, drove several ashore, and destroyed many of
the flat-boats from which the troops had just disembarked. "I never saw
so much distress among shipping in my whole life," writes an officer to
a friend in Boston. Fortunately the storm subsided as quickly as it
rose. Vaudreuil saw that the hoped-for deliverance had failed; and as
the tempest had not destroyed the British fleet, he resolved to try the
virtue of his fireships. "I am afraid," says Montcalm, "that they have
cost us a million, and will be good for nothing after all." This
remained to be seen. Vaudreuil gave the chief command of them to a naval
officer named Delouche; and on the evening of the twenty-eighth, after
long consultation and much debate among their respective 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_211-V2" id="Page_211-V2">211<br />V2</a></span> 
captains, they set sail together at ten o'clock. The night was moonless and 
dark. In less than an hour they were at the entrance of the north channel.
Delouche had been all enthusiasm; but as he neared the danger his nerves
failed, and he set fire to his ship half an hour too soon, the rest
following his example. <span class="superscript">[714]</span></p>

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   <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_714" name="footer_714"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[714]</span>
Foligny, <i>Journal m&eacute;moratif. Vaudreuil au Ministre</i>, 
5 <i>Oct</i>. 1759. <i>Journal du Si&eacute;ge</i> (Biblioth&ecirc;que 
de Hartwell).</p>
</div>

<p>There was an English outpost at the Point of Orleans; and, about eleven
o'clock, the sentries descried through the gloom the ghostly outlines of
the approaching ships. As they gazed, these mysterious strangers began
to dart tongues of flame; fire ran like lightning up their masts and
sails, and then they burst out like volcanoes. Filled as they were with
pitch, tar, and every manner of combustible, mixed with fireworks,
bombs, grenades, and old cannon, swivels, and muskets loaded to the
throat, the effect was terrific. The troops at the Point, amazed at the
sudden eruption, the din of the explosions, and the showers of grapeshot
that rattled among the trees, lost their wits and fled. The blazing
dragons hissed and roared, spouted sheets of fire, vomited smoke in
black, pitchy volumes and vast illumined clouds, and shed their infernal
glare on the distant city, the tents of Montcalm, and the long red lines
of the British army, drawn up in array of battle, lest the French should
cross from their encampments to attack them in the confusion. Knox calls
the display "the grandest 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_212-V2" id="Page_212-V2">212<br />V2</a></span> 
fireworks that can possibly be conceived." Yet the fireships did no other 
harm than burning alive one of their own captains and six or seven of his 
sailors who failed to escape in their boats. Some of them ran ashore before 
reaching the fleet; the others were seized by the intrepid English sailors, 
who, approaching in their boats, threw grappling-irons upon them and towed 
them towards land, till they swung round and stranded. Here, after venting 
their fury for a while, they subsided into quiet conflagration, which lasted 
till morning. Vaudreuil watched the result of his experiment from the steeple
of the church at Beauport; then returned, dejected, to Quebec.</p>

<p>Wolfe longed to fight his enemy; but his sagacious enemy would not
gratify him. From the heights of Beauport, the rock of Quebec, or the
summit of Cape Diamond, Montcalm could look down on the river and its
shores as on a map, and watch each movement of the invaders. He was
hopeful, perhaps confident; and for a month or more he wrote almost
daily to Bourlamaque at Ticonderoga, in a cheerful, and often a jocose
vein, mingling orders and instructions with pleasantries and bits of
news. Yet his vigilance was unceasing. "We pass every night in bivouac,
or else sleep in our clothes. Perhaps you are doing as much, my dear
Bourlamaque." <span class="superscript">[715]</span></p>

<div class="footer">
   <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_715" name="footer_715"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[715]</span>
<i>Montcalm &agrave; Bourlamaque</i>, 27 <i>Juin</i>, 1759.
All these letters are before me.</p>
</div>

<p>Of the two commanders, Vaudreuil was the more sanguine, and professed
full faith that all 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_213-V2" id="Page_213-V2">213<br />V2</a></span> 
would go well. He too corresponded with Bourlamaque, to whom he gave his 
opinion, founded on the reports of deserters, that Wolfe had no chance of 
success unless Amherst should come to his aid. This he pronounced impossible; 
and he expressed a strong desire that the English would attack him, "so that 
we may rid ourselves of them at once." <span class="superscript">[716]</span>
He was courageous, except in the immediate presence of danger, and failed 
only when the crisis came.</p>

<div class="footer">
   <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_716" name="footer_716"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[716]</span>
<i>Vaudreuil &agrave; Bourlamaque</i>, 8 <i>Juillet</i>, 1759.</p>
</div>

<p>Wolfe, held in check at every other point, had one movement in his
power. He could seize the heights of Point Levi, opposite the city; and
this, along with his occupation of the Island of Orleans, would give him
command of the Basin of Quebec. Thence also he could fire on the place
across the St. Lawrence, which is here less than a mile wide. The
movement was begun on the afternoon of the twenty-ninth, when, shivering
in a north wind and a sharp frost, a part of Monckton's brigade was
ferried over to Beaumont, on the south shore, and the rest followed in
the morning. The rangers had a brush with a party of Canadians, whom
they drove off, and the regulars then landed unopposed. Monckton ordered
a proclamation, signed by Wolfe, to be posted on the door of the parish
church. It called on the Canadians, in peremptory terms, to stand
neutral in the contest, promised them, if they did so, full protection
in property and religion, and threatened that, if they presumed to
resist the invaders, their 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_214-V2" id="Page_214-V2">214<br />V2</a></span> 
houses, goods, and harvests should be destroyed, and their churches 
despoiled. As soon as the troops were out of sight the inhabitants 
took down the placard and carried it to Vaudreuil.</p>

<p>The brigade marched along the river road to Point Levi, drove off a body
of French and Indians posted in the church, and took possession of the
houses and the surrounding heights. In the morning they were intrenching
themselves, when they were greeted by a brisk fire from the edge of the
woods. It came from a party of Indians, whom the rangers presently put
to flight, and, imitating their own ferocity, scalped nine of them.
Wolfe came over to the camp on the next day, went with an escort to the
heights opposite Quebec, examined it with a spy-glass, and chose a
position from which to bombard it. Cannon and mortars were brought
ashore, fascines and gabions made, intrenchments thrown up, and
batteries planted. Knox came over from the main camp, and says that he
had "a most agreeable view of the city of Quebec. It is a very fair
object for our artillery, particularly the lower town." But why did
Wolfe wish to bombard it? Its fortifications were but little exposed to
his fire, and to knock its houses, convents, and churches to pieces
would bring him no nearer to his object. His guns at Point Levi could
destroy the city, but could not capture it; yet doubtless they would
have good moral effect, discourage the French, and cheer his own
soldiers with the flattering belief that they were achieving something.</p>

<p>
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_215-V2" id="Page_215-V2">215<br />V2</a></span> 
The guns of Quebec showered balls and bombs upon his workmen; but they
still toiled on, and the French saw the fatal batteries fast growing to
completion. The citizens, alarmed at the threatened destruction, begged
the Governor for leave to cross the river and dislodge their assailants.
At length he consented. A party of twelve or fifteen hundred was made up
of armed burghers, Canadians from the camp, a few Indians, some pupils
of the Seminary, and about a hundred volunteers from the regulars.
Dumas, an experienced officer, took command of them; and, going up to
Sillery, they crossed the river on the night of the twelfth of July.
They had hardly climbed the heights of the south shore when they grew
exceedingly nervous, though the enemy was still three miles off. The
Seminary scholars fired on some of their own party, whom they mistook
for English; and the same mishap was repeated a second and a third time.
A panic seized the whole body, and Dumas could not control them. They
turned and made for their canoes, rolling over each other as they rushed
down the heights, and reappeared at Quebec at six in the morning,
overwhelmed with despair and shame. <span class="superscript">[717]</span>
</p>

<div class="footer">
   <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_717" name="footer_717"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[717]</span>
<i>&Eacute;v&eacute;nements de la Guerre en Canada</i> (Hist. Soc. Quebec,
1861). <i>M&eacute;moires sur le Canada</i>, 1749-1760. 
<i>Vaudreuil au Ministre</i>, 5 <i>Oct</i>. 1759. 
<i>L'Abeille</i>, II. No. 14 (a publication of the Quebec Seminary).
<i>Journal du Si&eacute;ge de Qu&eacute;bec</i>  
(Biblioth&ecirc;que de Hartwell). 
Panet, <i>Journal du Si&eacute;ge</i>. 
Foligny, <i>Journal m&eacute;moratif. 
Memoirs of the Siege of Quebec, by John Johnson, Clerk and 
Quartermaster-Sergeant to the Fifty-eighth Regiment</i>.</p>
</div>

<p>The presentiment of the unhappy burghers proved too true. The English
batteries fell to 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_216-V2" id="Page_216-V2">216<br />V2</a></span> 
their work, and the families of the town fled to the country for safety. 
In a single day eighteen houses and the cathedral were burned by exploding 
shells; and fiercer and fiercer the storm of fire and iron hailed upon 
Quebec.</p>

<p>Wolfe did not rest content with distressing his enemy. With an ardor and
a daring that no difficulties could cool, he sought means to strike an
effective blow. It was nothing to lay Quebec in ruins if he could not
defeat the army that protected it. To land from boats and attack
Montcalm in front, through the mud of the Beauport flats or up the
heights along the neighboring shore, was an enterprise too rash even for
his temerity. It might, however, be possible to land below the cataract
of Montmorenci, cross that stream higher up, and strike the French army
in flank or rear; and he had no sooner secured his positions at the
points of Levi and Orleans, than he addressed himself to this attempt.</p>

<p>On the eighth several frigates and a bomb-ketch took their stations
before the camp of the Chevalier de L&eacute;vis, who, with his division of
Canadian militia, occupied the heights along the St. Lawrence just above
the cataract. Here they shelled and cannonaded him all day; though, from
his elevated position, with very little effect. Towards evening the
troops on the Point of Orleans broke up their camp. Major Hardy, with a
detachment of marines, was left to hold that post, while the rest
embarked at night in the boats of the fleet. They were the brigades of
Townshend and Murray, 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_217-V2" id="Page_217-V2">217<br />V2</a></span> 
consisting of five battalions, with a body of grenadiers, light infantry, 
and rangers,&mdash;in all three thousand men. They landed before daybreak 
in front of the parish of L'Ange Gardien, a little below the cataract. The 
only opposition was from a troop of Canadians and Indians, whom they routed, 
after some loss, climbed the heights, gained the plateau above, and began 
to intrench themselves. A company of rangers, supported by detachments of 
regulars, was sent into the neighboring forest to protect the parties who 
were cutting fascines, and apparently, also, to look for a fording-place.</p>

<p>L&eacute;vis, with his Scotch-Jacobite aide-de-camp, Johnstone, had watched the
movements of Wolfe from the heights across the cataract. Johnstone says
that he asked his commander if he was sure there was no ford higher up
on the Montmorenci, by which the English could cross. L&eacute;vis averred that
there was none, and that he himself had examined the stream to its
source; on which a Canadian who stood by whispered to the aide-de-camp:
"The General is mistaken; there is a ford." Johnstone told this to
L&eacute;vis, who would not believe it, and so browbeat the Canadian that he
dared not repeat what he had said. Johnstone, taking him aside, told him
to go and find somebody who had lately crossed the ford, and bring him
at once to the General's quarters; whereupon he soon reappeared with a
man who affirmed that he had crossed it the night before with a sack of
wheat on his back. A detachment was immediately 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_218-V2" id="Page_218-V2">218<br />V2</a></span> 
sent to the place, with orders to intrench itself, and Repentigny, lieutenant 
of L&eacute;vis, was posted not far off with eleven hundred Canadians.</p>

<p>Four hundred Indians passed the ford under the partisan Langlade,
discovered Wolfe's detachment, hid themselves, and sent their commander
to tell Repentigny that there was a body of English in the forest, who
might all be destroyed if he would come over at once with his Canadians.
Repentigny sent for orders to L&eacute;vis, and L&eacute;vis sent for orders to
Vaudreuil, whose quarters were three or four miles distant. Vaudreuil
answered that no risk should be run, and that he would come and see to
the matter himself. It was about two hours before he arrived; and
meanwhile the Indians grew impatient, rose from their hiding-place,
fired on the rangers, and drove them back with heavy loss upon the
regulars, who stood their ground, and at last repulsed the assailants.
The Indians recrossed the ford with thirty-six scalps. If Repentigny had
advanced, and L&eacute;vis had followed with his main body, the consequences to
the English might have been serious; for, as Johnstone remarks, "a
Canadian in the woods is worth three disciplined soldiers, as a soldier
in a plain is worth three Canadians." Vaudreuil called a council of war.
The question was whether an effort should be made to dislodge Wolfe's
main force. Montcalm and the Governor were this time of one mind, and
both thought it inexpedient to attack, with militia, a body of regular
troops whose numbers and position were imperfectly known. Bigot gave 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_219-V2" id="Page_219-V2">219<br />V2</a></span> 
his voice for the attack. He was overruled, and Wolfe was left to fortify
himself in peace. <span class="superscript">[718]</span></p>

<div class="footer">
   <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_718" name="footer_718"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[718]</span>
The above is from a comparison of the rather discordant accounts of Johnstone, 
the <i>Journal tenu &agrave; l'Arm&eacute;e,</i> the <i>Journal</i> of
Panet, and that of the Hartwell Library. The last says that L&eacute;vis
crossed the Montmorenci. If so, he accomplished nothing. This affair
should not be confounded with a somewhat similar one which took place on
the 26th.</p>
</div>

<p>His occupation of the heights of Montmorenci exposed him to great risks.
The left wing of his army at Point Levi was six miles from its right
wing at the cataract, and Major Hardy's detachment on the Point of
Orleans was between them, separated from each by a wide arm of the St.
Lawrence. Any one of the three camps might be overpowered before the
others could support it; and Hardy with his small force was above all in
danger of being cut to pieces. But the French kept persistently on the
defensive; and after the failure of Dumas to dislodge the English from
Point Levi, Vaudreuil would not hear of another such attempt. Wolfe was
soon well intrenched; but it was easier to defend himself than to strike
at his enemy. Montcalm, when urged to attack him, is said to have
answered: "Let him amuse himself where he is. If we drive him off he may
go to some place where he can do us harm." His late movement, however,
had a discouraging effect on the Canadians, who now for the first time
began to desert. His batteries, too, played across the chasm of
Montmorenci upon the left wing of the French army with an effect
extremely annoying.</p>

<p>The position of the hostile forces was a remarkable one. They were
separated by the vast gorge 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_220-V2" id="Page_220-V2">220<br />V2</a></span> 
that opens upon the St. Lawrence; an amphitheatre of lofty precipices, 
their brows crested with forests, and their steep brown sides scantily 
feathered with stunted birch and fir. Into this abyss leaps the 
Montmorenci with one headlong plunge of nearly two hundred and fifty 
feet, a living column of snowy white, with its spray, its foam, its 
mists, and its rainbows; then spreads itself in broad thin sheets over 
a floor of rock and gravel, and creeps tamely to the St. Lawrence. It 
was but a gunshot across the gulf, and the sentinels on each side 
watched each other over the roar and turmoil of the cataract. Captain 
Knox, coming one day from Point Levi to receive orders from Wolfe, 
improved a spare hour to visit this marvel of nature. "I had very nigh 
paid dear for my inquisitiveness; for while I stood on the eminence I 
was hastily called to by one of our sentinels, when, throwing my eyes 
about, I saw a Frenchman creeping under the eastern extremity of their 
breastwork to fire at me. This obliged me to retire as fast as I could 
out of his reach, and, making up to the sentry to thank him for his 
attention, he told me the fellow had snapped his piece twice, and the 
second time it flashed in the pan at the instant I turned away from 
the Fall." Another officer, less fortunate, had a leg broken by a shot 
from the opposite cliffs.</p>

<p>Day after day went by, and the invaders made no progress. Flags of truce
passed often between the hostile camps. "You will demolish the town, no
doubt," said the bearer of one of them, "but 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_221-V2" id="Page_221-V2">221<br />V2</a></span> 
you shall never get inside
of it." To which Wolfe replied: "I will have Quebec if I stay here till
the end of November." Sometimes the heat was intense, and sometimes
there were floods of summer rain that inundated the tents. Along the
river, from the Montmorenci to Point Levi, there were ceaseless
artillery fights between gunboats, frigates, and batteries on shore.
Bands of Indians infested the outskirts of the camps, killing sentries
and patrols. The rangers chased them through the woods; there were brisk
skirmishes, and scalps lost and won. Sometimes the regulars took part in
these forest battles; and once it was announced, in orders of the day,
that "the General has ordered two sheep and some rum to Captain Cosnan's
company of grenadiers for the spirit they showed this morning in pushing
those scoundrels of Indians." The Indians complained that the British
soldiers were learning how to fight, and no longer stood still in a mass
to be shot at, as in Braddock's time. The Canadian <i>coureurs-de-bois</i>
mixed with their red allies and wore their livery. One of them was
caught on the eighteenth. He was naked, daubed red and blue, and adorned
with a bunch of painted feathers dangling from the top of his head. He
and his companions used the scalping-knife as freely as the Indians
themselves; nor were the New England rangers much behind them in this
respect, till an order came from Wolfe forbidding "the inhuman practice
of scalping, except when the enemy are Indians, or Canadians dressed
like Indians."</p>

<p>
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_222-V2" id="Page_222-V2">222<br />V2</a></span> 
A part of the fleet worked up into the Basin, beyond the Point of
Orleans; and here, on the warm summer nights, officers and men watched
the cannon flashing and thundering from the heights of Montmorenci on
one side, and those of Pont Levi on the other, and the bombs sailing
through the air in fiery semicircles. Often the gloom was lighted up by
the blaze of the burning houses of Quebec, kindled by incendiary shells.
Both the lower and the upper town were nearly deserted by the
inhabitants, some retreating into the country, and some into the suburb
of St. Roch; while the Ursulines and Hospital nuns abandoned their
convents to seek harborage beyond the range of shot. The city was a prey
to robbers, who pillaged the empty houses, till an order came from
headquarters promising the gallows to all who should be caught. News
reached the French that Niagara was attacked, and that the army of
Amherst was moving against Ticonderoga. The Canadians deserted more and
more. They were disheartened by the defensive attitude in which both
Vaudreuil and Montcalm steadily persisted; and accustomed as they were
to rapid raids, sudden strokes, and a quick return to their homes, they
tired of long weeks of inaction. The English patrols caught one of them
as he was passing the time in fishing. "He seemed to be a subtle old
rogue," says Knox, "of seventy years of age, as he told us. We plied him
well with port wine, and then his heart was more open; and seeing that
we laughed at the exaggerated accounts he 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_223-V2" id="Page_223-V2">223<br />V2</a></span> 
had given us, he said he 'wished the affair was well over, one way or the 
other; that his countrymen were all discontented, and would either surrender, 
or disperse and act a neutral part, if it were not for the persuasions of
their priests and the fear of being maltreated by the savages, with whom
they are threatened on all occasions.'" A deserter reported on the
nineteenth of July that nothing but dread of the Indians kept the
Canadians in the camp.</p>

<p>Wolfe's proclamation, at first unavailing, was now taking effect. A
large number of Canadian prisoners, brought in on the twenty-fifth,
declared that their countrymen would gladly accept his offers but for
the threats of their commanders that if they did so the Indians should
be set upon them. The prisoners said further that "they had been under
apprehension for several days past of having a body of four hundred
barbarians sent to rifle their parish and habitations."
<span class="superscript">[719]</span> Such threats were not wholly 
effectual. A French chronicler of the time says: "The Canadians showed 
their disgust every day, and deserted at every opportunity, in spite of 
the means taken to prevent them." "The people were intimidated, seeing 
all our army kept in one body and solely on the defensive; while the 
English, though far less numerous, divided their forces, and undertook 
various bold enterprises without meeting resistance." 
<span class="superscript">[720]</span></p>

<div class="footer">
   <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_719" name="footer_719"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[719]</span>
Knox, I. 347; compare pp. 339, 341, 346.</p>
  <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_720" name="footer_720"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[720]</span>
<i>Journal du Si&eacute;ge</i> (Biblioth&ecirc;que de Hartwell).</p>
</div>

<p>On the eighteenth the English accomplished a feat which promised
important results. The 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_224-V2" id="Page_224-V2">224<br />V2</a></span> 
French commanders had thought it impossible for any hostile ship to pass 
the batteries of Quebec; but about eleven o'clock at night, favored by the 
wind, and covered by a furious cannonade from Point Levi, the ship 
"Sutherland," with a frigate and several small vessels, sailed safely by 
and reached the river above the town. Here they at once attacked and 
destroyed a fireship and some small craft that they found there. Now, for 
the first time, it became necessary for Montcalm to weaken his army at 
Beauport by sending six hundred men, under Dumas, to defend the accessible 
points in the line of precipices between Quebec and Cap-Rouge. Several 
hundred more were sent on the next day, when it became known that the 
English had dragged a fleet of boats over Point Levi, launched them above 
the town, and despatched troops to embark in them. Thus a new feature was 
introduced into the siege operations, and danger had risen on a side where 
the French thought themselves safe. On the other hand, Wolfe had become more
vulnerable than ever. His army was now divided, not into three parts,
but into four, each so far from the rest that, in case of sudden attack,
it must defend itself alone. That Montcalm did not improve his
opportunity was apparently due to want of confidence in his militia.</p>

<p>The force above the town did not lie idle. On the night of the
twentieth, Colonel Carleton, with six hundred men, rowed eighteen miles
up the river, and landed at Pointe-aux-Trembles, on the north shore.
Here some of the families of Quebec 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_225-V2" id="Page_225-V2">225<br />V2</a></span> 
had sought asylum; and Wolfe had been told by prisoners that not only were 
stores in great quantity to be found here, but also letters and papers 
throwing light on the French plans. Carleton and his men drove off a band of 
Indians who fired on them, and spent a quiet day around the parish church; 
but found few papers, and still fewer stores. They withdrew towards evening, 
carrying with them nearly a hundred women, children, and old men; any they 
were no sooner gone than the Indians returned to plunder the empty houses of
their unfortunate allies. The prisoners were treated with great kindness. 
The ladies among them were entertained at supper by Wolfe, who jested with 
them on the caution of the French generals, saying: "I have given good 
chances to attack me, and am surprised that they have not profited by them." 
<span class="superscript">[721]</span> On the next day the prisoners were all 
sent to Quebec under a flag of truce.</p>

<div class="footer">
   <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_721" name="footer_721"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[721]</span>
<i>Journal tenu &agrave; l'Arm&eacute;e que commandoit feu M. le Marquis
de Montcalm.</i></p>
</div>

<p>Thus far Wolfe had refrained from executing the threats he had affixed
the month before to the church of Beaumont. But now he issued another
proclamation. It declared that the Canadians had shown themselves
unworthy of the offers he had made them, and that he had therefore
ordered his light troops to ravage their country and bring them
prisoners to his camp. Such of the Canadian militia as belonged to the
parishes near Quebec were now in a sad dilemma; for Montcalm threatened
them on one side, and 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_226-V2" id="Page_226-V2">226<br />V2</a></span> 
Wolfe on the other. They might desert to their homes, or they might stand 
by their colors; in the one case their houses were to be burned by French 
savages, and in the other by British light infantry.</p>

<p>Wolfe at once gave orders in accord with his late proclamation; but he
commanded that no church should be profaned, and no woman or child
injured. The first effects of his stern policy are thus recorded by
Knox: "Major Dalling's light infantry brought in this afternoon to our
camp two hundred and fifty male and female prisoners. Among this number
was a very respectable looking priest, and about forty men fit to bear
arms. There was almost an equal number of black cattle, with about
seventy sheep and lambs, and a few horses. Brigadier Monckton
entertained the reverend father and some other fashionable personages in
his tent, and most humanely ordered refreshments to all the rest of the
captives; which noble example was followed by the soldiery, who
generously crowded about those unhappy people, sharing the provisions,
rum, and tobacco with them. They were sent in the evening on board of
transports in the river." Again, two days later: "Colonel Fraser's
detachment returned this morning, and presented us with more scenes of
distress and the dismal consequences of war, by a great number of
wretched families, whom they brought in prisoners, with some of their
effects, and near three hundred black cattle, sheep, hogs, and horses."</p>

<p>
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_227-V2" id="Page_227-V2">227<br />V2</a></span> 
On the next night the attention of the excellent journalist was
otherwise engaged. Vaudreuil tried again to burn the English fleet.
"Late last night," writes Knox, under date of the twenty-eighth, "the
enemy sent down a most formidable fireraft, which consisted of a parcel
of schooners, shallops, and stages chained together. It could not be
less than a hundred fathoms in length, and was covered with grenades,
old swivels, gun and pistol barrels loaded up to their muzzles, and
various other inventions and combustible matters. This seemed to be
their last attempt against our fleet, which happily miscarried, as
before; for our gallant seamen, with their usual expertness, grappled
them before they got down above a third part of the Basin, towed them
safe to shore, and left them at anchor, continually repeating, <i>All's
well</i>. A remarkable expression from some of these intrepid souls to
their comrades on this occasion I must not omit, on account of its
singular uncouthness; namely: 'Damme, Jack, didst thee ever take hell in
tow before?'"</p>

<p>According to a French account, this aquatic infernal machine consisted
of seventy rafts, boats, and schooners. Its failure was due to no
shortcoming on the part of its conductors; who, under a brave Canadian
named Courval, acted with coolness and resolution. Nothing saved the
fleet but the courage of the sailors, swarming out in their boats to
fight the approaching conflagration.</p>

<p>It was now the end of July. More than half the summer was gone, and
Quebec seemed as far 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_228-V2" id="Page_228-V2">228<br />V2</a></span> 
as ever beyond the grasp of Wolfe. Its buildings
were in ruins, and the neighboring parishes were burned and ravaged; but
its living rampart, the army of Montcalm, still lay in patient defiance
along the shores of Beauport, while above the city every point where a
wildcat could climb the precipices was watched and guarded, and Dumas
with a thousand men held the impregnable heights of Cap-Rouge. Montcalm
persisted in doing nothing that his enemy wished him to do. He would not
fight on Wolfe's terms, and Wolfe resolved at last to fight him on his
own; that is, to attack his camp in front.</p>

<p>The plan was desperate; for, after leaving troops enough to hold Point
Levi and the heights of Montmorenci, less than five thousand men would
be left to attack a position of commanding strength, where Montcalm at
an hour's notice could collect twice as many to oppose them. But Wolfe
had a boundless trust in the disciplined valor of his soldiers, and an
utter scorn of the militia who made the greater part of his enemy's
force.</p>

<p>Towards the Montmorenci the borders of the St. Lawrence are, as we have
seen, extremely high and steep. At a mile from the gorge of the cataract
there is, at high tide, a strand, about the eighth of a mile wide, between 
the foot of these heights and the river; and beyond this strand the receding 
tide lays bare a tract of mud nearly half a mile wide. At the edge of the 
dry ground the French had built a redoubt mounted with cannon, 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_229-V2" id="Page_229-V2">229<br />V2</a></span> 
and there were other similar works on the strand a quarter of a
mile nearer the cataract. Wolfe could not see from the river that these
redoubts were commanded by the musketry of the intrenchments along the
brink of the heights above. These intrenchments were so constructed that
they swept with cross-fires the whole face of the declivity, which was
covered with grass, and was very steep. Wolfe hoped that, if he attacked
one of the redoubts, the French would come down to defend it, and so
bring on a general engagement; or, if they did not, that he should gain
an opportunity of reconnoitring the heights to find some point where
they could be stormed with a chance of success.</p>

<p>In front of the gorge of the Montmorenci there was a ford during several
hours of low tide, so that troops from the adjoining English camp might
cross to co-operate with their comrades landing in boats from Point Levi
and the Island of Orleans. On the morning of the thirty-first of July,
the tide then being at the flood, the French saw the ship "Centurion,"
of sixty-four guns, anchor near the Montmorenci and open fire on the
redoubts. Then two armed transports, each of fourteen guns, stood in as
close as possible to the first redoubt and fired upon it, stranding as
the tide went out, till in the afternoon they lay bare upon the mud. At
the same time a battery of more than forty heavy pieces, planted on the
lofty promontory beyond the Montmorenci, began a furious cannonade upon
the flank of the French intrenchments. 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_230-V2" id="Page_230-V2">230<br />V2</a></span> 
It did no great harm, however, for the works were protected by a great 
number of traverses, which stopped the shot; and the Canadians, who 
manned this part of the lines, held their ground with excellent 
steadiness.</p>

<p>About eleven o'clock a fleet of boats filled with troops, chiefly from
Point Levi, appeared in the river and hovered off the shore west of the
parish church of Beauport, as if meaning to land there. Montcalm was
perplexed, doubting whether the real attack was to be made here, or
toward the Montmorenci. Hour after hour the boats moved to and fro, to
increase his doubts and hide the real design; but he soon became
convinced that the camp of L&eacute;vis at the Montmorenci was the true 
object of his enemy; and about two o'clock he went thither, greeted as 
he rode along the lines by shouts of <i>Vive notre G&eacute;n&eacute;ral!</i> 
L&eacute;vis had already made preparations for defence with his usual skill. 
His Canadians were reinforced by the battalions of B&eacute;arn, Guienne, 
and Royal Roussillon; and, as the intentions of Wolfe became certain, the 
right of the camp was nearly abandoned, the main strength of the army being 
gathered between the river of Beauport and the Montmorenci, where, according 
to a French writer, there were, towards the end of the afternoon, about
twelve thousand men. <span class="superscript">[722]</span></p>


<div class="footer">
   <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_722" name="footer_722"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[722]</span>
Panet, <i>Journal</i>.</p>
</div>

<p>At half-past five o'clock the tide was out, and the crisis came. The
batteries across the Montmorenci, the distant batteries of Point Levi, the 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_231-V2" id="Page_231-V2">231<br />V2</a></span> 
cannon of the "Centurion," and those of the two stranded ships, all
opened together with redoubled fury. The French batteries replied; and,
amid this deafening roar of artillery, the English boats set their
troops ashore at the edge of the broad tract of sedgy mud that the
receding river had left bare. At the same time a column of two thousand
men was seen, a mile away, moving in perfect order across the
Montmorenci ford. The first troops that landed from the boats were
thirteen companies of grenadiers and a detachment of Royal Americans.
They dashed swiftly forward; while at some distance behind came
Monckton's brigade, composed of the fifteenth, or Amherst's regiment,
and the seventy-eighth, or Fraser's Highlanders. The day had been fair
and warm; but the sky was now thick with clouds, and large rain-drops
began to fall, the precursors of a summer storm.</p>

<p>With the utmost precipitation, without orders, and without waiting for
Monckton's brigade to come up, the grenadiers in front made a rush for
the redoubt near the foot of the hill. The French abandoned it; but the
assailants had no sooner gained their prize than the thronged heights
above blazed with musketry, and a tempest of bullets fell among them.
Nothing daunted, they dashed forward again, reserving their fire, and
struggling to climb the steep ascent; while, with yells and shouts of
<i>Vive le Roi!</i> the troops and Canadians at the top poured upon them a
hailstorm of musket-balls and buckshot, and dead and wounded in 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_232-V2" id="Page_232-V2">232<br />V2</a></span> 
numbers rolled together down the slope. At that instant the clouds burst, 
and the rain fell in torrents. "We could not see half way down the hill,"
says the Chevalier Johnstone, who was at this part of the line.
Ammunition was wet on both sides, and the grassy steeps became so
slippery that it was impossible to climb them. The English say that the
storm saved the French; the French, with as much reason, that it saved
the English.</p>

<p>The baffled grenadiers drew back into the redoubt. Wolfe saw the madness
of persisting, and ordered a retreat. The rain ceased, and troops of
Indians came down the heights to scalp the fallen. Some of them ran
towards Lieutenant Peyton, of the Royal Americans, as he lay disabled by
a musket-shot. With his double-barrelled gun he brought down two of his
assailants, when a Highland sergeant snatched him in his arms, dragged
him half a mile over the mud-flats, and placed him in one of the boats.
A friend of Peyton, Captain Ochterlony, had received a mortal wound, and
an Indian would have scalped him but for the generous intrepidity of a
soldier of the battalion of Guienne; who, seizing the enraged savage,
held him back till several French officers interposed, and had the dying
man carried to a place of safety.</p>

<p>The English retreated in good order, after setting fire to the two
stranded vessels. Those of the grenadiers and Royal Americans who were
left alive rowed for the Point of Orleans; the fifteenth regiment rowed
for Point Levi; and the 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_233-V2" id="Page_233-V2">233<br />V2</a></span> 
Highlanders, led by Wolfe himself, joined the column from beyond the 
Montmorenci, placing themselves in its rear as it slowly retired along 
the flats and across the ford, the Indians yelling and the French 
shouting from the heights, while the British waved their hats, daring 
them to come down and fight.</p>

<p>The grenadiers and the Royal Americans, who had borne the brunt of the
fray, bore also nearly all the loss; which, in proportion to their
numbers, was enormous. Knox reports it at four hundred and forty-three,
killed, wounded, and missing, including one colonel, eight captains,
twenty-one lieutenants, and three ensigns.</p>

<p>Vaudreuil, delighted, wrote to Bourlamaque an account of the affair. "I
have no more anxiety about Quebec. M. Wolfe, I can assure you, will make
no progress. Luckily for him, his prudence saved him from the
consequences of his mad enterprise, and he contented himself with losing
about five hundred of his best soldiers. Deserters say that he will try
us again in a few days. That is what we want; he'll find somebody to
talk to (<i>il trouvera &agrave; qui parler</i>)."</p>

<div class="footer">
   <p class="double-space-top">
        <a id="footer_25Note" name="footer_25Note"></a>
<span class="smcap">Note</span>.&mdash;Among the killed in this affair 
was Edward Botwood, sergeant in the grenadiers of the forty-seventh, or 
Lascelles' regiment. "Ned Botwood" was well known among his comrades as 
a poet; and the following lines of his, written on the eve of the expedition 
to Quebec, continued to be favorites with the British troops during the War 
of the Revolution (see <i>Historical Magazine</i>, II., First Series, 164). 
It may be observed here that the war produced a considerable quantity of 
indifferent verse on both sides. On that of the English it took the shape of 
occasional ballads, such as "Bold General Wolfe," printed on broadsides, or 
of patriotic effusions scattered through magazines and newspapers, while
the French celebrated all their victories with songs.</p>
</div>

<p class="center double-space-top">
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_234-V2" id="Page_234-V2">234<br />V2</a></span>
HOT STUFF.<br /><br />
<span class="smcap">Air</span>,&mdash;<i>Lilies of France</i>.
<br /><br />
</p>

<div class="poem1 small">
<p class="poem1 indent30">Come, each death-doing dog who dares venture his neck,</p>
<p class="poem1 indent30">Come, follow the hero that goes to Quebec;</p>
<p class="poem1 indent30">Jump aboard of the transports, and loose every sail,</p>
<p class="poem1 indent30">Pay your debts at the tavern by giving leg-bail;</p>
<p class="poem1 indent30">And ye that love fighting shall soon have enough:</p>
<p class="poem1 indent30">Wolfe commands us, my boys; we shall give them Hot Stuff.<br /><br /></p>
<p class="poem1 indent30">Up the River St. Lawrence our troops shall advance,</p>
<p class="poem1 indent30">To the Grenadiers' March we will teach them to dance.</p>
<p class="poem1 indent30">Cape Breton we have taken, and next we will try</p>
<p class="poem1 indent30">At their capital to give them another black eye.</p>
<p class="poem1 indent30">Vaudreuil, 't is in vain you pretend to look gruff,&mdash;</p>
<p class="poem1 indent30">Those are coming who know how to give you Hot Stuff.<br /><br /></p>
<p class="poem1 indent30">With powder in his periwig, and snuff in his nose,</p>
<p class="poem1 indent30">Monsieur will run down our descent to oppose;</p>
<p class="poem1 indent30">And the Indians will come: but the light infantry</p>
<p class="poem1 indent30">Will soon oblige <i>them</i> to betake to a tree.</p>
<p class="poem1 indent30">From such rascals as these may we fear a rebuff?</p>
<p class="poem1 indent30">Advance, grenadiers, and let fly your Hot Stuff!<br /><br /></p>
<p class="poem1 indent30">When the forty-seventh regiment is dashing ashore,</p>
<p class="poem1 indent30">While bullets are whistling and cannons do roar,</p>
<p class="poem1 indent30">Says Montcalm: "Those are Shirley's&mdash;I know the lappels."</p>
<p class="poem1 indent30">"You lie," says Ned Botwood, "we belong to Lascelles'!</p>
<p class="poem1 indent30">Tho' our cloathing is changed, yet we scorn a powder-puff;</p>
<p class="poem1 indent30">So at you, ye b&mdash;&mdash;s, here's give you Hot Stuff."</p>
</div>

<div class="footer">
<p class="double-space-top">
On the repulse at Montmorenci, <i>Wolfe to Pitt</i>, 2 <i>Sept</i>. 1759. 
<i>Vaudreuil au Ministre</i>, 5 <i>Oct</i>. 1759. 
Panet, <i>Journal du Si&eacute;ge</i>. Johnstone, <i>Dialogue in Hades. 
Journal tenu &agrave; l'Arm&eacute;e</i>, etc. 
<i>Journal of the Siege of Quebec, by a Gentleman in an eminent Station on 
the Spot. M&eacute;moires sur le Canada</i>, 1749-1760. 
Fraser, <i>Journal of the Siege. 
Journal du Si&eacute;ge d'apr&egrave;s un MS. d&eacute;pos&eacute; &agrave; 
la Biblioth&ecirc;que Hartwell</i>. 
Foligny, <i>Journal m&eacute;moratif. 
Journal of Transactions at the Siege of Quebec</i>, in <i>Notes
and Queries</i>, XX. 164. John Johnson, <i>Memoirs of the Siege of Quebec.
Journal of an Expedition on the River St. Lawrence. 
An Authentic Account of the Expedition against Quebec, by a Volunteer on 
that Expedition. 
J. Gibson to Governor Lawrence</i>, 1 <i>Aug</i>. 1759. 
Knox, I. 354. Mante, 244.</p>
</div>



<hr />
<div class="chapterhead">
   <br /><a name="Chapter_26" id="Chapter_26"></a>
	 <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_235-V2" id="Page_235-V2">235<br />V2</a></span> 
	 <br /><br /><br />
	 <h2><a href="#Contents26">CHAPTER XXVI.</a><br />
	 <span class="med">1759.</span>
	 </h2> 
	 <p class="smcapheader">AMHERST. NIAGARA.</p>
	 <p class="smcap noindent space-bottom">	
	    Amherst on Lake George &bull; 
			Capture of Ticonderoga and Crown Point &bull; 
			Delays of Amherst &bull; Niagara Expedition &bull; 
			La Corne attacks Oswego &bull; His Repulse &bull; Niagara besieged &bull;
			Aubry comes to its Relief &bull; Battle &bull; 
			Rout of the French &bull; The Fort taken &bull; Isle-aux-Noix &bull;
			Amherst advances to attack it &bull; Storm &bull; 
			The Enterprise abandoned &bull; Rogers attacks St. Francis &bull;
			Destroys the Town &bull; Sufferings of the Rangers.
	 </p>
	 <p class="break1"></p> 
</div>

<p class="double-space-top">
<span class="smcap">Pitt</span> 
had directed that, while Quebec was attacked, an attempt should be
made to penetrate into Canada by way of Ticonderoga and Crown Point.
Thus the two armies might unite in the heart of the colony, or, at
least, a powerful diversion might be effected in behalf of Wolfe. At the
same time Oswego was to be re-established, and the possession of Fort
Duquesne, or Pittsburg, secured by reinforcements and supplies; while
Amherst, the commander-in-chief, was further directed to pursue any
other enterprise which in his opinion would weaken the enemy, without
detriment to the main objects of the campaign.
<span class="superscript">[723]</span> He accordingly resolved to attempt 
the capture of Niagara. Brigadier Prideaux was charged with 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_236-V2" id="Page_236-V2">236<br />V2</a></span> 
this stroke; Brigadier Stanwix was sent to conduct the operations for 
the relief of Pittsburg; and Amherst himself prepared to lead the 
grand central advance against Ticonderoga, Crown Point, and Montreal. 
<span class="superscript">[724]</span></p>

<div class="footer">
   <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_723" name="footer_723"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[723]</span>
<i>Pitt to Amherst</i>, 23 <i>Jan</i>., 10 <i>March</i>, 1759.</p>
   <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_724" name="footer_724"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[724]</span>
<i>Amherst to Pitt</i>, 19 <i>June</i>, 1759. 
<i>Amherst to Stanwix</i>, 6 <i>May</i>, 1759.</p>
</div>

<p>Towards the end of June he reached that valley by the head of Lake
George which for five years past had been the annual mustering-place of
armies. Here were now gathered about eleven thousand men, half regulars
and half provincials, <span class="superscript">[725]</span>
drilling every day, firing by platoons, firing at marks, practising 
man&oelig;uvres in the woods; going out on scouting parties, bathing 
parties, fishing parties; gathering wild herbs to serve for greens, 
cutting brushwood and meadow hay to make hospital beds. The sick were 
ordered on certain mornings to repair to the
surgeon's tent, there, in prompt succession, to swallow such doses as he
thought appropriate to their several ailments; and it was further
ordered that "every fair day they that can walk be paraded together and
marched down to the lake to wash their hands and faces." Courts-martial
were numerous; culprits were flogged at the head of each regiment in
turn, and occasionally one was shot. A frequent employment was the
cutting of spruce tops to make spruce beer. This innocent beverage was
reputed sovereign against scurvy; and such was the fame of its virtues
that a copious supply of the West Indian molasses used in concocting it
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_237-V2" id="Page_237-V2">237<br />V2</a></span> 
was thought indispensable to every army or garrison in the wilderness.
Throughout this campaign it is repeatedly mentioned in general orders,
and the soldiers are promised that they shall have as much of it as they
want at a halfpenny a quart. <span class="superscript">[726]</span>
</p>

<div class="footer">
   <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_725" name="footer_725"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[725]</span>
Mante, 210.</p>
   <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_726" name="footer_726"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[726]</span>
<i>Orderly Book of Commissary Wilson in the Expedition against Ticonderoga</i>, 
1759. <i>Journal of Samuel Warner, a Massachusetts Soldier</i>, 1759. 
<i>General and Regimental Orders, Army of Major-General Amherst</i>, 1759. 
<i>Diary of Sergeant Merriman, of Ruggles's Regiment</i>, 1759.
I owe to William L. Stone, Esq., the use of the last two curious
documents.</p>
</div>

<p>The rear of the army was well protected from insult. Fortified posts
were built at intervals of three or four miles along the road to Fort
Edward, and especially at the station called Half-way Brook; while, for
the whole distance, a broad belt of wood on both sides was cut down and
burned, to deprive a skulking enemy of cover. Amherst was never long in
one place without building a fort there. He now began one, which proved
wholly needless, on that flat rocky hill where the English made their
intrenched camp during the siege of Fort William Henry. Only one bastion
of it was ever finished, and this is still shown to tourists under the
name of Fort George.</p>

<p>The army embarked on Saturday, the twenty-first of July. The Reverend
Benjamin Pomeroy watched their departure in some concern, and wrote on
Monday to Abigail, his wife: "I could wish for more appearance of
dependence on God than was observable among them; yet I hope God will
grant deliverance unto Israel by them." There was another military
pageant, another long procession of boats and banners, among the
mountains 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_238-V2" id="Page_238-V2">238<br />V2</a></span> 
and islands of Lake George. Night found them near the outlet;
and here they lay till morning, tossed unpleasantly on waves ruffled by
a summer gale. At daylight they landed, beat back a French detachment,
and marched by the portage road to the saw-mill at the waterfall. There
was little resistance. They occupied the heights, and then advanced to
the famous line of intrenchment against which the army of Abercromby had
hurled itself in vain. These works had been completely reconstructed,
partly of earth, and partly of logs. Amherst's followers were less
numerous than those of his predecessor, while the French commander,
Bourlamaque, had a force nearly equal to that of Montcalm in the summer
before; yet he made no attempt to defend the intrenchment, and the
English, encamping along its front, found it an excellent shelter from
the cannon of the fort beyond.</p>

<p>Amherst brought up his artillery and began approaches in form, when, on
the night of the twenty-third, it was found that Bourlamaque had retired
down Lake Champlain, leaving four hundred men under Hebecourt to defend
the place as long as possible. This was in obedience to an order from
Vaudreuil, requiring him on the approach of the English to abandon both
Ticonderoga and Crown Point, retreat to the outlet of Lake Champlain,
take post at Isle-aux-Noix, and there defend himself to the last
extremity; <span class="superscript">[727]</span> a course 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_239-V2" id="Page_239-V2">239<br />V2</a></span> 
unquestionably the best that could have been taken, since obstinacy in 
holding Ticonderoga might have involved the surrender of Bourlamaque's 
whole force, while Isle-aux-Noix offered rare advantages for defence.</p>

<div class="footer">
   <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_727" name="footer_727"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[727]</span>
<i>Vaudreuil au Ministre</i>, 8 <i>Nov</i>. 1759. <i>Instructions pour M.
de Bourlamaque</i>, 20 <i>Mai</i>, 1759, <i>sign&eacute; Vaudreuil. 
Montcalm &agrave; Bourlamaque</i>, 4 <i>Juin</i>, 1759.</p>
</div>

<p>The fort fired briskly; a cannon-shot killed Colonel Townshend, and a
few soldiers were killed and wounded by grape and bursting shells; when,
at dusk on the evening of the twenty-sixth, an unusual movement was seen
among the garrison, and, about ten o'clock, three deserters came in
great excitement to the English camp. They reported that Hebecourt and
his soldiers were escaping in their boats, and that a match was burning
in the magazine to blow Ticonderoga to atoms. Amherst offered a hundred
guineas to any one of them who would point out the match, that it might
be cut; but they shrank from the perilous venture. All was silent till
eleven o'clock, when a broad, fierce glare burst on the night, and a
roaring explosion shook the promontory; then came a few breathless
moments, and then the fragments of Fort Ticonderoga fell with clatter
and splash on the water and the land. It was but one bastion, however,
that had been thus hurled skyward. The rest of the fort was little
hurt, though the barracks and other combustible parts were set on fire,
and by the light the French flag was seen still waving on the
rampart. <span class="superscript">[728]</span>
A sergeant of the light infantry, 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_240-V2" id="Page_240-V2">240<br />V2</a></span> 
braving the risk of other explosions, went and brought it off. Thus did this 
redoubted stronghold of France fall at last into English hands, as in all
likelihood it would have done a year sooner, if Amherst had commanded in
Abercromby's place; for, with the deliberation that marked all his
proceedings, he would have sat down before Montcalm's wooden wall and
knocked it to splinters with his cannon.</p>


<div class="footer">
   <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_728" name="footer_728"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[728]</span>
<i>Journal of Colonel Amherst</i> (brother of General Amherst). 
<i>Vaudreuil au Ministre</i>, 8 <i>Nov</i>. 1759. 
<i>Amherst to Prideaux</i>, 28 <i>July</i>, 1759. 
<i>Amherst to Pitt</i>, 27 <i>July</i>, 1759. 
Mante, 213. Knox, I., 397-403. 
<i>Vaudreuil &agrave; Bourlamaque</i>, 19 <i>Juin</i>, 1759.</p>
</div>


<p>He now set about repairing the damaged works and making ready to advance
on Crown Point; when on the first of August his scouts told him that the
enemy had abandoned this place also, and retreated northward down the
lake. <span class="superscript">[729]</span> Well pleased, he took possession 
of the deserted fort, and, in the animation of success, thought for a moment 
of keeping the promise he had given to Pitt "to make an irruption into Canada 
with the utmost vigor and despatch." <span class="superscript">[730]</span>
Wolfe, his brother in arms and his friend, was battling with the impossible 
under the rocks of Quebec, and every motive, public and private, impelled 
Amherst to push to his relief, not counting costs, or balancing risks too 
nicely. He was ready enough to spur on others, for he wrote to Gage: "We must 
all be alert and active day and night; if we all do our parts the French must 
fall;" <span class="superscript">[731]</span> but, far from doing his, he set 
the army to building a new fort at Crown Point, telling them that it would 
"give plenty, 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_241-V2" id="Page_241-V2">241<br />V2</a></span> 
peace, and quiet to His Majesty's subjects for ages to come." 
<span class="superscript">[732]</span> Then he began three small
additional forts, as outworks to the first, sent two parties to explore
the sources of the Hudson; one party to explore Otter Creek; another to
explore South Bay, which was already well known; another to make a road
across what is now the State of Vermont, from Crown Point to
Charlestown, or "Number Four," on the Connecticut; and another to widen
and improve the old French road between Crown Point and Ticonderoga. His
industry was untiring; a great deal of useful work was done: but the
essential task of making a diversion to aid the army of Wolfe was
needlessly postponed.</p>

<div class="footer">
   <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_729" name="footer_729"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[729]</span>
<i>Amherst to Pitt</i>, 5 <i>Aug</i>. 1759.</p>
   <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_730" name="footer_730"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[730]</span>
<i>Ibid.</i>, 19 <i>June</i>, 1759.</p>
   <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_731" name="footer_731"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[731]</span>
<i>Amherst to Gage</i>, 1 <i>Aug</i>. 1759.</p>
   <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_732" name="footer_732"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[732]</span>
<i>General Orders</i>, 13 <i>Aug</i>. 1759.</p>
</div>

<p>It is true that some delay was inevitable. The French had four armed
vessels on the lake, and this made it necessary to provide an equal or
superior force to protect the troops on their way to Isle-aux-Noix.
Captain Loring, the English naval commander, was therefore ordered to
build a brigantine; and, this being thought insufficient, he was
directed to add a kind of floating battery, moved by sweeps. Three weeks
later, in consequence of farther information concerning the force of the
French vessels, Amherst ordered an armed sloop to be put on the stocks;
and this involved a long delay. The saw-mill at Ticonderoga was to
furnish planks for the intended navy; but, being overtasked in sawing
timber for the new works at Crown Point, it was continually breaking
down. Hence much time was lost, and autumn was 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_242-V2" id="Page_242-V2">242<br />V2</a></span> 
well advanced before Loring could launch his vessels. 
<span class="superscript">[733]</span>
</p>

<div class="footer">
   <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_733" name="footer_733"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[733]</span>
<i>Amherst to Pitt</i>, 22 <i>Oct</i>. 1759. This letter, which is in
the form of a journal, covers twenty-one folio pages.</p>
</div>

<p>Meanwhile news had come from Prideaux and the Niagara expedition. That
officer had been ordered to ascend the Mohawk with five thousand
regulars and provincials, leave a strong garrison at Fort Stanwix, on
the Great Carrying Place, establish posts at both ends of Lake Oneida,
descend the Onondaga to Oswego, leave nearly half his force there under
Colonel Haldimand, and proceed with the rest to attack Niagara.
<span class="superscript">[734]</span>
These orders he accomplished. Haldimand remained to reoccupy the spot
that Montcalm had made desolate three years before; and, while preparing
to build a fort, he barricaded his camp with pork and flour barrels,
lest the enemy should make a dash upon him from their station at the
head of the St. Lawrence Rapids. Such an attack was probable; for if the
French could seize Oswego, the return of Prideaux from Niagara would be
cut off, and when his small stock of provisions had failed, he would be
reduced to extremity. Saint-Luc de la Corne left the head of the Rapids
early in July with a thousand French and Canadians and a body of
Indians, who soon made their appearance among the stumps and bushes that
surrounded the camp at Oswego. The priest Piquet was of the party; and
five deserters declared that he solemnly blessed them, and told them to
give the English no quarter. <span class="superscript">[735]</span> Some 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_243-V2" id="Page_243-V2">243<br />V2</a></span> 
valuable time was lost in bestowing the benediction; yet Haldimand's men 
were taken by surprise. Many of them were dispersed in the woods, cutting 
timber for the intended fort; and it might have gone hard with them had 
not some of La Corne's Canadians become alarmed and rushed back to their boats,
oversetting Father Piquet on the way. <span class="superscript">[736]</span>
These being rallied, the whole party ensconced itself in a tract of felled 
trees so far from the English that their fire did little harm. They continued 
it about two hours, and resumed it the next morning; when, three cannon being 
brought to bear on them, they took to their boats and disappeared, having 
lost about thirty killed and wounded, including two officers and La Corne
himself, who was shot in the thigh. The English loss was slight.</p>

<div class="footer">
   <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_734" name="footer_734"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[734]</span>
<i>Instructions of Amherst to Prideaux</i>, 17 <i>May</i>, 1759. 
<i>Prideaux to Haldimand</i>, 30 <i>June</i>, 1759.</p>
    <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_735" name="footer_735"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[735]</span>
<i>Journal of Colonel Amherst</i>.</p>
   <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_736" name="footer_736"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[736]</span>
Pouchot, II. 130. <i>Compare M&eacute;moires sur le Canada</i>, 1749-1760; 
<i>N.&nbsp;Y. Col. Docs.</i>, VII. 395; and <i>Letter from Oswego</i>, in
<i>Boston Evening Post</i>, No. 1,248.</p>
</div>

<p>Prideaux safely reached Niagara, and laid siege to it. It was a strong
fort, lately rebuilt in regular form by an excellent officer, Captain
Pouchot, of the battalion of B&eacute;arn, who commanded it. It stood where the
present fort stands, in the angle formed by the junction of the River
Niagara with Lake Ontario, and was held by about six hundred men, well
supplied with provisions and munitions of war. 
<span class="superscript">[737]</span> Higher up the river, a mile and a half 
above the cataract, there was another fort, called Little Niagara, built of 
wood, and commanded by 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_244-V2" id="Page_244-V2">244<br />V2</a></span> 
the half-breed officer, Joncaire-Chabert, who with his brother, 
Joncaire-Clauzonne, and a numerous clan of Indian relatives, had so long 
thwarted the efforts of Johnson to engage the Five Nations in the English 
cause. But recent English successes had had their effect. Joncaire's 
influence was waning, and Johnson was now in Prideaux's camp with nine 
hundred Five Nation warriors pledged to fight the French. Joncaire, 
finding his fort untenable, burned it, and came with his garrison and his 
Indian friends to reinforce Niagara. <span class="superscript">[738]</span></p>

<div class="footer">
   <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_737" name="footer_737"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[737]</span>
Pouchot says 515, besides 60 men from Little Niagara; Vaudreuil gives a total 
of 589.</p>
   <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_738" name="footer_738"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[738]</span>
Pouchot, II. 52, 59. <i>Proc&egrave;s de Bigot, Cadet, et autres, 
M&eacute;moire pour Daniel de Joncaire-Chabert.</i></p>
</div>

<p>Pouchot had another resource, on which he confidently relied. In
obedience to an order from Vaudreuil, the French population of the
Illinois, Detroit, and other distant posts, joined with troops of
Western Indians, had come down the Lakes to recover Pittsburg, undo the
work of Forbes, and restore French ascendency on the Ohio. Pittsburg had
been in imminent danger; nor was it yet safe, though General Stanwix was
sparing no effort to succor it. <span class="superscript">[739]</span>
These mixed bands of white men and red, bushrangers and savages, were now 
gathered, partly at Le B&oelig;uf and Venango, but chiefly at Presquisle, 
under command of Aubry, Ligneris, Marin, and other partisan chiefs, the best 
in Canada. No sooner did Pouchot learn that the English were coming to 
attack him than he sent a messenger to summon them all to his aid. 
<span class="superscript">[740]</span>
</p>

<div class="footer">
   <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_739" name="footer_739"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[739]</span>
<i>Letters of Colonel Hugh Mercer, commanding at Pittsburg, January-June</i>, 
1759. <i>Letters of Stanwix, May-July</i>, 1759. <i>Letter from Pittsburg</i>, 
in <i>Boston News Letter</i>, No. 3,023. <i>Narrative of John Ormsby.</i></p>
   <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_740" name="footer_740"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[740]</span>
Pouchot, II. 46.</p>
</div>

<p>
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_245-V2" id="Page_245-V2">245<br />V2</a></span> 
The siege was begun in form, though the English engineers were so
incompetent that the trenches, as first laid out, were scoured by the
fire of the place, and had to be made anew. 
<span class="superscript">[741]</span> At last the batteries opened fire. 
A shell from a coehorn burst prematurely, just as it left the mouth of the 
piece, and a fragment striking Prideaux on the head, killed him instantly. 
Johnson took command in his place, and made up in energy what he lacked in 
skill. In two or three weeks the fort was in extremity. The rampart was 
breached, more than a hundred of the garrison were killed or disabled, and 
the rest were exhausted with want of sleep. Pouchot watched anxiously for 
the promised succors; and on the morning of the twenty-fourth of July a 
distant firing told him that they were at hand.</p>

<div class="footer">
   <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_741" name="footer_741"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[741]</span>
<i>Rutherford to Haldimand</i>, 14 <i>July</i>, 1759. Prideaux was extremely
disgusted. <i>Prideaux to Haldimand</i>, 13 <i>July</i>, 1759. 
Allan Macleane, of the Highlanders, calls the engineers "fools and blockheads,
G&mdash;d d&mdash;n them." <i>Macleane to Haldimand</i>, 21 <i>July</i>, 1759.
</p>
</div>

<p>Aubry and Ligneris, with their motley following, had left Presquisle a
few days before, to the number, according to Vaudreuil, of eleven
hundred French and two hundred Indians.
<span class="superscript">[742]</span> Among them was a body of
colony troops; but the Frenchmen of the party were chiefly traders and
bushrangers from the West, connecting links between civilization and
savagery; some of them indeed were mere 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_246-V2" id="Page_246-V2">246<br />V2</a></span> 
white Indians, imbued with the ideas and morals of the wigwam, wearing 
hunting-shirts of smoked deer-skin embroidered with quills of the Canada 
porcupine, painting their faces black and red, tying eagle feathers in 
their long hair, or plastering it on their temples with a compound of 
vermilion and glue. They were excellent woodsmen, skilful hunters, and 
perhaps the best bushfighters in all Canada.</p>

<div class="footer">
   <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_742" name="footer_742"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[742]</span>
"Il n'y avoit que 1,100 Fran&ccedil;ois et 200 sauvages."
<i>Vaudreuil au Ministre</i>, 30 <i>Oct</i>. 1759. 
Johnson says "1,200 men, with a number of Indians." 
<i>Johnson to Amherst</i>, 25 <i>July</i>, 1759. Portneuf,
commanding at Presquisle, wrote to Pouchot that there were 1,600 French
and 1,200 Indians. Pouchot, II. 94. A letter from Aubry to Pouchot put
the whole at 2,500, half of them Indians. <i>Historical Magazine</i>, V.,
Second Series, 199.</p>
</div>

<p>When Pouchot heard the firing, he went with a wounded artillery officer
to the bastion next the river; and as the forest had been cut away for a
great distance, they could see more than a mile and a half along the
shore. There, by glimpses among trees and bushes, they descried bodies
of men, now advancing, and now retreating; Indians in rapid movement,
and the smoke of guns, the sound of which reached their ears in heavy
volleys, or a sharp and angry rattle. Meanwhile the English cannon had
ceased their fire, and the silent trenches seemed deserted, as if their
occupants were gone to meet the advancing foe. There was a call in the
fort for volunteers to sally and destroy the works; but no sooner did
they show themselves along the covered way than the seemingly abandoned
trenches were thronged with men and bayonets, and the attempt was given
up. The distant firing lasted half an hour, then ceased, and Pouchot
remained in suspense; till, at two in the afternoon, a friendly
Onondaga, who had passed unnoticed through the English lines, came to
him with the announcement that the French 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_247-V2" id="Page_247-V2">247<br />V2</a></span> 
and their allies had been routed and cut to pieces. Pouchot would not 
believe him.</p>

<p>Nevertheless his tale was true. Johnson, besides his Indians, had with
him about twenty-three hundred men, whom he was forced to divide into
three separate bodies,&mdash;one to guard the bateaux, one to guard the
trenches, and one to fight Aubry and his band. This last body consisted
of the provincial light infantry and the pickets, two companies of
grenadiers, and a hundred and fifty men of the forty-sixth regiment, all
under command of Colonel Massey. <span class="superscript">[743]</span>
They took post behind an abattis at a place called La Belle Famille, and 
the Five Nation warriors placed themselves on their flanks. These savages 
had shown signs of disaffection; and when the enemy approached, they 
opened a parley with the French Indians, which, however, soon ended, and 
both sides raised the war-whoop. The fight was brisk for a while; but at 
last Aubry's men broke away in a panic. The French officers seem to have 
made desperate efforts to retrieve the day, for nearly all of them were 
killed or captured; while their followers, after heavy loss, fled to 
their canoes and boats above the cataract, hastened back to Lake Erie, 
burned Presquisle, Le B&oelig;uf, and Venango, and, joined by the garrisons of 
those forts, retreated to Detroit, leaving the whole region of the upper
Ohio in undisputed possession of the English.</p>

<div class="footer">
   <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_743" name="footer_743"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[743]</span>
<i>Johnson to Amherst</i>, 25 <i>July</i>, 1759. Knox, II. 135.
<i>Captain Delancey to&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;</i>, 25 <i>July</i>, 1759. 
This writer commanded the light infantry in the fight.</p>
</div>

<p>
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_248-V2" id="Page_248-V2">248<br />V2</a></span> 
At four o'clock on the day of the battle, after a furious cannonade on
both sides, a trumpet sounded from the trenches, and an officer
approached the fort with a summons to surrender. He brought also a paper
containing the names of the captive French officers, though some of them
were spelled in a way that defied recognition. Pouchot, feigning
incredulity, sent an officer of his own to the English camp, who soon
saw unanswerable proof of the disaster; for here, under a shelter of
leaves and boughs near the tent of Johnson, sat Ligneris, severely
wounded, with Aubry, Villiers, Montigny, Marin, and their companions in
misfortune,&mdash;in all, sixteen officers, four cadets, and a surgeon.
<span class="superscript">[744]</span></p>

<div class="footer">
   <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_744" name="footer_744"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[744]</span>
Johnson gives the names in his private <i>Diary</i>, printed
in Stone, <i>Life of Johnson</i>, II. 394. Compare Pouchot, II. 105, 106.
<i>Letter from Niagara</i>, in <i>Boston Evening Post</i>, No. 1,250. 
<i>Vaudreuil au Ministre</i>, 30 <i>Oct</i>. 1759.</p>
</div>

<p>Pouchot had now no choice but surrender. By the terms of the
capitulation, the garrison were to be sent prisoners to New York, though
honors of war were granted them in acknowledgment of their courageous
conduct. There was a special stipulation that they should be protected
from the Indians, of whom they stood in the greatest terror, lest the
massacre of Fort William Henry should be avenged upon them. Johnson
restrained his dangerous allies, and, though the fort was pillaged, no
blood was shed.</p>

<p>The capture of Niagara was an important stroke. Thenceforth Detroit,
Michillimackinac, the Illinois, and all the other French interior posts,
were severed 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_249-V2" id="Page_249-V2">249<br />V2</a></span> 
from Canada, and left in helpless isolation; but Amherst
was not yet satisfied. On hearing of Prideaux's death he sent Brigadier
Gage to supersede Johnson and take command on Lake Ontario, directing
him to descend the St. Lawrence, attack the French posts at the head of
the rapids, and hold them if possible for the winter. The attempt was
difficult; for the French force on the St. Lawrence was now greater than
that which Gage could bring against it, after providing for the safety
of Oswego and Niagara. Nor was he by nature prone to dashing and
doubtful enterprise. He reported that the movement was impossible, much
to the disappointment of Amherst, who seemed to expect from subordinates
an activity greater than his own. <span class="superscript">[744]</span>
</p>

<div class="footer">
   <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_745" name="footer_745"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[745]</span>
<i>Amherst to Gage</i>, 28 <i>July</i>, 1 <i>Aug</i>., 14 <i>Aug</i>., 
11 <i>Sept</i>. 1759. <i>Diary of Sir William Johnson</i>, 
in Stone, <i>Life of Johnson</i>, II. 394-429.</p>
</div>

<p>He, meanwhile, was working at his fort at Crown Point, while the season
crept away, and Bourlamaque lay ready to receive him at Isle-aux-Noix.
"I wait his coming with impatience," writes the French commander,
"though I doubt if he will venture to attack a post where we are
intrenched to the teeth, and armed with a hundred pieces of cannon." 
<span class="superscript">[746]</span> Bourlamaque now had with him 
thirty-five hundred men, in a position of great strength. Isle-aux-Noix, 
planted in mid-channel of the Richelieu soon after it issues from Lake 
Champlain, had been diligently fortified since the spring. On each side 
of it was an arm of the river, closed against 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_250-V2" id="Page_250-V2">250<br />V2</a></span> 
an enemy with <i>chevaux-de-frise</i>. To attack it in front
in the face of its formidable artillery would be a hazardous attempt,
and the task of reducing it was likely to be a long one. The French
force in these parts had lately received accessions. After the fall of
Niagara the danger seemed so great, both in the direction of Lake
Ontario and that of Lake Champlain, that L&eacute;vis had been sent up 
from Quebec with eight hundred men to command the whole department of
Montreal. <span class="superscript">[747]</span> A body of troops and 
militia was encamped opposite that town, ready to march towards either 
quarter, as need might be, while the abundant crops of the neighboring 
parishes were harvested by armed bands, ready at a word to drop the 
sickle for the gun.</p>

<div class="footer">
   <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_746" name="footer_746"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[746]</span>
<i>Bourlamaque &agrave;</i> (<i>Bernetz?</i>), 22 <i>Sept</i>. 1759.</p>
   <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_747" name="footer_747"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[747]</span>
<i>Montcalm &agrave; Bourlamaque</i>, 9 <i>Ao&ucirc;t</i>, 1759. 
<i>Rigaud &agrave; Bourlamaque</i>, 14 <i>Ao&ucirc;t</i>, 1759. 
<i>L&eacute;vis &agrave; Bourlamaque</i>, 25 <i>Ao&ucirc;t</i>, 1759.</p>
</div>

<p>Thus the promised advance of Amherst into Canada would be not without
its difficulties, even when his navy, too tardily begun, should be ready
to act its part. But if he showed no haste in succoring Wolfe, he at
least made some attempts to communicate with him. Early in August he
wrote him a letter, which Ensign Hutchins, of the rangers, carried to
him in about a month by the long and circuitous route of the Kennebec,
and which, after telling the news of the campaign, ended thus: "You may
depend on my doing all I can for effectually reducing Canada. Now is the
time!" <span class="superscript">[748]</span> Amherst soon after tried 
another expedient, 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_251-V2" id="Page_251-V2">251<br />V2</a></span> 
and sent Captains Kennedy and Hamilton with a flag of truce and a message of
peace to the Abenakis of St. Francis, who, he thought, won over by these
advances, might permit the two officers to pass unmolested to Quebec.
But the Abenakis seized them and carried them prisoners to Montreal; on
which Amherst sent Major Robert Rogers and a band of rangers to destroy
their town. <span class="superscript">[749]</span></p>

<div class="footer">
   <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_748" name="footer_748"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[748]</span>
<i>Amherst to Wolfe</i>, 7 <i>Aug</i>. 1759.</p>
   <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_749" name="footer_749"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[749]</span>
<i>Amherst to Pitt</i>, 22 <i>Oct</i>. 1759. Rogers, <i>Journals</i>,
144.</p>
</div>

<p>It was the eleventh of October before the miniature navy of Captain
Loring&mdash;the floating battery, the brig, and the sloop that had been
begun three weeks too late&mdash;was ready for service. They sailed at once
to look for the enemy. The four French vessels made no resistance. One
of them succeeded in reaching Isle-aux-Noix; one was run aground; and
two were sunk by their crews, who escaped to the shore. Amherst,
meanwhile, leaving the provincials to work at the fort, embarked with
the regulars in bateaux, and proceeded on his northern way till, on the
evening of the twelfth, a head-wind began to blow, and, rising to a
storm, drove him for shelter into Ligonier Bay, on the west side of the
lake. <span class="superscript">[750]</span> On the thirteenth, it blew 
a gale. The lake raged like an angry sea, and the frail bateaux, fit only 
for smooth water, could not have lived a moment. Through all the next night 
the gale continued, with floods of driving rain. "I hope it will soon 
change," wrote Amherst on the fifteenth, "for I 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_252-V2" id="Page_252-V2">252<br />V2</a></span> 
have no time to lose." He was right. He had waited till the season of 
autumnal storms, when nature was more dangerous than man. On the sixteenth 
there was frost, and the wind did not abate. On the next morning it 
shifted to the south, but soon turned back with violence to the north, 
and the ruffled lake put on a look of winter, "which determined me," 
says the General, "not to lose time by striving to get to the Isle-aux-Noix, 
where I should arrive too late to force the enemy from their post, but to 
return to Crown Point and complete the works there." This he did, and spent 
the remnant of the season in the congenial task of finishing the fort, of 
which the massive remains still bear witness to his industry.</p>

<div class="footer">
   <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_750" name="footer_750"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[750]</span>
<i>Orderly Book of Commissary Wilson</i>.</p>
</div>

<p>When L&eacute;vis heard that the English army had fallen back, he wrote, well
pleased, to Bourlamaque: "I don't know how General Amherst will excuse
himself to his Court, but I am very glad he let us alone, because the
Canadians are so backward that you could count on nobody but the
regulars." <span class="superscript">[751]</span></p>

<div class="footer">
   <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_751" name="footer_751"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[751]</span>
<i>L&eacute;vis &agrave; Bourlamaque</i>, 1 <i>Nov</i>. 1759.</p>
</div>

<p>Concerning this year's operations on the Lakes, it may be observed that
the result was not what the French feared, or what the British colonists
had cause to hope. If, at the end of winter, Amherst had begun, as he
might have done, the building of armed vessels at the head of the
navigable waters of Lake Champlain, where Whitehall now stands, he would
have had a navy ready to his hand before August, and would have been
able to follow the 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_253-V2" id="Page_253-V2">253<br />V2</a></span> 
retreating French without delay, and attack them at Isle-aux-Noix before 
they had finished their fortifications. And if, at the same time, he had 
directed Prideaux, instead of attacking Niagara, to co-operate with him 
by descending the St. Lawrence towards Montreal, the prospect was good 
that the two armies would have united at the place, and ended the campaign 
by the reduction of all Canada. In this case Niagara and all the western 
posts would have fallen without a blow.</p>

<p>Major Robert Rogers, sent in September to punish the Abenakis of St.
Francis, had addressed himself to the task with his usual vigor. These
Indians had been settled for about three quarters of a century on the
River St. Francis, a few miles above its junction with the St. Lawrence.
They were nominal Christians, and had been under the control of their
missionaries for three generations; but though zealous and sometimes
fanatical in their devotion to the forms of Romanism, they remained
thorough savages in dress, habits, and character. They were the scourge
of the New England borders, where they surprised and burned farmhouses
and small hamlets, killed men, women, and children without distinction,
carried others prisoners to their village, subjected them to the torture
of "running the gantlet," and compelled them to witness dances of
triumph around the scalps of parents, children, and friends.</p>

<p>Amherst's instructions to Rogers contained the following: "Remember the
barbarities that have been committed by the enemy's Indian scoundrels.
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_254-V2" id="Page_254-V2">254<br />V2</a></span> 
Take your revenge, but don't forget that, though those dastardly
villains have promiscuously murdered women and children of all ages, it
is my order that no women or children be killed or hurt."</p>

<p>Rogers and his men set out in whaleboats, and, eluding the French armed
vessels, then in full activity, came, on the tenth day, to Missisquoi
Bay, at the north end of Lake Champlain. Here he hid his boats, leaving
two friendly Indians to watch them from a distance, and inform him
should the enemy discover them. He then began his march for St. Francis,
when, on the evening of the second day, the two Indians overtook him
with the startling news that a party of about four hundred French had
found the boats, and that half of them were on his tracks in hot
pursuit. It was certain that the alarm would soon be given, and other
parties sent to cut him off. He took the bold resolution of outmarching
his pursuers, pushing straight for St. Francis, striking it before
succors could arrive, and then returning by Lake Memphremagog and the
Connecticut. Accordingly he despatched Lieutenant McMullen by a
circuitous route back to Crown Point, with a request to Amherst that
provisions should be sent up the Connecticut to meet him on the way
down. Then he set his course for the Indian town, and for nine days more
toiled through the forest with desperate energy. Much of the way was
through dense spruce swamps, with no dry resting-place at night. At
length the party reached the River St. Francis, fifteen miles above the
town, and, hooking their 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_255-V2" id="Page_255-V2">255<br />V2</a></span> 
arms together for mutual support, forded it
with extreme difficulty. Towards evening, Rogers climbed a tree, and
descried the town three miles distant. Accidents, fatigue, and illness
had reduced his followers to a hundred and forty-two officers and men.
He left them to rest for a time, and, taking with him Lieutenant Turner
and Ensign Avery, went to reconnoitre the place; left his two
companions, entered it disguised in an Indian dress, and saw the
unconscious savages yelling and signing in the full enjoyment of a grand
dance. At two o'clock in the morning he rejoined his party, and at three
led them to the attack, formed them in a semicircle, and burst in upon
the town half an hour before sunrise. Many of the warriors were absent,
and the rest were asleep. Some were killed in their beds, and some shot
down in trying to escape. "About seven o'clock in the morning," he says,
"the affair was completely over, in which time we had killed at least
two hundred Indians and taken twenty of their women and children
prisoners, fifteen of whom I let go their own way, and five I brought
with me, namely, two Indian boys and three Indian girls. I likewise
retook five English captives."</p>

<p>English scalps in hundreds were dangling from poles over the doors of
the houses. <span class="superscript">[752]</span> The town was pillaged 
and burned, not excepting the church, where ornaments of some value were 
found. On 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_256-V2" id="Page_256-V2">256<br />V2</a></span> 
the side of the rangers, Captain Ogden and six men were wounded, and a 
Mohegan Indian from Stockbridge was killed. Rogers was told by his prisoners 
that a party of three hundred French and Indians was encamped on the river
below, and that another party of two hundred and fifteen was not far
distant. They had been sent to cut off the retreat of the invaders, but
were doubtful as to their designs till after the blow was struck. There
was no time to lose. The rangers made all haste southward, up the St.
Francis, subsisting on corn from the Indian town; till, near the eastern
borders of Lake Memphremagog, the supply failed, and they separated into
small parties, the better to sustain life by hunting. The enemy followed
close, attacked Ensign Avery's party, and captured five of them; then
fell upon a band of about twenty, under Lieutenants Dunbar and Turner,
and killed or captured nearly all. The other bands eluded their pursuers, 
turned southeastward, reached the Connecticut, some here, some there, and, 
giddy with fatigue and hunger, toiled wearily down the wild and lonely 
stream to the appointed rendezvous at the mouth of the Amonoosuc.</p>

<div class="footer">
   <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_752" name="footer_752"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[752]</span>
Rogers says "about six hundred." Other accounts say six
or seven hundred. The late Abb&eacute; Maurault, missionary of the St. Francis
Indians, and their historian, adopts the latter statement, though it is
probably exaggerated.</p>
</div>

<p>This was the place to which Rogers had requested that provisions might
be sent; and the hope of finding them there had been the breath of life
to the famished wayfarers. To their horror, the place was a solitude.
There were fires still burning, but those who made them were gone.
Amherst had sent Lieutenant Stephen up 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_257-V2" id="Page_257-V2">257<br />V2</a></span> 
the river from Charlestown with an abundant supply of food; but finding 
nobody at the Amonoosuc, he had waited there two days, and then returned, 
carrying the provisions back with him; for which outrageous conduct he was 
expelled from the service. "It is hardly possible," says Rogers, "to 
describe our grief and consternation." Some gave themselves up to despair. 
Few but their indomitable chief had strength to go father. There was 
scarcely any game, and the barren wilderness yielded no sustenance but a 
few lily bulbs and the tubers of the climbing plant called in New England 
the ground-nut. Leaving his party to these miserable resources, and
promising to send them relief within ten days, Rogers made a raft of dry
pine logs, and drifted on it down the stream, with Captain Ogden, a
ranger, and one of the captive Indian boys. They were stopped on the
second day by rapids, and gained the shore with difficulty. At the foot
of the rapids, while Ogden and the ranger went in search of squirrels,
Rogers set himself to making another raft; and, having no strength to use
the axe, he burned down the trees, which he then divided into logs by
the same process. Five days after leaving his party he reached the first
English settlement, Charlestown, or "Number Four," and immediately sent
a canoe with provisions to the relief of the sufferers, following
himself with other canoes two days later. Most of the men were saved,
though some died miserably of famine and exhaustion. Of the few who had
been captured, 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_258-V2" id="Page_258-V2">258<br />V2</a></span> 
we are told by French contemporary that they "became victims of the fury of 
the Indian women," from whose clutches the Canadians tried in vain to save 
them. <span class="superscript">[753]</span>
</p>

<div class="footer">
   <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_753" name="footer_753"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[753]</span>
<i>&Eacute;v&eacute;nements de la guerre en Canada,</i> 1759, 1760.
Compare <i>N.&nbsp;Y, Colonial Docs</i>., X. 1042.</p>
   <p class="double-space-top">
        <a id="footer_26Note" name="footer_26Note"></a>
<span class="smcap">Note</span>.&mdash;On the day after he reached 
"Number Four," Rogers wrote a report
of his expedition to Amherst. This letter is printed in his <i>Journals</i>,
in which he gives also a supplementary account, containing further
particulars. The <i>New Hampshire Gazette, Boston Evening Post,</i> and other
newspapers of the time recount the story in detail. Hoyt (<i>Indian Wars,</i>
302) repeats it, with a few additions drawn from the recollections of
survivors, long after. There is another account, very short and
unsatisfactory, by Thompson Maxwell, who says that he was of the party,
which is doubtful. Mante (223) gives horrible details of the sufferings
of the rangers. An old chief of the St. Francis Indians, said to be one
of those who pursued Rogers after the town was burned, many years ago
told Mr. Jesse Pennoyer, a government land surveyor, that Rogers laid an
ambush for the pursuers, and defeated them with great loss. This, the
story says, took place near the present town of Sherbrooke; and minute
details are given, with high praise of the skill and conduct of the
famous partisan. If such an incident really took place, it is scarcely
possible that Rogers would not have made some mention of it. On the
other hand, it is equally incredible that the Indians would have
invented the tale of their own defeat. I am indebted for Pennoyer's
puzzling narrative to the kindness of R.&nbsp;A. Ramsay, Esq., of Montreal. It
was printed, in 1869, in the <i>History of the Eastern Townships,</i> by
Mrs. C.&nbsp;M. Day. All things considered, it is probably groundless.</p>

<p>Vaudreuil describes the destruction of the village in a letter to the
Minister dated October 26, and says that Rogers had a hundred and fifty
men; that St. Francis was burned to ashes; that the head chief and
others were killed; that he (Vaudreuil), hearing of the march of the
rangers, sent the most active of the Canadians to oppose them, and that
Longueuil sent all the Canadians and Indians he could muster to pursue
them on their retreat; that forty-six rangers were killed, and ten
captured; that he thinks all the rest will starve to death; and,
finally, that the affair is very unfortunate.</p>

<p>I once, when a college student, followed on foot the route of Rogers
from Lake Memphremagog to the Connecticut.</p>
</div>



<hr />
<div class="chapterhead">
   <br /><a name="Chapter_27" id="Chapter_27"></a>
	 <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_259-V2" id="Page_259-V2">259<br />V2</a></span> 
	 <br /><br /><br />
	 <h2><a href="#Contents27">CHAPTER XXVII.</a><br />
	 <span class="med">1759.</span>
	 </h2> 
	 <p class="smcapheader">THE HEIGHTS OF ABRAHAM.</p>
	 <p class="smcap noindent space-bottom">	
	    Elation of the French &bull; Despondency of Wolfe &bull;
			The Parishes laid waste &bull; Operations above Quebec &bull;
			Illness of Wolfe &bull; A New Plan of Attack &bull;
			Faint Hope of Success &bull; Wolfe's Last Despatch &bull;
			Confidence of Vaudreuil &bull; Last Letters of Montcalm &bull;
			French Vigilance &bull; British Squadron at Cap-Rouge &bull;
			Last Orders of Wolfe &bull; Embarkation &bull; 
			Descent of the St. Lawrence &bull; The Heights scaled &bull;
			The British Line &bull; Last Night of Montcalm &bull; The Alarm &bull;
			March of French Troops &bull; The Battle &bull; The Rout &bull;
			The Pursuit &bull; Fall of Wolfe and of Montcalm.
	 </p>
	 <p class="break1"></p> 
</div>


<p class="double-space-top">
<span class="smcap">Wolfe</span> 
was deeply moved by the disaster at the heights of Montmorenci,
and in a General Order on the next day he rebuked the grenadiers for
their precipitation. "Such impetuous, irregular, and unsoldierlike
proceedings destroy all order, make it impossible for the commanders to
form any disposition for an attack, and put it out of the general's
power to execute his plans. The grenadiers could not suppose that they
could beat the French alone."</p>

<p>The French were elated by their success. "Everybody," says the
commissary Berniers, "thought that the campaign was as good as ended,
gloriously for us." They had been sufficiently confident even before
their victory; and 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_260-V2" id="Page_260-V2">260<br />V2</a></span> 
the bearer of a flag of truce told the English
officers that he had never imagined they were such fools as to attack
Quebec with so small a force. Wolfe, on the other hand, had every reason
to despond. At the outset, before he had seen Quebec and learned the
nature of the ground, he had meant to begin the campaign by taking post
on the Plains of Abraham, and thence laying siege to the town; but he
soon discovered that the Plains of Abraham were hardly more within his
reach than was Quebec itself. Such hope as was left him lay in the
composition of Montcalm's army. He respected the French commander, and
thought his disciplined soldiers not unworthy of the British steel; but
he held his militia in high scorn, and could he but face them in the
open field, he never doubted the result. But Montcalm also distrusted
them, and persisted in refusing the coveted battle.</p>

<p>Wolfe, therefore, was forced to the conviction that his chances were of
the smallest. It is said that, despairing of any decisive stroke, he
conceived the idea of fortifying Isle-aux-Coudres, and leaving a part of
his troops there when he sailed for home, against another attempt in the
spring. The more to weaken the enemy and prepare his future conquest, he
began at the same time a course of action which for his credit one would
gladly wipe from the record; for, though far from inhuman, he threw
himself with extraordinary intensity into whatever work he had in hand,
and, to accomplish it, spared others scarcely more than 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_261-V2" id="Page_261-V2">261<br />V2</a></span> 
he spared himself. About the middle of August he issued a third proclamation 
to the Canadians, declaring that as they had refused his offers of
protection and "had made such ungrateful returns in practising the most
unchristian barbarities against his troops on all occasions, he could no
longer refrain in justice to himself and his army from chastising them
as they deserved." The barbarities in question consisted in the frequent
scalping and mutilating of sentinels and men on outpost duty,
perpetrated no less by Canadians than by Indians. Wolfe's object was
twofold: first, to cause the militia to desert, and, secondly, to
exhaust the colony. Rangers, light infantry, and Highlanders were sent
to waste the settlements far and wide. Wherever resistance was offered,
farmhouses and villages were laid in ashes, though churches were
generally spared. St. Paul, far below Quebec, was sacked and burned, and
the settlements of the opposite shore were partially destroyed. The
parishes of L'Ange Gardien, Ch&acirc;teau Richer, and St. Joachim were wasted
with fire and sword. Night after night the garrison of Quebec could see
the light of burning houses as far down as the mountain of Cape
Tourmente. Near St. Joachim there was a severe skirmish, followed by
atrocious cruelties. Captain Alexander Montgomery, of the forty-third
regiment, who commanded the detachment, and who has been most unjustly
confounded with the revolutionary general, Richard Montgomery, ordered
the prisoners to be shot in cold blood, to the indignation 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_262-V2" id="Page_262-V2">262<br />V2</a></span> 
of his own officers. <span class="superscript">[754]</span>
Robineau de Portneuf, cur&eacute; of St. Joachim, placed himself
at the head of thirty parishioners and took possession of a large stone
house in the adjacent parish of Ch&acirc;teau 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. <span class="superscript">[755]</span>
</p>

<div class="footer">
   <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_754" name="footer_754"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[754]</span>
Fraser <i>Journal</i>. Fraser was an officer under Montgomery,
of whom he speaks with anger and disgust.</p>
   <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_755" name="footer_755"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[755]</span>
Knox, II. 32. Most of the contemporary journals mention
the incident.</p>
</div>

<p>Most of the French writers of the time mention these barbarities without
much comment, while Vaudreuil loudly denounces them. Yet he himself was
answerable for atrocities incomparably worse, and on a far larger scale.
He had turned loose his savages, red and white, along a frontier of six
hundred miles, to waste, burn, and murder at will. "Women and children,"
such were the orders of Wolfe, "are to be treated with humanity; if any
violence is offered to a woman, the offender shall be punished with
death." These orders were generally obeyed. The English, with the single
exception of Montgomery, killed none but armed men in the act of
resistance or attack; Vaudreuil's war-parties spared neither age nor
sex.</p>

<p>Montcalm let the parishes burn, and still lay fast intrenched in his
lines of Beauport. He would not imperil all Canada to save a few hundred
farmhouses; and Wolfe was as far as ever from the battle that he
coveted. Hitherto, his attacks had been 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_263-V2" id="Page_263-V2">263<br />V2</a></span> 
made chiefly below the town; but, these having failed, he now changed his 
plan and renewed on a larger scale the movements begun above it in July. 
With every fair wind, ships and transports passed the batteries of Quebec, 
favored by a hot fire from Point Levi, and generally succeeded, with more 
or less damage, in gaining the upper river. A fleet of flatboats was also 
sent thither, and twelve hundred troops marched overland to embark in them, 
under Brigadier Murray. Admiral Holmes took command of the little fleet now
gathered above the town, and operations in that quarter were systematically 
resumed.</p>

<p>To oppose them, Bougainville was sent from the camp at Beauport with
fifteen hundred men. His was a most arduous and exhausting duty. He must
watch the shores for fifteen or twenty miles, divide his force into
detachments, and subject himself and his followers to the strain of
incessant vigilance and incessant marching. Murray made a descent at
Pointe-aux-Trembles, and was repulsed with loss. He tried a second time
at another place, was met before landing by a body of ambushed
Canadians, and was again driven back, his foremost boats full of dead
and wounded. A third time he succeeded, landed at Deschambault, and
burned a large building filled with stores and all the spare baggage of
the French regular officers. The blow was so alarming that Montcalm
hastened from Beauport to take command in person; but when he arrived
the English were gone.</p>

<p>
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_264-V2" id="Page_264-V2">264<br />V2</a></span> 
Vaudreuil now saw his mistake in sending the French frigates up the
river out of harm's way, and withdrawing their crews to serve the
batteries of Quebec. Had these ships been there, they might have
overpowered those of the English in detail as they passed the town. An
attempt was made to retrieve the blunder. The sailors were sent to man
the frigates anew and attack the squadron of Holmes. It was too late.
Holmes was already too strong for them, and they were recalled. Yet the
difficulties of the English still seemed insurmountable. Dysentery and
fever broke out in their camps, the number of their effective men was
greatly reduced, and the advancing season told them that their work must
be done quickly, or not done at all.</p>

<p>On the other side, the distress of the French grew greater every day.
Their army was on short rations. The operations of the English above the
town filled the camp of Beauport with dismay, for troops and Canadians
alike dreaded the cutting off of their supplies. These were all drawn
from the districts of Three Rivers and Montreal; and, at best, they were
in great danger, since when brought down in boats at night they were apt
to be intercepted, while the difficulty of bringing them by land was
extreme, through the scarcity of cattle and horses. Discipline was relaxed,
disorder and pillage were rife, and the Canadians deserted so fast, that
towards the end of August two hundred of them, it is said, would
sometimes go off in one night. Early in the month the disheartening 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_265-V2" id="Page_265-V2">265<br />V2</a></span> 
news came of the loss of Ticonderoga and Crown Point, the retreat of
Bourlamaque, the fall of Niagara, and the expected advance of Amherst
on Montreal. It was then that L&eacute;vis was despatched to the scene of
danger; and Quebec was deplorably weakened by his absence. About this
time the Lower Town was again set on fire by the English batteries, and
a hundred and sixty-seven houses were burned in a night. In the front of
the Upper Town nearly every building was a ruin. At the General
Hospital, which was remote enough to be safe from the bombardment, every
barn, shed, and garret, and even the chapel itself, were crowded with
sick and wounded, with women and children from the town, and the nuns of
the Ursulines and the H&ocirc;tel-Dieu, driven thither for refuge. Bishop
Pontbriand, though suffering from a mortal disease, came almost daily to
visit and console them from his lodging in the house of the cur&eacute; at
Charlesbourg.</p>

<p>Towards the end of August the sky brightened again. It became known that
Amherst was not moving on Montreal, and Bourlamaque wrote that his
position at Isle-aux-Noix was impregnable. On the twenty-seventh a
deserter from Wolfe's army brought the welcome assurance that the
invaders despaired of success, and would soon sail for home; while there
were movements in the English camps and fleet that seemed to confirm
what he said. Vaudreuil breathed more freely, and renewed hope and
confidence visited the army of Beauport.</p>

<p>
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_266-V2" id="Page_266-V2">266<br />V2</a></span> 
Meanwhile a deep cloud fell on the English. Since the siege began, Wolfe
had passed with ceaseless energy from camp to camp, animating the
troops, observing everything, and directing everything; but now the pale
face and tall lean form were seen no more, and the rumor spread that the
General was dangerously ill. He had in fact been seized by an access of
the disease that had tortured him for some time past; and fever had
followed. His quarters were at a French farmhouse in the camp at
Montmorenci; and here, as he lay in an upper chamber, helpless in bed,
his singular and most unmilitary features haggard with disease and drawn
with pain, no man could less have looked the hero. But as the needle,
though quivering, points always to the pole, so, through torment and
languor and the heats of fever, the mind of Wolfe dwelt on the capture
of Quebec. His illness, which began before the twentieth of August, had
so far subsided on the twenty-fifth that Knox wrote in his Diary of that
day: "His Excellency General Wolfe is on the recovery, to the
inconceivable joy of the whole army." On the twenty-ninth he was able
to write or dictate a letter to the three brigadiers, Monckton,
Townshend, and Murray: "That the public service may not suffer by the
General's indisposition, he begs the brigadiers will meet and consult
together for the public utility and advantage, and consider of the best
method to attack the enemy." The letter then proposes three plans, all
bold to audacity. The first was to send a part of the 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_267-V2" id="Page_267-V2">267<br />V2</a></span> 
army to ford the Montmorenci eight or nine miles above its mouth, march 
through the forest, and fall on the rear of the French at Beauport, while 
the rest landed and attacked them in front. The second was to cross the 
ford at the mouth of the Montmorenci and march along the strand, under the
French intrenchments, till a place could be found where the troops might
climb the heights. The third was to make a general attack from boats at
the Beauport flats. Wolfe had before entertained two other plans, one of
which was to scale the heights at St. Michel, about a league above
Quebec; but this he had abandoned on learning that the French were there
in force to receive him. The other was to storm the Lower Town; but this
also he had abandoned, because the Upper Town, which commanded it, would
still remain inaccessible.</p>

<p>The brigadiers met in consultation, rejected the three plans proposed in
the letter, and advised that an attempt should be made to gain a footing
on the north shore above the town, place the army between Montcalm and
his base of supply, and so force him to fight or surrender. The scheme
was similar to that of the heights of St. Michel. It seemed desperate,
but so did all the rest; and if by chance it should succeed, the gain
was far greater than could follow any success below the town. Wolfe
embraced it at once.</p>

<p>Not that he saw much hope in it. He knew that every chance was against
him. Disappointment in the past and gloom in the future, the pain and
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_268-V2" id="Page_268-V2">268<br />V2</a></span> 
exhaustion of disease, toils, and anxieties "too great," in the words of
Burke, "to be supported by a delicate constitution, and a body unequal
to the vigorous and enterprising soul that it lodged," threw him at
times into deep dejection. By those intimate with him he was heard to
say that he would not go back defeated, "to be exposed to the censure
and reproach of an ignorant populace." In other moods he felt that he
ought not to sacrifice what was left of his diminished army in vain
conflict with hopeless obstacles. But his final resolve once taken, he
would not swerve from it. His fear was that he might not be able to
lead his troops in person. "I know perfectly well you cannot cure me,"
he said to his physician; "but pray make me up so that I may be without
pain for a few days, and able to do my duty: that is all I want."</p>

<p>In a despatch which Wolfe had written to Pitt, Admiral Saunders
conceived that he had ascribed to the fleet more than its just share in
the disaster at Montmorenci; and he sent him a letter on the subject.
Major Barr&eacute; kept it from the invalid till the fever had abated. Wolfe
then wrote a long answer, which reveals his mixed dejection and resolve.
He affirms the justice of what Saunders had said, but adds: "I shall leave
out that part of my letter to Mr. Pitt which you object to. I am
sensible of my own errors in the course of the campaign, see clearly
wherein I have been deficient, and think a little more or less blame to
a man that must necessarily be ruined, of little or no 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_269-V2" id="Page_269-V2">269<br />V2</a></span> 
consequence. I take the blame of that unlucky day entirely upon my own 
shoulders, and I expect to suffer for it." Then, speaking of the new project 
of an attack above Quebec, he says despondingly: "My ill state of health 
prevents me from executing my own plan; it is of too desperate a nature to 
order others to execute." He proceeds, however, to give directions for it. 
"It will be necessary to run as many small craft as possible above the town,
with provisions for six weeks, for about five thousand, which is all I
intend to take. My letters, I hope, will be ready to-morrow, and I hope
I shall have strength to lead these men to wherever we can find the
enemy."</p>

<p>On the next day, the last of August, he was able for the first time to
leave the house. It was on this same day that he wrote his last letter
to his mother: "My writing to you will convince you that no personal
evils worse than defeats and disappointments have fallen upon me. The
enemy puts nothing to risk, and I can't in conscience put the whole army
to risk. My antagonist has wisely shut himself up in inaccessible
intrenchments, so that I can't get at him without spilling a torrent of
blood, and that perhaps to little purpose. The Marquis de Montcalm is at
the head of a great number of bad soldiers, and I am at the head of a
small number of good ones, that wish for nothing so much as to fight
him; but the wary old fellow avoids an action, doubtful of the behavior
of his army. People must be of the profession to understand the
disadvantages and difficulties we labor 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_270-V2" id="Page_270-V2">270<br />V2</a></span> 
under, arising from the uncommon natural strength of the country."</p>

<p>On the second of September a vessel was sent to England with his last
despatch to Pitt. It begins thus: "The obstacles we have met with in the
operations of the campaign are much greater than we had reason to expect
or could foresee; not so much from the number of the enemy (though
superior to us) as from the natural strength of the country, which the
Marquis of Montcalm seems wisely to depend upon. When I learned that
succors of all kinds had been thrown into Quebec; that five battalions
of regular troops, completed from the best inhabitants of the country,
some of the troops of the colony, and every Canadian that was able to
bear arms, besides several nations of savages, had taken the field in a
very advantageous situation,&mdash;I could not flatter myself that I should
be able to reduce the place. I sought, however, an occasion to attack
their army, knowing well that with these troops I was able to fight, and
hoping that a victory might disperse them." Then, after recounting the
events of the campaign with admirable clearness, he continues: "I found
myself so ill, and am still so weak, that I begged the general officers
to consult together for the general utility. They are all of opinion
that, as more ships and provisions are now got above the town, they
should try, by conveying up a corps of four or five thousand men (which
is nearly the whole strength of the army after the Points of Levi and
Orleans are left in a proper state of defence), to draw the enemy 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_271-V2" id="Page_271-V2">271<br />V2</a></span> 
from their present situation and bring them to an action. I have acquiesced
in the proposal, and we are preparing to put it into execution." The
letter ends thus: "By the list of disabled officers, many of whom are of
rank, you may perceive that the army is much weakened. By the nature of
the river, the most formidable part of this armament is deprived of the
power of acting; yet we have almost the whole force of Canada to oppose.
In this situation there is such a choice of difficulties that I own
myself at a loss how to determine. The affairs of Great Britain, I know,
require the most vigorous measures; but the courage of a handful of
brave troops should be exerted only when there is some hope of a
favorable event; however, you may be assured that the small part of the
campaign which remains shall be employed, as far as I am able, for the
honor of His Majesty and the interest of the nation, in which I am sure
of being well seconded by the Admiral and by the generals; happy if our
efforts here can contribute to the success of His Majesty's arms in any
other parts of America."</p>

<p>Some days later, he wrote to the Earl of Holdernesse: "The Marquis of
Montcalm has a numerous body of armed men (I cannot call it an army),
and the strongest country perhaps in the world. Our fleet blocks up the
river above and below the town, but can give no manner of aid in an
attack upon the Canadian army. We are now here [<i>off Cap-Rouge</i>] with
about thirty-six hundred men, waiting to attack them when and wherever they 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_272-V2" id="Page_272-V2">272<br />V2</a></span> 
can best be got at. I am so far recovered as to do business; but my
constitution is entirely ruined, without the consolation of doing any
considerable service to the state, and without any prospect of it." He
had just learned, through the letter brought from Amherst by Ensign
Hutchins, that he could expect no help from that quarter.</p>

<p>Perhaps he was as near despair as his undaunted nature was capable of
being. In his present state of body and mind he was a hero without the
light and cheer of heroism. He flattered himself with no illusions, but
saw the worst and faced it all. He seems to have been entirely without
excitement. The languor of disease, the desperation of the chances, and
the greatness of the stake may have wrought to tranquillize him. His
energy was doubly tasked: to bear up his own sinking frame, and to
achieve an almost hopeless feat of arms.</p>

<p>Audacious as it was, his plan cannot be called rash if we may accept the
statement of two well-informed writers on the French side. They say that
on the tenth of September the English naval commanders held a council on
board the flagship, in which it was resolved that the lateness of the
season required the fleet to leave Quebec without delay. They say
further that Wolfe then went to the Admiral, told him that he had found
a place where the heights could be scaled, that he would send up a
hundred and fifty picked men to feel the way, and that if they gained a
lodgment at the top, the other troops should follow; if, on the other
hand, the French were there in force to
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_273-V2" id="Page_273-V2">273<br />V2</a></span> 
oppose them, he would not sacrifice the army in a hopeless attempt, but 
embark them for home, consoled by the thought that all had been done that 
man could do. On this, concludes the story, the Admiral and his officers 
consented to wait the result. <span class="superscript">[756]</span></p>

<div class="footer">
   <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_756" name="footer_756"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[756]</span>
This statement is made by the Chevalier Johnstone, and,
with some variation, by the author of the valuable <i>Journal tenu &agrave;
l'Arm&eacute;e que commandoit feu M. le Marquis de Montcalm.</i> Bigot says that,
after the battle, he was told by British officers that Wolfe meant to
risk only an advance party of two hundred men, and to reimbark if they
were repulsed.</p>
</div>

<p>As Wolfe had informed Pitt, his army was greatly weakened. Since the end
of June his loss in killed and wounded was more than eight hundred and
fifty, including two colonels, two majors, nineteen captains, and
thirty-four subalterns; and to these were to be added a greater number
disabled by disease.</p>

<p>The squadron of Admiral Holmes above Quebec had now increased to
twenty-two vessels, great and small. One of the last that went up was a
diminutive schooner, armed with a few swivels, and jocosely named the
"Terror of France." She sailed by the town in broad daylight, the
French, incensed at her impudence, blazing at her from all their
batteries; but she passed unharmed, anchored by the Admiral's ship, and
saluted him triumphantly with her swivels.</p>

<p>Wolfe's first move towards executing his plan was the critical one of
evacuating the camp at Montmorenci. This was accomplished on the third
of September. Montcalm sent a strong force to fall on the rear of the
retiring English. Monckton 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_274-V2" id="Page_274-V2">274<br />V2</a></span> 
saw the movement from Point Levi, embarked two battalions in the boats of 
the fleet, and made a feint of landing at Beauport. Montcalm recalled his 
troops to repulse the threatened attack; and the English withdrew from 
Montmorenci unmolested, some to the Point of Orleans, others to Point Levi. 
On the night of the fourth a fleet of flatboats passed above the town with 
the baggage and stores. On the fifth, Murray, with four battalions, marched 
up to the River Etechemin, and forded it under a hot fire from the French 
batteries at Sillery. Monckton and Townshend followed with three more 
battalions, and the united force, of about thirty-six hundred men, was 
embarked on board the ships of Holmes, where Wolfe joined them on the same 
evening.</p>

<p>These movements of the English filled the French commanders with
mingled perplexity, anxiety, and hope. A deserter told them that Admiral
Saunders was impatient to be gone. Vaudreuil grew confident. "The
breaking up of the camp at Montmorenci," he says, "and the abandonment
of the intrenchments there, the reimbarkation on board the vessels above
Quebec of the troops who had encamped on the south bank, the movements
of these vessels, the removal of the heaviest pieces of artillery from
the batteries of Point Levi,&mdash;these and the lateness of the season all
combined to announce the speedy departure of the fleet, several vessels
of which had even sailed down the river already. The prisoners and the
deserters who daily came in told us that this was the common 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_275-V2" id="Page_275-V2">275<br />V2</a></span> 
report in their army." <span class="superscript">[757]</span> He wrote 
to Bourlamaque on the first of September: "Everything proves that the 
grand design of the English has failed."</p>

<div class="footer">
   <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_757" name="footer_757"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[757]</span>
<i>Vaudreuil au Ministre</i>, 5 <i>Oct</i>. 1759.</p>
</div>

<p>Yet he was ceaselessly watchful. So was Montcalm; and he, too, on the
night of the second, snatched a moment to write to Bourlamaque from his
headquarters in the stone house, by the river of Beauport: "The night is
dark; it rains; our troops are in their tents, with clothes on, ready
for an alarm; I in my boots; my horses saddled. In fact, this is my
usual way. I wish you were here; for I cannot be everywhere, though I
multiply myself, and have not taken off my clothes since the
twenty-third of June." On the eleventh of September he wrote his last
letter to Bourlamaque, and probably the last that his pen ever traced.
"I am overwhelmed with work, and should often lose temper, like you, if
I did not remember that I am paid by Europe for not losing it. Nothing
new since my last. I give the enemy another month, or something less, to
stay here." The more sanguine Vaudreuil would hardly give them a week.</p>

<p>Meanwhile, no precaution was spared. The force under Bougainville above
Quebec was raised to three thousand men. <span class="superscript">[758]</span>
He was ordered to watch the shore as far as Jacques-Cartier, and follow with 
his main body every movement of Holmes's 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_276-V2" id="Page_276-V2">276<br />V2</a></span> 
squadron. There was little fear for the heights near the town; they were 
thought inaccessible. <span class="superscript">[759]</span> Even Montcalm
believed them safe, and had expressed himself to that effect some time
before. "We need not suppose," he wrote to Vaudreuil, "that the enemy
have wings;" and again, speaking of the very place where Wolfe
afterwards landed, "I swear to you that a hundred men posted there would
stop their whole army." <span class="superscript">[760]</span>
He was right. A hundred watchful and determined men could have held the 
position long enough for reinforcements to come up.</p>

<div class="footer">
   <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_758" name="footer_758"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[758]</span>
<i>Journal du Si&eacute;ge</i> (Biblioth&ecirc;que de Hartwell). <i>Journal
tenu &agrave; l'Arm&eacute;e, etc. Vaudreuil au Ministre</i>, 5 <i>Oct.</i> 
1759.</p>
  <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_759" name="footer_759"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[759]</span>
Pontbriand, <i>Jugement impartial.</i></p>
   <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_760" name="footer_760"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[760]</span>
<i>Montcalm &agrave; Vaudreuil</i>, 27 <i>Juillet. Ibid.</i>, 29 <i>Juillet</i>,
1759.</p>
</div> 

<p>
The hundred men were there. Captain de Vergor, of the colony
troops, commanded them, and reinforcements were within his call; for the
battalion of Guienne had been ordered to encamp close at hand on the
Plains of Abraham. <span class="superscript">[761]</span> 
Vergor's post, called Anse du Foulon, was a mile and a half from Quebec. 
A little beyond it, by the brink of the cliffs, was another post, called 
Samos, held by seventy men with four cannon; and, beyond this again, the 
heights of Sillery were guarded by a hundred and thirty men, also with 
cannon. <span class="superscript">[762]</span> These were outposts of 
Bougainville, whose headquarters were at Cap-Rouge, six miles above
Sillery, and whose troops were in continual movement along the
intervening shore. Thus all was vigilance; for while the French were
strong in the hope of speedy delivery, they felt that there was no safety 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_277-V2" id="Page_277-V2">277<br />V2</a></span> 
till the tents of the invader had vanished from their shores and
his ships from their river. "What we knew," says one of them, "of the
character of M. Wolfe, that impetuous, bold, and intrepid warrior,
prepared us for a last attack before he left us."</p>

<div class="footer">
   <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_761" name="footer_761"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[761]</span>
Foligny, <i>Journal m&eacute;moratif. Journal tenu &agrave; l'Arm&eacute;e</i>,
etc.</p>
   <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_762" name="footer_762"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[762]</span>
<i>Vaudreuil au Ministre</i>, 5 <i>Oct.</i> 1759.</p>
</div>

<p>Wolfe had been very ill on the evening of the fourth. The troops knew
it, and their spirits sank; but, after a night of torment, he grew
better, and was soon among them again, rekindling their ardor, and
imparting a cheer that he could not share. For himself he had no pity;
but when he heard of the illness of two officers in one of the ships, he
sent them a message of warm sympathy, advised them to return to Point
Levi, and offered them his own barge and an escort. They thanked him,
but replied that, come what might, they would see the enterprise to an
end. Another officer remarked in his hearing that one of the invalids
had a very delicate constitution. "Don't tell me of constitution," said
Wolfe; "he has good spirit, and good spirit will carry a man through
everything." <span class="superscript">[763]</span> An immense moral 
force bore up his own frail body and forced it to its work.</p>

<div class="footer">
   <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_763" name="footer_763"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[763]</span>
Knox, II. 61, 65.</p>
</div>

<p>Major Robert Stobo, who, five years before, had been given as a hostage
to the French at the capture of Fort Necessity, arrived about this time
in a vessel from Halifax. He had long been a prisoner at Quebec, not
always in close custody, and had used his opportunities to acquaint
himself with the neighborhood. In the spring of this year he 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_278-V2" id="Page_278-V2">278<br />V2</a></span> 
and an officer of rangers named Stevens had made their escape with
extraordinary skill and daring; and he now returned to give his countrymen 
the benefit of his local knowledge. <span class="superscript">[764]</span> 
His biographer says that it was he who directed Wolfe in the choice of a 
landing-place. <span class="superscript">[765]</span>
Be this as it may, Wolfe in person examined the river and the shores as
far as Pointe-aux-Trembles; till at length, landing on the south side a
little above Quebec, and looking across the water with a telescope, he
descried a path that ran with a long slope up the face of the woody
precipice, and saw at the top a cluster of tents. They were those of
Vergor's guard at the Anse du Foulon, now called Wolfe's Cove. As he
could see but ten or twelve of them, he thought that the guard could not
be numerous, and might be overpowered. His hope would have been stronger
if he had known that Vergor had once been tried for misconduct and
cowardice in the surrender of Beaus&eacute;jour, and saved from merited
disgrace by the friendship of Bigot and the protection of Vaudreuil. 
<span class="superscript">[766]</span></p>

<div class="footer">
   <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_764" name="footer_764"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[764]</span>
Letters in <i>Boston Post Boy,</i> No. 97, and <i>Boston Evening Post,</i> 
No. 1,258.</p>
   <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_765" name="footer_765"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[765]</span>
<i>Memoirs of Major Robert Stobo.</i> Curious, but often inexact.</p>
   <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_766" name="footer_766"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[766]</span>
See <i>supra</i>, <a href="#Page_253-V1">Vol I. p. 253.</a></p>
</div>

<p>The morning of the seventh was fair and warm, and the vessels of Holmes,
their crowded decks gay with scarlet uniforms, sailed up the river to
Cap-Rouge. A lively scene awaited them; for here were the headquarters
of Bougainville, and here lay his principal force, while the rest
watched the banks above and below. The cove into which 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_279-V2" id="Page_279-V2">279<br />V2</a></span> 
the little river runs was guarded by floating batteries; the surrounding 
shore was defended by breastworks; and a large body of regulars, militia, 
and mounted Canadians in blue uniforms moved to and fro, with restless
activity, on the hills behind. When the vessels came to anchor, the
horsemen dismounted and formed in line with the infantry; then, with
loud shouts, the whole rushed down the heights to man their works at the
shore. That true Briton, Captain Knox, looked on with a critical eye
from the gangway of his ship, and wrote that night in his Diary that
they had made a ridiculous noise. "How different!" he exclaims, "how
nobly awful and expressive of true valor is the customary silence of the
British troops!"</p>

<p>In the afternoon the ships opened fire, while the troops entered the
boats and rowed up and down as if looking for a landing-place. It was
but a feint of Wolfe to deceive Bougainville as to his real design. A
heavy easterly rain set in on the next morning, and lasted two days
without respite. All operations were suspended, and the men suffered
greatly in the crowded transports. Half of them were therefore landed on
the south shore, where they made their quarters in the village of St.
Nicolas, refreshed themselves, and dried their wet clothing, knapsacks,
and blankets.</p>

<p>For several successive days the squadron of Holmes was allowed to drift
up the river with the flood tide and down with the ebb, thus passing and
repassing incessantly between the neighborhood 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_280-V2" id="Page_280-V2">280<br />V2</a></span> 
of Quebec on one hand, and a point high above Cap-Rouge on the other; while 
Bougainville, perplexed, and always expecting an attack, followed the ships 
to and fro along the shore, by day and by night, till his men were exhausted 
with ceaseless forced marches. <span class="superscript">[767]</span></p>

<div class="footer">
   <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_767" name="footer_767"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[767]</span>
Joann&egrave;s, Major de Qu&eacute;bec, <i>M&eacute;moire sur la Campagne de</i>
1759.</p>
</div>

<p>At last the time for action came. On Wednesday, the twelfth, the troops
at St. Nicolas were embarked again, and all were told to hold
themselves in readiness. Wolfe, from the flagship "Sutherland," issued
his last general orders. "The enemy's force is now divided, great
scarcity of provisions in their camp, and universal discontent among the
Canadians. Our troops below are in readiness to join us; all the light
artillery and tools are embarked at the Point of 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 on those who go before
them. The battalions must form on the upper ground with expedition, and
be ready to charge whatever presents itself. When the artillery and
troops are landed, a corps will be left to secure the landing-place,
while the rest march on and endeavor to bring the Canadians and French
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 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_281-V2" id="Page_281-V2">281<br />V2</a></span> 
of doing against five weak French battalions mingled with a disorderly 
peasantry."</p>

<p>The spirit of the army answered to that of its chief. The troops loved
and admired their general, trusted their officers, and were ready for
any attempt. "Nay, how could it be otherwise," quaintly asks honest
Sergeant John Johnson, of the fifty-eighth regiment, "being at the heels
of gentlemen whose whole thirst, equal with their general, was for
glory? We had seen them tried, and always found them sterling. We knew
that they would stand by us to the last extremity."</p>

<p>Wolfe had thirty-six hundred men and officers with him on board the
vessels of Holmes; and he now sent orders to Colonel Burton at Point
Levi to bring to his aid all who could be spared from that place and the
Point of Orleans. They were to march along the south bank, after
nightfall, and wait further orders at a designated spot convenient for
embarkation. Their number was about twelve hundred, so that the entire
forced destined for the enterprise was at the utmost forty-eight
hundred. <span class="superscript">[768]</span> With these, Wolfe meant 
to climb the heights of Abraham in the teeth of an enemy who, though much 
reduced, were still twice as numerous as their assailants. 
<span class="superscript">[769]</span></p>

<div class="footer">
   <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_768" name="footer_768"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[768]</span>
See <a href="#footer_27Note">Note</a>, end of chapter.</p>
   <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_769" name="footer_769"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[769]</span>
Including Bougainville's command. An escaped prisoner
told Wolfe, a few days before, that Montcalm still had fourteen thousand
men. <i>Journal of an Expedition on the River St. Lawrence.</i> This meant
only those in the town and the camps of Beauport. "I don't believe their
whole army amounts to that number," wrote Wolfe to Colonel Burton, on
the tenth. He knew, however, that if Montcalm could bring all his troops
together, the French would outnumber him more than two to one.</p>
</div>

<p>
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_282-V2" id="Page_282-V2">282<br />V2</a></span> 
Admiral Saunders lay with the main fleet in the Basin of Quebec. This
excellent officer, whatever may have been his views as to the necessity
of a speedy departure, aided Wolfe to the last with unfailing energy and
zeal. It was agreed between them that while the General made the real
attack, the Admiral should engage Montcalm's attention by a pretended
one. As night approached, the fleet ranged itself along the Beauport
shore; the boats were lowered and filled with sailors, marines, and the
few troops that had been left behind; while ship signalled to ship,
cannon flashed and thundered, and shot ploughed the beach, as if to
clear a way for assailants to land. In the gloom of the evening the
effect was imposing. Montcalm, who thought that the movements of the
English above the town were only a feint, that their main force was
still below it, and that their real attack would be made there, was
completely deceived, and massed his troops in front of Beauport to repel
the expected landing. But while in the fleet of Saunders all was uproar
and ostentatious menace, the danger was ten miles away, where the
squadron of Holmes lay tranquil and silent at its anchorage off
Cap-Rouge.</p>

<p>It was less tranquil than it seemed. All on board knew that a blow would
be struck that night, though only a few high officers knew where.
Colonel Howe, of the light infantry, called for volunteers to lead the
unknown and desperate venture, promising, in the words of one of them,
"that if any of us survived we might depend on 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_283-V2" id="Page_283-V2">283<br />V2</a></span> 
being recommended to the General." <span class="superscript">[770]</span>
As many as were wanted&mdash;twenty-four in all&mdash;soon came
forward. Thirty large bateaux and some boats belonging to the squadron
lay moored alongside the vessels; and late in the evening the troops
were ordered into them, the twenty-four volunteers taking their place in
the foremost. They held in all about seventeen hundred men. The rest
remained on board.</p>

<div class="footer">
   <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_770" name="footer_770"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[770]</span>
<i>Journal of the Particular Transactions during the Siege
of Quebec</i>. The writer, a soldier in the light infantry, says he was one
of the first eight who came forward. See <i>Notes and Queries</i>, XX. 370.</p>
</div>

<p>Bougainville could discern the movement, and misjudged it, thinking that
he himself was to be attacked. The tide was still flowing; and, the
better to deceive him, the vessels and boats were allowed to drift
upward with it for a little distance, as if to land above Cap-Rouge.</p>

<p>The day had been fortunate for Wolfe. Two deserters came from the camp
of Bougainville with intelligence that, at ebb tide on the next night,
he was to send down a convoy of provisions to Montcalm. The necessities
of the camp at Beauport, and the difficulties of transportation by land,
had before compelled the French to resort to this perilous means of
conveying supplies; and their boats, drifting in darkness under the
shadows of the northern shore, had commonly passed in safety. Wolfe saw
at once that, if his own boats went down in advance of the convoy, he
could turn the intelligence of the deserters to good account.</p>

<p>
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_284-V2" id="Page_284-V2">284<br />V2</a></span> 
He was still on board the "Sutherland." Every preparation was made, and
every order given; it only remained to wait the turning of the tide.
Seated with him in the cabin was the commander of the sloop-of-war
"Porcupine," his former school-fellow, John Jervis, afterwards Earl St.
Vincent. Wolfe told him that he expected to die in the battle of the
next day; and taking from his bosom a miniature of Miss Lowther, his
betrothed, he gave it to him with a request that he would return it to
her if the presentiment should prove true. 
<span class="superscript">[771]</span></p>

<div class="footer">
   <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_771" name="footer_771"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[771]</span>
Tucker, <i>Life of Earl St. Vincent</i>, I. 19. (London,
1844.)</p>
</div>

<p>Towards two o'clock the tide began to ebb, and a fresh wind blew down
the river. Two lanterns were raised into the maintop shrouds of the
"Sutherland." It was the appointed signal; the boats cast off and fell
down with the current, those of the light infantry leading the way. The
vessels with the rest of the troops had orders to follow a little later.</p>

<p>To look for a moment at the chances on which this bold adventure hung.
First, the deserters told Wolfe that provision-boats were ordered to go
down to Quebec that night; secondly, Bougainville countermanded them;
thirdly, the sentries posted along the heights were told of the order,
but not of the countermand; <span class="superscript">[772]</span>
fourthly, Vergor at the Anse du Foulon had permitted most of his men, 
chiefly Canadians from Lorette, to go home for a time and work at their 
harvesting, on condition, it is said, that they should afterwards work 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_285-V2" id="Page_285-V2">285<br />V2</a></span> 
in a neighboring field of his own; <span class="superscript">[773]</span>
fifthly, he kept careless watch, and went quietly to bed; sixthly, the
battalion of Guienne, ordered to take post on the Plains of Abraham,
had, for reasons unexplained, remained encamped by the St. Charles;
<span class="superscript">[774]</span> and lastly, when Bougainville 
saw Holmes's vessels drift down the stream, he did not tax his weary 
troops to follow them, thinking that they would return as usual with the 
flood tide. <span class="superscript">[775]</span> But for these
conspiring circumstances New France might have lived a little longer,
and the fruitless heroism of Wolfe would have passed, with countless
other heroisms, into oblivion.</p>

<div class="footer">
   <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_772" name="footer_772"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[772]</span>
<i>Journal tenu &agrave; l'Arm&eacute;e</i>, etc.</p>
   <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_773" name="footer_773"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[773]</span>
<i>M&eacute;moires sur le Canada</i>, 1749-1760.</p>
   <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_774" name="footer_774"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[774]</span>
Foligny, <i>Journal m&eacute;moratif. Journal tenu &agrave; 
l'Arm&eacute;e</i>, etc.
</p>
   <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_775" name="footer_775"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[775]</span>
Johnstone, <i>Dialogue</i>. 
<i>Vaudreuil au Ministre</i>, 5 <i>Oct</i>. 1759.</p>
</div>
<p>For full two hours the procession of boats, borne on the current,
steered silently down the St. Lawrence. The stars were visible, but the
night was moonless and sufficiently dark. The General was in one of the
foremost boats, and near him was a young midshipman, John Robison,
afterwards 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 <i>Elegy in a Country Churchyard</i> 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,&mdash;</p>

<div class="poem1 small">
<p class="poem1 indent30 left-indent10">"The paths of glory lead but to the grave."</p>
</div>

<p>"Gentlemen," he said, as his recital ended, "I would rather have written
those lines than take 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_286-V2" id="Page_286-V2">286<br />V2</a></span> 
Quebec." None were there to tell him that the hero is greater than the poet.
</p>

<p>As they neared their destination, the tide bore them in towards the
shore, and the mighty wall of rock and forest towered in darkness on
their left. The dead stillness was suddenly broken by the sharp <i>Qui
vive!</i> of a French sentry, invisible in the thick gloom. <i>France!</i>
answered a Highland officer of Fraser's regiment from one of the boats
of the light infantry. He had served in Holland, and spoke French
fluently.</p>

<p><i>&Agrave; quel r&eacute;giment?</i></p>

<p><i>De la Reine</i>, replied the Highlander. He knew that a part of that corps
was with Bougainville. The sentry, expecting the convoy of provisions,
was satisfied, and did not ask for the password.</p>

<p>Soon after, the foremost boats were passing the heights of Samos, when
another sentry challenged them, and they could see him through the
darkness running down to the edge of the water, within range of a
pistol-shot. In answer to his questions, the same officer replied, in
French: "Provision-boats. Don't make a noise; the English will hear
us." <span class="superscript">[776]</span>
In fact, the sloop-of-war "Hunter" was anchored in the stream
not far off. This time, again, the sentry let them pass. In a few
moments they rounded the headland above the Anse du Foulon. There was no
sentry there. The strong current swept the boats of the light infantry a
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_287-V2" id="Page_287-V2">287<br />V2</a></span> 
little below the intended landing-place. <span class="superscript">[777]</span>
They disembarked on a narrow strand at the foot of heights as steep as a hill 
covered with trees can be. The twenty-four volunteers led the way, climbing 
with what silence they might, closely followed by a much larger body. When 
they reached the top they saw in the dim light a cluster of tents at a short
distance, and immediately made a dash at them. Vergor leaped from bed
and tried to run off, but was shot in the heel and captured. His men,
taken by surprise, made little resistance. One or two were caught, the
rest fled.</p>

<div class="footer">
   <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_776" name="footer_776"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[776]</span>
See a note of Smollett, <i>History of England</i>, V. 56 (ed.
1805). Sergeant Johnson, Vaudreuil, Foligny, and the <i>Journal of
Particular Transactions</i> give similar accounts.</p>
   <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_777" name="footer_777"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[777]</span>
<i>Saunders to Pitt</i>, 20 <i>Sept. Journal of Sergeant Johnson</i>. 
Compare Knox, II. 67.</p>
</div>

<p>The main body of troops waited in their boats by the edge of the strand.
The heights near by were cleft by a great ravine choked with forest
trees; and in its depths ran a little brook called Ruisseau St.-Denis,
which, swollen by the late rains, fell plashing in the stillness over a
rock. Other than this no sound could reach the strained ear of Wolfe but
the gurgle of the tide and the cautious climbing of his advance-parties
as they mounted the steeps at some little distance from where he sat
listening. At length from the top came a sound of musket-shots, followed
by loud huzzas, and he knew that his men were masters of the position.
The word was given; the troops leaped from the boats and scaled the
heights, some here, some there, clutching at trees and bushes, their
muskets slung at their backs. Tradition still points out the place,
near the mouth of the 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_288-V2" id="Page_288-V2">288<br />V2</a></span> 
ravine, where the foremost reached the top. Wolfe
said to an officer near him: "You can try it, but I don't think you'll
get up." He himself, however, found strength to drag himself up with the
rest. The narrow slanting path on the face of the heights had been made
impassable by trenches and abattis; but all obstructions were soon
cleared away, and then the ascent was easy. In the gray of the morning
the long file of red-coated soldiers moved quickly upward, and formed in
order on the plateau above.</p>

<p>Before many of them had reached the top, cannon were heard close on the
left. It was the battery at Samos firing on the boats in the rear and
the vessels descending from Cap-Rouge. A party was sent to silence it;
this was soon effected, and the more distant battery at Sillery was next
attacked and taken. As fast as the boats were emptied they returned for
the troops left on board the vessels and for those waiting on the
southern shore under Colonel Burton.</p>

<p>The day broke in clouds and threatening rain. Wolfe's battalions were
drawn up along the crest of the heights. No enemy was in sight, though a
body of Canadians had sallied from the town and moved along the strand
towards the landing-place, whence they were quickly driven back. He had
achieved the most critical part of his enterprise; yet the success that
he coveted placed him in imminent danger. On one side was the garrison
of Quebec and the army of Beauport, and Bougainville was on the other.
Wolfe's alternative was 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_289-V2" id="Page_289-V2">289<br />V2</a></span> 
victory or ruin; for if he should be overwhelmed by a combined attack, 
retreat would be hopeless. His feelings no man can know; but it would be 
safe to say that hesitation or doubt had no part in them.</p>

<p>He went to reconnoitre the ground, and soon came to the Plains of
Abraham, so called from Abraham Martin, a pilot known as Ma&icirc;tre Abraham,
who had owned a piece of land here in the early times of the colony. The
Plains were a tract of grass, tolerably level in most parts, patched
here and there with cornfields, studded with clumps of bushes, and
forming a part of the high plateau at the eastern end of which Quebec
stood. On the south it was bounded by the declivities along the St.
Lawrence; on the north, by those along the St. Charles, or rather along
the meadows through which that lazy stream crawled like a writhing
snake. At the place that Wolfe chose for his battle-field the plateau
was less than a mile wide.</p>

<p>Thither the troops advanced, marched by files till they reached the
ground, and then wheeled to form their line of battle, which stretched
across the plateau and faced the city. It consisted of six battalions
and the detached grenadiers from Louisbourg, all drawn up in ranks three
deep. Its right wing was near the brink of the heights along the St.
Lawrence; but the left could not reach those along the St. Charles. On
this side a wide space was perforce left open, and there was danger of
being outflanked. To prevent this, Brigadier Townshend was stationed
here with two battalions, 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_290-V2" id="Page_290-V2">290<br />V2</a></span> 
drawn up at right angles with the rest, and fronting the St. Charles. The 
battalion of Webb's regiment, under Colonel Burton, formed the reserve; 
the third battalion of Royal Americans was left to guard the landing; 
and Howe's light infantry occupied a wood far in the rear. Wolfe, with 
Monckton and Murray, commanded the front line, on which the heavy fighting 
was to fall, and which, when all the troops had arrived, numbered less 
than thirty-five hundred men. <span class="superscript">[778]</span></p>

<div class="footer">
   <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_778" name="footer_778"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[778]</span>
See <a href="#footer_27Note">Note</a>, end of chapter.</p>
</div>

<p>Quebec was not a mile distant, but they could not see it; for a ridge of
broken ground intervened, called Buttes-&agrave;-Neveu, about six hundred paces
off. The first division of troops had scarcely come up when, about six
o'clock, this ridge was suddenly thronged with white uniforms. It was
the battalion of Guienne, arrived at the eleventh hour from its camp by
the St. Charles. Some time after there was hot firing in the rear. It
came from a detachment of Bougainville's command attacking a house where
some of the light infantry were posted. The assailants were repulsed,
and the firing ceased. Light showers fell at intervals, besprinkling the
troops as they stood patiently waiting the event.</p>

<p>Montcalm had passed a troubled night. Through all the evening the cannon
bellowed from the ships of Saunders, and the boats of the fleet hovered
in the dusk off the Beauport shore, threatening every moment to land.
Troops lined the intrenchments till day, while the General walked the field that 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_291-V2" id="Page_291-V2">291<br />V2</a></span> 
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 should anything unusual happen. But no word came, and about six
o'clock he mounted and rode thither with Johnstone. As they advanced,
the country behind the town opened more and more upon their sight; till
at length, when opposite Vaudreuil's house, they saw across the St.
Charles, some two miles away, the red ranks of British soldiers on the
heights beyond.</p>

<p>"This is a serious business," Montcalm said; and sent off Johnstone at
full gallop to bring up the troops from the centre and left of the camp.
Those of the right were in motion already, doubtless by the Governor's
order. Vaudreuil came out of the house. Montcalm stopped for a few words
with him; then set spurs to his horse, and rode over the bridge of the
St. Charles to the scene of danger. <span class="superscript">[779]</span>
He rode with a fixed look, uttering not a word. 
<span class="superscript">[780]</span></p>

<div class="footer">
   <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_779" name="footer_779"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[779]</span>
Johnstone, <i>Dialogue</i>.</p>
   <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_780" name="footer_780"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[780]</span>
<i>Malartic &agrave; Bourlamaque,&mdash;Sept</i>. 1759.</p>
</div>

<p>The army followed in such order as it might, crossed the bridge in hot
haste, passed under the northern rampart of Quebec, entered at the Palace 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_292-V2" id="Page_292-V2">292<br />V2</a></span> 
Gate, and pressed on in headlong march along the quaint narrow streets of the 
warlike town: troops of Indians in scalplocks and war-paint, a savage glitter 
in their deep-set eyes; bands of Canadians whose all was at stake,&mdash;faith, 
country, and home; the colony regulars; the battalions of Old France, a torrent 
of white uniforms and gleaming bayonets, La Sarre, Languedoc, Roussillon, 
B&eacute;arn,&mdash;victors of Oswego, William Henry, and Ticonderoga. So they 
swept on, poured out upon the plain, some by the gate of St. Louis, and some 
by that of St. John, and hurried, breathless, to where the banners of Guienne 
still fluttered on the ridge.</p>

<p>Montcalm was amazed at what he saw. He had expected a detachment, and he
found an army. Full in sight before him stretched the lines of Wolfe:
the close ranks of the English infantry, a silent wall of red, and the
wild array of the Highlanders, with their waving tartans, and bagpipes
screaming defiance. Vaudreuil had not come; but not the less was felt
the evil of a divided authority and the jealousy of the rival chiefs.
Montcalm waited long for the forces he had ordered to join him from the
left wing of the army. He waited in vain. It is said that the Governor
had detained them, lest the English should attack the Beauport shore.
Even if they did so, and succeeded, the French might defy them, could
they but put Wolfe to rout on the Plains of Abraham. Neither did the
garrison of Quebec come to the aid of Montcalm. He sent 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_293-V2" id="Page_293-V2">293<br />V2</a></span> 
to Ramesay, its commander, for twenty-five field-pieces which were on the 
Palace battery. Ramesay would give him only three, saying that he wanted 
them for his own defence. There were orders and counter-orders;
misunderstanding, haste, delay, perplexity.</p>

<p>Montcalm and his chief officers held a council of war. It is said that
he and they alike were for immediate attack. His enemies declare that he
was afraid lest Vaudreuil should arrive and take command; but the
Governor was not a man to assume responsibility at such a crisis. Others
say that his impetuosity overcame his better judgment; and of this
charge it is hard to acquit him. Bougainville was but a few miles
distant, and some of his troops were much nearer; a messenger sent by
way of Old Lorette could have reached him in an hour and a half at most,
and a combined attack in front and rear might have been concerted with
him. If, moreover, Montcalm could have come to an understanding with
Vaudreuil, his own force might have been strengthened by two or three
thousand additional men from the town and the camp of Beauport; but he
felt that there was no time to lose, for he imagined that Wolfe would
soon be reinforced, which was impossible, and he believed that the
English were fortifying themselves, which was no less an error. He has
been blamed not only for fighting too soon, but for fighting at all. In
this he could not choose. Fight he must, for Wolfe was now in a position
to cut off all his supplies. His men were full of ardor, and he resolved
to 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_294-V2" id="Page_294-V2">294<br />V2</a></span> 
attack before their ardor cooled. He spoke a few words to them in his
keen, vehement way. "I remember very well how he looked," one of the
Canadians, then a boy of eighteen, used to say in his old age; "he rode
a black or dark bay horse along the front of our lines, brandishing his
sword, as if to excite us to do our duty. He wore a coat with wide
sleeves, which fell back as he raised his arm, and showed the white
linen of the wristband." <span class="superscript">[781]</span></p>

<div class="footer">
   <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_781" name="footer_781"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[781]</span>
<i>Recollections of Joseph Trahan</i>, in <i>Revue Canadienne</i>, IV. 856.</p>
</div>

<p>The English waited the result with a composure which, if not quite real,
was at least well feigned. The three field-pieces sent by Ramesay plied
them with canister-shot, and fifteen hundred Canadians and Indians
fusilladed them in front and flank. Over all the plain, from behind
bushes and knolls and the edge of cornfields, puffs of smoke sprang
incessantly from the guns of these hidden marksmen. Skirmishers were
thrown out before the lines to hold them in check, and the soldiers were
ordered to lie on the grass to avoid the shot. The firing was liveliest
on the English left, where bands of sharpshooters got under the edge of
the declivity, among thickets, and behind scattered houses, whence they
killed and wounded a considerable number of Townshend's men. The light
infantry were called up from the rear. The houses were taken and
retaken, and one or more of them was burned.</p>

<p>Wolfe was everywhere. How cool he was, and why his followers loved him,
is shown by an incident that happened in the course of the morning. 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_295-V2" id="Page_295-V2">295<br />V2</a></span> 
One of his captains was shot through the lungs; and on recovering
consciousness he saw the General standing at his side. Wolfe pressed his
hand, told him not to despair, praised his services, promised him early
promotion, and sent an aide-de-camp to Monckton to beg that officer to
keep the promise if he himself should fall. 
<span class="superscript">[782]</span></p>

<div class="footer">
   <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_782" name="footer_782"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[782]</span>
Sir Denis Le Marchant, cited by Wright, 579. Le Marchant
knew the captain in his old age. Monckton kept Wolfe's promise.</p>
</div>

<p>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 centre,
regulars and Canadians on right and left. Two field-pieces, which had
been dragged up the heights at Anse du Foulon, fired on them with
grape-shot, and the troops, rising from the ground, prepared to receive
them. In a few moments more they were in motion. They came on rapidly,
uttering loud shouts, and firing as soon as they were within range.
Their ranks, ill ordered at the best, were further confused by a number
of Canadians who had been mixed among the regulars, and who, after
hastily firing, threw themselves on the ground to reload.
<span class="superscript">[783]</span> The
British advanced a few rods; then halted and stood still. When the
French were within forty paces the word of command rang out, and a crash
of musketry answered all along the line. The volley was delivered with
remarkable precision. In the 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_296-V2" id="Page_296-V2">296<br />V2</a></span> 
battalions of the centre, which had
suffered least from the enemy's bullets, the simultaneous explosion was
afterwards said by French officers to have sounded like a cannon-shot.
Another volley followed, and then a furious clattering fire that lasted
but a minute or two. When the smoke rose, a miserable sight was
revealed: the ground cumbered with dead and wounded, the advancing
masses stopped short and turned into a frantic mob, shouting, cursing,
gesticulating. The order was given to charge. Then over the field rose
the British cheer, mixed with the fierce yell of the Highland slogan.
Some of the corps pushed forward with the bayonet; some advanced
firing. The clansmen drew their broadswords and dashed on, keen and
swift as bloodhounds. At the English right, though the attacking column
was broken to pieces, a fire was still kept up, chiefly, it seems, by
sharpshooters from the bushes and cornfields, where they had lain for an
hour or more. Here Wolfe himself led the charge, at the head of the
Louisbourg grenadiers. A shot shattered his wrist. He wrapped his
handkerchief about it and kept on. Another shot struck him, and he still
advanced, when a third lodged in his breast. He staggered, and sat on
the ground. Lieutenant Brown, of the grenadiers, one Henderson, a
volunteer in the same company, and a private soldier, aided by an
officer of artillery who ran to join them, carried him in their arms to
the rear. He begged them to lay him down. They did so, and asked if he
would have a surgeon. "There's no need," he 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_297-V2" id="Page_297-V2">297<br />V2</a></span> 
answered; "it's all over with me." A moment after, one of them cried out: 
"They run; see how they run!" "Who run?" Wolfe demanded, like a man roused 
from sleep. "The enemy, sir. Egad, they give way everywhere!" "Go, one of 
you, to Colonel Burton," returned the dying man; "tell him to march Webb's 
regiment down to Charles River, to cut off their retreat from the bridge." 
Then, turning on his side, he murmured, "Now, God be praised, I will die 
in peace!" and in a few moments his gallant soul had fled.</p>

<div class="footer">
   <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_783" name="footer_783"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[783]</span>
"Les Canadiens, qui &eacute;taient m&ecirc;l&eacute;s dans les bataillons, se
press&egrave;rent de tirer et, d&egrave;s qu'ils l'eussent fait, de mettre 
ventre &agrave; terre pour charger, ce qui rompit tout l'ordre." <i>Malartic 
&agrave; Bourlamaque</i>, 25 <i>Sept.</i> 1759.</p>
</div>

<p>Montcalm, still on horseback, was borne with the tide of fugitives
towards the town. As he approached the walls a shot passed through his
body. He kept his seat; two soldiers supported him, one on each side,
and led his horse through the St. Louis Gate. On the open space within,
among the excited crowd, were several women, drawn, no doubt, by
eagerness to know the result of the fight. One of them recognized him,
saw the streaming blood, and shrieked, "<i>O mon Dieu! mon Dieu! le
Marquis est tu&eacute;!</i>" "It's nothing, it's nothing," replied the
death-stricken man; "don't be troubled for me, my good friends." <i>("Ce
n'est rien, ce n'est rien; ne vous affligez pas pour moi, mes bonnes
amies.")</i></p>

<div class="footer">
   <p class="double-space-top">
        <a id="footer_27Note" name="footer_27Note"></a>
				<span class="smcap">Note</span>.&mdash;There are several 
contemporary versions of the dying words of Wolfe. The report of 
Knox, given above, is by far the best attested. Knox says that he 
took particular pains at the time to learn them accurately from 
those who were with Wolfe when they were uttered.<br/>
</p>

<p>The anecdote of Montcalm is due to the late Hon. Malcolm Fraser, of
Quebec. He often heard it in his youth from an old woman, who, when a
girl, was one of the group who saw the wounded general led by, and to
whom the words were addressed.</p>

<p>
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_298-V2" id="Page_298-V2">298</a></span> 
<i>Force of the English and French at the Battle of Quebec.</i>&mdash;The tabular
return given by Knox shows the number of officers and men in each corps
engaged. According to this, the battalions as they stood on the Plains
of Abraham before the battle varied in strength from 322 (Monckton's) to
683 (Webb's), making a total of 4,828, including officers. But another
return, less specific, signed <i>George Townshend, Brigadier</i>, makes the
entire number only 4,441. Townshend succeeded Wolfe in the command; and
this return, which is preserved in the Public Record Office, was sent to
London a few days after the battle. Some French writers present put the
number lower, perhaps for the reason that Webb's regiment and the third
battalion of Royal Americans took no part in the fight, the one being in
the rear as a reserve, and the other also invisible, guarding the landing
place. Wolfe's front line, which alone met and turned the French attack,
was made up as follows, the figures including officers and men:&mdash;</p>
</div>

<table class="quebec" summary="Wolfe's front line at the Battle of Quebec">
<thead>
<tr>
<th>Regiment</th>
<th>Size</th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tfoot>
<tr>
<td>&nbsp;&nbsp;Making a total of</td> 
<td>3,265</td>
</tr>
</tfoot>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td>Thirty-fifth</td>
<td>519</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Fifty-eighth</td>
<td>335</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Seventy-eighth</td>
<td>662</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Louisbourg Grenadiers</td>
<td>241</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Twenty-eighth</td>
<td>421</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Forty-seventh</td>
<td>360</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Forty-third</td>
<td>327</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Light Infantry</td>
<td>400</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>

<div class="footer">
<p class="double-space-top">
The French force engaged cannot be precisely given. Knox, on
information received from "an intelligent Frenchman," states the
number, corps by corps, the aggregate being 7,520. This, on examination,
plainly appears exaggerated. Fraser puts it at 5,000; Townshend
at 4,470, including militia. Bigot says, 3,500, which may
perhaps be as many as actually advanced to the attack, since
some of the militia held back. Including Bougainville's command,
the militia and the artillerymen left in the Beauport camp, the
sailors at the town batteries, and the garrison of Quebec, at least
as many of the French were out of the battle as were in it; and
the numbers engaged on each side seem to have been about equal.</p>

<p>For authorities of the foregoing chapter, see 
<a href="#appendixI">Appendix I</a>.</p>
</div>

<hr />
<div class="chapterhead">
   <br /><a name="Chapter_28" id="Chapter_28"></a>
	 <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_299-V2" id="Page_299-V2">299<br />V2</a></span> 
	 <br /><br /><br />
	 <h2><a href="#Contents28">CHAPTER XXVIII.</a><br />
	 <span class="med">1759.</span>
	 </h2> 
	 <p class="smcapheader">FALL OF QUEBEC.</p>
	 <p class="smcap noindent space-bottom">	
			After the Battle &bull; Canadians resist the Pursuit &bull; 
			Arrival of Vaudreuil &bull; Scene in the Redoubt &bull; Panic &bull;
			Movements of the Victors &bull; Vaudreuil's Council of War &bull;
			Precipitate Retreat of the French Army &bull;
			Last Hours of Montcalm &bull; His Death and Burial &bull;
			Quebec abandoned to its Fate &bull; Despair of the Garrison &bull;
			L&eacute;vis joins the Army &bull; Attempts to relieve the Town &bull;
			Surrender &bull; The British occupy Quebec &bull; 
			Slanders of Vaudreuil &bull; 
			Reception in England of the News of Wolfe's Victory and Death &bull;
			Prediction of Jonathan Mayhew.
	 </p>
	 <p class="break1"></p> 
</div>


<p class="double-space-top">
<span class="smcap">"Never</span> 
was rout more complete than that of our army,"
says a French official. <span class="superscript">[784]</span>
It was the more so because Montcalm
held no troops in reserve, but launched his whole force at
once against the English. Nevertheless there was some resistance
to the pursuit. It came chiefly from the Canadians, many of whom had
not advanced with the regulars to the attack. Those on the right wing,
instead of doing so, threw themselves into an extensive tract of
bushes that lay in front of the English left; and from this cover
they opened a fire, too distant for much effect, till the victors
advanced in their turn, when the shot of the hidden marksmen told
severely upon them. Two battalions, therefore, deployed before the
bushes, fired volleys into them, and drove their occupants out.</p>

<div class="footer">
   <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_784" name="footer_784"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[784]</span>
<i>Daine au Ministre</i>, 9 <i>Oct</i>. 1759.</p>
</div>

<p>
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_300-V2" id="Page_300-V2">300<br />V2</a></span> 
Again, those of the Canadians who, before the main battle began, attacked 
the English left from the brink of the plateau towards the St. Charles, 
withdrew when the rout took place, and ran along the edge of the declivity 
till, at the part of it called C&ocirc;te Ste.-Genevi&egrave;ve, they came 
to a place where it was overgrown with thickets. Into these they threw 
themselves; and were no sooner under cover than they faced about to fire 
upon the Highlanders, who presently came up. As many of these mountaineers,
according to their old custom, threw down their muskets when they charged, 
and had no weapons but their broadswords, they tried in vain to dislodge 
the marksmen, and suffered greatly in the attempt. Other troops came to 
their aid, cleared the thickets, after stout resistance, and drove their 
occupants across the meadow to the bridge of boats. The conduct of the 
Canadians at the C&ocirc;te Ste.-Genevi&egrave;ve went far to atone for 
the shortcomings of some of them on the battle-field.</p>

<p>A part of the fugitives escaped into the town by the gates
of St. Louis and St. John, while the greater number fled along
the front of the ramparts, rushed down the declivity to the
suburb of St. Roch, and ran over the meadows to the bridge,
protected by the cannon of the town and the two armed hulks
in the river. The rout had but just begun when Vaudreuil
crossed the bridge from the camp of Beauport. It was four
hours since he first heard the alarm, and his quarters were
not much more than two miles from the 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_301-V2" id="Page_301-V2">301<br />V2</a></span> 
battle-field. He does not explain why he did not come sooner; it is 
certain that his coming was well timed to throw the blame on Montcalm 
in case of defeat, or to claim some of the honor for himself in case 
of victory. "Monsieur the Marquis of Montcalm," he says, 
"unfortunately made his attack before I had joined him." 
<span class="superscript">[785]</span> His joining him could have done 
no good; for though he had at last brought with him the rest of the
militia from the Beauport camp, they had come no farther than the 
bridge over the St. Charles, having, as he alleges, been kept there 
by an unauthorized order from the chief of staff, Montreuil.
<span class="superscript">[786]</span> He declares that the regulars 
were in such a fright that he could not stop them; but that the 
Canadians listened to his voice, and that it was he who rallied them 
at the C&ocirc;te Ste.-Genevi&egrave;ve. Of this the evidence is his 
own word. From other accounts it would appear that the Canadians 
rallied themselves. Vaudreuil lost no time in recrossing the bridge 
and joining the militia in the redoubt at the farther end, where a 
crowd of fugitives soon poured in after him.</p>

<div class="footer">
   <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_785" name="footer_785"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[785]</span>
<i>Vaudreuil au Ministre</i>, 21 <i>Sept</i>. 1759.</p>
   <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_786" name="footer_786"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[786]</span>
<i>Ibid</i>., 5 <i>Oct</i>. 1759.</p>
</div>

<p>The aide-de-camp Johnstone, mounted on horseback, had
stopped for a moment in what is now the suburb of St. John
to encourage some soldiers who were trying to save a cannon
that had stuck fast in a marshy hollow; when, on spurring
his horse to the higher ground, he saw within musket-shot
a long line of British troops, who immediately 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_302-V2" id="Page_302-V2">302<br />V2</a></span> 
fired upon him. The bullets whistled about his ears, tore his clothes, and
wounded his horse; which, however, carried him along the edge of the 
declivity to a windmill, near which was a roadway to a bakehouse on the 
meadow below. He descended, crossed the meadow, reached the bridge, and 
rode over it to the great redoubt or hornwork that guarded its head.</p>

<p>The place was full of troops and Canadians in a wild panic.
"It is impossible," says Johnstone, "to imagine the disorder
and confusion I found in the hornwork. Consternation was
general. M. de Vaudreuil listened to everybody, and was always
of the opinion of him who spoke last. On the appearance
of the English troops on the plain by the bakehouse,
Montguet and La Motte, two old captains in the regiment of
B&eacute;arn, cried out with vehemence to M. de Vaudreuil 'that
the hornwork would be taken in an instant by assault, sword
in hand; that we all should be cut to pieces without quarter;
and that nothing would save us but an immediate and general
capitulation of Canada, giving it up to the English.'"
<span class="superscript">[787]</span> Yet
the river was wide and deep, and the hornwork was protected
on the water side by strong palisades, with cannon. Nevertheless
there rose a general cry to cut the bridge of boats. By
doing so more than half the army, who had not yet crossed,
would have been sacrificed. The 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_303-V2" id="Page_303-V2">303<br />V2</a></span> 
axemen were already at work, when they were stopped by some officers 
who had not lost their wits.</p>

<div class="footer">
   <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_787" name="footer_787"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[787]</span>
Confirmed by <i>Journal tenu &agrave; l'Arm&eacute;e,</i> etc. "Divers
officiers des troupes de terre n'h&eacute;sit&egrave;rent point &agrave; 
dire, tout haut en pr&eacute;sence du soldat, qu'il ne nous restoit 
d'autre ressource que celle de capituler promptement pour toute la 
colonie," etc.</p>
</div>

<p>"M. de Vaudreuil," pursues Johnstone, "was closeted in a
house in the inside of the hornwork with the Intendant and
some other persons. I suspected they were busy drafting the
articles for a general capitulation, and I entered the house,
where I had only time to see the Intendant, with a pen in his
hand, writing upon a sheet of paper, when M. de Vaudreuil
told me I had no business there. Having answered him that
what he had said was true, I retired immediately, in wrath
to see them intent on giving up so scandalously a dependency
for the preservation of which so much blood and treasure had
been expended." On going out he met Lieutenant-colonels
Dalquier and Poulariez, whom he begged to prevent the apprehended
disgrace; and, in fact, if Vaudreuil really meant to capitulate for
the colony, he was presently dissuaded by firmer spirits than his own.</p>

<p>Johnstone, whose horse could carry him no farther, set out
on foot for Beauport, and, in his own words, "continued
sorrowfully jogging on, with a very heavy heart for the loss
of my dear friend M. de Montcalm, sinking with weariness,
and lost in reflection upon the changes which Providence had
brought about in the space of three or four hours."</p>

<p>Great indeed were these changes. Montcalm was dying;
his second in command, the Brigadier Senezergues, was
mortally wounded; the army, routed and demoralized, was
virtually without a 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_304-V2" id="Page_304-V2">304<br />V2</a></span> 
head; and the colony, yesterday cheered as on the eve of deliverance, 
was plunged into sudden despair. "Ah, what a cruel day!" cries 
Bougainville; "how fatal to all that was dearest to us! My heart is 
torn in its most tender parts. We shall be fortunate if the approach 
of winter saves the country from total ruin." 
<span class="superscript">[788]</span>
</p>

<div class="footer">
   <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_788" name="footer_788"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[788]</span>
<i>Bougainville &agrave; Bourlamaque</i>, 18 <i>Sept</i>. 1759.</p>
</div>

<p>The victors were fortifying themselves on the field of battle.
Like the French, they had lost two generals; for Monckton,
second in rank, was disabled by a musket-shot, and the command
had fallen upon Townshend at the moment when the enemy were in full
flight. He had recalled the pursuers, and formed them again in line
of battle, knowing that another foe was at hand. Bougainville, in
fact, appeared at noon from Cap-Rouge with about two thousand men;
but withdrew on seeing double that force prepared to receive him.
He had not heard till eight o'clock that the English were on the
Plains of Abraham; and the delay of his arrival was no doubt
due to his endeavors to collect as many as possible of his
detachments posted along the St. Lawrence for many miles
towards Jacques-Cartier.</p>

<p>Before midnight the English had made good progress in their redoubts 
and intrenchments, had brought cannon up the heights to defend them, 
planted a battery on the C&ocirc;te Ste.-Genevi&egrave;ve, descended 
into the meadows of the St. Charles, and taken possession of the 
General Hospital, with its crowds of sick and wounded. Their 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_305-V2" id="Page_305-V2">305<br />V2</a></span> 
victory had cost them six hundred and sixty-four of all ranks, killed, 
wounded, and missing. The French loss is placed by Vaudreuil at about 
six hundred and forty, and by the English official reports at about 
fifteen hundred. Measured by the numbers engaged, the battle of Quebec 
was but a heavy skirmish; measured by results, it was one of the great 
battles of the world.</p>

<p>Vaudreuil went from the hornwork to his quarters on the
Beauport road and called a council of war. It was a tumultuous
scene. A letter was despatched to Quebec to ask advice of Montcalm.
The dying General sent a brief message to the effect that there was a
threefold choice,&mdash;to fight again, retreat to Jacques-Cartier, or give
up the colony. There was much in favor of fighting. When Bougainville
had gathered all his force from the river above, he would have three
thousand men; and these, joined to the garrison of Quebec, the
sailors at the batteries, and the militia and artillerymen of the
Beauport camp, would form a body of fresh soldiers more
than equal to the English then on the Plains of Abraham.
Add to these the defeated troops, and the victors would be
greatly outnumbered. <span class="superscript">[789]</span>
Bigot gave his voice for 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_306-V2" id="Page_306-V2">306<br />V2</a></span> 
fighting. Vaudreuil expressed himself to the same effect; but he says 
that all the officers were against him. "In vain I remarked to these
gentlemen that we were superior to the enemy, and should beat them if 
we managed well. I could not at all change their opinion, and my love 
for the service and for the colony made me subscribe to the views of 
the council. In fact, if I had attacked the English against the advice 
of all the principal officers, their ill-will would have exposed me to 
the risk of losing the battle and the colony also."
<span class="superscript">[790]</span></p>

<div class="footer">
   <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_789" name="footer_789"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[789]</span>
Bigot, as well as Vaudreuil, sets Bougainville's force at three thousand. 
"En r&eacute;unissant le corps M. de Bougainville, les bataillons de 
Montr&eacute;al <i>[laiss&eacute;s au camp de Beauport]</i> et la garnison 
de la ville, il nous restoit encore pr&egrave;s de 5,000 hommes de troupes 
fra&icirc;ches." <i>Journal tenu &agrave; l'Arm&eacute;e.</i>  Vaudreuil 
says that there were fifteen hundred men in garrison at Quebec who did not 
take part in the battle. If this is correct, the number of fresh troops 
after it was not five thousand, but more than six thousand; to whom the 
defeated force is to be added, making, after deducting killed and wounded, 
some ten thousand in all.</p>
   <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_790" name="footer_790"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[790]</span>
<i>Vaudreuil au Ministre</i>, 5 <i>Oct.</i> 1759.</p>
</div>

<p>It was said at the time that the officers voted for retreat
because they thought Vaudreuil unfit to command an army,
and, still more, to fight a battle. <span class="superscript">[791]</span>
There was no need, however, to fight at once. The object of the English 
was to take Quebec, and that of Vaudreuil should have been to keep it.
By a march of a few miles he could have joined Bougainville; and by 
then intrenching himself at or near Ste.-Foy he would have placed a 
greatly superior force in the English rear, where his position might 
have been made impregnable. Here he might be easily furnished with 
provisions, and from hence he could readily throw men and supplies into 
Quebec, which the English were too few to invest. He could harass the 
besiegers, or attack them, should opportunity offer, and either raise the 
siege or so protract it that they would be forced by approaching winter 
to sail homeward, robbed of the fruit of their victory.</p>

<div class="footer">
   <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_791" name="footer_791"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[791]</span>
<i>M&eacute;moires sur le Canada,</i> 1749-1760.</p>
</div>

<p>
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_307-V2" id="Page_307-V2">307<br />V2</a></span> 
At least he might have taken a night for reflection. He was safe behind the 
St. Charles. The English, spent by fighting, toil, and want of sleep, were 
in no condition to disturb him. A part of his own men were in deadly need 
of rest; the night would have brought refreshment, and the morning might 
have brought wise counsel. Vaudreuil would not wait, and orders were given at
once for retreat. <span class="superscript">[792]</span>  It began at nine 
o'clock that evening. Quebec was abandoned to its fate. The cannon were left 
in the lines of Beauport, the tents in the encampments, and provisions enough 
in the storehouses to supply the army for a week. "The loss of the Marquis 
de Montcalm," says a French officer then on the spot, "robbed his successors 
of their senses, and they thought of nothing but flight; such was their fear 
that the enemy would attack the intrenchments the next day. The army abandoned 
the camp in such disorder that the like was never known." 
<span class="superscript">[793]</span> "It was not a retreat," says Johnstone, 
who was himself a part of it, "but an abominable flight, with such disorder and 
confusion that, had the English known it, three hundred men sent after us would 
have been sufficient to cut all our army to pieces. The soldiers were all 
mixed, scattered, dispersed, and running as hard as they could, as if the 
English army were at their heels." They passed Charlesbourg, Lorette, and St. 
Augustin, till, on the fifteenth, they found rest on the impregnable hill 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_308-V2" id="Page_308-V2">308<br />V2</a></span> 
of Jacques-Cartier, by the brink of the St. Lawrence, thirty miles from danger.
</p>

<div class="footer">
   <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_792" name="footer_792"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[792]</span>
<i>Livre d'Ordres, Ordre du</i> 13 <i>Sept</i>. 1759.</p>
   <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_793" name="footer_793"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[793]</span>
Foligny, <i>Journal m&eacute;moratif.</i></p>
</div>

<p>In the night of humiliation when Vaudreuil abandoned
Quebec, Montcalm was breathing his last within its walls.
When he was brought wounded from the field, he was placed
in the house of the Surgeon Arnoux, who was then with Bourlamaque
at Isle-aux-Noix, but whose younger brother, also a surgeon,
examined the wound and pronounced it mortal. "I am glad of it,"
Montcalm said quietly; and then asked how long he had to live.
"Twelve hours, more or less," was the reply. "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,
L&eacute;vis, for whose talents and fitness for command he expressed
high esteem. When Vaudreuil sent to ask his opinion, he gave
it; but when Ramesay, commandant of the garrison, came to
receive his orders, he replied: "I will neither give orders nor
interfere any further. I have much business that must be
attended to, of greater moment than your ruined garrison
and this wretched country. My time is very short; therefore
pray leave me. I wish you all comfort, and to be happily extricated
from your present perplexities." Nevertheless he thought to the last
of those who had been under his command, and sent the following note
to Brigadier Townshend: 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_309-V2" id="Page_309-V2">309<br />V2</a></span> 
"Monsieur, the humanity of the English sets my mind at peace concerning 
the fate of the French prisoners and the Canadians. Feel towards them 
as they have caused me to feel. Do not let them perceive that they have 
changed masters. Be their protector as I have been their father." 
<span class="superscript">[794]</span>
</p>

<div class="footer">
   <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_794" name="footer_794"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[794]</span>
I am indebted to Abb&eacute; Bois for a copy of this note. The
last words of Montcalm, as above, are reported partly by Johnstone,
and partly by Knox.</p>
</div>

<p>Bishop Pontbriand, himself fast sinking with mortal disease,
attended his death-bed and administered the last sacraments.
He died peacefully at four o'clock on the morning of the
fourteenth. He was in his forty-eighth year.</p>

<p>In the confusion of the time no workman could be found
to make a coffin, and an old servant of the Ursulines, known
as Bonhomme Michel, gathered a few boards and nailed them together
so as to form a rough box. In it was laid the body of the dead
soldier; and late in the evening of the same day he was carried
to his rest. There was no tolling of bells or firing of cannon.
The officers of the garrison followed the bier, and some of the
populace, including women and children, joined the procession as
it moved in dreary silence along the dusky street, shattered with
cannon-ball and bomb, to the chapel of the Ursuline convent. Here
a shell, bursting under the floor, had made a cavity which had been
hollowed into a grave. Three priests of the Cathedral, several nuns,
Ramesay with his officers, and a throng of towns-people were
present at the rite. After the service 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_310-V2" id="Page_310-V2">310<br />V2</a></span> 
and the chant, the body was lowered into the grave by the light of torches; 
and then, says the chronicle, "the tears and sobs burst forth. It seemed 
as if the last hope of the colony were buried with the remains of the 
General." <span class="superscript">[795]</span> In truth, the funeral of 
Montcalm was the funeral of New France. <span class="superscript">[796]</span>
</p>

<div class="footer">
   <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_795" name="footer_795"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[795]</span>
<i>Ursulines de Qu&eacute;bec,</i> III. 10.</p>
   <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_796" name="footer_796"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[796]</span>
See <a href="#appendixJ">Appendix J</a>.</p>
</div>

<p>It was no time for grief. The demands of the hour were
too exigent and stern. When, on the morning after the battle,
the people of Quebec saw the tents standing in the camp of
Beauport, they thought the army still there to defend them.
<span class="superscript">[797]</span>
Ramesay knew that the hope was vain. On the evening before,
Vaudreuil had sent two hasty notes to tell him of his flight.
"The position of the enemy," wrote the Governor, "becomes stronger
every instant; and this, with other reasons, obliges me to retreat."
"I have received all your letters. As I set out this moment, I pray
you not to write again. You shall hear from me to-morrow. I wish
you good evening." With these notes came the following order:
"M. de Ramesay is not to wait till the enemy carries the town by
assault. As soon as provisions fail, he will raise the white flag."
This order was accompanied by a memorandum of terms which Ramesay
was to ask of the victors. <span class="superscript">[798]</span></p>

<div class="footer">
   <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_797" name="footer_797"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[797]</span>
<i>M&eacute;moire du Sieur de Ramesay.</i></p>
   <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_798" name="footer_798"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[798]</span>
<i>M&eacute;moire pour servir d'Instruction &agrave; M. de Ramesay</i>, 
13 <i>Sept.</i> 1759. Appended, with the foregoing notes, to the 
<i>M&eacute;moire de Ramesay.</i></p>
</div>

<p>"What a blow for me," says the unfortunate commandant,
"to find myself abandoned so soon 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_311-V2" id="Page_311-V2">311<br />V2</a></span> 
by the army, which alone could defend the town!" His garrison consisted of 
between one and two hundred troops of the line, some four or five hundred 
colony troops, a considerable number of sailors, and the local militia. 
<span class="superscript">[799]</span> These last were in a state of 
despair. The inhabitants who, during the siege, had sought refuge in the
suburb of St. Roch, had returned after the battle, and there
were now twenty-six hundred women and children, with about a
housand invalids and other non-combatants to be supported, though
the provisions in the town, even at half rations, would hardly last
a week. Ramesay had not been informed that a good supply was left in
the camps of Beauport; and when he heard at last that it was there,
and sent out parties to get it, they found that the Indians and the
famished country people had carried it off.</p>

<div class="footer">
   <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_799" name="footer_799"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[799]</span>
The English returns give a total of 615 French regulars in
the place besides sailors and militia.</p>
</div>

<p>"Despondency," he says again, "was complete; discouragement
extreme and universal. Murmurs and complaints against the army that
had abandoned us rose to a general outcry. I could not prevent the
merchants, all of whom were officers of the town militia, from meeting
at the house of M. Daine, the mayor. There they declared for capitulating,
and presented me a petition to that effect, signed by M. Daine and
all the principal citizens."</p>

<p>Ramesay called a council of war. One officer alone, Fiedmont,
captain of artillery, was for 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_312-V2" id="Page_312-V2">312<br />V2</a></span> 
reducing the rations still more, and holding out to the last. All the others 
gave their voices for capitulation. <span class="superscript">[800]</span>
Ramesay might have yielded without dishonor; but he still held out till an 
event fraught with new hope took place at Jacques-Cartier.</p>

<div class="footer">
   <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_800" name="footer_800"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[800]</span>
<i>Copie du Conseil de Guerre tenu par M. de Ramesay &agrave; Qu&eacute;bec</i>,
15 <i>Sept</i>. 1759.</p>
</div>

<p>This event was the arrival of L&eacute;vis. On the afternoon of the battle 
Vaudreuil took one rational step; he sent a courier to Montreal to summon that 
able officer to his aid. <span class="superscript">[801]</span> L&eacute;vis
set out at once, reached Jacques-Cartier, and found his worst fears realized. 
"The great number of fugitives that I began to meet at Three Rivers prepared 
me for the disorder in which I found the army. I never in my life knew the 
like of it. They left everything behind in the camp at Beauport; tents,
baggage, and kettles."</p>

<div class="footer">
   <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_801" name="footer_801"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[801]</span>
<i>L&eacute;vis &agrave; Bourlamaque</i>, 15 <i>Sept</i>. 1759. 
L&eacute;vis, <i>Guerre du Canada.</i></p>
</div>

<p>He spoke his mind freely; loudly blamed the retreat, and
urged Vaudreuil to march back with all speed to whence he
came. <span class="superscript">[802]</span>
The Governor, stiff at ordinary times, but pliant at
a crisis, welcomed the firmer mind that decided for him, consented
that the troops should return, and wrote afterwards in his despatch
to the Minister: "I was much charmed to find M. de L&eacute;vis disposed
to march with the army towards Quebec." <span class="superscript">[803]</span>
</p>

<div class="footer">
   <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_802" name="footer_802"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[802]</span>
<i>Bigot au Ministre</i>, 15 <i>Oct</i>. 1759. 
<i>Malartic &agrave; Bourlamaque</i>, 28 <i>Sept</i>. 1759.</p>
   <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_803" name="footer_803"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[803]</span>
"Je fus bien charm&eacute;," etc. 
<i>Vaudreuil au Ministre</i>, 5 <i>Oct.</i> 1759.</p>
</div>

<p>L&eacute;vis, on his part, wrote: "The condition in which I found
the army, bereft of everything, did 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_313-V2" id="Page_313-V2">313<br />V2</a></span> 
not discourage me, because M. de Vaudreuil told me that Quebec was not taken, 
and that he had left there a sufficiently numerous garrison; I therefore 
resolved, in order to repair the fault that had been committed, to engage
M. de Vaudreuil to march the army back to the relief of the place.
I represented to him that this was the only way to prevent the complete
defection of the Canadians and Indians; that our knowledge of the country
would enable us to approach very near the enemy, whom we
knew to be intrenching themselves on the heights of Quebec
and constructing batteries to breach the walls; that if we
found their army ill posted, we could attack them, or, at any
rate, could prolong the siege by throwing men and supplies
into the town; and that if we could not save it, we could
evacuate and burn it, so that the enemy could not possibly
winter there." <span class="superscript">[804]</span></p>

<div class="footer">
   <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_804" name="footer_804"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[804]</span>
<i>L&eacute;vis au Ministre</i>, 10 <i>Nov</i>. 1759.</p>
</div>

<p>L&eacute;vis quickly made his presence felt in the military chaos
about him. Bigot bestirred himself with his usual vigor to collect
provisions; and before the next morning all was ready.
<span class="superscript">[805]</span>
Bougainville had taken no part in the retreat, but sturdily
held his ground at Cap-Rouge while the fugitive mob swept
by him. A hundred of the mounted Canadians who formed part of his
command were now sent to Quebec, each with a bag of biscuit across
his saddle. They were to circle round to the Beauport side, where
there was no enemy, and whence they could cross the 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_314-V2" id="Page_314-V2">314<br />V2</a></span> 
St. Charles in canoes to the town. Bougainville followed close with a larger 
supply. Vaudreuil sent Ramesay a message, revoking his order to surrender if
threatened with assault, telling him to hold out to the last, and assuring 
him that the whole army was coming to his relief. L&eacute;vis hastened to 
be gone; but first he found time to write a few lines to Bourlamaque. "We 
have had a very great loss, for we have lost M. de Montcalm. I regret him as 
my general and my friend. I found our army here. It is now on the march to
retrieve our fortunes. I can trust you to hold your position; as I have not 
M. de Montcalm's talents, I look to you to second me and advise me. Put a 
good face on it. Hide this business as long as you can. I am mounting my 
horse this moment. Write me all the news."
<span class="superscript">[806]</span></p>

<div class="footer">
   <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_805" name="footer_805"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[805]</span>
<i>Livre d'Ordres, Ordre du</i> 17-18 <i>Sept</i>. 1759.</p>
   <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_806" name="footer_806"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[806]</span>
<i>L&eacute;vis a Bourlamaque</i>, 18 <i>Sept</i>. 1759.</p>
</div>

<p>The army marched that morning, the eighteenth. In the
evening it reached St. Augustin; and here it was stopped by
the chilling news that Quebec had surrendered. 
</p>
<p>
Utter confusion had reigned in the disheartened garrison. Men deserted 
hourly, some to the country, and some to the English camp; while Townshend 
pushed his trenches nearer and nearer to the walls, in spite of the cannonade
with which Fiedmont and his artillerymen tried to check them. On the evening 
of the seventeenth, the English ships of war moved towards the Lower Town, 
and a column of troops was seen approaching over the meadows of the St. 
Charles, as if to storm the Palace Gate. 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_315-V2" id="Page_315-V2">315<br />V2</a></span> 
The drums beat the alarm; but the militia refused to fight. Their officers 
came to Ramesay in a body; declared that they had no mind to sustain an 
assault; that they knew he had orders against it; that they would carry
their guns back to the arsenal; that they were no longer soldiers, but 
citizens; that if the army had not abandoned them they would fight with as 
much spirit as ever; but that they would not get themselves killed to no 
purpose. The town-major, Joann&egrave;s, in a rage, beat two of them with 
the flat of his sword.</p>

<p>The white flag was raised; Joann&egrave;s pulled it down, thinking,
or pretending to think, that it was raised without authority;
but Ramesay presently ordered him to go to the English camp and
get what terms he could. He went, through driving rain, to the
quarters of Townshend, and, in hope of the promised succor, spun
out the negotiation to the utmost, pretended that he had no power
to yield certain points demanded, and was at last sent back to confer
with Ramesay, under a promise from the English commander that, if Quebec
were not given up before eleven o'clock, he would take it by
storm. On this Ramesay signed the articles, and Joann&egrave;s
carried them back within the time prescribed. Scarcely had
he left the town, when the Canadian horsemen appeared with
their sacks of biscuit and a renewed assurance that help was
near; but it was too late. Ramesay had surrendered, and
would not break his word. He dreaded an assault, which he
knew he could not withstand, and he but half believed in the
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_316-V2" id="Page_316-V2">316<br />V2</a></span> 
promised succor. "How could I trust it?" he asks. "The army
had not dared to face the enemy before he had fortified himself;
and could I hope that it would come to attack him in an intrenched
camp, defended by a formidable artillery?" Whatever may be thought
of his conduct, it was to Vaudreuil, and not to him, that the loss
of Quebec was due.</p>

<p>The conditions granted were favorable, for Townshend
knew the danger of his position, and was glad to have Quebec
on any terms. The troops and sailors of the garrison were
to march out of the place with the honors of war, and to be
carried to France. The inhabitants were to have protection
in person and property, and free exercise of religion.
<span class="superscript">[807]</span></p>

<div class="footer">
   <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_807" name="footer_807"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[807]</span>
<i>Articles de Capitulation</i>, 18 <i>Sept</i>. 1759.</p>
</div>

<p>In the afternoon a company of artillerymen with a field-piece
entered the town, and marched to the place of arms, followed by a
body of infantry. Detachments took post at all the gates. The
British flag was raised on the heights near the top of Mountain
Street, and the capital of New France passed into the hands of its
hereditary foes. The question remained, should they keep, or destroy
it? It was resolved to keep it at every risk. The marines, the
grenadiers from Louisbourg, and some of the rangers were to reimbark
in the fleet; while the ten battalions, with the artillery and one company
of rangers, were to remain behind, bide the Canadian winter,
and defend the ruins of Quebec against the efforts of 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_317-V2" id="Page_317-V2">317<br />V2</a></span> 
L&eacute;vis. Monckton, the oldest brigadier, was disabled by his wound,
and could not stay; while Townshend returned home, to parade his laurels
and claim more than his share of the honors of victory.
<span class="superscript">[808]</span> The command, therefore, rested 
with Murray.</p>

<div class="footer">
   <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_808" name="footer_808"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[808]</span>
<i>Letter to an Honourable Brigadier-General</i> [Townshend],
printed in 1760. A <i>Refutation</i> soon after appeared, angry, but
not conclusive. Other replies will be found in the 
<i>Imperial Magazine</i> for 1760.</p>
</div>

<p>The troops were not idle. Levelling their own field-works,
repairing the defences of the town, storing provisions sent
ashore from the fleet, making fascines, and cutting firewood,
busied them through the autumn days bright with sunshine,
or dark and chill with premonition of the bitter months to
come. Admiral Saunders put off his departure longer than he
had once thought possible; and it was past the middle of
October when he fired a parting salute, and sailed down the
river with his fleet. In it was the ship "Royal William," carrying
the embalmed remains of Wolfe.</p>

<p>Montcalm lay in his soldier's grave before the humble
altar of the Ursulines, never more to see the home for which
he yearned, the wife, mother, and children whom he loved,
the olive-trees and chestnut-groves of his beloved Candiac.
He slept in peace among triumphant enemies, who respected
his memory, though they hardly knew his resting-place. It
was left for a fellow-countryman&mdash;a colleague and a brother-in-arms&mdash;to
belittle his achievements and blacken his name. The jealous 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_318-V2" id="Page_318-V2">318<br />V2</a></span> 
spite
of Vaudreuil pursued him even in death. Leaving L&eacute;vis to command
at Jacques-Cartier, whither the army had again withdrawn, the
Governor retired to Montreal, whence he wrote a series of despatches
to justify himself at the expense of others, and above all of the
slain general, against whom his accusations were never so bitter as now,
when the lips were cold that could have answered them. First,
he threw on Ramesay all the blame of the surrender of Quebec. Then
he addressed himself to his chief task, the defamation of his unconscious
rival. "The letter that you wrote in cipher, on the tenth of February,
to Monsieur the Marquis of Montcalm and me, in common,
<span class="superscript">[809]</span> flattered his
self-love to such a degree that, far from seeking conciliation,
he did nothing but try to persuade the public that his authority
surpassed mine. From the moment of Monsieur de Montcalm's arrival in this
colony, down to that of his death, he did not cease to sacrifice everything
to his boundless ambition. He sowed dissension among the troops, tolerated
the most indecent talk against the government, attached to himself
the most disreputable persons, used means to corrupt the
most virtuous, and, when he could not succeed, became their
cruel enemy. He wanted to be Governor-General. He privately
flattered with favors and promises of patronage every officer of the
colony troops who adopted his ideas. He spared no pains to gain over
the people of whatever calling, and persuade 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_319-V2" id="Page_319-V2">319<br />V2</a></span> 
them of his attachment;
while, either by himself or by means of the troops of the line, he
made them bear the most frightful yoke <i>(le joug le plus affreux).</i>
He defamed honest people, encouraged insubordination, and closed his
eyes to the rapine of his soldiers."</p>

<div class="footer">
   <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_809" name="footer_809"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[809]</span>
See <i>ante</i>, <a href="#Page_319-V2">p. 167</a>.</p>
</div>

<p>This letter was written to Vaudreuil's official superior and
confidant, the Minister of the Marine and Colonies. In another
letter, written about the same time to the Minister of War, who held
similar relations to his rival, he declares that he "greatly regretted
Monsieur de Montcalm." <span class="superscript">[810]</span></p>

<div class="footer">
   <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_810" name="footer_810"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[810]</span>
<i>Vaudreuil au Ministre de la Guerre</i>, 1 <i>Nov</i>. 1759.</p>
</div>

<p>His charges are strange ones from a man who was by turns
the patron, advocate, and tool of the official villains who
cheated the King and plundered the people. Bigot, Cadet, and
the rest of the harpies that preyed on Canada looked to Vaudreuil
for support, and found it. It was but three or four weeks since he
had written to the Court in high eulogy of Bigot and effusive praise
of Cadet, coupled with the request that a patent of nobility should
be given to that notorious public thief. 
<span class="superscript">[811]</span> The corruptions which
disgraced his government were rife, not only in the civil
administration, but also among the officers of the colony troops,
over whom he had complete control. They did not, as has been seen
already, extend to the officers of the line, who were outside the circle
of peculation. It was these who were the habitual associates
of Montcalm; and when Vaudreuil 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_320-V2" id="Page_320-V2">320<br />V2</a></span> 
charges him with "attaching
to himself the most disreputable persons, and using means
to corrupt the most virtuous," the true interpretation of his
words is that the former were disreputable because they disliked
him (the Governor), and the latter virtuous because they were his
partisans.</p>

<div class="footer">
   <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_811" name="footer_811"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[811]</span>
See <i>ante</i>, <a href="#Page_031-V2">p. 31</a>.</p>
</div>

<p>Vaudreuil continues thus: "I am in despair, Monseigneur,
to be under the necessity of painting you such a portrait after
death of Monsieur the Marquis of Montcalm. Though it contains
the exact truth, I would have deferred it if his personal
hatred to me were alone to be considered; but I feel too
deeply the loss of the colony to hide from you the cause of
it. I can assure you that if I had been the sole master, Quebec
would still belong to the King, and that nothing is so disadvantageous
in a colony as a division of authority and the mingling of troops
of the line with marine <i>[colony]</i> troops. Thoroughly knowing
Monsieur de Montcalm, I did not doubt in the least that unless I
condescended to all his wishes, he would succeed in ruining Canada
and wrecking all my plans."</p>

<p>He then charges the dead man with losing the battle of
Quebec by attacking before he, the Governor, arrived to take
command; and this, he says, was due to Montcalm's absolute
determination to exercise independent authority, without
caring whether the colony was saved or lost. "I cannot hide
from you, Monseigneur, that if he had had his way in past
years Oswego and Fort George [<i>William Henry</i>] would never
have been attacked or 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_321-V2" id="Page_321-V2">321<br />V2</a></span> 
taken; and he owed the success at Ticonderoga to the orders I had given 
him." <span class="superscript">[812]</span> Montcalm, on the other hand,
declared at the time that Vaudreuil had ordered him not to risk a
battle, and that it was only through his disobedience that
Ticonderoga was saved.</p>

<div class="footer">
		<p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_812" name="footer_812"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[812]</span>
<i>Vaudreuil au Ministre de la Marine,</i> 30 <i>Oct</i>. 1759.</p>
</div>

<p>Ten days later Vaudreuil wrote again: "I have already had
the honor, by my letter written in cipher on the thirteenth of
last month, to give you a sketch of the character of Monsieur
the Marquis of Montcalm; but I have just been informed of
a stroke so black that I think, Monseigneur, that I should
fail in my duty to you if I did not tell you of it." He goes
on to say that, a little before his death, and "no doubt in
fear of the fate that befell him," Montcalm placed in the
hands of Father Roubaud, missionary at St. Francis, two
packets of papers containing remarks on the administration
of the colony, and especially on the manner in which the
military posts were furnished with supplies; that these observations
were accompanied by certificates; and that they involved
charges against him, the Governor, of complicity in peculation.
Roubaud, he continues, was to send these papers to France; "but now,
Monseigneur, that you are informed about them, I feel no anxiety,
and I am sure that the King will receive no impression from them
without acquainting himself with their truth or falsity."</p>

<p>Vaudreuil's anxiety was natural; and so was the action of
Montcalm in making known to the Court 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_322-V2" id="Page_322-V2">322<br />V2</a></span> 
the outrageous abuses that threatened the King's service with ruin. His 
doing so was necessary, both for his own justification and for the public 
good; and afterwards, when Vaudreuil and others were brought to trial at 
Paris, and when one of the counsel for the defence charged the late general 
with slanderously accusing his clients, the Court ordered the charge to
be struck from the record. <span class="superscript">[813]</span>
The papers the existence of which, if they did exist, so terrified Vaudreuil, 
have thus far escaped research. But the correspondence of the two rivals 
with the chiefs of the departments on which they severally depended is in 
large measure preserved; and while that of the Governor is filled with 
defamation of Montcalm and praise of himself, that of the General is neither
egotistic nor abusive. The faults of Montcalm have sufficiently appeared.
They were those of an impetuous, excitable, and impatient nature, by
no means free from either ambition or vanity; but they were
never inconsistent with the character of a man of honor. His
impulsive utterances, reported by retainers and sycophants,
kept Vaudreuil in a state of chronic rage; and, void as he
was of all magnanimity, gnawed with undying jealousy, and
mortally in dread of being compromised by the knaveries to
which he had lent his countenance, he could not contain
himself within the bounds of decency or sense. In another
letter he had the baseness to say that Montcalm met his death
in trying to escape from the English.</p>

<div class="footer">
		<p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_813" name="footer_813"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[813]</span>
<i>Proc&egrave;s de Bigot, Cadet, et autres.</i></p>
</div>

<p>
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_323-V2" id="Page_323-V2">323<br />V2</a></span> 
Among the Governor's charges are some which cannot be
flatly denied. When he accuses his rival of haste and precipitation
in attacking the English army, he touches a fair subject
of criticism; but, as a whole, he is as false in his detraction
of Montcalm as in his praises of Bigot and Cadet.</p>

<p>The letter which Wolfe sent to Pitt a few days before his
death, written in what may be called a spirit of resolute
despair, and representing success as almost hopeless, filled
England with a dejection that found utterance in loud grumblings
against the Ministry. Horace Walpole wrote the bad news to his friend
Mann, ambassador at Florence: "Two days ago came letters from Wolfe,
despairing as much as heroes can despair. Quebec is well victualled,
Amherst is not arrived, and fifteen thousand men are encamped to defend
it. We have lost many men by the enemy, and some by our
friends; that is, we now call our nine thousand only seven
thousand. How this little army will get away from a much
larger, and in this season, in that country, I don't guess: yes,
I do."</p>

<p>Hardly were these lines written when tidings came that
Montcalm was defeated, Quebec taken, and Wolfe killed. A
flood of mixed emotions swept over England. Even Walpole
grew half serious as he sent a packet of newspapers to his
friend the ambassador. "You may now give yourself what airs you please.
An ambassador is the only man in the world whom bullying becomes.
All precedents are on your side: Persians, Greeks, Romans, always
insulted their neighbors when they took 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_324-V2" id="Page_324-V2">324<br />V2</a></span> 
Quebec. Think how pert the
French would have been on such an occasion! What a scene! An army in
the night dragging itself up a precipice by stumps of trees
to assault a town and attack an enemy strongly intrenched
and double in numbers! The King is overwhelmed with addresses
on our victories; he will have enough to paper his palace."
<span class="superscript">[814]</span></p>

<div class="footer">
		<p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_814" name="footer_814"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[814]</span>
<i>Letters of Horace Walpole</i>, III. 254, 257 
(ed. Cunningham, 1857).</p>
</div>


<p>When, in soberer mood, he wrote the annals of his time,
and turned, not for the better, from the epistolary style to
the historical, he thus described the impression made on the
English public by the touching and inspiring story of Wolfe's
heroism and death: "The incidents of dramatic fiction could
not be conducted with more address to lead an audience from
despondency to sudden exaltation than accident prepared to
excite the passions of a whole people. They despaired, they
triumphed, and they wept; for Wolfe had fallen in the hour
of victory. Joy, curiosity, astonishment, was painted on every
countenance. The more they inquired, the more their admiration
rose. Not an incident but was heroic and affecting."
<span class="superscript">[815]</span>
England blazed with bonfires. In one spot alone all was dark and
silent; for here a widowed mother mourned for a loving and devoted
son, and the people forbore to profane her grief with the clamor
of their rejoicings.</p>

<div class="footer">
		<p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_815" name="footer_815"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[815]</span>
Walpole, <i>Memoirs of George II.</i>, II. 384.</p>
</div>

<p>New England had still more cause of joy than Old, and
she filled the land with jubilation. The 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_325-V2" id="Page_325-V2">325<br />V2</a></span> 
pulpits resounded with
sermons of thanksgiving, some of which were worthy of the
occasion that called them forth. Among the rest, Jonathan
Mayhew, a young but justly celebrated minister of Boston,
pictured with enthusiasm the future greatness of the British-American
colonies, with the continent thrown open before them, and foretold that,
"with the continued blessing of Heaven, they will become, in another
century or two, a mighty empire;" adding in cautious parenthesis,
"<i>I do not mean an independent one</i>." He read Wolfe's victory aright,
and divined its far-reaching consequence.</p>

<div class="footer">
		<p class="double-space-top">
        <a id="footer_28Note" name="footer_28Note"></a>
<span class="smcap">Note</span>.&mdash;The authorities of this 
chapter are, in the main, the same as those of the preceding, with some 
additions, the principal of which is the <i>M&eacute;moire du Sieur de 
Ramezay, Chevalier de l'Ordre royal et militaire de St.-Louis, cy-devant 
Lieutenant pour le Roy commandant &agrave; Qu&eacute;bec, au sujet de la 
Reddition de cette Ville, qui a &eacute;t&eacute; suivie de la Capitulation 
du</i> 18 7<span class="superscript">bre</span>, 1759 (Archives de la Marine). 
To this document are appended a number of important "pi&egrave;ces 
justificatives." These, with the <i>M&eacute;moire</i>, have been
printed by the Quebec Historical Society. The letters of Vaudreuil
cited in this chapter are chiefly from the Archives Nationales.</p>

<p>If Montcalm, as Vaudreuil says, really intrusted papers to the
care of the Jesuit missionary Roubaud, he was not fortunate in
his choice of a depositary. After the war Roubaud renounced his
Order, adjured his faith, and went over to the English. He gave
various and contradictory accounts of the documents said to be
in his hands. On one occasion he declared that Montcalm's effects
left with him at his mission of St. Francis had been burned to
prevent their falling into the hands of the enemy (see Verreau,
<i>Report on Canadian Archives</i>, 1874, p. 183). Again, he says that
he had placed in the hands of the King of England certain letters
of Montcalm (see <i>Mr. Roubaud's Deplorable Case, humbly submitted
to Lord North's Consideration</i>, in <i>Historical Magazine</i>,
Second Series, VIII. 283). Yet again, he speaks of these same
letters as "pretended" (Verreau, <i>as above</i>). He complains that
some of them had been published, without his consent, "by a
Lord belonging to His Majesty's household" (<i>Mr. Roubaud's
Deplorable Case</i>).</p>

<p>The allusion here is evidently to a pamphlet printed in London,
in 1777, in French and English, and entitled, <i>Lettres de Monsieur
le Marquis de Montcalm, Gouverneur-G&eacute;n&eacute;ral en Canada, &agrave;
Messieurs de Berryer et de 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_326-V2" id="Page_326-V2">326<br />V2</a></span> 
la Mol&eacute;, &eacute;crites dans les Ann&eacute;es</i> 1757,
1758, et 1759, <i>avec une Version Angloise</i>. They profess to be
observations by Montcalm on the English colonies, their political
character, their trade, and their tendency to independence. They
bear the strongest marks of being fabricated to suit the times,
the colonies being then in revolt. The principal letter is one
addressed to Mol&eacute;, and bearing date Quebec, Aug. 24, 1759. It
foretells the loss of her colonies as a consequence to England
of her probable conquest of Canada. I laid before the Massachusetts
Historical Society my reasons for believing this letter, like
the rest, an imposture (see the <i>Proceedings</i> of that Society for
1869-1870, pp. 112-128). To these reasons it may be added that
at the date assigned to the letter all correspondence was stopped
between Canada and France. From the arrival of the English fleet,
at the end of spring, till its departure, late in autumn, communication
was completely cut off. It was not till towards the end of
November, when the river was clear of English ships, that the
naval commander Kanon ran by the batteries of Quebec and
carried to France the first news from Canada. Some of the letters
thus sent were dated a month before, and had waited in Canada
till Kanon's departure.</p>

<p>Abb&eacute; Verreau&mdash;a high authority on questions of Canadian history&mdash;tells
me a comparison of the handwriting has convinced him that these pretended
letters of Montcalm are the work of Roubaud.</p>

<p>On the burial of Montcalm, see <a href="#appendixJ">Appendix J</a>.</p>
</div>

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<div class="chapterhead">
   <br /><a name="Chapter_29" id="Chapter_29"></a>
	 <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_327-V2" id="Page_327-V2">327<br />V2</a></span> 
	 <br /><br /><br />
	 <h2><a href="#Contents29">CHAPTER XXIX.</a><br />
	 <span class="med">1759, 1760.</span>
	 </h2> 
	 <p class="smcapheader">SAINTE-FOY.</p>
	 <p class="smcap noindent space-bottom">	   
	    Quebec after the Siege &bull; Captain Knox and the Nuns &bull; 
			Escape of French Ships &bull; Winter at Quebec &bull;
			Threats of L&eacute;vis &bull; Attacks &bull; Skirmishes &bull;
			Feat of the Rangers &bull; State of the Garrison &bull; 
			The French prepare to retake Quebec &bull; Advance of L&eacute;vis &bull;
			The Alarm &bull; Sortie of the English &bull; 
			Rash Determination of Murray &bull; Battle of Ste.-Foy &bull;
			Retreat of the English &bull; L&eacute;vis besieges Quebec &bull;
			Spirit of the Garrison &bull; Peril of their Situation &bull;
			Relief &bull; Quebec saved &bull; Retreat of L&eacute;vis &bull;
			The News in England.
	 </p>
	 <p class="break1"></p> 
</div>


<p class="double-space-top">
<span class="smcap">The</span>
fleet was gone; the great river was left a solitude; and
the chill days of a fitful November passed over Quebec in
alternations of rain and frost, sunshine and snow. The troops,
driven by cold from their encampment on the Plains, were all
gathered within the walls. Their own artillery had so battered
the place that it was not easy to find shelter. The Lower Town
was a wilderness of scorched and crumbling walls. As you
ascend Mountain Street, the Bishop's Palace, on the right, was
a skeleton of tottering masonry, and the buildings on the left
were a mass of ruin, where ragged boys were playing at see-saw
among the fallen planks and timbers. 
<span class="superscript">[816]</span> Even in the Upper
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_328-V2" id="Page_328-V2">328<br />V2</a></span> 
Town few of the churches and public buildings had escaped.
The Cathedral was burned to a shell. The solid front of the
College of the Jesuits was pockmarked by numberless cannon-balls,
and the adjacent church of the Order was wofully shattered.
The church of the Recollects suffered still more. The bombshells
that fell through the roof had broken into the pavement, and as
they burst had thrown up the bones and skulls of the dead from
the graves beneath. <span class="superscript">[817]</span> 
Even the more distant H&ocirc;tel-Dieu was pierced by fifteen 
projectiles, some of which had exploded in the halls and chambers. 
<span class="superscript">[818]</span></p>

<div class="footer">
		<p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_816" name="footer_816"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[816]</span>
Drawings made on the spot by Richard Short. These drawings,
twelve in number, were engraved and published in 1761.</p>
   <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_817" name="footer_817"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[817]</span>
Short's <i>Views in Quebec</i>, 1759. Compare Pontbriand,
in <i>N.&nbsp;Y. Col. Docs.</i>, X. 1,057.</p>
   <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_818" name="footer_818"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[818]</span>
Casgrain, <i>H&ocirc;tel-Dieu de Qu&eacute;bec</i>, 445.</p>
</div>

<p>The Commissary-General, Berniers, thus describes to
Bourlamaque the state of the town: "Quebec is nothing but
a shapeless mass of ruins. Confusion, disorder, pillage reign
even among the inhabitants, for the English make examples of
severity every day. Everybody rushes hither and thither, without
knowing why. Each searches for his possessions, and, not
finding his own, seizes those of other people. English and
French, all is chaos alike. The inhabitants, famished and
destitute, escape to the country. Never was there seen such a
sight." <span class="superscript">[819]</span></p>

<div class="footer">
		<p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_819" name="footer_819"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[819]</span>
<i>Berniers &agrave; Bourlamaque</i>, 27 <i>Sept</i>. 1759.</p>
</div>

<p>Quebec swarmed with troops. There were guard-houses at
twenty different points; sentinels paced the ramparts, squads
of men went the rounds, soldiers off duty strolled the streets,
some in mitre 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_329-V2" id="Page_329-V2">329<br />V2</a></span> 
caps and some black three-cornered hats; while
a ceaseless rolling of drums and a rigid observance of military
forms betrayed the sense of a still imminent danger. While
some of the inhabitants left town, others remained, having no
refuge elsewhere. They were civil to the victors, but severe
towards their late ruler. "The citizens," says Knox, "particularly
the females, reproach M. Vaudreuil upon every occasion,
and give full scope to bitter invectives." He praises the agreeable
manners and cheerful spirit of the Canadian ladies, concerning
whom another officer also writes: "It is very surprising
with what ease the gayety of their tempers enables them to
bear misfortunes which to us would be insupportable. Families
whom the calamities of war have reduced from the height of
luxury to the want of common necessaries laugh, dance, and
sing, comforting themselves with this reflection&mdash;<i>Fortune de
guerre</i>. Their young ladies take the utmost pains to teach our
officers French; with what view I know not, if it is not that
they may hear themselves praised, flattered, and courted without
loss of time." <span class="superscript">[820]</span></p>

<div class="footer">
		<p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_820" name="footer_820"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[820]</span>
<i>Alexander Campbell to John Floyd</i>, 22 <i>Oct</i>. 1759. 
Campbell was a lieutenant of the Highlanders; Lloyd was a Connecticut
merchant.</p>
</div>

<p>Knox was quartered in a small stable, with a hayloft above
and a rack and manger at one end: a lodging better than fell
to the lot of many of his brother officers; and, by means of a
stove and some help from a carpenter, he says that he made
himself tolerably comfortable. The change, however, was an
agreeable one when he was ordered 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_330-V2" id="Page_330-V2">330<br />V2</a></span> 
for a week to the General
Hospital, a mile out of the town, where he was to command
the guard stationed to protect the inmates and watch the
enemy. Here were gathered the sick and wounded of both armies,
nursed with equal care by the nuns, of whom Knox speaks with gratitude
and respect. "When our poor fellows were ill and ordered to be removed
from their odious regimental hospital to this general receptacle, they
were indeed rendered inexpressibly happy. Each patient has his bed, with
curtains, allotted to him, and a nurse to attend him. Every sick
or wounded officer has an apartment to himself, and is attended
by one of these religious sisters, who in general are young,
handsome, courteous, rigidly reserved, and very respectful.
Their office of nursing the sick furnishes them with opportunities
of taking great latitudes if they are so disposed; but I
never heard any of them charged with the least levity." The
nuns, on their part, were well pleased with the conduct of
their new masters, whom one of them describes as the "most
moderate of all conquerors."</p>

<p>"I lived here," Knox continues, "at the French King's table,
with an agreeable, polite society of officers, directors, and commissaries.
Some of the gentlemen were married, and their ladies honored us with their
company. They were generally cheerful, except when we discoursed on
the late revolution and the affairs of the campaign; then they seemingly
gave way to grief, uttered by profound sighs, followed by an <i>O mon
Dieu!</i>" He walked in the garden with the French officers,
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_331-V2" id="Page_331-V2">331<br />V2</a></span> 
played at cards with them, and passed the time so pleasantly
that his short stay at the hospital seemed an oasis in his hard
life of camp and garrison.</p>

<p>M&egrave;re de Sainte-Claude, the Superior, a sister of Ramesay,
late commandant of Quebec, one morning sent him a note of
invitation to what she called an English breakfast; and though
the repast answered to nothing within his experience, he says
that he "fared exceedingly well, and passed near two hours
most agreeably in the society of this ancient lady and her
virgin sisters."</p>

<p>The excellent nuns of the General Hospital are to-day what
their predecessors were, and the scene of their useful labors
still answers at many points to that described by the careful
pen of their military guest. Throughout the war they and the
nuns of the H&ocirc;tel-Dieu had been above praise in their assiduous
devotion to the sick and wounded.</p>

<p>Brigadier Murray, now in command of Quebec, was a gallant
soldier, upright, humane, generous, eager for distinction,
and more daring than prudent. He befriended the Canadians,
issued strict orders against harming them in person or property,
hanged a soldier who had robbed a citizen of Quebec, and
severely punished others for slighter offences of the same sort.
In general the soldiers themselves showed kindness towards the
conquered people; during harvest they were seen helping them
to reap their fields, without compensation, and sharing with
them their tobacco and rations. The inhabitants were disarmed,
and 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_332-V2" id="Page_332-V2">332<br />V2</a></span> 
required to take the oath of allegiance. Murray reported
in the spring that the whole country, from Cap-Rouge downward,
was in subjection to the British Crown.
<span class="superscript">[821]</span></p>

<div class="footer">
		<p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_821" name="footer_821"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[821]</span>
<i>Murray to Pitt</i>, 25 <i>May</i>, 1760. Murray, <i>Journal</i>,
1759, 1760.</p>
</div>

<p>Late in October it was rumored that some of the French
ships in the river above Quebec were preparing to run by the
batteries. This was the squadron which had arrived in the
spring with supplies, and had lain all summer at Batiscan, in
the Richelieu, and at other points beyond reach of the English.
After nearly a month of expectancy, they at length appeared,
anchored off Sillery on the twenty-first of November, and tried
to pass the town on the dark night of the twenty-fourth. Seven
or eight of them succeeded; four others ran aground and were
set on fire by their crews, excepting one which was stranded
on the south shore and abandoned. Captain Miller, with a lieutenant
and above forty men, boarded her; when, apparently through their
own carelessness, she blew up. <span class="superscript">[822]</span>
Most of the party were killed
by the explosion, and the rest, including the two officers, were
left in a horrible condition between life and death. Thus they
remained till a Canadian, venturing on board in search of plunder,
found them, called his neighbors to his aid, carried them to his
own house, and after applying, with the utmost kindness, what simple
remedies he knew, went over to Quebec and told of the disaster.
Fortunately for themselves, the sufferers soon died.</p>

<div class="footer">
		<p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_822" name="footer_822"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[822]</span>
<i>Murray to Amherst</i>, 25 <i>Jan</i>. 1760. Not, as some believed, by
a train laid by the French.</p>
</div>

<p>
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_333-V2" id="Page_333-V2">333<br />V2</a></span> 
December came, and brought the Canadian winter, with its fierce light and 
cold, glaring snowfields, and piercing blasts that scorch the cheek like a 
firebrand. The men were frost-bitten as they dug away the dry, powdery 
drifts that the wind had piled against the rampart. The sentries were 
relieved every hour; yet feet and fingers were continually frozen. The 
clothing of the troops was ill-suited to the climate, and, though stoves 
had been placed in the guard and barrack rooms, the supply of fuel 
constantly fell short. The cutting and dragging of wood was the chief task 
of the garrison for many weeks. Parties of axemen, strongly guarded, were 
always at work in the forest of Ste.-Foy, four or five miles from Quebec, 
and the logs were brought to town on sledges dragged by the soldiers.
Eight of them were harnessed in pairs to each sledge; and as
there was always danger from Indians and bushrangers, every
man carried his musket slung at his back. The labor was prodigious;
for frequent snowstorms made it necessary again and again to beat a
fresh track through the drifts. The men bore their hardships with
admirable good humor; and once a party of them on their return, dragging
their load through the street, met a Canadian, also with a load of wood,
which was drawn by a team of dogs harnessed much like themselves. They
accosted them as yoke-fellows, comrades, and brothers; asked
them what allowance of pork and rum they got; and invited
them and their owner to mess at the regimental barracks.</p>

<p>
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_334-V2" id="Page_334-V2">334<br />V2</a></span> 
The appearance of the troops on duty within the town, as
described by Knox, was scarcely less eccentric. "Our guards
on the grand parade make a most grotesque appearance in
their different dresses; and our inventions to guard us against
the extreme rigor of this climate are various beyond imagination.
The uniformity as well as nicety of the clean, methodical
soldier is buried in the rough, fur-wrought garb of the frozen
Laplander; and we rather resemble a masquerade than a body
of regular troops, insomuch that I have frequently been accosted
by my acquaintances, whom, though their voices were familiar to me,
I could not discover, or conceive who they were. Besides, every man
seems to be in a continual hurry; for instead of walking soberly
through the streets, we are obliged to observe a running or trotting pace."</p>

<p>Early in January there was a storm of sleet, followed by
severe frost, which glazed the streets with ice. Knox, being
ordered to mount guard in the Lower Town, found the descent
of Mountain Street so slippery that it was impossible to walk
down with safety, especially as the muskets of the men were
loaded; and the whole party, seating themselves on the ground,
slid one after another to the foot of the hill. The Highlanders,
in spite of their natural hardihood, suffered more from the cold
than the other troops, as their national costume was but a
sorry defence against the Canadian winter. A detachment of
these breechless warriors being on guard at the General
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_335-V2" id="Page_335-V2">335<br />V2</a></span> 
Hospital, the nuns spent their scanty leisure in knitting for
them long woollen hose, which they gratefully accepted, though
at a loss to know whether modesty or charity inspired the gift.</p>

<p>From the time when the English took possession of Quebec,
reports had come in through deserters that L&eacute;vis meant to attack
and recover it. Early in November there was a rumor that he was about
to march upon it with fifteen thousand men. In December word came
that he was on his way, resolved to storm it on or about the twenty-second,
and dine within the walls, under the French flag, on Christmas Day.
He failed to appear; but in January a deserter said that he had prepared
scaling-ladders, and was training his men to use them by assaults
on mock ramparts of snow. There was more tangible evidence
that the enemy was astir. Murray had established two fortified outposts,
one at Ste.-Foy, and the other farther on, at Old Lorette. War-parties
hovered round both, and kept the occupants in alarm. A large body of
French grenadiers appeared at the latter place in February, and drove
off a herd of cattle; when a detachment of rangers, much inferior in
number, set upon them, put them to flight, and recovered the plunder.
At the same time a party of regulars, Canadians, and Indians took up a
strong position near the church at Point Levi, and sent a message to the
English officers that a large company of expert hairdressers were ready
to wait upon them whenever they required their 
<ins title="add period after services.">services.</ins> 
The allusion was of course 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_336-V2" id="Page_336-V2">336<br />V2</a></span> 
to the scalp-lifting practices of the Indians and
bushrangers.</p>

<p>The river being now hard frozen, Murray sent over a detachment
of light infantry under Major Dalling. A sharp fight ensued on the snow,
around the church, and in the neighboring forest, where the English
soldiers, taught to use snow-shoes by the rangers, routed the enemy, and
killed or captured a considerable number. A third post was then established
at the church and the priest's house adjacent. Some days after, the
French came back in large numbers, fortified themselves with
felled trees, and then attacked the English position. The firing
being heard at Quebec, the light infantry went over to the
scene of action, and Murray himself followed on the ice, with
the Highlanders and other troops. Before he came up, the
French drew off and retreated to their breastwork, where they
were attacked and put to flight, the nimble Highlanders capturing
a few, while the greater part made their escape.</p>

<p>As it became known that the French held a strong post at
Le Calvaire, near St. Augustin, two days' march from Quebec,
Captain Donald MacDonald was sent with five hundred men
to attack it. He found the enemy behind a breastwork of logs
protected by an abattis. The light infantry advanced and
poured in a brisk fire; on which the French threw down their
arms and fled. About eighty of them were captured; but their
commander, Herbin, escaped, leaving to the victors his watch,
hat and feather, wine, liquor-case, and 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_337-V2" id="Page_337-V2">337<br />V2</a></span> 
mistress. The English had six men wounded and nearly a hundred 
frost-bitten. <span class="superscript">[823]</span></p>

<div class="footer">
		<p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_823" name="footer_823"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[823]</span>
Knox, II. 275. Murray, <i>Journal</i>. Fraser, <i>Journal</i>.
Vaudreuil, in his usual way, multiplies the English force by three.</p>
</div>

<p>Captain Hazen and his rangers soon after had a notable
skirmish. They were posted in a house not far from the station
at Lorette. A scout came in with news that a large party of
the enemy was coming to attack them; on which Hazen left a
sergeant and fourteen men in the house, and set out for Lorette
with the rest to ask a reinforcement. On the way he met the
French, who tried to surround him; and he told his men to
fall back to the house. They remonstrated, saying that they
"felt spry," and wanted to show the regulars that provincials
could fight as well as red-coats. Thereupon they charged the
enemy, gave them a close volley of buckshot and bullets, and
put them to flight; but scarcely had they reloaded their guns
when they were fired upon from behind. Another body of assailants had
got into their rear, in order to cut them off. They faced about,
attacked them, and drove them back like the first. The two French
parties then joined forces, left Hazen to pursue his march, and
attacked the fourteen rangers in the house, who met them with a
brisk fire. Hazen and his men heard the noise; and, hastening back,
fell upon the rear of the French, while those in the house sallied
and attacked them in front. They were again routed; and the rangers
chased them two miles, killing six of them and capturing seven. Knox,
in whose eyes provincials usually 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_338-V2" id="Page_338-V2">338<br />V2</a></span> 
find no favor, launches this time into warm commendation of "our simply 
honest New England men."</p>

<p>Fresh reports came in from time to time that the French
were gathering all their strength to recover Quebec; and late
in February these stories took a definite shape. A deserter from
Montreal brought Murray a letter from an officer of rangers,
who was a prisoner at that place, warning him that eleven
thousand men were on the point of marching to attack him.
Three other deserters soon after confirmed the news, but
added that the scheme had met with a check; for as it was intended
to carry the town by storm, a grand rehearsal had taken
place, with the help of scaling-ladders planted against the wall
of a church; whereupon the Canadians rushed with such zeal
to the assault that numerous broken legs, arms, and heads
ensued, along with ruptures, sprains, bruises, and dislocations;
insomuch, said the story, that they became disgusted with the
attempt. All remained quiet till after the middle of April, when
the garrison was startled by repeated assurances that at the first
breaking-up of the ice all Canada would be upon them. Murray
accordingly ordered the French inhabitants to leave the town
within three days. <span class="superscript">[824]</span>
</p>

<div class="footer">
		<p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_824" name="footer_824"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[824]</span>
<i>Ordonnance faite &agrave; Qu&eacute;bec le</i> 21 <i>Avril</i>, 1760, 
<i>par son Excellence, Jacques Murray</i>.</p>
</div>

<p>In some respects the temper of the troops was excellent. In
the petty warfare of the past winter they had generally been
successful, proving themselves 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_339-V2" id="Page_339-V2">339<br />V2</a></span> 
a match for the bushrangers and Indians on their own ground; so that, 
as Sergeant Johnson remarks, in his odd way, "Very often a small number 
of our men would put to flight a considerable party of those Cannibals."
They began to think themselves invincible; yet they had the deepest 
cause for anxiety. The effective strength of the garrison was reduced 
to less than half, and of those that remained fit for duty, hardly a 
man was entirely free from scurvy. The rank and file had no fresh 
provisions; and, in spite of every precaution, this malignant disease, 
aided by fever and dysentery, made no less havoc among them than among 
the crews of Jacques Cartier at this same place two centuries before. 
Of about seven thousand men left at Quebec in the autumn, scarcely more 
than three thousand were fit for duty on the twenty-fourth of April.
<span class="superscript">[825]</span> About seven hundred
had found temporary burial in the snowdrifts, as the frozen ground was
impenetrable as a rock.</p>

<div class="footer">
		<p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_825" name="footer_825"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[825]</span>
<i>Return of the present State of His Majesty's Forces
in Garrison at Quebec</i>, 24 <i>April</i>, 1760 (Public Record Office).</p>
</div>

<p>Meanwhile Vaudreuil was still at Montreal, where he says
that he "arrived just in time to take the most judicious measures
and prevent General Amherst from penetrating into the colony."
<span class="superscript">[826]</span>
During the winter some of the French regulars were kept in garrison
at the outposts, and the rest quartered on the inhabitants; while the
Canadians were dismissed to their homes, subject to be 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_340-V2" id="Page_340-V2">340<br />V2</a></span> 
mustered again at the call of the Governor. Both he and L&eacute;vis were 
full of the hope of retaking Quebec. He had spies and agents among Murray's 
soldiers; and though the citizens had sworn allegiance to King George,
some of them were exceedingly useful to his enemies. Vaudreuil had constant 
information of the state of the garrison. He knew that the scurvy was his 
active and powerful ally, and that the hospitals and houses of Quebec were 
crowded with the sick. At the end of March he was informed that more than 
half the British were on the sick-list; and it was presently rumored that 
Murray had only two thousand men able to bear arms. 
<span class="superscript">[827]</span> With every allowance for 
exaggeration in these reports, it was plain that the French could attack 
their invaders in overwhelming force.</p>

<div class="footer">
		<p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_826" name="footer_826"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[826]</span>
<i>Vaudreuil au Ministre</i>, 30 <i>Oct</i>. 1759.</p>
   <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_827" name="footer_827"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[827]</span>
<i>Vaudreuil au Ministre</i>, 15 <i>Avril</i>, 1760.</p>
</div>

<p>The difficulty was to find means of transportation. The depth
of the snow and the want of draught animals made it necessary
to wait till the river should become navigable; but preparation
was begun at once. L&eacute;vis was the soul of the enterprise. Provisions
were gathered from far and near; cannon, mortars, and munitions of
war were brought from the frontier posts, and butcher-knives were
fitted to the muzzles of guns to serve the Canadians in place of
bayonets. All the workmen about Montreal were busied in making tools
and gun-carriages. Stores were impressed from the merchants; and
certain articles, which could not otherwise be had, were smuggled,
with extraordinary 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_341-V2" id="Page_341-V2">341<br />V2</a></span> 
address, out of Quebec itself.
<span class="superscript">[828]</span> Early in
spring the militia received orders to muster for the march. There
were doubts and discontent; but, says a contemporary, "sensible
people dared not speak, for if they did they were set down as
English." Some there were who in secret called the scheme
"L&eacute;vis' folly;" yet it was perfectly rational, well conceived,
and conducted with vigor and skill. Two frigates, two sloops-of-war,
and a number of smaller craft still remained in the river, under
command of Vauquelin, the brave officer who had distinguished himself
at the siege of Louisbourg. The stores and cannon were placed on
board these vessels, the army embarked in a fleet of bateaux, and on
the twentieth of April the whole set out together for the scene of
action. They comprised eight battalions of troops of the line and
two of colony troops; with the colonial artillery, three thousand
Canadians, and four hundred Indians. When they left Montreal, their
effective strength, besides Indians, is said by L&eacute;vis to have been six
thousand nine hundred and ten, a number which was increased
as he advanced by the garrisons of Jacques-Cartier, D&eacute;schambault,
and Pointe-aux-Trembles, as well as by the Canadians on both side
of the St. Lawrence below Three Rivers; for Vaudreuil had ordered
the militia captains to join his standard, with all their followers,
armed and equipped, on pain of death. <span class="superscript">[829]</span>
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_342-V2" id="Page_342-V2">342<br />V2</a></span> 
These accessions appear
to have raised his force to between eight and nine thousand.</p>

<div class="footer">
		<p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_828" name="footer_828"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[828]</span>
<i>Vaudreuil au Ministre</i>, 23 <i>Avril</i>, 1760.</p>
   <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_829" name="footer_829"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[829]</span>
<i>Vaudreuil aux Capitaines de Milice</i>, 16 <i>Avril</i>, 1760. 
I am indebted to Abb&eacute; H.&nbsp;R. Casgrain for a copy of this letter.
</p>
</div>

<p>
The ice still clung to the river banks, the weather was bad, and the 
navigation difficult; but on the twenty-sixth the army landed at St. 
Augustin, crossed the river of Cap-Rouge on bridges of their own making, 
and moved upon the English outpost at Old Lorette. The English abandoned 
it and fell back to Ste.-Foy. L&eacute;vis followed. Night came on, with 
a gale from the southeast, a driving rain, and violent thunder, unusual 
at that season. The road, a bad and broken one, led through the marsh 
called La Su&egrave;de. Causeways and bridges broke down under the weight 
of the marching columns and plunged the men into water, mud, and 
half-thawed ice. "It was a frightful night," says L&eacute;vis; "so dark 
that but for the flashes of lightning we should have been forced to 
stop." The break of day found the vanguard at the edge of the woods 
bordering the farther side of the marsh. The storm had abated; and they 
saw before them, a few hundred yards distant, through the misty air, a
ridge of rising ground on which stood the parish church of Ste.-Foy, 
with a row of Canadian houses stretching far to right and left. This 
ridge was the declivity of the plateau of Quebec; the same which as it 
approaches the town, some five or six miles towards the left, takes the 
names of C&ocirc;te d'Abraham and C&ocirc;te Ste.-Genevi&egrave;ve. The 
church and the houses were occupied by British troops, who, as the 
French debouched from the woods, opened on them with cannon, and compelled
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_343-V2" id="Page_343-V2">343<br />V2</a></span> 
them to fall back. Though the ridge at this point is not steep, the position 
was a strong one; but had L&eacute;vis known how few were as yet there to 
oppose him, he might have carried it by an assault in front. As it was, he 
resolved to wait till night, and then flank the enemy by a march to the right 
along the border of the wood.</p>

<p>It was the morning of Sunday, the twenty-seventh. Till late
in the night before, Murray and the garrison of Quebec were
unaware of the immediate danger; and they learned it at last
through a singular stroke of fortune. Some time after midnight
the watch on board the frigate "Racehorse," which had wintered in
the dock at the Lower Town, heard a feeble cry of distress from the
midst of the darkness that covered the St. Lawrence. Captain Macartney
was at once informed of it; and, through an impulse of humanity,
he ordered a boat to put out amid the drifting ice that was sweeping
up the river with the tide. Guided by the faint cries, the sailors
found a man lying on a large cake of ice, drenched, and half dead
with cold; and, taking him with difficulty into their boat, they
carried him to the ship. It was long before he was able to speak
intelligibly; but at last, being revived by cordials and other remedies,
he found strength to tell his benefactors that he was a sergeant of
artillery in the army that had come to retake Quebec; that in
trying to land a little above Cap-Rouge, his boat had been
overset, his companions drowned, and he himself saved by
climbing upon the cake of ice where they had 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_344-V2" id="Page_344-V2">344<br />V2</a></span> 
discovered him;
that he had been borne by the ebb tide down to the Island of
Orleans, and then brought up to Quebec by the flow; and,
finally, that L&eacute;vis was marching on the town with twelve
thousand men at his back.</p>

<p>He was placed in a hammock and carried up Mountain
Street to the quarters of the General, who was roused from
sleep at three o'clock in the morning to hear his story. The
troops were ordered under arms; and soon after daybreak
Murray marched out with ten pieces of cannon and more than
half the garrison. His principal object was to withdraw the
advanced posts at Ste.-Foy, Cap-Rouge, Sillery, and Anse du
Foulon. The storm had turned to a cold, drizzling rain, and the
men, as they dragged their cannon through snow and mud,
were soon drenched to the skin. On reaching Ste.-Foy, they
opened a brisk fire from the heights upon the woods which now
covered the whole army of L&eacute;vis; and being rejoined by the
various outposts, returned to Quebec in the afternoon, after
blowing up the church, which contained a store of munitions
that they had no means of bringing off. When they entered
Quebec a gill of rum was served out to each man; several
houses in the suburb of St. Roch were torn down to supply
them with firewood for drying their clothes; and they were left
to take what rest they could against the morrow. The French,
meanwhile, took possession of the abandoned heights; and
while some filled the houses, barns, and sheds of Ste.-Foy and
its neighborhood, 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_345-V2" id="Page_345-V2">345<br />V2</a></span> 
others, chiefly Canadians, crossed the plateau to seek shelter in the 
village of Sillery.</p>

<p>Three courses were open to Murray. He could defend Quebec,
fortify himself outside the walls on the Buttes-&agrave;-Neveu,
or fight L&eacute;vis at all risks. The walls of Quebec could not 
withstand a cannonade, and he had long intended to intrench his army 
on the Buttes, as a better position of defence; but the ground, 
frozen like a rock, had thus far made the plan impracticable. Even 
now, though the surface was thawed, the soil beneath was still 
frost-bound, making the task of fortification extremely difficult, 
if indeed the French would give him time for it. Murray was young 
in years, and younger still in impulse. He was ardent, fearless, 
ambitious, and emulous of the fame of Wolfe. "The enemy," he soon 
after wrote to Pitt, "was greatly superior in number, it is true; 
but when I considered that our little army was in the habit of 
beating the enemy, and had a very fine train of field artillery; 
that shutting ourselves at once within the walls was putting all 
upon the single chance of holding out for a considerable time a 
wretched fortification, I resolved to give them battle; and, half 
an hour after six in the morning, we marched with all the force I 
could muster, namely, three thousand men."
<span class="superscript">[830]</span> Some of these had left the
hospitals of their own accord in their eagerness to take part in
the fray.</p>

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		<p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_830" name="footer_830"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[830]</span>
<i>Murray to Pitt</i>, 25 <i>May</i>, 1760.</p>
</div>

<p>The rain had ceased; but as the column emerged from St.
Louis Gate, the scene before them was a 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_346-V2" id="Page_346-V2">346<br />V2</a></span> 
dismal one. As yet there was no sign of spring. Each leafless bush and 
tree was dark with clammy moisture; patches of bare earth lay oozy and
black on the southern slopes: but elsewhere the ground was still covered 
with snow, in some places piled in drifts, and everywhere sodden with 
rain; while each hollow and depression was full of that half-liquid, 
lead-colored mixture of snow and water which New England schoolboys call 
"slush," for all drainage was stopped by the frozen subsoil. The troops had
with them two howitzers and twenty field-pieces, which had
been captured when Quebec surrendered, and had formed a
part of that very battery which Ramesay refused to Montcalm
at the battle of the autumn before. As there were no horses, the
cannon were dragged by some of the soldiers, while others
carried picks and spades; for as yet Murray seems not to have
made up his mind whether to fortify or fight. Thus they advanced
nearly half a mile; till reaching the Buttes-&agrave;-Neveu, they formed
in order of battle along their farther slopes, on the same ground
that Montcalm had occupied on the morning of his death.</p>

<p>Murray went forward to reconnoitre. Immediately before
him was a rising ground, and, beyond it, a tract of forest called
Sillery Wood, a mile or more distant. Nearer, on the left, he
could see two blockhouses built by the English in the last
autumn, not far from the brink of the plateau above the Anse
du Foulon where Wolfe climbed the heights. On the right, at
the opposite brink of the plateau, was a house and a fortified
windmill 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_347-V2" id="Page_347-V2">347<br />V2</a></span> 
belonging to one Dumont. The blockhouses, the mill,
and the rising ground between them were occupied by the
vanguard of L&eacute;vis' army; while, behind, he could descry the
main body moving along the road from Ste.-Foy, then turning,
battalion after battalion, and rapidly marching across the
plateau along the edge of Sillery Wood. The two brigades of
the leading column had already reached the blockhouses by
the Anse du Foulon, and formed themselves as the right wing
of the French line of battle; but those behind were not yet in
position.</p>

<p>Murray, kindling at the sight, thought that so favorable a
moment was not to be lost, and ordered an advance. His line
consisted of eight battalions, numbering a little above two
thousand. In the intervals between them the cannon were
dragged through slush and mud by five hundred men; and, at
a little distance behind, the remaining two battalions followed
as a reserve. The right flank was covered by Dalling's light
infantry; the left by Hazen's company of rangers and a hundred
volunteers under Major MacDonald. They all moved forward
till they were on nearly the same ground where Wolfe's army had
been drawn up. Then the cannon unlimbered, and opened on the French
with such effect that L&eacute;vis, who was on horseback in the middle
of the field, sent orders to the corps of his left to fall back
to the cover of the woods. The movement caused some disorder.
Murray mistook it for retreat, and commanded a farther advance.
The whole British line, extending itself 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_348-V2" id="Page_348-V2">348<br />V2</a></span> 
towards the right, pushed eagerly forward: in doing which it lost the 
advantage of the favorable position it had occupied; and the battalions 
of the right soon found themselves on low grounds, wading in half-melted
snow, which in some parts was knee deep. Here the cannon could no longer 
be worked with effect. Just in front, a small brook ran along the hollow, 
through soft mud and saturated snowdrifts, then gurgled down the slope on 
the right, to lose itself in the meadows of the St. Charles. A few rods 
before this brook stood the house and windmill of Dumont, occupied by five
companies of French grenadiers. The light infantry at once attacked them. 
A furious struggle ensued, till at length the French gave way, and the 
victors dashed forward to follow up their advantage. Their ardor cost them 
dear. The corps on the French left, which had fallen back into the woods, 
now advanced again as the cannon ceased to play, rushing on without
order but with the utmost impetuosity, led by a gallant old officer, 
Colonel Dalquier, of the battalion of B&eacute;arn. A bullet in
the body could not stop him. The light infantry were overwhelmed;
and such of them as were left alive were driven back in confusion
upon the battalions behind them, along the front of which they
remained dispersed for some minutes, preventing the troops from
firing on the advancing French, who thus had time to reform their
ranks. At length the light infantry got themselves out of the way
and retired to the rear, where, having lost nearly all their officers,
they remained during the rest of the 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_349-V2" id="Page_349-V2">349<br />V2</a></span> 
fight. Another struggle followed for the house and mill of Dumont, of 
which the French again got possession, to be again driven out; and it 
remained, as if by mutual consent, unoccupied for some time by either 
party. For above an hour more the fight was hot and fierce. "We drove 
them back as long as we had ammunition for our cannon," says Sergeant
Johnson; but now it failed, and no more was to be had, because, in the 
eccentric phrase of the sergeant, the tumbrils were "bogged in deep 
pits of snow."</p>

<p>
While this was passing on the English right, it fared still worse with 
them on the left. The advance of the line was no less disastrous here 
than there. It brought the troops close to the woods which circled round 
to this point from the French rear, and from which the Canadians, 
covered by the trees, now poured on them a deadly fire. Here, as on the 
right, L&eacute;vis had ordered his troops to fall back for a time; but 
when the fire of the English cannon ceased, they advanced again, and their
artillery, though consisting of only three pieces, played its part with 
good effect. Hazen's rangers and MacDonald's volunteers attacked and took 
the two adjacent blockhouses, but could not hold them. Hazen was wounded, 
MacDonald killed, and their party overpowered. The British battalions 
held their ground till the French, whose superior numbers enabled them to 
extend themselves on both sides beyond the English line, made a furious 
attack on the left wing, in front and flank. The reserves were 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_350-V2" id="Page_350-V2">350<br />V2</a></span> 
ordered up, and the troops stood for a time in sullen
desperation under the storm of bullets; but they were dropping
fast in the blood-stained snow, and the order came at length
to fall back. They obeyed with curses: "Damn it, what is falling
back but retreating?" <span class="superscript">[831]</span>
The right wing, also outflanked,
followed the example of the left. Some of the corps tried to
drag off their cannon; but being prevented by the deep mud
and snow they spiked the pieces and abandoned them. The
French followed close, hoping to cut off the fugitives from
the gates of Quebec; till L&eacute;vis, seeing that the retreat, though
precipitate, was not entirely without order, thought best to
stop the pursuit.</p>

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		<p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_831" name="footer_831"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[831]</span>
Knox, II. 295.</p>
</div>

<p>The fight lasted about two hours, and did credit to both
sides. The Canadians not only showed their usual address and
courage when under cover of woods, but they also fought well
in the open field; and the conduct of the whole French force
proved how completely they had recovered from the panic of
the last autumn. From the first they were greatly superior in
number, and at the middle and end of the affair, when they
had all reached the field, they were more than two against
one. <span class="superscript">[832]</span>
The English, on the other hand, besides the opportunity
of attacking before their enemies had completely formed, had
a vastly superior artillery and a favorable position, both which
advantages they lost after their second advance.</p>

<div class="footer">
		<p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_832" name="footer_832"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[832]</span>
See <a href="#appendixK">Appendix K</a>.</p>
</div>

<p>Some curious anecdotes are told of the retreat. Colonel
Fraser, of the Highlanders, received a bullet 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_351-V2" id="Page_351-V2">351<br />V2</a></span> 
which was no doubt half spent, and which, with excellent precision, hit 
the base of his queue, so deadening the shock that it gave him no
other inconvenience than a stiff neck. Captain Hazen, of the
rangers, badly wounded, was making his way towards the gate,
supported by his servant, when he saw at a great distance
a French officer leading a file of men across a rising ground;
whereupon he stopped and told the servant to give him his
gun. A volunteer named Thompson, who was near by and who
tells the story, thought that he was out of his senses; but Hazen
persisted, seated himself on the ground, took a long aim, fired,
and brought down his man. Thompson congratulated him. "A
chance shot may kill the devil," replied Hazen; and resigning
himself again to the arms of his attendant, he reached the
town, recovered from his wound, and lived to be a general of
the Revolution. <span class="superscript">[833]</span></p>

<div class="footer">
		<p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_833" name="footer_833"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[833]</span>
Thompson, deceived by Hazen's baptismal name, Moses, thought that he was a 
Jew. (<i>Revue Canadienne</i>, IV. 865.) He was, however, of an old New 
England Puritan family. See the Hazen genealogy in <i>Historic-Genealogical 
Register</i>, XXXIII.</p>
</div>

<p>The English lost above a thousand, or more than a third
of their whole number, killed, wounded, and missing.
<span class="superscript">[834]</span> They
carried off some of their wounded, but left others behind;
and the greater part of these were murdered, scalped, and
mangled by the Indians, all of whom were converts from the
mission villages. English writers put the French loss at two
thousand and upwards, which is no doubt a gross exaggeration.
L&eacute;vis declares 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_352-V2" id="Page_352-V2">352<br />V2</a></span> 
that the number did not exceed six or eight hundred;
but afterwards gives a list which makes it eight hundred and
thirty-three.</p>

<div class="footer">
		<p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_834" name="footer_834"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[834]</span>
<i>Return of Killed, Wounded, and Missing</i>, signed J. Murray.</p>
</div>

<p>Murray had left three or four hundred men to guard Quebec
when the rest marched out; and adding them to those who had returned
scathless from the fight, he now had about twenty-four hundred rank
and file fit for duty. Yet even the troops that were rated as effective
were in so bad a condition that the hyperbolical Sergeant Johnson
calls them "half-starved, scorbutic skeletons." That worthy soldier,
commonly a model of dutiful respect to those above him, this time so
far forgets himself as to criticise his general for the "mad,
enthusiastic zeal" by which he nearly lost the fruits of Wolfe's
victory. In fact, the fate of Quebec trembled in the balance.
"We were too few and weak to stand an assault," continues
Johnson, "and we were almost in as deep a distress as we
could be." At first there was some drunkenness and some
plundering of private houses; but Murray stopped the one by
staving the rum-barrels of the sutlers, and the other by hanging
the chief offender. Within three days order, subordination,
hope, and almost confidence were completely restored. Not
a man was idle. The troops left their barracks and lay in tents
close to their respective alarm posts. On the open space by
St. Louis Gate a crowd of convalescents were busy in filling
sand-bags to strengthen the defences, while the sick and
wounded in the hospitals made wadding for the cannon. The
ramparts 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_353-V2" id="Page_353-V2">353<br />V2</a></span> 
were faced with fascines, of which a large stock
had been provided in the autumn; <i>chevaux-de-frise</i> were
planted in exposed places; an outwork was built to protect
St. Louis Gate; embrasures were cut along the whole length
of the walls; and the French cannon captured when the town
was taken were planted against their late owners. Every man
was tasked to the utmost of his strength; and the garrison,
gaunt, worn, besmirched with mud, looked less like soldiers
than like overworked laborers.</p>

<p>The conduct of the officers troubled the spirit of Sergeant
Johnson. It shocked his sense of the fitness of things to see
them sharing the hard work of the private men, and he thus
gives utterance to his feelings: "None but those who were
present on the spot can imagine the grief of heart the soldiers
felt to see their officers yoked in the harness, dragging up
cannon from the Lower Town; to see gentlemen, who were set over them
by His Majesty to command and keep them to their duty, working at
the batteries with the barrow, pickaxe, and spade." The effect,
however, was admirable. The spirit of the men rose to the crisis.
Murray, no less than his officers, had all their confidence; for if
he had fallen into a fatal error, he atoned for it now by unconquerable
resolution and exhaustless fertility of resource. Deserters said that
L&eacute;vis would assault the town; and the soldiers replied: "Let him come on;
he will catch a Tartar."</p>

<p>L&eacute;vis and his army were no less busy in digging 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_354-V2" id="Page_354-V2">354<br />V2</a></span> 
trenches
along the stony back of the Buttes-&agrave;-Neveu. Every day the
English fire grew hotter; till at last nearly a hundred and fifty
cannon vomited iron upon them from the walls of Quebec,
and May was well advanced before they could plant a single
gun to reply. Their vessels had landed artillery at the Anse
du Foulon; but their best hope lay in the succors they daily
expected from the river below. In the autumn L&eacute;vis, with a
view to his intended enterprise, had sent a request to Versailles
that a ship laden with munitions and heavy siege-guns should be sent
from France in time to meet him at Quebec in April; while he looked
also for another ship, which had wintered at Gasp&eacute;, and which therefore
might reach him as soon as navigation opened. The arrival of these
vessels would have made the position of the English doubly critical; and,
on the other hand, should an English squadron appear first,
L&eacute;vis would be forced to raise the siege. Thus each side
watched the river with an anxiety that grew constantly more
intense; and the English presently descried signals along the
shore which seemed to say that French ships were moving
up the St. Lawrence. Meantime, while doing their best to
compass each other's destruction, neither side forgot the
courtesies of war. L&eacute;vis heard that Murray liked spruce-beer
for his table, and sent him a flag of truce with a quantity of
spruce-boughs and a message of compliment; Murray responded
with a Cheshire cheese, and L&eacute;vis rejoined with a present of
partridges.</p>

<p>
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_355-V2" id="Page_355-V2">355<br />V2</a></span> 
Bad and scanty fare, excessive toil, and broken sleep were
telling ominously on the strength of the garrison when, on the
ninth of May, Murray, as he sat pondering over the fire at
his quarters in St. Louis Street, was interrupted by an officer
who came to tell him that there was a ship-of-war in the
Basin beating up towards the town. Murray started from his
revery, and directed that British colors should be raised immediately
on Cape Diamond. <span class="superscript">[835]</span> The halyards 
being out of order, a sailor climbed the staff and drew up the flag 
to its place. The news had spread; men and officers, divided between 
hope and fear, crowded to the rampart by the Ch&acirc;teau, where 
Durham Terrace now overlooks the St. Lawrence, and every eye was 
strained on the approaching ship, eager to see whether she would show 
the red flag of England or the white one of France. Slowly her colors 
rose to the mast-head and unfurled to the wind the red cross of St. 
George. It was the British frigate "Lowestoffe." She anchored before 
the Lower Town, and saluted the garrison with twenty-one guns. "The
gladness of the troops," says Knox, "is not to be expressed.
Both officers and soldiers mounted the parapet in the face
of the enemy and huzzaed with their hats in the air for almost
an hour. The garrison, the enemy's camp, the bay, and circumjacent
country resounded with our shouts and the thunder of our artillery;
for the gunners were so elated that they did nothing but load and
fire for a considerable time. In short, the general satisfaction
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_356-V2" id="Page_356-V2">356<br />V2</a></span> 
is not to be conceived, except by a person who had suffered the
extremities of a siege, and been destined, with his brave friends
and countrymen, to the scalping-knives of a faithless conqueror
and his barbarious allies." The "Lowestoffe" brought news that a
British squadron was at the mouth of the St. Lawrence, and would
reach Quebec in a few days.</p>

<div class="footer">
		<p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_835" name="footer_835"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[835]</span>
Thompson in <i>Revue Canadienne</i>, IV. 866.</p>
</div>

<p>L&eacute;vis, in ignorance of this, still clung to the hope that
French ships would arrive strong enough to overpower the
unwelcome stranger. His guns, being at last in position,
presently opened fire upon a wall that was not built to bear
the brunt of heavy shot; but an artillery better and more
numerous than his own almost silenced them, and his gunners
were harassed by repeated sallies. The besiegers had now no
real chance of success unless they could carry the place by
storm, to which end they had provided abundant scaling-ladders
as well as petards to burst in the gates. They made, however, no
attempt to use them. A week passed, when, on the evening of the
fifteenth, the ship of the line "Vanguard" and the frigate "Diana"
sailed into the harbor; and on the next morning the "Diana" and
the "Lowestoffe" passed the town to attack the French vessels
in the river above. These were six in all,&mdash;two frigates, two
smaller armed ships, and two schooners; the whole under command
of the gallant Vauquelin. He did not belie his reputation; fought
his ship with persistent bravery till his ammunition was spent,
refused even then to strike his flag, and being 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_357-V2" id="Page_357-V2">357<br />V2</a></span> 
made prisoner,
was treated by his captors with distinguished honor. The
other vessels made little or no resistance. One of them threw
her guns overboard and escaped; the rest ran ashore and
were burned.</p>

<p>The destruction of his vessels was a death-blow to the
hopes of L&eacute;vis, for they contained his stores of food and
ammunition. He had passed the preceding night in great agitation;
and when the cannonade on the river ceased, he hastened to raise the
siege. In the evening deserters from his camp told Murray that the
French were in full retreat; on which all the English batteries
opened, firing at random through the darkness, and sending cannon-balls
<i>en ricochet</i>, bowling by scores together, over the Plains of
Abraham on the heels of the retiring enemy. Murray marched out at
dawn of day to fall upon their rear; but, with a hundred and
fifty cannon bellowing behind them, they had made such speed that,
though he pushed over the marsh to Old Lorette, he could not overtake
them; they had already crossed the river of Cap-Rouge. Why, with
numbers still superior, they went off in such haste, it is hard to
say. They left behind them thirty-four cannon and six mortars, with
petards, scaling-ladders, tents, ammunition, baggage, intrenching
tools, many of their muskets, and all their sick and wounded.</p>

<p>The effort to recover Quebec did great honor to the enterprise
of the French; but it availed them nothing, served only
to waste resources that seemed already at the lowest ebb,
and gave fresh opportunity 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_358-V2" id="Page_358-V2">358<br />V2</a></span> 
of plunder to Cadet and his crew, who failed not to make use of it.</p>

<p>After the battle of Ste.-Foy Murray sent the frigate "Racehorse"
to Halifax with news of his defeat, and from Halifax it was sent
to England. The British public were taken by surprise. "Who the
deuce was thinking of Quebec?" says Horace Walpole. "America was
like a book one has read and done with; but here we are on a
sudden reading our book backwards." Ten days passed, and then
came word that the siege was raised and that the French were gone;
upon which Walpole wrote to General Conway: "Well, Quebec is
come to life again. Last night I went to see the Holdernesses.
I met my Lady in a triumphal car, drawn by a Manx horse,
thirteen little fingers high, with Lady Emily. Mr. Milbank
was walking by himself in ovation after the car, and they
were going to see the bonfire at the alehouse at the corner.
The whole procession returned with me; and from the Countess's
dressing-room we saw a battery fired before the house, the mob crying,
'God bless the good news!' These are all the particulars I know of the
siege. My Lord would have showed me the journal; but we amused ourselves
much better in going to eat peaches from the new Dutch stoves
[<i>hot-houses</i>]."</p>

<div class="footer">
		<p class="noindent double-space-top">
        <a id="footer_29Note" name="footer_29Note"></a>
<span class="smcap">Note</span>.&mdash;On the battle 
of Ste.-Foy and the subsequent siege, L&eacute;vis, 
<i>Guerre du Canada. Relation de la seconde Bataille de Qu&eacute;bec et 
du Si&eacute;ge de cette Ville</i> (there are several copies of this
paper, with different titles and some variation). <i>Murray to Amherst</i>,
30 <i>April</i>, 1760. Murray, <i>Journal kept at Quebec from Sept</i>.
18, 1759, <i>to May</i> 17, 1760 (Public Record Office, <i>America and
West Indies</i>, XCIX.). <i>Murray to Pitt</i>, 25 <i>May</i>, 1760. 
<i>Letter 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_359-V2" id="Page_359-V2">359<br />V2</a></span> 
from an Officer of the Royal Americans at Quebec</i>, 24 <i>May</i>, 1760 
(in <i>London Magazine</i> and several periodical papers of the time). 
Fraser, <i>Journal</i> (Quebec Hist. Soc.);  Johnstone, <i>Campaign of</i> 
1760 (Ibid.). <i>Relation de ce qui s'est pass&eacute; au Si&eacute;ge de 
Qu&eacute;bec, par une R&eacute;ligieuse de l'H&ocirc;pital 
G&eacute;n&eacute;ral</i> (Ibid.). <i>Memoirs of the Siege of Quebec</i>, 
by Sergeant John Johnson. <i>M&eacute;moires sur le Canada</i>, 1749-1760. 
Letters of L&eacute;vis, Bourlamaque, and Vaudreuil, May, June, 1760. 
Several letters from officers at Quebec in provincial newspapers. 
Knox, II. 292-322. <i>Plan of the Battle and Situation of the British and 
French on the Heights of Abraham, the </i>28<i>th of April</i>, 
1760,&mdash;an admirable plan, attached to the great plan of operations 
at Quebec before mentioned, and necessary to an understanding of the 
position and movements of the two armies (British Museum, King's Maps).
</p>

<p>The narratives of Mante, Entick, Wynne, Smith, and other
secondary writers give no additional light. On the force engaged
on each side, see <a href="#appendixK">Appendix K</a>.</p>
</div>

<hr />
<div class="chapterhead">
   <br /><a name="Chapter_30" id="Chapter_30"></a>
	 <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_360-V2" id="Page_360-V2">360<br />V2</a></span> 
	 <br /><br /><br />
	 <h2><a href="#Contents30">CHAPTER XXX.</a><br />
	 <span class="med">1760.</span>
	 </h2> 
	 <p class="smcapheader">FALL OF CANADA.</p>
	 <p class="smcap noindent space-bottom">	
	    Desperate Situation &bull; Efforts of Vaudreuil and L&eacute;vis &bull; 
			Plans of Amherst &bull; A Triple Attack &bull;  Advance of Murray &bull; 
			Advance of Haviland &bull;  Advance of Amherst &bull; 
			Capitulation of Montreal &bull;  Protest of L&eacute;vis &bull; 
			Injustice of Louis XV. &bull; Joy in the British Colonies &bull; 
			Character of the War.
	 </p>
	 <p class="break1"></p> 
</div>

<p class="double-space-top">
<span class="smcap">The</span>
retreat of L&eacute;vis left Canada little hope but in a speedy
peace. This hope was strong, for a belief widely prevailed
that, even if the colony should be subdued, it would be restored
to France by treaty. Its available force did not exceed
eight or ten thousand men, as most of the Canadians below
the district of Three Rivers had sworn allegiance to King
George; and though many of them had disregarded the oath
to join the standard of L&eacute;vis, they could venture to do so no
longer. The French had lost the best of their artillery, their
gunpowder was falling short, their provisions would barely
carry them to harvest time, and no more was to be hoped
for, since a convoy of ships which had sailed from France
at the end of winter, laden with supplies of all kinds, had
been captured by the English. The blockade of the St. Lawrence
was complete. The Western Indians would not 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_361-V2" id="Page_361-V2">361<br />V2</a></span> 
fight, and even those
of the mission villages were wavering and insolent.</p>

<p>Yet Vaudreuil and L&eacute;vis exerted themselves for defence
with an energy that does honor to them both. "Far from
showing the least timidity," says the ever-modest Governor,
"I have taken positions such as may hide our weakness from
the enemy." <span class="superscript">[836]</span> 
He stationed Rochbeaucourt with three hundred
men at Pointe-aux-Trembles; Repentigny with two hundred
at Jacques-Cartier; and Dumas with twelve hundred at
Deschambault to watch the St. Lawrence and, if possible,
prevent Murray from moving up the river. Bougainville was
stationed at Isle-aux-Noix to bar the approach from Lake
Champlain, and a force under La Corne was held ready to
defend the rapids above Montreal, should the English attempt
that dangerous passage. Prisoners taken by war parties near
Crown Point gave exaggerated reports of hostile preparation,
and doubled and trebled the forces that were mustering against
Canada.</p>

<div class="footer">
		<p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_836" name="footer_836"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[836]</span>
<i>Vaudreuil au Ministre</i>, 22 <i>Juin</i>, 1760.</p>
</div>

<p>These forces were nevertheless considerable. Amherst had
resolved to enter the colony by all its three gates at once,
and, advancing from east, west, and south, unite at Montreal
and crush it as in the jaws of a vice. Murray was to ascend
the St. Lawrence from Quebec, while Brigadier Haviland forced an
entrance by way of Lake Champlain, and Amherst himself led the
main army down the St. Lawrence from Lake Ontario. This last
route was long, circuitous, difficult, and full of 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_362-V2" id="Page_362-V2">362<br />V2</a></span> 
danger from
the rapids that obstructed the river. His choice of it for his
chief line of operation, instead of the shorter and easier way
of Lake Champlain, was meant, no doubt, to prevent the French
army from escaping up the Lakes to Detroit and the other wilderness
posts, where it might have protracted the war for an indefinite
time; while the plan adopted, if successful, would make its capture
certain. The plan was a critical one. Three armies advancing
from three different points, hundreds of miles apart, by routes
full of difficulty, and with no possibility of intercommunication,
were to meet at the same place at the same time, or, failing to do
so, run the risk of being destroyed in detail. If the French troops
could be kept together, and if the small army of Murray or of
Haviland should reach Montreal a few days before the co-operating
forces appeared, it might be separately attacked and overpowered.
In this lay the hope of Vaudreuil and L&eacute;vis.
<span class="superscript">[837]</span></p>

<div class="footer">
		<p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_837" name="footer_837"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[837]</span>
<i>L&eacute;vis &agrave; Bourlamaque, Juillet, Ao&ucirc;t</i>, 1760.</p>
</div>

<p>After the siege of Quebec was raised, Murray had an
effective force of about twenty-five hundred rank and file.
<span class="superscript">[838]</span>
As the spring opened the invalids were encamped on the Island of
Orleans, where fresh air, fresh provisions, and the change from
the pestiferous town hospitals wrought such wonders on the scorbutic
patients, that in a few weeks a considerable number of them were
again fit for garrison duty, if not for the field. 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_363-V2" id="Page_363-V2">363<br />V2</a></span> 
Thus it happened
that on the second of July twenty-four hundred and fifty men and
officers received orders to embark for Montreal; and on the fifteenth
they set sail, in thirty-two vessels, with a number of boats and
bateaux. <span class="superscript">[839]</span>
 They were followed some time after by Lord Rollo,
with thirteen hundred additional men just arrived from Louisbourg,
the King having ordered that fortress to be abandoned and dismantled.
They advanced slowly, landing from time to time, skirmishing with
detachments of the enemy who followed them along the shore, or
more frequently trading with the farmers who brought them vegetables,
poultry, eggs, and fresh meat. They passed the fortified hill of
Jacques-Cartier, whence they were saluted with shot and shell,
stopped at various parishes, disarmed the inhabitants, administered
oaths of neutrality, which were taken without much apparent reluctance,
and on the fourth of August came within sight of Three Rivers, then
occupied by a body of troops expecting an attack. "But," says Knox,
"a delay here would be absurd, as that wretched place must share the
fate of Montreal. Our fleet sailed this morning. The French
troops, apparently about two thousand, lined their different
works, and were in general clothed as regulars, except a very
few Canadians and about fifty naked Picts or savages, their
bodies being painted of a reddish color and their faces of
different colors, which I plainly discerned with my glass.
Their light cavalry, who 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_364-V2" id="Page_364-V2">364<br />V2</a></span> 
paraded along shore, seemed to be
well appointed, clothed in blue, faced with scarlet; but their
officers had white uniforms. In fine, their troops, batteries,
fair-looking houses; their situation on the banks of a delightful
river; our fleet sailing triumphantly before them, with our
floating batteries drawn up in line of battle; the country on
both sides interspersed with neat settlements, together with
the verdure of the fields and trees and the clear, pleasant
weather, afforded as agreeable a prospect as the most lively
imagination can conceive."</p>

<div class="footer">
		<p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_838" name="footer_838"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[838]</span>
<i>Return of the Present State of His Majesty's Forces
in Garrison at Quebec</i>, 21 <i>May</i>, 1760.</p>
   <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_839" name="footer_839"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[839]</span>
Knox, II. 344, 348.</p>
</div>

<p>This excellent lover of the picturesque was still more delighted
as the fleet sailed among the islands of St. Peter. "I think nothing
could equal the beauties of our navigation this morning: the meandering
course of the narrow channel; the awfulness and solemnity of the dark
forests with which these islands are covered; the fragrancy of the
spontaneous fruits, shrubs, and flowers; the verdure of the water by
the reflection of the neighboring woods; the wild chirping notes of the
feathered inhabitants; the masts and sails of ships appearing
as if among the trees, both ahead and astern: formed altogether
an enchanting diversity."</p>

<p>The evening recalled him from dreams to realities; for
towards seven o'clock they reached the village of Sorel, where
they found a large body of troops and militia intrenched
along the strand. Bourlamaque was in command here with two or three
thousand men, and Dumas, with another body, was on the northern shore.
Both had orders 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_365-V2" id="Page_365-V2">365<br />V2</a></span> 
to keep abreast of the fleet as it advanced; and thus
French and English alike drew slowly towards Montreal, where lay the
main French force under L&eacute;vis, ready to unite with Bourlamaque
and Dumas, and fall upon Murray at the first opportunity.
Montreal was now but a few leagues distant, and the situation
was becoming delicate. Murray sent five rangers towards
Lake Champlain to get news of Haviland, and took measures
at the same time to cause the desertion of the Canadians,
who formed the largest part of the opposing force. He sent
a proclamation among the parishes, advising the inhabitants
to remain peacefully at home, promising that those who did
so should be safe in person and property, and threatening to
burn every house from which the men of the family were absent.
These were not idle words. A detachment sent for the purpose destroyed
a settlement near Sorel, the owners of which were in arms under
Bourlamaque. "I was under the cruel necessity of burning the greatest
part of these poor unhappy people's houses," wrote Murray. "I pray God
this example may suffice, for my nature revolts when this becomes
a necessary part of my duty." <span class="superscript">[840]</span>
 On the other hand, he treated
with great kindness all who left the army and returned to
their families. The effect was soon felt. The Canadians came
in by scores and by hundreds to give up their arms and take
the oath of neutrality, till, before the end of August, half
Bourlamaque's force had disappeared. Murray encamped on
Isle 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_366-V2" id="Page_366-V2">366<br />V2</a></span> 
Ste.-Th&eacute;r&egrave;se, just below Montreal, and watched and
waited for Haviland and Amherst to appear. 
<span class="superscript">[841]</span></p>

<div class="footer">
		<p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_840" name="footer_840"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[840]</span>
<i>Murray to Pitt</i>, 24 <i>Aug</i>. 1760.</p>
   <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_841" name="footer_841"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[841]</span>
Knox, II. 382, 384. Mante, 340.</p>
</div>

<p>
Vaudreuil on his part was not idle. He sent a counter-proclamation through 
the parishes as an antidote to that of Murray. "I have been compelled," 
he writes to the Minister, "to decree the pain of death to the Canadians 
who are so dastardly as to desert or give up their arms to the enemy, and 
to order that the houses of those who do not join our army shall be burned." 
<span class="superscript">[842]</span> Execution was to be
summary, without court-martial. <span class="superscript">[843]</span>
Yet desertion increased daily.
The Canadians felt themselves doubly ruined, for it became known that
the Court had refused to redeem the paper that formed the whole
currency of the colony; and, in their desperation, they preferred
to trust the tried clemency of the enemy rather than exasperate him
by persisting in a vain defence. Vaudreuil writes in his usual strain:
"I am taking the most just measures to unite our forces, and, if our
situation permits, fight a battle, or several battles. It is to be
feared that we shall go down before an enemy so numerous and strong;
but, whatever may be the event, we will save the honor of the King's
arms. I have the honor to repeat to you, Monseigneur, that
if any resource were left me, whatever the progress the English
might make, I would maintain myself in some part of the colony with my
remaining troops, after having 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_367-V2" id="Page_367-V2">367<br />V2</a></span> 
fought with the greatest obstinacy; but I am absolutely without the least 
remnant of the necessary means. In these unhappy circumstances I shall 
continue to use every man&oelig;uvre and device to keep the enemy in check; 
but if we succumb in the battles we shall fight, I shall apply myself to 
obtaining a capitulation which may avert the total ruin of a people who will 
remain forever French, and who could not survive their misfortunes but for 
the hope of being restored by the treaty of peace to the rule of His Most 
Christian Majesty. It is with this view that I shall remain in this town, 
the Chevalier de L&eacute;vis having represented to me that it would be 
an evil to the colonists past remedy if any accident should happen to me."
L&eacute;vis was willing to go very far in soothing the susceptibilities
of the Governor; but it may be suspected this time that he thought him more 
useful within four walls than in the open field.</p>

<div class="footer">
		<p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_842" name="footer_842"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[842]</span>
<i>Vaudreuil au Ministre</i>, 29 <i>Ao&ucirc;t</i>, 1760.</p>
   <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_843" name="footer_843"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[843]</span>
<i>L&eacute;vis &agrave; Bourlamaque</i>, 25 <i>Ao&ucirc;t</i>, 1760.</p>
</div>

<p>There seemed good hope of stopping the advance of Haviland.
To this end Vaudreuil had stationed Bougainville at Isle-aux-Noix
with seventeen hundred men, and Roquemaure at St. John, a few
miles distant, with twelve or fifteen hundred more, besides all
the Indians. <span class="superscript">[844]</span>
Haviland embarked at Crown Point with thirty-four
hundred regulars, provincials, and Indians. 
<span class="superscript">[845]</span> Four days brought
him to Isle-aux-Noix; he landed, planted cannon in 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_368-V2" id="Page_368-V2">368<br />V2</a></span> 
the swamp, and opened fire. Major Darby with the light infantry, and Rogers 
with the rangers, dragged three light pieces through the forest, and
planted them on the river-bank in the rear of Bougainville's position,
where lay the French naval force, consisting of three armed
vessels and several gunboats. The cannon were turned upon
the principal ship; a shot cut her cable, and a strong west
wind drove her ashore into the hands of her enemies. The
other vessels and gunboats made all sail for St. John, but
stranded in a bend of the river, where the rangers, swimming
out with their tomahawks, boarded and took one of them,
and the rest soon surrendered. It was a fatal blow to Bougainville,
whose communications with St. John were now cut off. In accordance
with instructions from Vaudreuil, he abandoned the island on the
night of the twenty-seventh of August, and, making his way with
infinite difficulty through the dark forest, joined Roquemaure
at St. John, twelve miles below. Haviland followed, the rangers
leading the way. Bougainville and Roquemaure fell back, abandoned
St. John and Chambly, and joined Bourlamaque on the banks of the
St. Lawrence, where the united force at first outnumbered that of
Haviland, though fast melted away by discouragement and desertion.
Haviland opened communication with Murray, and they both
looked daily for the arrival of Amherst, whose approach was
rumored by prisoners and deserters.
<span class="superscript">[846]</span></p>

<div class="footer">
		<p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_844" name="footer_844"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[844]</span>
<i>Vaudreuil au Ministre</i>, 29 <i>Ao&ucirc;t</i>, 1760.</p>
   <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_845" name="footer_845"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[845]</span>
<i>A List of the Forces employed in the Expedition against Canada</i>, 
1760. Compare Mante, 340, Knox, II. 392, and Rogers, 188. 
Chevalier Johnstone, who was with Bougainville, says "about
four thousand," which Vaudreuil multiplies to twelve thousand.</p>
   <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_846" name="footer_846"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[846]</span>
Rogers, <i>Journals. Diary of a Sergeant in the Army of Haviland</i>. 
Johnstone, <i>Campaign of</i> 1760. 
<i>Bigot au Ministre</i>, 29 <i>Ao&ucirc;t</i>, 1760.</p>
</div>

<p>
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_369-V2" id="Page_369-V2">369<br />V2</a></span> 
The army of Amherst had gathered at Oswego in July. On the tenth of August 
it was all afloat on Lake Ontario, to the number of ten thousand one 
hundred and forty-two men, besides about seven hundred Indians under Sir 
William Johnson. <span class="superscript">[847]</span> Before the
fifteenth the whole had reached La Pr&eacute;sentation, otherwise called
Oswegatchie or La Galette, the seat of Father Piquet's mission. Near
by was a French armed brig, the "Ottawa," with ten cannon and a hundred
men, threatening destruction to Amherst's bateaux and whaleboats.
Five gunboats attacked and captured her. Then the army advanced again,
and were presently joined by two armed vessels of their own which had
lingered behind, bewildered among the channels of the Thousand Islands.</p>

<div class="footer">
		<p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_847" name="footer_847"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[847]</span>
<i>A List of the Forces employed in the Expedition against Canada</i>. 
Compare Mante, 301, and Knox, II. 403.</p>
</div>

<p>Near the head of the rapids, a little below La Galette,
stood Fort L&eacute;vis, built the year before on an islet in mid-channel.
Amherst might have passed its batteries with slight loss, continuing
his voyage without paying it the honor of a siege; and this was what
the French commanders feared that he would do. "We shall be fortunate,"
L&eacute;vis wrote to Bourlamaque, "if the enemy amuse themselves with capturing
it. My chief anxiety is lest Amherst should reach Montreal
so soon that we may not have time to unite our forces to attack Haviland
or Murray." If he had better known the English commander, L&eacute;vis would
have seen that he was not the man to leave a post of 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_370-V2" id="Page_370-V2">370<br />V2</a></span> 
the enemy in his rear under any circumstances; and Amherst had also another 
reason for wishing to get the garrison into his hands, for he expected to
find among them the pilots whom he needed to guide his boats down the
rapids. He therefore invested the fort, and, on the twenty-third,
cannonaded it from his vessels, the mainland, and the neighboring
islands. It was commanded by Pouchot, the late commandant of Niagara,
made prisoner in the last campaign, and since exchanged. As the rocky
islet had but little earth, the defences, though thick and strong, were 
chiefly of logs, which flew in splinters under the bombardment. The 
French, however, made a brave resistance. The firing lasted all day, 
was resumed in the morning, and continued two days more; when Pouchot, 
whose works were in ruins, surrendered himself and his garrison. On this, 
Johnson's Indians prepared to kill the prisoners; and, being compelled to 
desist, three fourths of them went home in a rage.
<span class="superscript">[848]</span></p>

<div class="footer">
		<p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_848" name="footer_848"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[848]</span>
On the capture of Fort L&eacute;vis, <i>Amherst to Pitt</i>, 26 <i>Aug</i>. 
1760. <i>Amherst to Monckton, same date</i>. 
Pouchot, II. 264-282. Knox, II. 405-413. Mante, 303-306. 
<i>All Canada in the Hands of the English</i> (Boston, 1760). 
<i>Journal of Colonel Nathaniel Woodhull</i>.</p>
</div>

<p>Now began the critical part of the expedition, the descent
of the rapids. The Galops, the Rapide Plat, the Long Saut,
the C&ocirc;teau du Lac were passed in succession, with little loss,
till they reached the Cedars, the Buisson, and the Cascades,
where the reckless surges dashed and bounded in the sun,
beautiful and terrible as young tigers at play. Boat after boat,
borne on 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_371-V2" id="Page_371-V2">371<br />V2</a></span> 
their foaming crests, rushed madly down the torrent. Forty-six were 
totally wrecked, eighteen were damaged, and eighty-four men were drowned. 
<span class="superscript">[849]</span> La Corne was watching the rapids 
with a considerable body of Canadians; and it is difficult to see why 
this bold and enterprising chief allowed the army to descend undisturbed
through passes so dangerous. At length the last rapid was left behind;
and the flotilla, gliding in peace over the smooth breast of Lake
St. Louis, landed at Isle Perrot, a few leagues from Montreal. In
the morning, September sixth, the troops embarked again, landed
unopposed at La Chine, nine miles from the city, marched on
without delay, and encamped before its walls.</p>

<div class="footer">
		<p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_849" name="footer_849"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[849]</span>
<i>Amherst to Pitt</i>, 8 <i>Sept</i>. 1760.</p>
</div>

<p>The Montreal of that time was a long, narrow assemblage of wooden or 
stone houses, one or two stories high, above which rose the peaked towers 
of the Seminary, the spires of three churches, the walls of four convents, 
with the trees of their adjacent gardens, and, conspicuous at the lower 
end, a high mound of earth, crowned by a redoubt, where a few cannon were 
mounted. The whole was surrounded by a shallow moat and a bastioned stone 
wall, made for defence against Indians, and incapable of resisting cannon. 
<span class="superscript">[850]</span>
</p>

<div class="footer">
		<p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_850" name="footer_850"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[850]</span>
<i>An East View of Montreal, drawn on the Spot by Thomas
Patten</i> (King's Maps, British Museum), <i>Plan of Montreal</i>, 1759.
<i>A Description of Montreal</i>, in several magazines of the time. The
recent Canadian publication called <i>Le Vieux Montr&eacute;al</i>, is 
exceedingly incorrect as to the numbers of the British troops and the
position of their camps.</p>
</div>

<p>On the morning after Amherst encamped above the place,
Murray landed to encamp below it; and 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_372-V2" id="Page_372-V2">372<br />V2</a></span> 
Vaudreuil, looking across the St. Lawrence, could see the tents of 
Haviland's little army on the southern shore. Bourlamaque, Bougainville,
and Roquemaure, abandoned by all their militia, had crossed to Montreal 
with the few regulars that remained with them. The town was crowded 
with non-combatant refugees. Here, too, was nearly all the remaining 
force of Canada, consisting of twenty-two hundred troops of the line 
and some two hundred colony troops; for all the Canadians had by this 
time gone home. Many of the regulars, especially of the colony troops, 
had also deserted; and the rest were so broken in discipline that their
officers were forced to use entreaties instead of commands. The three 
armies encamped around the city amounted to seventeen thousand men; 
<span class="superscript">[851]</span> Amherst was bringing up his 
cannon from La Chine, and the town wall would have crumbled before them 
in an hour.</p>

<div class="footer">
		<p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_851" name="footer_851"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[851]</span>
<i>A List of the Forces employed in the Expedition against Canada</i>. 
See Smith, <i>History of Canada</i>, I. Appendix xix. Vaudreuil writes 
to Charles Langlade, on the ninth, that the three armies amount to 
twenty thousand, and raises the number to thirty-two thousand in a 
letter to the Minister on the next day. Berniers says twenty thousand; 
L&eacute;vis, for obvious reasons, exaggerates the number to forty 
thousand.</p>
</div>

<p>On the night when Amherst arrived, the Governor called a council of war. 
<span class="superscript">[852]</span> It was resolved that since all the 
militia and many of the regulars had abandoned the army, and the Indian 
allies of France had gone over to the enemy, further resistance was 
impossible. Vaudreuil laid before the assembled officers a long paper that 
he had drawn up, containing fifty-five articles of capitulation to 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_373-V2" id="Page_373-V2">373<br />V2</a></span> 
be proposed to the English; and these were unanimously approved. 
<span class="superscript">[853]</span> In the morning
Bougainville carried them to the tent of Amherst. He granted
the greater part, modified some, and flatly refused others.
That which the French officers thought more important than
all the rest was the provision that the troops should march
out with arms, cannon, and the honors of war; to which it
was replied: "The whole garrison of Montreal and all other
French troops in Canada must lay down their arms, and shall not
serve during the present war." This demand was felt to be intolerable.
The Governor sent Bougainville back to remonstrate; but Amherst was
inflexible. Then L&eacute;vis tried to shake his resolution, and sent him an
officer with the following note: "I send your Excellency M. de la
Pause, Assistant Quartermaster-General of the Army, on the subject of
the too rigorous article which you dictate to the troops by the
capitulation, to which it would not be possible for us to subscribe."
Amherst answered the envoy: "I am fully resolved, for the infamous part
the troops of France have acted in exciting the savages to perpetrate the
most horrid and unheard of barbarities in the whole progress of the war,
and for other open treacheries and flagrant breaches of faith, to manifest
to all the world by this capitulation my detestation of such practices;"
and he dismissed La Pause with a short note, refusing to change the
conditions.</p>

<div class="footer">
		<p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_852" name="footer_852"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[852]</span>
<i>Vaudreuil au Ministre</i>, 10 <i>Sept</i>. 1760.</p>
   <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_853" name="footer_853"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[853]</span>
<i>Proc&egrave;s-verbal de la D&eacute;liberation du Conseil de Guerre tenu
&agrave; Montr&eacute;al</i>, 6 <i>Sept</i>. 1760.</p>
</div>

<p>
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_374-V2" id="Page_374-V2">374<br />V2</a></span> 
On the next morning, September eighth, Vaudreuil yielded, and signed the 
capitulation. By it Canada and all its dependencies passed to the British 
Crown. French officers, civil and military, with French troops and sailors, 
were to be sent to France in British ships. Free exercise of religion was 
assured to the people of the colony, and the religious communities were to 
retain their possessions, rights, and privileges. All persons who might 
wish to retire to France were allowed to do so, and the Canadians were to 
remain in full enjoyment of feudal and other property, including negro and 
Indian slaves. <span class="superscript">[854]</span></p>

<div class="footer">
		<p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_854" name="footer_854"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[854]</span>
<i>Articles of Capitulation</i>, 8 <i>Sept</i>. 1760. 
<i>Amherst to Pitt, same date</i>.</p>
</div>

<p>The greatest alarm had prevailed among the inhabitants lest they 
should suffer violence from the English Indians, and Vaudreuil had 
endeavored to provide that these dangerous enemies should be sent 
back at once to their villages. This was refused, with the remark: 
"There never have been any cruelties committed by the Indians of our 
army." Strict precautions were taken at the same time, not only 
against the few savages whom the firm conduct of Johnson at Fort 
L&eacute;vis had not driven away, but also against the late allies 
of the French, now become a peril to them. In consequence, not a man, 
woman, or child was hurt. Amherst, in general orders, expressed his 
confidence "that the troops will not disgrace themselves by the 
least appearance of inhumanity, or by any unsoldierlike behavior in 
seeking for plunder; and that as the Canadians are now become 
British subjects, 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_375-V2" id="Page_375-V2">375<br />V2</a></span> 
they will feel the good effects of His Majesty's protection." They were 
in fact treated with a kindness that seemed to surprise them.</p>

<p>L&eacute;vis was so incensed at the demand that the troops should
lay down their arms and serve no longer during the war that,
before the capitulation was signed, he made a formal protest
<span class="superscript">[855]</span>
in his own name and that of the officers from France, and insisted that 
the negotiation should be broken off. "If," he added, "the Marquis de 
Vaudreuil, through political motives, thinks himself obliged to 
surrender the colony at once, we ask his permission to withdraw with 
the troops of the line to the Island of St. Helen, in order to uphold 
there, on our own behalf, the honor of the King's arms." The proposal 
was of course rejected, as L&eacute;vis knew that it would be, and he 
and his officers were ordered to conform to the capitulation. When
Vaudreuil reached France, three months after, he had the mortification 
to receive from the Colonial Minister a letter containing these words: 
"Though His Majesty was perfectly aware of the state of Canada, 
nevertheless, after the assurances you had given to make the utmost 
efforts to sustain the honor of his arms, he did not expect to hear so 
soon of the surrender of Montreal and the whole colony. But, granting
that capitulation was a necessity, his Majesty was not the less surprised 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_376-V2" id="Page_376-V2">376<br />V2</a></span> 
and ill pleased at the conditions, so little honorable, to which you 
submitted, especially after the representations made you by the Chevalier 
de L&eacute;vis." <span class="superscript">[856]</span> The brother of
Vaudreuil complained to the Minister of the terms of this letter, and 
the Minister replied: "I see with regret, Monsieur, that you are pained 
by the letter I wrote your brother; but I could not help telling him what 
the King did me the honor to say to me; and it would have been unpleasant 
for him to hear it from anybody else." 
<span class="superscript">[857]</span>
</p>

<div class="footer">
		<p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_855" name="footer_855"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[855]</span>
<i>Prot&ecirc;t de M. de L&eacute;vis &agrave; M. de Vaudreuil contre la Clause
dans les Articles de Capitulation qui exige que les Troupes mettront bas les 
Armes, avec l'Ordre de M. de Vaudreuil au Chevalier de L&eacute;vis de se 
conformer &agrave; la Capitulation propos&eacute;e. Vaudreuil au Ministre de 
la Marine</i>, 10 <i>Sept</i>. 1760. <i>L&eacute;vis au Ministre de la
Guerre</i>, 27 <i>Nov</i>. 1760.</p>
   <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_856" name="footer_856"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[856]</span>
<i>Le Ministre &agrave; Vaudreuil</i>, 5 <i>D&eacute;c</i>. 1760.</p>
   <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_857" name="footer_857"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[857]</span>
<i>Le Ministre au Vicomte de Vaudreuil, Fr&egrave;re du Gouverneur</i>,
21 <i>D&eacute;c</i>. 1760.</p>
</div>

<p>It is true that Vaudreuil had in some measure drawn this
reproach upon himself by his boastings about the battles he
would fight; yet the royal displeasure was undeserved. The
Governor had no choice but to give up the colony; for Amherst had
him in his power, and knew that he could exact what terms he pleased.
Further resistance could only have ended in surrender at the discretion
of the victor, and the protest of L&eacute;vis was nothing but a device to save
his own reputation and that of his brother officers from France.
Vaudreuil had served the King and the colony in some respects
with ability, always with an unflagging zeal; and he loved
the land of his birth with a jealous devotion that goes far
towards redeeming his miserable defects. The King himself,
and not the servants whom he abandoned to their fate, was
answerable for the loss of New France.</p>

<p>Half the continent had changed hands at the scratch of a
pen. Governor Bernard, of Massachusetts, 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_377-V2" id="Page_377-V2">377<br />V2</a></span> 
proclaimed a day of thanksgiving for the great event, and the Boston 
newspapers recount how the occasion was celebrated with a parade of the 
cadets and other volunteer corps, a grand dinner in Faneuil Hall, music,
bonfires, illuminations, firing of cannon, and, above all, by sermons
in every church of the province; for the heart of early New England
always found voice through her pulpits. Before me lies a bundle of
these sermons, rescued from sixscore years of dust, scrawled on their
title-pages with names of owners dead long ago, worm-eaten,
dingy, stained with the damps of time, and uttering in quaint
old letterpress the emotions of a buried and forgotten past.
Triumph, gratulation, hope, breathe in every line, but no
ill-will against a fallen enemy. Thomas Foxcroft, pastor of
the "Old Church in Boston," preaches from the text, "The
Lord hath done great things for us, whereof we are glad."
"Long," he says, "had it been the common opinion, <i>Delenda
est Carthago</i>, Canada must be conquered, or we could hope
for no lasting quiet in these parts; and now, through the good
hand of our God upon us, we see the happy day of its accomplishment.
We behold His Majesty's victorious troops treading upon the high
places of the enemy, their last fortress delivered up, and their
whole country surrendered to the King of Britain in the person of
his general, the intrepid, the serene, the successful Amherst."</p>

<p>The loyal John Mellen, pastor of the Second Church in
Lancaster, exclaims, boding nothing of 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_378-V2" id="Page_378-V2">378<br />V2</a></span> 
the tempest to come: "Let us fear God and honor the King, and be peaceable 
subjects of an easy and happy government. And may the blessing of Heaven be
ever upon those enemies of our country that have now submitted to the English 
Crown, and according to the oath they have taken lead quiet lives in all 
godliness and honesty." Then he ventures to predict that America, now thrown 
open to British colonists, will be peopled in a century and a half with sixty 
million souls: a prophecy likely to be more than fulfilled.</p>

<p>"God has given us to sing this day the downfall of New
France, the North American Babylon, New England's rival,"
cries Eli Forbes to his congregation of sober farmers and
staid matrons at the rustic village of Brookfield. Like many of
his flock, he had been to the war, having served two years
as chaplain of Ruggles's Massachusetts regiment; and something
of a martial spirit breathes through his discourse. He passes in
review the events of each campaign down to their triumphant close.
"Thus God was our salvation and our strength; yet he who directs
the great events of war suffered not our joy to be uninterrupted,
for we had to lament the fall of the valiant and good General Wolfe,
whose death demands a tear from every British eye, a sigh from every
Protestant heart. Is he dead? I recall myself. Such heroes are immortal;
he lives on every loyal tongue; he lives in every grateful
breast; and charity bids me give him a place among the princes
of heaven." Nor does he forget the praises of Amherst, "the
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_379-V2" id="Page_379-V2">379<br />V2</a></span> 
renowned general, worthy of that most honorable of all titles,
the Christian hero; for he loves his enemies, and while he
subdues them he makes them happy. He transplants British
liberty to where till now it was unknown. He acts the General,
the Briton, the Conqueror, and the Christian. What fair hopes
arise from the peaceful and undisturbed enjoyment of this
good land, and the blessing of our gracious God with it! Methinks
I see towns enlarged, settlements increased, and this howling
wilderness become a fruitful field which the Lord hath blessed;
and, to complete the scene, I see churches rise and flourish in
every Christian grace where has been the seat of Satan and Indian
idolatry."</p>

<p>Nathaniel Appleton, of Cambridge, hails the dawning of a
new era. "Who can tell what great and glorious things God
is about to bring forward in the world, and in this world of
America in particular? Oh, may the time come when these
deserts, which for ages unknown have been regions of darkness
and habitations of cruelty, shall be illuminated with the
light of the glorious Gospel, and when this part of the world,
which till the later ages was utterly unknown, shall be the
glory and joy of the whole earth!"</p>

<p>On the American continent the war was ended, and the
British colonists breathed for a space, as they drifted unwittingly
towards a deadlier strife. They had learned hard and useful lessons.
Their mutual jealousies and disputes, the quarrels of their governors
and assemblies, the want of any 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_380-V2" id="Page_380-V2">380<br />V2</a></span> 
general military organization, and
the absence, in most of them, of military habits, joined to narrow
views of their own interest, had unfitted them to the last degree for
carrying on offensive war. Nor were the British troops sent for their
support remarkable in the beginning for good discipline or
efficient command. When hostilities broke out, the army of
Great Britain was so small as to be hardly worth the name.
A new one had to be created; and thus the inexperienced
Shirley and the incompetent Loudon, with the futile Newcastle
behind them, had, besides their own incapacity, the disadvantage of
raw troops and half-formed officers; while against them stood an
enemy who, though weak in numbers, was strong in a centralized military
organization, skilful leaders armed with untrammelled and absolute
authority, practised soldiers, and a population not only brave, but in
good part inured to war.</p>

<p>The nature of the country was another cause that helped
to protract the contest. "Geography," says Von Moltke, "is
three fourths of military science;" and never was the truth
of his words more fully exemplified. Canada was fortified with
vast outworks of defence in the savage forests, marshes, and
mountains that encompassed her, where the thoroughfares
were streams choked with fallen trees and obstructed by
cataracts. Never was the problem of moving troops, encumbered
with baggage and artillery, a more difficult one. The question was
less how to fight the enemy than how to get at him. If a few
practicable roads had crossed 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_381-V2" id="Page_381-V2">381<br />V2</a></span> 
this broad tract of wilderness, the war would have been shortened and its 
character changed.</p>

<p>From these and other reasons, the numerical superiority
of the English was to some extent made unavailing. This
superiority, though exaggerated by French writers, was nevertheless
immense if estimated by the number of men called to arms; but only
a part of these could be employed in offensive operations. The rest
garrisoned forts and blockhouses and guarded the far reach of frontier
from Nova Scotia to South Carolina, where a wily enemy, silent and
secret as fate, choosing their own time and place of attack,
and striking unawares at every unguarded spot, compelled thousands
of men, scattered at countless points of defence, to keep unceasing
watch against a few hundred savage marauders. Full half the
levies of the colonies, and many of the regulars, were used
in service of this kind.</p>

<p>In actual encounters the advantage of numbers was often
with the French, through the comparative ease with which
they could concentrate their forces at a given point. Of the
ten considerable sieges or battles of the war, five, besides the
great bushfight in which the Indians defeated Braddock, were
victories for France; and in four of these&mdash;Oswego, Fort
William Henry, Montmorenci, and Ste.-Foy&mdash;the odds were
greatly on her side.</p>

<p>Yet in this the most picturesque and dramatic of American
wars, there is nothing more noteworthy than the skill with
which the French and Canadian 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_382-V2" id="Page_382-V2">382<br />V2</a></span> 
leaders used their advantages; the indomitable spirit with which, slighted 
and abandoned as they were, they grappled with prodigious difficulties, and 
the courage with which they were seconded by regulars and militia alike.
In spite of occasional lapses, the defence of Canada deserves a tribute
of admiration.</p>

<hr />
<div class="chapterhead">
   <br /><a name="Chapter_31" id="Chapter_31"></a>
	 <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_383-V2" id="Page_383-V2">383<br />V2</a></span> 
	 <br /><br /><br />
	 <h2><a href="#Contents31">CHAPTER XXXI.</a><br />
	 <span class="med">1758-1763.</span>
	 </h2> 
	 <p class="smcapheader">THE PEACE OF PARIS.</p>
	 <p class="smcap noindent space-bottom">	
	    Exodus of Canadian Leaders &bull; Wreck of the "Auguste" &bull; 
			Trial of Bigot and his Confederates &bull; Frederic of Prussia &bull; 
			His Triumphs &bull; His Reverses &bull; His Peril &bull; 
			His Fortitude &bull;  Death of George II. &bull; Change of Policy &bull; 
			Choiseul &bull;  His Overtures of Peace &bull;  The Family Compact &bull; 
			Fall of Pitt &bull;  Death of the Czarina &bull;  Frederic saved &bull; 
			War with Spain &bull;  Capture of Havana &bull;  Negotiations &bull; 
			Terms of Peace &bull;  Shall Canada be restored? &bull;  
			Speech of Pitt &bull;  The Treaty signed &bull; 
			End of the Seven Years War.
	 </p>
	 <p class="break1"></p> 
</div>

<p class="double-space-top">
<span class="smcap">In</span>
 accordance with the terms of the capitulation of Montreal,
the French military officers, with such of the soldiers as could
be kept together, as well as all the chief civil officers of the
colony, sailed for France in vessels provided by the conquerors.
They were voluntarily followed by the principal members of the
Canadian <i>noblesse</i>, and by many of the merchants who had
no mind to swear allegiance to King George. The peasants and poorer
colonists remained at home to begin a new life under a new flag.</p>

<p>Though this exodus of the natural leaders of Canada was
in good part deferred till the next year, and though the number
of persons to be immediately embarked was reduced by the desertion
of many French soldiers who had married 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_384-V2" id="Page_384-V2">384<br />V2</a></span> 
Canadian wives, yet the English authorities were sorely perplexed to find 
vessels enough for the motley crowd of passengers. When at last they were 
all on their way, a succession of furious autumnal storms fell upon them.
The ship that carried L&eacute;vis barely escaped wreck, and that which bore
Vaudreuil and his wife fared little better.
<span class="superscript">[858]</span> Worst of all was the
fate of the "Auguste," on board of which was the bold but
ruthless partisan, Saint-Luc de la Corne, his brother, his children,
and a party of Canadian officers, together with ladies,
merchants, and soldiers. A worthy ecclesiastical chronicler
paints the unhappy vessel as a floating Babylon, and sees in
her fate the stern judgment of Heaven.
<span class="superscript">[859]</span>
It is true that New France ran riot in the last years of her existence; but 
before the "Auguste" was well out of the St. Lawrence she was so tossed and 
buffeted, so lashed with waves and pelted with rain, that the most alluring 
forms of sin must have lost their charm, and her inmates passed days rather 
of penance than transgression. There was a violent storm as the ship 
entered the Gulf; then a calm, during which she took fire in the cook's 
galley. The crew and passengers subdued the flames after desperate efforts; 
but their only food thenceforth was dry biscuit. Off the coast of Cape 
Breton another gale rose. They lost their reckoning and lay tossing blindly 
amid the tempest. The exhausted sailors took, in despair, to their hammocks,
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_385-V2" id="Page_385-V2">385<br />V2</a></span> 
from which neither commands nor blows could rouse them,
while amid shrieks, tears, prayers, and vows to Heaven, the
"Auguste" drove towards the shore, struck, and rolled over
on her side. La Corne with six others gained the beach; and
towards night they saw the ship break asunder, and counted
a hundred and fourteen corpses strewn along the sand. Aided
by Indians and by English officers, La Corne made his way
on snow-shoes up the St. John, and by a miracle of enduring
hardihood reached Quebec before the end of winter.
<span class="superscript">[860]</span></p>

<div class="footer">
		<p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_858" name="footer_858"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[858]</span>
<i>L&eacute;vis &agrave; Belleisle</i>, 27 <i>Nov</i>. 1760.</p>
   <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_859" name="footer_859"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[859]</span>
Faillon, <i>Vie de Mademoiselle Le Ber</i>, 363-370.</p>
   <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_860" name="footer_860"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[860]</span>
<i>Journal du Voyage de M. Saint-Luc de la Corne</i>. 
This is his own narrative.</p>
</div>

<p>The other ships weathered the November gales, and landed
their passengers on the shores of France, where some of them
found a dismal welcome, being seized and thrown into the
Bastille. These were Vaudreuil, Bigot, Cadet, P&eacute;an, Br&eacute;ard,
Varin, Le Mercier, Penisseault, Maurin, Corpron, and others
accused of the frauds and peculations that had helped to ruin
Canada. In the next year they were all put on trial, whether
as an act of pure justice or as a device to turn public indignation
from the Government. In December, 1761, judges commissioned
for the purpose began their sessions at the Ch&acirc;telet, and a
prodigious mass of evidence was laid before them. Cadet, with
brazen effrontery, at first declared himself innocent, but ended
with full and unblushing confession. Bigot denied everything till
silenced point by point with papers bearing his own signature.
The prisoners defended themselves by accusing each other. Bigot
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_386-V2" id="Page_386-V2">386<br />V2</a></span> 
and Vaudreuil brought mutual charges, while all agreed in denouncing
Cadet. Vaudreuil, as before mentioned, was acquitted. Bigot was banished
from France for life, his property was confiscated, and he was condemned
to pay fifteen hundred thousand francs by way of restitution. Cadet was
banished for nine years from Paris and required to refund six millions;
while others were sentenced in sums varying from thirty thousand to
eight hundred thousand francs, and were ordered to be held in prison
till the money was paid. Of twenty-one persons brought to trial ten
were condemned, six were acquitted, three received an admonition,
and two were dismissed for want of evidence. Thirty-four failed to appear,
of whom seven were sentenced in default, and judgment was reserved in
the case of the rest. <span class="superscript">[861]</span> Even those 
who escaped from justice profited little by their gains, for unless they 
had turned them betimes into land or other substantial values, they lost 
them in a discredited paper currency and dishonored bills of exchange.</p>

<div class="footer">
		<p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_861" name="footer_861"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[861]</span>
<i>Jugement rendu souverainement et en dernier Ressort dans
l'Affaire du Canada</i>. Papers at the Ch&acirc;telet of Paris, cited by
Dussieux.</p>
</div>

<p>While on the American continent the last scenes of the war
were drawing to their close, the contest raged in Europe with
unabated violence. England was in the full career of success;
but her great ally, Frederic of Prussia, seemed tottering to his
ruin. In the summer of 1758 his glory was at its height.
French, Austrians, and Russians had all fled before him. But
the autumn brought 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_387-V2" id="Page_387-V2">387<br />V2</a></span> 
reverses; and the Austrian general, Daun, at the head of an overwhelming 
force, gained over him a partial victory, which his masterly strategy 
robbed of its fruits. It was but a momentary respite. His kingdom was 
exhausted by its own triumphs. His best generals were dead, his best 
soldiers killed or disabled, his resources almost spent, the very 
chandeliers of his palace melted into coin; and all Europe was in arms 
against him. The disciplined valor of the Prussian troops and the 
supreme leadership of their undespairing King had thus far held the 
invading hosts at bay; but now the end seemed near. Frederic could not 
be everywhere at once; and while he stopped one leak the torrent poured 
in at another. The Russians advanced again, defeated General Wedell, 
whom he sent against them, and made a junction with the Austrians.
In August, 1759, he attacked their united force at Kunersdorf,
broke their left wing to pieces, took a hundred and eighty
cannon, forced their centre to give ground, and after hours of
furious fighting was overwhelmed at last. In vain he tried to
stop the rout. The bullets killed two horses under him, tore his
clothes, and crushed a gold snuff-box in his waistcoat pocket.
"Is there no b&mdash;&mdash; of a shot that can hit me, then?" he cried
in his bitterness, as his aides-de-camp forced him from the field. 
For a few days he despaired; then rallied to his forlorn task, and 
with smiles on his lip and anguish at his heart watched, 
man&oelig;uvred, and fought with cool and stubborn desperation.
To his friend D'Argens he wrote 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_388-V2" id="Page_388-V2">388<br />V2</a></span> 
soon after his defeat: "Death is sweet in comparison to such a life as 
mine. Have pity on me and it; believe that I still keep to myself a great 
many evil things, not wishing to afflict or disgust anybody with them, 
and that I would not counsel you to fly these unlucky countries if I had 
any ray of hope. Adieu, mon cher!" It was well for him and for Prussia 
that he had strong allies in the dissensions and delays of his enemies. 
But his cup was not yet full. Dresden was taken from him, eight of his 
remaining generals and twelve thousand men were defeated and captured
at Maxen, and "this infernal campaign," as he calls it, closed
in thick darkness.</p>

<p>"I wrap myself in my stoicism as best I can," he writes to
Voltaire. "If you saw me you would hardly know me: I am
old, broken, gray-headed, wrinkled. If this goes on there will
be nothing left of me but the mania of making verses and an
inviolable attachment to my duties and to the few virtuous
men I know. But you will not get a peace signed by my hand
except on conditions honorable to my nation. Your people,
blown up with conceit and folly, may depend on this."</p>

<p>The same stubborn conflict with overmastering odds, the
same intrepid resolution, the same subtle strategy, the same
skill in eluding the blow and lightning-like quickness in retorting
it, marked Frederic's campaign of 1760. At Liegnitz three
armies, each equal to his own, closed round him, and he put
them all to flight. While he was fighting in Silesia, the Allies
marched upon Berlin, 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_389-V2" id="Page_389-V2">389<br />V2</a></span> 
took it, and held it three days, but
withdrew on his approach. For him there was no peace. "Why
weary you with the details of my labors and my sorrows?"
he wrote again to his faithful D'Argens. "My spirits have
forsaken me; all gayety is buried with the loved noble ones to
whom my heart was bound." He had lost his mother and his
devoted sister Wilhelmina. "You as a follower of Epicurus
put a value upon life; as for me, I regard death from the Stoic
point of view. I have told you, and I repeat it, never shall my
hand sign a humiliating peace. Finish this campaign I will,
resolved to dare all, to succeed, or find a glorious end." Then
came the victory of Torgau, the last and one of the most
desperate of his battles: a success dearly bought, and bringing
neither rest nor safety. Once more he wrote to D'Argens:
"Adieu, dear Marquis; write to me sometimes. Don't forget a
poor devil who curses his fatal existence ten times a day."
"I live like a military monk. Endless business, and a little consolation
from my books. I don't know if I shall outlive this war, but if I do
I am firmly resolved to pass the rest of my life in solitude in the
bosom of philosophy and friendship. Your nation, you see, is blinder
than you thought. These fools will lose their Canada and Pondicherry
to please the Queen of Hungary and the Czarina."</p>

<p>The campaign of 1761 was mainly defensive on the part of
Frederic. In the exhaustion of his resources he could see no
means of continuing the 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_390-V2" id="Page_390-V2">390<br />V2</a></span> 
struggle. "It is only Fortune," says
the royal sceptic, "that can extricate me from the situation
I am in. I escape out of it by looking at the universe on the
great scale like an observer from some distant planet. All then
seems to be so infinitely small that I could almost pity my
enemies for giving themselves so much trouble about so very
little. I read a great deal, I devour my books. But for them
I think hypochondria would have had me in Bedlam before
now. In fine, dear Marquis, we live in troublous times and
desperate situations. I have all the properties of a stage hero;
always in danger, always on the point of perishing."
<span class="superscript">[862]</span> And in
another mood: "I begin to feel that, as the Italians say, revenge
is a pleasure for the gods. My philosophy is worn out by
suffering. I am no saint, and I will own that I should die content
if only I could first inflict a part of the misery that I
endure."</p>

<div class="footer">
		<p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_862" name="footer_862"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[862]</span>
The above extracts are as translated by Carlyle in his
<i>History of Frederick II. of Prussia</i>.</p>
</div>

<p>While Frederic was fighting for life and crown, an event
took place in England that was to have great influence on the
war. Walpole recounts it thus, writing to George Montagu on
the twenty-fifth of October, 1760: "My man Harry tells me
all the amusing news. He first told me of the late Prince of
Wales's death, and to-day of the King's; so I must tell you all
I know of departed majesty. 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. 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_391-V2" id="Page_391-V2">391<br />V2</a></span> 
A little after seven he went into the closet; the German 
<i>valet-de-chambre</i> heard a noise, listened, heard something like 
a groan, ran in, and found the hero of Oudenarde and Dettingen on the 
floor with a gash on his right temple by falling against the corner of 
a bureau. He tried to speak, could not, and expired. The great ventricle 
of the heart had burst. What an enviable death!"</p>

<p>The old King was succeeded by his grandson, George III.,
a mirror of domestic virtues, conscientious, obstinate, narrow.
His accession produced political changes that had been preparing
for some time. His grandfather was German at heart, loved his
Continental kingdom of Hanover, and was eager for all measures that
looked to its defence and preservation. Pitt, too, had of late
vigorously supported the Continental war, saying that he would conquer
America in Germany. Thus with different views the King and the Minister
had concurred in the same measures. But George III. was English by
birth, language, and inclination. His ruling passion was the
establishment and increase of his own authority. He disliked Pitt, the
representative of the people. He was at heart averse to a war,
the continuance of which would make the Great Commoner necessary,
and therefore powerful, and he wished for a peace that would give
free scope to his schemes for strengthening the prerogative. He was
not alone in his pacific inclinations. The enemies of the haughty
Minister, who had ridden rough-shod over men far above him in rank,
were tired of his ascendency, and saw 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_392-V2" id="Page_392-V2">392<br />V2</a></span> 
no hope of ending it but by ending
the war. Thus a peace party grew up, and the young King became
its real, though not at first its declared, supporter.</p>

<p>The Tory party, long buried, showed signs of resurrection.
There were those among its members who, even in a king of
the hated line of Hanover, could recognize and admire the
same spirit of arbitrary domination that had marked their
fallen idols, the Stuarts; and they now joined hands with the
discontented Whigs in opposition to Pitt. The horrors of war,
the blessings of peace, the weight of taxation, the growth of
the national debt, were the rallying cries of the new party; but
the mainspring of their zeal was hostility to the great Minister.
Even his own colleagues chafed under his spirit of mastery;
the chiefs of the Opposition longed to inherit his power; and
the King had begun to hate him as a lion in his path. Pitt held
to his purpose regardless of the gathering storm. That purpose,
as proclaimed by his adherents, was to secure a solid and lasting peace,
which meant the reduction of France to so low an estate that she
could no more be a danger to her rival. In this he had the sympathy
of the great body of the nation.</p>

<p>Early in 1761 the King, a fanatic for prerogative, set his
enginery in motion. The elections for the new Parliament were
manipulated in his interest. If he disliked Pitt as the representative
of the popular will, he also disliked his colleague, the
shuffling and uncertain Newcastle, as the representative of a
too powerful nobility. Elements
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_393-V2" id="Page_393-V2">393<br />V2</a></span> 
hostile to both were introduced into the Cabinet and the great offices. 
The King's favorite, the Earl of Bute, supplanted Holdernesse as 
Secretary of State for the Northern Department; Charles Townshend, an 
opponent of Pitt, was made Secretary of War; Legge, Chancellor of the 
Exchequer, was replaced by Viscount Barrington, who was sure for the 
King; while a place in the Cabinet was also given to the Duke of 
Bedford, one of the few men who dared face the formidable Minister.
It was the policy of the King and his following to abandon Prussia,
hitherto supported by British subsidies, make friends with Austria and
Russia at her expense, and conclude a separate peace with France.</p>

<p>France was in sore need of peace. The infatuation that had
turned her from her own true interest to serve the passions
of Maria Theresa and the Czarina Elizabeth had brought military
humiliation and financial ruin. Abb&eacute; de Bernis, Minister of Foreign
Affairs, had lost the favor of Madame de Pompadour, and had been
supplanted by the Duc de Choiseul. The new Minister had gained his
place by pleasing the favorite; but he kept it through his own ability
and the necessities of the time. The Englishman Stanley, whom Pitt
sent to negotiate with him, drew this sketch of his character: "Though
he may have his superiors, not only in experience of business,
but in depth and refinement as a statesman, he is a person
of as bold and daring a spirit as any man whatever in our
country or in his own. Madame Pompadour 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_394-V2" id="Page_394-V2">394<br />V2</a></span> 
has ever been looked upon by all preceding courtiers and ministers as their 
tutelary deity, under whose auspices only they could exist, and who was as 
much out of their reach as if she were of a superior class of beings; but 
this Minister is so far from being in subordination to her influence that
he seized the first opportunity of depriving her not of an equality,
but of any share of power, reducing her to the necessity of applying
to him even for those favors that she wants for herself and her dependents.
He has effected this great change, which every other man would have thought 
impossible, in the interior of the Court, not by plausibility, flattery, 
and address, but with a high hand, with frequent railleries and sarcasms 
which would have ruined any other, and, in short, by a clear superiority of 
spirit and resolution." <span class="superscript">[863]</span></p>

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		<p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_863" name="footer_863"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[863]</span>
<i>Stanley to Pitt</i>, 6 <i>Aug</i>. 1761, in <i>Grenville Correspondence</i>, 
I. 367, <i>note</i>.</p>
</div>

<p>Choiseul was vivacious, brilliant, keen, penetrating; believing
nothing, fearing nothing; an easy moralist, an uncertain
ally, a hater of priests; light-minded, inconstant; yet a kind of
patriot, eager to serve France and retrieve her fortunes.</p>

<p>He flattered himself with no illusions. "Since we do not
know how to make war," he said, "we must make peace;"
<span class="superscript">[864]</span>
and he proposed a congress of all the belligerent Powers at
Augsburg. At the same time, since the war in Germany was
distinct from the maritime and colonial war of France and
England, he proposed a separate negotiation with the British
Court in order to settle the questions 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_395-V2" id="Page_395-V2">395<br />V2</a></span> 
between them as a preliminary to the general pacification. Pitt consented, 
and Stanley went as envoy to Versailles; while M. de Bussy came as envoy 
to London and, in behalf of Choiseul, offered terms of peace, the first 
of which was the entire abandonment of Canada to England. 
<span class="superscript">[865]</span> But the offers were accompanied 
by the demand that Spain, which had complaints of its own against
England, should be admitted as a party to the negotiation, and
even hold in some measure the attitude of a mediator. Pitt
spurned the idea with fierce contempt. "Time enough to treat
of all that, sir, when the Tower of London is taken sword in
hand." <span class="superscript">[866]</span>
He bore his part with the ability that never failed him,
and with a supreme arrogance that rose to a climax in his
demand that the fortress of Dunkirk should be demolished, not
because it was any longer dangerous to England, but because
the nation would regard its destruction "as an eternal monument
of the yoke imposed on France."
<span class="superscript">[867]</span></p>

<div class="footer">
		<p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_864" name="footer_864"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[864]</span>
Flassan, <i>Diplomatie Fran&ccedil;aise</i>, V. 376 (Paris, 1809).</p>
   <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_865" name="footer_865"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[865]</span>
See the proposals in Entick, V. 161.</p>
   <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_866" name="footer_866"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[866]</span>
Beatson, <i>Military Memoirs</i>, II. 434. <i>The Count de Fuentes
to the Earl of Egremont</i>, 25 <i>Dec</i>. 1761, in Entick, V. 264.</p>
   <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_867" name="footer_867"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[867]</span>
On this negotiation, see <i>M&eacute;moire historique sur la N&eacute;gociation
de la France et de l'Angleterre</i> (Paris, 1761), a French Government
publication containing papers on both sides. The British
Ministry also published such documents as they saw fit, under the
title of <i>Papers relating to the Rupture with Spain</i>. Compare
Adolphus, <i>George III.</i>, I. 31-39.</p>
</div>

<p>Choiseul replied with counter-propositions less humiliating
to his nation. When the question of accepting or rejecting
them came before the Ministry, the views of Pitt prevailed
by a majority of one, and, to the disappointment of Bute and
the 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_396-V2" id="Page_396-V2">396<br />V2</a></span> 
King, the conferences were broken off. Choiseul, launched
again on the billows of a disastrous war, had seen and provided
against the event. Ferdinand VI. of Spain had died, and
Carlos III. had succeeded to his throne. Here, as in England,
change of kings brought change of policy. While negotiating
vainly with Pitt, the French Minister had negotiated secretly
and successfully with Carlos; and the result was the treaty
known as the Family Compact, having for its object the union
of the various members of the House of Bourbon in common
resistance to the growing power of England. It provided that
in any future war the Kings of France and Spain should act
as one towards foreign Powers, insomuch that the enemy of
either should be the enemy of both; and the Bourbon princes
of Italy were invited to join in the covenant.
<span class="superscript">[868]</span> What was more
to the present purpose, a special agreement was concluded on
the same day, by which Spain bound herself to declare war
against England unless that Power should make peace with
France before the first of May, 1762. For the safety of her
colonies and her trade Spain felt it her interest to join her
sister nation in putting a check on the vast expansion of
British maritime power. She could bring a hundred ships of war
to aid the dilapidated navy of France, and the wealth of the
Indies to aid her ruined treasury.</p>

<div class="footer">
		<p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_868" name="footer_868"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[868]</span>
Flassan, <i>Diplomatie Fran&ccedil;aise</i>, V. 317 (Paris, 1809).</p>
</div>

<p>Pitt divined the secret treaty, and soon found evidence of
it. He resolved to demand at once 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_397-V2" id="Page_397-V2">397<br />V2</a></span> 
full explanation from
Spain; and, failing to receive a satisfactory reply, attack her
at home and abroad before she was prepared. On the second
of October he laid his plan before a Cabinet Council held at
a house in St. James Street. There were present the Earl of
Bute, the Duke of Newcastle, Earl Granville, Earl Temple,
and others of the Ministry. Pitt urged his views with great
warmth. "This," he exclaimed, "is the time for humbling the
whole House of Bourbon!" <span class="superscript">[869]</span> 
His brother-in-law, Temple, supported
him. Newcastle kept silent. Bute denounced the proposal,
and the rest were of his mind. "If these views are to be followed,"
said Pitt, "this is the last time I can sit at this board. I was
called to the administration of affairs by the voice of the people;
to them I have always considered myself as accountable for my conduct;
and therefore cannot remain in a situation which makes me responsible
for measures I am no longer allowed to guide." Nothing could be more
offensive to George III. and his adherents.</p>

<div class="footer">
		<p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_869" name="footer_869"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[869]</span>
Beatson, II. 438.</p>
</div>

<p>The veteran Carteret, Earl Granville, replied angrily: "I
find the gentleman is determined to leave us; nor can I say I
am sorry for it, since otherwise he would certainly have compelled
us to leave him. But if he is resolved to assume the office of
exclusively advising His Majesty and directing the operations of the
war, to what purpose are we called to this council? When he talks of
being responsible to the people, he talks the language of the House
of Commons, and forgets that at this 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_398-V2" id="Page_398-V2">398<br />V2</a></span> 
board he is responsible only
to the King. However, though he may possibly have convinced himself
of his infallibility, still it remains that we should be equally
convinced before we can resign our understandings to his direction,
or join with him in the measure he proposes."
<span class="superscript">[870]</span></p>

<div class="footer">
		<p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_870" name="footer_870"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[870]</span>
<i>Annual Register</i>, 1761, p. 44. Adolphus, <i>George III.</i>, I. 40. 
Thackeray, <i>Life of Chatham</i>, I. 592.</p>
</div>

<p>Pitt resigned, and his colleagues rejoiced.
<span class="superscript">[871]</span> Power fell to
Bute and the Tories; and great was the fall. The mass of the
nation was with the defeated Minister. On Lord Mayor's Day
Bute and Barrington were passing St. Paul's in a coach, which
the crowd mistook for that of Pitt, and cheered lustily; till
one man, looking in at the window, shouted to the rest: "This
isn't Pitt; it's Bute, and be damned to him!" The cheers
turned forthwith to hisses, mixed with cries of "No Bute!"
"No Newcastle salmon!" "Pitt forever!" Handfuls of mud were showered
against the coach, and Barrington's ruffles were besmirched with
it. <span class="superscript">[872]</span></p>

<div class="footer">
		<p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_871" name="footer_871"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[871]</span>
Walpole, <i>George III.</i>, I. 80, and note by Sir Denis Le Marchant, 
80-82.</p>
   <p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_872" name="footer_872"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[872]</span>
<i>Nuthall to Lady Chatham</i>, 12 <i>Nov</i>. 1761, in <i>Chatham 
Correspondence</i>, II. 166.</p>
</div>

<p>The fall of Pitt was like the knell of doom to Frederic of
Prussia. It meant abandonment by his only ally, and the loss
of the subsidy which was his chief resource. The darkness
around him grew darker yet, and not a hope seemed left;
when as by miracle the clouds broke, and light streamed out
of the blackness. The bitterest of his foes, the Czarina Elizabeth,
she whom he had called 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_399-V2" id="Page_399-V2">399<br />V2</a></span> 
<i>inf&acirc;me catin du Nord</i>, died, and was
succeeded by her nephew, Peter III. Here again, as in England and
Spain, a new sovereign brought new measures. The young Czar, simple
and enthusiastic, admired the King of Prussia, thought him the
paragon of heroes, and proclaimed himself his friend. No sooner
was he on the throne than Russia changed front. From the foe of
Frederic she became his ally; and in the opening campaign of 1762
the army that was to have aided in crushing him was ranged on his
side. It was a turn of fortune too sharp and sudden to endure.
Ill-balanced and extreme in all things, Peter plunged into
headlong reforms, exasperated the clergy and the army, and
alienated his wife, Catherine, who had hoped to rule in his
name, and who now saw herself supplanted by his mistress.
Within six months he was deposed and strangled. Catherine,
one of whose lovers had borne part in the murder, reigned
in his stead, conspicuous by the unbridled disorders of her
life, and by powers of mind that mark her as the ablest of
female sovereigns. If she did not share her husband's enthusiasm
for Frederic, neither did she share Elizabeth's hatred of him.
He, on his part, taught by hard experience, conciliated instead of
insulting her, and she let him alone.</p>

<p>Peace with Russia brought peace with Sweden, and Austria with the Germanic 
Empire stood alone against him. France needed all her strength to hold her 
own against the mixed English and German force under Ferdinand of Brunswick in
the 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_400-V2" id="Page_400-V2">400<br />V2</a></span> 
Rhine countries. She made spasmodic efforts to seize upon
Hanover, but the result was humiliating defeat.</p>

<p>In England George III. pursued his policy of strengthening
the prerogative, and, jealous of the Whig aristocracy, attacked
it in the person of Newcastle. In vain the old politician
had played false with Pitt, and trimmed to please his young
master. He was worried into resigning his place in the Cabinet,
and Bute, the obsequious agent of the royal will, succeeded
him as First Lord of the Treasury. Into his weak and unwilling hands
now fell the task of carrying on the war; for the nation, elated
with triumphs and full of fight, still called on its rulers for
fresh efforts and fresh victories. Pitt had proved a true prophet,
and his enemies were put to shame; for the attitude of Spain forced
Bute and his colleagues to the open rupture with her which the great
Minister had vainly urged upon them; and a new and formidable war was
now added to the old. <span class="superscript">[873]</span>
Their counsels were weak and half-hearted;
but the armies and navies of England still felt the impulsion that
the imperial hand of Pitt had given and the unconquerable spirit that
he had roused.</p>

<div class="footer">
		<p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_873" name="footer_873"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[873]</span>
<i>Declaration of War against the King of Spain</i>, 4 <i>Jan</i>. 1762.</p>
</div>

<p>This spirit had borne them from victory to victory. In Asia
they had driven the French from Pondicherry and all their
Indian possessions; in Africa they had wrested from them
Gor&eacute;e and the Senegal country; in the West Indies they had
taken Guadeloupe and Dominica; in the European 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_401-V2" id="Page_401-V2">401<br />V2</a></span> 
seas they had captured ship after ship, routed and crippled the great
fleet of Admiral Conflans, seized Belleisle, and defeated a bold
attempt to invade Ireland. The navy of France was reduced
to helplessness. Pitt, before his resignation, had planned a
series of new operations, including an attack on Martinique,
with other West Indian islands still left to France, and then
in turn on the Spanish possessions of Havana, Panama, Manila, and
the Philippines. Now, more than ever before, the war appeared in
its true character. It was a contest for maritime and colonial
ascendency; and England saw herself confronted by both her great
rivals at once.</p>

<p>Admiral Rodney sailed for Martinique, and Brigadier
Monckton joined him with troops from America. Before the
middle of February the whole island was in their hands; and
Grenada, St. Lucia, and St. Vincent soon shared its fate. The
Earl of Albemarle and Admiral Sir George Pococke sailed in
early spring on a more important errand, landed in June near
Havana with eleven thousand soldiers, and attacked Moro Castle,
the key of the city. The pitiless sun of the tropic midsummer
poured its fierce light and heat on the parched rocks where the men
toiled at the trenches. Earth was so scarce that hardly enough could
be had to keep the fascines in place. The siege works were little
else than a mass of dry faggots; and when, after exhausting toil,
the grand battery opened on the Spanish defences, it presently took
fire, was consumed, and had to be made anew. 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_402-V2" id="Page_402-V2">402<br />V2</a></span> 
Fresh water failed, and the troops died by scores from thirst; fevers set 
in, killed many, and disabled nearly half the army. The sea was strewn 
with floating corpses, and carrion-birds in clouds hovered over the 
populous graveyards and infected camps. Yet the siege went on: a 
formidable sally was repulsed; Moro Castle was carried by storm; till at 
length, two months and eight days after the troops landed, Havana fell 
into their hands. <span class="superscript">[874]</span>
At the same time Spain was attacked at the antipodes, and the loss of 
Manila and the Philippines gave her fresh cause to repent her rash 
compact with France. She was hardly more fortunate near home; for having 
sent an army to invade Portugal, which was in the interest of England, a 
small British force, under Brigadier Burgoyne, foiled it, and forced it 
to retire.</p>

<div class="footer">
		<p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_874" name="footer_874"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[874]</span>
<i>Journal of the Siege, by the Chief Engineer</i>, in Beatson, II. 544. 
Mante, 398-465. Entick, V. 363-383.</p>
</div>

<p>The tide of British success was checked for an instant in
Newfoundland, where a French squadron attacked St. John's
and took it, with its garrison of sixty men. The news reached
Amherst at New York; his brother, Lieutenant-Colonel Amherst,
was sent to the scene of the mishap. St. John's was retaken, and
its late conquerers were made prisoners of war.</p>

<p>The financial condition of France was desperate. Her people were 
crushed with taxation; her debt grew apace; and her yearly 
expenditure was nearly double her revenue. Choiseul felt the need 
of immediate peace; and George III. and Bute were 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_403-V2" id="Page_403-V2">403<br />V2</a></span> 
hardly less eager for it, to avert the danger of Pitt's return
to power and give free scope to their schemes for strengthening the
prerogative. Therefore, in September, 1762, negotiations were resumed.
The Duke of Bedford was sent to Paris to settle the preliminaries,
and the Duc de Nivernois came to London on the same errand. The
populace were still for war. Bedford was hissed as he passed through
the streets of London, and a mob hooted at the puny figure of Nivernois
as he landed at Dover.</p>

<p>The great question was, Should Canada be restored? Should
France still be permitted to keep a foothold on the North
American continent? Ever since the capitulation of Montreal
a swarm of pamphlets had discussed the momentous subject.
Some maintained that the acquisition of Canada was not an
original object of the war; that the colony was of little value
and ought to be given back to its old masters; that Guadeloupe
should be kept instead, the sugar trade of that island being worth far
more than the Canadian fur trade; and, lastly, that the British colonists,
if no longer held in check by France, would spread themselves over
the continent, learn to supply all their own wants, grow independent,
and become dangerous. Nor were these views confined to Englishmen.
There were foreign observers who clearly saw that the adhesion
of her colonies to Great Britain would be jeopardized by the extinction
of French power in America. Choiseul warned Stanley that they "would
not fail to shake off their dependence the 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_404-V2" id="Page_404-V2">404<br />V2</a></span> 
moment Canada should be ceded;" while thirteen years before, the Swedish 
traveller Kalm declared that the presence of the French in America gave 
the best assurance to Great Britain that its own colonies would remain 
in due subjection. <span class="superscript">[875]</span></p>

<div class="footer">
		<p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_875" name="footer_875"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[875]</span>
Kalm, <i>Travels in North America</i>, I. 207.</p>
</div>

<p>The most noteworthy argument on the other side was that
of Franklin, whose words find a strange commentary in the
events of the next few years. He affirmed that the colonies
were so jealous of each other that they would never unite
against England. "If they could not agree to unite against
the French and Indians, can it reasonably be supposed that
there is any danger of their uniting against their own nation,
which it is well known they all love much more than they
love one another? I will venture to say union amongst them
for such a purpose is not merely improbable, it is impossible;"
that is, he prudently adds, without "the most grievous tyranny
and oppression," like the bloody rule of "Alva in the Netherlands."
<span class="superscript">[876]</span></p>

<div class="footer">
		<p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_876" name="footer_876"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[876]</span>
<i>Interest of Great Britain in regard to her Colonies</i>
(London, 1760).</p>

<p>Lord Bath argues for retaining Canada in <i>A Letter addressed
to Two Great Men on the Prospect of Peace</i> (1759). He is answered
by another pamphlet called <i>Remarks on the Letter to Two Great
Men</i> (1760). The <i>Gentleman's Magazine</i> for 1759 has an ironical
article styled <i>Reasons for restoring Canada to the French</i>; and
in 1761 a pamphlet against the restitution appeared under the
title, <i>Importance of Canada considered in Two Letters to a Noble
Lord</i>. These are but a part of the writings on the question.</p>
</div>

<p>If Pitt had been in office he would have demanded terms that must ruin 
past redemption the maritime and colonial power of France; but 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_405-V2" id="Page_405-V2">405<br />V2</a></span> 
Bute was less exacting. In November the plenipotentiaries of England, 
France, and Spain agreed on preliminaries of peace, in which the following 
were the essential points. France ceded to Great Britain Canada and all 
her possessions on the North American continent east of the River 
Mississippi, except the city of New Orleans and a small adjacent district. 
She renounced her claims to Acadia, and gave up to the conqueror the 
Island of Cape Breton, with all other islands in the Gulf and River of St. 
Lawrence. Spain received back Havana, and paid for it by the cession of 
Florida, with all her other possessions east of the Mississippi. France, 
subject to certain restrictions, was left free to fish in the Gulf of St. 
Lawrence and off a part of the coast of Newfoundland; and the two little 
islands of St. Pierre and Miquelon were given her as fishing stations on
condition that she should not fortify or garrison them. In the West
Indies, England restored the captured islands of Guadeloupe, Marigalante,
D&eacute;sirade, and Martinique, and France ceded Grenada and the Grenadines;
while it was agreed that of the so-called neutral islands, St. Vincent,
Dominica, and Tobago should belong to England, and St. Lucia to France.
In Europe, each side promised to give no more help to its allies in the
German war. France restored Minorca, and England restored Belleisle;
France gave up such parts of Hanoverian territory as she had occupied, and 
evacuated certain fortresses belonging to Prussia, pledging herself at the 
same time to demolish, under the inspection 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_406-V2" id="Page_406-V2">406<br />V2</a></span> 
of English engineers, her own maritime fortress
of Dunkirk. In Africa France ceded Senegal, and received
back the small Island of Gor&eacute;e. In India she lost everything
she had gained since the peace of Aix-la-Chapelle; recovered
certain trading stations, but renounced the right of building
forts or maintaining troops in Bengal.</p>

<p>On the day when the preliminaries were signed, France
made a secret agreement with Spain, by which she divested
herself of the last shred of her possessions on the North
American continent. As compensation for Florida, which her
luckless ally had lost in her quarrel, she made over to the
Spanish Crown the city of New Orleans, and under the name
of Louisiana gave her the vast region spreading westward
from the Mississippi towards the Pacific.</p>

<p>On the ninth of December the question of approving the
preliminaries came up before both Houses of Parliament.
There was a long debate in the Commons. Pitt was not present,
confined, it was said, by gout; till late in the day the
House was startled by repeated cheers from the outside. The
doors opened, and the fallen Minister entered, carried in the
arms of his servants, and followed by an applauding crowd.
His bearers set him down within the bar, and by the help of
a crutch he made his way with difficulty to his seat. "There
was a mixture of the very solemn and the theatric in this apparition,"
says Walpole, who was present. "The moment was so well timed, the
importance of the man and his services, 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_407-V2" id="Page_407-V2">407<br />V2</a></span> 
the languor of his emaciated countenance, and the study bestowed on his 
dress were circumstances that struck solemnity into a patriot mind, and 
did a little furnish ridicule to the hardened and insensible. He was 
dressed in black velvet, his legs and thighs wrapped in flannel, his 
feet covered with buskins of black cloth, and his hands with thick 
gloves." Not for the first time, he was utilizing his maladies for 
purposes of stage effect. He spoke for about three hours, sometimes
standing, and sometimes seated; sometimes with a brief burst of power, 
more often with the accents of pain and exhaustion. He highly commended 
the retention of Canada, but denounced the leaving to France a share in 
the fisheries, as well as other advantages tending to a possible revival 
of her maritime power. But the Commons listened coldly, and by a great 
majority approved the preliminaries of peace.</p>

<p>These preliminaries were embodied in the definitive treaty
concluded at Paris on the tenth of February, 1763. Peace between
France and England brought peace between the warring nations of the
Continent. Austria, bereft of her allies, and exhausted by vain efforts
to crush Frederic, gave up the attempt in despair, and signed the treaty
of Hubertsburg. The Seven Years War was ended.</p>

<hr />
<div class="chapterhead">
   <br /><a name="Chapter_32" id="Chapter_32"></a>
	 <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_408-V2" id="Page_408-V2">408<br />V2</a></span> 
	 <br /><br /><br />
	 <h2><a href="#Contents32">CHAPTER XXXII.</a><br />
	 <span class="med">1763-1884.</span>
	 </h2> 
	 <p class="smcapheader">CONCLUSION.</p>
	 <p class="smcap noindent space-bottom">	
			Results of the War &bull; Germany &bull; France &bull; England &bull; 
			Canada &bull; The British Provinces.
	 </p>
	 <p class="break1"></p> 
</div>

<p class="double-space-top">
<span class="smcap">"This,"</span> 
said Earl Granville on his deathbed, "has been the
most glorious war and the most triumphant peace that England
ever knew." Not all were so well pleased, and many held
with Pitt that the House of Bourbon should have been forced
to drain the cup of humiliation to the dregs. Yet the fact
remains that the Peace of Paris marks an epoch than which
none in modern history is more fruitful of grand results. With
it began a new chapter in the annals of the world. To borrow
the words of a late eminent writer, "It is no exaggeration to
say that three of the many victories of the Seven Years War
determined for ages to come the destinies of mankind. With
that of Rossbach began the re-creation of Germany, with that
of Plassey the influence of Europe told for the first time since
the days of Alexander on the nations of the East; with the
triumph of Wolfe on the Heights of Abraham began the history of
the United States." <span class="superscript">[877]</span></p>

<div class="footer">
		<p class="noindent">
        <a id="footer_877" name="footer_877"></a>
				<span class="superscript">[877]</span>
Green, <i>History of the English People</i>, IV. 193 (London, 1880).</p>
</div>

<p>
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_409-V2" id="Page_409-V2">409<br />V2</a></span> 
So far, however, as concerns the war in the Germanic
countries, it was to outward seeming but a mad debauch of
blood and rapine, ending in nothing but the exhaustion of the
combatants. The havoc had been frightful. According to the
King of Prussia's reckoning, 853,000 soldiers of the various
nations had lost their lives, besides hundreds of thousands of
non-combatants who had perished from famine, exposure, disease, or
violence. And with all this waste of life not a boundary line had been
changed. The rage of the two empresses and the vanity and spite of the
concubine had been completely foiled. Frederic had defied them all,
and had come out of the strife intact in his own hereditary dominions
and master of all that he had snatched from the Empress-Queen;
while Prussia, portioned out by her enemies as their spoil, lay depleted
indeed, and faint with deadly striving, but crowned with glory, and with
the career before her which, through tribulation and adversity, was to
lead her at last to the headship of a united Germany.</p>

<p>Through centuries of strife and vicissitude the French
monarchy had triumphed over nobles, parliaments, and people,
gathered to itself all the forces of the State, beamed with
illusive splendors under Louis the Great, and shone with the
phosphorescence of decay under his contemptible successor;
till now, robbed of prestige, burdened with debt, and mined
with corruption, it was moving swiftly and more swiftly towards
the abyss of ruin.</p>

<p>
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_410-V2" id="Page_410-V2">410<br />V2</a></span> 
While the war hastened the inevitable downfall of the
French monarchy, it produced still more notable effects.
France under Colbert had embarked on a grand course of maritime
and colonial enterprise, and followed it with an activity and vigor
that promised to make her a great and formidable ocean power. It was
she who led the way in the East, first trained the natives to fight
her battles, and began that system of mixed diplomacy and war which,
imitated by her rival, enabled a handful of Europeans to master all
India. In North America her vast possessions dwarfed those of every
other nation. She had built up a powerful navy and created an extensive
foreign trade. All this was now changed. In India she was reduced to
helpless inferiority, with total ruin in the future; and of all her
boundless territories in North America nothing was left but the two
island rocks on the coast of Newfoundland that the victors had given
her for drying her codfish. Of her navy scarcely forty ships remained;
all the rest were captured or destroyed. She was still great on the
continent of Europe, but as a world power her grand opportunities
were gone.</p>

<p>In England as in France the several members of the State
had battled together since the national life began, and the
result had been, not the unchecked domination of the Crown,
but a system of balanced and adjusted forces, in which King,
Nobility, and Commons all had their recognized places and
their share of power. Thus in the war just ended two great
conditions of success had been 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_411-V2" id="Page_411-V2">411<br />V2</a></span> 
supplied: a people instinct
with the energies of ordered freedom, and a masterly leadership
to inspire and direct them.</p>

<p>All, and more than all, that France had lost England had
won. Now, for the first time, she was beyond dispute the
greatest of maritime and colonial Powers. Portugal and Holland,
her precursors in ocean enterprise, had long ago fallen
hopelessly behind. Two great rivals remained, and she had
humbled the one and swept the other from her path. Spain,
with vast American possessions, was sinking into the decay
which is one of the phenomena of modern history; while France, of
late a most formidable competitor, had abandoned the contest in
despair. England was mistress of the seas, and the world was thrown
open to her merchants, explorers, and colonists. A few years after
the Peace the navigator Cook began his memorable series of voyages,
and surveyed the strange and barbarous lands which after times were
to transform into other Englands, vigorous children of this great
mother of nations. It is true that a heavy blow was soon to fall
upon her; her own folly was to alienate the eldest and greatest
of her offspring. But nothing could rob her of the glory of
giving birth to the United States; and, though politically
severed, this gigantic progeny were to be not the less a source
of growth and prosperity to the parent that bore them, joined
with her in a triple kinship of laws, language, and blood. The
war or series of wars that ended with the Peace of Paris
secured the 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_412-V2" id="Page_412-V2">412<br />V2</a></span> 
opportunities and set in action the forces that have
planted English homes in every clime, and dotted the earth
with English garrisons and posts of trade.</p>

<p>With the Peace of Paris ended the checkered story of New
France; a story which would have been a history if faults of
constitution and the bigotry and folly of rulers had not dwarfed
it to an episode. Yet it is a noteworthy one in both its lights
and its shadows: in the disinterested zeal of the founder of
Quebec, the self-devotion of the early missionary martyrs, and
the daring enterprise of explorers; in the spiritual and temporal
vassalage from which the only escape was to the savagery
of the wilderness; and in the swarming corruptions which were
the natural result of an attempt to rule, by the absolute hand
of a master beyond the Atlantic, a people bereft of every
vestige of civil liberty. Civil liberty was given them by the
British sword; but the conqueror left their religious system untouched,
and through it they have imposed upon themselves a weight of
ecclesiastical tutelage that finds few equals in the most Catholic
countries of Europe. Such guardianship is not without certain
advantages. When faithfully exercised it aids to uphold some of the
tamer virtues, if that can be called a virtue which needs the constant
presence of a sentinel to keep it from escaping: but it is fatal to
mental robustness and moral courage; and if French Canada would fulfil
its aspirations it must cease to be one of the most priest-ridden
communities of the modern world.</p>

<p>
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_413-V2" id="Page_413-V2">413<br />V2</a></span> 
Scarcely were they free from the incubus of France when
the British provinces showed symptoms of revolt. The measures
on the part of the mother-country which roused their resentment,
far from being oppressive, were less burdensome than the navigation
laws to which they had long submitted; and they resisted taxation by
Parliament simply because it was in principle opposed to their rights
as freemen. They did not, like the American provinces of 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.
Those who in the weakness of their dissensions needed help
from England against the savage on their borders have become
a nation that may defy every foe but that most dangerous
of all foes, herself, destined to a majestic future if she will
shun the excess and perversion of the principles that made her
great, prate less about the enemies of the past and strive more
against the enemies of the present, resist the mob and the
demagogue as she resisted Parliament and King, rally her
powers from the race for gold and the delirium of prosperity
to make firm the foundations on which that 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_414-V2" id="Page_414-V2">414<br />V2</a></span> 
prosperity rests,
and turn some fair proportion of her vast mental forces to
other objects than material progress and the game of party
politics. She has tamed the savage continent, peopled the
solitude, gathered wealth untold, waxed potent, imposing, redoubtable;
and now it remains for her to prove, if she can, that the rule of the
masses is consistent with the highest growth of the individual; that
democracy can give the world a civilization as mature and pregnant,
ideas as energetic and vitalizing, and types of manhood as lofty and
strong, as any of the systems which it boasts to supplant.</p>
<p><br /></p>



<hr />
<div class="chapterhead">
   <br /><a name="Appendix" id="Appendix"></a>
	 <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_415-V2" id="Page_415-V2">415<br />V2</a></span> 
	 <br /><br /><br />
	 <h2><a href="#Contents31">APPENDIX.</a></h2> 
</div>

<div>
   <br /><br />
	 <a id="appendixA" name="appendixA"></a>
   <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_417-V2" id="Page_417-V2">417<br />V2</a></span> 
   <br />
</div>


<div id="appx">

<h3><a href="#Appendix">Appendix A.</a></h3>
<p class="center noindent caps">Chapter III. Conflict for the West.</p>

<p class="double-space-top"><i>Piquet and his War-Party</i>.&mdash;"Ce 
parti [<i>de guerre</i>] pour lequel M. le G&eacute;n&eacute;ral a 
donn&eacute; son consentement, sera de plus de 3,800 hommes&hellip;. 
500 hommes de nos domicili&eacute;s, 700 des Cinq nations &agrave; l'exclusion 
des Agniers [<i>Mohawks</i>] qui ne sont plus regard&eacute;s que comme des 
anglais, 600 tant Iroquois que d'autres nations le long de la Belle 
Rivi&egrave;re d'o&ugrave; ils esp&egrave;rent chasser les anglais qui y 
forment des &Eacute;tablissemens contraires au bien des guerriers, 2,000
hommes qu'ils doivent prendre aux t&ecirc;tes plates [<i>Choctaws</i>] o&ugrave;
ils s'arresteront, c'est la o&ugrave; les deux chefs de guerre doivent proposer
&agrave; l'arm&eacute;e l'exp&eacute;dition des Miamis au retour de celle contre
la Nation du Chien [<i>Cherokees</i>]. Un vieux levain, quelques anciennes
querelles leur feront tout entreprendre contre les anglais
de la Virginie s'ils donnent encore quelques secours &agrave; cette
derniere nation, ce qui ne manquera pas d'arriver&hellip;.</p>

<p>"C'est un grand miracle que malgr&eacute; l'envie, les contradictions,
l'opposition presque g&eacute;n&eacute;rale de tous les Villages sauvages, j'aye
form&eacute; en moins de 3 ans une des plus florissantes missions du
Canada&hellip;. Je me trouve donc, Messieurs, dans l'occasion de
pouvoir &eacute;tendre l'empire de J&eacute;sus Christ et du Roy mes bons
maitres jusqu'aux extr&eacute;mit&eacute;s de ce nouveau monde, et de plus
faire avec quelques secours que vous me procurerez que la France
et l'angleterre ne pourraient faire avec plusieurs millions et 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_418-V2" id="Page_418-V2">418<br />V2</a></span>
toutes leur troupes." <i>Copie de la Lettre &eacute;crite par M. l'Abb&eacute; 
Picquet, datt&eacute;e &agrave; la Pr&eacute;sentation du</i> 8 
<i>F&eacute;v</i>. 1752 (Archives de la Marine).</p>

<p>I saw in the possession of the late Jacques Viger, of Montreal,
an illuminated drawing of one of Piquet's banners, said to be still
in existence, in which the cross, the emblems of the Virgin and
the Saviour, the fleur-de-lis, and the Iroquois totems are all embroidered
and linked together by strings of wampum beads wrought into the silk.</p>

<p><i>Directions of the French Colonial Minister for the Destruction
of Oswego</i>.&mdash;"La seule voye dont on puisse faire usage en temps
de paix pour une pareille op&eacute;ration est celle des Iroquois des cinq
nations. Les terres sur lesquelles le poste &agrave; &eacute;t&eacute; 
&eacute;tabli leur appartiennent et ce n'est qu'avec leur consentement que 
les anglois s'y sont plac&eacute;s. Si en faisant regarder &agrave; ces 
sauvages un pareil &eacute;tablissement comme contraire &agrave; leur 
libert&eacute; et comme une usurpation dont les anglois pr&eacute;tendent 
faire usage pour acqu&eacute;rir la propri&eacute;t&eacute; de leur terre on 
pourrait les d&eacute;terminer &agrave; entreprendre de les d&eacute;truire, 
une pareille op&eacute;ration ne seroit pas &agrave; n&eacute;gliger; mais M. 
le Marquis de la Jonqui&egrave;re doit sentir avec quelle circonspection une 
affaire de cette esp&egrave;ce doit &ecirc;tre conduite et il faut en 
eff&ecirc;t qu'il y travaille de fa&ccedil;on &agrave; ne se point compromettre."
<i>Le Ministre &agrave; MM. de la Jonqui&egrave;re et Bigot</i>, 15 
<i>Avril</i>, 1750 (Archives de la Marine).</p>

<p><br /><a id="appendixB" name="appendixB"></a>
<br /></p>
<h3><a href="#Appendix">Appendix B.</a></h3>

<p class="center noindent caps">Chapter IV. Acadia.</p>

<p class="double-space-top">
<i>English Treatment of Acadians.</i>&mdash;"Les Anglois dans la vue de
la Conqu&ecirc;te du Canada ont voulu donner aux peuples fran&ccedil;ois de
ces Colonies un exemple frappant de la douceur de leur gouvernement
dans leur conduite &agrave; l'&eacute;gard des Accadiens.</p>

<p>
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_419-V2" id="Page_419-V2">419<br />V2</a></span> 
"Ils leur ont fourni pendant plus de 35 ans le simple n&eacute;cessaire,
sans &eacute;lever la fortune d'aucun, ils leur ont fourni ce n&eacute;cessaire
souvent &agrave; cr&eacute;dit, avec un exc&egrave;s de confiance, sans fatiguer 
les d&eacute;biteurs, sans les presser, sans vouloir les forcer au payement.
</p>

<p>
"Ils leur ont laiss&eacute; une apparence de libert&eacute; si excessive qu'ils
n'ont voulu prendre aucune diff&eacute;rence [<i>sic</i>] de leur 
diff&eacute;rents, pas m&ecirc;me pour les crimes&hellip;. Ils ont souffert que 
les accadiens leur refusassent insolemment certains rentes de grains, modiques 
&amp; tr&egrave;s-l&eacute;gitimement dues.</p>

<p>"Ils ont dissimul&eacute; le refus m&eacute;prisant que les accadiens ont 
fait de prendre d'eux des concessions pour les nouveaux terreins
qu'ils voulaient occuper.</p>

<p>"Les fruits que cette conduite a produit dans la derni&egrave;re guerre
nous le savons [<i>sic</i>] et les anglois n'en ignorent rien. Qu'on juge
l&agrave;-dessus de leur ressentiment et des vues de vengeance de cette
nation cruelle&hellip;. Je pr&eacute;vois notamment la dispersion des jeunes
accadiens sur les vaisseaux de guerre anglois, o&ugrave; la seule r&egrave;gle
pour la ration du pain suffit pour les detruire jusqu'au dernier."
<i>Roma, Officier &agrave; l'Isle Royale &agrave;</i>&mdash;&mdash;, 1750.</p>

<p><i>Indians, directed by Missionaries, to attack the English in Time
of Peace.</i>&mdash;"La lettre de M. l'Abb&eacute; Le Loutre me paroit si 
int&eacute;ressante que j'ay l'honneur de vous en envoyer Copie&hellip;. 
Les trois sauvages qui m'ont port&eacute; ces d&eacute;p&ecirc;ches m'ont 
parl&eacute; relativement &agrave; ce que M. l'Abb&eacute; Le Loutre marque 
dans sa lettre; je n'ay eu garde de leur donner aucun Conseil l&agrave;-dessus 
et je me suis born&eacute; &agrave; leur promettre que je ne les
abandonnerai point, aussy ai-je pourvu &agrave; tout, soit pour les armes,
munitions de guerre et de bouche, soit pour les autres choses 
n&eacute;cessaires.</p>

<p>"Il seroit &agrave; souhaiter que ces Sauvages rassembl&eacute;s pussent
parvenir &agrave; traverser les anglois dans leurs entreprises, m&ecirc;me dans
celle de Chibouctou [<i>Halifax</i>], ils sont dans cette r&eacute;solution et
s'ils peuvent mettre &agrave; execution ce qu'ils ont projett&eacute; il est
assur&eacute; qu'ils seront fort incommodes aux 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_420-V2" id="Page_420-V2">420<br />V2</a></span> 
Anglois et que les vexations qu'ils exerceront sur eux leur seront un 
tr&egrave;s grand obstacle. 
</p>
<p>
"Ces sauvages doivent agir seuls, il n'y aura ny soldat ny habitant, tout se 
fera de leur pur mouvement, et sans qu'il paraisse que j'en eusse 
connoissance.</p>

<p>"Cela est tr&egrave;s essentiel, aussy ai-je &eacute;crit au 
S<span class="superscript">r</span>. de Boish&eacute;bert d'observer 
beaucoup de prudence dans ses d&eacute;marches et de les faire tr&egrave;s 
secr&egrave;tement pour que les Anglois ne puissent pas s'apercevoir que nous 
pourvoyons aux besoins des dits sauvages.</p>

<p>"Ce seront les missionnaires qui feront toutes les n&eacute;gociations
et qui dirigeront les pas des dits sauvages, ils sont en tr&egrave;s bonnes
mains, le R.&nbsp;P. Germain et M. l'Abb&eacute; Le Loutre &eacute;tant fort 
au fait d'en tirer tout le party possible et le plus avantageux pour nos
inter&ecirc;ts, ils m&eacute;nageront leur intrigue de fa&ccedil;on 
&agrave; n'y pas paroitre&hellip;.</p>

<p>"Je sens, Monseigneur, toute la delicatesse de cette negociation,
soyez persuad&eacute; que je la conduirai avec tant de pr&eacute;cautions que
les anglois ne pourront pas dire que mes ordres y ont eu part."
<i>La Jonqui&egrave;re au Ministre</i>, 9 <i>Oct</i>. 1749.</p>

<p><i>Missionaries to be encouraged in their Efforts to make the Indians
attack the English.</i>&mdash;"Les sauvages &hellip; se distinguent,
depuis la paix, dans les mouvements qu'il y a du c&ocirc;t&eacute; de l'Acadie,
et sur lesquels Sa Majest&eacute; juge &agrave; propos d'entrer dans quelques
details avec le Sieur de Raymond&hellip;.</p>

<p>"Sa Majest&eacute; luy a d&eacute;j&agrave; observ&eacute; que les 
sauvages ont &eacute;t&eacute; jusqu'&agrave; pr&eacute;sent dans les 
dispositions les plus favorables. Il est de la plus grande importance, et 
pour le pr&eacute;sent et pour l'avenir, de ne rien n&eacute;gliger pour 
les y maintenir. Les missionnaires qui sont aupr&egrave;s d'eux sont 
plus &agrave; port&eacute;s d'y contribuer que personne, et Sa Majest&eacute;
a lieu d'&ecirc;tre satisfaite des soins qu'ils y donnent. Le 
S<span class="superscript">r</span>. de Raymond doit exciter ces missionnaires 
&agrave; ne point se relacher sur cela; mais en m&ecirc;me temps il doit les 
avertir de contenir leur z&egrave;le de mani&egrave;re qu'ils ne se 
compromettent pas mal &agrave; propos avec les anglois et qu'ils ne donnent 
point de justes sujets 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_421-V2" id="Page_421-V2">421<br />V2</a></span> 
de plaintes." <i>M&eacute;moire du Roy pour servir d'Instruction au Comte de 
Raymond</i>, 24 <i>Avril</i>, 1751.</p>

<p><i>Acadians to join the Indians in attacking the English.</i>&mdash;"Pour
que ces Sauvages agissent avec beaucoup de Courage, quelques accadiens 
habill&eacute;s et matach&eacute;s comme les Sauvages pourront se joindre 
&agrave; eux pour faire coup sur les Anglois. Je ne puis &eacute;viter de 
consentir &agrave; ce que ces Sauvages feront puisque nous avons les bras 
li&eacute;s et que nous ne pouvons rien faire par nous-m&ecirc;mes, au
surplus je ne crois pas qu'il y ait de l'inconvenient de laisser
m&ecirc;ler les accadiens parmi les Sauvages, parceque s'ils sont pris,
nous dirons qu'ils ont agi de leur propre mouvement." <i>La Jonqui&egrave;re
au Ministre</i>, 1 <i>Mai</i>, 1751.</p>

<p><i>Cost of Le Loutre's Intrigues.</i>&mdash;"J'ay d&eacute;j&agrave; 
fait payer a M. Le Loutre depuis l'ann&eacute;e derni&egrave;re la somme de 
11183<i>l</i>. 18s. pour acquitter les d&eacute;penses qu'il fait journellement 
et je ne cesse de luy recommander de s'en tenir aux indispensables en evitant 
toujours de rien compromettre avec le gouvernement anglois." <i>Pr&eacute;vost
au Ministre</i>, 22 <i>Juillet</i>, 1750.</p>

<p><i>Payment for English Scalps in Time of Peace.</i>&mdash;"Les Sauvages
ont pris, il y a un mois, 18 chevelures angloises [<i>English scalps</i>],
et M. Le Loutre a &eacute;t&eacute; oblig&eacute; de les payer 1800<i>l</i>., 
argent de l'Acadie, dont je luy ay fait le remboursement." <i>Ibid</i>., 16 
<i>Ao&ucirc;t</i>, 1753.</p>

<p class="double-space-top">
Many pages might be filled with extracts like the above. These,
with most of the other French documents used in Chapter IV., are
taken from the Archives de la Marine et des Colonies.</p>

<p><br /><a id="appendixC" name="appendixC"></a><br /></p>
<h3><a href="#Appendix">Appendix C.</a></h3>

<p class="center noindent caps">Chapter V. Washington.</p>

<p class="double-space-top">
<i>Washington and the Capitulation at Fort Necessity</i>.&mdash;Villiers,
in his Journal, boasts that he made Washington sign a virtual
admission that he had assassinated Jumonville. 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_422-V2" id="Page_422-V2">422<br />V2</a></span> 
In regard to this point, a letter, of which the following is an extract, 
is printed in the provincial papers of the time. It is from Captain Adam
Stephen, an officer in the action, writing to a friend five weeks
after.</p>

<p>"When Mr. Vanbraam returned with the French proposals, we
were obliged to take the sense of them from his mouth; it rained
so heavy that he could not give us a written translation of them;
we could scarcely keep the candle lighted to read them by; they
were written in a bad hand, on wet and blotted paper, so that
no person could read them but Vanbraam, who had heard them
from the mouth of the French officer. Every officer there is
ready to declare that there was no such word as <i>assassination</i>
mentioned. The terms expressed were, <i>the death of Jumonville</i>. If
it had been mentioned we would by all means have had it altered,
as the French, during the course of the interview, seemed very
condescending, and desirous to bring things to an issue." He then
gives several other points in which Vanbraam had misled them.</p>

<p>Dinwiddie, recounting the affair to Lord Albemarle, says that
Washington, being ignorant of French, was deceived by the
interpreter, who, through poltroonery, suppressed the word assassination.</p>

<p>Captain Mackay, writing to Washington in September, after a
visit to Philadelphia, says: "I had several disputes about our
capitulation; but I satisfied every person that mentioned the subject
as to the articles in question, that they were owing to a bad
interpreter, and contrary to the translation made to us when we
signed them."</p>

<p>At the next meeting of the burgesses they passed a vote of thanks
for gallant conduct to Washington and all his officers by name,
except Vanbraam and the major of the regiment, the latter being
charged with cowardice, and the former with treacherous misinterpretation
of the articles.</p>

<p>Sometime after, Washington wrote to a correspondent who had
questioned him on the subject: "That we were wilfully or ignorantly
deceived by our interpreter in regard 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_423-V2" id="Page_423-V2">423<br />V2</a></span> 
to the word <i>assassination</i>
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 <i>death</i> or the <i>loss</i> of
the Sieur Jumonville. So we received and so we understood it, until, to
our great surprise and mortification, we found it otherwise in a
literal translation." Sparks, <i>Writings of Washington</i>, II. 464, 465.</p>

<p><br /><a id="appendixD" name="appendixD"></a><br /></p>
<h3><a href="#Appendix">Appendix D.</a></h3>

<p class="center noindent caps">Chapter VII. Braddock.</p>

<p class="double-space-top">
<span class="smcap">It</span>
has been said that Beaujeu, and not Contrec&oelig;ur, commanded
at Fort Duquesne at the time of Braddock's expedition. Some
contemporaries, and notably the chaplain of the fort, do, in fact,
speak of him as in this position; but their evidence is overborne
by more numerous and conclusive authorities, among them Vaudreuil,
governor of Canada, and Contrec&oelig;ur himself, in an official
report. Vaudreuil says of him: "Ce commandant s'occupa le 8
[<i>Juillet</i>] &agrave; former un parti pour aller au devant des Anglois;" and
adds that this party was commanded by Beaujeu and consisted of
250 French and 650 Indians (<i>Vaudreuil au Ministre</i>, 5 <i>Ao&ucirc;t</i>,
1755). In the autumn of 1756 Vaudreuil asked the Colonial Minister
to procure a pension for Contrec&oelig;ur and Ligneris. He says:
"Le premier de ces Messieurs a command&eacute; longtemps au fort
Duquesne; c'est luy qui a ordonn&eacute; et dirig&eacute; tous les mouvements
qui se sont faits dans cette partie, soit pour faire abandonner le
premier &eacute;tablissement des Anglois, soit pour les forcer &agrave; se
retirer du fort N&eacute;cessit&eacute;, et soit enfin pour aller au devant de
l'arm&eacute;e du G&eacute;n&eacute;ral Braddock qui a &eacute;t&eacute; 
enti&egrave;rement d&eacute;faite" 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_424-V2" id="Page_424-V2">424<br />V2</a></span> 
(<i>Vaudreuil au Ministre</i>, 8 <i>Nov</i>. 1756.) Beaujeu, who had lately 
arrived with a reinforcement, had been named to relieve Contrec&oelig;ur 
(<i>Dumas au Ministre</i>, 24 <i>Juillet</i>, 1756), but had not yet done so.
</p>

<p>As the report of Contrec&oelig;ur has never been printed, I give an
extract from it (<i>Contrec&oelig;ur &agrave; Vaudreuil</i>, 14 <i>Juillet</i>, 
1755, in Archives de la Marine):&mdash;</p>

<p>
"Le m&ecirc;me jour [8 <i>Juillet</i>] je formai un party de tout ce que
je pouvois mettre hors du fort pour aller &agrave; leur rencontre. Il 
&eacute;toit compos&eacute; de 250 Fran&ccedil;ois et de 650 sauvages, 
ce qui faisoit 900 hommes. M. de Beaujeu, capitaine, le commandoit. 
Il y avoit deux capitaines qui estoient M<span class="superscript">rs</span>. 
Dumas et Ligneris et plusieurs autres officiers subalternes. Ce parti se 
mit en marche le 9 &agrave; 8 heures du matin, et se trouva &agrave; midi et 
demie en pr&eacute;sence des Anglois &agrave; environ 3 lieues du fort. On 
commen&ccedil;a &agrave; faire feu de part et d'autre. Le feu de 
l'artillerie ennemie fit reculer un peu par deux fois notre parti. 
M. de Beaujeu fut tu&eacute; &agrave; la troisi&egrave;me d&eacute;charge.
M. Dumas prit le commandement et s'en acquitta au mieux. Nos
Fran&ccedil;ois, pleins de courage, soutenus par les sauvages, quoiqu'ils
n'eussent point d'artillerie, firent &agrave; leur tour plier les Anglois qui
se battirent en ordre de bataille et en bonne contenance. Et ces
derniers voyant l'ardeur de nos gens qui fon&ccedil;oient avec une vigeur
infinie furent enfin oblig&eacute;s de plier tout &agrave; fait apr&egrave;s 
4 heures d'un grand feu. M<span class="superscript">rs</span>. Dumas et 
Ligneris qui n'avoient plus avec eux q'une vingtaine de Fran&ccedil;ois ne 
s'engagerent point dans la poursuite. Ils rentrerent dans le fort, 
parceq'une grande partie des Canadiens qui n'estoient malheureusement que 
des enfants s'estoient retir&eacute;s &agrave; la premi&egrave;re 
d&eacute;charge."</p>

<p class="double-space-top">
The letter of Dumas cited in the text has been equally unknown.
It was written a year after the battle in order to draw the attention
of the minister to services which the writer thought had not been
duly recognized. The following is an extract (<i>Dumas au Ministre</i>,
24 <i>Juillet</i>, 1756, in Archives de la Marine):&mdash;</p>

<p class="double-space-top">
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_425-V2" id="Page_425-V2">425<br />V2</a></span> 
"M. de Beaujeu marcha donc, et sous ses ordres M. de Ligneris
et moi. Il attaqua avec beaucoup d'audace mais sans nulle disposition;
notre premi&egrave;re d&eacute;charge fut faite hors de port&eacute;e; 
l'ennemi fit la sienne de plus pr&egrave;s, et dans le premier instant 
du combat, cent miliciens, qui faisaient la moiti&eacute; de nos 
Fran&ccedil;ais l&acirc;cherent honteusement le pied en criant 
'Sauve qui peut.' Deux cadets qui depuis ont &eacute;t&eacute; faits 
officiers autorisaient cette fuite par leur exemple. Ce mouvement en 
arri&egrave;re ayant encourag&eacute; l'ennemi, il fit retentir ses cris 
de Vive le Roi et avan&ccedil;a sur nous &agrave; grand pas. Son artillerie 
s'&eacute;tant prepar&eacute;e pendant ce temps l&agrave; commen&ccedil;a
&agrave; faire feu ce qui &eacute;pouvanta tellement les Sauvages que tout prit
la fuite; l'ennemi faisait sa troisi&egrave;me d&eacute;charge de mousqueterie
quand M. de Beaujeu fut tu&eacute;.</p>

<p>
"Notre d&eacute;route se pr&eacute;senta a mes yeux sous le plus 
d&eacute;sagr&eacute;able point de vue, et pour n'&ecirc;tre point 
charg&eacute; de la mauvaise man&oelig;uvre d'autrui, je ne songeai plus 
qu'&agrave; me faire tuer. Ce fut alors, Monseigneur, qu'excitant de la 
voix et du geste le peu de soldats qui restait, je m'avan&ccedil;ai avec 
la contenance qui donne le d&eacute;sespoir. Mon peloton fit un feu si 
vif que l'ennemi en parut &eacute;tonn&eacute;; il grossit insensiblement 
et les Sauvages voyant que mon attaque faisait cesser les cris de l'ennemi 
revinrent &agrave; moi. Dans ce moment j'envoyai M. le 
Chev<span class="superscript">r</span>. Le Borgne et M. de Rocheblave dire 
aux officiers qui &eacute;taient &agrave; la t&ecirc;te des Sauvages de 
prendre l'ennemi en flanc. Le canon qui battit en t&ecirc;te donna faveur 
&agrave; mes ordres. L'ennemi, pris de tous cot&eacute;s, combattit avec la 
fermet&eacute; la plus opini&acirc;tre. Des rangs entiers tombaient &agrave; 
la fois; presque tous les officiers p&eacute;rirent; et le d&eacute;sordre 
s'&eacute;tant mis par l&agrave; dans cette colonne, tout prit la fuite."</p>

<p>Whatever may have been the conduct of the Canadian militia, the French 
officers behaved with the utmost courage, and shared with the Indians the 
honors of the victory. The partisan chief Charles Langlade seems also to 
have been especially prominent. His grandson, the aged Pierre Grignon, 
declared that it was he who led the attack 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_426-V2" id="Page_426-V2">426<br />V2</a></span> 
(Draper, <i>Recollections of Grignon</i>, in the
<i>Collections of the Wisconsin Historical Society,</i> III.). Such evidence,
taken alone, is of the least possible weight; but both the
traveller Anbury and General John Burgoyne, writing many years
after the event, speak of Langlade, who was then alive, as the
author of Braddock's defeat. Hence there can be little doubt that
he took an important part in it, though the contemporary writers
do not mention his name. Compare Tass&eacute;, <i>Notice sur Charles
Langlade</i>. The honors fell to Contrec&oelig;ur, Dumas, and Ligneris,
all of whom received the cross of the Order of St Louis (<i>Ordres
du Roy et D&eacute;p&ecirc;ches des Ministres</i>, 1755).</p>

<p><br /><a id="appendixE" name="appendixE"></a><br /></p>
<h3><a href="#Appendix">Appendix E.</a></h3>
<p class="center noindent caps">Chapter XIV. Montcalm.</p>

<p class="double-space-top">
To show the style of Montcalm's familiar letters, I give a few
examples. Literal translation is often impossible.</p>

<h4>&Agrave; Madame de Montcalm, &agrave; Montr&eacute;al, 16 Artil, 1757.</h4>

<p class="center italic small noindent">(Extrait.)</p>

<p class="double-space-top">
"Ma sant&eacute; assez bonne, malgr&eacute; beaucoup de travail, surtout
d'ecriture. Est&egrave;ve, mon secretaire, se marie. Beau caract&egrave;re. 
Bon autographe, &eacute;crivant vite. Je lui procure un emploi et le moyen
de faire fortune s'il veut. Il fait un meilleur mariage que ne lui
appartient; malgr&eacute; cela je crains qu'il ne la fasse pas comme un
autre; fat, frivole, joueur, glorieux, petit-ma&icirc;tre, d&eacute;pensier. 
J'ai toujours Marcel, des soldats copistes dans le besoin&hellip;. Tous les
soldats de Montpellier se portants bien, hors le fils de Pierre mort chez 
moi. Tout est hors de prix. Il faut vivre honorablement et je le fais, tous 
les jours seize personnes. Une fois tous les quinze jours chez M. le 
Gouverneur g&eacute;n&eacute;ral et M<span class="superscript">r</span>. 
le Chev. de L&eacute;vis qui vit aussi tr&egrave;s 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_427-V2" id="Page_427-V2">427<br />V2</a></span> 
bien. Il a donn&eacute; trois beaux grands bals. Pour moi jusqu'au 
car&ecirc;me, outre les diners, de grands soupers de dames trois 
fois la semaine. Le jour des devotes prudes, des concerts. Les jours des 
je&ucirc;nes des violons d'hazard, parcequ'on me les demandait, cela ne 
menait que jusqu'&agrave; deux heures du matin et il se joignait 
l'apr&egrave;s-souper compagnie dansante sans &ecirc;tre pri&eacute;e,
mais sure d'&ecirc;tre bien re&ccedil;ue &agrave; celle qui avait 
soup&eacute;. Fort cher, peu amusant, et souvent ennuyeux&hellip;. Vous 
connaissiez ma maison, je l'ai augment&eacute;e d'un cocher, d'un frotteur, 
un gar&ccedil;on de cuisine, et j'ai mari&eacute; mon aide de cuisine; car 
je travaille &agrave; peupler la colonie: 80 mariages de soldats cet hiver 
et deux d'officiers. Germain a perdu sa fille. Il a epous&eacute; 
mieux que lui; bonne femme mais sans bien, comme toutes&hellip;."</p>

<h4>&Agrave; Madame de Montcalm, &agrave; Montr&eacute;al, 6 Juin, 1757.</h4>

<p class="center italic small noindent">(Extrait.)</p>

<p class="double-space-top" >
"J'addresse la premi&egrave;re de cette lettre &agrave; ma m&egrave;re. Il n'y 
a pas une heure dans la journ&eacute;e que je ne songe &agrave; vous, &agrave; 
elle, et &agrave; mes enfants. J'embrasse ma fille; je vous adore, ma 
tr&egrave;s ch&egrave;re, ainsi que ma m&egrave;re. Mille choses &agrave; mes 
s&oelig;urs. Je n'ai pas le temps de leur &eacute;crire, ni &agrave; Naujac, ni 
aux abbesses&hellip;. Des compliments au ch&acirc;teau d'Arbois, aux Du Cayla, 
et aux Givard. P.&nbsp;S. N'oubliez pas d'envoyer une douzaine de bouteilles 
d'Angleterre de pinte d'eau de lavande; vous en mettrez quatre pour chaque 
envoi."</p>

<h4>&Agrave; Bourlamaque, &agrave; Montr&eacute;al, 20 F&eacute;vrier, 1757.</h4>

<p class="center italic small noindent">(Extrait.)</p>

<p class="double-space-top">
"Dimanche j'avais rassembl&eacute; les dames de France hors Mad.
de Parfouru qui m'a fait l'honneur de me venir voir il y a trois jours
et en la voyant je me suis apper&ccedil;u que l'amour avait des traits de
puissance dont on ne pouvait pas rendre raison, non pas par l'impression
qu'elle a faite 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_428-V2" id="Page_428-V2">428<br />V2</a></span> 
sur mon c&oelig;ur, mais bien par celle qu'elle a faite sur celui de son 
&eacute;poux. Mercredi une assembl&eacute;e chez Mad. Varin. Jeudi un bal 
chez le Chev. de L&eacute;vis qui avait pri&eacute; 65 Dames ou demoiselles; 
Il n'y en avait que trente&mdash;autant d'hommes qu'&agrave; la guerre. Sa 
salle bien &eacute;clair&eacute;e, aussi grand que celle de l'Intendance, 
beaucoup d'ordre, beaucoup d'attention, des rafraichissements en 
abondance toute la nuit de tout genre et de toute esp&egrave;ce et on ne se 
retira qu'&agrave; sept heures du matin. Pour moi qui ay quitt&eacute; le 
s&eacute;jour de Qu&eacute;bec, Je me couchai de bonne heure. J'avais eu ce 
jour-l&agrave; huit dames &agrave; souper et ce souper &eacute;tait
dedi&eacute; &agrave; Mad. Varin. Demain j'en aurai une demi douzaine. 
Je ne scai encore a qui il est dedi&eacute;, Je suis tent&eacute; de croire 
que c'est &agrave; La Roche Beaucourt Le galant 
Chev<span class="superscript">r</span>. nous donne encore un bal."</p>

<p><br /><a id="appendixF" name="appendixF"></a><br /></p>
<h3><a href="#Appendix">Appendix F.</a></h3>
<p class="center noindent caps">Chapter XV. Fort William Henry.</p>

<h4>Webb to Loudon, Fort Edward, 11 Aug. 1757.</h4>

<p class="center italic small noindent">Public Record Office. (Extract.)</p>

<p class="double-space-top" >
<span class="smcap">"On</span>
leaving the Camp Yesterday Morning they [<i>the English
soldiers</i>] were stript by the Indians of everything they had both
Officers and Men the Women and Children drag'd from among
them and most inhumanly butchered before their faces, the party
of about three hundred Men which were given them as an escort
were during this time quietly looking on, from this and other circumstances
we are too well convinced these barbarities must have been connived at by
the French, After having destroyed the women and children they fell upon
the rear of our Men who running in upon the Front soon put the whole
to a most precipitate flight in which confusion part of them came into
this Camp about two o'Clock yesterday morning 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_429-V2" id="Page_429-V2">429<br />V2</a></span> 
in a most distressing
situation, and have continued dropping in ever since, a great many men and
we are afraid several Officers were massacred."</p>

<p>The above is independent of the testimony of Frye, who did
not reach Fort Edward till the day after Webb's letter was written.</p>

<h4>Frye to Thomas Hubbard, Speaker of the House of Representatives of
Massachusetts, Albany, 16 Aug. 1757.</h4>

<p class="center italic small noindent">Public Record Office. (Extract.)</p>

<p class="double-space-top" >
"We did not march till ye 10th at which time the Savages were
let loose upon us, Strips, Kills, &amp; Scalps our people drove them
into Disorder Rendered it impossible to Rally, the French Gaurds
we were promised shou'd Escort us to Fort Edward Could or
would not protect us so that there Opened the most horrid Scene
of Barbarity immaginable, I was strip'd myself of my Arms &amp;
Cloathing that I had nothing left but Briches Stockings Shoes &amp;
Shirt, the Indians round me with their Tomehawks Spears &amp;c
threatening Death I flew to the Officers of the French Gaurds for
Protection but they would afford me none, therefore was Oblig'd
to fly and was in the woods till the 12th in the Morning of which
I arriv'd at Fort Edward almost Famished &hellip; with what of
Fatigue Starving &amp;c I am obliged to break off but as soon as I
can Recollect myself shall write to you more fully."</p>

<h4>Frye, Journal of the Attack of Fort William Henry.</h4>

<p class="center italic small noindent">Public Record Office. (Extract.)</p>

<p class="double-space-top" >
"<i>Wednesday, August 10th</i>.&mdash;Early this morning we were ordered
to prepare for our march, but found the Indians in a worse
temper (if possible) than last night, every one having a tomahawk,
hatchett or some other instrument of death, and Constantly
plundering from the officers their arms &amp;ca this 
Col<span class="superscript">o</span>. Monro Complained of, as a breach of 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_430-V2" id="Page_430-V2">430<br />V2</a></span> 
the Articles of Capitulation
but to no effect, the french officers however told us that if
we would give up the baggage of the officers and men, to the
Indians, they thought it would make them easy, which at last
Col<span class="superscript">o</span>. Monro Consented to but 
this was no sooner done, then they began to take the Officers Hatts, 
Swords, guns &amp; Cloaths, stripping them all to their Shirts, and 
on some officers, left no
shirt at all, while this was doing they killed and scalp'd all the
sick and wounded before our faces and then took out from our
troops, all the Indians and negroes, and Carried them off, one of
the former they burnt alive afterwards.</p>

<p>"At last with great difficulty the troops gott from the Retrenchment,
but they were no sooner out, then the savages fell upon the
rear, killing &amp; scalping, which Occasioned an order for a halt,
which at last was done in great Confusion but as soon as those
in the front knew what was doing in the rear they again pressed
forward, and thus the Confusion continued &amp; encreased till we
came to the Advanc'd guard of the French, the savages still carrying
away Officers, privates, Women and Children, some of which
latter they kill'd &amp; scalpt in the road. This horrid scene of blood
and slaughter obliged our officers to apply to the Officers of the
French Guard for protection, which they refus'd &amp; told them they
must take to the woods and shift for themselves which many did,
and in all probability many perish't in the woods, many got into
Fort Edward that day and others daily Continued coming in, but
vastly fatigued with their former hardships added to this last,
which threw several of them into Deliriums."</p>

<h4>Affidavit of Miles Whitworth, Surgeon of the Massachusetts Regiment,
taken before Governor Pownall 17 Oct. 1757.</h4>

<p class="center italic small">Public Record Office. (Extract.)</p>

<p class="double-space-top">
"Being duly sworn on the Holy Evangelists doth declare &hellip; that
there were also seventeen Men of the Massachusetts Regiment
wounded unable to March under his immediate 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_431-V2" id="Page_431-V2">431<br />V2</a></span> 
Care in the
Intrenched Camp, that according to the Capitulation he did deliver
them over to the French Surgeon on the ninth of August at two in the
Afternoon &hellip; that the French Surgeon received them into his Custody
and placed Centinals of the French Troops upon the said seventeen
wounded. That the French Surgeon going away to the French Camp, the
said Miles Whitworth continued with the said wounded Men till five
O'clock on the Morn of the tenth of August, That the Centinals were
taken off and that he the said Whitworth saw the French Indians about
5 O'clock in the Morn of the 10th of August dragg the said seventeen
wounded men out of their Hutts, Murder them with their Tomohawks and
scalp them, That the French Troops posted round the lines were not further
than forty feet from the Hutts where the said wounded Men lay, that several
Canadian Officers particularly one Lacorne were present and that none,
either Officer or Soldier, protected the said wounded Men.</p>

<p class="right smcap no-space-bottom">"Miles Whitworth.</p>
<p class="no-space-top noindent"><i>"Sworn before me</i> 
<span class="smcap">T. Pownall.</span>"</p>

<p><br /><a id="appendixG" name="appendixG"></a><br /></p>
<h3><a href="#Appendix">Appendix G.</a></h3>

<p class="center noindent caps double-space-top">Chapter XX. Ticonderoga.</p>

<p class="double-space-top">
<span class="smcap">The</span> 
French accounts of the battle at Ticonderoga are very
numerous, and consist of letters and despatches of Montcalm,
L&eacute;vis, Bougainville, Doreil, and other officers, besides several
anonymous narratives, one of which was printed in pamphlet
form at the time. Translations of many of them may be found in
<i>N.&nbsp;Y. Colonial Documents,</i> X. There are, however, various others
preserved in the archives of the War and Marine Departments at
Paris which have not seen the light. I have carefully examined
and collated them all. The English accounts are by no 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_432-V2" id="Page_432-V2">432<br />V2</a></span> 
means so
numerous or so minute. Among those not already cited, may be
mentioned a letter of Colonel Woolsey of the New York provincials,
and two letters from British officers written just after the
battle and enclosed in a letter from Alexander Colden to Major
Halkett, 17 July. (<i>Bouquet and Haldimand Papers.</i>)</p>

<p>The French greatly exaggerated the force of the English and
their losses in the battle. They place the former at from twenty
thousand to thirty-one thousand, and the latter at from four
thousand to six thousand. Prisoners taken at the end of the battle
told them that the English had lost four thousand,&mdash;a statement
which they readily accepted, though the prisoners could have
known little more about the matter than they themselves. And
these figures were easily magnified. The number of dead lying
before the lines is variously given at from eight hundred to three
thousand. Montcalm himself, who was somewhat elated by his
victory, gives this last number in one of his letters, though he
elsewhere says two thousand; while L&eacute;vis, in his <i>Journal de la
Guerre,</i> says "about eight hundred." The truth is that no pains
were taken to ascertain the exact number, which, by the English
returns, was a little above five hundred, the total of killed,
wounded, and missing being nineteen hundred and forty-four. A
friend of Knox, writing to him from Fort Edward three weeks
after the battle, gives a tabular statement which shows nineteen
hundred and fifty in all, or six more than the official report. As
the name of every officer killed or wounded, with the corps to
which he belonged, was published at the time (<i>London Magazine</i>,
1758), it is extremely unlikely that the official return was
falsified. Abercromby's letter to Pitt, of July 12, says that he
retreated "with the loss of four hundred and sixty-four regulars
killed, twenty-nine missing eleven hundred and seventeen wounded;
and eighty-seven provincials killed, eight missing, and two hundred
and thirty-nine wounded, officers of both included." In a
letter to Viscount Barrington, of the same date (Public Record
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_433-V2" id="Page_433-V2">433<br />V2</a></span> 
Office), Abercromby encloses a full detail of losses, regiment by
regiment and company by company, being a total of nineteen
hundred and forty-five. Several of the French writers state correctly
that about fourteen thousand men (including reserves) were engaged in
the attack; but they add erroneously that there were thirteen thousand
more at the Falls. In fact there was only a small provincial regiment
left there, and a battalion of the New York regiment, under Colonel
Woolsey, at the landing.</p>

<p class="double-space-top">
<span class="smcap">A Legend of Ticonderoga</span>.&mdash;Mention has 
been made of the death of Major Duncan Campbell of Inverawe. The following
family tradition relating to it was told me in 1878 by the late
Dean Stanley, to whom I am also indebted for various papers on
the subject, including a letter from James Campbell, Esq., the
present laird of Inverawe, and great-nephew of the hero of the
tale. The same story is told, in an amplified form and with some
variations, in the <i>Legendary Tales of the Highlands</i> of Sir Thomas
Dick Lauder. As related by Dean Stanley and approved by Mr.
Campbell, it is this:&mdash;</p>

<p class="double-space-top">
The ancient castle of Inverawe stands by the banks of the Awe,
in the midst of the wild and picturesque scenery of the western
Highlands. Late one evening, before the middle of the last century,
as the laird, Duncan Campbell, sat alone in the old hall,
there was a loud knocking at the gate; and, opening it, he saw
a stranger, with torn clothing and kilt besmeared with blood, who
in a breathless voice begged for asylum. He went on to say that
he had killed a man in a fray, and that the pursuers were at his
heels. Campbell promised to shelter him. "Swear on your dirk!"
said the stranger; and Campbell swore. He then led him to a secret
recess in the depths of the castle. Scarcely was he hidden when
again there was a loud knocking at the gate, and two armed men
appeared. "Your cousin Donald has been murdered, and we are
looking for the murderer!" 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_434-V2" id="Page_434-V2">434<br />V2</a></span> 
Campbell, remembering his oath,
professed to have no knowledge of the fugitive; and the men went
on their way. The laird, in great agitation, lay down to rest in
a large dark room, where at length he fell asleep. Waking suddenly
in bewilderment and terror, he saw the ghost of the murdered
Donald standing by his bedside, and heard a hollow voice
pronounce the words: <i>"Inverawe! Inverawe! blood has been shed.
Shield not the murderer!"</i> In the morning Campbell went to the
hiding-place of the guilty man and told him that he could harbor
him no longer. "You have sworn on your dirk!" he replied; and
the laird of Inverawe, greatly perplexed and troubled, made a
compromise between conflicting duties, promised not to betray
his guest, led him to the neighboring mountain, and hid him in
a cave.</p>

<p>In the next night, as he lay tossing in feverish slumbers, the
same stern voice awoke him, the ghost of his cousin Donald stood
again at his bedside, and again he heard the same appalling words:
<i>"Inverawe! Inverawe! blood has been shed. Shield not the murderer!"</i>
At break of day he hastened, in strange agitation, to the
cave; but it was empty, the stranger was gone. At night, as he
strove in vain to sleep, the vision appeared once more, ghastly
pale, but less stern of aspect than before. <i>"Farewell, Inverawe!"</i>
it said; <i>"Farewell, till we meet at TICONDEROGA!"</i></p>

<p>The strange name dwelt in Campbell's memory. He had joined
the Black Watch, or Forty-second Regiment, then employed
in keeping order in the turbulent Highlands. In time he became
its major; and, a year or two after the war broke out, he went
with it to America. Here, to his horror, he learned that it was
ordered to the attack of Ticonderoga. His story was well known
among his brother officers. They combined among themselves to
disarm his fears; and when they reached the fatal spot they told
him on the eve of the battle, "This is not Ticonderoga; we are not
there yet; this is Fort George." But in the morning he came to
them with haggard looks. "I have seen 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_435-V2" id="Page_435-V2">435<br />V2</a></span> 
him! You have deceived me! He came to my tent last night! This is Ticonderoga! 
I shall die to-day!" and his prediction was fulfilled.</p>

<p class="double-space-top">
Such is the tradition. The indisputable facts are that Major
Duncan Campbell of Inverawe, his arm shattered by a bullet,
was carried to Fort Edward, where, after amputation, he died and
was buried. (<i>Abercromby to Pitt</i>, 19 <i>August</i>, 1758.) The stone
that marks his grave may still be seen, with this inscription: <i>"Here
lyes the Body of Duncan Campbell of Inverawe, 
Esq<span class="superscript">re</span>., Major to the old Highland Regiment, 
aged</i> 55 <i>Years, who died the</i> 17<i><span class="superscript">th</span>
July</i>, 1758, <i>of the Wounds he received in the Attack of the Retrenchment
of Ticonderoga or Carrillon, on the</i> 8<i><span class="superscript">th</span> 
July</i>, 1758."</p>

<p>His son, Lieutenant Alexander Campbell, was severely wounded
at the same time, but reached Scotland alive, and died in Glasgow.
</p>

<p class="double-space-top">
Mr. Campbell, the present Inverawe, in the letter mentioned above, says 
that forty-five years ago he knew an old man whose grandfather was 
foster-brother to the slain major of the forty-second, and who told 
him the following story while carrying a salmon for him to an inn near 
Inverawe. The old man's grandfather was sleeping with his son, then a 
lad, in the same room, but in another bed. This son, father of the 
narrator, "was awakened," to borrow the words of Mr. Campbell, "by some 
unaccustomed sound, and behold there was a bright light in the room, 
and he saw a figure, in full Highland regimentals, cross over the room 
and stoop down over his father's bed and give him a kiss. He was too 
frightened to speak, but put his head under his coverlet and went to 
sleep. Once more he was roused in like manner, and saw the same sight. 
In the morning he spoke to his father about it, who told him that it 
was Macdonnochie <i>[the Gaelic patronymic of the laird of 
Inverawe]</i> whom he had seen, and who came to tell him that he had 
been killed in a great battle in America. Sure enough, 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_436-V2" id="Page_436-V2">436<br />V2</a></span> 
said my informant, it was on the very day that the
battle of Ticonderoga was fought and the laird was killed."</p>

<p>It is also said that two ladies of the family of Inverawe saw a
battle in the clouds, in which the shadowy forms of Highland
warriors were plainly to be descried; and that when the fatal
news came from America, it was found that the time of the
vision answered exactly to that of the battle in which the head
of the family fell.</p>

<p>The legend of Inverawe has within a few years found its way
into an English magazine, and it has also been excellently told
in the <i>Atlantic Monthly</i> of September of this year, 1884, by Miss
C.&nbsp;F. Gordon Cumming. Her version differs a little from that
given above from the recital of Dean Stanley and the present laird
of Inverawe, but the essential points are the same. Miss Gordon
Cumming, however, is in error when she says that Duncan Campbell
was wounded in the breast, and that he was first buried at
Ticonderoga. His burial-place was near Fort Edward, where he
died, and where his remains still lie, though not at the same spot,
as they were long after removed by a family named Gilchrist,
who claimed kinship with the Campbells of Inverawe.</p>

<p><br /><a id="appendixH" name="appendixH"></a><br /></p>
<h3><a href="#Appendix">Appendix H.</a></h3>
<p class="center noindent caps double-space-top">Chapter XXV. Wolfe at Quebec.</p>

<p class="center smcap noindent double-space-top">Force of the French
 and English at the Siege of Quebec.</p>

<p class="double-space-top">
<span class="smcap">"Les</span>
retranchemens que j'avois fait tracer depuis la rivi&egrave;re St.
Charles jusqu'au saut Montmorency furent occup&eacute;s par plus de
14,000 hommes, 200 cavaliers dont je formai un corps aux ordres
de M. de la Rochebeaucour, environ 1,000 sauvages Abenakis et
des diff&eacute;rentes nations du nord des pays d'en haut. M. de 
Boish&eacute;bert arriva ensuite 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_437-V2" id="Page_437-V2">437<br />V2</a></span> 
avec les Acadiens et sauvages qu'il avoit rassembl&eacute;s.
Je r&eacute;glai la garnison de Qu&eacute;bec &agrave; 2,000 hommes." 
<i>Vaudreuil au Ministre</i>, 5 <i>Oct</i>. 1759.</p>

<p>The commissary Berniers says that the whole force was about
fifteen thousand men, besides Indians, which is less than the number
given by Vaudreuil.</p>

<p>Bigot says: "Nous avions 13,000 hommes et mille &agrave; 1,200 sauvages,
sans compter 2,000 hommes de garnison dans la ville." <i>Bigot au Ministre</i>,
25 <i>Oct</i>. 1759.</p>

<p>The Hartwell <i>Journal du Si&eacute;ge</i> says: "II fut 
d&eacute;cid&eacute; qu'on ne laisseroit dans la place que 1,200 hommes, et 
que tout le reste marcheroit au camp, o&ugrave; l'on comptoit se trouver plus 
de 15,000 hommes, y compris les sauvages."</p>

<p>Rigaud, Vaudreuil's brother, writing from Montreal to Bourlamaque
on the 23d of June, says: "Je compte que l'arm&eacute;e camp&eacute;e
sous Qu&eacute;bec sera de 17,000 hommes bien effectifs, sans les sauvages."
He then gives a list of Indians who have joined the army,
or are on the way, amounting to thirteen hundred.</p>

<p>At the end of June Wolfe had about eight thousand six hundred
effective soldiers. Of these the ten battalions, commonly mentioned
as regiments, supplied six thousand four hundred; detached
grenadiers from Louisbourg, three hundred; artillery, three hundred;
rangers, four hundred; light infantry, two hundred; marines,
one thousand. The complement of the battalions was in some cases
seven hundred and in others one thousand (Knox, II. 25); but
their actual strength varied from five hundred to eight hundred,
except the Highlanders, who mustered eleven hundred, their ranks
being more than full. Fraser, in his <i>Journal of the Siege</i>, gives a
tabular view of the whole. At the end of the campaign L&eacute;vis
reckons the remaining English troops at about six thousand (<i>L&eacute;vis
au Ministre</i>, 10 <i>Nov</i>. 1759), which answers to the report of General
Murray: "The troops will amount to six thousand" (<i>Murray
to Pitt</i>, 12 <i>Oct</i>. 1759). The precise number is given in the <i>Return
of the State of His Majesty's Forces left in Garrison at Quebec</i>,
dated 12 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_438-V2" id="Page_438-V2">438<br />V2</a></span> 
<i>Oct</i>. 1759, and signed, Robert Monckton (Public Record
Office, <i>America and West Indies</i>, XCIX.). This shows the total
of rank and file to have been 6,214, which the addition of officers,
sergeants, and drummers raises to about seven thousand, besides
171 artillerymen.</p>

<p><br /><a id="appendixI" name="appendixI"></a><br /></p>
<h3><a href="#Appendix">Appendix I.</a></h3>

<p class="center noindent caps double-space-top">Chapter XXVII. The Heights of Abraham.</p>

<p class="double-space-top">
<span class="smcap">One</span>
of the most important unpublished documents on Wolfe's
operations against Quebec is the long and elaborate <i>Journal
m&eacute;moratif de ce qui s'est pass&eacute; de plus remarquable pendant qu'a
dur&eacute; le Si&eacute;ge de la Ville de Qu&eacute;bec</i> (Archives de la 
Marine). The writer, M. de Foligny, was a naval officer who during the siege
commanded one of the principal batteries of the town. The official
correspondence of Vaudreuil for 1759 (Archives Nationales)
gives the events of the time from his point of view; and various
manuscript letters of Bigot, L&eacute;vis, Montreuil, and others (Archives
de la Marine, Archives de la Guerre) give additional particulars.
The letters, generally private and confidential, written to Bourlamaque
by Montcalm, L&eacute;vis, Vaudreuil, Malartic, Berniers, and others during
the siege contain much that is curious and interesting.</p>

<p>
<i>Si&eacute;ge de Qu&eacute;bec en</i> 1759, <i>d'apr&egrave;s un Manuscrit 
d&eacute;pos&eacute; &agrave; la Biblioth&ecirc;que de Hartwell en 
Angleterre.</i> A very valuable diary, by a citizen of Quebec; it was 
brought from England in 1834 by the Hon. D.&nbsp;B. Viger, and a few 
copies were printed at Quebec in 1836. <i>Journal tenu &agrave; l'Arm&eacute;e 
que commandoit feu M. le Marquis de Montcalm.</i> A minute diary of an officer 
under Montcalm (printed by the Quebec Historical Society). <i>M&eacute;moire 
sur la Campagne de</i> 1759, <i>par M. de Joann&egrave;s, Major de 
Qu&eacute;bec</i> (Archives de la Guerre). <i>Lettres 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_439-V2" id="Page_439-V2">439<br />V2</a></span> 
et D&eacute;p&ecirc;ches de Montcalm</i> (Ibid.). These touch chiefly
the antecedents of the siege. <i>M&eacute;moires sur le Canada depuis</i> 
1749 <i>jusqu'&agrave;</i> 1760 (Quebec Historical Society). <i>Journal du 
Si&eacute;ge de Qu&eacute;bec en</i> 1759, <i>par M. Jean Claude Panet, 
notaire</i> (Ibid.). The writer of this diary was in Quebec at the time. 
Several other journals and letters of persons present at the siege have been 
printed by the Quebec Historical Society, under the title 
<i>&Eacute;v&eacute;nements de la Guerre en Canada durant les 
Ann&eacute;es</i> 1759 <i>et</i> 1760.  <i>Relation de ce qui s'est 
pass&eacute; au Si&eacute;ge de Qu&eacute;bec, par une R&eacute;ligieuse de 
l'H&ocirc;pital G&eacute;n&eacute;ral de Qu&eacute;bec</i> (Quebec Historical 
Society). <i>Jugement impartial sur les Op&eacute;rations militaires de la 
Campagne, par M<span class="superscript">gr</span>. de Pontbriand, 
&Eacute;v&ecirc;que de Qu&eacute;bec</i> (Ibid.). <i>Memoirs of the Siege of 
Quebec, from the Journal of a French Officer on board the Chezine Frigate, 
taken by His Majesty's Ship Rippon, by Richard Gardiner, Esq., Captain of
Marines in the Rippon,</i> London, 1761.</p>

<p><i>General Wolfe's Instructions to Young Officers,</i> Philadelphia,
1778. This title is misleading, the book being a collection of military
orders. <i>General Orders in Wolfe's Army</i> (Quebec Historical
Society). This collection is much more full than the foregoing,
so far as concerns the campaign of 1759. <i>Letters of Wolfe</i> (in
Wright's <i>Wolfe</i>), <i>Despatches of Wolfe, Saunders, Monckton, and
Townshend</i> (in contemporary magazines). <i>A Short Authentic
Account of the Expedition against Quebec, by a Volunteer upon
that Expedition,</i> Quebec, 1872. This valuable diary is ascribed to
James Thompson, a volunteer under Wolfe, who died at Quebec
in 1830 at the age of ninety-eight, after holding for many years
the position of overseer of works in the Engineer Department.
Another manuscript, for the most part identical with this, was
found a few years ago among old papers in the office of the
Royal Engineers at Quebec. <i>Journal of the Expedition on the
River St. Lawrence</i>. Two entirely distinct diaries bear this name.
One is printed in the <i>New York Mercury</i> for December, 1759;
the other was found among the papers of George Alsopp, secretary
to Sir Guy 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_440-V2" id="Page_440-V2">440<br />V2</a></span> 
Carleton, who served under Wolfe (Quebec Historical
Society). Johnstone, <i>A Dialogue in Hades</i> (Ibid.). The Scotch
Jacobite, Chevalier Johnstone, as aide-de-camp to L&eacute;vis, and afterwards
to Montcalm, had great opportunities of acquiring information during
the campaign; and the results, though produced in the fanciful form
of a dialogue between the ghosts of Wolfe and Montcalm, are of
substantial historical value. The <i>Dialogue</i> is followed by a
plain personal narrative. Fraser, <i>Journal of the Siege of Quebec</i>
(Ibid.). Fraser was an officer in the Seventy-eighth Highlanders.
<i>Journal of the Siege of Quebec, by a Gentleman in an Eminent Station
on the Spot</i>, Dublin, 1759. <i>Journal of the Particular Transactions
during the Siege of Quebec</i> (<i>Notes and Queries</i>, XX.). The writer
was a soldier or non-commissioned officer serving in the light infantry.</p>

<p><i>Memoirs of the Siege of Quebec and Total Reduction of Canada,
by John Johnson, Clerk and Quarter-master Sergeant to the
Fifty-eighth Regiment</i>. A manuscript of 176 pages, written when
Johnson was a pensioner at Chelsea (England). The handwriting
is exceedingly neat and clear; and the style, though often grandiloquent,
is creditable to a writer in his station. This curious production
was found among the papers of Thomas McDonough, Esq., formerly British
Consul at Boston, and is in possession of his grandson, my relative,
George Francis Parkman, Esq., who, by inquiries at the Chelsea Hospital,
learned that Johnson was still living in 1802.</p>

<p>I have read and collated with extreme care all the above authorities,
with others which need not be mentioned.</p>

<p>Among several manuscript maps and plans showing the operations
of the siege may be mentioned one entitled, <i>Plan of the
Town and Basin of Quebec and Part of the Adjacent Country,
shewing the principal Encampments and Works of the British
Army commanded by Major Gen<span class="superscript">l</span>. Wolfe, 
and those of the French Army by Lieut. 
Gen<span class="superscript">l</span>. the Marquis of Montcalm</i>. 
It is the work of three engineers of Wolfe's army, and is on a scale 
of eight hundred feet to 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_441-V2" id="Page_441-V2">441<br />V2</a></span> 
an inch. A fac-simile from the original in possession
of the Royal Engineers is before me.</p>

<p>Among the "King's Maps," British Museum (CXIX. 27), is a
very large colored plan of operations at Quebec in 1759, 1760,
superbly executed in minute detail.</p>

<p><br /><a id="appendixJ" name="appendixJ"></a><br /></p>
<h3><a href="#Appendix">Appendix J.</a></h3>
<p class="center noindent caps double-space-top">Chapter XXVIII. Fall of Quebec.</p>

<p class="double-space-top">
<i>Death and Burial of Montcalm</i>.&mdash;Johnstone, who had every
means of knowing the facts, says that Montcalm was carried after
his wound to the house of the surgeon Arnoux. Yet it is not quite
certain that he died there. According to Knox, his death took
place at the General Hospital; according to the modern author
of the <i>Ursulines de Qu&eacute;bec</i>, at the Ch&acirc;teau St.-Louis. But the
General Hospital was a mile out of the town, and in momentary
danger of capture by the English; while the Ch&acirc;teau had been
made untenable by the batteries of Point Levi, being immediately
exposed to their fire. Neither of these places was one to which the
dying general was likely to be removed, and it is probable that he
was suffered to die in peace at the house of the surgeon.</p>

<p>It has been said that the story of the burial of Montcalm in a
grave partially formed by the explosion of a bomb, rests only
on the assertion in his epitaph, composed in 1761 by the Academy
of Inscriptions at the instance of Bougainville. There is, however,
other evidence of the fact. The naval captain Foligny, writing
on the spot at the time of the burial, says in his Diary, under the
date of September 14: "A huit heures du soir, dans l'&eacute;glise des
Ursulines, fut enterr&eacute; dans une fosse faite sous la chaire <i>par le
travail de la Bombe</i>, M. le Marquis de Montcalm, 
d&eacute;c&eacute;d&eacute; du matin &agrave; 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_442-V2" id="Page_442-V2">442<br />V2</a></span> 
4 heures apr&egrave;s avoir re&ccedil;u tous les Sacrements. Jamais 
G&eacute;n&eacute;ral n'avoit &eacute;t&eacute; plus aim&eacute; de 
sa troupe et plus universellement regrett&eacute;. Il &eacute;toit 
d'un esprit sup&eacute;rieur, doux, gracieux, affable, familier 
&agrave; tout le monde, ce qui lui avoit fait gagner la confiance
de toute la Colonie: <i>requiescat in pace</i>."</p>

<p>The author of <i>Les Ursulines de Qu&eacute;bec</i> says: "Un des 
projectiles ayant fait une large ouverture dans le plancher de bas,
on en profita pour creuser la fosse du g&eacute;n&eacute;ral."</p>

<p>The <i>Boston Post Boy and Advertiser</i>, in its issue of Dec. 3,
1759, contains a letter from "an officer of distinction" at Quebec
to Messrs. Green and Russell, proprietors of the newspaper. This
letter contains the following words: "He [<i>Montcalm</i>] died the
next day; and, with a little Improvement, one of our 13-inch Shell-Holes
served him for a Grave."</p>

<p>The particulars of his burial are from the <i>Acte Mortuaire du
Marquis de Montcalm</i> in the registers of the Church of Notre
Dame de Qu&eacute;bec, and from that valuable chronicle, <i>Les Ursulines
de Qu&eacute;bec</i>, composed by the Superior of the convent. A nun of
the sisterhood, M&egrave;re Aimable Dub&eacute; de Saint-Ignace, was, when a
child, a witness of the scene, and preserved a vivid memory of
it to the age of eighty-one.</p>

<p><br /><a id="appendixK" name="appendixK"></a><br /></p>
<h3><a href="#Appendix">Appendix K.</a></h3>
<p class="center noindent caps">Chapter XXIX. Sainte-Foy.</p>

<p class="center smcap noindent double-space-top">
Strength of the French and English at the Battle of Ste.-Foy.</p>

<p class="double-space-top">
<span class="smcap">In</span> 
the Public Record Office (<i>America and West Indies</i>, XCIX.)
are preserved the tabular returns of the garrison of Quebec for
1759, 1760, sent by Murray to the War Office. They show the
exact condition of each regiment, in all 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_443-V2" id="Page_443-V2">443<br />V2</a></span> 
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). L&eacute;vis, with natural 
exaggeration, says 4,000. Three or four hundred were left in Quebec to guard 
the walls when the rest marched out.</p>

<p>I have been thus particular because a Canadian writer, Garneau, says: 
"Murray sortit de la ville le 28 au matin &agrave; la t&ecirc;te 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 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_444-V2" id="Page_444-V2">444<br />V2</a></span> 
that Wolfe, at the battle on the Plains of Abraham, had eight thousand 
soldiers, or a little less than double his actual force.</p>

<p>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 L&eacute;vis with six thousand or seven thousand men; 
and he adds that the two armies were about equal, because L&eacute;vis 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 <i>Relation de la seconde Bataille de Qu&eacute;bec</i> says:
"Notre petite arm&eacute;e consistoit <i>au moment de l'action</i> en 3,000
hommes de troupes regl&eacute;es 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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			<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_447-V2" id="Page_447-V2">447<br />V2</a></span> 
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			<h2><a href="#Contents">INDEX</a></h2>
			<p><br /></p>
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    <div id="index">
		<h3>A.</h3>
    <p>	
Abenakis, the I. <a href="#Page_023-V1">23</a>,  <a href="#Page_040-V1">40</a>,
    <a href="#Page_209-V1">209</a>, <a href="#Page_480-V1">480</a>; 
   settled in Canada, I. <a href="#Page_023-V1">23</a>;
	 at Fort Duquesne, I. <a href="#Page_154-V1">154</a>;
	 assist the Canadian militia, I. <a href="#Page_371-V1">371</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_372-V1">372</a>; 
	 called to a council of war by Montcalm, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_485-V1">485</a>-<a href="#Page_489-V1">489</a>; 
	 position of the English at Fort William Henry, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_499-V1">499</a>; 
	 the massacre at Fort William Henry 
	    (see <a href="#fortWilliamHenry">William Henry, Fort</a>), I. 
	    <a href="#Page_510-V1">510</a>-<a href="#Page_513-V1">513</a>,
	    II. <a href="#Page_428-V2">428</a>-<a href="#Page_431-V2">431</a>;
	 evidence concerning the massacre, I. 
	    <a href="#footer_526">514 <i>note</i></a>; 
	 their conversion to Christianity, I. 
	    <a href="#footer_526">514 <i>note</i></a>;  
	 seize the messengers of Amherst, II. <a href="#Page_251-V2">251</a>;
	 Rogers sent to destroy one of their towns, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_251-V2">251</a>,
	    <a href="#Page_253-V2">253</a>-<a href="#footer_26Note">258 <i>note</i></a>; 
	 their cruelty, II. <a href="#Page_253-V2">253</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_255-V2">255</a>;
	 the St. Francis settlement, II. <a href="#Page_253-V2">253</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_254-V2">254</a>;
	 statistics of warriors at the siege of Quebec, II.
	    <a href="#Page_436-V2">436</a>, <a href="#Page_437-V2">437</a>.<br />
			
Abercromby, General James, I. <a href="#footer_164">165 <i>note</i></a>;  
   to supersede Webb in command of the army, I. <a href="#Page_383-V1">383</a>;
	 to resign in favor of Earl Loudon, I. <a href="#Page_383-V1">383</a>;
	 arrives at Albany, I. <a href="#Page_399-V1">399</a>;
	 sends a letter of approbation to Rogers, I. <a href="#Page_445-V1">445</a>;
	 Loudon recalled from office, II. <a href="#Page_048-V2">48</a>;
	 succeeds Loudon in command, II.  <a href="#Page_048-V2">48</a>;
	 to lead the expedition against Louisbourg, II. <a href="#Page_048-V2">48</a>; 
	 Amherst prevented from co-operation with, II. <a href="#Page_075-V2">75</a>; 
	 the rejoicing at the fall of Louisbourg, II.  
	    <a href="#Page_076-V2">76</a>, <a href="#Page_077-V2">77</a>;
	 Amherst plans to assist him at Lake George, II. <a href="#Page_080-V2">80</a>; 
	 expedition led by, against Ticonderoga, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_085-V2">85</a>-<a href="#footer_638">113 <i>note</i></a>;  
	 his camp at Lake George, II. <a href="#Page_088-V2">88</a>; 
	 his leadership, II. <a href="#Page_089-V2">89</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_240-V2">240</a>;   
	 number of his troops, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_088-V2">88</a>, <a href="#Page_089-V2">89</a>;  
	 his opinion of Lord Howe, II. <a href="#Page_089-V2">89</a>;  
	 statistics of the expedition against Ticonderoga, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_091-V2">91</a>, <a href="#Page_092-V2">92</a>,
			<a href="#Page_431-V2">431</a>-<a href="#Page_433-V2">433</a>; 
	 the passage of Lake George, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_092-V2">92</a>-<a href="#Page_094-V2">94</a>;
	 the army lost in the woods, II. <a href="#Page_095-V2">95</a>;
	 effect of the death of Lord Howe upon his army, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_097-V2">97</a>, <a href="#Page_098-V2">98</a>; 
	 the army reaches the Falls, II.  
	    <a href="#Page_098-V2">98</a>, <a href="#Page_099-V2">99</a>; 
	 statements concerning the French defences, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_100-V2">100</a>, <a href="#Page_101-V2">101</a>; 
	 different courses of action open to, II.  
	    <a href="#Page_101-V2">101</a>, <a href="#Page_102-V2">102</a>; 
	 the eve of battle, II.  
	    <a href="#Page_103-V2">103</a>, <a href="#Page_104-V2">104</a>; 
	 order of the assault, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_105-V2">105</a>-<a href="#Page_107-V2">107</a>;  
	 his encounter with Montcalm at Ticonderoga, II.  
	    <a href="#Page_106-V2">106</a>-<a href="#Page_110-V2">110</a>;
	 his retreat, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_110-V2">110</a>, <a href="#Page_111-V2">111</a>,
			<a href="#Page_114-V2">114</a>, <a href="#Page_115-V2">115</a>,
			<a href="#Page_165-V2">165</a>, <a href="#Page_238-V2">238</a>; 
	 his losses, II. <a href="#Page_110-V2">110</a>,
	    <a href="#Page_432-V2">432</a>, <a href="#Page_433-V2">433</a>;
	 a disgraceful order sent to Colonel Cummings, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_114-V2">114</a>;
	 nickname given to, by the Provincials, II. <a href="#Page_115-V2">115</a>;
	 visited by the chaplains, II. <a href="#Page_117-V2">117</a>;
	 sends a war-party into the woods, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_121-V2">121</a>-<a href="#Page_123-V2">123</a>;
	 despatches Bradstreet to capture Fort Frontenac, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_127-V2">127</a>; 
	 receives news of the fall of Fort Frontenac, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_127-V2">127</a>; 
	 joined by Amherst, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_129-V2">129</a>; 
	 Fort Frontenac dismantled, II. <a href="#Page_129-V2">129</a>; 
	 his camp broken up, II. <a href="#Page_130-V2">130</a>; 
	 neglects to assist Forbes's army, II. <a href="#Page_157-V2">157</a>;  
	 Amherst's superior leadership, II. <a href="#Page_240-V2">240</a>; 
	 his letter to Pitt, II. <a href="#Page_432-V2">432</a>.<br />
<a name="abraham" id="abraham"></a>
Abraham an Indian, I. <a href="#Page_174-V1">174</a>.<br />
Abraham Martin, his name given to the Heights of Abraham, II. 
   <a href="#Page_289-V2">289</a>.<br />
Abraham, the Heights of, II. 
   <a href="#Page_259-V2">259</a>, <a href="#Page_408-V2">408</a>, 
	 <a href="#Page_438-V2">438</a>-<a href="#Page_441-V2">441</a>; 
   Wolfe discovers a path ascending the cliff, II.  
	    <a href="#Page_272-V2">272</a>, <a href="#Page_273-V2">273</a>;
	 general belief in the safety of the heights, II.  
	    <a href="#Page_275-V2">275</a>, <a href="#Page_276-V2">276</a>;
	 ascent of the troops under Wolfe's direction, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_281-V2">281</a>, <a href="#Page_287-V2">287</a>; 
	 statistics concerning Wolfe's army, and the action upon, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_438-V2">438</a>-<a href="#Page_441-V2">441</a>.<br />
Abraham, the Plains of, II. <a href="#Page_200-V2">200</a>,
   <a href="#footer_27Note">298 <i>note</i></a>, 
	 <a href="#Page_327-V2">327</a>, <a href="#Page_357-V2">357</a>; 
   inaccessibility of, II. <a href="#Page_260-V2">260</a>;
	 Guienne's troops not at their post, II. <a href="#Page_285-V2">285</a>;
	 origin of the name, and description of, II. <a href="#Page_289-V2">289</a>;
	 the fall of Quebec, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_302-V2">302</a>-<a href="#Page_324-V2">324</a>,
			<a href="#footer_28Note">325 <i>note</i>, 326 <i>note</i></a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_444-V2">444</a>.<br />
<a name="acadia" id="acadia"></a>
Acadia, I. <a href="#Page_178-V1">178</a>, <a href="#Page_486-V1">486</a>;
   population of, I. <a href="#Page_020-V1">20</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_094-V1">94</a>, <a href="#Page_124-V1">124</a>,
			<a href="#Page_264-V1">264</a>, <a href="#Page_284-V1">284</a>; 
	 attacks made on New England, I. <a href="#Page_028-V2">28</a>;
	 questions of boundary, I. <a href="#Page_090-V1">90</a>,
	    <a href="#Page_122-V1">122</a>-<a href="#Page_128-V1">128</a>,
			<a href="#Page_184-V1">184</a>,
			<a href="#Page_236-V1">236</a>-<a href="#Page_238-V1">238</a>,
			<a href="#Page_259-V1">259</a>; 
	 conquest of, by Nicholson in 1710, I. <a href="#Page_090-V1">90</a>;

<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_448-V2" id="Page_448-V2">448<br />V2</a></span>

   conditions of residence for French subjects, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_090-V1">90</a>, <a href="#Page_091-V1">91</a>; 
	 conflict for, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_090-V1">90</a>-<a href="#Page_127-V1">127</a>; 
	 English power in, I. <a href="#Page_092-V1">92</a>;
	 the naval station at Chebucto, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_092-V1">92</a>, <a href="#Page_093-V1">93</a>; 
	 ceded to England by France, I.  
	    <a href="#Page_093-V1">93</a>, <a href="#Page_094-V1">94</a>; 
	 determination of the French to recover it, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_093-V1">93</a>-<a href="#Page_095-V1">95</a>; 
	 six principal parishes of, I. <a href="#Page_094-V1">94</a>;  
	 documents on the affairs of, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_094-V1">94</a>-<a href="#Page_096-V1">96</a>;  
	 religion, priests, and government of, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_094-V1">94</a>, <a href="#Page_099-V1">99</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_100-V1">100</a>, <a href="#Page_107-V1">107</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_259-V1">259</a>, <a href="#Page_260-V1">260</a>; 
	 attention given by Count Raymond to the affairs of, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_102-V1">102</a>;
	 wretched condition of the emigrants from, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_109-V1">109</a>, <a href="#Page_110-V1">110</a>; 
	 Joseph Le Loutre, the vicar-general of, I. <a href="#Page_113-V1">113</a>;
	 Beaubassin occupied by the English, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_115-V1">115</a>-<a href="#Page_120-V1">120</a>; 
	 emigration encouraged by the French, I. <a href="#Page_116-V1">116</a>; 
	 the question of French or English ownership, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_123-V1">123</a>, <a href="#Page_124-V1">124</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_184-V1">184</a>, <a href="#Page_236-V1">236</a>,
			<a href="#Page_239-V1">239</a>, II. <a href="#Page_405-V2">405</a>;
	 need of communication between Quebec and Cape Breton, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_123-V1">123</a>; 
	 the census of, I. <a href="#Page_124-V1">124</a>; 
	 expedition against, to be led by Lieutenant-Colonel Monckton, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_194-V1">194</a>; 
	 sad condition of the people of, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_234-V1">234</a>, <a href="#Page_235-V1">235</a>; 
	 the French use the inhabitants to carry on their war-parties, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_235-V1">235</a>; 
	 questions of policy for the French and English in Acadia, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_236-V1">236</a>-<a href="#Page_241-V1">241</a>; 
	 probability of French invasion, I. <a href="#Page_237-V1">237</a>;  
	 importance of her harbors, I. <a href="#Page_237-V1">237</a>;
	 arrival of the English troops, I.  
	    <a href="#Page_246-V1">246</a>, <a href="#Page_247-V1">247</a>;
	 conditions leading to the expulsion of the inhabitants from, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_253-V1">253</a>-<a href="#Page_266-V1">266</a>; 
	 removal of the inhabitants from their homes, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_255-V1">255</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_266-V1">266</a>-<a href="#Page_284-V1">284</a>; 
	 encampment of the New England troops, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_269-V1">269</a>, <a href="#Page_270-V1">270</a>; 
	 tour of inspection made by Winslow, I. <a href="#Page_271-V1">271</a>; 
	 arrival of the vessels of transport at Nova Scotia, I.
	    <a href="#Page_276-V1">276</a>; 
	 arrival of Saul with provisions, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_278-V1">278</a>, <a href="#Page_279-V1">279</a>; 
	 embarkation of the Acadians, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_279-V1">279</a>-<a href="#Page_281-V1">281</a>; 
	 return of a portion of the exiles, I. <a href="#Page_283-V1">283</a>; 
	 the act of expatriation criticised, I. <a href="#Page_284-V1">284</a>; 
	 families of British stock settle in, I. <a href="#Page_284-V1">284</a>; 
	 capture of forts by the English, I. <a href="#Page_328-V1">328</a>; 
	 plans of Vaudreuil for conquest, II. <a href="#Page_178-V2">178</a>.<br />
<a name="acadians" id="acadians"></a> 
Acadians, the I. <a href="#Page_093-V1">93</a>;
   religious privileges accorded to, by the treaty of Utrecht, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_091-V1">91</a>, <a href="#Page_256-V1">256</a>; 
	 required to take the oath of allegiance to England, I.
	    <a href="#Page_091-V1">91</a>, <a href="#Page_092-V1">92</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_235-V1">235</a>, <a href="#Page_260-V1">260</a>;  
	 influence of the French upon, I. <a href="#Page_091-V1">91</a>,  
			<a href="#Page_093-V1">93</a>-<a href="#Page_124-V1">124</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_235-V1">235</a>-<a href="#Page_237-V1">237</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_242-V1">242</a>-<a href="#Page_245-V1">245</a>;  
	 their religion, I. <a href="#Page_091-V1">91</a>,  
			<a href="#Page_095-V1">95</a>, <a href="#Page_259-V1">259</a>,  
			<a href="#Page_260-V1">260</a>, <a href="#Page_281-V1">281</a>; 
	 their hostility to the English encouraged by the French priests, I.
	    <a href="#Page_091-V1">91</a>,  
			<a href="#Page_098-V1">98</a>-<a href="#Page_107-V1">107</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_109-V1">109</a>, <a href="#Page_113-V1">113</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_114-V1">114</a>, <a href="#Page_121-V1">121</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_122-V1">122</a>, <a href="#Page_235-V1">235</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_236-V1">236</a>, <a href="#Page_238-V1">238</a>,
			<a href="#Page_257-V1">257</a>, <a href="#Page_259-V1">259</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_260-V1">260</a>, <a href="#Page_262-V1">262</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_264-V1">264</a>, II.
			<a href="#Page_419-V2">419</a>-<a href="#Page_421-V2">421</a>; 
	 the war of 1745, I. <a href="#Page_092-V1">92</a>; 
	 form of the oath of allegiance, I. 
	    <a href="#footer_073">92 <i>note</i></a>,  
	    <a href="#Page_265-V1">265</a>; 
	 their condition and numbers from 1748 to 1752, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_093-V1">93</a>, <a href="#Page_094-V1">94</a>; 
	 official papers relating to, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_094-V1">94</a>-<a href="#Page_096-V1">96</a>; 
	 taught to love France, and to call themselves French subjects, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_094-V1">94</a>, <a href="#Page_235-V1">235</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_237-V1">237</a>, <a href="#Page_243-V1">243</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_245-V1">245</a>, <a href="#Page_253-V1">253</a>,
			<a href="#Page_257-V1">257</a>; 
	 treatment received from the English, and mildness of their rule, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_095-V1">95</a>-<a href="#Page_097-V1">97</a>,
			<a href="#Page_235-V1">235</a>, <a href="#Page_236-V1">236</a>,
			<a href="#Page_261-V1">261</a>, II.
			<a href="#Page_418-V2">418</a>, <a href="#Page_419-V2">419</a>; 
	 quotations from Roma, alluding to, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_096-V1">96</a>, <a href="#Page_097-V1">97</a>;
	 their fear of the Indians, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_096-V1">96</a>, <a href="#Page_108-V1">108</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_114-V1">114</a>, <a href="#Page_235-V1">235</a>; 
	 join the Indian war-parties of the French against the English, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_097-V1">97</a>, <a href="#Page_103-V1">103</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_104-V1">104</a>, <a href="#Page_262-V1">262</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_264-V1">264</a>, <a href="#Page_275-V1">275</a>, II. 
			<a href="#Page_419-V2">419</a>-<a href="#Page_421-V2">421</a>; 
	 their neutrality, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_097-V1">97</a>, <a href="#Page_258-V1">258</a>; 
	 their oath of allegiance to be made more binding, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_097-V1">97</a>, <a href="#Page_098-V1">98</a>; 
	 deputies sent to meet Cornwallis at Halifax, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_097-V1">97</a>, <a href="#Page_098-V1">98</a>; 
	 their refusal to take an unqualified oath of allegiance to George II., I. 
	    <a href="#Page_097-V1">97</a>, <a href="#Page_098-V1">98</a>; 
	 promise good behavior and a reasonable compliance, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_098-V1">98</a>; 
	 order of Cornwallis issued to, concerning the oath, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_098-V1">98</a>, <a href="#Page_099-V1">99</a>; 
	 plans of the French to recover their possessions, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_098-V1">98</a>-<a href="#Page_100-V1">100</a>; 
	 their covert war, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_099-V1">99</a>-<a href="#Page_105-V1">105</a>; 
	 advised by Desherbiers and others to refuse the oath of allegiance, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_101-V1">101</a>, <a href="#Page_106-V1">106</a>; 
	 letters from French officials showing 
	    their secret work against the English, I. <a href="#Page_101-V1">101</a>; 
	 encouraged by the French to emigrate to French lands, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_102-V1">102</a>,
			<a href="#Page_108-V1">108</a>-<a href="#Page_110-V1">110</a>; 
	 testimony of Pr&eacute;vost concerning, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_105-V1">105</a>; 
	 cruelly and dishonorably treated by the priest Le Loutre, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_108-V1">108</a>-<a href="#Page_110-V1">110</a>,  
			<a href="#Page_113-V1">113</a>-<a href="#Page_122-V1">122</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_235-V1">235</a>-<a href="#Page_238-V1">238</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_242-V1">242</a>-<a href="#Page_245-V1">245</a>, II. 
			<a href="#Page_420-V2">420</a>, <a href="#Page_421-V2">421</a>; 
	 wretchedness of the emigrants after leaving their English farms, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_109-V1">109</a>, <a href="#Page_110-V1">110</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_119-V1">119</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_120-V1">120</a>-<a href="#Page_122-V1">122</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_235-V1">235</a>-<a href="#Page_238-V1">238</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_243-V1">243</a>-<a href="#Page_245-V1">245</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_265-V1">265</a>, <a href="#Page_266-V1">266</a>; 
	 speech of Cornwallis to the deputies, I. <a href="#Page_110-V1">110</a>,
	    <a href="#Page_111-V1">111</a>, <a href="#Page_112-V1">112</a>; 
	 treatment received from Hopson, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_112-V1">112</a>, <a href="#Page_113-V1">113</a>; 
	 French method of terrifying, by using the Micmacs, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_113-V1">113</a>, <a href="#Page_114-V1">114</a>; 
	 occupation of Beaubassin by the English,  I. 
	    <a href="#Page_115-V1">115</a>-<a href="#Page_120-V1">120</a>; 
	 disaffection among, I. <a href="#Page_116-V1">116</a>; 
	 forcibly removed by the French from Beaubassin, 
	    and obliged to live on French ground, I. <a href="#Page_116-V1">116</a>;  
	 the murder of Captain Howe, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_118-V1">118</a>, <a href="#Page_119-V1">119</a>; 
	 a French fort to be built on Beaus&eacute;jour, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_119-V1">119</a>, <a href="#Page_120-V1">120</a>; 
	 ordered to swear allegiance to France, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_120-V1">120</a>, <a href="#Page_121-V1">121</a>; 
	 contest between French and English, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_120-V1">120</a>-<a href="#Page_122-V1">122</a>; 
	 proclamation of Lawrence concerning, I. <a href="#Page_121-V1">121</a>; 
	 absurd demands of Le Loutre, I. <a href="#Page_121-V1">121</a>; 
	 a portion of the inhabitants cross the French lines, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_121-V1">121</a>; 

<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_449-V2" id="Page_449-V2">449<br />V2</a></span>

   their suffering inside the French lines, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_121-V1">121</a>, <a href="#Page_122-V1">122</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_244-V1">244</a>, <a href="#Page_245-V1">245</a>; 
	 plans of Shirley to send away from Acadia all French settlers, 
	    <a href="#Page_234-V1">234</a>, <a href="#Page_257-V1">257</a>; 
	 a portion of the people transported to French settlements, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_235-V1">235</a>, <a href="#footer_240">235 <i>note</i></a>;  
	 fears of the English, I.
	    <a href="#Page_239-V1">239</a>-<a href="#Page_241-V1">241</a>;
	 supplies sent to the emigrants, I. <a href="#Page_242-V1">242</a>;
	 their supplies stolen by the officials, I. <a href="#Page_242-V1">242</a>;
	 plans of Le Loutre for the emigrants, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_243-V1">243</a>,  <a href="#Page_244-V1">244</a>;
	 false statements of Le Loutre, I.  <a href="#Page_244-V1">244</a>;
	 prevented by Le Loutre from appealing to Duquesne, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_244-V1">244</a>; 
	 harsh treatment received from Governor Duquesne, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_244-V1">244</a>, <a href="#Page_245-V1">245</a>; 
	 desire of, to return to their English allegiance, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_244-V1">244</a>, <a href="#Page_245-V1">245</a>;  
	 an annoyance to the English, I. <a href="#Page_245-V1">245</a>; 
	 dealt with by the French with heartlessness, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_245-V1">245</a>; 
	 their terror upon the arrival of the English troops, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_247-V1">247</a>; 
	 disloyalty of, I. <a href="#Page_248-V1">248</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_257-V1">257</a>, <a href="#Page_258-V1">258</a>; 
	 join the French garrison, I. <a href="#Page_248-V1">248</a>; 
	 the siege of Beaus&eacute;jour by the English, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_248-V1">248</a>-<a href="#Page_253-V1">253</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_260-V1">260</a>; 
	 assisted by Le Loutre at Beaus&eacute;jour, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_250-V1">250</a>; 
	 capitulation of Beaus&eacute;jour, I. <a href="#Page_251-V1">251</a>; 
	 condition leading to the expulsion of, from Acadia, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_253-V1">253</a>-<a href="#Page_266-V1">266</a>; 
	 ordered by Monckton to meet him at Beaus&eacute;jour, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_254-V1">254</a>; 
	 sentence pronounced upon, by Monckton, 
	    and prisoners taken at Fort Cumberland, I. <a href="#Page_254-V1">254</a>, 
			   <a href="#Page_255-V1">255</a>, <a href="#Page_266-V1">266</a>; 
	 explanation of the imprisonment of, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_255-V1">255</a>-<a href="#Page_266-V1">266</a>; 
	 prevented by the priests from joining the English, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_255-V1">255</a>;  
	 again ordered to take the oath of allegiance, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_255-V1">255</a>;   
	 demands made by the priests with regard to their return to their home, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_255-V1">255</a>, <a href="#Page_256-V1">256</a>; 
	 refuse to take the oath of allegiance to England, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_256-V1">256</a>; 
	 instruction sent to Governor Lawrence with regard to, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_257-V1">257</a>;  
	 to be compelled to take the oath of allegiance, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_257-V1">257</a>; 
	 desire of Shirley to expel from the county, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_257-V1">257</a>; 
	 their country commonly considered an Arcadia, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_258-V1">258</a>; 
	 depicted by Abb&eacute; Raynal, I. <a href="#Page_258-V1">258</a>;  
	 their means and mode of living, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_258-V1">258</a>-<a href="#Page_260-V1">260</a>; 
	 their population, I. <a href="#Page_259-V1">259</a>; 
	 their houses, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_259-V1">259</a>, <a href="#Page_268-V1">268</a>; 
	 their food, I. <a href="#Page_259-V1">259</a>; 
	 their furniture, I. <a href="#Page_259-V1">259</a>;
	 their animals, I. <a href="#Page_259-V1">259</a>;
	 their clothing, I. <a href="#Page_259-V1">259</a>;
	 marriages among, I. <a href="#Page_259-V1">259</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_260-V1">260</a>; 
	 their village life, I. <a href="#Page_259-V1">259</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_260-V1">260</a>; 
	 their priests, religion, and government, I. <a href="#Page_259-V1">259</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_260-V1">260</a>;  
	 only a few take the required oath, I. <a href="#Page_260-V1">260</a>; 
	 the priests assist the French Bishop and Governor of Canada, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_260-V1">260</a>; 
	 loyal to Louis XV., and untrue to George II., 
	    <a href="#Page_260-V1">260</a>, <a href="#Page_264-V1">264</a>; 
	 described by Dier&eacute;ville, I. 
	    <a href="#footer_270">260 <i>note</i></a>; 
	 the oath of allegiance administered by Governor Lawrence, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_260-V1">260</a>;  
	 emigration of a small number of, to Cape Breton, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_260-V1">260</a>;  
	 they return, and take the oath of allegiance, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_260-V1">260</a>;  
	 kind treatment vouchsafed to the loyal inhabitants, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_260-V1">260</a>;  
	 memorial bought by, to Captain Murray, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_260-V1">260</a>-<a href="#Page_263-V1">263</a>; 
	 contents of their memorial sent to Governor Lawrence, I.
	    <a href="#Page_260-V1">260</a>-<a href="#Page_263-V1">263</a>; 
	 their insolence, I. <a href="#Page_261-V1">261</a>;  
	 ordered to take the oath of allegiance to England, 
	    or to leave the country, I. 
			   <a href="#Page_263-V1">263</a>, <a href="#Page_264-V1">264</a>; 
	 again refuse the oath of allegiance, I. <a href="#Page_264-V1">264</a>; 
	 declare their preference to lose their lands, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_264-V1">264</a>;
	 plans of removal discussed by the English, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_265-V1">265</a>, <a href="#Page_266-V1">266</a>; 
	 resolution to remove the people from their country, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_265-V1">265</a>, <a href="#Page_266-V1">266</a>;  
	 instructions quoted with regard to the removal of, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_266-V1">266</a>, <a href="#Page_267-V1">267</a>; 
	 instrumentality of the priests in the expulsion of, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_265-V1">265</a>, <a href="#Page_266-V1">266</a>,
			<a href="#footer_275">266 <i>note</i></a>;
	 removal of, by the English, from their homes, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_266-V1">266</a>-<a href="#Page_284-V1">284</a>; 
	 summoned to meet Winslow to hear the orders of George II., I. 
	    <a href="#Page_271-V1">271</a>-<a href="#Page_274-V1">274</a>; 
	 meet Winslow in the church at Grand Pr&eacute;, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_272-V1">272</a>-<a href="#Page_274-V1">274</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_276-V1">276</a>; 
	 declared prisoners of the King, I. <a href="#Page_274-V1">274</a>; 
	 unite with the Indians to attack the English, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_275-V1">275</a>; 
	 number in charge of Winslow, I. <a href="#Page_276-V1">276</a>; 
	 arrival of the transports, I. <a href="#Page_276-V1">276</a>; 
	 detention of, on the vessels, I. <a href="#Page_276-V1">276</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_277-V1">277</a>, <a href="#footer_278">277 <i>note</i></a>; 
	 supplies for the prisoners delayed, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_278-V1">278</a>, <a href="#Page_279-V1">279</a>; 
	 cases of the separation of families, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_279-V1">279</a>, <a href="#Page_280-V1">280</a>; 
	 removal of, described, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_279-V1">279</a>-<a href="#Page_282-V1">282</a>; 
	 effort of the prisoners to escape, I. <a href="#Page_280-V1">280</a>;
	 number of, embarked for the colonies, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_280-V1">280</a>-<a href="#Page_282-V1">282</a>; 
	 guerilla warfare against the English, I. <a href="#Page_282-V1">282</a>; 
	 distribution of the exiles, I. <a href="#Page_282-V1">282</a>; 
	 treatment received in the colonies, I. <a href="#Page_282-V1">282</a>; 
	 heartless outrages practised upon, in Canada, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_282-V1">282</a>, <a href="#Page_283-V1">283</a>, II. 
			<a href="#Page_026-V2">26</a>; 
	 exiles on one of the vessels escape to the St. John, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_282-V1">282</a>; 
	 sent to France, I. <a href="#Page_283-V1">283</a>; 
	 sent to England, I. <a href="#Page_283-V1">283</a>; 
	 progenitors of the present race, I. <a href="#Page_283-V1">283</a>; 
	 death of, I. <a href="#Page_283-V1">283</a>;  
	 arrival of the exiles in Louisiana, I. <a href="#Page_283-V1">283</a>; 
	 at the siege of Louisbourg, II. <a href="#Page_062-V2">62</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_066-V2">66</a>; 
	 false dealing of, Boish&eacute;bert, II. <a href="#Page_170-V2">170</a>;
	 their hostility to the English, II. <a href="#Page_181-V2">181</a>.<br />
Achilles, I. <a href="#Page_353-V1">353</a>, II. 
   <a href="#Page_184-V2">184</a>.<br />
Acts of Parliament.  See <a href="#parliament">Parliament</a>.<br />
Adams, a wagoner, carries a letter of warning to Fort Lyman, I. 
   <a href="#Page_296-V1">296</a>; 
   shot by the Indians, I. <a href="#Page_299-V1">299</a>.<br />

<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_450-V2" id="Page_450-V2">450<br />V2</a></span>

Adams, Captain, I. <a href="#Page_249-V1">249</a>, 
   <a href="#Page_270-V1">270</a>, <a href="#Page_272-V1">272</a>;  
   removal of the Acadians, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_267-V1">267</a>, <a href="#Page_270-V1">270</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_276-V1">276</a>, <a href="#Page_277-V1">277</a>, 
	    <a href="#footer_283">280 <i>note</i></a>.<br />
Adams, Parson, I. <a href="#Page_006-V1">6</a>.<br />
Adirondacks, I. <a href="#Page_453-V1">453</a>.<br />
Admiralty, the position held by Anson, I. <a href="#Page_179-V1">179</a>.<br />
Admiralty, Lords of the, 
   citation from letters to, I. <a href="#Page_181-V1">181</a>.<br />
Africa, II. <a href="#Page_044-V2">44</a>, <a href="#Page_049-V2">49</a>;
   the French driven from Guinea, II. <a href="#Page_047-V2">47</a>;
	 the power of England over, II. <a href="#Page_400-V2">400</a>;
	 France cedes Senegal, II. <a href="#Page_406-V2">406</a>.<br />
Aigues Mortes, dungeons of, I. <a href="#Page_021-V1">21</a>.<br />
Aix-la-Chapelle, the treaty of, I. <a href="#Page_009-V1">9</a>, 
   <a href="#Page_019-V1">19</a>, <a href="#Page_036-V1">36</a>, 
	 <a href="#Page_043-V1">43</a>, <a href="#Page_094-V1">94</a>, 
	 <a href="#Page_359-V1">359</a>, <a href="#Page_360-V1">360</a>, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_053-V2">53</a>, <a href="#Page_406-V2">406</a>; 
   questions of boundary to be settled by commissioners, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_122-V1">122</a>-<a href="#Page_128-V1">128</a>.<br />
Alais, I. <a href="#Page_455-V1">455</a>.<br />
Albany, I. <a href="#Page_028-V1">28</a>,
   <a href="#Page_065-V1">65</a>, <a href="#Page_171-V1">171</a>,
   <a href="#Page_233-V1">233</a>, <a href="#Page_289-V1">289</a>,
   <a href="#Page_290-V1">290</a>, <a href="#Page_298-V1">298</a>,
   <a href="#Page_310-V1">310</a>, <a href="#Page_326-V1">326</a>,
   <a href="#Page_403-V1">403</a>, <a href="#Page_421-V1">421</a>, 
   <a href="#Page_435-V1">435</a>, <a href="#Page_452-V1">452</a>, II. 
   <a href="#Page_091-V2">91</a>, <a href="#Page_093-V2">93</a>; 
   conservatism of, in the eighteenth century, I. <a href="#Page_033-V1">33</a>;
	 meeting of Indians and commissioners, I. <a href="#Page_061-V1">61</a>;
	 news sent to, of the death of Lord Howe, II. <a href="#Page_098-V2">98</a>; 
	 advance of Bradstreet, II. <a href="#Page_129-V2">129</a>; 
	 congress of Indians and English held, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_172-V1">172</a>-<a href="#Page_176-V1">176</a>; 
	 plan of Franklin for colonial union, I. <a href="#Page_175-V1">175</a>; 
	 the Dutch at, I. <a href="#Page_193-V1">193</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_320-V1">320</a>; 
	 decisions of the council, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_194-V1">194</a>, <a href="#Page_195-V1">195</a>; 
	 described by Mrs. Grant, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_319-V1">319</a>, <a href="#Page_320-V1">320</a>; 
	 the base of military operations, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_319-V1">319</a>, <a href="#Page_320-V1">320</a>;  
	 headquarters of Shirley, I. <a href="#Page_384-V1">384</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_393-V1">393</a>; 
	 the Indians mislead by the traders, I. <a href="#Page_390-V1">390</a>;  
	 plans of Vaudreuil, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_393-V1">393</a>, <a href="#Page_394-V1">394</a>; 
	 return of Bradstreet, I.  
	    <a href="#Page_395-V1">395</a>, <a href="#Page_396-V1">396</a>; 
	 arrival of Webb and Abercromby, I. <a href="#Page_399-V1">399</a>;
	 rumors of danger from the enemy, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_415-V1">415</a>, <a href="#Page_475-V1">475</a>, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_003-V2">3</a>.<br />
Albemarle, Lord, Governor of Virginia, I. 
   <a href="#footer_092">105 <i>note</i></a>, <a href="#Page_137-V1">137</a>; 
   English ambassador at Versailles, I. <a href="#Page_180-V1">180</a>;
	 his death, I. <a href="#Page_184-V1">184</a>.<br />
Albemarle, Earl of, expedition of, II. <a href="#Page_401-V2">401</a>, 
   <a href="#Page_402-V2">402</a>.<br />
"Alcide," the, I. <a href="#Page_185-V1">185</a>.<br />
Alembert, D', I. <a href="#Page_016-V1">16</a>.<br />
Alequippa, Queen, I. <a href="#Page_151-V1">151</a>; 
   flies from her possessions, I. <a href="#Page_045-V1">45</a>.<br />
Alexander, II. <a href="#Page_408-V2">408</a>.<br />
Alexandria, I. <a href="#Page_142-V1">142</a>,
   <a href="#Page_162-V1">162</a>, <a href="#Page_247-V1">247</a>;
   camp of Braddock at, I. <a href="#Page_191-V1">191</a>;
	 council held at the camp, I. <a href="#footer_199">196 <i>note</i></a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_234-V1">234</a>, <a href="#Page_241-V1">241</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_286-V1">286</a>.<br />
Algonquins, or Algonkins, the, I. <a href="#Page_074-V1">74</a>;
   at Fort Duquesne, I. <a href="#Page_154-V1">154</a>;
	 assist the Canadian militia, I. <a href="#Page_372-V1">372</a>;
	 their means of divination, I. <a href="#footer_463">438 <i>note</i></a>; 
	 called to a council by Montcalm, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_485-V1">485</a>-<a href="#Page_489-V1">489</a>.<br />
Alleghany Mountains, the, I. <a href="#Page_020-V1">20</a>, 
   <a href="#Page_040-V1">40</a>, <a href="#Page_059-V1">59</a>, 
	 <a href="#Page_124-V1">124</a>, <a href="#Page_125-V1">125</a>, 
	 <a href="#Page_127-V1">127</a>, <a href="#Page_145-V1">145</a>, 
	 <a href="#Page_148-V1">148</a>, <a href="#Page_161-V1">161</a>, 
	 <a href="#Page_372-V1">372</a>, II. <a href="#Page_130-V2">130</a>, 
	 <a href="#Page_133-V2">133</a>, <a href="#Page_141-V2">141</a>; 
   crossed by the English traders, I. <a href="#Page_042-V1">42</a>; 
	 road made through, by Braddock's forces, I. <a href="#Page_205-V1">205</a>,
	    II. <a href="#Page_138-V2">138</a>, <a href="#Page_141-V2">141</a>; 
	 condition of the settlers, I. <a href="#Page_335-V1">335</a>.<br />
Alleghany River, the, I. <a href="#Page_039-V1">39</a>, 
   <a href="#Page_128-V1">128</a>, <a href="#Page_133-V1">133</a>, 
	 <a href="#Page_136-V1">136</a>, <a href="#Page_143-V1">143</a>, 
	 <a href="#Page_207-V1">207</a>, <a href="#Page_222-V1">222</a>, 
	 <a href="#Page_233-V1">233</a>, <a href="#Page_423-V1">423</a>, 
	 <a href="#Page_424-V1">424</a>, II.
	 <a href="#Page_149-V2">149</a>, <a href="#Page_152-V2">152</a>,
	 <a href="#Page_154-V2">154</a>, <a href="#Page_159-V2">159</a>; 
   work of C&eacute;loron de Bienville, I. <a href="#Page_043-V1">43</a>;
	 settlement of Shenango, I. <a href="#Page_046-V1">46</a>;
	 a fort planned, I. <a href="#Page_130-V1">130</a>.<br />
Allen, Ensign, to train the Provincials in Braddock's expedition, I. 
   <a href="#Page_200-V1">200</a>, <a href="#Page_201-V1">201</a>.<br /> 
Allen, Chief Justice, letter from Bouquet quoted, II. 
   <a href="#Page_161-V2">161</a>, 
	 <a href="#footer_668">161 <i>note</i></a>.<br /> 
Alsopp, George, II. <a href="#Page_439-V2">439</a>.<br />
Alva, II. <a href="#Page_404-V2">404</a>.<br />
Amalek, II. <a href="#Page_089-V2">89</a>.<br />
<a name="america" id="america"></a>
America, I. <a href="#Page_202-V1">202</a>, 
   <a href="#footer_226">219 <i>note</i></a>, 
	 <a href="#footer_237">230 <i>note</i></a>, 
	 <a href="#Page_251-V1">251</a>, <a href="#Page_295-V1">295</a>, 
	 <a href="#Page_360-V1">360</a>, <a href="#Page_369-V1">369</a>, 
	 <a href="#Page_383-V1">383</a>, II.
	 <a href="#Page_045-V2">45</a>, <a href="#Page_049-V2">49</a>,
	 <a href="#Page_191-V2">191</a>, <a href="#Page_271-V2">271</a>,
	 <a href="#Page_391-V2">391</a>, <a href="#Page_401-V2">401</a>;  
   conditions during, and results following, the Seven Years War in Europe, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_001-V1">1</a>, <a href="#Page_020-V1">20</a>; 
	 complication of political interests, I. <a href="#Page_001-V1">1</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_003-V1">3</a>, <a href="#Page_004-V1">4</a>; 
	 the War of Independence, I. <a href="#Page_001-V1">1</a>; 
	 the British and French possessions compared, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_001-V1">1</a>-<a href="#Page_003-V1">3</a>; 
	 British soldiers in, I. <a href="#Page_009-V1">9</a>; 
	 number of French and English inhabitants in the middle 
	    of the eighteenth century, I. <a href="#Page_020-V1">20</a>;  
	 towns and colonies compared and contrasted, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_025-V1">25</a>-<a href="#Page_036-V1">36</a>; 
	 plan for the increase of French settlements, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_037-V1">37</a>; 
	 questions of boundaries, I. <a href="#Page_037-V1">37</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_043-V1">43</a>, <a href="#Page_076-V1">76</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_079-V1">79</a>, <a href="#Page_086-V1">86</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_122-V1">122</a>-<a href="#Page_128-V1">128</a>;
	 commissioners appointed to decide upon French and English possessions in, I.
	    <a href="#Page_123-V1">123</a>-<a href="#Page_127-V1">127</a>; 
	 the balance of power, I. <a href="#Page_126-V1">126</a>;
	 conditions in the English colonies, I.  
	    <a href="#Page_160-V1">160</a>-<a href="#Page_171-V1">171</a>; 
	 results of the meeting of the colonial Assemblies with their governors, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_163-V1">163</a>-<a href="#Page_169-V1">169</a>;  
	 France and England compared, I. <a href="#Page_181-V1">181</a>;
	 the policy of England, I. <a href="#Page_181-V1">181</a>;
	 regiments ordered to, from England, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_181-V1">181</a>, <a href="#Page_182-V1">182</a>; 
	 expedition ordered to, from France, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_182-V1">182</a>, <a href="#Page_183-V1">183</a>;
	 council of American governors held with Braddock, I.
	    <a href="#Page_191-V1">191</a>-<a href="#Page_195-V1">195</a>; 
	 the democracy of Pennsylvania, I. <a href="#Page_338-V1">338</a>; 
	 holds a secondary place in the interests of France, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_355-V1">355</a>; 
	 conflict of the eighteenth century, I. <a href="#Page_355-V1">355</a>;  
	 French power in, to be sustained, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_356-V1">356</a>, <a href="#Page_414-V1">414</a>; 
	 money granted by Parliament to the colonies, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_382-V1">382</a>, <a href="#footer_388">382 <i>note</i></a>; 
	 usefulness of Indian warriors, I. <a href="#Page_484-V1">484</a>; 
	 the power of Pitt, II.  
	    <a href="#Page_043-V2">43</a>, <a href="#Page_044-V2">44</a>; 
	 interest felt for, by Pitt, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_047-V2">47</a>-<a href="#Page_049-V2">49</a>;  
	 prophecy of John Mellen, II. <a href="#Page_378-V2">378</a>; 

<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_451-V2" id="Page_451-V2">451<br />V2</a></span>

   and of the French and English War, II., 
	    <a href="#Page_378-V2">378</a>-<a href="#Page_382-V2">382</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_386-V2">386</a>; 
	 predictions concerning the future of the British colonies, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_403-V2">403</a>, <a href="#Page_404-V2">404</a>.<br /> 
American Antiquarian Society, the, I. <a href="#Page_048-V1">48</a>;
   plate buried by the French in possession of, I. <a href="#Page_048-V1">48</a>;
	 Transactions of, I. <a href="#Page_048-V1">48</a>.<br /> 
Amherst, Lieutenant-Colonel, recaptures St. John's, II. 
   <a href="#Page_402-V2">402</a>.<br /> 
Amherst, Jeffrey, II. <a href="#footer_24Note">194 <i>note</i></a>, 
   <a href="#Page_231-V2">231</a>, <a href="#Page_339-V2">339</a>;   
   recalled from the German war, II. <a href="#Page_048-V2">48</a>; 
	 his character, II. <a href="#Page_048-V2">48</a>; 
	 promoted to be major-general, II. <a href="#Page_048-V2">48</a>; 
	 takes command of the expedition against Louisbourg, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_048-V2">48</a>, <a href="#Page_049-V2">49</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_051-V2">51</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_056-V2">56</a>-<a href="#Page_081-V2">81</a>; 
	 plans of attack, II.
	    <a href="#Page_057-V2">57</a>, <a href="#Page_058-V2">58</a>;
	 lands his troops at Freshwater Cove, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_057-V2">57</a>-<a href="#Page_060-V2">60</a>;
	 his camp, II. <a href="#Page_061-V2">61</a>; 
	 roads made through marshes, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_061-V2">61</a>, <a href="#Page_062-V2">62</a>;  
	 courtesies between the commanders, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_064-V2">64</a>, <a href="#Page_065-V2">65</a>; 
	 his humanity, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_070-V2">70</a>, <a href="#footer_587">70 <i>note</i></a>, 
			<a href="#Page_374-V2">374</a>;  
	 terms of capitulation extended to Louisbourg, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_071-V2">71</a>, <a href="#Page_072-V2">72</a>;
	 capitulation of Louisbourg, II. <a href="#Page_074-V2">74</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_075-V2">75</a>, <a href="#footer_591">75 <i>note</i></a>; 
	 prevented from uniting with Abercromby, II. <a href="#Page_075-V2">75</a>;
	 increases his conquests, II. <a href="#Page_078-V2">78</a>;
	 action after the reduction of Louisbourg, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_079-V2">79</a>, <a href="#Page_080-V2">80</a>; 
	 orders issued to Wolfe, II. <a href="#Page_080-V2">80</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_081-V2">81</a>; 
	 evidences concerning the siege of Louisbourg, II. 
	    <a href="#footer_19Note">81 <i>note</i></a>; 
	 joins Abercromby at Lake George, II. <a href="#Page_129-V2">129</a>; 
	 letter sent to, from General Forbes, II. <a href="#Page_161-V2">161</a>; 
	 his army moves against Ticonderoga, II. <a href="#Page_197-V2">197</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_210-V2">210</a>, <a href="#Page_222-V2">222</a>; 
	 his ability to render aid to Wolfe, II.
	    <a href="#Page_210-V2">210</a>, <a href="#Page_212-V2">212</a>; 
	 commander-in-chief of the troops in America, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_235-V2">235</a>; 
	 plans of Pitt for his movements, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_235-V2">235</a>, <a href="#Page_236-V2">236</a>; 
	 deputes Prideaux to take charge of the expedition against Niagara, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_235-V2">235</a>, <a href="#Page_236-V2">236</a>;  
	 the capture of Ticonderoga, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_235-V2">235</a>-<a href="#Page_241-V2">241</a>; 
	 on Lake George, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_235-V2">235</a>, <a href="#Page_236-V2">236</a>;  
	 forts built by, II. <a href="#Page_237-V2">237</a>; 
	 Bourlamaque retires before, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_238-V2">238</a>, <a href="#Page_239-V2">239</a>;  
	 Ticonderoga blown up by the French, II. <a href="#Page_239-V2">239</a>;  
	 advances upon Crown Point, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_240-V2">240</a>, <a href="#Page_241-V2">241</a>; 
	 his delay in joining Wolfe, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_240-V2">240</a>-<a href="#Page_242-V2">242</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_249-V2">249</a>, <a href="#Page_250-V2">250</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_272-V2">272</a>, <a href="#Page_323-V2">323</a>; 
	 Crown Point rebuilt by, II.
	    <a href="#Page_240-V2">240</a>, <a href="#Page_241-V2">241</a>; 
	 roads built by, across Vermont, II. <a href="#Page_241-V2">241</a>;  
	 his navy, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_241-V2">241</a>, <a href="#Page_242-V2">242</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_251-V2">251</a>, <a href="#Page_252-V2">252</a>; 
	 at Crown Point, II. <a href="#Page_249-V2">249</a>; 
	 tries to pacify the Abenakis, II. <a href="#Page_251-V2">251</a>; 
	 sends Major Rogers to destroy the Abenakis' town, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_251-V2">251</a>, <a href="#Page_253-V2">253</a>; 
	 unsuccessful attempt to reach Isle-aux-Noix, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_251-V2">251</a>, <a href="#Page_252-V2">252</a>;  
	 the result of his campaign, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_252-V2">252</a>, <a href="#Page_253-V2">253</a>;  
	 desired to send supplies to Rogers, II. <a href="#Page_254-V2">254</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_256-V2">256</a>, <a href="#Page_257-V2">257</a>; 
	 Lieutenant Stephan sent to meet Rogers' rangers, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_256-V2">256</a>, <a href="#Page_257-V2">257</a>;  
	 letter from Rogers, II. <a href="#footer_26Note">258 note</a>; 
	 defers his advance upon Montreal, II. <a href="#Page_265-V2">265</a>; 
	 his plans, II. <a href="#Page_361-V2">361</a>;
	 the fall of Canada, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_361-V2">361</a>-<a href="#Page_382-V2">382</a>; 
	 his army embarks for Montreal, II. <a href="#Page_369-V2">369</a>;
	 the "Ottawa" captured, II. <a href="#Page_369-V2">369</a>;
	 attacks Fort L&eacute;vis, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_369-V2">369</a>, <a href="#Page_370-V2">370</a>; 
	 passage of the rapids, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_370-V2">370</a>, <a href="#Page_371-V2">371</a>; 
	 encamps near Montreal, II. <a href="#Page_371-V2">371</a>; 
	 number of his troops, II. <a href="#Page_372-V2">372</a>, 
	    <a href="#footer_851">372 <i>note</i></a>;
	 a council of war held by Vaudreuil, II. <a href="#Page_372-V2">372</a>; 
	 articles of capitulation insisted upon by Amherst, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_372-V2">372</a>-<a href="#Page_374-V2">374</a>; 
	 his detestation of French cruelty, II. <a href="#Page_373-V2">373</a>; 
	 Vaudreuil obliged to surrender Montreal, II. <a href="#Page_376-V2">376</a>; 
	 the news of his victory received in Boston, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_377-V2">377</a>-<a href="#Page_379-V2">379</a>; 
	 sends his brother to recapture St. John's, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_402-V2">402</a>.<br />
Amonoosuc River, the, II. <a href="#Page_256-V2">256</a>,
   <a href="#Page_257-V2">257</a>.<br />
Anastase, I. <a href="#Page_209-V1">209</a>.<br />
Anastase, Father, I. <a href="#Page_209-V1">209</a>.<br />
Anbury, the traveller, II. <a href="#Page_426-V2">426</a>.<br />
Ange, Gardien L', 
   landing of the English before, II. <a href="#Page_217-V2">217</a>; 
   burned by the order of Wolfe, II. <a href="#Page_261-V2">261</a>.<br />
Anglican Church, the, in New York, I. <a href="#Page_032-V1">32</a>.<br />
Anglicans, the, I. <a href="#Page_029-V1">29</a>.<br />
Anglo-Saxon race, the, I. <a href="#Page_025-V1">25</a>.<br />
Annapolis, Acadia, I. <a href="#Page_092-V1">92</a>, 
   <a href="#Page_106-V1">106</a>, <a href="#Page_178-V1">178</a>, 
	 <a href="#Page_241-V1">241</a>, <a href="#Page_279-V1">279</a>;
   garrison at, I. <a href="#Page_092-V1">92</a>, <a href="#Page_093-V1">93</a>;
	 parish of, I. <a href="#Page_094-V1">94</a>; 
	 Acadians encouraged to emigrate from, I. <a href="#Page_108-V1">108</a>,
	    <a href="#Page_109-V1">109</a>;
	 the inhabitants of the valley, I. <a href="#Page_235-V1">235</a>;
	 French feeling in the hearts of the inhabitants, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_237-V1">237</a>;
	 arrival of the English force, I. <a href="#Page_247-V1">247</a>;
	 means of living practised by the Acadians, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_258-V1">258</a>, <a href="#Page_259-V1">259</a>; 
	 number of Acadians sent away in the vessels, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_280-V1">280</a>;
	 isolation of the garrison at, II. <a href="#Page_077-V2">77</a>; 
	 rejoicing at the fall of Louisbourg, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_077-V2">77</a>, <a href="#Page_078-V2">78</a>.<br />
Anne, Fort, II. <a href="#Page_121-V2">121</a>.<br />
Anse de Foulon, II. <a href="#Page_276-V2">276</a>, 
   <a href="#Page_284-V2">284</a>, <a href="#Page_286-V2">286</a>,
	 <a href="#Page_344-V2">344</a>, <a href="#Page_346-V2">346</a>,
	 <a href="#Page_347-V2">347</a>, <a href="#Page_354-V2">354</a>;
   now called Wolfe's Cove, II. <a href="#Page_278-V2">278</a>.<br />
Anson, First Lord of the Admiralty, I. <a href="#Page_179-V1">179</a>, II. 
   <a href="#Page_050-V2">50</a>.<br />
Anthonay, D', lieutenant-colonel, 
   sent to the English concerning the terms of capitulation 
	    for Louisbourg, II. <a href="#Page_071-V2">71</a>; 
	 empowered to accept the capitulation for Louisbourg, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_073-V2">73</a>, <a href="#Page_074-V2">74</a>.<br />
"Apollon," the number of her guns, II. 
   <a href="#footer_579">54 <i>note</i></a>.<br />
Appendix A., II.  
   <a href="#Page_417-V2">417</a>, <a href="#Page_418-V2">418</a>;
   references to, I. <a href="#footer_033">67 <i>note</i></a>, 
	    <a href="#footer_034">68 <i>note</i></a>, 
			<a href="#footer_050">78 <i>note</i></a>.<br />
Appendix B., II. <a href="#Page_418-V2">418</a>-<a href="#Page_421-V2">421</a>; 
   references to, I. <a href="#footer_080">100 <i>note</i></a>,
	    <a href="#footer_088">104 <i>note</i></a>,
			<a href="#footer_126">127 <i>note</i></a>.<br />

<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_452-V2" id="Page_452-V2">452<br />V2</a></span>

Appendix C., II. 
   <a href="#Page_421-V2">421</a>-<a href="#Page_423-V2">423</a>; 
	 references to, I. 
      <a href="#footer_156">158 <i>note</i></a>, 
	    <a href="#footer_160">161 <i>note</i></a>.<br />
Appendix D., II. 
   <a href="#Page_423-V2">423</a>-<a href="#Page_426-V2">426</a>; 
	 references to, I. 
      <a href="#footer_215">208 <i>note</i></a>, 
	    <a href="#footer_224">215 <i>note</i></a>.<br />
Appendix E., II. 
   <a href="#Page_426-V2">426</a>-<a href="#Page_428-V2">428</a>.<br />
Appendix F., II. 
   <a href="#Page_428-V2">428</a>-<a href="#Page_431-V2">431</a>.<br />
Appendix G., II. 
   <a href="#Page_431-V2">431</a>-<a href="#Page_436-V2">436</a>; 
	 references to, II. 
      <a href="#footer_616">93 <i>note</i></a>, 
	    <a href="#footer_638">113 <i>note</i></a>.<br />
Appendix H., II. 
   <a href="#Page_436-V2">436</a>-<a href="#Page_438-V2">438</a>.<br />
Appendix I., II. <a href="#Page_438-V2">438</a>; 
   reference to, II. 
      <a href="#footer_27Note">298 <i>note</i></a>.<br />
Appendix J., II. 
   <a href="#Page_438-V2">438</a>-<a href="#Page_441-V2">441</a>, 
	 <a href="#Page_442-V2">442</a>; 
	 reference to, II. <a href="#footer_28Note">326 <i>note</i></a>.<br />
Appendix K., II. 
   <a href="#Page_442-V2">442</a>-<a href="#Page_444-V2">444</a>; 
	 reference to, II. 
      <a href="#footer_29Note">359 <i>note</i></a>.<br />
Appleton, Nathaniel, his utterance after the fall of Canada, II. 
   <a href="#Page_379-V2">379</a>.<br />
Apthorp, a Boston merchant, I. <a href="#Page_245-V1">245</a>;
   furnishes money for the English troops, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_245-V1">245</a>.<br />
Arbuthnot, William, his attestation, I. 
   <a href="#footer_519">505 <i>note</i></a>.<br />
Arcadia, I. <a href="#Page_258-V1">258</a>.<br />
"Ar&eacute;thuse," the, II. <a href="#Page_063-V2">63</a>; 
   number of her guns, II. <a href="#footer_579">54 <i>note</i></a>; 
	 fires upon the English, II. <a href="#Page_064-V2">64</a>; 
	 withdrawn from her position, II. <a href="#Page_065-V2">65</a>.<br />
Argens, D', letters from Frederick II., II. 
   <a href="#Page_387-V2">387</a>-<a href="#Page_389-V2">389</a>.<br />
Argenson, D', Minister of War, 1743-1747, I. <a href="#Page_015-V1">15</a>, 
   <a href="#Page_355-V1">355</a>, <a href="#Page_367-V1">367</a>, II. 
   <a href="#Page_044-V2">44</a>; 
   writes to Montcalm of his appointment, I. <a href="#Page_360-V1">360</a>; 
	 letter to, from Montcalm, I. <a href="#Page_377-V1">377</a>; 
	 reinforcements sent to Canada, I. <a href="#Page_467-V1">467</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_468-V1">468</a>.<br />
Armstrong, Colonel George, I. <a href="#Page_423-V1">423</a>, II. 
   <a href="#Page_158-V2">158</a>; 
   the attack upon Kittanning, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_423-V1">423</a>-<a href="#Page_427-V1">427</a>; 
	 receives a medal from the Council of Philadelphia, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_426-V1">426</a>.<br />
<a name="army" id="army"></a>
Army, the English, matters pertaining to the troops, I. 
   <a href="#Page_383-V1">383</a>-<a href="#Page_387-V1">387</a>; 
   discipline in, II. <a href="#Page_119-V2">119</a>.  
	 See <a href="#english">English</a>.<br />
Army, the French, description of French troops, I. 
   <a href="#Page_368-V1">368</a>-<a href="#Page_373-V1">373</a>; 
   number of troops in Canada, I. <a href="#Page_368-V1">368</a>, I.
	 <a href="#footer_371">368 <i>note</i></a>.  
	 See <a href="#french">French</a>.<br />
Army, the Provincial, I. 
   <a href="#Page_290-V1">290</a>, <a href="#Page_291-V1">291</a>; 
   manners and morals of, I. <a href="#Page_292-V1">292</a>; 
	 preaching on Sunday to, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_295-V1">295</a>, <a href="#Page_296-V1">296</a>.<br />
Army chaplains, II. 
   <a href="#Page_116-V2">116</a>, <a href="#Page_117-V2">117</a>.<br />
Arnoux, Surgeon, II. <a href="#Page_308-V2">308</a>;
   Montcalm carried to his house, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_308-V2">308</a>, <a href="#Page_441-V2">441</a>.<br />
Arthur's Club, I. <a href="#Page_007-V1">7</a>.<br />
Artillery Cove, I. <a href="#Page_498-V1">498</a>.<br />
Artois, batallion of, I. <a href="#Page_368-V1">368</a>, II. 
   <a href="#Page_054-V2">54</a>, <a href="#Page_073-V2">73</a>; 
   ordered to America, I. <a href="#Page_182-V1">182</a>.<br />
Ashley, Dr., his death, II. <a href="#Page_120-V2">120</a>.<br />
Ashley, John, difficulties among the war committees, I. 
   <a href="#Page_387-V1">387</a>.<br />
Asia, diplomatic and political position of France and England towards, I. 
   <a href="#Page_003-V2">3</a>, <a href="#Page_004-V2">4</a>; 
   the power of England over, II. <a href="#Page_400-V2">400</a>.<br />
Assemblies of the English colonies, the, neglect their own interests, I. 
   <a href="#Page_086-V2">86</a>; 
   instructions from the Lords of Trade, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_172-V1">172</a>, <a href="#Page_173-V1">173</a>; 
	 matters to be laid before, I. <a href="#Page_195-V1">195</a>.<br />
<a name="assemblyMassachusetts" id="assemblyMassachusetts"></a>
Assembly of Massachusetts, the, 
   dealings of Governor Shirley with, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_168-V1">168</a>, <a href="#Page_169-V1">169</a>;  
	 grants money to aid the English in Maine, I. <a href="#Page_169-V1">169</a>; 
	 plans of Shirley laid before, I. <a href="#Page_241-V1">241</a>; 
	 money and supplies voted by, for the expedition against Crown Point, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_285-V1">285</a>, <a href="#Page_286-V1">286</a>.<br />
Assembly of New York, the, I. <a href="#Page_059-V1">59</a>; 
   quotation from Governor Clinton concerning their neglect 
	    in protecting Indian trade, II. 
			   <a href="#Page_061-V2">61</a>, <a href="#Page_062-V2">62</a>; 
	 apathy of, I. <a href="#Page_073-V1">73</a>; 
	 address of, to Lieutenant-Governor Delancey, cited, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_168-V1">168</a>; 
	 results of the meeting of, with the Governor of New York, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_168-V1">168</a>, <a href="#Page_169-V1">169</a>;  
	 its hostility to Johnson, I. <a href="#Page_328-V1">328</a>; 
	 political difficulties, I. <a href="#Page_350-V1">350</a>.<br />
Assembly of Pennsylvania, the, I. <a href="#Page_059-V1">59</a>, 
   <a href="#Page_141-V1">141</a>, <a href="#Page_142-V1">142</a>, 
	 <a href="#Page_426-V1">426</a>; 
   refuses the request of the Indians to build a trading-house on the Ohio, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_060-V1">60</a>;
	 unwilling to aid Dinwiddie, I. <a href="#Page_142-V1">142</a>;
	 letter from the Earl of Holdernesse laid before, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_165-V1">165</a>; 
	 persons composing, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_165-V1">165</a>, <a href="#Page_166-V1">166</a>;  
	 result of the meeting with the Governor, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_165-V1">165</a>-<a href="#Page_168-V1">168</a>; 
	 quarrels with the Governor, I. <a href="#Page_191-V1">191</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_340-V1">340</a>-<a href="#Page_342-V1">342</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_348-V1">348</a>, <a href="#Page_349-V1">349</a>, 
			<a href="#footer_360">350 <i>note</i>, 351 <i>note</i></a>, II. 
			<a href="#Page_131-V2">131</a>, <a href="#Page_135-V2">135</a>; 
	 needs of the people laid before, I. <a href="#Page_336-V1">336</a>; 
	 causes of military paralysis, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_337-V1">337</a>, <a href="#Page_338-V1">338</a>; 
	 question of taxing proprietary lands, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_337-V1">337</a>-<a href="#Page_341-V1">341</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_344-V1">344</a>-<a href="#Page_347-V1">347</a>;  
	 Benjamin Franklin leader in, I. <a href="#Page_338-V1">338</a>; 
	 relations of, with the people, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_339-V1">339</a>-<a href="#Page_350-V1">350</a>; 
	 relations of, with Governor Morris, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_339-V1">339</a>-<a href="#Page_350-V1">350</a>;  
	 contentions with the Quakers and the Governor, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_340-V1">340</a>, <a href="#Page_341-V1">341</a>; 
	 desires to issue bills of credit, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_344-V1">344</a>-<a href="#Page_346-V1">346</a>; 
	 the paper called a "Representation" sent to the House, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_346-V1">346</a>; 
	 anger of the Quakers, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_346-V1">346</a>, <a href="#Page_347-V1">347</a>; 
	 deputations from the people and from friendly Indians seeking aid, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_347-V1">347</a>; 
	 growing unpopularity of, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_347-V1">347</a>, <a href="#Page_348-V1">348</a>;
	 a militia law passed, I. <a href="#Page_348-V1">348</a>;
	 the proprietaries of Pennsylvania offer to raise money for defence, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_349-V1">349</a>; 
	 difficulties in quartering the troops, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_439-V1">439</a>, <a href="#Page_440-V1">440</a>.<br />
<a name="assemblyVirginia" id="assemblyVirginia"></a>
Assembly of Virginia, I. <a href="#Page_137-V1">137</a>;
   efforts of Dinwiddie to repel the French in the West, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_137-V1">137</a>-<a href="#Page_140-V1">140</a>; 
	 aid voted to Dinwiddie, i, <a href="#Page_139-V1">139</a>,
	    <a href="#Page_140-V1">140</a>, <a href="#Page_233-V1">233</a>;
	 slowness of movement of, I. <a href="#Page_144-V1">144</a>;

<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_453-V2" id="Page_453-V2">453<br />V2</a></span>

   speech of Dinwiddie to, I. <a href="#Page_163-V1">163</a>,
	    <a href="#Page_164-V1">164</a>, <a href="#Page_165-V1">165</a>; 
	 result of the meeting with Dinwiddie, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_165-V1">165</a>, <a href="#Page_233-V1">233</a>; 
	 the distress of the people, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_332-V1">332</a>, <a href="#Page_333-V1">333</a>; 
	 the needs of Washington, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_332-V1">332</a>, <a href="#Page_333-V1">333</a>; 
	 needs of the people laid before, I. <a href="#Page_336-V1">336</a>.<br />
Atlantic Ocean, the, I. <a href="#Page_004-V1">4</a>, 
   <a href="#Page_087-V1">87</a>,  <a href="#Page_123-V1">123</a>,
	 <a href="#Page_205-V1">205</a>, <a href="#Page_469-V1">469</a>, II. 
   <a href="#Page_176-V2">176</a>, <a href="#Page_412-V2">412</a>;
   the United States, II. <a href="#Page_412-V2">413</a>;
	 English possessions bordering on, I. <a href="#Page_020-V1">20</a>.<br />
Attiqu&eacute;, village of, I. <a href="#Page_045-V1">45</a>; 
   French name of Kittanning, I. <a href="#Page_426-V1">426</a>.  
	 See <a href="#kittanning">Kittanning</a>.<br />
Aubry, II. <a href="#Page_244-V2">244</a>;
   the engagement at Niagara, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_244-V2">244</a>-<a href="#Page_249-V2">249</a>; 
	 taken prisoner, II. <a href="#Page_248-V2">248</a>.<br />
Augsburg, II. <a href="#Page_394-V2">394</a>.<br />
Augusta, Fort, II. <a href="#Page_147-V2">147</a>.<br />
"Auguste," fate of the, II. <a href="#Page_384-V2">384</a>, 
   <a href="#Page_385-V2">385</a>.<br /> 
Augustus the Strong, I. <a href="#Page_010-V1">10</a>.<br />
Aulac, inhabitants removed from, I. <a href="#Page_255-V1">255</a>; 
   the declaration of Monckton, I. <a href="#Page_254-V1">254</a>.<br />
Austria, effects of the French alliance, I. <a href="#Page_002-V1">2</a>; 
   succession of Maria Theresa, I. <a href="#Page_018-V1">18</a>; 
	 political alliances sought, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_353-V1">353</a>, <a href="#Page_354-V1">354</a>; 
	 a Catholic country, I. <a href="#Page_355-V1">355</a>; 
	 troops sent against, I. <a href="#Page_363-V1">363</a>; 
	 position of affairs in Europe, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_038-V2">38</a>, <a href="#Page_039-V2">39</a>;
	 policy of George III., II. <a href="#Page_393-V2">393</a>; 
	 hostile to Prussia, II. <a href="#Page_399-V2">399</a>; 
	 the treaty of Hubertsburg, II. <a href="#Page_407-V2">407</a>.<br />
Austria, House of, its rule, I. <a href="#Page_016-V1">16</a>, 
   <a href="#Page_017-V1">17</a>; 
   enmity of France towards, I. <a href="#Page_019-V1">19</a>.<br />
Austrian Succession, the war of, I. <a href="#Page_019-V1">19</a>.<br />
Austrians, the, II. <a href="#Page_040-V2">40</a>; 
   the battle of Prague, II. <a href="#Page_039-V2">39</a>;
   routed at Leuthen, II. <a href="#Page_046-V2">46</a>; 
	 fly before Frederic, II. <a href="#Page_386-V2">386</a>.<br />
Auxerrois, I. <a href="#Page_359-V1">359</a>.<br />
Avery, Ensign, 
   the expedition against the Abenakis, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_255-V2">255</a>-<a href="#Page_257-V2">257</a>.<br />
Avon River, the former name of, I. <a href="#Page_268-V1">268</a>.<br />
Awe River, the, II. <a href="#Page_433-V2">433</a>.<br />
</p>
<p><br /></p>
<h3>B.</h3>
<p>	
Babiole, I. <a href="#Page_354-V1">354</a>.<br />
Baby, a Canadian officer, I. <a href="#footer_333">330 <i>note</i></a>.<br />
Babylon, II. <a href="#Page_089-V2">89</a>,
   <a href="#Page_378-V2">378</a>, <a href="#Page_384-V2">384</a>.<br />
Bagley, Colonel Jonathan, II. <a href="#Page_076-V2">76</a>,
   <a href="#Page_077-V2">77</a>, <a href="#Page_115-V2">115</a>, 
	 <a href="#Page_117-V2">117</a>; 
   commands at Fort William Henry, I. <a href="#Page_388-V1">388</a>; 
	 preparations for attacking Ticonderoga, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_388-V1">388</a>, <a href="#Page_389-V1">389</a>; 
	 extracts from his letters, I. <a href="#Page_389-V1">389</a>.<br />
Bahama Islands, the, I. <a href="#Page_421-V1">421</a>.<br />
Baker, a soldier, I. <a href="#Page_424-V1">424</a>.<br />
Bald Mountain, I. <a href="#Page_477-V1">477</a>.<br />
Ball, a dog, II. <a href="#Page_189-V2">189</a>.<br />
Ballads, II. <a href="#footer_25Note">233 <i>note</i></a>.<br />
Barachois, II. <a href="#Page_063-V2">63</a>, <a href="#Page_067-V2">67</a>; 
   approach of the English, II. <a href="#Page_064-V2">64</a>.<br />
Barbadoes, Island of, II. <a href="#Page_190-V2">190</a>.<br />
Barnsley, Thomas, II. <a href="#footer_644">124 <i>note</i></a>.<br />
Barr&eacute;, II. <a href="#Page_046-V2">46</a>, 
   <a href="#Page_268-V2">268</a>.<br />
Barrington, Viscount, II. <a href="#Page_398-V2">398</a>, 
   <a href="#Page_432-V2">432</a>; 
   replaces Chancellor Legge, II. <a href="#Page_393-V2">393</a>.<br />
Bassignac, De, 
   curious incident in the attack on Montcalm, at Ticonderoga, II. 
      <a href="#Page_107-V2">107</a>.<br />
Bastille, the, I. <a href="#Page_015-V1">15</a>, II. 
   <a href="#Page_385-V2">385</a>.<br />
Bath, Lady, I. <a href="#Page_189-V1">189</a>.<br />
Bath, Lord, II. <a href="#footer_876">404 <i>note</i></a>.<br />
Bath, England, I. <a href="#Page_007-V1">7</a>, <a href="#Page_188-V1">188</a>, 
   <a href="#Page_311-V1">311</a>, II. <a href="#Page_190-V2">190</a>.<br />
Batiscan, I. <a href="#Page_371-V1">371</a>, II. 
   <a href="#Page_332-V2">332</a>.<br />
Bavaria, the Elector of, I. <a href="#Page_019-V1">19</a>.<br />
B&eacute;arn, the battalion of, I. <a href="#Page_374-V1">374</a>, II. 
   <a href="#Page_104-V2">104</a>, <a href="#Page_109-V2">109</a>, 
	 <a href="#Page_230-V2">230</a>; 
   ordered to America, I. <a href="#Page_182-V1">182</a>; 
	 uniform of the battalion of, I. <a href="#footer_372">368 <i>note</i></a>; 
	 encamped before Niagara, I. <a href="#Page_376-V1">376</a>; 
	 capture of Oswego, I. <a href="#Page_408-V1">408</a>; 
	 preparations to attack Fort William Henry, I. <a href="#Page_477-V1">477</a>; 
	 advance of Montcalm upon Fort William Henry, I. <a href="#Page_491-V1">491</a>; 
	 mutiny at Montreal, II. <a href="#Page_010-V2">10</a>; 
	 attack upon Quebec, II. <a href="#Page_292-V2">292</a>.<br />
Beaubassin, Madame de, suppers given by, I.
   <a href="#Page_458-V1">458</a>.<br />
Beaubassin, I. <a href="#Page_094-V1">94</a>; 
   English occupation of, I. <a href="#Page_115-V1">115</a>, 
   <a href="#Page_116-V1">116</a>-<a href="#Page_120-V1">120</a>; 
   the parish fired by Le Loutre, I. <a href="#Page_116-V1">116</a>;
	 departure of Major Lawrence from, and return of, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_116-V1">116</a>, <a href="#Page_117-V1">117</a>.<br />
Beauce, I. <a href="#Page_076-V1">76</a>.<br />
Beauchamp, merchant, I. <a href="#Page_271-V1">271</a>.<br />
Beaucour, La Roche, I. <a href="#Page_457-V1">457</a>, II. 
   <a href="#Page_428-V1">428</a>.<br />
Beaujeu, Captain, at Fort Duquesne, I. <a href="#Page_208-V1">208</a>, II. 
   <a href="#Page_423-V1">423</a>; 
   encounter of the French with the English, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_210-V1">210</a>-<a href="#Page_227-V1">227</a>; 
	 death of, I. <a href="#Page_215-V1">215</a>.<br />
Beaumont, II. <a href="#Page_225-V2">225</a>.<br />
Beauport, the village of, II. <a href="#Page_200-V2">200</a>, 
   <a href="#Page_212-V2">212</a>, <a href="#Page_228-V2">228</a>, 
	 <a href="#Page_265-V2">265</a>, <a href="#Page_274-V2">274</a>, 
	 <a href="#Page_303-V2">303</a>; 
   Montcalm stations his camp here at the siege of Quebec, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_200-V2">200</a>, <a href="#Page_201-V2">201</a>, 
      <a href="#Page_208-V2">208</a>, <a href="#Page_209-V2">209</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_292-V2">292</a>, 
			<a href="#footer_27Note">298 <i>note</i></a>, 
			<a href="#Page_305-V2">305</a>; 
	 attack of Wolfe on the French camp, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_230-V2">230</a>-<a href="#Page_233-V2">233</a>; 
	 approach of Wolfe's fleet, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_282-V2">282</a>, <a href="#Page_288-V2">288</a>; 
	 flight of the French army, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_300-V2">300</a>-<a href="#Page_302-V2">302</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_307-V2">307</a>; 
	 the French supplies plundered, II. <a href="#Page_311-V2">311</a>;  
	 return of the army to Quebec, II. <a href="#Page_313-V2">313</a>.<br />
Beauport, River of, II. <a href="#Page_201-V2">201</a>,
   <a href="#Page_208-V2">208</a>, <a href="#Page_209-V2">209</a>.<br />
<a name="beausejour" id="beausejour"></a>
Beaus&eacute;jour, Fort, I. <a href="#Page_122-V2">122</a>, II. 
   <a href="#Page_181-V2">181</a>; 
   erected by the French, I. <a href="#Page_119-V1">119</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_120-V1">120</a>, <a href="#Page_235-V1">235</a>; 
	 an attack upon, planned by the English, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_192-V1">192</a>-<a href="#Page_194-V1">194</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_196-V1">196</a>, <a href="#Page_236-V1">236</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_239-V1">239</a>, <a href="#Page_241-V1">241</a>,  
			<a href="#Page_245-V1">245</a>; 
	 strength of the fort, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_238-V1">238</a>, <a href="#Page_241-V1">241</a>; 
	 M. Vergor commandant of, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_239-V1">239</a>, <a href="#Page_241-V1">241</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_242-V1">242</a>; 
	 official corruption at, I. <a href="#Page_242-V1">242</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_243-V1">243</a>, <a href="#Page_245-V1">245</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_250-V1">250</a>, <a href="#Page_251-V1">251</a>; 
	 encounter of the French with the English, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_247-V1">247</a>-<a href="#Page_253-V1">253</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_260-V1">260</a>; 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_454-V2" id="Page_454-V2">454<br />V2</a></span>

   capitulation offered by the French, I. <a href="#Page_251-V1">251</a>; 
	 escape of Le Loutre, I. <a href="#Page_252-V1">252</a>; 
	 capture of, I. <a href="#Page_253-V1">253</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_256-V1">256</a>, II. 
			<a href="#Page_193-V2">193</a>, <a href="#Page_278-V2">278</a>; 
	 became Fort Cumberland, I. <a href="#Page_253-V1">253</a>; 
	 encampment of Monckton, I. <a href="#Page_254-V1">254</a>; 
	 the declaration of Monckton, I. <a href="#Page_254-V1">254</a>; 
	 inhabitants removed from, I. <a href="#Page_255-V1">255</a>; 
	 departure of Winslow from, I. <a href="#Page_267-V1">267</a>.<br />
Beaus&eacute;jour, hill, I. 
   <a href="#Page_116-V1">116</a>, <a href="#Page_118-V1">118</a>.<br />
Beaver, King, Indian chief, II. <a href="#Page_145-V2">145</a>.<br />
Beaver.  See <a href="#furTrade">Fur-trade</a>.<br />
Beaver Creek, II. <a href="#Page_145-V2">145</a>.<br />
Becancour, M. de, I. <a href="#Page_071-V1">71</a>.<br />
Becancour, I. <a href="#Page_485-V1">485</a>.<br />
Bedford, Duke of, II. <a href="#Page_393-V2">393</a>;
   sent to Paris to negotiate for peace, II.
      <a href="#Page_403-V2">403</a>.<br />
Bedford, Fort, erection of, II. <a href="#Page_141-V2">141</a>.<br />
Bedford, town of, II. <a href="#Page_133-V2">133</a>.<br />
Belcher, Governor of New Jersey, I. <a href="#Page_392-V1">392</a>;
   declares war against the Indians, I. <a href="#Page_392-V1">392</a>;
	 postpones his action, I. <a href="#Page_393-V1">393</a>.<br />
Bel&ecirc;tre conducts a war-party, I. <a href="#Page_074-V1">74</a>; 
   the attack at German Flats, II. <a href="#Page_006-V2">6</a>,
	 <a href="#Page_007-V2">7</a>.<br />
Belknap, his "History of New Hampshire" cited, I. 
   <a href="#footer_525">510 <i>note</i></a>.<br />
Bellamy, George Anne, story of Braddock in regard to, I. 
   <a href="#Page_190-V1">190</a>, 
	 <a href="#footer_195">190 <i>note</i></a>.<br />
Bellaston, Lady, I. <a href="#Page_006-V2">6</a>.<br />
Belleisle, Mar&eacute;chal de, minister of war, 1758-1761, II. 
   <a href="#Page_035-V2">35</a>, <a href="#Page_176-V2">176</a>; 
   double-dealing and boasting of Vaudreuil, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_171-V2">171</a>-<a href="#Page_173-V2">173</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_198-V2">198</a>; 
	 his letter to Montcalm, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_176-V2">176</a>, <a href="#Page_177-V2">177</a>; 
	 plans of war enjoined upon Montcalm, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_177-V2">177</a>, <a href="#Page_178-V2">178</a>; 
	 letter from Vaudreuil to, II. <a href="#Page_319-V2">319</a>.<br />
Belleisle, II. 
   <a href="#Page_401-V2">401</a>, <a href="#Page_405-V2">405</a>.<br />
Bellona, I. <a href="#Page_480-V1">480</a>.<br />
Bengal, II. <a href="#Page_406-V2">406</a>.<br />
Bennington, I. <a href="#Page_291-V1">291</a>.<br />
Beno&icirc;t, II. <a href="#Page_028-V2">28</a>.<br />
Berkeley, Sir William, his opinion of education for the people, I. 
   <a href="#Page_029-V1">29</a>.<br />
Berks, I. <a href="#Page_347-V1">347</a>.<br />
Berlin, II. <a href="#Page_388-V2">388</a>.<br />
Bernard, Governor of Massachusetts, II. 
   <a href="#Page_376-V2">376</a>, <a href="#Page_377-V2">377</a>.<br />
Bern&egrave;s, II. <a href="#Page_099-V2">99</a>.<br />
Berniers, commissary-general, II. <a href="#Page_259-V2">259</a>, 
   <a href="#Page_260-V2">260</a>, <a href="#Page_438-V2">438</a>; 
   the state of Quebec described after the siege, II.
	    <a href="#Page_328-V2">328</a>.<br />
Bernis, Abb&eacute; de, minister of foreign affairs, II. 
   <a href="#Page_393-V2">393</a>.<br />
Berry, battalion of, II. 
   <a href="#Page_087-V2">87</a>, <a href="#Page_088-V2">88</a>, 
	 <a href="#Page_099-V2">99</a>, <a href="#Page_100-V2">100</a>,
	 <a href="#Page_104-V2">104</a>, <a href="#Page_105-V2">105</a>.<br /> 
Berryer, minister of marine and colonies, 1758-1761, II. 
   <a href="#Page_175-V2">175</a>; 
   official corruption in Canada, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_031-V2">31</a>-<a href="#Page_033-V2">33</a>;
	 ministerial rebukes sent to officials in Canada, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_031-V2">31</a>-<a href="#Page_037-V2">37</a>;
	 letters from Vaudreuil, II. <a href="#Page_141-V2">141</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_142-V2">142</a>, <a href="#Page_173-V2">173</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_318-V2">318</a>, <a href="#Page_319-V2">319</a>; 
	 boasting and jealousy of Vaudreuil, II. <a href="#Page_164-V2">164</a>,
	    <a href="#Page_171-V2">171</a>;   
	 prepossessed against Bouganville, II. <a href="#Page_173-V2">173</a>,
	    <a href="#Page_175-V2">175</a>;  
	 reproof given to Vaudreuil, II. <a href="#Page_375-V2">375</a>.<br />
Biddle, Edward, letter from Reading, I. <a href="#Page_344-V1">344</a>.<br />
"Biche" number of her guns, II. <a href="#footer_579">54 <i>note</i></a>.<br />
"Bienfaisant," II. <a href="#Page_067-V2">67</a>; 
   number of her guns, II. <a href="#footer_579">54 <i>note</i></a>; 
   seized by the English, II. <a href="#Page_068-V2">68</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_069-V2">69</a>.<br />
Bienville, C&eacute;loron de. See <a href="#celoron">C&eacute;loron</a>.<br />
Bigot, Fran&ccedil;ois, Intendant of Canada, I. 
   <a href="#footer_030">65 <i>note</i></a>, <a href="#Page_067-V1">67</a>, 
	 <a href="#footer_037">67 <i>note</i></a>, 
	 <a href="#footer_045">77 <i>note</i></a>, <a href="#Page_080-V1">80</a>, 
	 <a href="#Page_081-V1">81</a>, <a href="#Page_242-V1">242</a>, II. 
	 <a href="#Page_009-V2">9</a>, <a href="#Page_017-V2">17</a>; 
   his official corruption, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_080-V1">80</a>, <a href="#Page_081-V1">81</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_087-V1">87</a>, <a href="#Page_088-V1">88</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_242-V1">242</a>, <a href="#Page_462-V1">462</a>, II. 
			<a href="#Page_022-V2">22</a>-<a href="#Page_038-V2">38</a>; 
	 his plans against the English, I. <a href="#Page_101-V1">101</a>;
	 the Indians encouraged to butcher the English, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_103-V1">103</a>;
	 sails for Europe, I. <a href="#Page_242-V1">242</a>;
	 returns to Canada, I. <a href="#Page_253-V1">253</a>;
	 defends Vergor, I. <a href="#Page_253-V1">253</a>, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_278-V1">278</a>; 
	 his character and office, I. <a href="#Page_376-V1">376</a>, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_017-V2">17</a>, <a href="#Page_018-V2">18</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_032-V2">32</a>, <a href="#Page_033-V2">33</a>; 
	 his popularity, I. <a href="#Page_466-V1">466</a>;
	 relates the cruelties of the Indians, II.  
	    <a href="#Page_004-V2">4</a>, <a href="#Page_005-V2">5</a>;
	 his relations with Vaudreuil, II. <a href="#Page_018-V2">18</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_319-V2">319</a>, <a href="#Page_323-V2">323</a>;
	 his birth, II. <a href="#Page_018-V2">18</a>; 
	 his official journeys and pleasure-excursions, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_018-V2">18</a>-<a href="#Page_021-V2">21</a>; 
	 his manner of life, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_018-V2">18</a>-<a href="#Page_022-V2">22</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_028-V2">28</a>-<a href="#Page_030-V2">30</a>,
			<a href="#Page_203-V2">203</a>; 
	 his houses and palace, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_021-V2">21</a>, <a href="#Page_022-V2">22</a>; 
	 his gambling, and frauds in trade, II. <a href="#Page_021-V2">21</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_022-V2">22</a>-<a href="#Page_028-V2">28</a>; 
	 his circle of friends, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_022-V2">22</a>-<a href="#Page_030-V2">30</a>; 
	 the lover of Madame P&eacute;an, II. <a href="#Page_028-V2">28</a>; 
	 receives ministerial rebukes, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_031-V2">31</a>-<a href="#Page_037-V2">37</a>; 
	 promissory notes issued, II. <a href="#Page_032-V2">32</a>; 
	 revelations of his stealings, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_034-V2">34</a>-<a href="#Page_037-V2">37</a>,
			<a href="#footer_17Note">37 <i>note</i></a>;  
	 breaks with Cadet, II. <a href="#Page_036-V2">36</a>; 
	 statistics concerning the rations at Fort Duquesne, II. 
	    <a href="#footer_660">152 <i>note</i></a>; 
	 the dissensions between Montcalm and Vaudreuil, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_167-V2">167</a>; 
	 the siege and reduction of Quebec, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_202-V2">202</a>, <a href="#Page_234-V2">234</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_259-V2">259</a>, 
			<a href="#footer_28Note">326 <i>note</i></a>; 
	 Vaudreuil holds a council of war, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_218-V2">218</a>, <a href="#Page_219-V2">219</a>,
			<a href="#Page_305-V2">305</a>, <a href="#Page_306-V2">306</a>;
	 forces at Quebec, II. <a href="#footer_27Note">298 <i>note</i></a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_437-V2">437</a>;
	 French troops available after the battle, II. 
	    <a href="#footer_789">305 <i>note</i></a>; 
	 returns with the army to Quebec, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_313-V2">313</a>, <a href="#Page_314-V2">314</a>; 
	 arrested, and thrown into the Bastille, II. <a href="#Page_385-V2">385</a>; 
	 his trial, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_385-V2">385</a>, <a href="#Page_386-V2">386</a>; 
	 his sentence, II. <a href="#Page_386-V2">386</a>; 
	 his letters, II. <a href="#Page_438-V2">438</a>.<br />
"Billy" assists Surgeon Williams, I. <a href="#Page_306-V1">306</a>; 
   sickness in the army, II. <a href="#Page_120-V2">120</a>.<br />
"Bizarre," number of her guns, II. 
   <a href="#footer_579">54 <i>note</i></a>.<br />
Black Hole of Calcutta, the, II. <a href="#Page_045-V2">45</a>.<br />

<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_455-V2" id="Page_455-V2">455<br />V2</a></span>

Black Hunter, the, I. <a href="#Page_204-V1">204</a>.<br />
Black Mountain, I. <a href="#Page_430-V1">430</a>.<br />
Black Point, II. <a href="#Page_053-V2">53</a>.<br />
Black Rifle, the, I. <a href="#Page_204-V1">204</a>.<br />
Blanchard, Colonel, defends Fort Lyman, I. <a href="#Page_294-V1">294</a>; 
   a letter of warning sent to, I. <a href="#Page_296-V1">296</a>.<br />
Blodget, Samuel, I. <a href="#footer_308">301 <i>note</i></a>; 
   his view of the battle at Lake George, I. <a href="#Page_306-V1">306</a>; 
	 prospective plan, etc., of the battle near Lake George, etc., I. 
	    <a href="#footer_318">316 <i>note</i>, 317 <i>note</i></a>.<br />
Blomedon, Cape, I. <a href="#Page_268-V1">268</a>, 
   <a href="#Page_269-V1">269</a>.<br />
"Bloody morning scout," the, I. <a href="#Page_303-V1">303</a>.<br />
Bloody Pond, origin of its name, I. <a href="#Page_309-V1">309</a>.<br />
Blue Ridge, panic among the settlers, I. <a href="#Page_331-V1">331</a>.<br />
B&oelig;ufs, Rivi&egrave;re aux, I. <a href="#Page_128-V1">128</a>.<br />
Boish&eacute;bert, a French officer, I. <a href="#Page_265-V1">265</a>, 
   <a href="#Page_266-V1">266</a>, <a href="#Page_420-V1">420</a>, 
	 <a href="#Page_436-V1">436</a>; 
   to induce the Acadians to leave their home, I. <a href="#Page_099-V1">99</a>;
	 troops sent to watch the English frontier, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_116-V1">116</a>;
	 letter to Manach quoted, I. <a href="#Page_266-V1">266</a>;
   leads the attack at Peticodiac, I. <a href="#Page_276-V1">276</a>;
	 forces of, I. <a href="#footer_277">276 <i>note</i></a>; 
	 approaches Louisbourg, II. <a href="#Page_066-V2">66</a>;
	 tried for peculation, II. <a href="#Page_170-V2">170</a>;
	 his dealings with the Acadians, II. <a href="#Page_170-V2">170</a>.<br />
Bolling, a Virginia gentleman, I. <a href="#Page_226-V1">226</a>,
   <a href="#footer_231">226 <i>note</i></a>.<br />
Bolton, I.  <a href="#footer_505">492 <i>note</i></a>.<br />
Bonaventure, I. <a href="#Page_125-V1">125</a>.<br />
Bond, Dr., I. <a href="#Page_228-V1">228</a>.<br />
Bonhomme, Michel, II. <a href="#Page_309-V2">309</a>.<br />
Bonnecamp, Father, a Jesuit priest, I. <a href="#Page_052-V1">52</a>, 
   <a href="#Page_053-V1">53</a>; 
   extract from his journal, I. <a href="#Page_039-V1">39</a>,
	    <a href="#Page_045-V1">45</a>, <a href="#footer_02Note">62 <i>note</i></a>; 
	 his map, I. <a href="#footer_02Note">62 <i>note</i></a>; 
	 at Detroit, I. <a href="#Page_076-V1">76</a>; 
	 his opinion of C&eacute;loron, I. <a href="#Page_077-V1">77</a>.<br />
Bordeaux, I. <a href="#Page_457-V1">457</a>, II. <a href="#Page_018-V2">18</a>, 
   <a href="#Page_023-V2">23</a>.<br />
Boscawen, Admiral, ordered to intercept the French fleet, I. 
   <a href="#Page_184-V1">184</a>-<a href="#Page_186-V1">186</a>; 
   takes charge of the fleet sent against Louisbourg, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_049-V2">49</a>, <a href="#Page_051-V2">51</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_056-V2">56</a>-<a href="#Page_074-V2">74</a>; 
	 at Halifax, II. <a href="#Page_056-V2">56</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_057-V2">57</a>; 
	 siege and capitulation of Louisbourg, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_057-V2">57</a>-<a href="#Page_075-V2">75</a>; 
	 the correspondence with Drucour, II. <a href="#Page_071-V2">71</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_072-V2">72</a>, <a href="#Page_074-V2">74</a>, 
			<a href="#footer_060">81 <i>note</i></a>; 
	 unwilling to follow Amherst's wishes, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_079-V2">79</a>.<br />
Boston, I. <a href="#Page_239-V1">239</a>, <a href="#Page_245-V1">245</a>, 
   <a href="#footer_319">317 <i>note</i></a>, II. 
	 <a href="#Page_077-V2">77</a>, <a href="#Page_079-V2">79</a>; 
   relative size of, I. <a href="#Page_031-V1">31</a>; 
	 rules laid down for the soldiers on the Sabbath Day, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_246-V1">246</a>;  
	 departure of the English troops for Nova Scotia, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_247-V1">247</a>; 
	 transport-vessels to be hired to convey the Acadians from Nova Scotia, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_266-V1">266</a>, <a href="#Page_276-V1">276</a>; 
	 treatment received by the Acadian exiles, I. <a href="#Page_282-V1">282</a>;  
	 winter-quarters found for the troops, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_439-V1">439</a>, <a href="#Page_440-V1">440</a>; 
	 rejoicing at the fall of Louisbourg, II. <a href="#Page_078-V2">78</a>; 
	 taxes levied to pay the war-debt, II. <a href="#Page_085-V2">85</a>; 
	 news of the fall of Canada, II. <a href="#Page_377-V2">377</a>.<br />
"Boston Evening Post," article upon provincial soldiery, II. 
   <a href="#Page_118-V2">118</a>, <a href="#Page_119-V2">119</a>.<br />
Botwood, Edward, killed, II. <a href="#footer_25Note">233 <i>note</i></a>; 
   "Hot Stuff," II. <a href="#footer_25Note">234 <i>note</i></a>.<br />
Bougainville, I. <a href="#Page_376-V1">376</a>, 
   <a href="#Page_407-V1">407</a>, <a href="#Page_454-V1">454</a>; 
	 aide-de-camp to Montcalm, I. 
   <a href="#Page_282-V1">282</a>, <a href="#Page_361-V1">361</a>; 
   his description of the Acadian exiles, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_282-V1">282</a>, <a href="#Page_283-V1">283</a>; 
	 his youth, I. <a href="#Page_363-V1">363</a>; 
	 friendly relations with Montcalm, I. <a href="#Page_363-V1">363</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_456-V1">456</a>, <a href="#Page_465-V1">465</a>; 
	 terms of capitulation proposed to the English, at Oswego, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_413-V1">413</a>; 
	 joins the war-party of Peri&egrave;re, I.  
	    <a href="#Page_429-V1">429</a>-<a href="#Page_431-V1">431</a>; 
	 his description of the Indians and their cruelties, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_430-V1">430</a>, <a href="#Page_431-V1">431</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_465-V1">465</a>, <a href="#Page_478-V1">478</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_479-V1">479</a>, <a href="#Page_483-V1">483</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_484-V1">484</a>, <a href="#Page_506-V1">506</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_507-V1">507</a>, II. <a href="#Page_004-V2">4</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_005-V2">5</a>, <a href="#Page_010-V2">10</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_011-V2">11</a>, <a href="#footer_656">145 <i>note</i></a>;
	 perplexity at finding the boats of Rogers, I. <a href="#Page_437-V1">437</a>; 
	 praised by Bourlamaque, I. <a href="#Page_455-V1">455</a>; 
	 life during Lent, I. <a href="#Page_458-V1">458</a>; 
	 the ships-of-war at Louisbourg, I. <a href="#footer_492">473 <i>note</i></a>; 
	 seeks to gain Indian allies, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_475-V1">475</a>, <a href="#Page_476-V1">476</a>;  
	 sings the war-song, I. <a href="#Page_476-V1">476</a>;  
	 the "St. Bartholomew of the oxen," I. <a href="#Page_479-V1">479</a>; 
	 his diary quoted, I. <a href="#Page_503-V1">503</a>, 
	    <a href="#footer_526">513 <i>note</i></a>; 
	 sent as a messenger to Montreal from Fort William Henry, I.
	    <a href="#Page_508-V1">508</a>;
	 evidence concerning the massacre at Fort William Henry, I. 
	    <a href="#footer_526">514 <i>note</i></a>; 
	 official knavery commented upon, II. <a href="#Page_027-V2">27</a>; 
	 double-dealing of Vaudreuil, II. <a href="#Page_173-V2">173</a>; 
	 extract from, concerning Vaudreuil's plans, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_086-V2">86</a>, <a href="#Page_087-V2">87</a>; 
	 slightly wounded, II. <a href="#Page_110-V2">110</a>; 
	 expedition of, to France, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_173-V2">173</a>-<a href="#Page_176-V2">176</a>; 
	 his efforts to gain aid for Canada, II.
	    <a href="#Page_173-V2">173</a>-<a href="#Page_175-V2">175</a>;
	 his promotion, II. <a href="#Page_174-V2">174</a>;
	 to negotiate the marriages of the children of Montcalm, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_176-V2">176</a>;
	 return to Canada, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_176-V2">176</a>, <a href="#Page_177-V2">177</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_197-V2">197</a>, <a href="#Page_198-V2">198</a>; 
	 sad news brought to Montcalm, II. <a href="#Page_179-V2">179</a>;
	 his opinion of the strength of Quebec, II. <a href="#Page_209-V2">209</a>; 
	 sent from Beauport to oppose the English, II. <a href="#Page_263-V2">263</a>; 
	 precautions taken to watch the shore of Quebec, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_275-V2">275</a>, <a href="#Page_276-V2">276</a>; 
	 at Cap-Rouge, II. <a href="#Page_276-V2">276</a>; 
	 Holmes's vessels sail up the river, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_278-V2">278</a>, <a href="#Page_279-V2">279</a>;  
	 deceived by a feint of Wolfe, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_279-V2">279</a>, <a href="#Page_280-V2">280</a>; 
	 deceived by the movement of Holmes's vessels, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_283-V2">283</a>; 
	 supply-boats to be sent to Montcalm, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_283-V2">283</a>, <a href="#Page_286-V2">286</a>; 
	 neglects to follow Holmes's vessels, II. <a href="#Page_285-V2">285</a>; 
	 danger of Wolfe's position, II. <a href="#Page_288-V2">288</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_289-V2">289</a>; 
	 attacks the light infantry, II. <a href="#Page_290-V2">290</a>;
	 repulsed, II. <a href="#Page_290-V2">290</a>;
	 statistics of the forces at Quebec, II. 
	    <a href="#footer_27Note">298 <i>note</i></a>; 
	 the fall of his friends, II. <a href="#Page_304-V2">304</a>;
	 council of war held, II. <a href="#Page_305-V2">305</a>;

<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_456-V2" id="Page_456-V2">456<br />V2</a></span>

   his forces, II. <a href="#Page_305-V2">305</a>, 
	    <a href="#footer_789">305 <i>note</i></a>; 
	 question of capitulation for Quebec, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_305-V2">305</a>-<a href="#Page_307-V2">307</a>; 
	 remains at Cap-Rouge, II. <a href="#Page_313-V2">313</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_314-V2">314</a>; 
	 follows the army to Quebec, II. <a href="#Page_314-V2">314</a>; 
	 the fall of Canada, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_360-V2">360</a>-<a href="#Page_382-V2">382</a>; 
	 at Isle-aux-Noix, II. <a href="#Page_361-V2">361</a>; 
	 ordered to stop Haviland's progress, II. <a href="#Page_367-V2">367</a>; 
	 at Montreal, II. <a href="#Page_372-V2">372</a>; 
	 articles of capitulation carried to Amherst, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_372-V2">372</a>-<a href="#Page_373-V2">373</a>; 
	 Montreal capitulates, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_372-V2">372</a>-<a href="#Page_374-V2">374</a>.<br />
Boundary, questions of, I. <a href="#Page_037-V1">37</a>, 
   <a href="#Page_061-V1">61</a>, <a href="#Page_079-V1">79</a>, 
	 <a href="#Page_122-V1">122</a>, 
	 <a href="#Page_123-V1">123</a>-<a href="#Page_128-V1">128</a>, 
	 <a href="#Page_168-V1">168</a>, <a href="#Page_184-V1">184</a>,
	 <a href="#Page_236-V1">236</a>-<a href="#Page_238-V1">238</a>, 
	 <a href="#Page_259-V1">259</a>; 
   the matter discussed at Paris, I. <a href="#Page_086-V1">86</a>.<br />
Bouquet, Lieutenant-Colonel Henry, II. <a href="#Page_133-V2">133</a>; 
   serves in reducing Fort Duquesne, II.  
	    <a href="#Page_133-V2">133</a>, <a href="#Page_163-V2">163</a>;
	 interview with Washington, II. <a href="#Page_133-V2">133</a>; 
	 his soldiers, II. <a href="#Page_133-V2">133</a>; 
	 the expedition against Fort Duquesne, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_133-V2">133</a>-<a href="#Page_163-V2">163</a>; 
	 justice of his opinion of Washington, II. <a href="#Page_134-V2">134</a>; 
	 relations with Forbes, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_134-V2">134</a>, <a href="#Page_135-V2">135</a>; 
	 extracts from his correspondence with Forbes, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_136-V2">136</a>-<a href="#Page_138-V2">138</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_142-V2">142</a>, <a href="#Page_154-V2">154</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_155-V2">155</a>; 
	 his tact with the Indians, II.
	    <a href="#Page_139-V2">139</a>, <a href="#Page_140-V2">140</a>; 
	 forward movement of, II. <a href="#Page_141-V2">141</a>; 
	 the road over Alleghanies, II. <a href="#Page_141-V2">141</a>; 
	 Grant's expedition, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_151-V2">151</a>-<a href="#Page_155-V2">155</a>; 
	 retreat of Major Grant, II. <a href="#Page_154-V2">154</a>; 
	 sufferings of Forbes's troops, II. <a href="#Page_157-V2">157</a>; 
	 letter to Chief Justice Allen quoted, II. <a href="#Page_161-V2">161</a>, 
	    <a href="#footer_668">161 <i>note</i></a>.<br />
Bourbon, house of, I. <a href="#Page_009-V1">9</a>, 
   <a href="#Page_041-V1">41</a>, <a href="#Page_042-V1">42</a>, 
	 <a href="#Page_076-V1">76</a>, <a href="#Page_453-V1">453</a>, II. 
	 <a href="#Page_397-V2">397</a>, <a href="#Page_408-V2">408</a>; 
   triumphs of, I. <a href="#Page_010-V1">10</a>; 
	 the Family Compact, II. <a href="#Page_396-V2">396</a>.<br />
Bourbon, Island of, I. <a href="#Page_010-V1">10</a>.<br />
Bourgogne, battalion of, I. <a href="#Page_368-V1">368</a>, II. 
   <a href="#Page_054-V1">54</a>; 
   ordered to America, I. <a href="#Page_182-V1">182</a>.<br />
Bourlamaque, Chevalier de, I. <a href="#Page_373-V1">373</a>, II. 
   <a href="#Page_096-V2">96</a>, <a href="#Page_212-V2">212</a>, 
	 <a href="#Page_308-V2">308</a>; 
   named as the third officer of Montcalm, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_360-V1">360</a>, II. <a href="#Page_087-V2">87</a>; 
	 embarks for America, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_363-V1">363</a>, <a href="#Page_364-V1">364</a>; 
	 extracts from his correspondence with Montcalm, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_454-V1">454</a>, <a href="#Page_455-V1">455</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_457-V1">457</a>-<a href="#Page_459-V1">459</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_466-V1">466</a>, II. 
			<a href="#Page_007-V2">7</a>, <a href="#Page_008-V2">8</a>,
			<a href="#Page_167-V2">167</a>-<a href="#Page_169-V2">169</a>,
			<a href="#Page_275-V2">275</a>, <a href="#Page_427-V2">427</a>,
			<a href="#Page_428-V2">428</a>, <a href="#Page_438-V2">438</a>; 
	 encampment of, I. <a href="#Page_477-V1">477</a>;
	 preparations to attack Fort William Henry, I. <a href="#Page_477-V1">477</a>;
	 his efforts to save the English, I. <a href="#Page_510-V1">510</a>; 
	 Montcalm's position near Ticonderoga, II. <a href="#Page_099-V2">99</a>; 
	 the battle of Ticonderoga, II. <a href="#Page_104-V2">104</a>; 
	 wounded, II. <a href="#Page_110-V2">110</a>; 
	 his promotion, II. <a href="#Page_174-V2">174</a>; 
	 ordered to hold Ticonderoga, II. <a href="#Page_195-V2">195</a>; 
	 troops ordered to Quebec, II. <a href="#Page_198-V2">198</a>;  
	 letter from Vaudreuil, II. <a href="#Page_233-V2">233</a>; 
	 Amherst attacks him, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_237-V2">237</a>, <a href="#Page_238-V2">238</a>; 
	 retires before Amherst, II. <a href="#Page_238-V2">238</a>;
	 at Isle-aux-Noix, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_238-V2">238</a>, <a href="#Page_239-V2">239</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_249-V2">249</a>, <a href="#Page_265-V2">265</a>; 
	 letter from L&eacute;vis quoted, II. <a href="#Page_252-V2">252</a>; 
	 retreat of, II. <a href="#Page_265-V2">265</a>; 
	 letter from Vaudreuil, II. <a href="#Page_275-V2">275</a>; 
	 his troops advance upon Montreal, II. <a href="#Page_364-V2">364</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_365-V2">365</a>; 
	 his troops thinning out, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_365-V2">365</a>, <a href="#Page_366-V2">366</a>; 
	 joined by the French, II. <a href="#Page_368-V2">368</a>; 
	 movements of Amherst, II. <a href="#Page_369-V2">369</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_370-V2">370</a>; 
	 at Montreal, II. <a href="#Page_372-V2">372</a>; 
	 letter from Montcalm given in the original, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_427-V2">427</a>, <a href="#Page_428-V2">428</a>.<br />
Braddock, Major-General, I. <a href="#Page_181-V1">181</a>, 
   <a href="#Page_286-V1">286</a>, <a href="#Page_318-V1">318</a>; 
   ordered to America with regiments, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_181-V1">181</a>-<a href="#Page_183-V1">183</a>; 
	 his arrival at Hampton, I. <a href="#Page_187-V1">187</a>; 
	 opinion of, expressed by Dinwiddie, I. <a href="#Page_187-V1">187</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_188-V1">188</a>; 
	 opinions of, held by different persons, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_187-V1">187</a>-<a href="#Page_190-V1">190</a>; 
	 characteristics of, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_187-V1">187</a>-<a href="#Page_191-V1">191</a>; 
	 anecdotes of, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_188-V1">188</a>-<a href="#Page_190-V1">190</a>;
	 story told of duel with Colonel Gumley, I. <a href="#Page_189-V1">189</a>; 
	 beloved as Governor of Gibraltar, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_189-V1">189</a>, <a href="#Page_190-V1">190</a>; 
	 interview with Dury, I. <a href="#Page_190-V1">190</a>; 
	 parting visit to George Anne Bellamy, I. <a href="#Page_190-V1">190</a>; 
	 doubts concerning the office held at Gibraltar, I. 
	    <a href="#footer_194">190 <i>note</i></a>; 
	 position held by, in the Coldstream Guards, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_191-V1">191</a>; 
	 arrival of the regiments at Hampton, I. <a href="#Page_191-V1">191</a>; 
	 opinion of, held by Horace Walpole, I. <a href="#Page_191-V1">191</a>;
	 sends for the governors of the colonies to meet in council, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_191-V1">191</a>-<a href="#Page_195-V1">195</a>; 
	 his instructions laid before the council at Albany, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_193-V1">193</a>, <a href="#Page_194-V1">194</a>; 
	 in sympathy with Shirley's plans, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_193-V1">193</a>, <a href="#Page_194-V1">194</a>;
	 to lead the expedition against Fort Duquesne, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_194-V1">194</a>; 
	 decisions of the Council at Albany, I.  
	    <a href="#Page_194-V1">194</a>, <a href="#Page_195-V1">195</a>;
	 suggestions of, approved by the Council at Albany, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_195-V1">195</a>;
	 matters to be laid before the colonial Assemblies, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_195-V1">195</a>; 
	 suggestions of, with regard to ship-building, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_195-V1">195</a>; 
	 error in regard to his campaign, I. <a href="#Page_196-V1">196</a>; 
	 lands in Virginia, I. <a href="#Page_196-V1">196</a>;
	 supplies scarce, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_197-V1">197</a>-<a href="#Page_199-V1">199</a>; 
	 aided by Franklin, I. <a href="#Page_198-V1">198</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_199-V1">199</a>; 
	 his expedition against Fort Duquesne, I. <a href="#Page_198-V1">198</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_227-V1">227</a>-<a href="#Page_233-V1">233</a>, II. 
			<a href="#Page_423-V2">423</a>-<a href="#Page_426-V2">426</a>; 
	 need of wagons, I. <a href="#Page_199-V1">199</a>;  
	 his troops, I. <a href="#Page_200-V1">200</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_214-V1">214</a>, 
			<a href="#footer_226">220 <i>note</i></a>; 
	 his estimate of the provincial troops, I. <a href="#Page_200-V1">200</a>,
	    <a href="#Page_201-V1">201</a>; 
	 relations with Washington, I. <a href="#Page_201-V1">201</a>; 
	 his horses and wagons, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_199-V1">199</a>, <a href="#Page_201-V1">201</a>; 
	 invites Washington to become his aide-de-camp, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_203-V1">203</a>; 
	 tries to secure the aid of Indians, I. <a href="#Page_203-V1">203</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_204-V1">204</a>;  
	 his reception of Captain Jack and his company, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_204-V1">204</a>;  
	 departure of his expedition for the scene of action, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_204-V1">204</a>, <a href="#Page_205-V1">205</a>; 
	 his scorn of Indians, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_204-V1">204</a>, <a href="#Page_205-V1">205</a>; 
	 road made for his expedition, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_204-V1">204</a>-<a href="#Page_206-V1">206</a>, II. 
			<a href="#Page_133-V2">133</a>, <a href="#Page_137-V2">137</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_161-V2">161</a>; 
	 difficulties of the march, I. <a href="#Page_205-V1">205</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_206-V1">206</a>; 
	 consultation with Washington, I. <a href="#Page_206-V1">206</a>; 

<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_457-V2" id="Page_457-V2">457<br />V2</a></span>


   his forces reach Little Meadows, I. <a href="#Page_206-V1">206</a>; 
	 illness among his men, I. <a href="#Page_206-V1">206</a>; 
	 his mode of advance, I. <a href="#Page_206-V1">206</a>, 
	 <a href="#Page_207-V1">207</a>; 
	 fords the Monongahela, I. <a href="#Page_207-V1">207</a>, 
	 <a href="#Page_212-V1">212</a>; 
	 rumors of his approach reach Fort Duquesne, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_210-V1">210</a>, <a href="#Page_211-V1">211</a>; 
	 nature of the country through which he passed,  
	    <a href="#Page_213-V1">213</a>-<a href="#Page_216-V1">216</a>; 
	 destructive fire of the French and Indians, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_216-V1">216</a>, <a href="#Page_217-V1">217</a>;
	 confusion among the English troops, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_216-V1">216</a>, <a href="#Page_218-V1">218</a>;
	 his ignorance of American warfare, I. <a href="#Page_217-V1">217</a>;
	 horrors of the battle, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_217-V1">217</a>-<a href="#Page_219-V1">219</a>; 
	 number of his army lost in the battle of the Monongahela, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_219-V1">219</a>, <a href="#Page_220-V1">220</a>,
			<a href="#footer_226">220 <i>note</i></a>; 
	 shot in the lungs, I. <a href="#Page_220-V1">220</a>;
	 his papers left to the Indians, I. <a href="#Page_220-V1">220</a>; 
	 retreat of his troops, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_220-V1">220</a>-<a href="#Page_227-V1">227</a>; 
	 his defeat, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_220-V1">220</a>-<a href="#Page_227-V1">227</a>, 
			<a href="#footer_228">221 <i>note</i></a>, <a href="#Page_293-V1">293</a>,
			<a href="#Page_322-V1">322</a>, <a href="#Page_323-V1">323</a>,
			<a href="#Page_329-V1">329</a>, <a href="#Page_340-V1">340</a>,
			<a href="#Page_414-V1">414</a>, II. <a href="#Page_221-V2">221</a>,
			<a href="#Page_423-V2">423</a>-<a href="#Page_426-V2">426</a>; 
	 plans drawn by Mackellar for his expedition, I. 
	 <a href="#footer_228">221 <i>note</i></a>; 
	 condition of, I. <a href="#Page_223-V1">223</a>; 
	 his sufferings, I. <a href="#Page_224-V1">224</a>; 
	 reinforcements for, under Dunbar, I. <a href="#Page_223-V1">223</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_224-V1">224</a>; 
	 confusion in his camp, I. <a href="#Page_225-V1">225</a>; 
	 panic among the troops, I. <a href="#Page_225-V1">225</a>; 
	 his death, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_225-V1">225</a>, <a href="#Page_226-V1">226</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_323-V1">323</a>, <a href="#Page_328-V1">328</a>, II. 
			<a href="#Page_134-V2">134</a>; 
	 remarks concerning the soldiery, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_225-V1">225</a>, <a href="#Page_226-V1">226</a>;  
	 buried in the road, I. <a href="#Page_226-V1">226</a>;  
	 mentioned in Campbell's letter, I. <a href="#Page_227-V1">227</a>; 
	 letter from Washington quoted, concerning, I. <a href="#Page_230-V1">230</a>; 
	 Shirley made commander-in-chief, I. <a href="#Page_233-V1">233</a>; 
	 the Council at Alexandria, I. <a href="#Page_234-V1">234</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_286-V1">286</a>; 
	 letters of, warn Dieskau of danger, I. <a href="#Page_288-V1">288</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_289-V1">289</a>; 
	 his dead soldiers left to the wolves, but afterwards buried, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_312-V1">312</a>, II. <a href="#Page_159-V2">159</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_160-V2">160</a>; 
	 his captured papers reveal the plans of the English, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_324-V1">324</a>; 
	 his instructions to Major-General Shirley, I. 
	 <a href="#footer_327">326 <i>note</i></a>; 
	 his roads used by the invaders, I. <a href="#Page_331-V1">331</a>;
	 his battalions, I. <a href="#Page_382-V1">382</a>;
	 journal of his expedition, I. <a href="#footer_199">196 <i>note</i></a>; 
	 compared with Forbes, II. <a href="#Page_134-V2">134</a>.<br />
Braddock, Fanny, stories of, I. 
   <a href="#Page_188-V1">188</a>, <a href="#Page_189-V1">189</a>; 
	 her death, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_188-V1">188</a>, <a href="#Page_189-V1">189</a>.<br />
Bradstreet, Lieutentant-Colonel John, men placed under, by Shirley, I. 
   <a href="#Page_393-V1">393</a>; 
   his boatmen carry provisions to Oswego, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_393-V1">393</a>, <a href="#Page_394-V1">394</a>; 
	 action with Villiers' forces, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_394-V1">394</a>-<a href="#Page_396-V1">396</a>; 
	 his success, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_395-V1">395</a>-<a href="#Page_397-V1">397</a>;
	 his boatmen sent to Oswego, I. <a href="#Page_405-V1">405</a>;
	 serves under Abercromby, II. <a href="#Page_093-V2">93</a>;
	 reconnoitres the landing, II. <a href="#Page_094-V2">94</a>;
	 his action after the death of Lord Howe, II. <a href="#Page_098-V2">98</a>; 
	 his armed boatmen, II. <a href="#Page_105-V2">105</a>;
	 troops given him to conquer Fort Frontenac, II.
	    <a href="#Page_127-V2">127</a>, <a href="#Page_128-V2">128</a>;
	 conquest of Fort Frontenac, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_127-V2">127</a>-<a href="#Page_129-V2">129</a>;
	 mercy shown to his prisoners, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_128-V2">128</a>, <a href="#Page_129-V2">129</a>;  
	 advances towards Albany, II. <a href="#Page_129-V2">129</a>;
	 his return to Oswego, II. <a href="#Page_129-V2">129</a>;
	 Fort Frontenac dismantled, II. <a href="#Page_129-V2">129</a>;
	 importance of his conquest, II. <a href="#Page_129-V2">129</a>;
	 supplies destroyed by, II. <a href="#Page_155-V2">155</a>;
	 reported to advance upon Lake Ontario, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_197-V2">197</a>.<br />
Brandenburg, House of, promoted to royalty, I. 
   <a href="#Page_017-V1">17</a>.<br />
Brest, I. <a href="#Page_182-V1">182</a>, <a href="#Page_184-V1">184</a>, 
   <a href="#Page_288-V1">288</a>, <a href="#Page_362-V1">362</a>; 
   embarkation of Dieskau's expedition, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_182-V1">182</a>, <a href="#Page_183-V1">183</a>;
	 French armament at, I. <a href="#Page_183-V1">183</a>.<br />
Br&eacute;ard, his official knavery, II. <a href="#Page_023-V2">23</a>, 
   <a href="#Page_024-V2">24</a>; 
   accused of fraud in Canada, II. <a href="#Page_385-V2">385</a>.<br />
"Britannia," ship, II. <a href="#Page_033-V2">33</a>; 
   captured by privateers, II. <a href="#Page_033-V2">33</a>.<br />
British colonies. See <a href="#englishColonies">English colonies</a>.<br />
<a name="britishMinistry" id="britishMinistry"></a>
British ministry, the, I.
   <a href="#Page_199-V1">199</a>, <a href="#Page_285-V1">285</a>, II. 
	 <a href="#Page_040-V2">40</a>, <a href="#Page_397-V2">397</a>; 
   the plan for building a naval station at Chebucto, I.
	    <a href="#Page_092-V1">92</a>, <a href="#Page_093-V1">93</a>; 
	 attitude of, toward the Indians, I. <a href="#Page_171-V1">171</a>;
	 the French forts to be attacked, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_240-V1">240</a>, <a href="#Page_241-V1">241</a>; 
	 hostility to Shirley in New York, I. <a href="#Page_328-V1">328</a>;
	 the removal of Shirley from his command, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_383-V1">383</a>, <a href="#Page_384-V1">384</a>; 
	 ill effect of a letter from Wolfe, II. <a href="#Page_323-V2">323</a>; 
	 changes in, II. <a href="#Page_393-V2">393</a>; 
	 Newcastle resigns his position, II. <a href="#Page_400-V2">400</a>; 
	 plans of Pitt laid before, II. <a href="#Page_397-V2">397</a>.<br />
British Museum, the, I. 
   <a href="#footer_124">126 <i>note</i></a>, 
	 <a href="#Page_202-V1">202</a>.<br />
British Provinces, the, I. <a href="#Page_283-V1">283</a>.<br />
Britons, II. <a href="#Page_208-V2">208</a>.<br />
Broadway, II. <a href="#Page_076-V2">76</a>.<br />
Broglie, I. <a href="#Page_010-V1">10</a>.<br />
Brown, Lieutenant, the attack on Louisbourg, II. 
   <a href="#Page_059-V2">59</a>-<a href="#Page_061-V2">61</a>; 
   aids Wolfe when shot, II. <a href="#Page_296-V2">296</a>.<br />
Brunswick, II. <a href="#Page_047-V2">47</a>.<br />
Brunswick, Ferdinand of, II. 
   <a href="#Page_399-V2">399</a>, <a href="#Page_400-V2">400</a>.<br />
<a name="buchanan" id="buchanan"></a>
Buchanan, letter to, from John Campbell, I. 
   <a href="#Page_227-V1">227</a>.<br />
Buchannon.  <i>See</i> <a href="#buchanan">Buchanan</a>.<br />
Buffaloes, I. <a href="#Page_056-V1">56</a>.<br />
Buisson, the, II. <a href="#Page_370-V2">370</a>.<br />
Bull, Fort, I. <a href="#Page_374-V1">374</a>; 
   attacked and reduced by L&eacute;ry, I. <a href="#Page_374-V1">374</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_375-V1">375</a>.<br />
Bullitt, Captain, expedition of Major Grant, II. 
   <a href="#Page_152-V2">152</a>, <a href="#Page_154-V2">154</a>.<br />
Burd, Colonel, his mode of warfare, II. <a href="#Page_135-V2">135</a>; 
   interview with Forbes, II. <a href="#Page_138-V2">138</a>;
	 Indian allies join the army, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_139-V2">139</a>, <a href="#Page_140-V2">140</a>.<br />
Burgesses slow to enforce obedience among the Virginia troops, I. 
   <a href="#Page_331-V1">331</a>.<br />
Burghers, the, of France, I. <a href="#Page_014-V1">14</a>.<br />
Burgoyne, John, II. <a href="#Page_102-V2">102</a>; 
   his expedition, II. <a href="#Page_402-V2">402</a>; 
	 mention made of Langlade, in connection with Braddock's defeat, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_426-V2">426</a>.<br />
Burke, Captain, cruelly treated by Indians, I. <a href="#Page_511-V1">511</a>; 

<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_458-V2" id="Page_458-V2">458<br />V2</a></span>

   his remarks concerning Wolfe quoted, II. <a href="#Page_267-V2">267</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_268-V2">268</a>.<br />
Burnaby, "Travels in North America" cited, I. 
   <a href="#footer_162">163 <i>note</i></a>.<br />
Burned Camp, I. <a href="#Page_490-V1">490</a>, II. 
   <a href="#Page_094-V2">94</a>; 
   origin of name, I. <a href="#Page_489-V1">489</a>.<br />
Burney, Thomas, escapes from Indians, I. <a href="#Page_085-V1">85</a>.<br />
Burton, Lieutenant-Colonel, 
   his encounter with the French in Braddock's expedition, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_218-V2">218</a>; 
   his report concerning the provincial camp, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_401-V1">401</a>, <a href="#Page_402-V1">402</a>; 
	 orders given to bring his men to the Point of Orleans, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_281-V2">281</a>;
	 his men embark for the heights, II. <a href="#Page_288-V2">288</a>; 
	 dying command of Wolfe, II. <a href="#Page_297-V2">297</a>.<br />
Bury, Viscount, his charges against Massachusetts refuted, II. 
   <a href="#Page_084-V2">84</a>, <a href="#Page_085-V2">85</a>; 
   his "Exodus of the Western Nations" cited, II. 
	 <a href="#footer_599">84 <i>note</i></a>.<br />
Bussy, M. de, comes to London as envoy, II. 
   <a href="#Page_395-V2">395</a>.<br />
Bute, Earl of, II. <a href="#Page_393-V2">393</a>, 
   <a href="#Page_397-V2">397</a>; 
   made secretary of state, II. <a href="#Page_393-V2">393</a>; 
	 propositions made by Choiseul to Pitt, II. <a href="#Page_395-V2">395</a>; 
	 comes into power, II. <a href="#Page_398-V2">398</a>; 
	 anecdote for the dislike of the people for, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_398-V2">398</a>; 
	 succeeds Newcastle as First Lord of the Treasury, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_400-V2">400</a>;  
	 desires peace with France, II. <a href="#Page_402-V2">402</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_403-V2">403</a>; 
	 peace made between France and England, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_405-V2">405</a>.<br />
Buttes-&agrave;-Neveu, II. <a href="#Page_290-V2">290</a>, 
   <a href="#Page_345-V2">345</a>, <a href="#Page_354-V2">354</a>.<br />
Byng, Admiral, I. <a href="#Page_036-V1">36</a>, II. 
   <a href="#Page_046-V2">46</a>.<br />
</p>
<p><br /></p>
<h3>C.</h3>
<p>	
Cabinet, the. See <a href="#britishMinistry">British Ministry</a>.<br />
Cadet, Joseph, II. <a href="#Page_175-V2">175</a>; 
   official knavery, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_022-V2">22</a>-<a href="#Page_028-V2">28</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_030-V2">30</a>, <a href="#Page_319-V2">319</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_358-V2">358</a>, <a href="#Page_385-V2">385</a>; 
	 ministerial rebukes administered to, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_031-V2">31</a>-<a href="#Page_033-V2">33</a>; 
	 oppresses the Canadians, II. <a href="#Page_169-V2">169</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_170-V2">170</a>; 
	 supply-boats sent to Quebec, II. <a href="#Page_198-V2">198</a>;
	 relations with Vaudreuil, II. <a href="#Page_199-V2">199</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_319-V2">319</a>, <a href="#Page_323-V2">323</a>; 
	 his manner of living, II. <a href="#Page_203-V2">203</a>;
	 thrown into the Bastille, II. <a href="#Page_385-V2">385</a>;
	 his trial, II. <a href="#Page_385-V2">385</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_386-V2">386</a>.<br />
C&aelig;sar, dog owned by Wolfe, II. <a href="#Page_189-V2">189</a>.<br />
Cahokia, French settlement at, I. <a href="#Page_041-V1">41</a>.<br />
Caldwell, site of, I. <a href="#Page_498-V1">498</a>.<br />
Calvin, John, I. <a href="#Page_027-V1">27</a>; 
   his doctrines preached to the army, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_295-V2">295</a>, <a href="#Page_296-V2">296</a>, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_120-V2">120</a>, <a href="#Page_121-V2">121</a>.<br />
Cambis, batallion of, II. <a href="#Page_054-V2">54</a>.<br />
Campbell, Lieutenant Alexander, II. <a href="#Page_435-V2">435</a>.<br />
Campbell, Major Colin, 
   sent for news by Dinwiddie, I. <a href="#Page_229-V1">229</a>.<br />
Campbell, Donald, II. <a href="#Page_433-V2">433</a>.<br />
Campbell, Duncan, II. <a href="#Page_093-V2">93</a>; 
   his premonitions of death, II. <a href="#Page_093-V2">93</a>,  
	    <a href="#Page_435-V2">435</a>;
	 his death and burial, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_109-V2">109</a>, <a href="#Page_433-V2">433</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_435-V2">435</a>, <a href="#Page_436-V2">436</a>; 
	 the legend of Inverawe, II.  
	    <a href="#Page_433-V2">433</a>-<a href="#Page_436-V2">436</a>;
	 vision of the child, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_435-V2">435</a>, <a href="#Page_436-V2">436</a>.<br />
Campbell, James, II. <a href="#Page_433-V2">433</a>; 
   vision seen by the child, II. <a href="#Page_435-V2">435</a>, 
	 <a href="#Page_436-V2">436</a>.<br />
Campbell, John, letter from, to Buchanan, quoted, I.
   <a href="#Page_227-V1">227</a>.<br />
Campbell, Captain John, his death, II. <a href="#Page_109-V2">109</a>.<br />
<a name="canada" id="canada"></a>
Canada, I. <a href="#Page_024-V1">24</a>, 
   <a href="#Page_038-V1">38</a>, <a href="#Page_039-V1">39</a>, 
	 <a href="#footer_033">67 <i>note</i></a>, <a href="#Page_076-V1">76</a>, 
	 <a href="#Page_091-V1">91</a>, <a href="#Page_111-V1">111</a>, 
	 <a href="#Page_239-V1">239</a>, <a href="#Page_319-V1">319</a>, 
	 <a href="#Page_326-V1">326</a>, <a href="#Page_376-V1">376</a>, II. 
	 <a href="#Page_023-V2">23</a>, <a href="#Page_389-V2">389</a>; 
   conquest of, by England, I. <a href="#Page_002-V1">2</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_003-V1">3</a>;
	 plans and political intentions of England with regard to, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_001-V1">1</a>-<a href="#Page_003-V1">3</a>; 
	 censuses of, I. <a href="#Page_020-V1">20</a>, 
	    <a href="#footer_074">94 <i>note</i></a>; 
	 French possessions in, I. <a href="#Page_020-V1">20</a>;
	 difference in the political and religious systems, 
	    from those of the English colonies, I. <a href="#Page_020-V1">20</a>, 
			   <a href="#Page_021-V1">21</a>; 
	 Catholicism in, I. <a href="#Page_021-V1">21</a>, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_412-V2">412</a>; 
	 aspects of, under the Church and King, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_022-V1">22</a>-<a href="#Page_024-V1">24</a>; 
	 lack of popular legislation in, I. <a href="#Page_035-V1">35</a>;
	 the governors largely naval officers, I. <a href="#Page_036-V1">36</a>; 
	 line of military posts connecting with Louisiana, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_036-V1">36</a>-<a href="#Page_040-V1">40</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_080-V1">80</a>; 
	 methods of warfare and organization, I. <a href="#Page_062-V1">62</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_143-V1">143</a>, <a href="#Page_144-V1">144</a>; 
	 mission of Piquet, I. <a href="#Page_067-V1">67</a>;
	 method of building up a town, I. <a href="#Page_077-V1">77</a>;
	 La Jonqui&egrave;re succeeds La Galissoni&egrave;re as governor of, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_082-V1">82</a>; 
	 importance of Fort Chartres, I. <a href="#Page_084-V1">84</a>; 
	 internal disorders of, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_086-V1">86</a>, <a href="#Page_087-V1">87</a>; 
	 official knavery and stealing, I. <a href="#Page_087-V1">87</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_088-V1">88</a>, II. 
			<a href="#Page_022-V2">22</a>-<a href="#Page_038-V2">38</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_171-V2">171</a>, <a href="#Page_319-V2">319</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_321-V2">321</a>, <a href="#Page_322-V2">322</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_358-V2">358</a>, <a href="#Page_385-V2">385</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_386-V2">386</a>; 
	 confines of, I. <a href="#Page_125-V1">125</a>; 
	 enmity towards New England, I. <a href="#Page_169-V1">169</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_170-V1">170</a>, <a href="#Page_176-V1">176</a>; 
	 Governor de Vaudreuil despatched to, I. <a href="#Page_182-V1">182</a>; 
	 French expedition sails for, under Dieskau, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_182-V1">182</a>, <a href="#Page_183-V1">183</a>; 
	 plans of Shirley in regard to, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_192-V1">192</a>, <a href="#Page_193-V1">193</a>; 
	 plans of the English to repel the French in, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_234-V1">234</a>;
	 importance of the possession of Acadia, I. <a href="#Page_237-V1">237</a>; 
	 return of Bigot, I. <a href="#Page_253-V1">253</a>;
	 conditions leading to the removal of the Acadians, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_253-V1">253</a>-<a href="#Page_266-V1">266</a> 
			(see <a href="#acadia">Acadia</a> and <a href="#acadians">Acadians</a>); 
	 the governor of, depends on the priests for aid, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_260-V1">260</a>;
	 the Great Company, I. <a href="#Page_283-V1">283</a>;
	 the English victorious, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_307-V1">307</a>-<a href="#Page_309-V1">309</a>; 
	 importance of the position of Niagara, I. <a href="#Page_318-V1">318</a>, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_249-V1">249</a>; 
	 the fur-trade, I. <a href="#Page_320-V1">320</a>;
	 growth of political parties in, I. <a href="#Page_367-V1">367</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_368-V1">368</a>, <a href="#Page_466-V1">466</a>; 
	 the French troops and the militia, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_368-V1">368</a>, 
			<a href="#footer_369">368 <i>note</i></a>, 
			<a href="#Page_370-V1">370</a>, <a href="#Page_371-V1">371</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_372-V1">372</a>, <a href="#Page_467-V1">467</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_468-V1">468</a>, II. 
			<a href="#Page_178-V2">178</a>, <a href="#Page_360-V2">360</a>; 
	 descriptions given by Montcalm, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_372-V1">372</a>, <a href="#Page_373-V1">373</a>; 
	 descriptions given by Duchat, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_379-V1">379</a>, <a href="#Page_380-V1">380</a>;

<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_459-V2" id="Page_459-V2">459<br />V2</a></span>

   causes of the English losses, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_417-V1">417</a>-<a href="#Page_420-V1">420</a>;  
   life at Montreal, I. <a href="#Page_453-V1">453</a>;
   its government, II. <a href="#Page_017-V2">17</a>, 
	 <a href="#Page_018-V2">18</a>; 
   social and official life, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_018-V2">18</a>-<a href="#Page_022-V2">22</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_028-V2">28</a>-<a href="#Page_030-V2">30</a>; 
	 financial condition, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_031-V2">31</a>-<a href="#Page_033-V2">33</a>; 			
	 efforts of Massachusetts to subdue, II. <a href="#Page_084-V2">84</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_085-V2">85</a>, <a href="#Page_115-V2">115</a>;  						
	 mission settlements of the Jesuits, I. <a href="#Page_144-V2">144</a>,  
	    <a href="#Page_145-V2">145</a>;
	 appeal made to court for assistance and troops, II.  
	    <a href="#Page_173-V2">173</a>-<a href="#Page_177-V2">177</a>; 	
	 fall of Quebec, 
	    <a href="#Page_195-V2">195</a>-<a href="#Page_234-V2">234</a>,
	    <a href="#Page_259-V2">259</a>-<a href="#Page_326-V2">326</a> 
			(see <a href="#quebec">Quebec</a>); 
	 effect of losing Fort Niagara, II. <a href="#Page_249-V2">249</a>;
	 the result of Amherst's campaign, II. <a href="#Page_252-V2">252</a>,
	    <a href="#Page_253-V2">253</a>;
	 Montcalm's position, II. <a href="#Page_262-V2">262</a>;
	 authorities concerning the history of, II. 
	    <a href="#footer_28Note">325 <i>note</i>, 326 <i>note</i></a>; 
	 English rule, II. <a href="#Page_332-V2">332</a>; its winter, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_333-V2">333</a>; 
	 passes to the British crown, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_360-V2">360</a>-<a href="#Page_382-V2">382</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_395-V2">395</a>;  
	 Montreal capitulates, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_372-V2">372</a>-<a href="#Page_374-V2">374</a>; 
	 return of the troops to France, II. <a href="#Page_374-V2">374</a>,  
	    <a href="#Page_383-V2">383</a>, <a href="#Page_384-V2">384</a>;
	 utterances from the pulpits after the fall of, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_377-V2">377</a>-<a href="#Page_379-V2">379</a>; 
	 her natural defences, II. <a href="#Page_380-V2">380</a>; 
	 end of the war, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_378-V2">378</a>-<a href="#Page_382-V2">382</a>; 
	 aided by Indians, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_381-V2">381</a>, <a href="#Page_382-V2">382</a>; 
	 question of restoration to France, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_403-V2">403</a>, <a href="#Page_407-V2">407</a>; 
	 predictions of Choiseul, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_403-V2">403</a>, <a href="#Page_404-V2">404</a>; 
	 retention of, by England, approved by Pitt, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_407-V2">407</a>;
	 the peace signed at Paris, II. <a href="#Page_407-V2">407</a>.<br />
Canadians, the, I.
   <a href="#Page_022-V1">22</a>, <a href="#Page_023-V1">23</a>,  
	 <a href="#Page_068-V1">68</a>, <a href="#Page_079-V1">79</a>;
	 their missions and religion, I. <a href="#Page_022-V1">22</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_023-V1">23</a>, <a href="#Page_064-V1">64</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_067-V1">67</a>, <a href="#Page_072-V1">72</a>;
	 sent to watch the English frontier, I. <a href="#Page_116-V1">116</a>; 
	 join the expedition of Duquesne to the Ohio, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_128-V1">128</a>-<a href="#Page_135-V1">135</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_143-V1">143</a>-<a href="#Page_161-V1">161</a>;  
	 at Fort Duquesne, I. <a href="#Page_208-V1">208</a>; 
	 number of, fighting under the French flag, I. <a href="#Page_211-V1">211</a>; 
	 their cowardly action, I. <a href="#Page_215-V1">215</a>; 
	 losses of, at the battle of the Monongahela, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_223-V1">223</a>, <a href="#footer_229">223 <i>note</i></a>; 
	 a litigious race, I. <a href="#Page_259-V1">259</a>; 
	 rapacity of, I. <a href="#Page_283-V1">283</a>; 
	 harsh treatment of the Acadians, I. <a href="#Page_283-V1">283</a>; 
	 under Dieskau, I. <a href="#Page_296-V1">296</a>,  
	    <a href="#Page_299-V1">299</a>, <a href="#Page_303-V1">303</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_304-V1">304</a>, <a href="#Page_307-V1">307</a>; 
	 the battle of Lake George, I. <a href="#Page_299-V1">299</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_304-V1">304</a>-<a href="#Page_317-V1">317</a>; 
	 attacked by a party from Fort Lyman, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_308-V1">308</a>, <a href="#Page_309-V1">309</a>; 
	 troops at Fort Frontenac, I. <a href="#Page_324-V1">324</a>; 
	 political parties among, I. <a href="#Page_367-V1">367</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_368-V1">368</a>; 
	 join the expedition of L&eacute;ry, I.  
	    <a href="#Page_374-V1">374</a>, <a href="#Page_375-V1">375</a>; 
	 guard Fort Frontenac, I. <a href="#Page_376-V1">376</a>;  
	 mode of fighting, I. <a href="#Page_377-V1">377</a>;  
	 at Ticonderoga, I. <a href="#Page_378-V1">378</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_442-V1">442</a>; 
	 harass the English, I. <a href="#Page_388-V1">388</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_393-V1">393</a>; 
	 evils of long encampments, I. <a href="#Page_402-V1">402</a>;   
	 under Rigaud, I. <a href="#Page_408-V1">408</a>;  
	 capture of Oswego, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_409-V1">409</a>-<a href="#Page_420-V1">420</a>; 
	 under Montcalm, I. <a href="#Page_421-V1">421</a>;  
	 join the war-party of Peri&egrave;re, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_429-V1">429</a>-<a href="#Page_431-V1">431</a>; 
	 disguised as Indians, I. <a href="#Page_429-V1">429</a>, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_221-V2">221</a>; 
	 fight with Rogers' rangers, I. <a href="#Page_445-V1">445</a>;
	 the attack upon Fort William Henry, I. <a href="#Page_447-V1">447</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_448-V1">448</a>, <a href="#Page_476-V1">476</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_477-V1">477</a>,
			<a href="#Page_490-V1">490</a>-<a href="#Page_513-V1">513</a>,
			<a href="#footer_526">514 <i>note</i></a>; 
	 exaggerated praise given by Vaudreuil, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_460-V1">460</a>-<a href="#Page_462-V1">462</a>; 
	 their sentiment towards Montcalm, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_463-V1">463</a>, <a href="#Page_464-V1">464</a>; 
	 fortified camps of, I. <a href="#Page_477-V1">477</a>; 
	 dash at Fort Edward, I. <a href="#Page_485-V1">485</a>; 
	 orders of Vaudreuil in relation to the return of, II.  
	    <a href="#Page_003-V2">3</a>, <a href="#Page_004-V2">4</a>;
	 the fight at German Flats, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_006-V2">6</a>, <a href="#Page_007-V2">7</a>; 
	 join Hebecourt, II. <a href="#Page_012-V2">12</a>; 
	 official knavery, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_022-V2">22</a>-<a href="#Page_038-V2">38</a>; 
	 outrages practised upon the Acadians, II. <a href="#Page_026-V2">26</a>; 
	 loss of Louisbourg, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_052-V2">52</a>-<a href="#Page_081-V2">81</a>; 
	 under Montcalm at Ticonderoga, II. <a href="#Page_104-V2">104</a>; 
	 under L&eacute;vis, II. <a href="#Page_109-V2">109</a>; 
	 meet the war-party of Rogers, II. <a href="#Page_124-V2">124</a>; 
	 encounter with Major Grant, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_152-V2">152</a>-<a href="#Page_154-V2">154</a>;  
	 sent to Montcalm, II.  
	    <a href="#Page_165-V2">165</a>, <a href="#Page_166-V2">166</a>; 
	 comments of Montcalm concerning, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_168-V2">168</a>, <a href="#Page_169-V2">169</a>;  
	 their sufferings, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_169-V2">169</a>, <a href="#Page_170-V2">170</a>; 
	 their loyalty and courage, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_169-V2">169</a>, <a href="#Page_170-V2">170</a>; 
	 their alarm and discontent, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_171-V2">171</a>, <a href="#Page_172-V2">172</a>; 
	 siege and fall of Quebec, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_195-V2">195</a>-<a href="#Page_234-V2">234</a>,
			<a href="#Page_259-V2">259</a>-<a href="#Page_326-V2">326</a>;
	 first proclamation issued by Wolfe, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_213-V2">213</a>, <a href="#Page_214-V2">214</a>; 
	 desert the French, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_219-V2">219</a>, <a href="#Page_222-V2">222</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_223-V2">223</a>, <a href="#Page_264-V2">264</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_265-V2">265</a>, <a href="#Page_365-V2">365</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_366-V2">366</a>; 
	 fight like Indians, II. <a href="#Page_221-V2">221</a>;
	 coureurs-de-bois, II. <a href="#Page_221-V2">221</a>;
	 their dread of the Indians, <a href="#Page_222-V2">222</a>,
	    <a href="#Page_223-V2">223</a>; 
	 Wolfe's second proclamation, II. <a href="#Page_225-V2">225</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_226-V2">226</a>; 
	 the siege of Niagara, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_243-V2">243</a>-<a href="#Page_249-V2">249</a>; 
	 the third proclamation of Wolfe to, II. <a href="#Page_261-V2">261</a>;
	 dread of losing their supplies, II. <a href="#Page_264-V2">264</a>;
	 defend Cap-Rouge, II. <a href="#Page_279-V2">279</a>;
	 last movement of Wolfe, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_280-V2">280</a>-<a href="#Page_297-V2">297</a>;
	 rally at C&ocirc;te Ste.-Genevi&egrave;ve, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_300-V2">300</a>, <a href="#Page_301-V2">301</a>; 
	 panic stricken, II. <a href="#Page_302-V2">302</a>;
	 the army to return to Quebec, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_310-V2">310</a>-<a href="#Page_314-V2">314</a>; 
	 bring news to Quebec of promised help, II. <a href="#Page_315-V2">315</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_316-V2">316</a>;
	 the capitulation of Quebec, II. <a href="#Page_316-V2">316</a>;
	 the ladies, II. <a href="#Page_329-V2">329</a>;
	 befriended by Murray, II. <a href="#Page_331-V2">331</a>; 
	 kindness to some wounded officers, II. <a href="#Page_332-V2">332</a>; 
	 threatened the English, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_335-V2">335</a>, <a href="#Page_336-V2">336</a>; 
	 encounter with Major Dalling, II. <a href="#Page_336-V2">336</a>; 
	 fresh efforts to attack Quebec, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_338-V2">338</a>, <a href="#Page_340-V2">340</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_341-V2">341</a>-<a href="#Page_358-V2">358</a>; 
	 the winter, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_339-V2">339</a>, <a href="#Page_340-V2">340</a>;
	 at Sainte-Foy, II. <a href="#Page_342-V2">342</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_442-V2">442</a>-<a href="#Page_444-V2">444</a>; 
	 the fall of Canada, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_360-V2">360</a>-<a href="#Page_382-V2">382</a>;
	 Murray advances upon Montreal, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_363-V2">363</a>-<a href="#Page_366-V2">366</a>; 
	 proclamation of Vaudreuil, II. <a href="#Page_366-V2">366</a>;
	 their privileges as set down in the capitulation of Canada, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_374-V2">374</a>; 
	 kindly treated by the English, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_374-V2">374</a>, <a href="#Page_375-V2">375</a>; 
	 skilful leadership of, II. <a href="#Page_381-V2">381</a>.<br />
Canard River, I. <a href="#Page_268-V1">268</a>;
   reconnoissance of, I. <a href="#Page_272-V1">272</a>;
	 the inhabitants summoned by Winslow to hear the King's orders, I.
	    <a href="#Page_271-V1">271</a>, <a href="#Page_272-V1">272</a>.<br />

<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_460-V2" id="Page_460-V2">460<br />V2</a></span>

Candiac, ch&acirc;teau of, I. <a href="#Page_356-V1">356</a>, 
   <a href="#Page_453-V1">453</a>; 
   family seat of Montcalm, I. <a href="#Page_356-V1">356</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_359-V1">359</a>, II. <a href="#Page_317-V2">317</a>; 
	 departure of Montcalm from, I. <a href="#Page_360-V1">360</a>.<br />
Canidia, I. <a href="#Page_438-V1">438</a>.<br />
Cannibalism among the Indians, I. <a href="#Page_085-V1">85</a>, 
   <a href="#Page_478-V1">478</a>, <a href="#Page_480-V1">480</a>, 
	 <a href="#Page_483-V1">483</a>, <a href="#Page_484-V1">484</a>, II. 
	 <a href="#Page_339-V2">339</a>.<br />
Canseau, garrison at, I. <a href="#Page_092-V1">92</a>; 
   destroyed by the French, I. <a href="#Page_093-V1">93</a>.<br />
Canseau, Straits of, I. <a href="#Page_109-V1">109</a>.<br />
Cap-Rouge, II. <a href="#Page_209-V2">209</a>, 
   <a href="#Page_224-V2">224</a>, <a href="#Page_271-V2">271</a>, 
	 <a href="#Page_276-V2">276</a>, <a href="#Page_278-V2">278</a>,
   <a href="#Page_288-V2">288</a>, <a href="#Page_332-V2">332</a>, 
	 <a href="#Page_342-V2">342</a>, <a href="#Page_357-V2">357</a>;
   held by Dumas, II. <a href="#Page_228-V2">228</a>;  
	 defended by the French, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_279-V2">279</a>, <a href="#Page_280-V2">280</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_282-V2">282</a>, <a href="#Page_283-V2">283</a>;
	 the fall of Quebec, II. <a href="#Page_304-V2">304</a>;
	 expedition of L&eacute;vis, II. <a href="#Page_343-V2">343</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_344-V2">344</a>.<br />
Cap-Sant&eacute;, II. <a href="#Page_019-V2">19</a>.<br />
Cape Breton, I. <a href="#Page_028-V1">28</a>, 
   <a href="#Page_091-V1">91</a>, <a href="#footer_075">95 <i>note</i></a>,
	 <a href="#Page_098-V1">98</a>, <a href="#Page_105-V1">105</a>, 
	 <a href="#Page_108-V1">108</a>, <a href="#Page_178-V1">178</a>, II. 
   <a href="#Page_384-V2">384</a>, <a href="#Page_385-V2">385</a>; 
   restoration of, by England to France, I. <a href="#Page_002-V1">2</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_003-V1">3</a>;
	 the Acadians transported to, I. <a href="#Page_235-V1">235</a>, 
	    <a href="#footer_241">235 <i>note</i></a>; 
	 importance of the possession of Acadia to the French, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_237-V1">237</a>; 
	 papers and writings relating to, I. <a href="#footer_249">243 <i>note</i></a>; 
	 plans of the English with regard to the Acadians, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_264-V1">264</a>, <a href="#Page_265-V1">265</a> 
			(see <a href="#acadia">Acadia</a> and <a href="#acadians">Acadians</a>); 
	 description of, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_052-V2">52</a>-<a href="#Page_054-V2">54</a>;
	 arrival of Boscawen's expedition, II. <a href="#Page_056-V2">56</a>; 
	 the capitulation of Louisbourg, II. <a href="#Page_074-V2">74</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_075-V2">75</a>; 
	 given up to England, II. <a href="#Page_405-V2">405</a>.<br />
"Capricieux," the, II. <a href="#footer_19Note">81 <i>note</i></a>; 
   number of her guns, II. <a href="#footer_579">54 <i>note</i></a>; 
	 burned at anchor, II. <a href="#Page_067-V2">67</a>.<br />
Card-playing, I. <a href="#Page_270-V1">270</a>.<br />
Carillon (see <a href="#ticonderoga">Ticonderoga</a>), II. 
   <a href="#Page_435-V2">435</a>.<br />
Carleton, Sir Guy, II. <a href="#Page_190-V2">190</a>, 
   <a href="#Page_440-V2">440</a>;
   lands at Point-aux-Trembles, II. <a href="#Page_224-V2">224</a>; 
	 drives the Indians from Point-aux-Trembles, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_225-V2">225</a>.<br />
Carlisle, <ins title="Add period after Penn.">Penn.,</ins> I. 
   <a href="#Page_227-V1">227</a>, II. 
   <a href="#Page_135-V2">135</a>; 
   village of, II. <a href="#Page_136-V2">136</a>; 
	 departure of Forbes, II. <a href="#Page_136-V2">136</a>.<br />
Carlos III., secret negotiations of Choiseul with, II. 
   <a href="#Page_396-V2">396</a>; 
   succeeds to the throne of Spain, II. <a href="#Page_396-V2">396</a>;  
	 the Family Compact, II. <a href="#Page_396-V2">396</a>.<br /> 
Carter, Colonel Charles, letter to, cited, I. 
   <a href="#Page_229-V1">229</a>.<br /> 
Carter, Landon, quoted, concerning the service of the country, I. 
   <a href="#Page_331-V1">331</a>.<br /> 
Carteret, Earl Granville.  See <a href="#granville">Granville</a>.<br />
Carthage, I. <a href="#Page_192-V1">192</a>, <a href="#Page_419-V1">419</a>, II. 
   <a href="#Page_377-V2">377</a>.<br /> 
Carthagena, attack on, I. <a href="#Page_245-V1">245</a>.<br /> 
Cartier, Jacques, II. <a href="#Page_339-V2">339</a>.<br /> 
Carver, Jonathan, his version of the massacre at Fort William Henry, I. 
   <a href="#Page_511-V1">511</a>; 
   his narrow escape, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_511-V1">511</a>, <a href="#Page_512-V1">512</a>; 
	 his "Travels," I. <a href="#footer_526">514 <i>note</i></a>.<br />
Cascades, the, II. <a href="#Page_370-V2">370</a>.<br /> 
Casgrain, Abb&eacute;, cited, I. <a href="#footer_333">330 <i>note</i></a>, II. 
   <a href="#footer_829">341 <i>note</i></a>.<br />
Castor, Isle au, II. <a href="#Page_020-V2">20</a>.<br /> 
Caswell, Jonathan, his letter concerning the expedition sent 
   against Crown Point, I. <a href="#Page_292-V1">292</a>.<br /> 
Catawbas, their service sought by the English army, II. 
   <a href="#Page_139-V2">139</a>, <a href="#Page_140-V2">140</a>.<br /> 
Catherine II., reigns in Russia, II. <a href="#Page_399-V2">399</a>; 
   conciliated by Frederic, II. <a href="#Page_399-V2">399</a>.<br />
<a name="catholicism" id="catholicism"></a> 
Catholicism, I. 
   <a href="#Page_064-V1">64</a>, <a href="#Page_359-V1">359</a>; II. 
	    <a href="#Page_412-V2">412</a>; 
   the tithes of, I. <a href="#Page_013-V1">13</a>;
	 policy of rule held by, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_021-V1">21</a>, <a href="#Page_022-V1">22</a>; 
	 in Maryland, I. <a href="#Page_033-V1">33</a>;
	 freedom of, accorded to the Acadians, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_091-V1">91</a>, <a href="#Page_112-V1">112</a>; 
	 evil influence of the priests upon the Acadians, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_091-V2">91</a>, <a href="#Page_094-V2">94</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_098-V2">98</a>, <a href="#Page_102-V2">102</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_103-V2">103</a>, <a href="#Page_106-V2">106</a>,  
			<a href="#Page_107-V2">107</a>, <a href="#Page_243-V2">243</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_244-V2">244</a>, <a href="#Page_257-V2">257</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_260-V2">260</a>-<a href="#Page_266-V2">266</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_283-V2">283</a>;
	 in the English colonies, I. <a href="#Page_193-V1">193</a>;
	 in Pennsylvania, I. <a href="#Page_339-V1">339</a>;  
	 in Europe, I. <a href="#Page_355-V1">355</a>; 
	 influence over the Indians, I. <a href="#Page_479-V1">479</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_480-V1">480</a>.<br /> 
Caughnawaga, I. <a href="#Page_485-V1">485</a>; 
   Indian mission at, I. <a href="#Page_064-V1">64</a>, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_144-V2">144</a>.<br /> 
Caughnawagas, the, I. <a href="#Page_023-V1">23</a>, 
   <a href="#Page_209-V1">209</a>, <a href="#Page_476-V1">476</a>, II. 
	 <a href="#Page_123-V2">123</a>, <a href="#Page_126-V2">126</a>.<br /> 
Cavaliers, the, I. <a href="#Page_029-V1">29</a>.<br /> 
Cayugas, I. <a href="#Page_391-V1">391</a>; 
   efforts of the French to convert, I. 
      <a href="#Page_065-V1">65</a>.<br /> 
"C&eacute;l&egrave;bre," the, number of her guns, II. 
   <a href="#footer_579">54 <i>note</i></a>; 
   burned by the English, II. <a href="#Page_066-V2">66</a>.<br /> 
<a name="celoron" id="celoron"></a>
C&eacute;loron de Bienville, I. <a href="#Page_037-V1">37</a>, 
   <a href="#footer_045">77 <i>note</i></a>, 
	 <a href="#footer_064">84 <i>note</i></a>, 
	 <a href="#Page_128-V1">128</a>, <a href="#Page_133-V1">133</a>; 
   despatched to the West to hold the land for France, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_037-V1">37</a>-<a href="#Page_062-V1">62</a>; 
	 at Ogdensburg and Niagara, I. <a href="#Page_038-V1">38</a>;
	 leaden plates buried by, I. <a href="#Page_043-V1">43</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_048-V1">48</a>, <a href="#Page_050-V1">50</a>, 
			<a href="#footer_02Note">62 <i>note</i></a>; 
	 inscription on the plates, I. <a href="#Page_043-V1">43</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_048-V1">48</a>, 
			<a href="#footer_02Note">62 <i>note</i></a>; 
	 the plates discovered, I. <a href="#Page_048-V1">48</a>, 
			<a href="#footer_02Note">62 <i>note</i></a>; 
	 visits the Senecas, I. <a href="#Page_044-V1">44</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_045-V1">45</a>; 
	 drives out the English from the West, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_044-V1">44</a>-<a href="#Page_046-V1">46</a>;  
	 extract from his writings, I. <a href="#footer_006">45 <i>note</i></a>,
	    <a href="#Page_050-V1">50</a>-<a href="#Page_053-V1">53</a>,
			<a href="#footer_02Note">62 <i>note</i></a>;  
	 encounter with Indians at Scioto, I. <a href="#Page_048-V1">48</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_049-V1">49</a>; 
	 name given by, to the Kenawha River, I. 
	    <a href="#footer_010">48 <i>note</i></a>; 
	 failure of his plans with regard to La Demoiselle, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_051-V1">51</a>, <a href="#Page_052-V1">52</a>;
	 return of his party to Canada, I. <a href="#Page_052-V1">52</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_053-V1">53</a>; 
	 journey to the Ohio, I. <a href="#Page_065-V1">65</a>; 
	 visits the mission of Father Piquet, I. <a href="#Page_065-V1">65</a>; 
	 at Detroit, I. <a href="#Page_076-V1">76</a>, <a href="#Page_077-V1">77</a>; 
	 his character, I. <a href="#Page_077-V1">77</a>; 
	 ordered to attack Pickawillany, I. <a href="#Page_081-V1">81</a>; 
	 orders from La Jonqui&egrave;re, I. <a href="#Page_084-V1">84</a>.<br /> 
Celts in Pennsylvania, I. <a href="#Page_031-V1">31</a>.<br /> 
Census, the, taken in Acadia and Canada, I. <a href="#Page_020-V1">20</a>, 
   <a href="#footer_001">20 <i>note</i></a>, 
	 <a href="#footer_074">94 <i>note</i></a>, 
	 <a href="#Page_124-V1">124</a>, II. <a href="#Page_178-V2">178</a>.<br /> 
"Centurion," the, II. <a href="#Page_229-V2">229</a>,
   <a href="#Page_231-V2">231</a>-<a href="#Page_233-V2">233</a>.<br />
Cerberus, dog belonging to Piquet, I. <a href="#Page_069-V1">69</a>.<br /> 
Chambly, Fort, I. <a href="#Page_453-V1">453</a>; abandoned by the French, II. 
   <a href="#Page_368-V2">368</a>.<br />
Chambord, I. <a href="#Page_010-V1">10</a>.<br /> 

<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_461-V2" id="Page_461-V2">461<br />V2</a></span>

Champlain, Lake, I. <a href="#Page_002-V1">2</a>, 
   <a href="#Page_023-V1">23</a>, <a href="#Page_192-V1">192</a>, 
	 <a href="#Page_289-V1">289</a>, <a href="#Page_294-V1">294</a>,
	 <a href="#Page_298-V1">298</a>, <a href="#Page_321-V1">321</a>,
	 <a href="#Page_378-V1">378</a>, <a href="#Page_398-V1">398</a>,
	 <a href="#Page_399-V1">399</a>, <a href="#Page_407-V1">407</a>,
	 <a href="#Page_418-V1">418</a>, <a href="#Page_428-V1">428</a>,
	 <a href="#Page_435-V1">435</a>, <a href="#Page_442-V1">442</a>,
	 <a href="#Page_448-V1">448</a>, <a href="#Page_453-V1">453</a>,
	 <a href="#Page_476-V1">476</a>, <a href="#Page_477-V1">477</a>, II. 
	 <a href="#Page_088-V2">88</a>,
	 <a href="#Page_099-V2">99</a>, <a href="#Page_121-V2">121</a>,
   <a href="#Page_178-V2">178</a>, <a href="#Page_196-V2">196</a>,
	 <a href="#Page_238-V2">238</a>, <a href="#Page_249-V2">249</a>,
	 <a href="#Page_250-V2">250</a>, <a href="#Page_252-V2">252</a>,
	 <a href="#Page_361-V2">361</a>, <a href="#Page_362-V2">362</a>.<br />
Chandler, a chaplain, his diary quoted concerning the camp 
   at Lake George, I. <a href="#Page_314-V1">314</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_315-V1">315</a>.<br />
Chaplains, II. <a href="#Page_116-V2">116</a>, <a href="#Page_117-V2">117</a>; 
   their pay, I. <a href="#Page_386-V1">386</a>; 
	 their accommodations, I. <a href="#footer_420">405 <i>note</i></a>.<br />
Charles VI., his will, I. <a href="#Page_018-V1">18</a>; 
   death of, I. <a href="#Page_018-V1">18</a>; 
	 his will set aside, I. <a href="#Page_018-V1">18</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_019-V1">19</a>.<br /> 
Charles River, II. <a href="#Page_297-V2">297</a>.<br /> 
Charlesbourg, II. <a href="#Page_021-V2">21</a>, <a href="#Page_022-V2">22</a>,
   <a href="#Page_265-V2">265</a>, <a href="#Page_307-V2">307</a>.<br /> 
Charlestown, II. <a href="#Page_256-V2">256</a>, 
   <a href="#Page_257-V2">257</a>;
   road built by Amherst, II. <a href="#Page_241-V2">241</a>.<br /> 
Charlevoix, I. <a href="#Page_360-V1">360</a>.<br /> 
Charters, I. <a href="#Page_025-V1">25</a>.<br /> 
Chartres, Fort, I. <a href="#Page_040-V1">40</a>, 
   <a href="#Page_041-V1">41</a>, <a href="#Page_076-V1">76</a>; 
   increasing power of the English, I. <a href="#Page_083-V1">83</a>.<br /> 
Ch&acirc;teau battery, the, II. <a href="#Page_208-V2">208</a>.<br /> 
Ch&acirc;telet, the, II. <a href="#Page_385-V2">385</a>.<br /> 
Chaudi&egrave;re River, the, I. <a href="#Page_169-V1">169</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_381-V1">381</a>; 
   fortifications on, I. <a href="#Page_192-V1">192</a>.<br /> 
Chautauqua Lake, I. <a href="#Page_039-V1">39</a>.<br /> 
Chebucto, plan for making a naval station by the English, I. 
   <a href="#Page_092-V1">92</a>; 
   harbor of, I. <a href="#Page_092-V1">92</a>. 
	 See <a href="#halifax">Halifax</a>.<br />
Chenitou (Chignecto), I. <a href="#footer_111">117 <i>note</i></a>.<br />
Cherbourg, II. <a href="#Page_047-V2">47</a>.<br /> 
Cherokees, the, I. <a href="#Page_068-V1">68</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_139-V1">139</a>, <a href="#Page_466-V1">466</a>, II. 
			<a href="#Page_417-V2">417</a>; 
   their service sought by the English army, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_139-V1">139</a>, <a href="#Page_140-V1">140</a>.<br />
Chester County, I. <a href="#Page_347-V1">347</a>.<br /> 
Chesterfield, Lord, I. <a href="#Page_008-V1">8</a>;  
   his opinion of Lord Albemarle, I. <a href="#Page_180-V1">180</a>;  
	 acts as mediator, II. <a href="#Page_041-V2">41</a>; 
	 his despondency, II. <a href="#Page_045-V2">45</a>.<br /> 
"Ch&egrave;vre," the number of her guns, II. 
   <a href="#footer_579">54 <i>note</i></a>.<br />
Chew, Ensign, II. <a href="#footer_653">140 <i>note</i></a>.<br />
Chickasaws, the, I. <a href="#Page_139-V1">139</a>.<br /> 
Chignecto, I. <a href="#footer_111">117 <i>note</i></a>; 
   preparations of the French to attack, I. <a href="#Page_239-V1">239</a>;
	 proposal to give the land to English settlers, I.
	    <a href="#Page_257-V1">257</a>.<br /> 
Chignecto Bay, I. <a href="#Page_094-V1">94</a>, 
   <a href="#Page_120-V1">120</a>.<br /> 
Chignecto Channel, I. <a href="#Page_267-V1">267</a>.<br /> 
Chiningu&eacute;, I. <a href="#Page_046-V1">46</a>, 
   <a href="#Page_053-V1">53</a>, <a href="#Page_133-V1">133</a>.<br /> 
Chinodahichetha, name given by C&eacute;loron to the Kenawha River, 
   I. <a href="#footer_010">48 <i>note</i></a>.<br />
Chipody, I. <a href="#Page_120-V1">120</a>, <a href="#Page_121-V1">121</a>, 
   <a href="#Page_247-V1">247</a>, <a href="#Page_254-V1">254</a>; 
   news of disaster, I. <a href="#Page_275-V1">275</a>.<br /> 
Choctaws, the, I. <a href="#Page_068-V1">68</a>, 
   <a href="#Page_466-V1">466</a>.<br /> 
Choiseul, Duc de, II. <a href="#Page_393-V2">393</a>; 
   made minister of foreign affairs, II. <a href="#Page_393-V2">393</a>; 
	 sketch of, by Stanley, II. <a href="#Page_393-V2">393</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_394-V2">394</a>;
	 his character, II. <a href="#Page_394-V2">394</a>;
	 propositions made to Pitt, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_394-V2">394</a>, <a href="#Page_395-V2">395</a>; 
	 terms of peace offered to England, II. <a href="#Page_395-V2">395</a>; 
	 his forethought, II. <a href="#Page_396-V2">396</a>;
	 the Family Compact, II. <a href="#Page_396-V2">396</a>;
	 his negotiation with Pitt proves fruitless, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_396-V2">396</a>;
	 desires peace with England, II. <a href="#Page_402-V2">402</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_403-V2">403</a>; 
	 his predictions concerning American possessions, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_403-V2">403</a>, <a href="#Page_404-V2">404</a>.<br />
Christ Church, Philadelphia, II. <a href="#Page_162-V2">162</a>.<br />
Christianity, Indian followers of, I. <a href="#Page_041-V1">41</a>, 
   <a href="#Page_042-V1">42</a>, <a href="#Page_485-V1">485</a>, 
	 <a href="#Page_487-V1">487</a>.<br />
Christmas Day, II. <a href="#Page_335-V2">335</a>.<br />
Church of Notre Dame de Quebec, II. <a href="#Page_442-V2">442</a>.<br />
Church of Rome.  See <a href="#catholicism">Catholicism</a>.<br />
Church of the Jesuits, the, after the siege, II.
   <a href="#Page_328-V2">328</a>.<br />
Clare River, I. <a href="#Page_283-V1">283</a>.<br /> 
Claverie, La Friponne, II. <a href="#Page_024-V2">24</a>.<br /> 
Cleaveland, Miss Abby E., II. <a href="#footer_641">117 <i>note</i></a>.<br />
Cleaveland, John, chaplain of Bagley's Massachusetts regiment, II. 
   <a href="#Page_076-V2">76</a>, <a href="#Page_115-V2">115</a>; 
   extract from his diary, II. <a href="#Page_115-V2">115</a>, 
	    <a href="#footer_641">117 <i>note</i></a>, <a href="#Page_127-V2">127</a>; 
	 report concerning the defences of Abercromby, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_115-V2">115</a>, <a href="#Page_116-V2">116</a>; 
	 extract from letters to his wife, II. <a href="#Page_116-V2">116</a>, 
	    <a href="#footer_641">117 <i>note</i></a>; 
	 preaching on Sunday, II. <a href="#Page_117-V2">117</a>; his illness, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_120-V2">120</a>.<br />
Clergy, the, how considered during the reign of George II., I. 
   <a href="#Page_007-V1">7</a>; 
   the condition of, in France, I. <a href="#Page_012-V1">12</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_013-V1">13</a>, <a href="#Page_014-V1">14</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_015-V1">15</a>; 
	 corruption of, I. <a href="#Page_012-V1">12</a>;
	 influence of, in regard to the oath of allegiance 
	    for the Acadians, <ins title="Changed 106 note to 106.">I. </ins> 
	    <a href="#Page_106-V1">106</a>. 
	 See <a href="#acadians">Acadians</a>.<br />
Clergy battery, the, II. <a href="#Page_208-V2">208</a>.<br />
Clerk, engineer under Abercromby, II. <a href="#Page_103-V2">103</a>; 
   reconnoitres the French works, II. <a href="#Page_103-V2">103</a>.<br />
Clermont, I. <a href="#Page_010-V1">10</a>; 
   recalled, II. <a href="#Page_047-V2">47</a>.<br />
Clinker, Humphrey, I. <a href="#Page_178-V1">178</a>.<br /> 
Clinton, George, Governor of New York, I. 
   <a href="#footer_070">88 <i>note</i></a>; 
   desirability of an Indian alliance, I. <a href="#Page_059-V1">59</a>;
	 invites commissioners from the provinces to meet the Indians at Albany, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_061-V1">61</a>; 
	 quotation from, concerning the neglect of New York 
	    to protect Indian trade, I. <a href="#Page_061-V1">61</a>, 
			   <a href="#Page_062-V1">62</a>; 
	 Johnson's complaints of the French dealings with the Indians, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_064-V1">64</a>; 
	 quarrels with the Assembly of New York, I. <a href="#Page_073-V1">73</a>; 
	 complaints concerning invasions of territory by the French, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_079-V1">79</a>.<br />
Clive, the victory of Plassey, II. <a href="#Page_045-V2">45</a>.<br />
Cobequid, I. <a href="#Page_106-V1">106</a>;
   formerly the name of Truro, I. <a href="#Page_094-V1">94</a>; 
	 Acadian emigration from, I. <a href="#Page_109-V1">109</a>;
	 mountains of, I. <a href="#Page_269-V1">269</a>;
	 failure of the expedition to, I. <a href="#Page_280-V1">280</a>,
	    <a href="#Page_281-V1">281</a>.<br /> 
Cocquard, Father Claude Godefroy, I. <a href="#Page_413-V1">413</a>; 
   his remarks concerning the fall of Oswego, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_413-V1">413</a>.<br /> 

<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_462-V2" id="Page_462-V2">462<br />V2</a></span>

Cod, Cape, I. <a href="#Page_246-V1">246</a>;
   soldiers from, for the French campaigns, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_246-V1">246</a>.<br /> 
Coffen, Stephen, deposition of, I. 
   <a href="#footer_132">131 <i>note</i></a>.<br />
Colbert, II. <a href="#Page_410-V2">410</a>.<br />
Colden, Alexander, II. <a href="#Page_432-V2">432</a>.<br />
Coldfoot, a Miami chief, I. <a href="#Page_082-V1">82</a>.<br /> 
Coldstream Guards, the, I. <a href="#Page_191-V1">191</a>.<br /> 
College of the Jesuits, the, after the siege, II. 
   <a href="#Page_003-V2">3</a>-<a href="#Page_008-V2">8</a>.<br />
"Com&egrave;te," number of her guns, II. 
   <a href="#footer_579">54 <i>note</i></a>.<br />
Commissioners of boundary, I. <a href="#Page_122-V1">122</a>, 
   <a href="#Page_123-V1">123</a>-<a href="#Page_128-V1">128</a>, 
	 <a href="#Page_236-V1">236</a>-<a href="#Page_238-V1">238</a>; 
   commissioners of Indian affairs, I. 
	 <a href="#Page_172-V1">172</a>-<a href="#Page_176-V1">176</a>, 
	 <a href="#Page_195-V1">195</a>.<br />
Cond&eacute;, I. <a href="#Page_010-V1">10</a>, II. 
   <a href="#Page_184-V2">184</a>.<br /> 
Conflans, Admiral, II. <a href="#Page_401-V2">401</a>.<br /> 
Congregationalists in the army, II. <a href="#Page_117-V2">117</a>.<br /> 
Congress at Albany, of Indians and English, I. 
    <a href="#Page_172-V1">172</a>-<a href="#Page_176-V1">176</a>.<br /> 
Connecticut, I. <a href="#Page_061-V1">61</a>, <a href="#Page_246-V1">246</a>,
   <a href="#Page_286-V1">286</a>, <a href="#Page_291-V1">291</a>,
	 <a href="#Page_304-V1">304</a>, <a href="#Page_402-V1">402</a>;
   appointment of the governor of, I. <a href="#Page_025-V1">25</a>;  
	 extent of the New England border, I. <a href="#Page_028-V1">28</a>; 
	 soldiers in the expedition against Crown Point, I.  
	    <a href="#Page_290-V1">290</a>, <a href="#Page_291-V1">291</a>;
	 recruits sent to Johnson, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_313-V1">313</a>, <a href="#Page_314-V1">314</a>;
	 to provide an officer for the English garrison, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_315-V1">315</a>;  
	 money granted to, from Parliament, I. 
	    <a href="#footer_388">382 <i>note</i></a>; 
	 her sacrifices in times of war, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_086-V2">86</a>;  
	 provincials under Abercromby, II. <a href="#Page_093-V2">93</a>; 
	 men serving under Putnam, II. <a href="#Page_122-V2">122</a>.<br />
Connecticut River, the, II. <a href="#Page_254-V2">254</a>, 
	 <a href="#Page_256-V2">256</a>.<br />
Conner, James, English scout, I. <a href="#Page_415-V1">415</a>;  
   visits Oswego, I. <a href="#Page_415-V1">415</a>;  
	 the news of the loss carried to Fort Johnson, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_416-V1">416</a>.<br />
Contades, I. <a href="#Page_010-V1">10</a>; 
   appointed to command, II. <a href="#Page_047-V2">47</a>.<br />
Contrec&oelig;ur, I. <a href="#Page_429-V1">429</a>;  
   succeeds Saint-Pierre in command, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_143-V1">143</a>, <a href="#Page_144-V1">144</a>;
	 commandant at Fort Duquesne, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_147-V1">147</a>, <a href="#Page_208-V1">208</a>, II. 
			<a href="#Page_423-V1">423</a>; 
	 Jumonville sent on an expedition to warn the English to leave the West, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_148-V1">148</a>; 
	 harangues the Indians, I. <a href="#Page_154-V1">154</a>; 
	 consults with Beaujeu, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_210-V1">210</a>, <a href="#Page_211-V1">211</a>; 
	 his resolution to despatch forces to meet Braddock, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_210-V1">210</a>, <a href="#Page_211-V1">211</a>; 
	 waits at Fort Duquesne, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_211-V1">211</a>, <a href="#Page_212-V1">212</a>;
	 return of the troops after defeating Braddock, I.
	    <a href="#Page_221-V1">221</a>, <a href="#Page_222-V1">222</a>;
	 Dumas succeeds at Fort Duquesne, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_329-V1">329</a>, <a href="#Page_330-V1">330</a>;  
	 orders concerning prisoners, I. <a href="#footer_333">330 <i>note</i></a>; 
	 receives the cross of the Order of St. Louis, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_426-V2">426</a>.<br />
Conway, General, letter from Walpole, II. <a href="#Page_358-V2">358</a>.<br />
Cook, his voyages, II. <a href="#Page_411-V2">411</a>.<br />
Cork, I. <a href="#Page_182-V1">182</a>.<br />
Cope, Major Jean-Baptiste, Indian chief, I. <a href="#Page_104-V1">104</a>; 
   signs a treaty of peace with the English, I.
	    <a href="#Page_104-V1">104</a>, <a href="#Page_105-V1">105</a>; 
	 the murder of Capt. Howe, I. <a href="#Page_118-V1">118</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_119-V1">119</a>.<br />
Corbi&egrave;re, Colonel Parker's company taken, I. 
   <a href="#Page_484-V1">484</a>.<br />
Corlaer, Indian word for the English, I. <a href="#Page_487-V1">487</a>.<br />
Corneille, II. <a href="#Page_009-V2">9</a>.<br />
Cornier, Madame, I. <a href="#Page_455-V1">455</a>.<br />
Cornwallis, Lord, I. <a href="#Page_093-V1">93</a>.<br />
Cornwallis, Edward, uncle of Lord Cornwallis, I. <a href="#Page_093-V1">93</a>;
   made governor of Acadia, I. <a href="#Page_093-V1">93</a>;
	 opinions of Wolfe and Horace Walpole concerning, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_093-V1">93</a>, <a href="#Page_110-V1">110</a>; 
	 makes the oath of allegiance more strict for the Acadians, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_097-V1">97</a>-<a href="#Page_099-V1">99</a>;  
	 his successor, I. <a href="#Page_104-V1">104</a>; 
	 efforts of, to compel the Acadians to swear fidelity to England, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_105-V1">105</a>;  
	 discovers the treachery of the French, I. <a href="#Page_107-V1">107</a>; 
	 misplaced confidence in the French crown, I. <a href="#Page_111-V1">111</a>;  
	 angry letter written to the Bishop of Quebec, I.
	    <a href="#Page_107-V1">107</a>;  
	 relations with the French and Acadians, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_107-V1">107</a>, <a href="#Page_108-V1">108</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_110-V1">110</a>, <a href="#Page_111-V1">111</a>; 
	 his speech to the Acadians, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_110-V1">110</a>-<a href="#Page_112-V1">112</a>; 
	 mild rule of, in Nova Scotia, I. <a href="#Page_113-V1">113</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_257-V1">257</a>; 
	 his opinion of Le Loutre, I. <a href="#Page_114-V1">114</a>.<br />
Corpron, II. <a href="#Page_030-V2">30</a>; 
   his official knavery, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_022-V2">22</a>-<a href="#Page_024-V2">24</a>; 
	 thrown into the Bastille, II. <a href="#Page_385-V2">385</a>.<br />
Cortland, manor of, I. <a href="#Page_032-V1">32</a>.<br />
Cosnan, Captain, II. <a href="#Page_221-V2">221</a>.<br />
C&ocirc;te d'Abraham, II. <a href="#Page_342-V2">342</a>.<br />
C&ocirc;te Ste.-Genevi&egrave;ve, II. <a href="#Page_300-V2">300</a>,  
   <a href="#Page_301-V2">301</a>, <a href="#Page_342-V2">342</a>.<br />
C&ocirc;teau du Lac, the, II. <a href="#Page_370-V2">370</a>.<br />
Coudres, Isle aux, II. <a href="#Page_198-V2">198</a>, 
   <a href="#Page_260-V2">260</a>; 
   ordered to be evacuated, II. <a href="#Page_199-V2">199</a>;  
	 Admiral Durell, at, II. <a href="#Page_203-V2">203</a>.<br />
Coureurs-de-bois, II. <a href="#Page_178-V2">178</a>, 
   <a href="#Page_221-V2">221</a>.<br />
Courserac, II. <a href="#footer_19Note">81 <i>note</i></a>; 
   sent to the English camp from Louisbourg, II. <a href="#Page_073-V2">73</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_074-V2">74</a>.<br />
Courtemanche, his advance upon Fort William Henry, I. 
   <a href="#Page_491-V1">491</a>.<br />
Courts-martial in the English army, II. <a href="#Page_236-V2">236</a>.<br />
Courval, the French firerafts commanded by, II. 
   <a href="#Page_227-V2">227</a>.<br />
Crawford, Chaplain William, letter to Timothy Paine, I. 
   <a href="#Page_404-V1">404</a>;
   his account of the provincial camp, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_404-V1">404</a>, <a href="#Page_405-V1">405</a>.<br />
Croghan, George, I. <a href="#Page_042-V1">42</a>, 
   <a href="#Page_203-V1">203</a>; 
   Indian trader, I. <a href="#Page_054-V1">54</a>; 
	 expedition of, to the Ohio, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_054-V1">54</a>-<a href="#Page_059-V1">59</a>; 
	 sent to the Miamis to promote friendly feelings, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_059-V1">59</a>, <a href="#Page_060-V1">60</a>, 
			<a href="#footer_019">60 <i>note</i></a>; 
	 reward offered for his scalp, I. <a href="#Page_079-V1">79</a>; 
	 accusations against, I. <a href="#Page_080-V1">80</a>; 
	 brings Indians to Braddock's camp, I. <a href="#Page_203-V1">203</a>.<br />
Crown Point, I. <a href="#Page_024-V1">24</a>, <a href="#Page_174-V1">174</a>, 
   <a href="#Page_289-V1">289</a>, <a href="#Page_327-V1">327</a>, 
	 <a href="#Page_378-V1">378</a>, <a href="#Page_453-V1">453</a>, II. 
	 <a href="#Page_087-V2">87</a>, <a href="#Page_102-V2">102</a>;

<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_463-V2" id="Page_463-V2">463<br />V2</a></span>

   capture of, planned, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_192-V1">192</a>-<a href="#Page_194-V1">194</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_285-V1">285</a>; 
	 expedition against, led by Colonel William Johnson, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_194-V1">194</a>, <a href="#Page_196-V1">196</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_285-V1">285</a>-<a href="#Page_317-V1">317</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_374-V1">374</a>, <a href="#Page_382-V1">382</a>; 
	 French designs in relation to, I. <a href="#Page_289-V1">289</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_293-V1">293</a>, <a href="#Page_295-V1">295</a>; 
	 reached by Dieskau, I. <a href="#Page_296-V1">296</a>; 
	 the battle, I. <a href="#Page_303-V1">303</a>-<a href="#Page_316-V1">316</a>; 
	 result of the expedition, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_313-V1">313</a>, <a href="#Page_314-V1">314</a>;
	 importance of, I. <a href="#Page_378-V1">378</a>;
	 plan of capture by Shirley, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_381-V1">381</a>, <a href="#Page_382-V1">382</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_384-V1">384</a>, <a href="#Page_398-V1">398</a>; 
	 expeditions of Rogers' rangers, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_433-V1">433</a>-<a href="#Page_437-V1">437</a>; 
	 Winslow's regret at the failures of the English, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_439-V1">439</a>; 
	 the scouting-party of Rogers, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_441-V1">441</a>-<a href="#Page_445-V1">445</a>; 
	 captured by Amherst, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_235-V2">235</a>-<a href="#Page_240-V1">240</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_265-V2">265</a>;
	 retreat of the French, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_238-V2">238</a>, <a href="#Page_239-V2">239</a>; 
	 new fort built by Amherst, II. <a href="#Page_240-V2">240</a>,
	    <a href="#Page_241-V1">241</a>, <a href="#Page_252-V2">252</a>;
	 the situation between French and English, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_361-V2">361</a>.<br />
Cruger, Mayor, difficulty in quartering the troops in New York, I. 
   <a href="#Page_440-V1">440</a>.<br />
Cruikshank, Captain, affront given to a provincial regiment, II.
   <a href="#Page_119-V2">119</a>.<br />
Culloden, battle of, I. 
   <a href="#Page_006-V1">6</a>, <a href="#Page_008-V1">8</a>, 
	 <a href="#Page_019-V1">19</a>, II. <a href="#Page_185-V2">185</a>.<br />
Cumberland, Duke of, I. 
   <a href="#Page_194-V1">194</a>, <a href="#Page_253-V1">253</a>, II. 
   <a href="#Page_040-V2">40</a>, <a href="#Page_041-V2">41</a>; 
   his place as a soldier, I. <a href="#Page_179-V1">179</a>; 
	 his opinion of Major-General Braddock, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_181-V1">181</a>, <a href="#Page_182-V1">182</a>; 
	 military plans of, I. <a href="#Page_234-V1">234</a>; 
	 his prejudice against Shirley, I. <a href="#Page_421-V1">421</a>; 
	 miscarriage of his plans, II. <a href="#Page_045-V2">45</a>; 
	 recalled from Germany, II. <a href="#Page_047-V2">47</a>.<br />
Cumberland, Nova Scotia, I. <a href="#Page_268-V1">268</a>.<br />
Cumberland, Penn., I. <a href="#Page_423-V1">423</a>.<br />
Cumberland County laid waste, I. <a href="#Page_344-V1">344</a>.<br />
Cumberland Fort, I. <a href="#Page_203-V1">203</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_225-V1">225</a>-<a href="#Page_229-V1">229</a>, II. 
			<a href="#Page_133-V2">133</a>; 
   erection of, I. <a href="#Page_200-V1">200</a>; 
	 distance from Little Meadows, I. <a href="#Page_206-V1">206</a>; 
	 Colonel James Innes, commander of, I. <a href="#Page_226-V1">226</a>; 
	 Indians attack the frontier, and murder the settlers, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_329-V1">329</a>-<a href="#Page_331-V1">331</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_342-V1">342</a>; 
	 name given to Beaus&eacute;jour, I. <a href="#Page_253-V1">253</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_255-V1">255</a> 
			(see <a href="#beausejour">Beaus&eacute;jour</a>), 
			<a href="#Page_267-V1">267</a>, <a href="#Page_281-V1">281</a>, II. 
			<a href="#Page_181-V2">181</a>; 
	 St. Patrick's Day celebrated, II. <a href="#Page_182-V2">182</a>.<br />
Cummings, C.&nbsp;F. Gordon, II. <a href="#Page_436-V2">436</a>.<br />
Cummings, Colonel, disgraceful order of Abercromby to, II. 
   <a href="#Page_114-V2">114</a>.<br />
</p>
<p><br /></p>
<h3>D.</h3>
<p>	
Daine, Mayor of Quebec, II. <a href="#Page_311-V2">311</a>.<br />
Dalling, Major, sent to occupy Port Espagnol, II. <a href="#Page_078-V2">78</a>; 
   Canadians taken prisoners, II. <a href="#Page_225-V2">225</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_226-V2">226</a>; 
	 encounter with Canadians and Indians, II. <a href="#Page_336-V2">336</a>; 
	 his light infantry, II. <a href="#Page_347-V2">347</a>.<br />
Dalquier, Lieutentant-Colonel, II. <a href="#Page_303-V2">303</a>; 
   his leadership and bravery, II. <a href="#Page_348-V2">348</a>.<br />
Dalzell, Captain, skirmish in the woods, II. <a href="#Page_122-V2">122</a>; 
   his death, II. <a href="#Page_122-V2">122</a>.<br />
Daniel, II. <a href="#Page_149-V2">149</a>.<br />
Danvers, II. <a href="#Page_116-V2">116</a>.<br />
Darby, Major, II. <a href="#Page_368-V2">368</a>.<br />
Daudin, priest of Pisiquid, I. <a href="#Page_244-V1">244</a>.<br />
Daun, the Austrian general, II. <a href="#Page_387-V2">387</a>; 
   his victory, II. 
   <a href="#Page_387-V2">387</a>.<br />
"Dauphin," escape of the, I. <a href="#Page_185-V1">185</a>, 
   <a href="#Page_186-V1">186</a>.<br />
Dauphin's Bastion, the, II. <a href="#Page_055-V2">55</a>; 
   approach of Wolfe, II. <a href="#Page_066-V2">66</a>; 
	 condition of the besieged, II. <a href="#Page_069-V2">69</a>; 
	 the white flag, II. <a href="#Page_071-V2">71</a>; 
	 to be opened to British troops, II. <a href="#Page_074-V2">74</a>,
	    <a href="#Page_075-V2">75</a>.<br />
Dauphin's Battery, the, II. <a href="#Page_208-V2">208</a>.<br />
Davison, a trader, I. <a href="#Page_133-V1">133</a>.<br />
De Cosne, I. <a href="#Page_184-V1">184</a>.<br />
Defiance, Mount, II. 
   <a href="#Page_102-V2">102</a>-<a href="#Page_104-V2">104</a>.<br />
D&eacute;jean, I. <a href="#Page_361-V1">361</a>.<br />
Delancey, Lieutenant-Governor of New York, I. <a href="#Page_316-V1">316</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_328-V1">328</a>, <a href="#Page_440-V1">440</a>; 
   asked to aid in repelling the French on the Ohio, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_141-V1">141</a>; 
	 council of governors held with Braddock, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_191-V1">191</a>-<a href="#Page_195-V1">195</a>; 
	 questions at issue in New York, I. <a href="#Page_350-V1">350</a>; 
	 the cabal against Shirley, I. <a href="#Page_328-V1">328</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_383-V1">383</a>; 
	 orders to fire upon deserters, II. <a href="#Page_003-V2">3</a>.<br />
Delancey, Oliver, soldiers sent to lodge with, I. 
   <a href="#Page_440-V1">440</a>.<br />
Delaware, George, Indian chief, I. <a href="#Page_145-V1">145</a>.<br />
Delaware, colony of, I. <a href="#Page_033-V1">33</a>.<br />
Delaware River, the, I. <a href="#Page_040-V1">40</a>, 
   <a href="#Page_045-V1">45</a>.<br />
Delawares, the, I. <a href="#Page_046-V1">46</a>, <a href="#Page_057-V1">57</a>, 
   <a href="#Page_060-V1">60</a>, <a href="#Page_130-V1">130</a>; 
   attitude towards the English, I. <a href="#Page_059-V1">59</a>;
	 efforts of the English to obtain allies from, I.
	    <a href="#Page_150-V1">150</a>; 
	 instigated to fight against the English, I.
	    <a href="#Page_203-V1">203</a>, <a href="#Page_329-V1">329</a>,
	    <a href="#Page_343-V1">343</a>, <a href="#Page_344-V1">344</a>;  
	 at Fort Duquesne, I. <a href="#Page_154-V1">154</a>; 
	 council held with Johnson, I. <a href="#Page_391-V1">391</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_392-V1">392</a>; 
	 attack and reduction of Kittanning, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_423-V2">423</a>-<a href="#Page_427-V2">427</a>; 
	 convention of Indians, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_142-V2">142</a>, <a href="#Page_143-V2">143</a>;
	 wavering allies, II. <a href="#Page_143-V2">143</a>;  
	 declare themselves allies of the English, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_147-V2">147</a>, <a href="#Page_148-V2">148</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_150-V1">150</a>.<br />
Delouche commands the fireships, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_210-V2">210</a>, <a href="#Page_211-V1">211</a>.<br />
De Monts, commission of, I. <a href="#footer_121">123 <i>note</i></a>.<br />
Denmark, I. <a href="#Page_010-V1">10</a>.<br />
Denny, Governor, I. <a href="#footer_447">426 <i>note</i></a>.<br />
De Noyan, commandant at Fort Frontenac, II. 
   <a href="#Page_128-V2">128</a>.<br />
Desandrouin, French engineer, II. 
   <a href="#Page_100-V2">100</a>-<a href="#Page_102-V2">102</a>.<br />
Desauniers, Demoiselles, I. <a href="#Page_064-V1">64</a>.<br />
Deschambault, II. 
   <a href="#Page_008-V2">8</a>, <a href="#Page_263-V1">263</a>,
   <a href="#Page_341-V2">341</a>, <a href="#Page_361-V1">361</a>.<br />
Deschamps, Chief Justice, diary found in his house, II. 
   <a href="#footer_19Note">82 <i>note</i></a>.<br />
Deschenaux, official corruption, II. <a href="#Page_030-V2">30</a>.<br />
Descombles, French engineer, I. <a href="#Page_408-V1">408</a>; 
   reconnoitres the fort at Oswego, I. <a href="#Page_409-V1">409</a>; 
	 shot by an Indian, I. <a href="#Page_409-V1">409</a>.<br />
Desgouttes withdraws the "Ar&eacute;thuse," II. <a href="#Page_065-V2">65</a>; 
   considerations in regard to capitulation, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_071-V2">71</a>-<a href="#Page_073-V2">73</a>; 

<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_464-V2" id="Page_464-V2">464<br />V2</a></span>

   correspondence with Drucour, II. 
	    <a href="#footer_19Note">81 <i>note</i></a>.<br />
Des Habitants River, the, I. <a href="#Page_268-V1">268</a>; 
   reconnoissance of, I. <a href="#Page_272-V1">272</a>.<br />
Desherbiers, commandant at Louisbourg, I. <a href="#Page_101-V1">101</a>; 
   instructions in regard to the Acadians, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_101-V1">101</a>, <a href="#Page_102-V1">102</a>; 
	 his treachery, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_102-V1">102</a>, <a href="#Page_103-V1">103</a>; 
	 medals sent to, I. <a href="#Page_102-V1">102</a>.<br />
D&eacute;sirade Island, restored by England, II. 
   <a href="#Page_405-V2">405</a>.<br />
Desm&eacute;loizes, Mademoiselle, wife of M. P&eacute;an, II. 
   <a href="#Page_028-V2">28</a>.<br />
Des Moines, I. <a href="#Page_486-V1">486</a>.<br />
De Soto, I. <a href="#Page_024-V1">24</a>.<br />
Detroit, I. 
   <a href="#Page_082-V1">82</a>, <a href="#Page_209-V1">209</a>, 
	 <a href="#Page_219-V1">219</a>, <a href="#Page_485-V1">485</a>, II. 
	 <a href="#Page_122-V2">122</a>, <a href="#Page_142-V2">142</a>, 
	 <a href="#Page_244-V2">244</a>; 
   importance of the post, I. <a href="#Page_075-V1">75</a>, 
	 <a href="#Page_076-V1">76</a>, <a href="#Page_080-V1">80</a>; 
	 population of, I. <a href="#Page_076-V1">76</a>, 
	 <a href="#footer_046">77 <i>note</i></a>; 
	 C&eacute;loron visits, with a royal commission, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_076-V1">76</a>, <a href="#Page_077-V1">77</a>; 
	 plan of, I. <a href="#footer_044">76 <i>note</i></a>; 
	 efforts to build up, by the French, I. <a href="#Page_077-V1">77</a>; 
	 small-pox at, I. <a href="#Page_083-V1">83</a>; 
	 the English to be attacked, I. <a href="#Page_084-V1">84</a>; 
	 danger to Fort Duquesne, II. <a href="#Page_160-V2">160</a>; 
	 the coureurs-de-bois, II. <a href="#Page_178-V2">178</a>; 
	 retreat to, of the French forces, II. <a href="#Page_247-V2">247</a>; 
	 injured by the loss of Niagara, II. <a href="#Page_248-V2">248</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_249-V2">249</a>.<br />
Dettingen, I. <a href="#Page_019-V1">19</a>, II. 
   <a href="#Page_185-V2">185</a>, <a href="#Page_391-V2">391</a>.<br />
Devonshire, Duke of, II. <a href="#Page_041-V2">41</a>.<br />
Diamond, Cape, II. 
   <a href="#Page_208-V2">208</a>, <a href="#Page_209-V2">209</a>, 
   <a href="#Page_212-V2">212</a>, <a href="#Page_355-V2">355</a>.<br />
"Diana," the, II. <a href="#Page_356-V2">356</a>.<br />
Diderot, I. <a href="#Page_016-V1">16</a>, <a href="#Page_288-V1">288</a>, 
   <a href="#footer_313">309 <i>note</i></a>; 
	 meeting with Dieskau, 
	 <a href="#footer_312">308 <i>note</i></a>,  
	 <a href="#footer_313">309 <i>note</i></a>,  
   <a href="#Page_311-V1">311</a>.<br />
Dieskau, Baron, I. <a href="#Page_285-V1">285</a>, 
   <a href="#Page_373-V1">373</a>, <a href="#Page_376-V1">376</a>; 
   made general in Canada, I. <a href="#Page_182-V1">182</a>; 
   letter of, quoted, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_182-V1">182</a>, <a href="#Page_183-V1">183</a>;
	    his forces, I. <a href="#Page_288-V1">288</a>, 
			   <a href="#Page_296-V1">296</a>, <a href="#Page_368-V1">368</a>; 
   a letter of Braddock found, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_288-V1">288</a>, <a href="#Page_289-V1">289</a>;
	 plans of, in regard to the French campaign, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_288-V1">288</a>, <a href="#Page_289-V1">289</a>;
	 prepares an ambush for Johnson, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_296-V1">296</a>, <a href="#Page_300-V1">300</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_302-V1">302</a>, <a href="#Page_303-V1">303</a>; 
	 advances through the forest, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_297-V1">297</a>-<a href="#Page_299-V1">299</a>; 
	 news of the approach of the English, I. <a href="#Page_300-V1">300</a>; 
	 success of the action against Whiting and Williams, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_303-V1">303</a>;
	 the battle of Lake George, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_304-V1">304</a>-<a href="#Page_317-V1">317</a>; 
	 badly wounded, I. <a href="#Page_307-V1">307</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_308-V1">308</a>, <a href="#Page_311-V1">311</a>;  
	 carried to the English camp, and kindly cared for, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_308-V1">308</a>, <a href="#Page_309-V1">309</a>; 
	 his defeat, I. <a href="#Page_308-V1">308</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_498-V1">498</a>, II. <a href="#Page_088-V2">88</a>; 
	 his remarks concerning his surrender, and Johnson's soldiers, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_308-V1">308</a>, <a href="#footer_312">308 <i>note</i></a>, 
			<a href="#Page_310-V1">310</a>, <a href="#Page_311-V1">311</a>; 
	 his interview with Diderot, I. 
	    <a href="#footer_312">308 <i>note</i></a>, 
	    <a href="#footer_313">309 <i>note</i></a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_311-V1">311</a>; 
	 his life threatened by the Mohawks, I. <a href="#Page_309-V1">309</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_310-V1">310</a>; 
	 his life saved by Johnson, I. <a href="#Page_309-V1">309</a>; 
	 carried to Fort Lyman, I. <a href="#Page_310-V1">310</a>; 
	 his service under Saxe, I. <a href="#Page_310-V1">310</a>; 
	 his death, I. <a href="#Page_311-V1">311</a>; 
	 his Indians tomahawk the Englishmen, I. <a href="#Page_312-V1">312</a>;
	 succeeded by Montcalm, I. <a href="#Page_356-V1">356</a>;
	 his salary, I. <a href="#Page_361-V1">361</a>.<br />
Diet at Presburg, I. <a href="#Page_019-V1">19</a>.<br />
Dinwiddie, Robert, Lieutenant-Governor of Virginia, I. 
   <a href="#Page_042-V1">42</a>, <a href="#Page_136-V1">136</a>, 
	 <a href="#Page_137-V1">137</a>; 
   letter to Hamilton quoted, I. <a href="#footer_005">42 <i>note</i></a>; 
	 desirability of an Indian alliance, I. <a href="#Page_059-V1">59</a>; 
	 difficulties of boundary, I. <a href="#Page_061-V1">61</a>; 
	 letter from, to Saint-Pierre, introducing George Washington, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_132-V1">132</a>, <a href="#Page_134-V1">134</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_135-V1">135</a>; 
	 tries to repel the French aggression in the West, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_132-V1">132</a>, <a href="#Page_137-V1">137</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_139-V1">139</a>, <a href="#Page_142-V1">142</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_176-V1">176</a>, <a href="#Page_193-V1">193</a>; 
	 answer sent to, from Saint-Pierre, I. <a href="#Page_135-V1">135</a>; 
	 report of Washington made to, I. <a href="#Page_136-V1">136</a>; 
	 orders received from the King, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_137-V1">137</a>, <a href="#Page_138-V1">138</a>; 
	 his dependence on the Assembly of Virginia, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_137-V1">137</a>, <a href="#Page_138-V1">138</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_163-V1">163</a>; 
	 Virginia refuses to pay certain fees, I. <a href="#Page_138-V1">138</a>; 
	 sends Washington with a party to resist the French at Fort Duquesne, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_138-V1">138</a>-<a href="#Page_161-V1">161</a>; 
	 orders sent to Indian tribes on the Ohio, I. <a href="#Page_139-V1">139</a>; 
	 seeks aid from other colonies, I. <a href="#Page_139-V1">139</a>; 
	 letter to Lord Fairfax, I. <a href="#Page_139-V1">139</a>; 
	 a fort to be built on the Ohio, I. <a href="#Page_139-V1">139</a>; 
	 letters to Hanbury quoted, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_140-V1">140</a>, <a href="#Page_141-V1">141</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_144-V1">144</a>, <a href="#footer_146">144 <i>note</i></a>; 
	 invites the Indians to meet him at Winchester, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_141-V1">141</a>; 
	 the governor's palace, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_142-V1">142</a>, <a href="#Page_163-V1">163</a>;
	 seeks to raise regiments, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_142-V1">142</a>, <a href="#Page_143-V1">143</a>; 
	 plans of the English blighted, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_143-V1">143</a>, <a href="#Page_144-V1">144</a>; 
	 good news from Washington, I. <a href="#Page_145-V1">145</a>; 
	 letters from Druillon, I.  <a href="#Page_149-V1">149</a>; 
	 the defeat of Washington, I. <a href="#Page_162-V1">162</a>; 
	 letter to a London correspondent quoted, I. <a href="#Page_163-V1">163</a>;
	 speech to the Assembly of Virginia, 
	    <a href="#Page_164-V1">164</a>, <a href="#Page_165-V1">165</a>; 
	 exasperated at the French, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_170-V1">170</a>, <a href="#Page_171-V1">171</a>;  
	 letter to Lord Granville quoted, I. <a href="#Page_176-V1">176</a>;
	 correspondence with Glen, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_176-V1">176</a>, <a href="#Page_177-V1">177</a>; 
	 desired aid from the home government, I. <a href="#Page_177-V1">177</a>; 
	 taxes recommended, I. <a href="#Page_177-V1">177</a>; 
	 his opinion of Braddock, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_187-V1">187</a>, <a href="#Page_188-V1">188</a>;  
	 accompanies Braddock to Alexandria, I. <a href="#Page_191-V1">191</a>; 
	 council of governors held with Braddock, I.
	    <a href="#Page_191-V1">191</a>-<a href="#Page_195-V1">195</a>; 
	 defends taxation by Parliament, I. <a href="#Page_193-V1">193</a>; 
	 praises of the New England colonies, I. <a href="#Page_197-V1">197</a>; 
	 supplies for the army scarce, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_197-V1">197</a>, <a href="#Page_198-V1">198</a>; 
	 greatly disturbed at the losses of the English, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_228-V1">228</a>-<a href="#Page_235-V1">235</a>; 
	 correspondence with Orme quoted, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_229-V1">229</a>-<a href="#Page_233-V1">233</a>; 
	 correspondence with Washington, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_229-V1">229</a>, <a href="#Page_231-V1">231</a>; 
	 letter to Lord Halifax, I. <a href="#Page_229-V1">229</a>; 
	 sends Major Colin Campbell for news, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_229-V1">229</a>, <a href="#Page_231-V1">231</a>; 
	 letter to Dunbar quoted, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_231-V1">231</a>, <a href="#Page_232-V1">232</a>; 
	 desires to renew offensive operations, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_232-V1">232</a>, <a href="#Page_233-V1">233</a>;
	 his fears realized, I. <a href="#Page_233-V1">233</a>;
	 his view of Dunbar's conduct justified, I. 
	    <a href="#footer_238">233 <i>note</i></a>; 

<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_465-V2" id="Page_465-V2">465<br />V2</a></span>

   his plans of war, I. <a href="#Page_332-V1">332</a>; 
	 relations with Washington, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_131-V2">131</a>, <a href="#Page_132-V2">132</a>; 
	 removed from office, II. <a href="#Page_132-V2">132</a>; 
	 matters pertaining to the "assassination" of Jumonville, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_421-V2">421</a>-<a href="#Page_423-V2">423</a>.<br />
Dobbs, Governor of North Carolina, I. <a href="#Page_187-V1">187</a>; 
   council of governors held with Braddock, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_191-V1">191</a>-<a href="#Page_195-V1">195</a>.<br />
Dobson, Captain, I. <a href="#Page_229-V1">229</a>.<br />
Dog tribe, the, I. <a href="#Page_068-V1">68</a>.<br />
Dominica taken by England, II. <a href="#Page_400-V2">400</a>; 
   to belong to England, II. <a href="#Page_405-V2">405</a>.<br />
Doreil, commissary of war, embarks with Dieskau, I. 
   <a href="#Page_182-V1">182</a>; 
   letter from Montcalm to, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_111-V2">111</a>, <a href="#Page_112-V2">112</a>; 
	 letter to the minister of war, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_162-V2">162</a>, <a href="#Page_163-V2">163</a>;
	 letter concerning the state of Canada, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_171-V2">171</a>, <a href="#Page_172-V2">172</a>; 
	 double-dealing of Vaudreuil, II. <a href="#Page_173-V2">173</a>; 
	 appeal made to France, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_173-V2">173</a>-<a href="#Page_175-V2">175</a>; 
	 matters pertaining to Ticonderoga, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_431-V2">431</a>-<a href="#Page_436-V2">436</a>.<br />
Douville, orders concerning prisoners, I. 
   <a href="#footer_333">330 <i>note</i></a>; 
   killed, I. <a href="#Page_423-V1">423</a>.<br />
Dover, II. <a href="#Page_403-V2">403</a>.<br />
Dresden taken from Frederic, II. <a href="#Page_388-V2">388</a>.<br />
Drowned Lands, the, I. 
   <a href="#Page_298-V1">298</a>, <a href="#Page_302-V1">302</a>.<br />
Drucour, Governor at Louisbourg, II. <a href="#Page_056-V2">56</a>;  
   the siege and reduction of Louisbourg, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_056-V2">56</a>-<a href="#Page_081-V2">81</a>, 
	    <a href="#footer_19Note">81 <i>note</i></a>; 
	 statistics of troops, II. <a href="#footer_584">59 <i>note</i></a>; 
	 his effort to protect the harbor of Louisbourg, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_064-V2">64</a>; 
	 courtesies between the commanders, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_064-V2">64</a>, <a href="#Page_065-V2">65</a>; 
	 his lodgings in flames, II. <a href="#Page_067-V2">67</a>;
	 Amherst promises to spare the sick, II. 
	    <a href="#footer_587">70 <i>note</i></a>; 
	 terms of capitulation extended to, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_071-V2">71</a>-<a href="#Page_074-V2">74</a>; 
	 signs the capitulation, II. <a href="#Page_075-V2">75</a>.<br />
Drucour, Madame, her heroism, II. <a href="#Page_065-V2">65</a>.<br />
Druillon, letters sent to Dinwiddie, I. <a href="#Page_149-V1">149</a>.<br />
"Dublin," the ship, Amherst embarks in her, II. <a href="#Page_051-V2">51</a>.<br />
Dublin, I. <a href="#footer_435">419 <i>note</i></a>, II. 
   <a href="#Page_190-V2">190</a>.<br />
Dubrowski, II. <a href="#footer_17Note">37 <i>note</i></a>.<br />
Du Cayla, II. <a href="#Page_427-V2">427</a>.<br />
Duchat, Captain, his description of Canadian life, I. 
   <a href="#Page_379-V1">379</a>, <a href="#Page_380-V1">380</a>.<br />
Duchesnaye, II. <a href="#Page_020-V2">20</a>.<br />
Dufferin, Lord, II. <a href="#footer_17Note">37 <i>note</i></a>.<br />
Dumas has charge of the youth of Montcalm, I. <a href="#Page_356-V1">356</a>; 
   letter of, concerning Montcalm's education, I. 
	 <a href="#Page_357-V1">357</a>, <a href="#Page_358-V1">358</a>.<br />
Dumas, Captain, I. <a href="#Page_208-V1">208</a>, II. 
   <a href="#Page_361-V2">361</a>; 
   at Fort Duquesne, I. <a href="#Page_208-V1">208</a>;
	 encounter with Braddock, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_215-V1">215</a>-<a href="#Page_227-V1">227</a>;  
	 returns to Fort Duquesne, I. <a href="#Page_220-V1">220</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_221-V1">221</a>; 
	 the border warfare encouraged by, I. <a href="#Page_329-V1">329</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_330-V1">330</a>; 
	 quoted concerning his influence over the Indians, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_329-V1">329</a>, <a href="#Page_330-V1">330</a>;  
	 succeeds Contrc&oelig;ur at Fort Duquesne, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_329-V1">329</a>, <a href="#Page_426-V1">426</a>; 
	 efforts of the French to prevent the torture of prisoners, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_330-V1">330</a>; 
	 commands the party to attack the English at Point Levi, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_215-V2">215</a>; 
	 his failure to dislodge the English, II. <a href="#Page_219-V2">219</a>;
	 holds Cap-Rouge, II. <a href="#Page_228-V2">228</a>;
	 to prevent Murray moving up the St. Lawrence, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_361-V2">361</a>;
	 advances upon Montreal, II. <a href="#Page_364-V2">364</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_365-V2">365</a>; 
	 matters relating to a pension for, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_423-V2">423</a>, <a href="#Page_424-V2">424</a>; 
	 receives the cross of the Order of St. Louis, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_426-V2">426</a>.<br />
Dumont, II. <a href="#Page_347-V2">347</a>, 
   <a href="#Page_348-V2">348</a>.<br />
Dunbar, Colonel Thomas, his troops, I. <a href="#Page_200-V1">200</a>, 
   <a href="#footer_227">220 <i>note</i></a>, II. 
   <a href="#Page_256-V1">256</a>; 
   to take command of the rear division of Braddock's expedition, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_206-V1">206</a>; 
	 reinforcements for Braddock, I. <a href="#Page_223-V1">223</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_224-V1">224</a>; 
	 arrival at his camp, of a portion of Braddock's army, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_224-V1">224</a>, <a href="#Page_225-V1">225</a>; 
	 his course of action blamed by the colonies, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_225-V1">225</a>; 
	 encamped at Great Meadows, I. <a href="#Page_226-V1">226</a>; 
	 retreat of, I. <a href="#Page_226-V1">226</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_329-V1">329</a>; 
	 arrival of his train at Fort Cumberland, I. <a href="#Page_227-V1">227</a>; 
	 letter to, from Dinwiddie, quoted, I.  
	    <a href="#Page_231-V1">231</a>, <a href="#Page_232-V1">232</a>; 
	 exhorted to retrieve the English losses, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_231-V1">231</a>, <a href="#Page_232-V1">232</a>;  
	 his conduct wanting in courage, and condemned by Dinwiddie, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_231-V1">231</a>-<a href="#Page_233-V1">233</a>, 
			<a href="#footer_238">233 <i>note</i></a>; 
	 instructions from his superior officers neglected, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_233-V1">233</a>.<br />
"Dunkirk," the, chases the French vessels, I. <a href="#Page_185-V1">185</a>, 
   <a href="#Page_186-V1">186</a>.<br />
Dunkirk, II. <a href="#Page_395-V2">395</a>; 
   fortress of, II. <a href="#Page_395-V2">395</a>; 
   the fortress to be destroyed, II. <a href="#Page_405-V2">405</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_406-V2">406</a>.<br />
"Dunkirk of America," the, II. <a href="#Page_052-V2">52</a>.<br />
Duquesne, Marquis, Governor of Canada, I. 
   <a href="#footer_003">41 <i>note</i></a>, <a href="#Page_239-V1">239</a>; 
   his opinion of Piquet, I. <a href="#footer_033">67 <i>note</i></a>; 
   his character and personal appearance, I. <a href="#Page_085-V1">85</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_086-V1">86</a>; 
	 prepares to secure the upper part of the Ohio Valley, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_086-V1">86</a>, <a href="#Page_087-V1">87</a>; 
	 influenced by unworthy motives, I. <a href="#Page_088-V1">88</a>; 
	 landing of his force at Presquisle, I. <a href="#Page_128-V1">128</a>; 
	 instructions to Marin, I. <a href="#Page_129-V1">129</a>; 
	 a fort to be built on French Creek, I. <a href="#Page_130-V1">130</a>;
	 plans of the expedition thwarted, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_130-V1">130</a>, <a href="#Page_131-V1">131</a>; 
	 return of a part of the expedition to Montreal, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_131-V1">131</a>; 
	 letters of, compared with other writings, I. 
	    <a href="#footer_131">131 <i>note</i></a>; 
	 Contrec&oelig;ur succeeds Saint-Pierre, I.  
	    <a href="#Page_143-V1">143</a>, <a href="#Page_144-V1">144</a>; 
	 succeeded by De Vaudreuil, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_182-V1">182</a>, <a href="#Page_288-V1">288</a>; 
	 orders sent to, from France, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_183-V1">183</a>, <a href="#Page_184-V1">184</a>; 
	 letter to Le Loutre concerning Acadia, I. <a href="#Page_239-V1">239</a>; 
	 relations with Le Loutre, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_239-V1">239</a>, <a href="#Page_242-V1">242</a>; 
	 his harsh treatment of the Acadians, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_244-V1">244</a>, <a href="#Page_245-V1">245</a>; 
	 resigns his government,  I. <a href="#Page_288-V1">288</a>;

<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_466-V2" id="Page_466-V2">466<br />V2</a></span>

   his discipline over troops, I. <a href="#Page_369-V1">369</a>.<br />
Duquesne, Fort, I. 
   <a href="#Page_147-V1">147</a>, <a href="#Page_325-V1">325</a>, II. 
	 <a href="#Page_131-V2">131</a>; 
   built by the French, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_143-V1">143</a>, <a href="#Page_144-V1">144</a>, 
			<a href="#footer_340">337 <i>note</i></a>; 
	 expedition of Jumonville, I. <a href="#Page_148-V1">148</a>; 
	 reinforcements sent to, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_152-V1">152</a>, <a href="#Page_153-V1">153</a>; 
	 French force at, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_159-V1">159</a>, <a href="#Page_206-V1">206</a>; 
	 exultant return of Villiers to, I. <a href="#Page_161-V1">161</a>; 
	 Braddock to lead the expedition against, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_194-V1">194</a>, <a href="#Page_196-V1">196</a>; 
	 parties sent out to interrupt General Braddock's march, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_205-V1">205</a>, <a href="#Page_206-V1">206</a>; 
	 Braddock's expedition against, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_206-V1">206</a>-<a href="#Page_209-V1">209</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_214-V1">214</a>-<a href="#Page_233-V1">233</a>, II. 
			<a href="#Page_423-V2">423</a>-<a href="#Page_426-V2">426</a>; 
	 situation and appearance of, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_207-V1">207</a>, <a href="#Page_208-V1">208</a>;
	 command held by Contrec&oelig;ur, I. <a href="#Page_208-V1">208</a>;
	 number of Indians and Canadians at, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_208-V1">208</a>, <a href="#Page_209-V1">209</a>; 
	 Indians and French depart from, to fight with Braddock's expedition, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_210-V1">210</a>-<a href="#Page_213-V1">213</a>, II. 
			<a href="#Page_423-V2">423</a>-<a href="#Page_426-V2">426</a>; 
	 return of the French troops, I. <a href="#Page_221-V1">221</a>; 
	 desire to attack a second time, I. <a href="#Page_233-V1">233</a>; 
	 Dumas succeeds Contrec&oelig;ur in command, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_329-V1">329</a>;  
	 plan of capture, I. <a href="#Page_381-V1">381</a>; 
	 the attack abandoned, I. <a href="#Page_382-V1">382</a>; 
	 report of the affair of Kittanning, I.  
	    <a href="#Page_426-V1">426</a>, <a href="#Page_427-V1">427</a>;
	 the war-policy of Pitt, II. <a href="#Page_048-V2">48</a>,
	    <a href="#Page_131-V2">131</a>, <a href="#Page_132-V2">132</a>;
	 importance of position, II. <a href="#Page_048-V2">48</a>;
	 expedition against, fitted out by the English, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_049-V2">49</a>, <a href="#Page_129-V2">129</a>; 
	 approached by General Forbes's army, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_130-V2">130</a>-<a href="#Page_134-V2">134</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_138-V2">138</a>, <a href="#Page_140-V2">140</a>,  
	    <a href="#Page_141-V2">141</a>; 
	 M. de Ligneris, commandant of, II. <a href="#Page_141-V2">141</a>; 
	 French reinforcements sent to, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_141-V2">141</a>, <a href="#Page_142-V2">142</a>; 
	 Indians near, sought as allies by English and French, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_142-V2">142</a>, <a href="#Page_143-V2">143</a>; 
	 the missions of Frederic Post, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_144-V2">144</a>-<a href="#Page_151-V2">151</a>; 
	 Post invited to go thither, II. <a href="#Page_145-V2">145</a>; 
	 Grant's expedition, II.  
	    <a href="#Page_151-V2">151</a>-<a href="#Page_155-V2">155</a>; 
	 statistics concerning the daily rations, II. 
	    <a href="#footer_660">152 <i>note</i></a>; 
	 desperate condition of the French, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_155-V2">155</a>, <a href="#Page_156-V2">156</a>; 
	 evacuated by the French, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_158-V2">158</a>, <a href="#Page_159-V2">159</a>; 
	 garrison left by the English under Lieutenant-Colonel Mercer, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_160-V2">160</a>; 
	 effect of the English victory, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_162-V2">162</a>, <a href="#Page_235-V2">235</a>; 
	 letter from Montcalm referring to matters there, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_168-V2">168</a>, <a href="#Page_169-V2">169</a>.<br />
Durell, Admiral, II. 
   <a href="#Page_192-V2">192</a>, <a href="#Page_198-V2">198</a>; 
   at Isle-aux-Coudres, II. <a href="#Page_203-V2">203</a>; 
	 arrival of his fleet in the St. Lawrence, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_203-V2">203</a>-<a href="#Page_206-V2">206</a>; 
	 ruse to obtain a pilot, II. <a href="#Page_204-V2">204</a>.<br />
D&uuml;rer, I. <a href="#Page_433-V2">433</a>.<br />
Durham Terrace, II. <a href="#Page_355-V2">355</a>.<br />
Dury, interview with Braddock, I. <a href="#Page_190-V1">190</a>.<br />
Dussieux, I. <a href="#footer_526">514 <i>note</i></a>.<br />
Dutch, the, I. <a href="#Page_287-V1">287</a>; 
   in Pennsylvania, I. <a href="#Page_031-V1">31</a>; 
   trading interests at Albany, I.
	    <a href="#Page_032-V1">32</a>, <a href="#Page_033-V1">33</a>,
	    <a href="#Page_065-V1">65</a>, <a href="#Page_193-V1">193</a>,  
	    <a href="#Page_195-V1">195</a>, <a href="#Page_319-V1">319</a>,
	    <a href="#Page_320-V1">320</a>, <a href="#Page_327-V1">327</a>;  
	 alienate the Mohawks, I. <a href="#Page_171-V1">171</a>;  
	 their language, I. <a href="#Page_221-V1">221</a>; 
	 at Schenectady, I. <a href="#Page_321-V1">321</a>; 
	 hostile to Johnson, I. <a href="#Page_328-V1">328</a>.<br />
Dutch Reformed Church, the,  I. <a href="#Page_032-V1">32</a>.<br />
Duvivier to accept the terms of capitulation for Louisbourg, II.
   <a href="#Page_073-V2">73</a>, <a href="#Page_074-V2">74</a>.<br />
</p>
<p><br /></p>
<h3>E.</h3>
<p>	
Easton, Indian convention at, II. <a href="#Page_143-V2">143</a>,
   <a href="#Page_147-V2">147</a>-<a href="#Page_150-V2">150</a>,
   <a href="#Page_161-V2">161</a>.<br />
"&Eacute;cho," the, number of her guns, II. 
   <a href="#footer_579">54 <i>note</i></a>; 
   captured by the English, II. <a href="#Page_063-V2">63</a>.<br />
Edinburgh, the University of, II. <a href="#Page_285-V2">285</a>.<br />
Edward, grandson of George II., name given to Fort Edward, I. 
   <a href="#Page_315-V1">315</a>.<br />
Edward, Fort, in Nova Scotia, I. <a href="#Page_268-V1">268</a>, 
   <a href="#Page_270-V1">270</a>, <a href="#Page_272-V1">272</a>, 
	 <a href="#Page_275-V1">275</a>, <a href="#Page_280-V1">280</a>.<br /> 
Edward, Fort, in New York, I. 
   <a href="#Page_388-V1">388</a>, <a href="#Page_406-V1">406</a>,
	 <a href="#Page_441-V1">441</a>, <a href="#Page_452-V1">452</a>, II. 
   <a href="#Page_121-V2">121</a>, <a href="#Page_432-V2">432</a>,
	 <a href="#Page_435-V2">435</a>; 
   name given to Fort Lyman, I. <a href="#Page_294-V1">294</a>,
   <a href="#Page_315-V1">315</a>; 
	 winter life of the garrison, I. <a href="#Page_350-V1">350</a>; 
	 difficulties of carrying stores to, I. <a href="#Page_388-V1">388</a>;  
	 forces stationed here, I. <a href="#Page_401-V1">401</a>; 
	 its condition, I. <a href="#Page_401-V1">401</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_402-V1">402</a>, <a href="#Page_403-V1">403</a>; 
	 Earl Loudon stationed at, I. <a href="#Page_421-V1">421</a>; 
	 exposed condition of, I. <a href="#Page_474-V1">474</a>, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_003-V2">3</a>; 
	 attacked by a party under Marin, I. <a href="#Page_485-V1">485</a>; 
	 position of General Webb, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_496-V1">496</a>, <a href="#Page_497-V1">497</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_501-V1">501</a>, II. <a href="#Page_002-V2">2</a>; 
	 arrival of soldiers escaping from Fort William Henry, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_511-V1">511</a>-<a href="#Page_513-V1">513</a>, II.
			<a href="#Page_428-V2">428</a>, <a href="#Page_431-V2">431</a>;  
	 mutiny among the troops, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_002-V2">2</a>, <a href="#Page_003-V2">3</a>; 
	 arrival of troops to aid Monro, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_002-V2">2</a>, <a href="#Page_003-V2">3</a>; 
	 omission of Montcalm to attack, after his success at Fort William Henry, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_004-V2">4</a>, <a href="#Page_167-V2">167</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_168-V2">168</a>; 
	 commanded by Captain Haviland, II. <a href="#Page_011-V2">11</a>; 
	 expedition of Rogers' rangers, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_011-V2">11</a>-<a href="#Page_016-V2">16</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_124-V2">124</a>; 
	 fortified by the English, II. <a href="#Page_237-V2">237</a>.<br />
Edwards, Jonathan, I. <a href="#Page_027-V1">27</a>.<br />
Egmont, Cape, II. <a href="#Page_194-V2">194</a>.<br />
Elder, John, letter from, quoted, I. <a href="#Page_344-V1">344</a>.<br />
Elizabeth of Russia, I. <a href="#Page_018-V1">18</a>, II. 
   <a href="#Page_389-V2">389</a>,  
   <a href="#Page_393-V2">393</a>, <a href="#Page_409-V2">409</a>; 
   her hatred of Frederic the Great, I. <a href="#Page_353-V1">353</a>, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_389-V2">389</a>, <a href="#Page_399-V2">399</a>; 
	 her death, II. <a href="#Page_399-V2">399</a>.<br />
Elizabeth Castle, I. <a href="#Page_252-V1">252</a>.<br />
Emerson, Rev.  Mr., II. <a href="#Page_120-V2">120</a>.<br />
England, I. <a href="#Page_067-V1">67</a>, <a href="#Page_310-V1">310</a>; 
   her possessions in America, and questions of boundary, I. 
	 <a href="#Page_001-V1">1</a>-<a href="#Page_003-V1">3</a>,
	 <a href="#Page_020-V1">20</a>-<a href="#Page_037-V1">37</a>,
	 <a href="#Page_056-V1">56</a>, <a href="#Page_079-V1">79</a>,
	 <a href="#Page_090-V1">90</a>-<a href="#Page_092-V1">92</a>,
	 <a href="#Page_122-V1">122</a>-<a href="#Page_128-V1">128</a>,
	 <a href="#Page_132-V1">132</a>, <a href="#Page_161-V1">161</a>,
	 <a href="#Page_168-V1">168</a>, <a href="#Page_184-V1">184</a>,
	 <a href="#Page_236-V1">236</a>-<a href="#Page_238-V1">238</a>,
	 <a href="#Page_243-V1">243</a>;
	 restoration of Cape Breton, by, I. <a href="#Page_002-V1">2</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_003-V1">3</a>; 
	 result of the subjection of Canada, I. <a href="#Page_003-V1">3</a>; 
	 her commerce, I. <a href="#Page_003-V1">3</a>, <a href="#Page_004-V1">4</a>; 
	 influence of the Seven Years War, I. <a href="#Page_003-V1">3</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_004-V1">4</a>, II.  
			<a href="#Page_038-V2">38</a>-<a href="#Page_040-V2">40</a>,
			<a href="#Page_386-V2">386</a>,
			<a href="#Page_408-V2">408</a>-<a href="#Page_414-V2">414</a>; 
	 religion, morals, and society under George II., I. 
	    <a href="#Page_005-V1">5</a>-<a href="#Page_011-V1">11</a>; 
	 decline of the Tory power, I. <a href="#Page_006-V1">6</a>;  
	 fall of the Stuarts, I. <a href="#Page_006-V1">6</a>;

<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_467-V2" id="Page_467-V2">467<br />V2</a></span>

   service rendered by Pitt, I. <a href="#Page_009-V1">9</a>, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_040-V2">40</a>-<a href="#Page_047-V2">47</a>,
			<a href="#Page_395-V2">395</a>-<a href="#Page_398-V2">398</a>,
			<a href="#Page_400-V2">400</a>, <a href="#Page_401-V2">401</a>; 
	 the army and navy, I. <a href="#Page_009-V1">9</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_180-V1">180</a>, <a href="#Page_181-V1">181</a>, II. 
			<a href="#Page_380-V2">380</a>, <a href="#Page_381-V2">381</a>,
			<a href="#Page_400-V2">400</a>, <a href="#Page_411-V2">411</a>; 
	 conditions of, after the peace of Aix-la-Chapelle, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_009-V1">9</a>; 
	 question of the mastery of India, I. <a href="#Page_010-V1">10</a>;
	 action taken by, at the time of the succession of Maria Theresa, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_019-V1">19</a> 
	 French and English population in America in 1754, compared, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_020-V1">20</a>; 
	 success of, in establishing her colonies, and their condition, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_022-V1">22</a>, <a href="#Page_025-V1">25</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_029-V1">29</a>, <a href="#Page_030-V1">30</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_033-V1">33</a>, <a href="#Page_056-V1">56</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_126-V1">126</a>, <a href="#Page_127-V1">127</a>, II. 
			<a href="#Page_175-V2">175</a>-<a href="#Page_177-V2">177</a>,
			<a href="#Page_401-V2">401</a>, <a href="#Page_403-V2">403</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_411-V2">411</a>; 
	 importance of Pique Town and of Oswego, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_052-V1">52</a>, <a href="#Page_068-V1">68</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_070-V1">70</a>, <a href="#Page_072-V1">72</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_325-V1">325</a>, <a href="#Page_398-V1">398</a>,
	    <a href="#Page_399-V1">399</a>, <a href="#Page_415-V1">415</a>;
	 seeks to repel the French aggressions in the West, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_053-V1">53</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_132-V1">132</a>-<a href="#Page_142-V1">142</a>;
	 importance of securing the Iroquois Indians as allies, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_063-V1">63</a>-<a href="#Page_065-V1">65</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_125-V1">125</a>, <a href="#Page_372-V1">372</a>,
	    <a href="#Page_374-V1">374</a>; 
	 neglect of the British Assemblies, of their interests, I.
	    <a href="#Page_086-V1">86</a>,
	 the possession of Acadia, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_090-V1">90</a>, <a href="#Page_093-V1">93</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_094-V1">94</a>, <a href="#Page_123-V1">123</a>,
			<a href="#Page_236-V1">236</a>, <a href="#Page_253-V1">253</a>; 
	 conditions imposed on French inhabitants of Acadia, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_090-V1">90</a>, <a href="#Page_091-V1">91</a>; 
	 hostility of the Acadians and Indians encouraged by the French, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_091-V1">91</a>, <a href="#Page_094-V1">94</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_098-V1">98</a>-<a href="#Page_108-V1">108</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_235-V1">235</a>-<a href="#Page_240-V1">240</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_242-V1">242</a>-<a href="#Page_245-V1">245</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_264-V1">264</a>; 
	 the oath of allegiance to be taken by the Acadians, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_091-V1">91</a>, <a href="#Page_092-V1">92</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_097-V1">97</a>, <a href="#Page_098-V1">98</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_106-V1">106</a>, <a href="#Page_107-V1">107</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_235-V1">235</a>, <a href="#Page_260-V1">260</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_265-V1">265</a>; 
	 bound by treaty to allow the Acadians freedom in religion, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_095-V1">95</a>, <a href="#Page_107-V1">107</a>; 
	 mildness of her rule over the Acadians, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_095-V1">95</a>, <a href="#Page_096-V1">96</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_121-V1">121</a>, <a href="#Page_122-V1">122</a>,
			<a href="#Page_261-V1">261</a>, <a href="#Page_262-V1">262</a>;  
	 pretended peace made by the Indians, I.  
	    <a href="#Page_104-V1">104</a>, <a href="#Page_105-V1">105</a>; 
	 relations of Cornwallis with the Acadians, I.
	    <a href="#Page_107-V1">107</a>, <a href="#Page_108-V1">108</a>; 
	 commissioners appointed to decide upon the boundaries 
	    of possessions in America, I. 
			<a href="#Page_123-V1">123</a>-<a href="#Page_127-V1">127</a>; 
	 the question of the pistole fee, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_138-V1">138</a>, <a href="#Page_140-V1">140</a>; 
	 attitude and policy of the home government, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_171-V1">171</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_177-V1">177</a>-<a href="#Page_181-V1">181</a>; 
	 the southern department held by Sir Thomas Robinson, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_179-V1">179</a>; 
	 regiments ordered to America, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_181-V1">181</a>, <a href="#Page_182-V1">182</a>;  
	 diplomatic correspondence of, I. <a href="#Page_183-V1">183</a>; 
	 warlike intentions concealed from France, I. <a href="#Page_183-V1">183</a>,
	    <a href="#Page_184-V1">184</a>;  
	 the plans of France known to, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_184-V1">184</a>-<a href="#Page_186-V1">186</a>;  
	 Braddock despatched to America to take military command, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_189-V1">189</a>-<a href="#Page_191-V1">191</a>; 
	 plans of Shirley laid before the government, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_192-V1">192</a>, <a href="#Page_193-V1">193</a>; 
	 supplies for Braddock's campaign scarce, I.  
	    <a href="#Page_197-V1">197</a>, <a href="#Page_198-V1">198</a>; 
	 questions of policy for the French and English in Acadia, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_236-V1">236</a>-<a href="#Page_241-V1">241</a>; 
	 desire of the Acadians to return to their allegiance, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_238-V1">238</a>, <a href="#Page_244-V1">244</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_245-V1">245</a>; 
	 conditions leading to the removal of the Acadians from their home, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_253-V1">253</a>-<a href="#Page_266-V1">266</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_284-V1">284</a> (see <a href="#acadians">Acadians</a>); 
	 results of the campaign of 1755, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_328-V1">328</a>, <a href="#Page_329-V1">329</a>;
	 attitude of the population 
	    of Pennsylvania towards, I. <a href="#Page_339-V1">339</a>;
	 preys on French commerce, I. <a href="#Page_352-V1">352</a>;  
	 declares war, I. <a href="#Page_352-V1">352</a>;  
	 political outlook, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_353-V1">353</a>, <a href="#Page_354-V1">354</a>;  
	 Protestant country, I. <a href="#Page_355-V1">355</a>;  
	 money granted by Parliament to the colonies, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_382-V1">382</a>, <a href="#footer_388">382 <i>note</i></a>; 
	 an armament fitted out for the reduction of Louisbourg, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_469-V1">469</a>, <a href="#Page_470-V1">470</a>,
			<a href="#Page_472-V1">472</a>;  
	 the fleet of Holbourne wrecked, I. <a href="#Page_472-V1">472</a>;  
	 disasters and victories in Europe, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_045-V2">45</a>-<a href="#Page_047-V2">47</a>; 					 
	 preparations to attack Louisbourg, II. <a href="#Page_049-V2">49</a>; 
	 prisoners of war sent to, II. <a href="#Page_076-V2">76</a>; 
	 rejoicing at the fall of Louisbourg, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_076-V2">76</a>, <a href="#Page_077-V2">77</a>; 
	 preparations made to attack Quebec, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_176-V2">176</a>, <a href="#Page_178-V2">178</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_193-V2">193</a>, <a href="#Page_194-V2">194</a>; 
	 siege of Quebec, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_195-V2">195</a>-<a href="#Page_233-V2">233</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_259-V2">259</a>-<a href="#Page_325-V2">325</a>, 
	    <a href="#footer_28Note">325 <i>note</i>, 326 <i>note</i></a>; 
	 news of Wolfe's death and his heroism, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_323-V2">323</a>, <a href="#Page_324-V2">324</a>; 
	 the fall of Canada, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_360-V2">360</a>-<a href="#Page_382-V2">382</a>; 
	 end of the war in America, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_379-V2">379</a>-<a href="#Page_382-V2">382</a>; 
	 death of George II., II. 
	    <a href="#Page_390-V2">390</a>, <a href="#Page_391-V2">391</a>; 
	 succession of George III., II. <a href="#Page_391-V2">391</a>; 
	 growth of a peace party, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_391-V2">391</a>, <a href="#Page_392-V2">392</a>; 
	 changes among the officials, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_392-V2">392</a>, <a href="#Page_393-V2">393</a>; 
	 the policy of George III., II. 
	    <a href="#Page_393-V2">393</a>-<a href="#Page_395-V2">395</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_400-V2">400</a>;
	 terms of peace offered to, II. <a href="#Page_395-V2">395</a>;
	 the negotiations of Choiseul with Pitt, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_395-V2">395</a>, <a href="#Page_396-V2">396</a>;
	 need of a peace with France, II. <a href="#Page_396-V2">396</a>;
	 the Family Compact, II. <a href="#Page_396-V2">396</a>;
	 the secret treaty made by Choiseul, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_396-V2">396</a>, <a href="#Page_397-V2">397</a>; 
	 the policy of Bute, II. <a href="#Page_400-V2">400</a>;
	 victories gained through the influence of Pitt, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_400-V2">400</a>-<a href="#Page_402-V2">402</a>; 
	 the conflict for colonial ascendancy, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_401-V2">401</a>, <a href="#Page_403-V2">403</a>; 
	 expedition against Havana, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_401-V2">401</a>, <a href="#Page_402-V2">402</a>; 
	 negotiations with France for peace, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_403-V2">403</a>-<a href="#Page_407-V2">407</a>; 
	 cessions made by France, II. <a href="#Page_405-V2">405</a>;
	 restores Belleisle II. <a href="#Page_405-V2">405</a>;
	 the treaty of peace signed at Paris, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_407-V2">407</a>, <a href="#Page_408-V2">408</a>;  
	 results of the war, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_408-V2">408</a>-<a href="#Page_414-V2">414</a>; 
	 the growth of the United States, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_411-V2">411</a>-<a href="#Page_413-V2">413</a>.<br />
<a name="english" id="english"></a>
English, the, I. <a href="#Page_052-V1">52</a>, <a href="#Page_054-V1">54</a>; 
   driven from the West by the French, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_044-V1">44</a>-<a href="#Page_047-V1">47</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_059-V1">59</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_063-V1">63</a>-<a href="#Page_089-V1">89</a>; 
	 the French combine with the Indians to injure, I. <a href="#Page_047-V1">47</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_064-V1">64</a>, <a href="#Page_067-V1">67</a>,
	    <a href="#Page_068-V1">68</a>, <a href="#Page_070-V1">70</a>,
			<a href="#Page_072-V1">72</a>, <a href="#Page_082-V1">82</a>,
			<a href="#Page_083-V1">83</a>, <a href="#Page_099-V1">99</a>,
	    <a href="#Page_100-V1">100</a>, <a href="#Page_101-V1">101</a>,
			<a href="#Page_104-V1">104</a>, <a href="#Page_105-V1">105</a>,
			<a href="#Page_113-V1">113</a>, <a href="#Page_114-V1">114</a>,
			<a href="#Page_130-V1">130</a>, <a href="#Page_161-V1">161</a>,
			<a href="#Page_171-V1">171</a>, <a href="#Page_184-V1">184</a>,
			<a href="#Page_203-V1">203</a>, <a href="#Page_235-V1">235</a>,
			<a href="#Page_236-V1">236</a>-<a href="#Page_239-V1">239</a>,
			<a href="#Page_243-V1">243</a>-<a href="#Page_245-V1">245</a>, II. 
			<a href="#Page_421-V2">421</a>; 
	 matters of interest concerning trade and traders, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_050-V1">50</a>, <a href="#Page_069-V1">69</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_070-V1">70</a>,
	    <a href="#Page_072-V1">72</a>-<a href="#Page_074-V1">74</a>,
			<a href="#Page_079-V1">79</a>, <a href="#Page_086-V1">86</a>,
			<a href="#Page_087-V1">87</a>; 
	 orders given to the French governor with regard to, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_078-V1">78</a>-<a href="#Page_082-V1">82</a>; 
	 attacked at Pickawillany, I. <a href="#Page_084-V1">84</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_085-V1">85</a>;
	 treatment of the Acadians, I. <a href="#Page_091-V1">91</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_092-V1">92</a>, <a href="#Page_095-V1">95</a>
			   (see <a href="#acadians">Acadia</a> and 
				      <a href="#acadians">Acadians</a>); 
	 the fortress of Louisbourg restored to France, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_092-V1">92</a>;

<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_468-V2" id="Page_468-V2">468<br />V2</a></span>

   occupation of Beaubassin, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_115-V1">115</a>-<a href="#Page_120-V1">120</a>; 
	 successful encounter with the French, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_147-V1">147</a>, <a href="#Page_148-V1">148</a>; 
	 the fight at Great Meadows, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_156-V1">156</a>-<a href="#Page_161-V1">161</a>; 
	 results of the meeting of the colonial Assemblies with their governors, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_163-V1">163</a>-<a href="#Page_169-V1">169</a>;  
	 rights of, on the Ohio River, I. <a href="#Page_177-V1">177</a>; 
	 to intercept the French fleet, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_185-V1">185</a>, <a href="#Page_186-V1">186</a>;
	 arrival of Braddock in America, I. <a href="#Page_187-V1">187</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_191-V1">191</a>;
	 matters pertaining to Braddock's expedition, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_187-V1">187</a>, <a href="#Page_191-V1">191</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_195-V1">195</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_197-V1">197</a>-<a href="#Page_200-V1">200</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_204-V1">204</a>-<a href="#Page_216-V1">216</a>; 
	 expedition given in charge to Johnson, I. <a href="#Page_195-V1">195</a>; 
	 the battle of the Monongahela, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_215-V1">215</a>-<a href="#Page_220-V1">220</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_223-V1">223</a>, 
			<a href="#footer_229">223 <i>note</i></a>; 
	 defeat of Braddock, and retreat of his troops, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_220-V1">220</a>-<a href="#Page_235-V1">235</a>; 
	 death and burial of Braddock, I. <a href="#Page_220-V1">220</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_224-V1">224</a>-<a href="#Page_226-V1">226</a>; 
	 Shirley made commander-in-chief of the army, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_233-V1">233</a>; 
	 loyalty of the troops, I. <a href="#Page_238-V1">238</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_239-V1">239</a>; 
	 plans of, in regard to the French, I. <a href="#Page_239-V1">239</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_240-V1">240</a>; 
	 capture of Fort Beaus&eacute;jour, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_240-V1">240</a>-<a href="#Page_253-V1">253</a>;
	 surrender of French forts, I. <a href="#Page_253-V1">253</a>; 
	 removal of the Acadians from their homes, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_254-V1">254</a>, <a href="#Page_255-V1">255</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_265-V1">265</a>-<a href="#Page_284-V1">284</a>
			(see <a href="#acadians">Acadians</a>); 
	 plan to increase the English population in Acadia, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_257-V1">257</a>;
	 disaster at Peticodiac, I. <a href="#Page_275-V1">275</a>; 
	 expedition against Crown Point, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_285-V1">285</a>-<a href="#Page_317-V1">317</a>; 
	 character of the army in the expedition, I.
	     <a href="#Page_290-V1">290</a>-<a href="#Page_292-V1">292</a>; 
	 preaching on Sunday to the army, I. <a href="#Page_295-V1">295</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_296-V1">296</a>; 
	 an ambush prepared for, by Dieskau, I. <a href="#Page_300-V1">300</a>; 
	 the battle of Lake George, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_302-V1">302</a>-<a href="#Page_317-V1">317</a>; 
	 expedition of Shirley against Niagara, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_318-V1">318</a>-<a href="#Page_329-V1">329</a>;  
	 arrive at Fort Oswego, I. <a href="#Page_322-V1">322</a>; 
	 lack of supplies, I. <a href="#Page_325-V1">325</a>, 
	 <a href="#Page_326-V1">326</a>;  
	 Shirley leaves Oswego, I. <a href="#Page_326-V1">326</a>;  
	 results of the campaign against the French, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_328-V1">328</a>, <a href="#Page_329-V1">329</a>;  
	 border warfare encouraged by the French, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_329-V1">329</a>-<a href="#Page_350-V1">350</a>; 
	 conditions in Pennsylvania, I.  
	    <a href="#Page_336-V1">336</a>-<a href="#Page_350-V1">350</a>; 
	 forts built to guard the Great Carrying Place, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_374-V1">374</a>; 
	 prepare to attack Ticonderoga, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_377-V1">377</a>-<a href="#Page_380-V1">380</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_387-V1">387</a>, <a href="#Page_388-V1">388</a>; 
	 receive discouraging reports from Ticonderoga, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_389-V1">389</a>, <a href="#Page_390-V1">390</a>; 
	 the appointment of Earl Loudon as commander-in-chief, I.
	    <a href="#Page_383-V1">383</a>; 
	 payment of troops, and other matters pertaining to soldiers, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_384-V1">384</a>-<a href="#Page_388-V1">388</a>; 
	 forest war, I. <a href="#Page_389-V1">389</a>;  
	 action between Villiers and Bradstreet, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_394-V1">394</a>-<a href="#Page_396-V1">396</a>; 
	 royal orders concerning provincial officers, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_399-V1">399</a>, <a href="#Page_400-V1">400</a>; 
	 condition of the New England troops, I. <a href="#Page_401-V1">401</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_402-V1">402</a>;
	 the loss of Oswego, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_405-V1">405</a>-<a href="#Page_420-V1">420</a>; 
	 the Indians butcher the prisoners, I. <a href="#Page_413-V1">413</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_414-V1">414</a>, <a href="#footer_432">414 <i>note</i></a>; 
	 difficulties in the French war, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_414-V1">414</a>-<a href="#Page_417-V1">417</a>; 
	 number of men under Earl Loudon, I. <a href="#Page_421-V1">421</a>; 
	 the attack made on Kittanning, 
	    <a href="#Page_423-V1">423</a>-<a href="#Page_427-V1">427</a>;
	 despatches sent by Vaudreuil to France, concerning, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_427-V1">427</a>; 
	 scouting-parties, I. <a href="#Page_428-V1">428</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_429-V1">429</a>; 
	 at Fort William Henry, I. <a href="#Page_428-V1">428</a>; 
	 the war-party of Peri&egrave;re, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_429-V1">429</a>-<a href="#Page_431-V1">431</a>; 
	 exploits of Rogers' rangers, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_433-V1">433</a>-<a href="#Page_437-V1">437</a> 
			(see <a href="#rogers">Rogers</a>); 
	 the difficulty in quartering the troops in winter, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_439-V1">439</a>, <a href="#Page_440-V1">440</a>; 
	 party sent by Vaudreuil to attack Fort William Henry, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_447-V1">447</a>-<a href="#Page_451-V1">451</a>; 
	 capture French stores, I. <a href="#Page_457-V1">457</a>;
	 number of their antagonists, I. <a href="#Page_468-V1">468</a>; 
	 plan for the reduction of Louisbourg, I. <a href="#Page_468-V1">468</a>; 
	 delay in starting the fleet for Halifax, I. <a href="#Page_469-V1">469</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_470-V1">470</a>, <a href="#Page_472-V1">472</a>;
	 fleet of Holbourne wrecked, I. <a href="#Page_472-V1">472</a>;
	 the attack and massacre of, at Fort William Henry, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_474-V1">474</a>-<a href="#Page_478-V1">478</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_485-V1">485</a>-<a href="#Page_513-V1">513</a>, 
			<a href="#footer_526">514 <i>note</i></a>, II. 
			<a href="#Page_004-V2">4</a>, <a href="#Page_005-V2">5</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_237-V2">237</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_428-V2">428</a>-<a href="#Page_431-V2">431</a>;
	 the tide turning, II. <a href="#Page_046-V2">46</a>;
	 Loudon succeeded by Abercromby, in office, II. <a href="#Page_048-V2">48</a>; 
	 the Scotch Highlanders join the army, II. <a href="#Page_049-V2">49</a>; 
	 the typical British naval officer, II. <a href="#Page_050-V2">50</a>; 
	 the siege and reduction of Louisbourg, II. <a href="#Page_048-V2">48</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_049-V2">49</a>, <a href="#Page_051-V2">51</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_055-V2">55</a>-<a href="#footer_19Note">82 <i>note</i></a> 
			(see <a href="#louisbourg">Louisbourg</a>); 
	 expedition fitted out against, to serve under Abercromby, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_083-V2">83</a>-<a href="#footer_638">113 <i>note</i></a>; 
	 reforms in the army introduced by Lord Howe, II.
	    <a href="#Page_090-V2">90</a>;  
	 effect of the death of Lord Howe, II. <a href="#Page_097-V2">97</a>, 
	 <a href="#Page_098-V2">98</a>; 
	 the assault at Ticonderoga, II. 
	     <a href="#Page_103-V2">103</a>-<a href="#Page_107-V2">107</a>, 
			 <a href="#Page_110-V2">110</a>-<a href="#Page_113-V2">113</a>; 
	 matters pertaining to life in the army, II. 
	     <a href="#Page_116-V2">116</a>, <a href="#Page_117-V2">117</a>, 
			 <a href="#Page_119-V2">119</a>, <a href="#Page_120-V2">120</a>,
			 <a href="#Page_264-V2">264</a>, <a href="#Page_334-V2">334</a>, 
			 <a href="#Page_335-V2">335</a>, <a href="#Page_339-V2">339</a>,
			 <a href="#Page_366-V2">366</a>;  
	 gain possession of Fort Frontenac, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_127-V2">127</a>-<a href="#Page_129-V2">129</a>; 
	 the reduction of Fort Duquesne, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_131-V2">131</a>-<a href="#Page_163-V2">163</a>; 
	 need of Indian allies, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_139-V2">139</a>, <a href="#Page_140-V2">140</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_142-V2">142</a>-<a href="#Page_148-V2">148</a>; 
	 use of Western lands, II. <a href="#Page_146-V2">146</a>; 
	 expedition of Major Grant, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_151-V2">151</a>-<a href="#Page_155-V2">155</a>; 
	 burial of Braddock's slain, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_159-V2">159</a>, <a href="#Page_160-V2">160</a>; 
	 Lieutenant-Colonel Mercer to hold Fort Duquesne, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_160-V2">160</a>, <a href="#Page_161-V2">161</a>; 
	 the situation in 1758, II. <a href="#Page_162-V2">162</a>; 
	 expedition fitted out to serve under General Wolfe, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_182-V2">182</a>-<a href="#Page_184-V2">184</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_192-V2">192</a>-<a href="#Page_207-V2">207</a>;  
	 the siege and reduction of Quebec, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_207-V2">207</a>-<a href="#Page_234-V2">234</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_259-V2">259</a>-<a href="#footer_28Note">326 <i>note</i></a> 
	    (see <a href="#wolfe">Wolfe</a> and <a href="#quebec">Quebec</a>); 
	 statistics concerning the army at the battle of Quebec, II. 
	    <a href="#footer_27Note">298 <i>note</i></a>, 
			<a href="#Page_305-V2">305</a>,
			<a href="#footer_789">305 <i>note</i></a>, 
			<a href="#Page_442-V2">442</a>, <a href="#Page_443-V2">443</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_436-V2">436</a>-<a href="#Page_438-V2">438</a>; 
	 bravery of the sailors, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_227-V2">227</a>, <a href="#Page_228-V2">228</a>; 
	 capture of Ticonderoga and Crown Point by Amherst, II.  
	    <a href="#Page_235-V2">235</a>-<a href="#Page_240-V2">240</a>; 
	 spruce beer made in the army, II. <a href="#Page_236-V2">236</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_237-V2">237</a>; 
	 Fort Edward fortified, II. <a href="#Page_237-V2">237</a>; 
	 their general humanity, II. <a href="#Page_261-V2">261</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_262-V2">262</a>, <a href="#Page_309-V2">309</a>; 
	 council of war held, II. <a href="#Page_272-V2">272</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_273-V2">273</a>; 
	 action of Holmes's squadron, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_278-V2">278</a>-<a href="#Page_280-V2">280</a>;

<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_469-V2" id="Page_469-V2">469<br />V2</a></span>

   love of the soldiers for their officers, II. <a href="#Page_281-V2">281</a>,
	    <a href="#Page_294-V2">294</a>, <a href="#Page_295-V2">295</a>; 
	 loss of General Wolfe, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_294-V2">294</a>-<a href="#Page_297-V2">297</a>;
	 the precision of their fire, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_295-V2">295</a>, <a href="#Page_296-V2">296</a>; 
	 rule in Canada, II. <a href="#Page_332-V2">332</a>; 
	 skirmish at Lorette, II. <a href="#Page_337-V2">337</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_338-V2">338</a>; 
	 the battle of Sainte-Foy, II. <a href="#Page_342-V2">342</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_347-V2">347</a>-<a href="#Page_359-V2">359</a>,
			<a href="#Page_442-V2">442</a>-<a href="#Page_444-V2">444</a>;
	 the fall of Canada, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_360-V2">360</a>-<a href="#Page_382-V2">382</a>; 
	 embark for Montreal, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_363-V2">363</a>-<a href="#Page_366-V2">366</a>; 
	 passage of the rapids, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_370-V2">370</a>, <a href="#Page_371-V2">371</a>; 
	 numerical superiority of their troops, II. <a href="#Page_381-V2">381</a>; 
	 recapture St. John's, II. <a href="#Page_402-V2">402</a>.<br />
<a name="englishColonies" id="englishColonies"></a>
English colonies, the, 
   condition of, as compared with French possessions, I. 
      <a href="#Page_001-V1">1</a>-<a href="#Page_003-V1">3</a>,
	    <a href="#Page_020-V1">20</a>, <a href="#Page_021-V1">21</a>;
   inhabitants of, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_020-V1">20</a>-<a href="#Page_022-V1">22</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_025-V1">25</a>; 
	 government of, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_025-V1">25</a>, <a href="#Page_026-V1">26</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_170-V1">170</a>, <a href="#Page_171-V1">171</a>,
			<a href="#Page_349-V1">349</a>, <a href="#Page_350-V1">350</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_419-V1">419</a>; 
	 compared and examined, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_025-V1">25</a>-<a href="#Page_036-V1">36</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_062-V1">62</a>, <a href="#Page_126-V1">126</a>,  
			<a href="#Page_127-V1">127</a>; 
	 means of travel, I. <a href="#Page_033-V1">33</a>; 
	 politics and religion in, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_033-V1">33</a>-<a href="#Page_035-V1">35</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_137-V1">137</a>, <a href="#Page_139-V1">139</a>,
			<a href="#Page_170-V1">170</a>, <a href="#Page_171-V1">171</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_349-V1">349</a>, <a href="#Page_350-V1">350</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_419-V1">419</a>; 
	 plan of France to unite Louisiana and Canada against, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_036-V1">36</a>, <a href="#Page_037-V1">37</a>; 
	 hampered by the Assemblies, I.
	    <a href="#Page_137-V1">137</a>, <a href="#Page_139-V1">139</a>; 
	 efforts to repel the French in the West, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_137-V1">137</a>-<a href="#Page_141-V1">141</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_169-V1">169</a>, <a href="#Page_175-V1">175</a>; 
	 plan of union of Franklin, I. <a href="#Page_175-V1">175</a>; 
	 council of governors held with Braddock, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_191-V1">191</a>-<a href="#Page_195-V1">195</a>;
	 slaves in, I. <a href="#Page_193-V1">193</a>; 
	 the frontier left unguarded, I. <a href="#Page_227-V1">227</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_231-V1">231</a>, <a href="#Page_232-V1">232</a>; 
	 distribution of the exiled Acadians, I. <a href="#Page_282-V1">282</a>; 
	 mode of life of the frontier settler, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_334-V1">334</a>-<a href="#Page_336-V1">336</a>;
	 united against Canada, II. <a href="#Page_175-V2">175</a>;
	 prediction of Mayhew for, II. <a href="#Page_325-V2">325</a>;
	 predictions of several persons concerning their future in America, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_403-V2">403</a>, <a href="#Page_404-V2">404</a>; 
	 symptoms of revolt shown, II. <a href="#Page_413-V2">413</a>.<br />
English ministry.  See <a href="#britishMinistry">British Ministry</a>.<br />
"Entreprenant," the number of her guns, II. 
   <a href="#footer_579">54 <i>note</i></a>; 
   burned at anchor, II. <a href="#Page_066-V2">66</a>.<br />
Epicurus, II. <a href="#Page_389-V2">389</a>.<br />
Episcopalians in the army, II. <a href="#Page_117-V2">117</a>.<br />
Erie, town of, I. <a href="#Page_089-V1">89</a>.<br />
Erie, Lake, I. <a href="#Page_038-V1">38</a>, 
   <a href="#Page_052-V1">52</a>, <a href="#Page_486-V1">486</a>, II. 
	 <a href="#Page_247-V2">247</a>;
   the passage to Lake Huron, I. <a href="#Page_075-V1">75</a>;
   desirability of erecting forts near, I. <a href="#Page_080-V1">80</a>, 
	 <a href="#Page_132-V1">132</a>.<br />
Esopus, I. <a href="#footer_443">422 <i>note</i></a>.<br />
Espagnol, Port, II. <a href="#Page_078-V2">78</a>.<br />
Espineuse, Madame, d', II. <a href="#Page_176-V2">176</a>.<br />
Est&egrave;ve, secretary of Montcalm, I. <a href="#Page_361-V1">361</a>; 
   his voyage, I. <a href="#Page_364-V1">364</a>; 
	 his marriage, II. <a href="#Page_426-V2">426</a>.<br />
Etechemin River, the, II. <a href="#Page_274-V1">274</a>.<br />
Etech&eacute;mins, the, I. <a href="#Page_023-V1">23</a>.<br />
Eugene, Prince, I. <a href="#Page_018-V1">18</a>; 
   remark of, concerning the result of Charles VI.'s death, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_018-V1">18</a>.<br />
Europe, I. <a href="#Page_479-V1">479</a>, II. 
   <a href="#Page_133-V2">133</a>, <a href="#Page_186-V2">186</a>; 
   complication of political interests, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_001-V1">1</a>-<a href="#Page_004-V1">4</a>,
			<a href="#Page_353-V1">353</a>-<a href="#Page_355-V1">355</a>, II. 
			<a href="#Page_175-V2">175</a>; 
	 the Seven Years War, I. <a href="#Page_001-V1">1</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_018-V1">18</a>, II. <a href="#Page_038-V2">38</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_039-V2">39</a>, <a href="#Page_386-V2">386</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_405-V2">405</a>, <a href="#Page_406-V2">406</a>; 
	 power of the House of Bourbon, I. <a href="#Page_009-V1">9</a>; 
	 power of Frederic II. of Prussia, I. <a href="#Page_017-V1">17</a>; 
	 rule of the House of Austria, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_016-V1">16</a>, <a href="#Page_017-V1">17</a>; 
	 the peace of Aix-la-Chapelle, I. <a href="#Page_019-V1">19</a>; 
	 power and influence of Peter the Great, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_017-V1">17</a>, <a href="#Page_018-V1">18</a>; 
	 the princes pledged to sustain the will of Charles VI., I. 
	    <a href="#Page_018-V1">18</a>, <a href="#Page_019-V1">19</a>;  
	 the balance of power, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_018-V1">18</a>, <a href="#Page_126-V1">126</a>;  
	 grains and fruit of, growing in America, I. <a href="#Page_076-V1">76</a>;  
	 question of American boundary, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_123-V1">123</a>-<a href="#Page_128-V1">128</a>;  
	 war commenced between the powers of, I. <a href="#Page_186-V1">186</a>;  
	 the peace of Paris, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_383-V2">383</a>-<a href="#Page_408-V2">408</a>; 
	 the conflict for colonial ascendancy, II. <a href="#Page_401-V2">401</a>; 
	 results of the victory of Plassey, II. <a href="#Page_408-V2">408</a>; 
	 the mastery of India, II. <a href="#Page_410-V2">410</a>; 
	 Catholicism in, II. <a href="#Page_412-V2">412</a>.<br />
Exchequer, the, II. <a href="#Page_393-V2">393</a>.<br />
Eyre, Major, occupies Fort William Henry, I. 
   <a href="#Page_439-V1">439</a>-<a href="#Page_441-V1">441</a>; 
   party sent by Vaudreuil to reduce the fort, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_447-V1">447</a>-<a href="#Page_451-V1">451</a>;
	 requested to give up Fort William Henry, I. <a href="#Page_449-V1">449</a>;
	 his answer, and the result thereof, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_449-V1">449</a>-<a href="#Page_451-V1">451</a>.<br />
</p>
<p><br /></p>
<h3>F.</h3>
<p>	
Fabius, II. <a href="#Page_209-V2">209</a>.<br />
Fairfax, Lord, letter from Dinwiddie, I. <a href="#Page_139-V1">139</a>; 
   letters from Colonel Innes, I. <a href="#Page_226-V1">226</a>, 
	 <a href="#Page_228-V1">228</a>.<br />
Falmouth, I. <a href="#Page_169-V1">169</a>, 
   <a href="#Page_310-V1">310</a>.<br />
Falstaff, I. <a href="#Page_142-V1">142</a>.<br />
Family Compact, the, I. <a href="#Page_396-V1">396</a>.<br />
Faneuil Hall, II. <a href="#Page_377-V2">377</a>.<br />
Fare, Marquis de la, I. <a href="#Page_358-V1">358</a>.<br />
Feather dance, a, description of, I. <a href="#Page_058-V1">58</a>.<br />
Ferdinand, Price of Brunswick, appointed to command, II. 
   <a href="#Page_047-V2">47</a>; 
   generalship of, II. <a href="#Page_047-V2">47</a>; 
	 action with Clermont, II. <a href="#Page_047-V2">47</a>.<br />
Ferdinand VI. of Spain, death of, II. <a href="#Page_396-V2">396</a>.<br />
Ferguson, II. <a href="#Page_057-V2">57</a>.<br />
Feudalism, I. <a href="#Page_010-V1">10</a>; 
   in Canada and in the British colonies, I. <a href="#Page_022-V1">22</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_031-V1">31</a>-<a href="#Page_033-V1">33</a>.<br />
"Fid&egrave;le," the, number of her guns, II. 
   <a href="#footer_579">54 <i>note</i></a>.<br />
Fiedmont, II. <a href="#Page_314-V2">314</a>.<br />
Fielding, I. <a href="#Page_006-V1">6</a>, 
   <a href="#Page_189-V1">189</a>.<br />
Fifty-eighth Regiment, the, II.  
   <a href="#footer_27Note">298 <i>note</i></a>.<br />
Fireships, II. <a href="#Page_201-V2">201</a>, <a href="#Page_203-V2">203</a>;
   descend upon the English, II. 
	 <a href="#Page_210-V2">210</a>-<a href="#Page_212-V2">212</a>.<br />
First Lord of the Treasury, the, II. <a href="#Page_400-V2">400</a>.<br />
Fish, Jane.  See <a href="#pompadour">Pompadour</a>.<br />

<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_470-V2" id="Page_470-V2">470<br />V2</a></span>

Fisheries, the, II. 
   <a href="#Page_405-V2">405</a>,
   <a href="#Page_407-V2">407</a>, <a href="#Page_410-V2">410</a>.<br />
Fitch, Colonel, letter to Winslow, I. <a href="#Page_388-V1">388</a>; 
   his regiment, II. <a href="#Page_094-V2">94</a>; 
	 encounter with Langy in the woods, II. <a href="#Page_097-V2">97</a>.<br />
Five Mile Point, I. <a href="#Page_442-V1">442</a>, II. 
   <a href="#Page_102-V2">102</a>.<br />
<a name="fiveNations" id="fiveNations"></a>
Five Nations, the, I. <a href="#Page_038-V1">38</a>, 
   <a href="#Page_040-V1">40</a>, <a href="#Page_045-V1">45</a>, 
	 <a href="#Page_049-V1">49</a>, <a href="#Page_067-V1">67</a>, 
	 <a href="#Page_068-V1">68</a>, <a href="#Page_130-V1">130</a>, II. 
	 <a href="#Page_007-V2">7</a>, <a href="#Page_086-V2">86</a>; 
   dialects of, I. <a href="#Page_044-V1">44</a>; 
	 adopt Catharine Montour, I. <a href="#Page_054-V1">54</a>; 
	 efforts of the French to gain as allies, 
	    and to cause the destruction of the English, I. 
			   <a href="#Page_059-V1">59</a>, <a href="#Page_064-V1">64</a>,
				 <a href="#Page_078-V1">78</a>, <a href="#Page_203-V1">203</a>,
				 <a href="#Page_371-V1">371</a>, <a href="#Page_372-V1">372</a>, 
				 <a href="#Page_466-V1">466</a>, II. 
				 <a href="#Page_143-V2">143</a>, <a href="#Page_144-V2">144</a>; 
	 their influence and position, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_063-V1">63</a>-<a href="#Page_065-V1">65</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_125-V1">125</a>, <a href="#Page_372-V1">372</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_374-V1">374</a>; 
	 power of Johnson over, I. <a href="#Page_064-V1">64</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_172-V1">172</a>, <a href="#Page_195-V1">195</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_287-V1">287</a>, <a href="#Page_288-V1">288</a>,
			<a href="#Page_390-V1">390</a>-<a href="#Page_393-V1">393</a>; 
	 their missionary, I. <a href="#Page_068-V1">68</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_487-V1">487</a>, II. <a href="#Page_418-V2">418</a>; 
	 their country disposed of in the treaty of Utrecht, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_079-V1">79</a>, <a href="#Page_125-V1">125</a>, 
			<a href="#footer_124">126 <i>note</i></a>; 
	 range of their war-parties, I. <a href="#Page_125-V1">125</a>; 
	 orders sent from Dinwiddie, I. <a href="#Page_139-V1">139</a>; 
	 at Fort Duquesne, I. <a href="#Page_154-V1">154</a>; 
	 the congress at Albany, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_173-V1">173</a>-<a href="#Page_176-V1">176</a>; 
	 Indian commissioners treated by, I. <a href="#Page_195-V1">195</a>; 
	 Johnson made Indian superintendent, I. <a href="#Page_287-V1">287</a>,
	    <a href="#Page_288-V1">288</a>, <a href="#Page_390-V1">390</a>;
	 homes of, I. <a href="#Page_319-V1">319</a>;
	 the fur trade, I. <a href="#Page_320-V1">320</a>;
	 conferences held with, by Shirley, I. <a href="#Page_327-V1">327</a>;
	 border warfare, I. <a href="#Page_329-V1">329</a>;
	 the spies, I. <a href="#Page_374-V1">374</a>;
	 council called by Montcalm, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_485-V1">485</a>-<a href="#Page_489-V1">489</a>;
	 join in the attack upon Fort William Henry, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_490-V1">490</a>;
	 Indian convention, II. <a href="#Page_142-V2">142</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_143-V2">143</a>; 
	 declare their alliance with the English, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_148-V2">148</a>, <a href="#Page_244-V2">244</a>; 
	 the fight at Niagara, II. <a href="#Page_247-V2">247</a>; 
	 their totems on a flag at Piquet, II. <a href="#Page_418-V2">418</a>.<br />
Flanders, II. <a href="#Page_184-V2">184</a>.<br />
Flat Point, II. <a href="#Page_057-V2">57</a>.<br />
Flat Point Cove, II. <a href="#Page_061-V2">61</a>.<br />
Flatheads, the, I. <a href="#Page_068-V1">68</a>.<br />
Fleurimont, I. <a href="#Page_486-V1">486</a>.<br />
Flogging, II. <a href="#Page_236-V2">236</a>.<br />
Florence, II. <a href="#Page_323-V2">323</a>.<br />
Florida, I. <a href="#Page_020-V1">20</a>; 
   ceded by Spain to England, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_405-V2">405</a>, <a href="#Page_406-V2">406</a>.<br />
Foligny, M. de, his journal, II. <a href="#Page_438-V2">438</a>, 
   <a href="#Page_441-V2">441</a>; 
   matters relating to the death of Montcalm, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_441-V2">441</a>, <a href="#Page_442-V2">442</a>.<br />
Folsom, Captain, I. <a href="#Page_308-V1">308</a>, 
   <a href="#Page_309-V1">309</a>.<br />
Fontbrune, aide-de-camp of General Montcalm, I. 
   <a href="#Page_498-V1">498</a>.<br />
Fontenoy, battle of, I. 
   <a href="#Page_008-V1">8</a>, <a href="#Page_019-V1">19</a>.<br /> 
Forbes, Rev. Eli, pastor at Brookfield, II. 
   <a href="#Page_378-V2">378</a>, <a href="#Page_379-V2">379</a>; 
   his sermon on the fall of Canada, II. <a href="#Page_378-V2">378</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_379-V2">379</a>.<br /> 
Forbes, Brigadier John, II. <a href="#Page_049-V2">49</a>; 
   the reduction of Fort Duquesne, II. <a href="#Page_049-V2">49</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_130-V2">130</a>-<a href="#Page_163-V2">163</a>; 
	 his early life, II. <a href="#Page_132-V2">132</a>; 
	 his route and plan of attack, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_133-V2">133</a>-<a href="#Page_147-V2">147</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_156-V2">156</a>, <a href="#Page_157-V2">157</a>; 
	 compared with Braddock, II. <a href="#Page_134-V2">134</a>; 
	 his relations with Washington, II. <a href="#Page_134-V2">134</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_137-V2">137</a>, <a href="#Page_138-V2">138</a>; 
	 his relations with Bouquet, II. <a href="#Page_134-V2">134</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_135-V2">135</a>; 
	 letter to Pitt concerning his provincials, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_135-V2">135</a>;  
	 his sickness, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_135-V2">135</a>-<a href="#Page_137-V2">137</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_157-V2">157</a>, <a href="#Page_161-V2">161</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_162-V2">162</a>; 
	 his letters to Bouquet quoted, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_136-V2">136</a>-<a href="#Page_138-V2">138</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_142-V2">142</a>, <a href="#Page_157-V2">157</a>;
	 erects Fort Bedford, II. <a href="#Page_141-V2">141</a>; 
	 messages of peace sent to the Indians, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_144-V2">144</a>-<a href="#Page_151-V2">151</a>; 
	 Grant's expedition, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_151-V2">151</a>-<a href="#Page_155-V2">155</a>; 
	 names the settlement of Pittsburg, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_159-V2">159</a>, <a href="#Page_244-V2">244</a>;
	 finds Fort Duquesne evacuated, II. <a href="#Page_159-V2">159</a>; 
	 letter to Amherst, II. <a href="#Page_161-V2">161</a>; 
	 leaves Fort Duquesne, II. <a href="#Page_161-V2">161</a>; 
	 the homeward march retarded by illness, II. <a href="#Page_161-V2">161</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_162-V2">162</a>;
	 effect of his expedition, II. <a href="#Page_162-V2">162</a>;
	 his death and burial, II. <a href="#Page_162-V2">162</a>.<br />
Forests in the West, the, I. <a href="#Page_205-V1">205</a>.<br />
Fort Hill, II. <a href="#Page_076-V2">76</a>.<br />
Forty-fourth Regiment, the, I. <a href="#footer_225">219 <i>note</i></a>.<br />
Forty-seventh Regiment, the, II. 
   <a href="#footer_27Note">298 <i>note</i></a>.<br />
Forty-third Regiment, the, II. <a href="#Page_182-V2">182</a>, 
   <a href="#footer_27Note">298 <i>note</i></a>.<br />
"Foudroyant," the, captured by the English, II. 
   <a href="#Page_049-V2">49</a>, <a href="#Page_050-V2">50</a>.<br />
Fox, Henry, I. <a href="#Page_008-V1">8</a>, 
   <a href="#Page_179-V1">179</a>.<br />
Foxcroft, Thomas, pastor of the "Old Church" in Boston, II. 
   <a href="#Page_377-V2">377</a>;
   his sermon on the occasion of the fall of Canada, II. 
	 <a href="#Page_377-V2">377</a>.<br />
Foxes, the, called to a council by Montcalm, I. 
   <a href="#Page_486-V2">486</a>-<a href="#Page_489-V2">489</a>.<br />
<a name="france" id="france"></a>
France, I. <a href="#Page_009-V1">9</a>, <a href="#Page_067-V1">67</a>,
      <a href="#Page_148-V1">148</a>, <a href="#Page_243-V1">243</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_353-V1">353</a>, <a href="#Page_365-V1">365</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_377-V1">377</a>, <a href="#Page_456-V1">456</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_486-V1">486</a>, <a href="#Page_491-V1">491</a>, II.
			<a href="#Page_029-V2">29</a>, <a href="#Page_043-V2">43</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_049-V2">49</a>, <a href="#Page_286-V2">286</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_401-V2">401</a>, <a href="#Page_402-V2">402</a>; 
   alliance with Austria, I. <a href="#Page_002-V1">2</a>; 
	 her possessions in America, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_001-V1">1</a>-<a href="#Page_003-V1">3</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_020-V1">20</a>, <a href="#Page_024-V1">24</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_025-V1">25</a>, <a href="#Page_037-V1">37</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_040-V1">40</a>, <a href="#Page_041-V1">41</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_043-V1">43</a>, <a href="#Page_045-V1">45</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_059-V1">59</a>,  
			<a href="#Page_062-V1">62</a>-<a href="#Page_067-V1">67</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_076-V1">76</a>, 
			<a href="#footer_047">79 <i>note</i></a>, 
			<a href="#Page_122-V1">122</a>-<a href="#Page_128-V1">128</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_318-V1">318</a>, II. <a href="#Page_403-V2">403</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_404-V2">404</a>, <a href="#Page_410-V2">410</a>; 
	 influence of the Seven Years War upon, I. <a href="#Page_003-V1">3</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_004-V1">4</a>, II. <a href="#Page_410-V2">410</a>; 
	 condition of, under Louis XV., I. 
	    <a href="#Page_009-V1">9</a>-<a href="#Page_016-V1">16</a>; 
	 her commanders, I. <a href="#Page_010-V1">10</a>; 
	 her army and navy, I. <a href="#Page_010-V1">10</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_180-V1">180</a>, <a href="#Page_181-V1">181</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_368-V1">368</a>-<a href="#Page_373-V1">373</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_461-V1">461</a>, <a href="#Page_462-V1">462</a>, II. 
			<a href="#Page_380-V2">380</a>, <a href="#Page_381-V2">381</a>,
			<a href="#Page_401-V2">401</a>, <a href="#Page_410-V2">410</a>; 
	 the persecution of the Huguenots, I. <a href="#Page_014-V1">14</a>,
	    <a href="#Page_021-V1">21</a>, <a href="#Page_022-V1">22</a>; 
	 growing disrespect for the clergy and ministry, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_015-V1">15</a>; 
	 takes part with Bavaria, I. <a href="#Page_019-V1">19</a>; 
	 French and English populations in America in 1754 compared, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_020-V1">20</a>, <a href="#Page_021-V1">21</a>;
	 rule established by, in Canada, I. <a href="#Page_022-V1">22</a>; 
	 forts held by, in America, I. <a href="#Page_040-V1">40</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_041-V1">41</a>, <a href="#Page_075-V1">75</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_076-V1">76</a>, <a href="#Page_318-V1">318</a>; 
	 leaden plates given to C&eacute;loron to bury in America, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_043-V1">43</a>, <a href="#Page_045-V1">45</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_048-V1">48</a>, 
			<a href="#footer_02Note">62 <i>note</i></a>; 
	 missions established by, among the Indians, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_064-V1">64</a>-<a href="#Page_067-V1">67</a>; 
	 the treaty of Utrecht, I. <a href="#Page_079-V1">79</a>; 
	 cession of Acadia to England, I. <a href="#Page_090-V1">90</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_093-V1">93</a>, <a href="#Page_094-V1">94</a>; 
	 French maxims of duty to the King, I. <a href="#Page_106-V1">106</a>; 
	 the Acadians ordered to swear allegiance to, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_120-V1">120</a>, <a href="#Page_121-V1">121</a>;  

<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_471-V2" id="Page_471-V2">471<br />V2</a></span>

   balance of power, I. <a href="#Page_127-V1">127</a>; 
	 the marine and colonial department, I. <a href="#Page_179-V1">179</a>; 
	 conditions of rule in, I. <a href="#Page_179-V1">179</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_180-V1">180</a>; 
	 diplomatic representatives of, I.  <a href="#Page_179-V1">179</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_180-V1">180</a>, <a href="#Page_183-V1">183</a>; 
	 expedition of war ordered to America, I. <a href="#Page_182-V1">182</a>; 
	 her naval and military plans, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_183-V1">183</a>-<a href="#Page_186-V1">186</a>; 
	 the Acadians French at heart, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_235-V1">235</a>-<a href="#Page_237-V1">237</a>; 
	 questions of policy for the French and English in Acadia, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_236-V1">236</a>-<a href="#Page_241-V1">241</a>; 
	 corruption among the officials, I. <a href="#Page_242-V1">242</a>, II. 
			<a href="#Page_022-V2">22</a>-<a href="#Page_028-V2">28</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_044-V2">44</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_385-V2">385</a>, <a href="#Page_386-V2">386</a>;
	 conditions leading to the expulsion of the Acadians from their home, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_253-V1">253</a>-<a href="#Page_266-V1">266</a>
			(see <a href="#acadians">Acadians</a>); 
	 expedition fitted out against Crown Point, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_285-V1">285</a>, <a href="#Page_286-V1">286</a>; 
	 expedition sent to America under Dieskau, I. <a href="#Page_288-V1">288</a>; 
	 results of the campaign, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_328-V1">328</a>, <a href="#Page_329-V1">329</a>; 
	 attitude of Pennsylvania towards, I. <a href="#Page_339-V1">339</a>; 
	 war declared between England and, I. <a href="#Page_352-V1">352</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_353-V1">353</a>; 
	 political combinations in Europe, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_353-V1">353</a>-<a href="#Page_356-V1">356</a>; 
	 alliance sought by Maria Theresa, I. <a href="#Page_354-V1">354</a>; 
	 Montcalm to succeed Dieskau, I. <a href="#Page_356-V1">356</a>; 
	 paucity of troops sent to America, I. <a href="#Page_363-V1">363</a>;  
	 troops sent against Austria, I. <a href="#Page_363-V1">363</a>; 
	 attitude of Governor Vaudreuil towards, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_366-V1">366</a>-<a href="#Page_368-V1">368</a>; 
	 growth of political parties in Canada, I. <a href="#Page_367-V1">367</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_368-V1">368</a>; 
	 Indian allies, I. <a href="#Page_372-V1">372</a>,
	    <a href="#Page_466-V1">466</a>, <a href="#Page_467-V1">467</a>, II.
			<a href="#Page_142-V2">142</a>-<a href="#Page_145-V1">145</a>,
			<a href="#Page_162-V2">162</a>, <a href="#Page_381-V2">381</a>;  
	 her communication with the West, I. <a href="#Page_415-V1">415</a>; 
	 causes of the English losses, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_417-V1">417</a>-<a href="#Page_419-V1">419</a>;
	 information from England obtained through Florence Hensey, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_469-V1">469</a>; 
	 the war with England subordinate to personal politics, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_469-V1">469</a>;  
	 prospects at the time of Pitt, II. <a href="#Page_045-V2">45</a>;
	 loss of Louisbourg, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_071-V2">71</a>-<a href="#Page_075-V2">75</a>;
	 inhabitants of Louisbourg sent to, II. <a href="#Page_076-V2">76</a>;
	 victory of Montcalm at Ticonderoga, II. <a href="#Page_111-V2">111</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_112-V2">112</a>; 
	 appeals made in behalf of Canada, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_173-V2">173</a>-<a href="#Page_176-V2">176</a>; 
	 promotions of Montcalm and others, II. <a href="#Page_174-V2">174</a>;  
	 scant assistance given to Canada, II. <a href="#Page_175-V2">175</a>;
	 the loss of Quebec, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_195-V2">195</a>-<a href="#Page_234-V2">234</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_259-V2">259</a>-<a href="#footer_28Note">326 <i>note</i></a>; 
	 funeral of Montcalm, II. <a href="#Page_309-V2">309</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_310-V2">310</a>; 
	 L&eacute;vis sends for aid, II. <a href="#Page_354-V2">354</a>;  
	 loss of Montreal and Canada, II. <a href="#Page_373-V2">373</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_374-V2">374</a>; 
	 return of the troops, II. <a href="#Page_374-V2">374</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_383-V2">383</a>, <a href="#Page_384-V2">384</a>; 
	 end of the war in America, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_379-V2">379</a>-<a href="#Page_382-V2">382</a>; 
	 her victories, II. <a href="#Page_381-V2">381</a>; 
	 trial of those accused of peculation in Canada, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_385-V2">385</a>, <a href="#Page_386-V2">386</a>; 
	 political situation in 1761, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_393-V2">393</a>-<a href="#Page_395-V2">395</a>;  
	 terms of peace offered to England, II. <a href="#Page_395-V2">395</a>; 
	 the negotiations of Choiseul, II. <a href="#Page_395-V2">395</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_396-V2">396</a>; 
	 provisions of the Family Compact, II. <a href="#Page_396-V2">396</a>; 
	 her enemies in Europe, II. <a href="#Page_399-V2">399</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_400-V2">400</a>;
	 her financial condition in 1762, II. <a href="#Page_402-V2">402</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_403-V2">403</a>; 
	 negotiations with England for peace, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_403-V2">403</a>-<a href="#Page_407-V2">407</a>; 
	 possessions ceded by, II. <a href="#Page_405-V2">405</a>;
	 privileges of fishing, II. <a href="#Page_405-V2">405</a>, 
	 <a href="#Page_407-V2">407</a>; 
	 the fortress of Dunkirk to be destroyed, II. <a href="#Page_406-V2">406</a>; 
	 a secret agreement made with Spain, II. <a href="#Page_406-V2">406</a>; 
	 the treaty of peace signed at Paris, II. <a href="#Page_407-V2">407</a>;  
	 her influence in the East, II. <a href="#Page_410-V2">410</a>; 
	 under Colbert, II. <a href="#Page_410-V2">410</a>; 
	 her power on the continent of Europe, II. <a href="#Page_410-V2">410</a>, 
	 <a href="#Page_411-V2">411</a>.<br />
Franklin, Benjamin, I. <a href="#Page_027-V1">27</a>; 
   his plan of union for the colonies, I. <a href="#Page_175-V1">175</a>; 
	 his relations with Braddock, I. <a href="#Page_188-V1">188</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_198-V1">198</a>, <a href="#Page_199-V1">199</a>; 
	 his position in the Assembly of Pennsylvania, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_198-V1">198</a>, <a href="#Page_199-V1">199</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_338-V1">338</a>;
	 account of Braddock's death, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_225-V1">225</a>, <a href="#Page_226-V1">226</a>;
	 the defeat of the English, I. <a href="#Page_228-V1">228</a>;
	 bill drawn by, I. <a href="#footer_358">348 <i>note</i></a>; 
	 his policy, I. <a href="#Page_349-V1">349</a>;
	 his opinion of Shirley and of Loudon, I. <a href="#Page_421-V1">421</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_470-V1">470</a>; 
	 remark of, concerning the union of the British colonies, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_404-V2">404</a>.<br />
Franquet, II. <a href="#Page_070-V2">70</a>, <a href="#Page_071-V2">71</a>;
   sent to strengthen Louisbourg, II. <a href="#Page_018-V2">18</a>; 
	 his journal, II. <a href="#Page_018-V2">18</a>; 
	 his account of a travelling party in Canada, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_018-V2">18</a>-<a href="#Page_021-V2">21</a>.<br />
Fraser, his trading-house, I. <a href="#footer_134">133 <i>note</i></a>, 
   <a href="#Page_213-V1">213</a>;
   Washington at his house, I. <a href="#Page_136-V1">136</a>.<br />
Fraser, Colonel, 
   his Highlanders serve under Wolfe, II. <a href="#Page_059-V2">59</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_231-V2">231</a>, 
			<a href="#footer_27Note">298 <i>note</i></a>, 
			<a href="#Page_443-V2">443</a>; 
   Canadian prisoners, II. <a href="#Page_226-V2">226</a>.<br />
Fraser, Hon. Malcolm, anecdote of Montcalm, II. 
   <a href="#footer_27Note">297 <i>note</i></a>.<br />
Frederic William of Prussia, I. <a href="#Page_017-V1">17</a>.<br />
Frederic II. of Prussia, I. <a href="#Page_002-V1">2</a>, 
   <a href="#Page_017-V1">17</a>, II. <a href="#Page_038-V2">38</a>; 
   his youth and training, I. <a href="#Page_017-V1">17</a>; 
	 seizes the province of Silesia, I. <a href="#Page_019-V1">19</a>;
	 political conditions in his realm, I.
	    <a href="#Page_353-V1">353</a>, <a href="#Page_354-V1">354</a>;
	 combination against, I. <a href="#Page_355-V1">355</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_356-V1">356</a>, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_038-V2">38</a>-<a href="#Page_040-V2">40</a>; 
	 the Seven Years War, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_038-V2">38</a>-<a href="#Page_040-V2">40</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_409-V2">409</a>; 
	 the battle of Prague, II. <a href="#Page_039-V2">39</a>;
	 confidence felt in Pitt, II. <a href="#Page_046-V2">46</a>;
	 his glory in 1758, II. <a href="#Page_386-V2">386</a>;
	 his reverses and trials, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_387-V2">387</a>-<a href="#Page_389-V2">389</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_398-V2">398</a>, <a href="#Page_399-V2">399</a>; 
	 his letters to D'Argens, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_387-V2">387</a>-<a href="#Page_389-V2">389</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_390-V2">390</a>; 
	 the campaigns of 1760 and 1761, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_387-V2">387</a>-<a href="#Page_390-V2">390</a>;  
	 letter to Voltaire, II. <a href="#Page_388-V2">388</a>; 
	 Russia becomes the ally of, II. <a href="#Page_399-V2">399</a>; 
	 the treaty of Hubertsburg, II. <a href="#Page_407-V2">407</a>; 
	 his dominions intact, II. <a href="#Page_409-V2">409</a>; 
	 numbers lost in the Seven Years War, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_409-V2">409</a>.<br />
Frederic, Fort, I. <a href="#Page_024-V1">24</a>, 
   <a href="#Page_378-V1">378</a>.<br />
<a name="french" id="french"></a>
French, the, I. <a href="#Page_028-V1">28</a>; 
   effect of the Seven Years War upon, I. <a href="#Page_001-V1">1</a>, 
	 <a href="#Page_003-V1">3</a>, II. <a href="#Page_040-V2">40</a>, 
	 <a href="#Page_409-V2">409</a>; 
	 their efforts to gain and retain Indian allies, I. 
	 <a href="#Page_028-V1">28</a>, <a href="#Page_041-V1">41</a>, 
	 <a href="#Page_042-V1">42</a>, <a href="#Page_047-V1">47</a>, 
	 <a href="#Page_048-V1">48</a>, <a href="#Page_057-V1">57</a>,
	 <a href="#Page_063-V1">63</a>, <a href="#Page_065-V1">65</a>, 
	 <a href="#Page_130-V1">130</a>, <a href="#Page_135-V1">135</a>, 
	 <a href="#Page_161-V1">161</a>, <a href="#Page_171-V1">171</a>, 
	 <a href="#Page_175-V1">175</a>, 
	 <a href="#Page_328-V1">328</a>-<a href="#Page_330-V1">330</a>, 
	 <a href="#Page_374-V1">374</a>, <a href="#Page_423-V1">423</a>,
	 <a href="#Page_425-V1">425</a>, <a href="#Page_467-V1">467</a>, 
	 <a href="#Page_478-V1">478</a>, <a href="#Page_479-V1">479</a>, 
	 <a href="#Page_484-V1">484</a>-<a href="#Page_487-V1">487</a>, II. 
	 <a href="#Page_004-V2">4</a>, <a href="#Page_005-V2">5</a>, 
	 <a href="#Page_143-V2">143</a>, 
	 <a href="#Page_149-V2">149</a>-<a href="#Page_151-V2">151</a>; 
	 attacks made on New England, I. <a href="#Page_028-V1">28</a>, 
	 <a href="#Page_168-V1">168</a>;

<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_472-V2" id="Page_472-V2">472<br />V2</a></span>

   fur-trade, the, I. <a href="#Page_037-V1">37</a>; 
	 New France connected by forts, I. <a href="#Page_040-V1">40</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_041-V1">41</a>; 
	 desire to control the West, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_016-V1">16</a>, <a href="#Page_053-V1">53</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_072-V1">72</a>, <a href="#Page_073-V1">73</a>,
			<a href="#Page_086-V1">86</a>-<a href="#Page_088-V1">88</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_169-V1">169</a>, <a href="#Page_170-V1">170</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_176-V1">176</a>, <a href="#Page_197-V1">197</a>,
			<a href="#Page_233-V1">233</a>, II. <a href="#Page_146-V2">146</a>;
	 missions among the Indians, I. <a href="#Page_041-V1">41</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_042-V1">42</a>, <a href="#Page_064-V1">64</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_065-V1">65</a>-<a href="#Page_067-V1">67</a>; 
	 matters relating to trade, I. <a href="#Page_064-V1">64</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_065-V1">65</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_069-V1">69</a>-<a href="#Page_073-V1">73</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_086-V1">86</a>, <a href="#Page_399-V1">399</a>; 
	 methods of warfare and organization, I. <a href="#Page_073-V1">73</a>,
	    <a href="#Page_143-V1">143</a>, <a href="#Page_144-V1">144</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_409-V1">409</a>, <a href="#Page_472-V1">472</a>;  
	 the attack at Pickawillany, I. <a href="#Page_084-V1">84</a>, 
	     <a href="#Page_085-V1">85</a>; 
	 conditions of residence of, in Acadia, I. <a href="#Page_090-V1">90</a>, 
	     <a href="#Page_091-V1">91</a>;  
	 injurious influence of, upon the Acadians, I. <a href="#Page_091-V1">91</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_096-V1">96</a>, <a href="#Page_097-V1">97</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_099-V1">99</a>-<a href="#Page_108-V1">108</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_109-V1">109</a>, <a href="#Page_121-V1">121</a>,
			<a href="#Page_235-V1">235</a>-<a href="#Page_238-V1">238</a>,
			<a href="#Page_243-V1">243</a>-<a href="#Page_245-V1">245</a>,
			<a href="#Page_248-V1">248</a>, <a href="#Page_257-V1">257</a>,
			<a href="#Page_258-V1">258</a>, <a href="#Page_265-V1">265</a>,
      <a href="#Page_266-V1">266</a>, <a href="#footer_275">266 <i>note</i></a>; 
	 officials and priests aid the Indians to destroy the English, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_098-V1">98</a>-<a href="#Page_108-V1">108</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_113-V1">113</a>, <a href="#Page_114-V1">114</a>,
			<a href="#Page_168-V1">168</a>, <a href="#Page_236-V1">236</a>,
			<a href="#Page_329-V1">329</a>-<a href="#Page_350-V1">350</a>, II.
			<a href="#Page_248-V2">248</a>, <a href="#Page_374-V2">374</a>,
			<a href="#Page_421-V2">421</a>; 
	 double-dealing, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_103-V1">103</a>, <a href="#Page_104-V1">104</a>,
	    <a href="#footer_092">105 <i>note</i>, 106 <i>note</i></a>, 
			<a href="#Page_115-V1">115</a>; 
	 relations with Cornwallis, I.  
	    <a href="#Page_107-V1">107</a>, <a href="#Page_108-V1">108</a>;
	 occupation of Beaubassin by the English, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_115-V1">115</a>-<a href="#Page_120-V1">120</a>; 
	 the murder of Captain Howe, I.
	    <a href="#Page_118-V1">118</a>, <a href="#Page_119-V1">119</a>; 
	 questions of boundary, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_122-V1">122</a>-<a href="#Page_127-V1">127</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_184-V1">184</a>,
			<a href="#Page_236-V1">236</a>-<a href="#Page_238-V1">238</a>;
	 forts erected by, I. <a href="#Page_128-V1">128</a>,
	    <a href="#Page_130-V1">130</a>, <a href="#Page_143-V1">143</a>; 
	 expedition of Duquesne to the Ohio, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_128-V1">128</a>-<a href="#Page_135-V1">135</a>,
			<a href="#Page_143-V1">143</a>-<a href="#Page_161-V1">161</a>;
	 efforts of Dinwiddie to repel, in the West, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_132-V1">132</a>-<a href="#Page_161-V1">161</a>;
	 prepare for war, I.  
			<a href="#Page_143-V1">143</a>, <a href="#Page_144-V1">144</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_150-V1">150</a>, <a href="#Page_154-V1">154</a>,
			<a href="#Page_155-V1">155</a>, <a href="#Page_169-V1">169</a>;
	 alleged causes of Jumonville's expedition, I.  
	    <a href="#Page_147-V1">147</a>-<a href="#Page_149-V1">149</a>;
	 fight between Washington and Villiers, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_153-V1">153</a>-<a href="#Page_161-V1">161</a>;
	 opinions expressed by the Indians concerning, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_173-V1">173</a>, <a href="#Page_174-V1">174</a>;
	 aid to be expected from the Catholics, I. <a href="#Page_193-V1">193</a>;
	 try to interrupt Braddock's march, I.  
	    <a href="#Page_205-V1">205</a>, <a href="#Page_206-V1">206</a>;
	 the encounter with Braddock's forces, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_210-V1">210</a>-<a href="#Page_227-V1">227</a>;
	 their method of warfare, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_215-V1">215</a>-<a href="#Page_219-V1">219</a>;
	 death of Braddock, I. <a href="#Page_220-V1">220</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_225-V1">225</a>, <a href="#Page_226-V1">226</a>; 
	 return of the troops, I. <a href="#Page_221-V1">221</a>;
	 treatment of their prisoners, I. <a href="#Page_222-V1">222</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_223-V1">223</a>; 
	 losses of, in the battle of the Monongahela, I.
	    <a href="#Page_223-V1">223</a>;
	 their standard planted on Beaus&eacute;jour, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_235-V1">235</a>, <a href="#Page_247-V1">247</a>; 
	 matters pertaining to the army, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_238-V1">238</a>, <a href="#Page_241-V1">241</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_247-V1">247</a>, <a href="#Page_368-V1">368</a>, 
			<a href="#footer_371">368 <i>note</i></a>, 
			<a href="#Page_421-V1">421</a>, <a href="#Page_439-V1">439</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_461-V1">461</a>-<a href="#Page_465-V1">465</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_468-V1">468</a>, II. <a href="#Page_054-V2">54</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_055-V2">55</a>, <a href="#Page_364-V2">364</a>,
			<a href="#Page_373-V2">373</a>, <a href="#Page_374-V2">374</a>,
			<a href="#Page_383-V2">383</a>, <a href="#Page_384-V2">384</a>;
	 hostile designs of, I. <a href="#Page_243-V1">243</a>;
	 encounter with the English at Beaus&eacute;jour, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_248-V1">248</a>-<a href="#Page_253-V1">253</a>; 
	 burn Fort St. John, I. <a href="#Page_253-V1">253</a>;
	 conditions leading to the expulsion of the Acadians, examined, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_253-V1">253</a>-<a href="#Page_266-V1">266</a> 
			(see <a href="#acadia">Acadia</a> and <a href="#acadians">Acadians</a>); 
	 expedition fitted out against Crown Point, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_285-V1">285</a>, <a href="#Page_286-V1">286</a>; 
	 prepare to defend Crown Point, I. <a href="#Page_288-V1">288</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_289-V1">289</a>, <a href="#Page_293-V1">293</a>; 
	 advance of Dieskau's forces to meet Johnson, I.
	    <a href="#Page_296-V1">296</a>, <a href="#Page_297-V1">297</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_299-V1">299</a>; 
	 the battle of Lake George, I.
	    <a href="#Page_304-V1">304</a>-<a href="#Page_317-V1">317</a>; 
	 their losses, I. <a href="#Page_312-V1">312</a>, 
	    <a href="#footer_316">312 <i>note</i></a>, 
			<a href="#Page_313-V1">313</a>; 
	 occupy Ticonderoga, I. <a href="#Page_313-V1">313</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_389-V1">389</a>, <a href="#Page_390-V1">390</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_442-V1">442</a>, <a href="#Page_478-V1">478</a>, II. 
			<a href="#Page_104-V2">104</a>; 
	 strength of their position at Niagara, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_318-V1">318</a>, <a href="#Page_325-V1">325</a>; 
	 expedition of Shirley against Niagara, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_318-V1">318</a>-<a href="#Page_329-V1">329</a>; 
	 the troops at Fort Frontenac, I. <a href="#Page_324-V1">324</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_408-V1">408</a>; 
	 results of the campaign, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_328-V1">328</a>, <a href="#Page_329-V1">329</a>; 
	 building of Fort Duquesne, I. <a href="#footer_340">337 <i>note</i></a>; 
	 their settlements on the Ohio molested, I. <a href="#Page_340-V1">340</a>; 
	 on the march against Virginia, I. <a href="#Page_343-V1">343</a>; 
	 arrival of Montcalm, I. <a href="#Page_365-V1">365</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_366-V1">366</a>; 
	 camps of Montcalm, I. <a href="#Page_373-V1">373</a>; 
	 Fort Bull taken by, I. <a href="#Page_374-V1">374</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_375-V1">375</a>; 
	 letter of Montreuil quoted, I. <a href="#Page_376-V1">376</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_377-V1">377</a>; 
	 expedition fitted out to defend Ticonderoga, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_377-V1">377</a>, <a href="#Page_378-V1">378</a>; 
	 preparations of Shirley for war, I. <a href="#Page_384-V1">384</a>; 
	 action between Villiers and Bradstreet, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_394-V1">394</a>-<a href="#Page_396-V1">396</a>; 
	 the capture of Oswego, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_397-V1">397</a>-<a href="#Page_420-V1">420</a>; 
	 their losses, I. <a href="#Page_414-V1">414</a>; 
	 rumors of attack at Lake George, I. <a href="#Page_422-V1">422</a>; 
	 reduction of Fort Granville, I. <a href="#Page_423-V1">423</a>; 
	 their war-parties, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_429-V1">429</a>-<a href="#Page_431-V1">431</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_437-V1">437</a>, <a href="#Page_438-V1">438</a>; 
	 dealings of Rogers' rangers with, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_431-V1">431</a>, <a href="#Page_432-V1">432</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_443-V1">443</a>, <a href="#Page_444-V1">444</a>, II.
			<a href="#Page_122-V2">122</a>-<a href="#Page_124-V2">124</a>,
			<a href="#Page_256-V2">256</a>, <a href="#Page_257-V2">257</a>; 
	 a war-party sent to attack Fort William Henry, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_446-V1">446</a>-<a href="#Page_451-V1">451</a>; 
	 the seat of war, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_453-V1">453</a>, <a href="#Page_454-V1">454</a>; 
	 their ships-of-war, I. <a href="#footer_492">473 <i>note</i></a>; 
	 the capture of Fort William Henry, I. 
	   <a href="#Page_474-V1">474</a>-<a href="#Page_513-V1">513</a>, 
		 <a href="#footer_526">514 <i>note</i></a>, II. 
		 <a href="#Page_428-V2">428</a>-<a href="#Page_431-V2">431</a>; 
	 officers of the Indians, I. <a href="#Page_486-V1">486</a>;
	 circular letter sent by Montcalm to the officers, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_489-V1">489</a>;  
	 official knavery, II. <a href="#Page_022-V2">22</a>-<a href="#Page_038-V2">38</a>; 
	 routed at Rossbach, II. <a href="#Page_046-V2">46</a>;
	 change of commanders, II. <a href="#Page_047-V2">47</a>;
	 the siege and reduction of Louisbourg, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_048-V2">48</a>, <a href="#Page_049-V2">49</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_051-V2">51</a>-<a href="#footer_19Note">82 <i>note</i></a> 
			(see <a href="#louisbourg">Louisbourg</a>); 
	 their ships burned off Louisbourg, II. <a href="#Page_066-V2">66</a>,
	    <a href="#Page_067-V2">67</a>,  <a href="#Page_069-V2">69</a>;
	 treatment received by prisoners from the English, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_081-V2">81</a>, <a href="#Page_128-V2">128</a>; 
	 expedition against Ticonderoga, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_086-V2">86</a>-<a href="#footer_638">113 <i>note</i></a> 
	    (see <a href="#ticonderoga">Ticonderoga</a>); 
	 losses of, II. <a href="#Page_110-V2">110</a>;
	 mistake occurring from the waving of a handkerchief, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_107-V2">107</a>;
	 serve under Marin, II. <a href="#Page_122-V2">122</a>;
	 loss of Fort Frontenac, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_127-V2">127</a>-<a href="#Page_129-V2">129</a>;
	 vessels on Lake Ontario taken by the British, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_128-V2">128</a>;
	 loss of the command of Lake Ontario, II. <a href="#Page_129-V2">129</a>;
	 loss of Fort Duquesne, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_131-V2">131</a>-<a href="#Page_163-V2">163</a>;
	 reinforcements sent to Fort Duquesne, II. <a href="#Page_141-V2">141</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_142-V2">142</a>; 
	 loss of Indian allies, II. <a href="#Page_143-V2">143</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_149-V2">149</a>-<a href="#Page_151-V2">151</a>; 
	 encounter with Major Grant, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_151-V2">151</a>-<a href="#Page_155-V2">155</a>; 
	 retreat from Fort Duquesne, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_158-V2">158</a>, <a href="#Page_159-V2">159</a>; 
	 effect of the Indian conference at Easton, II. <a href="#Page_161-V2">161</a>;
	 effect of the loss of Fort Duquesne, II. <a href="#Page_162-V2">162</a>;
	 the situation in 1758, II. <a href="#Page_162-V2">162</a>;
	 letter from Doreil to the minister of war, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_162-V2">162</a>, <a href="#Page_163-V2">163</a>;

<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_473-V2" id="Page_473-V2">473<br />V2</a></span>

   Montcalm desires his recall, II. <a href="#Page_164-V2">164</a>; 
	 alarming condition of Canada, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_169-V2">169</a>-<a href="#Page_173-V2">173</a>; 
	 danger to the shipping, II. <a href="#Page_172-V2">172</a>;
	 siege and reduction of Quebec, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_195-V2">195</a>-<a href="#Page_234-V2">234</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_259-V2">259</a>-<a href="#Page_299-V2">299</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_325-V2">325</a>, 
			<a href="#footer_28Note">326 <i>note</i></a> 
			(see <a href="#quebec">Quebec</a> and <a href="#wolfe">Wolfe</a>); 
	 measures of defence taken by Montcalm, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_198-V2">198</a>-<a href="#Page_203-V2">203</a>;
	 the camp, II. <a href="#Page_208-V2">208</a>, <a href="#Page_209-V2">209</a>;
	 the fireships let loose upon the enemy, II.
	    <a href="#Page_210-V2">210</a>-<a href="#Page_212-V2">212</a>;
	 opposition to the work at Point Levi, II. <a href="#Page_215-V2">215</a>;
	 Dumas' expedition unsuccessful, II. <a href="#Page_215-V2">215</a>;
	 preserve the defensive, II. <a href="#Page_219-V2">219</a>;
	 the Canadians desert their cause, II. <a href="#Page_219-V2">219</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_222-V2">222</a>, <a href="#Page_223-V2">223</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_366-V2">366</a>;
	 Niagara attacked and captured, II. <a href="#Page_222-V2">222</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_238-V2">238</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_242-V2">242</a>-<a href="#Page_249-V2">249</a>; 
	 affair of the Montmorenci, II. <a href="#Page_228-V2">228</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_233-V2">233</a>, <a href="#Page_259-V2">259</a>; 
	 at Isle-aix-Noix, II. <a href="#Page_238-V2">238</a>,
	    <a href="#Page_239-V2">239</a>, <a href="#Page_241-V2">241</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_249-V2">249</a>, <a href="#Page_250-V2">250</a>; 
	 loss of Ticonderoga, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_239-V2">239</a>, <a href="#Page_265-V2">265</a>; 
	 Crown Point abandoned, II. <a href="#Page_240-V2">240</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_241-V2">241</a>, <a href="#Page_265-V2">265</a>;  
	 effort to recover Pittsburg, II. <a href="#Page_244-V2">244</a>; 
	 their fear of the Indians, II. <a href="#Page_248-V2">248</a>,
	    <a href="#Page_374-V2">374</a>; 
	 parishes laid waste, II. <a href="#Page_260-V2">260</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_261-V2">261</a>; 
	 barbarities of Vaudreuil, II. <a href="#Page_262-V2">262</a>;
	 fear of losing supplies, II. <a href="#Page_264-V2">264</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_293-V2">293</a>; 
	 Montcalm poorly supported, II. <a href="#Page_281-V2">281</a>, 
	    <a href="#footer_768">281 <i>note</i></a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_292-V2">292</a>, <a href="#Page_293-V2">293</a>; 
	 the army routed, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_297-V2">297</a>-<a href="#Page_302-V2">302</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_307-V2">307</a>, <a href="#Page_308-V2">308</a>;
	 statistics concerning the army at the Battle of Quebec, II. 
	    <a href="#footer_27Note">298 <i>note</i></a>, 
			<a href="#Page_305-V2">305</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_436-V2">436</a>-<a href="#Page_438-V2">438</a>;
	 the protecting care of Montcalm, II. <a href="#Page_309-V2">309</a>;
	 the death and burial of Montcalm, II. <a href="#Page_309-V2">309</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_310-V2">310</a>; 
	 confusion in the army, II. <a href="#Page_312-V2">312</a>; 
	 L&eacute;vis assumes command, II. <a href="#Page_313-V2">313</a>; 
	 the army to retrace their steps, II. <a href="#Page_313-V2">313</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_314-V2">314</a>; 
	 the campaign and its actors misrepresented by Vaudreuil, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_318-V2">318</a>-<a href="#Page_323-V2">323</a>; 
	 the English threatened, I. <a href="#Page_335-V2">335</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_336-V2">336</a>; 
	 at Le Calvaire, II. <a href="#Page_336-V2">336</a>; 
	 encounter with the English under Major Dalling, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_336-V2">336</a>; 
	 skirmish at Lorette, II. <a href="#Page_337-V2">337</a>;
	 efforts to renew the conflict at Quebec, II. <a href="#Page_338-V2">338</a>; 
	 the troops during the winter, II. <a href="#Page_339-V2">339</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_340-V2">340</a>; 
	 L&eacute;vis's expedition to attack Quebec, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_341-V2">341</a>-<a href="#Page_358-V2">358</a>; 
	 occupy Sainte-Foy, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_344-V2">344</a>, <a href="#Page_345-V2">345</a>,
			<a href="#Page_442-V2">442</a>-<a href="#Page_444-V2">444</a>; 
	 the battle between Murray and L&eacute;vis, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_347-V2">347</a>-<a href="#Page_350-V2">350</a>; 
	 the English retreat, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_350-V2">350</a>-<a href="#Page_352-V2">352</a>;
	 available force of fighting men, II. <a href="#Page_360-V2">360</a>; 
	 small resources left in Canada, II. <a href="#Page_360-V2">360</a>; 
	 fall of Canada, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_360-V2">360</a>-<a href="#Page_382-V2">382</a>; 
	 plans of Amherst, II. <a href="#Page_361-V2">361</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_362-V2">362</a>; 
	 the English fleet sails for Montreal, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_363-V2">363</a>-<a href="#Page_366-V2">366</a>; 
	 advance upon Montreal, II. <a href="#Page_365-V2">365</a>; 
	 Fort L&eacute;vis captured, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_369-V2">369</a>, <a href="#Page_370-V2">370</a>; 
	 the articles of capitulation for Montreal, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_372-V2">372</a>, <a href="#Page_373-V2">373</a>; 
	 cruelties of the Indians encouraged by, II. <a href="#Page_373-V2">373</a>; 
	 Canada passes to the crown of England, II. <a href="#Page_374-V2">374</a>; 
	 return of the troops to France, II. <a href="#Page_374-V2">374</a>,  
	    <a href="#Page_383-V2">383</a>, <a href="#Page_384-V2">384</a>;
	 fly before Frederic, II. <a href="#Page_386-V2">386</a>; 
	 driven from Pondicherry, II. <a href="#Page_400-V2">400</a>; 
	 capture St. John's, and lose it again, II. <a href="#Page_402-V2">402</a>; 
	 payment offered for English scalps, II. <a href="#Page_421-V2">421</a>.<br />
French Academy, the, I. <a href="#Page_357-V1">357</a>.<br />
French Catharine's Town, I. <a href="#footer_015">54 <i>note</i></a>.<br />
French Creek, I. <a href="#Page_045-V1">45</a>, <a href="#Page_130-V1">130</a>, 
   <a href="#Page_133-V1">133</a>, <a href="#Page_168-V1">168</a>; 
   former name of, I. <a href="#Page_128-V1">128</a>.<br />
French Indians, I. <a href="#Page_058-V1">58</a>; 
   narrow escape of Washington, I. <a href="#Page_136-V1">136</a>.<br />
French Mountain, I. <a href="#Page_300-V1">300</a>, 
   <a href="#Page_309-V1">309</a>, II. <a href="#Page_092-V2">92</a>.<br />
French Revolution, the, I. <a href="#Page_018-V1">18</a>.<br />
Freshwater Cove, II. <a href="#Page_057-V2">57</a>, 
   <a href="#Page_058-V2">58</a>; 
   attacked and taken by the English, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_058-V2">58</a>-<a href="#Page_061-V2">61</a>; 
	 known by other names, II. <a href="#footer_584">59 <i>note</i></a>.<br />
Friponne, La, II. <a href="#Page_024-V2">24</a>.<br />
Frontenac, Fort, I. <a href="#Page_038-V1">38</a>, 
   <a href="#Page_068-V1">68</a>, II. <a href="#Page_114-V2">114</a>, 
	 <a href="#Page_155-V2">155</a>; 
   return of C&eacute;loron de Bienville, I. <a href="#Page_052-V1">52</a>;  
	 action of the French in regard to ship-building, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_072-V1">72</a>, <a href="#Page_073-V1">73</a>; 
	 reception offered to Father Piquet, I. <a href="#Page_074-V1">74</a>; 
	 proposed capture of, I. <a href="#Page_323-V1">323</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_324-V1">324</a>, <a href="#Page_374-V1">374</a>,
			<a href="#Page_381-V1">381</a>, <a href="#Page_393-V1">393</a>; 
	 position of, I. <a href="#Page_324-V1">324</a>;
	 held by the French, I. <a href="#Page_374-V1">374</a>,
			<a href="#Page_376-V1">376</a>, <a href="#Page_415-V1">415</a>; 
	 the attack abandoned, I. <a href="#Page_399-V1">399</a>; 
	 arrival of Montcalm, I. <a href="#Page_407-V1">407</a>; 
	 taken by the British, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_127-V2">127</a>-<a href="#Page_130-V2">130</a>; 
	 dismantled, II. <a href="#Page_129-V2">129</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_162-V2">162</a>.<br />
Fry, Joshua, Colonel, I. <a href="#Page_142-V1">142</a>, 
   <a href="#Page_145-V1">145</a>; 
   despatches from Washington, I. <a href="#Page_151-V1">151</a>; 
	 illness of, I. <a href="#Page_151-V1">151</a>; 
	 his death, I. <a href="#Page_151-V1">151</a>.<br />
Frye, Colonel, I. <a href="#footer_420">405 <i>note</i></a>; 
   disaster to the English, I. <a href="#Page_275-V1">275</a>; 
	 number killed at Fort Edward, I. <a href="#footer_499">485 <i>note</i></a>; 
	 sent with a detachment to Fort William Henry, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_496-V1">496</a>; 
	 the massacre at Fort William Henry, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_508-V1">508</a>-<a href="#Page_513-V1">513</a>, 
	    <a href="#footer_526">513 <i>note</i>, 514 <i>note</i></a>, II. 
			<a href="#Page_429-V2">429</a>, <a href="#Page_430-V2">430</a>.<br />
Fundy, Bay of, I. <a href="#Page_237-V1">237</a>, 
   <a href="#Page_239-V1">239</a>, <a href="#Page_247-V1">247</a>, 
	 <a href="#Page_261-V1">261</a>, <a href="#Page_268-V1">268</a>, II. 
   <a href="#Page_078-V2">78</a>, <a href="#Page_087-V2">87</a>; 
   dikes on, I. <a href="#Page_258-V1">258</a>.<br />
<a name="furTrade" id="furTrade"></a>
Fur-trade, the, I. 
   <a href="#Page_037-V1">37</a>, <a href="#Page_041-V1">41</a>, 
	 <a href="#Page_050-V1">50</a>, <a href="#Page_064-V1">64</a>, 
   <a href="#Page_072-V1">72</a>, <a href="#Page_076-V1">76</a>, 
   <a href="#Page_103-V1">103</a>, <a href="#Page_320-V1">320</a>, 
   <a href="#Page_369-V1">369</a>, II. <a href="#Page_024-V2">24</a>, 
   <a href="#Page_027-V2">27</a>, <a href="#Page_403-V2">403</a>.<br />
</p>
<p><br /></p>
<h3>G.</h3>
<p>	
Gabarus Bay, II. <a href="#Page_057-V2">57</a>.<br />
Gage, Lieutenant-Colonel, I. <a href="#Page_212-V1">212</a>; 
   in Braddock's expedition, I. <a href="#Page_214-V1">214</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_216-V1">216</a>;  
	 in the battle of the Monongahela, I. <a href="#Page_219-V1">219</a>; 
	 rallies his troops, I. <a href="#Page_224-V1">224</a>; 
	 his infantry under Abercromby, II. <a href="#Page_093-V2">93</a>; 
	 letter from Amherst, II. <a href="#Page_240-V2">240</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_241-V2">241</a>; 
	 sent to supersede Johnson, II. <a href="#Page_249-V2">249</a>.<br />
Galissoni&egrave;re, Comte de la, governor of Canada, I. 
   <a href="#Page_043-V1">43</a>, <a href="#Page_045-V1">45</a>, 
	 <a href="#footer_012">53 <i>note</i></a>; 
   effort to have the population of Canada increased, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_021-V1">21</a>; 
	 his plans for uniting Canada and Louisiana, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_036-V1">36</a>, <a href="#Page_037-V1">37</a>; 
	 his personal appearance, I. <a href="#Page_036-V1">36</a>; 

<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_474-V2" id="Page_474-V2">474<br />V2</a></span>

   message given to the Indians, I. <a href="#Page_047-V1">47</a>;  
	 soldiers sent to protect Piquet's mission, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_066-V1">66</a>, <a href="#Page_068-V1">68</a>; 
	 honorably recalled from office, I. <a href="#Page_077-V1">77</a>;
	 persons induced to settle at Detroit, I. 
	    <a href="#footer_046">77 <i>note</i></a>; 
	 questions of boundary, I. <a href="#Page_122-V1">122</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_123-V1">123</a>.<br />
Ganouskie Bay, I. <a href="#Page_490-V1">490</a>.<br />
Gardiner, Captain, 
   captures the ship "Foudroyant," II. <a href="#Page_049-V2">49</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_050-V2">50</a>; 
	 mortally wounded, II. <a href="#Page_050-V2">50</a>.<br />
Gardner, I. <a href="#Page_443-V1">443</a>.<br />
Garneau, II. <a href="#Page_443-V2">443</a>, 
<a href="#Page_444-V2">444</a>.<br />
Gasconade, II. <a href="#Page_171-V2">171</a>, 
   <a href="#footer_24Note">194 <i>note</i></a>, 
	 <a href="#Page_204-V2">204</a>.<br />
Gasp&eacute;, I. <a href="#Page_125-V1">125</a>, 
   <a href="#Page_491-V1">491</a>, II. <a href="#Page_080-V2">80</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_081-V2">81</a>, <a href="#Page_354-V2">354</a>.<br />
Gaspereau, Fort, at Baye Verte, I. <a href="#Page_253-V1">253</a>; 
   surrender of, to the English, I. <a href="#Page_253-V1">253</a>.<br />
Gates wounded in battle, I. <a href="#Page_219-V1">219</a>.<br />
General Court of Massachusetts, the, I. <a href="#Page_026-V1">26</a>, 
   <a href="#Page_290-V1">290</a>, <a href="#Page_404-V1">404</a>; 
   method of raising troops, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_384-V1">384</a>-<a href="#Page_387-V1">387</a>.<br />
General Hospital of Quebec, the, II. <a href="#Page_441-V2">441</a>,
   crowded with sick, II. <a href="#Page_265-V2">265</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_304-V2">304</a>, <a href="#Page_305-V2">305</a>;
	 the nuns care for the sick, II. <a href="#Page_330-V2">330</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_331-V2">331</a>-<a href="#Page_335-V2">335</a>.<br />
Genesee, I. <a href="#Page_071-V1">71</a>.<br />
Genesee Falls, I. <a href="#Page_071-V1">71</a>.<br />
George II., King of England, I. <a href="#Page_288-V1">288</a>, 
   <a href="#Page_316-V1">316</a>, <a href="#Page_320-V1">320</a>,
	 <a href="#Page_321-V1">321</a>, <a href="#Page_332-V1">332</a>, II.
	 <a href="#Page_040-V2">40</a>,  <a href="#Page_081-V2">81</a>, 
	 <a href="#Page_191-V2">191</a>; 
   society, morals, and religion during his reign, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_005-V1">5</a>-<a href="#Page_009-V1">9</a>; 
	 his possessions in the West, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_053-V1">53</a>, <a href="#Page_133-V1">133</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_134-V1">134</a>, <a href="#Page_141-V1">141</a>; 
	 the oath of allegiance to be taken by the Acadians, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_091-V1">91</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_092-V1">92</a>-<a href="#Page_098-V1">98</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_265-V1">265</a>; 
	 forts to be erected on the Ohio, I. <a href="#Page_137-V1">137</a>; 
	 plans of colonial union, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_175-V1">175</a>, <a href="#Page_176-V1">176</a>; 
	 his speech concerning America, I. <a href="#Page_181-V1">181</a>; 
	 American regiments to be taken into his pay, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_194-V1">194</a>; 
	 remark concerning Governor Sharpe, I.  
	    <a href="#Page_201-V1">201</a>, <a href="#Page_202-V1">202</a>; 
	 his orders to the Acadians, I. <a href="#Page_270-V1">270</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_273-V1">273</a>, <a href="#Page_274-V1">274</a>; 
	 the Acadians disloyal to, I. <a href="#Page_260-V1">260</a>; 
	 the Acadians declared prisoners, I. <a href="#Page_274-V1">274</a>; 
	 his name given to Lake George, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_295-V1">295</a>, <a href="#Page_315-V1">315</a>; 
	 the rank of provincial officers, I. <a href="#Page_399-V1">399</a>; 
	 the fall of Louisbourg, II. <a href="#Page_076-V2">76</a>;
	 troops called for, II. <a href="#Page_083-V2">83</a>; 
	 secret instructions to Wolfe, II. 
	    <a href="#footer_24Note">194 <i>note</i></a>; 
	 the victory at Quebec, II. <a href="#Page_323-V2">323</a>,
	    <a href="#Page_324-V2">324</a>, <a href="#Page_340-V2">340</a>;
	 the fall of Canada, II. <a href="#Page_360-V2">360</a>; 
	 Louisbourg to be abandoned, II. <a href="#Page_363-V2">363</a>;  
	 his death, II. <a href="#Page_390-V2">390</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_391-V2">391</a>.<br />
George III., succeeds to the throne of England, II. 
   <a href="#Page_391-V2">391</a>; 
   his character and opinions, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_391-V2">391</a>-<a href="#Page_394-V2">394</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_397-V2">397</a>;  
	 growth of a peace-party, II. <a href="#Page_391-V2">391</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_392-V2">392</a>; 
	 the negotiation with France broken off, II. <a href="#Page_396-V2">396</a>; 
	 quarrels with Newcastle, II. <a href="#Page_400-V2">400</a>; 
	 desires peace with France, II. <a href="#Page_402-V2">402</a>; 
	 resistance of the British colonies, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_413-V2">413</a>.<br />
George, Fort, II. <a href="#Page_076-V2">76</a>, <a href="#Page_237-V2">237</a>;
   erection of, I. <a href="#Page_295-V2">295</a>; 
	 condition of, I. <a href="#Page_411-V1">411</a>.<br />
George, Lake, I. <a href="#Page_294-V1">294</a>,  
			<a href="#Page_296-V1">296</a>, <a href="#Page_380-V1">380</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_388-V1">388</a>, <a href="#Page_401-V1">401</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_421-V1">421</a>, <a href="#Page_441-V1">441</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_446-V1">446</a>, <a href="#Page_448-V1">448</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_452-V1">452</a>, II. <a href="#Page_012-V2">12</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_014-V2">14</a>, <a href="#Page_015-V2">15</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_076-V2">76</a>, <a href="#Page_080-V2">80</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_115-V2">115</a>, <a href="#Page_129-V2">129</a>; 
   its beauty of scenery, I. <a href="#Page_295-V2">295</a>; 
	 the name given to, by Johnson, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_295-V1">295</a>, <a href="#Page_315-V1">315</a>; 
	 advance of Dieskau's army, I. <a href="#Page_299-V1">299</a>;  
	 conditions at the camp of, I.  
	    <a href="#Page_314-V1">314</a>, <a href="#Page_315-V1">315</a>; 
	 its former name, <a href="#Page_315-V1">315</a>; 
	 winter life of the garrisons, I. <a href="#Page_350-V1">350</a>; 
	 scouting-party sent out, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_427-V1">427</a>-<a href="#Page_429-V1">429</a>; 
	 exploits of Rogers' rangers, I.  
	    <a href="#Page_433-V1">433</a>-<a href="#Page_437-V1">437</a>; 
	 the French camp, I. <a href="#Page_438-V1">438</a>,  
	    <a href="#Page_477-V1">477</a>, <a href="#Page_478-V1">478</a>; 
	 the English camp, I. <a href="#Page_440-V1">440</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_441-V1">441</a>; 
	 exposed condition of the forts, I. <a href="#Page_474-V1">474</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_475-V1">475</a>; 
	 position of Ticonderoga, I. <a href="#Page_477-V1">477</a>, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_099-V2">99</a>;  
	 advance of Montcalm's forces upon Fort William Henry, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_485-V1">485</a>-<a href="#Page_491-V1">491</a>; 
	 voyage of the troops on their way to attack Ticonderoga, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_086-V2">86</a>-<a href="#Page_088-V2">88</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_092-V2">92</a>, <a href="#Page_094-V2">94</a>;
	 arrangement of Montcalm's troops, II. <a href="#Page_104-V2">104</a>; 
	 mustering-place of the armies at the head of, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_236-V2">236</a>.<br />
George, Lake, the battle of, I. <a href="#footer_298">291 <i>note</i></a>, 
   <a href="#Page_304-V1">304</a>-<a href="#Page_317-V1">317</a>, 
	 <a href="#Page_328-V1">328</a>.<br />
Georgia, I. <a href="#Page_033-V1">33</a>; 
   English possessions, I. <a href="#Page_020-V1">20</a>; 
   distribution of the exiled Acadians, I. <a href="#Page_282-V1">282</a>.<br />
Germain, Father, efforts against the English, I. <a href="#Page_100-V1">100</a>,
      <a href="#Page_101-V1">101</a>, <a href="#Page_103-V1">103</a>; 
   the fight at Beaubassin, I. <a href="#Page_117-V1">117</a>.<br />
German Flats, I. <a href="#Page_321-V1">321</a>, <a href="#Page_406-V1">406</a>; 
   attacked by Vaudreuil, II. <a href="#Page_006-V2">6</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_007-V2">7</a>.<br />
German States, the, II. <a href="#Page_038-V2">38</a>, 
   <a href="#Page_039-V2">39</a>.<br />
German War, the, II. <a href="#Page_405-V2">405</a>.<br />
Germanic Empire, the, I. <a href="#Page_016-V1">16</a>, 
   <a href="#Page_017-V1">17</a>, II. <a href="#Page_038-V2">38</a>; 
   decay of, I. <a href="#Page_017-V1">17</a>; 
	 hostile to Frederic II., II. <a href="#Page_399-V2">399</a>.<br />
Germans, the, II. 
   <a href="#Page_006-V2">6</a>, <a href="#Page_045-V2">45</a>,
   <a href="#Page_047-V2">47</a>, <a href="#Page_132-V2">132</a>;
   in Pennsylvania, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_031-V1">31</a>, <a href="#Page_166-V1">166</a>,
			<a href="#Page_193-V1">193</a>, <a href="#Page_339-V1">339</a>,
	    <a href="#Page_347-V1">347</a>, <a href="#Page_348-V1">348</a>;
	 their language spoken in New York, I. <a href="#Page_032-V1">32</a>.<br />
Germany, II. <a href="#Page_117-V2">117</a>;
   destiny of, involved with that of Prussia, I. <a href="#Page_017-V1">17</a>; 
	 intrigue formed by France, concerning, I. <a href="#Page_019-V1">19</a>; 
	 the convention of Kloster-Zeven, II. <a href="#Page_045-V2">45</a>;
	 political situation in 1761, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_391-V2">391</a>-<a href="#Page_395-V2">395</a>;
	 recreation of, II. <a href="#Page_408-V2">408</a>; 
	 results of the Seven Year War, II. <a href="#Page_409-V2">409</a>.<br />
Gethan, Captain, I. <a href="#Page_227-V1">227</a>.<br />
Gibraltar, garrisons of, I. <a href="#Page_009-V1">9</a>; 
   governorship of General Braddock, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_189-V2">189</a>, <a href="#Page_190-V2">190</a>, 
			<a href="#footer_194">190 <i>note</i></a>.<br />
Gibraltar, Straits of, II. <a href="#Page_049-V2">49</a>.<br />
Giddings, Captain, II. <a href="#footer_643">123 <i>note</i></a>.<br />
Gilchrist, II. <a href="#Page_435-V2">435</a>, 
   <a href="#Page_436-V2">436</a>.<br />
Gilson, George, I. <a href="#Page_227-V1">227</a>.<br />
Girard, priest at Cobequid, I. <a href="#Page_106-V1">106</a>, II. 
   <a href="#Page_427-V2">427</a>; 
   oath required of, I. <a href="#Page_106-V1">106</a>, 
	 <a href="#Page_107-V1">107</a>;
	 his honorable action, I. <a href="#Page_107-V1">107</a>;
	 correspondence with Longueuil, I. <a href="#Page_107-V1">107</a>;

<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_475-V2" id="Page_475-V2">475<br />V2</a></span>

quotation from, concerning the Acadian emigrants, I. 
   <a href="#Page_109-V1">109</a>, <a href="#Page_110-V1">110</a>.<br />

Gist, Christopher, I. <a href="#Page_042-V1">42</a>, 
   <a href="#Page_133-V1">133</a>;
   sent to select land for settlers, I. <a href="#Page_053-V1">53</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_054-V1">54</a>-<a href="#Page_059-V1">59</a>; 
	 his expedition to Ohio, I. <a href="#Page_053-V1">53</a>;
	 his description of a feather dance, I. <a href="#Page_058-V1">58</a>; 
	 adventure with Indians, I. <a href="#Page_136-V1">136</a>; 
	 his journal, I. <a href="#footer_137">136 <i>note</i></a>; 
	 joins Washington, I. <a href="#Page_146-V1">146</a>, 
	 <a href="#Page_151-V1">151</a>; 
	 his settlement, I. <a href="#Page_151-V1">151</a>, 
	 <a href="#Page_157-V1">157</a>; 
	 council held by Washington, I. <a href="#Page_153-V1">153</a>;
	 his buildings burned, I. <a href="#Page_161-V1">161</a>;
	 reached by the retreating troops of Braddock, I.
	    <a href="#Page_224-V1">224</a>;
	 orders given by Braddock to, I. <a href="#Page_226-V1">226</a>.<br />
Gladwin, wounded in the battle of the Monongahela, I. 
   <a href="#Page_219-V1">219</a>.<br />
Glasgow, II. <a href="#Page_185-V2">185</a>.<br />
Glasier, Colonel, I. <a href="#Page_404-V1">404</a>.<br />
Glen, Governor of South Carolina, I. <a href="#Page_176-V1">176</a>; 
   correspondence with Dinwiddie, I. <a href="#Page_176-V1">176</a>, 
	 <a href="#Page_177-V1">177</a>.<br />
Gnadenh&uuml;tten settlement destroyed by the Indians, I. 
   <a href="#Page_347-V1">347</a>.<br />
Goat Island, II. <a href="#Page_053-V2">53</a>.<br />
Goldsmith, his Life of Nash, I. <a href="#Page_188-V1">188</a>.<br />
"Goodwill," the, II. <a href="#Page_204-V2">204</a>.<br />
Gordon, Mr., I. <a href="#Page_403-V1">403</a>; 
   engineer in Braddock's expedition, I. <a href="#Page_215-V1">215</a>.<br />
Gor&eacute;e II. <a href="#Page_400-V2">400</a>; 
   Island of, restored to France, II. <a href="#Page_406-V2">406</a>.<br />
Gorham, Captain, reconnoitres Louisbourg, I. 
   <a href="#Page_471-V1">471</a>.<br />
Governor's Palace, the, I. <a href="#Page_142-V1">142</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_163-V1">163</a>.<br />
Governors of America, the, position of, I. <a href="#Page_170-V1">170</a>, 
      <a href="#Page_171-V1">171</a>, <a href="#Page_282-V1">282</a>; 
   matter of raising money for the campaigns, I. <a href="#Page_195-V1">195</a>; 
	 council held with Braddock, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_191-V1">191</a>-<a href="#Page_195-V1">195</a>;
	 jealousies between the Assemblies and, I. <a href="#Page_419-V1">419</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_420-V1">420</a>.<br />
Gradis and Son, II. <a href="#Page_023-V2">23</a>; 
   official knavery, II. <a href="#Page_023-V2">23</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_024-V2">24</a>.<br />
Graham, Rev. John of Suffield, Conn., I. <a href="#Page_402-V1">402</a>; 
   his accounts of the condition of the provincial camp, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_402-V1">402</a>-<a href="#Page_404-V1">404</a>; 
	 his Diary quoted, I. <a href="#Page_403-V1">403</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_404-V1">404</a>.<br />
Grand Battery, the, II. <a href="#Page_055-V2">55</a>;
   abandoned by the French, II. <a href="#Page_061-V2">61</a>.<br />
Grand Menan, the, II. <a href="#Page_183-V2">183</a>.<br />
Grand Pr&eacute;, the, I. 
   <a href="#Page_094-V1">94</a>, <a href="#Page_106-V1">106</a>,
   <a href="#Page_260-V1">260</a>, <a href="#Page_263-V1">263</a>; 
   its inhabitants, I. <a href="#Page_264-V1">264</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_269-V1">269</a>, <a href="#Page_270-V1">270</a>; 
	 meadows of, I. <a href="#Page_268-V1">268</a>;
	 origin of its name, I. <a href="#Page_269-V1">269</a>; 
	 encampment of Winslow, I. <a href="#Page_269-V1">269</a>; 
	 the inhabitants summoned to hear the King's orders, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_271-V1">271</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_272-V1">272</a>-<a href="#Page_276-V1">276</a>; 
	 the removal of the Acadians, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_277-V1">277</a>-<a href="#Page_279-V1">279</a>.<br />
Grant, Ensign, the attack upon Louisbourg, II. 
   <a href="#Page_059-V2">59</a>.<br />
Grant, Major, his expedition, II. 
   <a href="#Page_151-V2">151</a>-<a href="#Page_155-V2">155</a>;
   surrounded and captured, II.
      <a href="#Page_153-V2">153</a>-<a href="#Page_155-V2">155</a>.<br />
Grant, Mrs. Anne, recollections of Albany, I. <a href="#Page_320-V1">320</a>; 
   her "Memoirs of an American Lady," cited, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_320-V1">320</a>, II. 
			<a href="#footer_614">91 <i>note</i></a>.<br />
Grant's Hill, II. <a href="#Page_140-V2">140</a>;
   origin of the name, II. <a href="#Page_151-V2">151</a>.<br />
<a name="granville" id="granville"></a>
Granville, Earl, I. <a href="#Page_008-V1">8</a>, II. 
   <a href="#Page_397-V2">397</a>; 
   letter from Dinwiddie to, quoted, I. <a href="#Page_176-V1">176</a>;
   angry reply given to Pitt, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_397-V2">397</a>, <a href="#Page_398-V2">398</a>;
	 remarks on his death-bed, II. <a href="#Page_408-V2">408</a>.<br />
Granville, Fort, attacked by the French and Indians, I. 
   <a href="#Page_423-V1">423</a>.<br />
Gray, words of Wolfe concerning the Elegy, II. <a href="#Page_285-V2">285</a>, 
   <a href="#Page_286-V2">286</a>.<br />
Gray, Sergeant James, letter to his brother quoted, I. 
   <a href="#Page_321-V1">321</a>.<br />
Gray, John, letter from James Gray, I. <a href="#Page_321-V1">321</a>.<br />
Great Carrying Place, the, I. <a href="#Page_293-V1">293</a>, 
   <a href="#Page_321-V1">321</a>, <a href="#Page_393-V1">393</a>, II. 
	 <a href="#Page_242-V1">242</a>; 
   guarded by the English, I. <a href="#Page_374-V1">374</a>; 
	 fort rebuilt by Shirley, I. <a href="#Page_384-V1">384</a>; 
	 the fort burned, I. <a href="#Page_406-V1">406</a>; 
	 new fort to be erected, II. <a href="#Page_129-V2">129</a>.<br />
Great Company, the, in Canada, I. <a href="#Page_283-V1">283</a>.<br />
Great Cove, the settlement destroyed, I. <a href="#Page_343-V1">343</a>.<br />
Great Kenawha, the, I. <a href="#Page_048-V1">48</a>; 
   plate buried by the French near, I. <a href="#Page_048-V1">48</a>.<br />
Great Lakes, the, I. <a href="#Page_075-V1">75</a>, 
   <a href="#Page_124-V1">124</a>.<br />
Great Meadows, the, I. <a href="#Page_145-V1">145</a>; 
   Washington assembles his force, I. <a href="#Page_146-V1">146</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_151-V1">151</a>, <a href="#Page_153-V1">153</a>; 
	 the fight at, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_157-V1">157</a>-<a href="#Page_159-V1">159</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_161-V1">161</a>; 
	 encampment of Dunbar, I. <a href="#Page_226-V1">226</a>.<br />
Great Miami, the, I. <a href="#Page_050-V1">50</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_055-V1">55</a>; 
   neighboring country described, I. <a href="#Page_055-V1">55</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_056-V1">56</a>.<br />
Great Savage Mountain, the, I. <a href="#Page_205-V1">205</a>.<br />
Greeks, the, I. <a href="#Page_407-V1">407</a>, II. 
   <a href="#Page_323-V2">323</a>.<br />
Green and Russell, Messrs., II. <a href="#Page_442-V2">442</a>.<br />
Green, his "History of the English People" cited, II. 
   <a href="#Page_408-V1">408</a>, 
	 <a href="#footer_877">408 <i>note</i></a>.<br />
Green Bay, I. <a href="#Page_084-V1">84</a>; 
   fraudulent trade, II. <a href="#Page_027-V2">27</a>.<br />
Green Mountains, I. <a href="#Page_453-V1">453</a>.<br />
Grenada, II. <a href="#Page_401-V2">401</a>; 
   ceded by France, II. <a href="#Page_405-V2">405</a>.<br />
Grenadines, the, II. <a href="#Page_405-V2">405</a>.<br />
Grenville, Mr., II. <a href="#footer_24Note">194 <i>note</i></a>.<br />
Gridley, Colonel, I. <a href="#Page_401-V1">401</a>.<br />
Grignon, Pierre, II. <a href="#Page_425-V2">425</a>.<br />
Guadeloupe, II. <a href="#Page_400-V2">400</a>;
   question of its comparative value with that of Canada, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_403-V2">403</a>;
	 restored by England, II. <a href="#Page_405-V2">405</a>.<br />
Guienne, the battalion of, I. <a href="#Page_182-V1">182</a>, II. 
   <a href="#Page_104-V2">104</a>, <a href="#Page_109-V2">109</a>, 
	 <a href="#Page_230-V2">230</a>, <a href="#Page_232-V2">232</a>; 
   advances upon Fort William Henry, I. <a href="#Page_491-V1">491</a>;
	 guards Fort Frontenac, I. <a href="#Page_376-V1">376</a>;
	 the capture of Oswego, I. <a href="#Page_408-V1">408</a>;
	 camp of, I. <a href="#Page_477-V1">477</a>;
	 ordered to encamp on the Plains of Abraham, II. <a href="#Page_276-V1">276</a>;
	 encamps by the St. Charles, II. <a href="#Page_285-V2">285</a>,
	    <a href="#Page_290-V2">290</a>, <a href="#Page_292-V2">292</a>.<br />

<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_476-V2" id="Page_476-V2">476<br />V2</a></span>

Guinea, the French driven from, II. <a href="#Page_047-V2">47</a>.<br />
Gumley, Colonel, I. <a href="#Page_189-V1">189</a>.<br />


</p>
<p><br /></p>
<h3>H.</h3>
<p>	
Hague, I. <a href="#Page_428-V1">428</a>.<br />
Hainaut, I. <a href="#Page_358-V1">358</a>.<br />
Haldimand, Colonel, II. <a href="#Page_242-V2">242</a>; 
   attacked by the French, II. <a href="#Page_242-V2">242</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_243-V2">243</a>.<br />
Hale, George S., I. <a href="#footer_419">404 <i>note</i></a>.<br />
Half-King, chief of the Indians on the Ohio, I. <a href="#Page_130-V1">130</a>; 
   aids and accompanies Washington, I. <a href="#Page_133-V1">133</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_145-V1">145</a>, <a href="#Page_146-V1">146</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_151-V1">151</a>, <a href="#Page_152-V1">152</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_160-V1">160</a>; 
	 efforts of Saint-Pierre to entice away his Indians, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_135-V1">135</a>; 
	 council held with Half-King by Washington, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_146-V1">146</a>, <a href="#Page_147-V1">147</a>; 
	 boast concerning the death of Jumonville, I. 
	    <a href="#footer_152">151 <i>note</i></a>; 
	 his comments on the fight at Great Meadows, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_160-V1">160</a>.<br />
Half-Moon, I. 
   <a href="#Page_384-V1">384</a>, <a href="#Page_452-V1">452</a>, II. 
	 <a href="#Page_119-V2">119</a>.<br />
Haliburton, statement from, I. <a href="#footer_278">277 <i>note</i></a>.<br />
Halifax, Lord, on the Board of Trade, I. <a href="#Page_179-V1">179</a>; 
   letter from Dinwiddie to, I. <a href="#Page_229-V1">229</a>; 
	 letter from Winslow, I. <a href="#Page_278-V1">278</a>.<br />
<a name="halifax" id="halifax"></a>
Halifax, I. <a href="#Page_093-V1">93</a>, 
	 <a href="#Page_101-V1">101</a>, <a href="#Page_104-V1">104</a>, 
	 <a href="#Page_106-V1">106</a>, <a href="#Page_113-V1">113</a>, 
	 <a href="#Page_115-V1">115</a>, <a href="#Page_196-V1">196</a>, 
	 <a href="#Page_239-V1">239</a>, <a href="#Page_243-V1">243</a>,
	 <a href="#Page_255-V1">255</a>, II. 
	 <a href="#Page_001-V2">1</a>, <a href="#Page_277-V2">277</a>; 
   foundation and growth of, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_092-V1">92</a>, <a href="#Page_093-V1">93</a>; 
	 meeting of deputies from Acadia with Cornwallis, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_097-V1">97</a>, <a href="#Page_098-V1">98</a>; 
	 questions of ownership, I. <a href="#Page_124-V2">124</a>; 
	 hearing given to the Acadians, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_260-V1">260</a>-<a href="#Page_265-V1">265</a>; 
	 destined port of the English fleet, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_469-V1">469</a>, <a href="#Page_470-V1">470</a>;  
	 fleet sails for, under Admiral Boscawen, II. <a href="#Page_051-V2">51</a>; 
	 departure of Boscawen's ships, II. <a href="#Page_056-V2">56</a>; 
	 arrival of Admiral Saunders, II. <a href="#Page_192-V2">192</a>.<br />
Halifax, Fort, I. <a href="#Page_183-V1">183</a>, 
   <a href="#footer_185">184 <i>note</i></a>.<br /> 
Halket, Sir Peter, attacked by the French, I. 
   <a href="#Page_216-V1">216</a>-<a href="#Page_219-V1">219</a>; 
   shot in battle, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_219-V1">219</a>, <a href="#Page_227-V1">227</a>; 
	 burial of his remains, II. <a href="#Page_160-V2">160</a>.<br />
Halket, son of Sir Peter, shot in battle, I. <a href="#Page_219-V1">219</a>; 
   his remains discovered, II. <a href="#Page_160-V2">160</a>.<br />
Halket, Major, II. <a href="#Page_432-V2">432</a>; 
   discovers his father's body, II. <a href="#Page_160-V2">160</a>; 
	 letter from Tomahawk Camp, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_161-V2">161</a>, <a href="#Page_162-V2">162</a>.<br />
Hamilton, James, Governor of Pennsylvania, I. <a href="#Page_042-V1">42</a>, 
   <a href="#Page_054-V1">54</a>, <a href="#Page_056-V1">56</a>; 
   his opinion of English traders, I. <a href="#Page_042-V1">42</a>; 
	 correspondence with Dinwiddie, I. 
	    <a href="#footer_005">42 <i>note</i></a>, <a href="#Page_141-V1">141</a>;
	 receives a message from the Miamis and Hurons, I. 
	    <a href="#footer_017">57 <i>note</i></a>; 
	 desirability of an Indian alliance, I. <a href="#Page_059-V1">59</a>; 
	 tries to build a trading-house on the Ohio, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_059-V1">59</a>, <a href="#Page_060-V1">60</a>; 
	 result of the meeting of, with the Assembly of Pennsylvania, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_165-V1">165</a>-<a href="#Page_168-V1">168</a>; 
	 succeeded by Governor Morris, I. <a href="#Page_167-V1">167</a>.<br /> 
Hampton, arrival of  Braddock, I. <a href="#Page_187-V1">187</a>; 
   arrival of regiments at, I. <a href="#Page_191-V1">191</a>.<br /> 
Hanbury, John, I. <a href="#Page_140-V1">140</a>; 
   stockholder in the Ohio Company, I. <a href="#Page_053-V1">53</a>, 
	 <a href="#Page_196-V1">196</a>; 
	 extracts from his correspondence with Dinwiddie, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_140-V1">140</a>, <a href="#Page_141-V1">141</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_144-V1">144</a>; 
	 error ascribed to, I. <a href="#Page_196-V1">196</a>.<br /> 
Hanbury, Mrs., I. <a href="#Page_144-V1">144</a>.<br /> 
Hancock, a Boston merchant, I. <a href="#Page_245-V1">245</a>; 
   furnishes money for the English troops, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_245-V1">245</a>.<br />
Handfield, Major, in command at Annapolis, I. <a href="#Page_267-V1">267</a>;
   instructions to expel the Acadians, I. <a href="#Page_267-V1">267</a>;
	 letter from, to Winslow, I. <a href="#Page_274-V1">274</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_275-V1">275</a>; 
	 letter of Winslow concerning the removal of the Acadians, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_277-V1">277</a>, 
			<a href="#footer_278">277 <i>note</i></a>.<br />
Hannibal, II. <a href="#Page_209-V2">209</a>.<br /> 
Hanover, I. <a href="#Page_005-V1">5</a>, 
   <a href="#Page_008-V1">8</a>, <a href="#Page_353-V1">353</a>, II. 
	 <a href="#Page_040-V2">40</a>, <a href="#Page_047-V2">47</a>,
	 <a href="#Page_049-V2">49</a>, <a href="#Page_391-V2">391</a>, 
	 <a href="#Page_392-V2">392</a>, <a href="#Page_400-V2">400</a>; 
   possessions of England in, I. <a href="#Page_019-V1">19</a>;
	 restorations made by France, II. <a href="#Page_405-V2">405</a>.<br />
Hardy, Major, to hold the Point of Orleans, II. <a href="#Page_216-V2">216</a>,
   <a href="#Page_217-V2">217</a>, <a href="#Page_219-V2">219</a>.<br />
Hardy, Sir Charles, Governor of New York, I. <a href="#Page_383-V1">383</a>,  
   <a href="#Page_470-V1">470</a>; 
   opposition to Shirley, I. <a href="#Page_383-V1">383</a>; 
	 orders issued to scatter the Nova Scotia settlers, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_080-V2">80</a>, <a href="#Page_081-V2">81</a>.<br />
Harris, John, sufferings of the settlers, I. 
   <a href="#Page_343-V1">343</a>.<br />
Harris, Mary, story of, I. <a href="#Page_055-V1">55</a>.<br />
Harris, Thomas, English scout, I. <a href="#Page_415-V1">415</a>, 
   <a href="#Page_416-V1">416</a>.<br />
Harry, II. <a href="#Page_390-V2">390</a>.<br />
Hartwell Library, the, II. <a href="#footer_718">219 <i>note</i></a>.<br />
Hauteur-de-la-Potence, II. <a href="#Page_066-V2">66</a>.<br />
Havana, expedition of Pococke, II. <a href="#Page_401-V2">401</a>;
   conquered, II. <a href="#Page_402-V2">402</a>;
	 returned to Spain, II. <a href="#Page_405-V2">405</a>.<br />
Haviland, Colonel, commander at Fort Edward, II. <a href="#Page_011-V2">11</a>; 
   the fall of Canada, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_361-V2">361</a>-<a href="#Page_382-V2">382</a>; 
	 opens communication with Murray, II. <a href="#Page_368-V2">368</a>; 
	 encamped near Montreal, II. <a href="#Page_372-V2">372</a>.<br />
Hawke, Sir Edward, II. <a href="#Page_050-V2">50</a>; 
   his character, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_050-V2">50</a>, <a href="#Page_051-V2">51</a>.<br />
Hawley, Elisha, his wounds, I. 
   <a href="#Page_302-V1">302</a>, <a href="#Page_311-V1">311</a>;
   his last letter to his brother quoted, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_302-V1">302</a>.<br />
Hawley, Joseph, I. <a href="#Page_302-V1">302</a>.<br />
Hay, Ensign, killed at Beaus&eacute;jour, I. 
   <a href="#Page_250-V1">250</a>.<br />
Hay, Sir Charles, I. <a href="#Page_471-V1">471</a>.<br />
Hazen, Captain Moses, II. <a href="#Page_351-V2">351</a>; 
   the encounter at Beaus&eacute;jour, I. <a href="#Page_249-V1">249</a>;
	 his courage, I. <a href="#Page_428-V1">428</a>; 
	 skirmish at Lorette, II. <a href="#Page_337-V2">337</a>;
	 the battle between L&eacute;vis and Murray, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_347-V2">347</a>-<a href="#Page_350-V2">350</a>.<br />
Hebecourt, Captain, stationed at Ticonderoga, II. <a href="#Page_011-V2">11</a>; 
   receives a reinforcement of Indians, II. <a href="#Page_012-V2">12</a>; 
	 Bourlamaque leaves him in charge, II. <a href="#Page_238-V2">238</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_239-V2">239</a>.<br />

<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_477-V2" id="Page_477-V2">477<br />V2</a></span>

Helots, I. <a href="#Page_465-V1">465</a>.<br />
Henderson, II. <a href="#Page_296-V2">296</a>.<br />
Hendrick, chief of the Mohawks, I. <a href="#Page_301-V1">301</a>; 
   his arrival at New York, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_171-V1">171</a>, <a href="#Page_172-V1">172</a>; 
	 speech made at Albany, I.  
	    <a href="#Page_173-V1">173</a>, <a href="#Page_174-V1">174</a>; 
	 his advice to Johnson, I. <a href="#Page_301-V1">301</a>; 
	 encounter with Dieskau, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_301-V1">301</a>, <a href="#Page_302-V1">302</a>; 
	 killed in battle, I. <a href="#Page_302-V1">302</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_303-V1">303</a>, <a href="#Page_309-V1">309</a>.<br />
Henry IV., II. <a href="#Page_009-V2">9</a>.<br />
Hensey, Florence, a spy at London, I. <a href="#Page_469-V1">469</a>.<br />
Herbin, I. <a href="#Page_486-V1">486</a>; 
   skirmish with Captain MacDonald, II. <a href="#Page_336-V2">336</a>,
   <a href="#Page_337-V2">337</a>.<br />
Herkimer, Fort, II. <a href="#Page_007-V2">7</a>.<br />
Hermitage, the, II. <a href="#Page_021-V2">21</a>.<br />
"H&eacute;ros," the, ship, I. <a href="#Page_362-V1">362</a>.<br />
Hertel, I. <a href="#Page_486-V1">486</a>.<br />
Highlanders, the, II. <a href="#Page_093-V2">93</a>, 
   <a href="#Page_151-V2">151</a>, <a href="#Page_185-V2">185</a>; 
   their bravery, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_109-V2">109</a>, <a href="#Page_232-V2">232</a>; 
	 serve under Forbes, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_132-V2">132</a>-<a href="#Page_163-V2">163</a>; 
	 their comrades exposed on poles, II. <a href="#Page_159-V2">159</a>; 
	 action at Quebec, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_232-V2">232</a>, <a href="#Page_233-V2">233</a>,
			<a href="#Page_261-V2">261</a>, <a href="#Page_262-V2">262</a>,
			<a href="#Page_286-V2">286</a>, <a href="#Page_437-V2">437</a>;
	 the slogan, II. <a href="#Page_296-V2">296</a>; 
	 encounter with the Canadians, II. <a href="#Page_300-V2">300</a>; 
	 their costume insufficient in Canada, II. <a href="#Page_334-V2">334</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_335-V2">335</a>; 
	 encounter with the French, II. <a href="#Page_336-V2">336</a>.<br />
Hobbs, Captain, I. <a href="#Page_270-V1">270</a>, 
   <a href="#Page_272-V1">272</a>.<br />
Hocquart, Captain, fate of the "Alcide," I. 
   <a href="#Page_185-V1">185</a>, <a href="#Page_186-V1">186</a>;
	 encounter with Captain Howe, I. <a href="#Page_186-V1">186</a>.<br />
Hocquart, Intendant, financial condition of Canada, II. 
   <a href="#Page_032-V2">32</a>.<br />
Hodges, Captain, I. <a href="#Page_429-V1">429</a>.<br />
Hogarth, I. <a href="#Page_006-V1">6</a>.<br />
Holbourne, Admiral Francis, 
   ordered to intercept the French fleet, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_184-V1">184</a>, <a href="#Page_185-V1">185</a>;  
	 commands the English fleet to sail for America, I.  
	    <a href="#Page_469-V1">469</a>, <a href="#Page_470-V1">470</a>; 
	 his arrival at Halifax, I. <a href="#Page_470-V1">470</a>; 
	 approaches Louisbourg, I. <a href="#Page_471-V1">471</a>; 
	 his fleet wrecked, I. <a href="#Page_472-V1">472</a>.<br />
Holdernesse, Earl of, I. <a href="#Page_310-V1">310</a>, II. 
   <a href="#Page_358-V2">358</a>;  
   letter laid before the Assembly of Pennsylvania, I. 
	     <a href="#Page_165-V1">165</a>; 
	 letter from Wolfe concerning Quebec, II. <a href="#Page_271-V2">271</a>, 
	 <a href="#Page_272-V2">272</a>; 
	 visited by Walpole, II. <a href="#Page_358-V2">358</a>; 
	 supplanted by the Earl of Bute, II. <a href="#Page_393-V2">393</a>.<br />
Holdernesse, Lady Emily, II. <a href="#Page_358-V2">358</a>.<br />
Holland, Lieutenant, his report of Duquesne's war-party, I. 
   <a href="#Page_088-V1">88</a>, <a href="#Page_089-V1">89</a>.<br />
Holland, II. <a href="#Page_286-V2">286</a>; 
   her rank in maritime enterprise, II. <a href="#Page_411-V2">411</a>.<br />
Holmes, Admiral, sails for New York, II. <a href="#Page_192-V2">192</a>;  
   his squadron, II. <a href="#Page_263-V2">263</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_273-V2">273</a>; 
	 attacked by the French, II. <a href="#Page_264-V2">264</a>; 
	 the ships carefully watched by the French, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_274-V2">274</a>-<a href="#Page_276-V2">276</a>; 
	 his fleet prepares for service, II.  
	    <a href="#Page_278-V2">278</a>-<a href="#Page_282-V2">282</a>;
	 feint to deceive Bougainville, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_279-V2">279</a>, <a href="#Page_280-V2">280</a>;
	 the final attack on Quebec, II. <a href="#Page_281-V2">281</a>.<br />
Hopkins, Lieutenant, the attack on Louisbourg, II. 
   <a href="#Page_059-V2">59</a>-<a href="#Page_061-V2">61</a>.<br />
Hopson, Governor of Acadia, I. 
   <a href="#Page_104-V1">104</a>, <a href="#Page_112-V1">112</a>, 
	 <a href="#Page_113-V1">113</a>, <a href="#Page_257-V1">257</a>; 
   succeeded by Lawrence, I. <a href="#Page_113-V1">113</a>.<br />
Horseflesh eaten at Montreal, II. <a href="#Page_010-V2">10</a>.<br />
Hospital battery, the, II. <a href="#Page_208-V2">208</a>.<br />
"Hot Stuff," II. <a href="#footer_25Note">234 <i>note</i></a>.<br />
H&ocirc;tel-Dieu, II. <a href="#Page_265-V2">265</a>; 
   its condition after the siege, II. <a href="#Page_328-V2">328</a>; 
	 care of the sick, II. <a href="#Page_331-V2">331</a>.<br />
Houlli&egrave;re, commander of French regulars, II. 
   <a href="#Page_071-V2">71</a>.<br />
House of Burgesses, the, I. 
   <a href="#Page_137-V1">137</a>, <a href="#Page_138-V1">138</a>.<br />
House of Commons, the, II. <a href="#Page_041-V2">41</a>, 
   <a href="#Page_410-V2">410</a>; 
   influence of the Duke of Newcastle in, I. <a href="#Page_179-V1">179</a>; 
	 debate concerning the peace between France and England, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_406-V2">406</a>, <a href="#Page_407-V2">407</a>.<br />
Howard the philanthropist, I. <a href="#Page_007-V1">7</a>.<br />
Howe, Captain, II. <a href="#Page_127-V2">127</a>; 
   the encounter with Hocquart, I. <a href="#Page_185-V1">185</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_186-V1">186</a>.<br />
Howe, Captain, 
   the Heights of Abraham scaled by his men, II. <a href="#Page_282-V2">282</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_283-V2">283</a>, <a href="#Page_290-V2">290</a>.<br />
Howe, Brigadier-Lord, II. <a href="#Page_048-V2">48</a>; 
   effort made to assist the settlement at German Flats, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_007-V2">7</a>; 
	 united with Abercromby in command, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_048-V2">48</a>; 
	 the expedition against Ticonderoga, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_089-V2">89</a>-<a href="#Page_097-V2">97</a>;
	 his leadership, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_089-V2">89</a>, <a href="#Page_090-V2">90</a>;
	 reforms introduced into the army by, II. <a href="#Page_090-V2">90</a>;
	 his characteristics, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_090-V2">90</a>, <a href="#Page_091-V2">91</a>;
	 tablet erected to, in Westminster Abbey, II. <a href="#Page_091-V2">91</a>; 
	 passage of the expedition across Lake George, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_092-V2">92</a>-<a href="#Page_094-V2">94</a>; 
	 reconnoitres the landing, II. <a href="#Page_094-V2">94</a>;
	 the meeting of the forces in the woods, II. <a href="#Page_096-V2">96</a>;
	 effect of his death on the army, II. <a href="#Page_097-V2">97</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_103-V2">103</a>.<br />
Howe, Captain Edward, an English officer, I. <a href="#Page_118-V1">118</a>;
   treacherously murdered, I. <a href="#Page_118-V1">118</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_119-V1">119</a>.<br />
Hubbard, Thomas, II. <a href="#Page_429-V2">429</a>.<br />
Hubertsburg, the treaty of, II. <a href="#Page_407-V2">407</a>.<br />
Hudson Bay, English possessions near, I. <a href="#Page_020-V1">20</a>.<br />
Hudson River, the, I. 
   <a href="#Page_028-V1">28</a>, <a href="#Page_032-V1">32</a>, 
	 <a href="#Page_193-V1">193</a>, <a href="#Page_289-V1">289</a>, 
	 <a href="#Page_319-V1">319</a>, <a href="#Page_321-V1">321</a>, 
	 <a href="#Page_384-V1">384</a>, <a href="#Page_387-V1">387</a>,
	 <a href="#Page_391-V1">391</a>, <a href="#Page_452-V1">452</a>, II.
	 <a href="#Page_002-V2">2</a>, <a href="#Page_116-V2">116</a>,
	 <a href="#Page_119-V2">119</a>, <a href="#Page_165-V2">165</a>; 
   Dutch proprietors on the, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_032-V1">32</a>, <a href="#Page_033-V1">33</a>;
	 parties sent to explore, II. <a href="#Page_241-V2">241</a>.<br />
Huguenots, the, persecution of, I. <a href="#Page_014-V1">14</a>, 
   <a href="#Page_022-V1">21</a>, <a href="#Page_022-V1">22</a>;
   the language of, spoken in New York, I. <a href="#Page_032-V1">32</a>.<br />
Hugues, plan of defence proposed by, II. 
   <a href="#Page_099-V2">99</a>, <a href="#Page_100-V1">100</a>.<br />
Hungary, appeal made to the nobles of, by Maria Theresa, I. 
   <a href="#Page_019-V1">19</a>; 
   action of the nobles, I. <a href="#Page_019-V1">19</a>.<br />

<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_478-V2" id="Page_478-V2">478<br />V2</a></span>

Hungary, the Queen of, II. <a href="#Page_389-V2">389</a>.<br />
"Hunter," the, II. <a href="#Page_286-V2">286</a>.<br />
Hurons, the, I. <a href="#Page_125-V1">125</a>,
   <a href="#Page_154-V1">154</a>, <a href="#Page_209-V1">209</a>;
   their Christianity, I. <a href="#Page_041-V1">41</a>;
	 assist the French, I. <a href="#Page_371-V1">371</a>, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_142-V2">142</a>; 
	 called to a council by Montcalm, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_485-V1">485</a>-<a href="#Page_489-V1">489</a>; 
	 their savagery, II. <a href="#footer_656">145 <i>note</i></a>.<br />
Huske, map of North America, I. <a href="#footer_124">126 <i>note</i></a>.<br />
Hutchins, Ensign, II. <a href="#Page_250-V2">250</a>,
   <a href="#Page_272-V2">272</a>.<br />
Hutchinson, Indian cruelties, II. <a href="#footer_531">5 <i>note</i></a>.<br />

</p>
<p><br /></p>
<h3>I.</h3>
<p>	
Illinois, I. <a href="#Page_125-V1">125</a>, <a href="#Page_486-V1">486</a>, II. 
   <a href="#Page_142-V2">142</a>; 
	 French claims in, I. <a href="#Page_040-V1">40</a>, 
	 <a href="#Page_041-V1">41</a>; 
	 two maps of, I. <a href="#Page_041-V1">41</a>.<br />
Illinois Indians, home of, I. <a href="#Page_040-V1">40</a>.<br />
Illinois River, the, I. <a href="#Page_056-V1">56</a>, 
   <a href="#Page_083-V1">83</a>, II. 
   <a href="#Page_155-V2">155</a>, <a href="#Page_244-V2">244</a>; 
	 French interests, II. 
      <a href="#Page_248-V2">248</a>, <a href="#Page_249-V2">249</a>.<br />
"Illustre," the, I. <a href="#Page_362-V1">362</a>.<br />
Independents, the, I. <a href="#Page_032-V1">32</a>.<br />
India, I. <a href="#Page_004-V1">4</a>, II. <a href="#Page_396-V2">396</a>;  
   results of the Seven Years War, I. <a href="#Page_004-V1">4</a>; 
	 the mastery of, I. <a href="#Page_010-V1">10</a>; 
	 French colonies in, I. <a href="#Page_356-V1">356</a>; 
	 the power of Pitt, II. <a href="#Page_043-V2">43</a>, 
	 <a href="#Page_044-V2">44</a>; 
	 losses to be sustained by France, II. <a href="#Page_406-V2">406</a>,
	    <a href="#Page_410-V2">410</a>.<br />
Indians, the, I. 
   <a href="#Page_093-V1">93</a>, II. <a href="#Page_086-V2">86</a>; 
   influenced by the French to fight the English, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_028-V1">28</a>, <a href="#Page_037-V1">37</a>,
			<a href="#Page_047-V1">47</a>, <a href="#Page_048-V1">48</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_084-V1">84</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_099-V1">99</a>-<a href="#Page_108-V1">108</a>,
			<a href="#Page_110-V1">110</a>, <a href="#Page_111-V1">111</a>,
			<a href="#Page_115-V1">115</a>, <a href="#Page_119-V1">119</a>,
			<a href="#Page_152-V1">152</a>, <a href="#Page_161-V1">161</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_171-V1">171</a>, <a href="#Page_175-V1">175</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_184-V1">184</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_211-V1">211</a>-<a href="#Page_213-V1">213</a>,
			<a href="#Page_236-V1">236</a>, <a href="#Page_238-V1">238</a>,
			<a href="#Page_239-V1">239</a>-<a href="#Page_241-V1">241</a>,
			<a href="#Page_325-V1">325</a>, <a href="#Page_371-V1">371</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_372-V1">372</a>, <a href="#Page_392-V1">392</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_434-V1">434</a>, <a href="#Page_467-V1">467</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_475-V1">475</a>, <a href="#Page_476-V1">476</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_478-V1">478</a>, <a href="#Page_479-V1">479</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_486-V1">486</a>, II. <a href="#Page_142-V2">142</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_144-V2">144</a>, <a href="#Page_145-V2">145</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_381-V2">381</a>; 
	 population in the Ohio Valley, I. <a href="#Page_040-V1">40</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_050-V1">50</a>, <a href="#Page_060-V1">60</a>,
			<a href="#Page_130-V1">130</a>, <a href="#Page_139-V1">139</a>; 
	 allies of the English, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_042-V1">42</a>, <a href="#Page_392-V1">392</a>, II.
			<a href="#Page_139-V2">139</a>, <a href="#Page_140-V2">140</a>,
			<a href="#Page_143-V2">143</a>, <a href="#Page_147-V2">147</a>,
			<a href="#Page_148-V2">148</a>, <a href="#Page_150-V2">150</a>,
			<a href="#Page_151-V2">151</a>, <a href="#Page_162-V2">162</a>,
			<a href="#Page_371-V2">372</a>; 
	 visited by Bienville, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_044-V1">44</a>, <a href="#Page_045-V1">45</a>; 
	 hostile encounter with Bienville, I. <a href="#Page_048-V1">48</a>, 
	 <a href="#Page_049-V1">49</a>;
	 village of, on Loramie Creek, I. <a href="#Page_051-V1">51</a>; 
	 importance of Pique Town, I. <a href="#Page_052-V1">52</a>; 
	 matters pertaining to trade and missions, I. <a href="#Page_054-V1">54</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_062-V1">62</a>-<a href="#Page_071-V1">71</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_485-V1">485</a>, <a href="#Page_487-V1">487</a>, II. 
			<a href="#Page_027-V2">27</a>, <a href="#Page_144-V2">144</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_145-V2">145</a>;
	 councils held with Gist by Old Britain and his followers, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_056-V1">56</a>, <a href="#Page_057-V1">57</a>; 
	 invite the English to a feather dance, I. <a href="#Page_058-V1">58</a>;
	 power of Sir William Johnson over, I. <a href="#Page_064-V1">64</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_172-V1">172</a>-<a href="#Page_175-V1">175</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_194-V1">194</a>, <a href="#Page_195-V1">195</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_287-V1">287</a>, <a href="#Page_295-V1">295</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_390-V1">390</a>-<a href="#Page_392-V1">392</a>; 
	 at Oswego, I. <a href="#Page_072-V1">72</a>; 
	 their treachery, I. <a href="#Page_080-V1">80</a>; 
	 rumors of plots among, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_082-V1">82</a>-<a href="#Page_084-V1">84</a>; 
	 attacked at Pickawillany, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_084-V1">84</a>, <a href="#Page_085-V1">85</a>; 
	 cannibalism among, I. <a href="#Page_085-V1">85</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_478-V1">478</a>, <a href="#Page_480-V1">480</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_483-V1">483</a>, <a href="#Page_484-V1">484</a>;
	 relations with the Acadians, I. <a href="#Page_096-V1">96</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_097-V1">97</a>-<a href="#Page_108-V1">108</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_264-V1">264</a>, II. 
			<a href="#Page_420-V2">420</a>, <a href="#Page_421-V2">421</a>; 
	 plans of the French in Duquesne's expedition, thwarted, I.  
	    <a href="#Page_130-V1">130</a>, <a href="#Page_131-V1">131</a>; 
	 parleys, held with Washington, I. <a href="#Page_133-V1">133</a>; 
	 assist Washington,  <a href="#Page_145-V1">145</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_146-V1">146</a>, <a href="#Page_151-V1">151</a>; 
	 account of the conduct of Washington's band, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_149-V1">149</a>, <a href="#Page_150-V1">150</a>;  
	 at Great Meadows, I. <a href="#Page_151-V1">151</a>; 
	 under Coulon de Villiers, I. <a href="#Page_153-V1">153</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_155-V1">155</a>; 
	 harangued by Contrec&oelig;ur, I. <a href="#Page_154-V1">154</a>;
	 tribes at Fort Duquesne, I. <a href="#Page_154-V1">154</a>;
	 sent out as scouts by the French, I. <a href="#Page_156-V1">156</a>;
	 attack Washington, I. <a href="#Page_156-V1">156</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_157-V1">157</a>-<a href="#Page_161-V1">161</a>; 
	 attitude of the British cabinet towards, I. <a href="#Page_171-V1">171</a>; 
	 complaints of the Mohawks, I. <a href="#Page_172-V1">172</a>; 
	 forces under Sir William Johnson, I. <a href="#Page_301-V1">301</a>, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_104-V2">104</a>, <a href="#Page_369-V2">369</a>;  
	 commissioners at Albany, I. <a href="#Page_172-V1">172</a>; 
	 their opinions of the French, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_173-V1">173</a>, <a href="#Page_174-V1">174</a>;  
	 meeting at Albany for conference, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_173-V1">173</a>-<a href="#Page_176-V1">176</a>;
	 estimate of, held by Braddock, I. <a href="#Page_188-V1">188</a>;
	 Johnson made sole superintendent of the Northern Tribes, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_195-V1">195</a>, <a href="#Page_390-V1">390</a>;  
	 joins Braddock's expedition, I.  
	    <a href="#Page_203-V1">203</a>, <a href="#Page_204-V1">204</a>;
	 try to interrupt General Braddock's march, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_205-V1">205</a>, <a href="#Page_206-V1">206</a>; 
	 tribes at Fort Duquesne, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_208-V1">208</a>, <a href="#Page_209-V1">209</a>; 
	 cruelties practised by, on prisoners and others, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_209-V1">209</a>, <a href="#Page_210-V1">210</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_221-V1">221</a>-<a href="#Page_223-V1">223</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_330-V1">330</a>; 
	 cruelties of, I. <a href="#Page_331-V1">331</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_339-V1">339</a>, <a href="#Page_342-V1">342</a>,  
	    <a href="#Page_343-V1">343</a>, <a href="#Page_347-V1">347</a>,
			<a href="#Page_373-V1">373</a>, <a href="#Page_380-V1">380</a>,
			<a href="#Page_422-V1">422</a>, <a href="#Page_423-V1">423</a>,
			<a href="#Page_482-V1">482</a>, <a href="#Page_483-V1">483</a>,
			<a href="#Page_505-V1">505</a>-<a href="#Page_513-V1">513</a>,
			<a href="#footer_526">514 <i>note</i></a>, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_004-V2">4</a>, <a href="#Page_005-V2">5</a>,
			<a href="#Page_014-V2">14</a>, <a href="#Page_171-V2">171</a>,
			<a href="#Page_218-V2">218</a>,
			<a href="#Page_124-V2">124</a>-<a href="#Page_126-V2">126</a>,
			<a href="#Page_222-V2">222</a>, <a href="#Page_223-V2">223</a>,
			<a href="#Page_232-V2">232</a>, <a href="#Page_248-V2">248</a>,
			<a href="#Page_258-V2">258</a>, <a href="#Page_262-V2">262</a>,
			<a href="#Page_333-V2">333</a>-<a href="#Page_336-V2">336</a>,
			<a href="#Page_351-V2">351</a>, <a href="#Page_352-V2">352</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_370-V2">370</a>, <a href="#Page_373-V2">373</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_374-V2">374</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_428-V2">428</a>-<a href="#Page_431-V2">431</a>;  
	 depart from Fort Duquesne to fight the English, I.
	    <a href="#Page_211-V1">211</a>-<a href="#Page_213-V1">213</a>;
	 their mode of warfare, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_215-V1">215</a>-<a href="#Page_219-V1">219</a>, II. 
			<a href="#Page_134-V2">134</a>, <a href="#Page_135-V2">135</a>; 
	 the encounter with Braddock, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_215-V1">215</a>-<a href="#Page_227-V1">227</a>, II. 
			<a href="#Page_381-V2">381</a>; 
	 the battle at Beaus&eacute;jour, I. <a href="#Page_248-V1">248</a>; 
	 attack the English at Peticodiac, I.   
	    <a href="#Page_275-V1">275</a>, <a href="#Page_276-V1">276</a>; 
	 speeches made by, I. <a href="#Page_288-V1">288</a>; 
	 sent as scouts to Canada, I. <a href="#Page_293-V1">293</a>; 
	 under Dieskau, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_296-V1">296</a>, <a href="#Page_299-V1">299</a>; 
	 demands made by, I. <a href="#Page_297-V1">297</a>; 
	 the battle of Lake George, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_303-V1">303</a>-<a href="#Page_317-V1">317</a>; 
	 the fur-trade, I. <a href="#Page_320-V1">320</a>; 
	 under Governor Shirley, I. <a href="#Page_325-V1">325</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_326-V1">326</a>; 
	 efforts of the French to prevent the prisoners being tortured, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_330-V1">330</a>; 
	 feelings of the Quakers towards, I. <a href="#Page_337-V1">337</a>,
	    <a href="#Page_339-V1">339</a>, <a href="#Page_344-V1">344</a>;   
	 petition sent to the Assembly of Pennsylvania, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_347-V1">347</a>; 
	 policy of Franklin, I. <a href="#Page_349-V1">349</a>; 
	 described by Montcalm, I. <a href="#Page_372-V1">372</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_373-V1">373</a>, <a href="#Page_456-V1">456</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_463-V1">463</a>-<a href="#Page_465-V1">465</a>; 
	 relations of Montcalm with, I. <a href="#Page_372-V1">372</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_373-V1">373</a>, <a href="#Page_379-V1">379</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_463-V1">463</a>-<a href="#Page_465-V1">465</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_474-V1">474</a>-<a href="#Page_476-V1">476</a>; 
	 join the expedition of L&eacute;ry, I. <a href="#Page_374-V1">374</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_375-V1">375</a>; 
	 bring to the French rumors of the attack upon Ticonderoga, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_377-V1">377</a>; 
	 their ways described by Duchat, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_379-V1">379</a>, <a href="#Page_380-V1">380</a>;
	 trouble by the English in their transportation of stores, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_388-V1">388</a>;  
	 sent to harass Oswego, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_393-V1">393</a>, <a href="#Page_394-V1">394</a>;

<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_479-V2" id="Page_479-V2">479<br />V2</a></span>


   join the French at Montreal, I. <a href="#Page_407-V1">407</a>; 
	 capture of Oswego, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_408-V1">408</a>-<a href="#Page_420-V1">420</a>;
	 the attack upon Kittanning, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_423-V1">423</a>-<a href="#Page_427-V1">427</a>;
	 assist the English at Fort William Henry, I. <a href="#Page_428-V1">428</a>;
	 join the war-party of Peri&egrave;re, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_429-V1">429</a>-<a href="#Page_431-V1">431</a>; 
	 sent to Ticonderoga, I. <a href="#Page_437-V1">437</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_438-V1">438</a>, <a href="#Page_442-V1">442</a>; 
	 with Rogers' rangers, I. <a href="#Page_443-V1">443</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_445-V1">445</a>, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_122-V2">122</a>-<a href="#Page_124-V2">124</a>; 
	 join Vaudreuil's war-parties, I. <a href="#Page_447-V1">447</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_448-V1">448</a>; 
	 exaggerated accounts of Vaudreuil in relation to, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_461-V1">461</a>, <a href="#Page_462-V1">462</a>; 
	 ceremony of the war-song, I. <a href="#Page_476-V1">476</a>;
	 fortified camps of, I. <a href="#Page_477-V1">477</a>;
	 described by Bouganville, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_478-V1">478</a>, <a href="#Page_479-V1">479</a>;
	 their ornaments and dress, I. 
	     <a href="#Page_478-V1">478</a>, <a href="#Page_480-V1">480</a>;
	 their Manitou, I. <a href="#Page_479-V1">479</a>;
	 their rations, I. <a href="#Page_479-V1">479</a>;
	 their religion, I. <a href="#Page_479-V1">479</a>;
	 their war-feast described, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_480-V1">480</a>-<a href="#Page_482-V1">482</a>; 
	 capture of Colonel Parker's company, I. <a href="#Page_484-V1">484</a>; 
	 scalping-party at Fort Edward, I. <a href="#Page_485-V1">485</a>; 
	 a council called by Montcalm, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_485-V1">485</a>-<a href="#Page_489-V1">489</a>; 
	 French officers having command of, I. <a href="#Page_486-V1">486</a>; 
	 speeches made by the chiefs, I. <a href="#Page_487-V1">487</a>; 
	 their interpreters, I. <a href="#Page_487-V1">487</a>; 
	 the attack and massacre at Fort William Henry, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_490-V1">490</a>-<a href="#Page_513-V1">513</a>, 
			<a href="#footer_526">514 <i>note</i></a>, II. 
			<a href="#Page_428-V2">428</a>-<a href="#Page_431-V2">431</a>; 
	 encounter on Lake George, I. <a href="#Page_492-V1">492</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_493-V1">493</a>; 
	 death and burial of a chief, I. <a href="#Page_493-V1">493</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_494-V1">494</a>; 
	 interview with Montcalm, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_499-V1">499</a>-<a href="#Page_501-V1">501</a>; 
	 prisoners bought from, II. <a href="#Page_006-V2">6</a>; 
	 the fight at German Flats, II. <a href="#Page_006-V2">6</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_007-V2">7</a>;
	 brutal murder of Lieutenant Phillips, II. <a href="#Page_014-V2">14</a>;
	 sent to guard Louisbourg, II. <a href="#Page_056-V2">56</a>;
	 serve under Marin, II. <a href="#Page_122-V2">122</a>;
	 carry off Major Putnam, II. <a href="#Page_123-V2">123</a>;
	 Bradstreet forbids cruelty, II. <a href="#Page_128-V1">128</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_129-V2">129</a>;
	 effect of the French victory at Ticonderoga, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_128-V1">128</a>;  
	 serve under Forbes, II. <a href="#Page_139-V2">139</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_140-V2">140</a>, <a href="#Page_142-V2">142</a>; 
	 convention of, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_142-V2">142</a>, <a href="#Page_143-V2">143</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_147-V2">147</a>-<a href="#Page_150-V2">150</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_161-V2">161</a>; 
	 influence and visit of Post the Moravian, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_144-V2">144</a>-<a href="#Page_150-V2">150</a>; 
	 effect of the victory at Fort Duquesne, I. <a href="#Page_162-V1">162</a>;
	 sent to Montcalm, II. <a href="#Page_165-V1">165</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_166-V1">166</a>;
	 Vaudreuil's admiration for, II. <a href="#Page_171-V2">171</a>;
	 number ready to defend Canada, II. <a href="#Page_178-V2">178</a>;
	 resolutions of Vaudreuil, II. <a href="#Page_180-V2">180</a>;
	 assist in the defence of Quebec, II. <a href="#Page_201-V2">201</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_202-V2">202</a>, <a href="#Page_215-V2">215</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_218-V2">218</a>, <a href="#Page_294-V2">294</a>,
			<a href="#Page_312-V2">312</a>-<a href="#Page_314-V2">314</a>; 
	 complaints of British soldiers, II. <a href="#Page_221-V2">221</a>; 
	 encounter with Carleton, II. <a href="#Page_225-V2">225</a>;
	 the siege of Niagara, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_243-V2">243</a>-<a href="#Page_249-V2">249</a>;
	 expedition of Rogers against the village of St. Francis, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_253-V2">253</a>-<a href="#Page_258-V2">258</a>; 
	 expedition of L&eacute;vis against Quebec, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_341-V2">341</a>-<a href="#Page_358-V2">358</a>; 
	 the attack on Montreal, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_367-V2">367</a>, <a href="#Page_371-V2">371</a>.<br />
Indian corn, I. <a href="#Page_208-V1">208</a>, 
   <a href="#Page_335-V1">335</a>.<br />
Innes, Colonel James, I. 
   <a href="#Page_162-V1">162</a>, <a href="#Page_227-V1">227</a>,
	 <a href="#Page_228-V1">228</a>, <a href="#Page_470-V1">470</a>;
   commander at Fort Cumberland, I. <a href="#Page_226-V1">226</a>;
	 plans of Dinwiddie, I. <a href="#Page_332-V1">332</a>.<br />
Inverawe, II. <a href="#Page_093-V2">93</a>, <a href="#Page_109-V2">109</a>; 
   castle of, II. <a href="#Page_433-V2">433</a>; 
   legend of, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_433-V2">433</a>-<a href="#Page_436-V2">436</a>.<br />
Inverness, II. <a href="#Page_185-V2">185</a>.<br />
Iowas, the, their language, I. <a href="#Page_478-V1">478</a>; 
   called to a council by Montcalm, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_486-V1">486</a>-<a href="#Page_489-V1">489</a>.<br />
Ipswich, II. <a href="#Page_115-V2">115</a>.<br />
Ireland, II. <a href="#Page_401-V2">401</a>;
   the regiments arrive at Hampton, I. <a href="#Page_191-V1">191</a>.<br />
Irish, the, in Pennsylvania, I. <a href="#Page_031-V1">31</a>,
   <a href="#Page_054-V1">54</a>, <a href="#Page_339-V1">339</a>,
   <a href="#Page_446-V1">446</a>, <a href="#Page_447-V1">447</a>.<br />
Iroquois Indians, the.  See <a href="#fiveNations">Five Nations</a>.<br />
Iroquois mission, the, I. <a href="#Page_064-V1">64</a>, 
   <a href="#Page_065-V1">65</a>.<br />
Irwin, Lieutenant, serves with Rogers, II. <a href="#Page_122-V2">122</a>.<br />
Island Battery, the, II. <a href="#Page_055-V2">55</a>,
   <a href="#Page_062-V2">62</a>, <a href="#Page_063-V2">63</a>.<br />
Italy, the Family Compact, II. <a href="#Page_396-V2">396</a>.<br />

</p>
<p><br /></p>
<h3>J.</h3>
<p>	
Jack, Captain, story of, I. <a href="#Page_204-V1">204</a>.<br />
Jacobites, the, I. <a href="#Page_005-V1">5</a>, 
   <a href="#Page_193-V1">193</a>.<br />
Jacobs, Captain, Indian chief, I. <a href="#Page_423-V1">423</a>; 
   the reduction of Kittanning, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_423-V1">423</a>-<a href="#Page_427-V1">427</a>.<br />
Jacques-Cartier, II. <a href="#Page_275-V1">275</a>, 
   <a href="#Page_304-V1">304</a>, <a href="#Page_305-V1">305</a>, 
	 <a href="#Page_308-V1">308</a>, <a href="#Page_312-V1">312</a>, 
	 <a href="#Page_318-V1">318</a>, <a href="#Page_341-V1">341</a>, 
	 <a href="#Page_361-V1">361</a>, <a href="#Page_363-V1">363</a>.<br />
James II., 
   plan for uniting the northern colonies in America, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_034-V1">34</a>.<br />
James River, I. <a href="#footer_443">422 <i>note</i></a>.<br />
Jefferson, I. <a href="#Page_163-V1">163</a>.<br />
Jersey, Island of, I. <a href="#Page_252-V1">252</a>.<br />
"Jersey Blues," the, I. <a href="#Page_320-V1">320</a>, 
   <a href="#Page_382-V1">382</a>.<br />
Jervis, John, 
   with Wolfe in the "Sutherland," II. <a href="#Page_284-V2">284</a>.<br />
Jesuits, the, I. <a href="#Page_064-V1">64</a>, II. 
   <a href="#Page_144-V2">144</a>, <a href="#Page_208-V2">208</a>; 
   settlements of, II. <a href="#Page_144-V2">144</a>.<br />
Joann&egrave;s, his efforts to save Quebec, II. 
   <a href="#Page_315-V2">315</a>, <a href="#Page_316-V2">316</a>.<br />
Johnson, Sergeant John, 
   loyalty of the British soldiers, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_281-V1">281</a>, <a href="#Page_339-V1">339</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_352-V1">352</a>, <a href="#Page_353-V1">353</a>; 
	 fight of Murray with, I. <a href="#Page_349-V1">349</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_443-V1">443</a>; 
	 the assault on Quebec made by L&eacute;vis, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_352-V1">352</a>-<a href="#Page_359-V1">359</a>; 
	 his writings on Quebec, II. <a href="#Page_440-V2">440</a>.<br />
Johnson, Sir William, I. <a href="#footer_02Note">62 <i>note</i></a>; 
   <a href="#Page_319-V1">319</a>, <a href="#Page_325-V1">325</a>, II. 
	 <a href="#Page_104-V2">104</a>; 
   his influence over the Indians, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_064-V1">64</a>, <a href="#Page_172-V1">172</a>,
	    <a href="#Page_174-V1">174</a>, <a href="#Page_194-V1">194</a>,
			<a href="#Page_287-V1">287</a>, <a href="#Page_288-V1">288</a>,
	    <a href="#Page_390-V1">390</a>-<a href="#Page_393-V1">393</a>, II. 
			<a href="#Page_142-V2">142</a>, <a href="#Page_143-V2">143</a>,  
			<a href="#Page_244-V2">244</a>; 
	 Indian treachery, I. <a href="#Page_080-V1">80</a>; 
	 appointed leader of the expedition against Crown Point, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_194-V1">194</a>, <a href="#Page_196-V1">196</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_286-V1">286</a>, <a href="#Page_288-V1">288</a>; 
	 made Indian commissioner, I. <a href="#Page_195-V1">195</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_288-V1">288</a>, <a href="#Page_390-V1">390</a>; 
	 his birth and characteristics, I. <a href="#Page_286-V1">286</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_287-V1">287</a>, <a href="#Page_294-V1">294</a>; 
	 his troops, I. <a href="#Page_286-V1">286</a>-<a href="#Page_290-V1">290</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_294-V1">294</a>, <a href="#Page_295-V1">295</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_301-V1">301</a>, <a href="#footer_308">301 <i>note</i></a>, 
			<a href="#Page_310-V1">310</a>, <a href="#Page_384-V1">384</a>;
	 encamps near Albany, I. <a href="#Page_289-V1">289</a>; 
	 the expedition marches on to Lake George, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_294-V1">294</a>, <a href="#Page_295-V1">295</a>;

<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_480-V2" id="Page_480-V2">480<br />V2</a></span>

   gives the name to Lake George, I. <a href="#Page_295-V1">295</a>;
	 ambush prepared for, by Dieskau, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_296-V1">296</a>, <a href="#Page_300-V1">300</a>; 
	 sends letter of warning to Colonel Blanchard, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_296-V1">296</a>;
	 movements of Dieskau, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_296-V1">296</a>-<a href="#Page_300-V1">300</a>; 
	 forces sent in advance repelled by Dieskau, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_301-V1">301</a>-<a href="#Page_305-V1">305</a>; 
	 the battle of Lake George, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_304-V1">304</a>-<a href="#Page_317-V1">317</a>, II. 
			<a href="#Page_088-V2">88</a>; 
	 wounded, I. <a href="#Page_306-V1">306</a>, <a href="#Page_308-V1">308</a>; 
	 Dieskau brought into camp, and kindly treated, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_308-V1">308</a>, <a href="#Page_309-V1">309</a>; 
	 the English and French losses, I. <a href="#footer_316">312 <i>note</i></a>; 
	 his camp at Lake George, I. <a href="#Page_313-V1">313</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_314-V1">314</a>; 
	 fails to capture Crown Point, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_313-V1">313</a>-<a href="#Page_316-V1">316</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_382-V1">382</a>;
	 a council of war held, I. <a href="#Page_314-V1">314</a>;
	 urged to attack Ticonderoga, I. <a href="#Page_314-V1">314</a>;
	 raised to the rank of baron, I. <a href="#Page_316-V1">316</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_390-V1">390</a>; 
	 eulogies of, I. <a href="#Page_316-V1">316</a>;
	 cause of the quarrel with Shirley, I. <a href="#Page_327-V1">327</a>;
	 his letter to the Lords of Trade, I. <a href="#Page_327-V1">327</a>;
	 the loss of Fort Bull, I. <a href="#Page_375-V1">375</a>;
	 difficulties thrown in his path, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_392-V1">392</a>, <a href="#Page_393-V1">393</a>; 
	 joins Webb at Fort Edward, II. <a href="#Page_002-V2">2</a>; 
	 money expended by Massachusetts on his expedition, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_084-V2">84</a>, <a href="#Page_085-V2">85</a>; 
	 Indian convention at Easton, II. <a href="#Page_147-V2">147</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_148-V2">148</a>; 
	 takes command in Prideaux's place, II. <a href="#Page_245-V2">245</a>; 
	 Pouchot's allies cut to pieces, II. <a href="#Page_246-V2">246</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_247-V2">247</a>; 
	 his fight at Niagara, II. <a href="#Page_247-V2">247</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_248-V2">248</a>;
	 restrains the Indians from cruelty, II. <a href="#Page_248-V2">248</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_370-V2">370</a>, <a href="#Page_374-V2">374</a>; 
	 superseded by Gage, II. <a href="#Page_249-V2">249</a>; 
	 the army embarks for Montreal, II. <a href="#Page_369-V2">369</a>.<br />
Johnson, Fort, I. <a href="#Page_288-V1">288</a>, 
   <a href="#Page_321-V1">321</a>, <a href="#Page_391-V1">391</a>, 
	 <a href="#Page_415-V1">415</a>, <a href="#Page_416-V1">416</a>.<br />
Johnstone, II. <a href="#footer_19Note">81 <i>note</i></a>,
   <a href="#Page_102-V2">102</a>; 
   aide-de-camp to L&eacute;vis, II. <a href="#Page_217-V2">217</a>; 
	 description of the attack on the French camp, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_232-V2">232</a>; 
	 despatched to assemble the troops, II. <a href="#Page_291-V2">291</a>; 
	 fired upon by the British, II. <a href="#Page_301-V2">301</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_302-V2">302</a>; 
	 the general disorder of the troops at Quebec, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_302-V2">302</a>, <a href="#Page_303-V2">303</a>; 
	 the death of Montcalm, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_303-V2">303</a>, <a href="#Page_304-V2">304</a>,
			<a href="#Page_309-V2">309</a>, <a href="#Page_310-V2">310</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_441-V2">441</a>, <a href="#Page_442-V2">442</a>; 
	 his opinion of the French retreat, II. <a href="#Page_307-V2">307</a>;
	 his opportunities for observation, II. <a href="#Page_440-V2">440</a>;
	 his "Dialogue in Hades," II. <a href="#Page_440-V2">440</a>.<br />
Joncaire-Chabert, I. <a href="#Page_392-V1">392</a>, II. 
   <a href="#Page_244-V2">244</a>;
   able to converse in the Indian dialects, I. <a href="#Page_044-V1">44</a>;
	 discovers an intended Indian attack, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_046-V1">46</a>, <a href="#Page_047-V1">47</a>;
	 sent as a messenger by C&eacute;loron, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_048-V1">48</a>, <a href="#Page_049-V1">49</a>; 
	 meets with hostile treatment, I. <a href="#Page_049-V1">49</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_050-V1">50</a>; 
	 his influence over the Indians, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_059-V1">59</a>, <a href="#Page_063-V1">63</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_064-V1">64</a>, <a href="#Page_171-V1">171</a>, II. 
			<a href="#Page_143-V2">143</a>, <a href="#Page_144-V2">144</a>; 
	 anti-English speeches made to the Ohio Indians, I. 
	    <a href="#footer_019">59 <i>note</i></a>; 
	 leaden plate stolen from, I. <a href="#footer_02Note">62 <i>note</i></a>; 
	 at Niagara, I. <a href="#Page_070-V1">70</a>;
	 assists Father Piquet, I. <a href="#Page_070-V1">70</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_071-V1">71</a>, <a href="#Page_075-V1">75</a>; 
	 report concerning the Ohio Indians, I. <a href="#Page_083-V1">83</a>; 
	 in command at Venango, I. <a href="#Page_133-V1">133</a>;
	 invites Washington to supper, I. <a href="#Page_133-V1">133</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_134-V1">134</a>.<br />
Joncaire-Clauzonne, II. <a href="#Page_244-V1">244</a>.<br />
Jonqui&egrave;re, Marquis de la, governor of Canada, I. 
   <a href="#Page_077-V1">77</a>, <a href="#Page_117-V1">117</a>; 
   illegal trade of Tournois stopped, I. 
	    <a href="#footer_028">65 <i>note</i></a>; 
	 his character and description of, I. <a href="#Page_077-V1">77</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_078-V1">78</a>, <a href="#Page_081-V1">81</a>; 
	 his instructions with regard to injuring the English, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_078-V1">78</a>-<a href="#Page_081-V1">81</a>; 
	 his unhappiness, sickness, and death, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_081-V1">81</a>, <a href="#footer_058">81 <i>note</i></a>, 
			<a href="#Page_082-V1">82</a>; 
	 orders given to C&eacute;loron, I. <a href="#Page_084-V1">84</a>;  
	 report of, concerning the Acadians, I. <a href="#Page_095-V1">95</a>,  
	    <a href="#Page_103-V1">103</a>, <a href="#Page_104-V1">104</a>;
	 a despatch sent to the colonial minister, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_098-V1">98</a>, <a href="#Page_099-V1">99</a>; 
	 assists the Indians to harass the English, I. <a href="#Page_100-V1">100</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_103-V1">103</a>, <a href="#Page_104-V1">104</a>;
	 his efforts to regain the Acadians for French subjects, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_103-V1">103</a>, <a href="#Page_104-V1">104</a>; 
	 issues a proclamation, I. <a href="#Page_120-V1">120</a>.<br />
Joseph, I. <a href="#Page_361-V1">361</a>; 
   his voyage, I. <a href="#Page_364-V1">364</a>.<br />
Jumonville, Coulon de, I. <a href="#Page_147-V1">147</a>; 
   matters pertaining to his alleged assassination, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_147-V1">147</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_148-V1">148</a>-<a href="#Page_150-V1">150</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_153-V1">153</a>, <a href="#Page_158-V1">158</a>, II. 
			<a href="#Page_421-V2">421</a>-<a href="#Page_423-V2">423</a>; 
	 his summons and instructions, I. <a href="#Page_148-V1">148</a>, 
	    <a href="#footer_148">148 <i>note</i></a>, <a href="#Page_149-V1">149</a>; 
	 his widow receives a pension, I. 
	    <a href="#footer_152">151 <i>note</i></a>.<br />
Jumonville, Charlotte, I. <a href="#footer_152">151 <i>note</i></a>.<br />
Juniata River, the, I. <a href="#Page_204-V1">204</a>, 
   <a href="#Page_423-V1">423</a>.<br />
</p>
<p><br /></p>
<h3>K.</h3>
<p>	
Kalm, II. <a href="#Page_404-V2">404</a>; 
   his prediction concerning the British colonies in America, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_404-V2">404</a>.<br />
Kanaouagon, the, I. <a href="#Page_043-V1">43</a>.<br />
Kanon, II. <a href="#Page_197-V2">197</a>, 
   <a href="#Page_198-V2">198</a>, <a href="#footer_28Note">326 <i>note</i></a>; 
   his fleet, II. <a href="#Page_201-V2">201</a>.<br />
Karl, Prince, II. <a href="#Page_040-V2">40</a>.<br />
Kaskaskia, French settlement at, I. <a href="#Page_041-V1">41</a>.<br />
Kaunitz, I. <a href="#Page_354-V1">354</a>.<br />
Kenawha River, the, I. 
   <a href="#Page_048-V1">48</a>, <a href="#Page_050-V1">50</a>.<br /> 
Kennebec River, the, I. 
   <a href="#Page_028-V1">28</a>, <a href="#Page_184-V1">184</a>, 
	 <a href="#Page_192-V1">192</a>, <a href="#Page_245-V1">245</a>, II. 
   <a href="#Page_250-V1">250</a>;  
   forts to be built upon, by the English, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_169-V1">169</a>.<br />
Kennedy, Lieutenant, consults with Captain Murray, I. 
   <a href="#Page_271-V1">271</a>, <a href="#Page_272-V1">272</a>; 
   his exploits against the French, I. <a href="#Page_428-V1">428</a>; 
	 adventures of a scouting-party of Rogers, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_441-V1">441</a>-<a href="#Page_445-V1">445</a>; 
	 killed by the French, I. <a href="#Page_443-V1">443</a>.<br />
Kennedy, Captain, sent to the Abenakis of St. Francis, II. 
   <a href="#Page_251-V2">251</a>.<br />
Kennington Cove, II. <a href="#footer_584">59 <i>note</i></a>.<br />
Keppel, Commodore, his arrival at Hampton, I. <a href="#Page_187-V1">187</a>; 
   accompanies Braddock to Alexandria, I. <a href="#Page_191-V1">191</a>; 
	 sailors furnished by, for Braddock, I. <a href="#Page_201-V1">201</a>.<br />
Kikensick, chief of the Nipissings, speech of, I. 
   <a href="#Page_487-V1">487</a>, <a href="#Page_488-V1">488</a>.<br />
Kilgore, Ralph, I. <a href="#footer_054">79 <i>note</i></a>.<br />

<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_481-V2" id="Page_481-V2">481<br />V2</a></span>

Killick, master of an English transport, II. <a href="#Page_205-V2">205</a>; 
   passage of the Traverse, II.  
	    <a href="#Page_204-V2">204</a>-<a href="#Page_206-V2">206</a>.<br />
King's Bastion, the, II. 
   <a href="#Page_053-V2">53</a>, <a href="#Page_055-V2">55</a>; 
   the Governor's dwelling, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_067-V2">67</a>-<a href="#Page_069-V2">69</a>.<br />
Kingston, I. <a href="#Page_068-V1">68</a>.<br />
Kirkland, Dr., a surgeon, I. 
   <a href="#Page_394-V1">394</a>, <a href="#Page_395-V1">395</a>.<br />
<a name="kittanning" id="kittanning"></a>
Kittanning, I. <a href="#Page_024-V1">24</a>, <a href="#Page_423-V1">423</a>; 
   attack upon, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_423-V1">423</a>-<a href="#Page_427-V1">427</a>.<br />
Kloster-Zeven, convention of, II. <a href="#Page_045-V2">45</a>.<br />
Knox, Captain John, II. <a href="#footer_582">56 <i>note</i></a>; 
   character of Le Loutre described, I. 
	    <a href="#footer_260">252 <i>note</i></a>; 
	 at Annapolis, II. <a href="#Page_077-V2">77</a>;  
	 rejoicing at the fall of Louisbourg, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_077-V2">77</a>, <a href="#Page_078-V2">78</a>; 
	 his regiment ordered to Louisbourg, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_181-V2">181</a>, <a href="#Page_182-V2">182</a>; 
	 his impressions of Wolfe, II. <a href="#Page_184-V2">184</a>; 
	 account of the Canadian coasts, II. <a href="#Page_205-V2">205</a>; 
	 description of the scenery on the St. Lawrence River, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_207-V2">207</a>; 
	 visits the Church of Saint-Laurent, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_207-V2">207</a>, <a href="#Page_208-V2">208</a>; 
	 description of the fireships, II. <a href="#Page_211-V2">211</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_212-V2">212</a>, <a href="#Page_227-V2">227</a>; 
	 his view of Quebec from Point Levi, II. <a href="#Page_214-V2">214</a>;
	 visits the falls, II. <a href="#Page_220-V2">220</a>; 
	 reports obtained from a Canadian, II. <a href="#Page_222-V2">222</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_223-V2">223</a>; 
	 his account of Canadian prisoners, II. <a href="#Page_226-V2">226</a>; 
	 losses reported, II. <a href="#Page_233-V2">233</a>; 
	 the illness of Wolfe, II. <a href="#Page_266-V2">266</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_267-V2">267</a>; 
	 the defence of Cap-Rouge, II. <a href="#Page_279-V2">279</a>; 
	 the dying words of Wolfe, II. <a href="#footer_27Note">297 <i>note</i></a>; 
	 describes Quebec after the siege, II. <a href="#Page_329-V2">329</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_330-V2">330</a>; 
	 his stay in the General Hospital, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_330-V2">330</a>, <a href="#Page_331-V2">331</a>; 
	 the troops described by, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_333-V2">333</a>, <a href="#Page_334-V2">334</a>; 
	 skirmish at Lorette, II.
	    <a href="#Page_337-V2">337</a>, <a href="#Page_338-V2">338</a>;
	 action between L&eacute;vis and Murray, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_347-V2">347</a>-<a href="#Page_350-V2">350</a>;
	 arrival of aid, II. <a href="#Page_355-V2">355</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_356-V2">356</a>; 
	 the troops of Murray sail for Montreal, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_363-V2">363</a>-<a href="#Page_366-V2">366</a>; 
	 death of Montcalm, II. <a href="#Page_441-V2">441</a>.<br />
Kolin, II. <a href="#Page_039-V2">39</a>.<br />
Kunersdorf, the allies attacked, II. <a href="#Page_387-V2">387</a>.<br />
Kushkushkee, II. <a href="#Page_145-V2">145</a>.<br />
</p>
<p><br /></p>
<h3>L.</h3>
<p>	
La Barolon, I. <a href="#Page_458-V1">458</a>.<br />
La Chine, I. <a href="#Page_038-V1">38</a>, <a href="#Page_458-V1">458</a>, II. 
   <a href="#Page_006-V2">6</a>, <a href="#Page_009-V2">9</a>, 
	 <a href="#Page_371-V2">371</a>, <a href="#Page_372-V2">372</a>.<br />
La Clue, Admiral, II. <a href="#Page_049-V2">49</a>; 
   imprisoned by Osborn, II. <a href="#Page_049-V2">49</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_050-V2">50</a>.<br />
La Corne, Saint-Luc de, I. 
   <a href="#Page_486-V1">486</a>, <a href="#Page_503-V1">503</a>, II. 
   <a href="#Page_121-V2">121</a>, <a href="#Page_431-V2">431</a>; 
   sent to Acadia to watch the frontier, I. <a href="#Page_103-V1">103</a>,
	    <a href="#Page_116-V1">116</a>, <a href="#Page_117-V1">117</a>;
	 circumstances attending the massacre at Fort William Henry, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_498-V1">498</a>, <a href="#Page_507-V1">507</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_509-V1">509</a>;
	 ordered to Quebec, II. <a href="#Page_195-V2">195</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_198-V2">198</a>, <a href="#Page_242-V2">242</a>; 
	 to defend the rapids, II. <a href="#Page_361-V2">361</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_371-V2">371</a>; 
	 shipwrecked, II. <a href="#Page_384-V2">384</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_385-V2">385</a>.<br />
<a name="laDemoiselle" id="laDemoiselle"></a>
La Demoiselle (Old Britain), an Indian chief, I. 
   <a href="#Page_051-V1">51</a>, <a href="#Page_083-V1">83</a>; 
   his course of action with C&eacute;loron, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_051-V1">51</a>, <a href="#Page_052-V1">52</a>; 
	 his village, I. <a href="#Page_056-V1">56</a>; 
	 councils held with Gist, I. <a href="#Page_056-V1">56</a>,
	    <a href="#Page_057-V1">57</a>;
	 the English invited to a feather dance, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_057-V1">57</a>, <a href="#Page_058-V1">58</a>; 
	 devoured by the Indians, I. <a href="#Page_084-V1">84</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_085-V1">85</a>.<br />
La Galette, II. <a href="#Page_369-V2">369</a>.<br />
Lain&eacute;, II. <a href="#Page_028-V2">28</a>.<br />
Lalerne, fight at Beaubassin, I. <a href="#Page_117-V1">117</a>.<br />
"La Libert&eacute;" ship, I. <a href="#Page_457-V1">457</a>.<br />
La Motte, Dubois de, French admiral, I. <a href="#Page_469-V1">469</a>, 
   <a href="#Page_471-V1">471</a>-<a href="#footer_492">473 <i>note</i></a>; 
   commands the French fleet for America, I. <a href="#Page_182-V1">182</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_183-V1">183</a>;
	 effort of Boscawen to intercept his fleet, I. <a href="#Page_185-V1">185</a>; 
	 the English fleet wrecked, I. <a href="#Page_471-V1">471</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_472-V1">472</a>.<br />
La Motte, Captain, II. <a href="#Page_302-V2">302</a>.<br />
"La Mutine," frigate, I. <a href="#Page_102-V1">102</a>.<br />
<a name="lauder" id="lauder"></a>
Lauder, Sir Thomas Dick, II. <a href="#Page_433-V2">433</a>.<br />
Langlade, Charles, a French trader, I. <a href="#Page_062-V1">62</a>, 
   <a href="#Page_084-V1">84</a>, II. <a href="#Page_218-V2">218</a>, 
	 <a href="#footer_851">372 <i>note</i></a>, <a href="#Page_425-V2">425</a>; 
   to receive a pension, I. <a href="#Page_085-V1">85</a>; 
	 the Ojibwas led to attack the Miamis, I. <a href="#Page_209-V1">209</a>; 
	 his Indian wife, I. <a href="#Page_486-V1">486</a>; 
	 matters in relation to Braddock's defeat, II. <a href="#Page_425-V2">425</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_426-V2">426</a>.<br />
Languedoc, I. <a href="#Page_456-V1">456</a>; 
   battalion of, I. <a href="#Page_182-V1">182</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_186-V1">186</a>, <a href="#Page_298-V1">298</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_379-V1">379</a>, <a href="#Page_477-V1">477</a>; 
	 stationed at Ticonderoga, I. <a href="#Page_376-V1">376</a>, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_104-V2">104</a>; 
	 the advance upon Fort William Henry, I. <a href="#Page_491-V1">491</a>; 
	 the fall of Quebec, II. <a href="#Page_292-V2">292</a>.<br />
Langy, rangers captured by, II. <a href="#Page_087-V2">87</a>; 
   reports the approach of the English, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_087-V2">87</a>, <a href="#Page_088-V2">88</a>; 
	 meeting with the English in the woods, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_094-V2">94</a>-<a href="#Page_097-V2">97</a>; 
	 detachment of, II. <a href="#Page_110-V2">110</a>.<br />
La Paille Coup&eacute;e, village of, I. <a href="#Page_043-V1">43</a>.<br />
La Pause, M. de, II. <a href="#Page_373-V2">373</a>.<br />
La Perade, Chevalier de, I. <a href="#Page_210-V1">210</a>.<br />
La Plante, I. <a href="#Page_486-V1">486</a>.<br />
La Prairie, I. <a href="#Page_457-V1">457</a>.<br />
La Pr&eacute;sentation, I. 
   <a href="#Page_070-V1">70</a>, <a href="#Page_154-V1">154</a>,
	 <a href="#Page_372-V1">372</a>, <a href="#Page_485-V1">485</a>, II. 
	 <a href="#Page_369-V2">369</a>; 
   description of, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_065-V1">65</a>-<a href="#Page_067-V1">67</a>; 
	 effort of Piquet to gain converts, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_070-V1">70</a>, <a href="#Page_071-V1">71</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_074-V1">74</a>, <a href="#Page_075-V1">75</a>; 
	 Jesuit influence, II. <a href="#Page_144-V2">144</a>.<br />
La Reine, battalion of, I. 
   <a href="#Page_182-V1">182</a>, <a href="#Page_186-V1">186</a>,
	 <a href="#Page_298-V1">298</a>, <a href="#Page_477-V1">477</a>, II. 
   <a href="#Page_104-V2">104</a>; 
   to defend Ticonderoga, I. <a href="#Page_376-V1">376</a>; 
	 the advance upon Fort William Henry, I. <a href="#Page_491-V1">491</a>.<br />
La Sarre, battalion of, I. <a href="#Page_363-V1">363</a>,
   <a href="#Page_408-V1">408</a>, <a href="#Page_477-V1">477</a>;  
   encamped at Fort Frontenac, I. <a href="#Page_376-V1">376</a>; 
	 advances upon Fort William Henry, I. <a href="#Page_491-V1">491</a>; 
	 serves under Montcalm, II. <a href="#Page_104-V2">104</a>;
	 the fall of Quebec, II. <a href="#Page_292-V2">292</a>.<br />
Lascelles' regiment, II. <a href="#footer_25Note">233 <i>note</i></a>.<br />
La Su&egrave;de, II. <a href="#Page_342-V2">342</a>.<br />
"La Superbe," ship, I. <a href="#Page_457-V1">457</a>.<br />
Laurel Hill, I. <a href="#Page_145-V1">145</a>, 
   <a href="#Page_146-V1">146</a>, <a href="#Page_151-V1">151</a>, 
	 <a href="#Page_155-V1">155</a>, II. <a href="#Page_141-V2">141</a>.<br />
Lawrence, Brigadier, Governor of Nova Scotia, I. 
   <a href="#Page_239-V1">239</a>, II. 
	 <a href="#Page_048-V2">48</a>, <a href="#footer_24Note">194 <i>note</i></a>; 
   succeeds Hopson in office, I. <a href="#Page_113-V1">113</a>; 
	 his treatment of the Acadians, I. <a href="#Page_113-V1">113</a>; 

<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_482-V2" id="Page_482-V2">482<br />V2</a></span>

   the occupation of Beaubassin, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_115-V1">115</a>-<a href="#Page_120-V1">120</a>; 
	 the attack on Beaus&eacute;jour, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_192-V1">192</a>, <a href="#Page_239-V1">239</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_240-V1">240</a>, <a href="#Page_245-V1">245</a>;  
	 his characteristics, I. <a href="#Page_257-V1">257</a>; 
	 quoted concerning the Acadians, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_257-V1">257</a>, <a href="#Page_263-V1">263</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_264-V1">264</a>, <a href="#Page_269-V1">269</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_270-V1">270</a>, <a href="#Page_282-V1">282</a>;  
	 exacts the oath of allegiance from the Acadians, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_260-V1">260</a>;   
	 a memorial sent to, from the Acadians, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_260-V1">260</a>-<a href="#Page_263-V1">263</a>; 
	 matters pertaining to the expulsion of the Acadians, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_263-V1">263</a>-<a href="#Page_267-V1">267</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_273-V1">273</a>, <a href="#Page_274-V1">274</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_282-V1">282</a>; 
	 serves in the expedition against Louisbourg, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_048-V2">48</a>, <a href="#Page_057-V2">57</a>.<br />
Lawrence, Fort, 
   erected, I. <a href="#Page_118-V1">118</a>, <a href="#Page_239-V1">239</a>, 
	 <a href="#Page_241-V1">241</a>, <a href="#Page_243-V1">243</a>; 
	 demands of Le Loutre, I. <a href="#Page_121-V1">121</a>; 
	 encampment of the English, I. <a href="#Page_248-V1">248</a>.<br />
Le B&acirc;tard, &Eacute;tienne, 
   the murder of Captain Howe, I. <a href="#Page_118-V1">118</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_119-V1">119</a>.<br />
Le B&oelig;uf, Fort, I. 
   <a href="#Page_130-V1">130</a>, <a href="#Page_213-V1">213</a>, II. 
	 <a href="#Page_160-V2">160</a>, <a href="#Page_244-V2">244</a>;
   erection of, I. <a href="#Page_128-V1">128</a>; 
	 garrison at, I. <a href="#Page_131-V1">131</a>; 
	 arrival of Washington, I. <a href="#Page_133-V1">133</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_134-V1">134</a>, <a href="#Page_297-V1">297</a>; 
	 burned, II. <a href="#Page_247-V2">247</a>.<br />
Le Borgne, II. <a href="#Page_028-V2">28</a>, 
   <a href="#Page_425-V2">425</a>.<br />
Le Brun, I. <a href="#Page_011-V1">11</a>.<br />
Le Calvaire, II. <a href="#Page_336-V2">336</a>.<br />
Legge, chancellor of the exchequer, II. <a href="#Page_393-V2">393</a>.<br />
Le Guerne, a priest, I. <a href="#Page_281-V1">281</a>; 
   his description of the embarkation of the Acadians, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_281-V1">281</a>.<br />
<a name="leLoutre" id="leLoutre"></a>
Le Loutre, Joseph Louis, 
   vicar-general of Acadia, I. <a href="#Page_099-V1">99</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_104-V1">104</a>, <a href="#Page_113-V1">113</a>;  
	 instigates the Indians to murder the English, I.  
	    <a href="#Page_099-V1">99</a>, <a href="#Page_100-V1">100</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_103-V1">103</a>-<a href="#Page_105-V1">105</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_235-V1">235</a>; 
	 injures the Acadians by his machinations, I. <a href="#Page_101-V1">101</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_113-V1">113</a>, <a href="#Page_114-V1">114</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_122-V1">122</a>, <a href="#Page_238-V1">238</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_243-V1">243</a>; 
	 letter of, concerning Halifax, I. <a href="#Page_101-V1">101</a>; 
	 pension received by, I. <a href="#Page_105-V1">105</a>; 
	 his dealings discovered by Cornwallis, I. <a href="#Page_107-V1">107</a>; 
	 encourages the Acadians to leave their farms, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_108-V1">108</a>, <a href="#Page_109-V1">109</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_110-V1">110</a>, <a href="#Page_120-V1">120</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_243-V1">243</a>, <a href="#Page_244-V1">244</a>,
			<a href="#Page_250-V1">250</a>, <a href="#Page_255-V1">255</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_260-V1">260</a>;
	 his double-dealing and cruelty, I. <a href="#Page_114-V1">114</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_243-V1">243</a>, 
			<a href="#footer_260">252 <i>note</i></a>, II. 
			<a href="#Page_421-V2">421</a>; 
	 arrival of, at Beaubassin, I. <a href="#Page_116-V1">116</a>; 
	 treacherous murder of Captain Howe, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_118-V1">118</a>, <a href="#Page_119-V1">119</a>; 
	 his letter in answer to Lawrence's proclamation, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_121-V1">121</a>;  
	 letters from officials, urging dishonest conduct, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_239-V1">239</a>, <a href="#Page_242-V1">242</a>; 
	 relations with Vergor, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_242-V1">242</a>-<a href="#Page_244-V1">244</a>; 
	 siege and capitulation of Beaus&eacute;jour, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_244-V1">244</a>-<a href="#Page_253-V1">253</a>; 
	 imprisoned by the English, I. <a href="#Page_252-V1">252</a>;  
	 departs for France, I. <a href="#Page_252-V1">252</a>.<br />
Le Marchant, Sir Denis, II. <a href="#footer_782">295 <i>note</i></a>.<br />
Le Mercier, Chevalier, I. <a href="#Page_157-V1">157</a>, 
      <a href="#Page_158-V1">158</a>, <a href="#Page_461-V1">461</a>, II. 
			<a href="#Page_020-V2">20</a>, <a href="#Page_087-V2">87</a>; 
   plans of, to attack the English, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_153-V1">153</a>-<a href="#Page_155-V1">155</a>;  
	 serves as messenger between the French and English, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_449-V1">449</a>;  
	 his fraudulent contracts, II. <a href="#Page_035-V2">35</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_036-V1">36</a>, <a href="#Page_385-V2">385</a>.<br />
Lenisse, Madame de, I. <a href="#Page_458-V1">458</a>.<br />
"L&eacute;opard," the, ship, I. <a href="#Page_362-V1">362</a>.<br />
Lepaon, I. <a href="#Page_012-V1">12</a>.<br />
"Le Prudent," II. <a href="#footer_579">54 <i>note</i></a>.<br />
L&eacute;ry, a French officer, I. <a href="#Page_374-V1">374</a>, 
   <a href="#Page_375-V1">375</a>; 
   his plan of Detroit, I. <a href="#footer_044">76 <i>note</i></a>.<br />
Leslie, Lieutenant, I. <a href="#footer_225">219 <i>note</i></a>.<br />
Les Mines, I. <a href="#Page_108-V1">108</a>.<br />
Leuthen, II. <a href="#Page_040-V2">40</a>.<br />
Le Verrier, in command at Michillimackinac, II. 
   <a href="#Page_031-V2">31</a>.<br />
Levi, Point, II. 
   <a href="#Page_213-V2">213</a>-<a href="#Page_216-V2">216</a>, 
	 <a href="#Page_220-V2">220</a>, <a href="#Page_222-V2">222</a>, 
	 <a href="#Page_224-V2">224</a>, <a href="#Page_229-V2">229</a>, 
	 <a href="#Page_274-V2">274</a>, <a href="#Page_277-V2">277</a>,
	 <a href="#Page_281-V2">281</a>;  
   position of Wolfe's army, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_219-V2">219</a>, <a href="#Page_228-V2">228</a>,
			<a href="#Page_230-V2">230</a>-<a href="#Page_233-V2">233</a>; 
	 held by the English at, II. <a href="#Page_263-V2">263</a>, 
	 <a href="#Page_270-V2">270</a>; 
	 embarkation of the artillery, II. <a href="#Page_274-V2">274</a>,
			<a href="#Page_275-V2">275</a>, <a href="#Page_280-V2">280</a>.<br />
L&eacute;vis, Chevalier de, I. <a href="#Page_150-V1">150</a>, 
   <a href="#Page_360-V1">360</a>, <a href="#Page_482-V1">482</a>, II. 
	 <a href="#Page_360-V2">360</a>; 
   opinion of, in regard to the killing of Jumonville, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_150-V1">150</a>; 
	 beloved by Montcalm, I. <a href="#Page_363-V1">363</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_378-V1">378</a>, <a href="#Page_379-V1">379</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_455-V1">455</a>, II. <a href="#Page_308-V2">308</a>; 
	 embarks for America, I. <a href="#Page_363-V1">363</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_364-V1">364</a>; 
	 joins Montcalm, I. <a href="#Page_373-V1">373</a>;
	 at Montreal, I. <a href="#Page_376-V1">376</a>;
	 his command at Ticonderoga, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_377-V1">377</a>-<a href="#Page_379-V1">379</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_407-V1">407</a>; 
	 his description of Montcalm, I. <a href="#Page_379-V1">379</a>; 
	 his manner of life at Montreal, I. <a href="#Page_455-V1">455</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_457-V1">457</a>, II. <a href="#Page_029-V2">29</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_426-V2">426</a>-<a href="#Page_428-V2">428</a>; 
	 treatment received from Vaudreuil, I. <a href="#Page_463-V1">463</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_464-V1">464</a>, II. <a href="#Page_010-V2">10</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_312-V2">312</a>, <a href="#Page_375-V2">375</a>; 
	 his characteristics and popularity, I. <a href="#Page_466-V1">466</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_478-V1">478</a>, II. <a href="#Page_312-V2">312</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_353-V2">353</a>, <a href="#Page_361-V2">361</a>; 
	 encampment of, I. <a href="#Page_477-V1">477</a>; 
	 matters pertaining to the attack of Fort William Henry, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_485-V1">485</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_490-V1">490</a>-<a href="#Page_499-V1">499</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_510-V1">510</a>, <a href="#Page_512-V1">512</a>, 
	    <a href="#footer_526">514 <i>note</i></a>; 
	 his account of the slaughter at German Flats, II. 
	    <a href="#footer_536">7 <i>note</i></a>; 
	 quiets the mutiny at Montreal, II. <a href="#Page_010-V2">10</a>;
	 statements concerning the fight at Rogers Rock, II. 
	    <a href="#footer_543">16 <i>note</i></a>; 
	 the victory at Ticonderoga, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_086-V2">86</a>-<a href="#Page_089-V2">89</a>,
			<a href="#Page_103-V2">103</a>-<a href="#Page_113-V2">113</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_431-V2">431</a>-<a href="#Page_436-V2">436</a>; 
	 his promotion, II. <a href="#Page_174-V2">174</a>; 
	 the siege and fall of Quebec, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_216-V2">216</a>-<a href="#Page_233-V2">233</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_259-V2">259</a>-<a href="#Page_325-V2">325</a>; 
	 attacked by Wolfe, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_230-V2">230</a>-<a href="#Page_233-V2">233</a>; 
	 sent to protect Montreal, II. <a href="#Page_250-V2">250</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_251-V2">251</a>, <a href="#Page_265-V2">265</a>; 
	 assumes the command after Montcalm's death, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_308-V2">308</a>, <a href="#Page_312-V2">312</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_313-V2">313</a>, <a href="#Page_318-V2">318</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_335-V2">335</a>;
	 letter to Bourlamaque, II. <a href="#Page_314-V2">314</a>; 
	 his scaling-ladders, II. <a href="#Page_338-V2">338</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_356-V2">356</a>, <a href="#Page_357-V2">357</a>; 
	 his expedition to attack Quebec, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_341-V2">341</a>-<a href="#Page_358-V2">358</a>; 
	 the encounter at Ste.-Foy, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_342-V2">342</a>-<a href="#Page_347-V2">347</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_442-V2">442</a>-<a href="#Page_444-V2">444</a>; 
	 the courtesies of war, II. <a href="#Page_354-V2">354</a>; 
	 the terms of capitulation for Montreal, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_372-V2">372</a>-<a href="#Page_374-V2">374</a>; 
	 tries to preserve the honor of France, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_373-V2">373</a>, <a href="#Page_375-V2">375</a>; 
	 escapes from shipwreck, II. <a href="#Page_384-V2">384</a>; 
	 his letters, II. <a href="#Page_438-V2">438</a>.<br />
L&eacute;vis, Fort, II. <a href="#Page_369-V2">369</a>, 
   <a href="#Page_374-V2">374</a>; 
   attacked by Amherst, II. <a href="#Page_369-V2">369</a>, 
   <a href="#Page_370-V2">370</a>.<br />

<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_483-V2" id="Page_483-V2">483<br />V2</a></span>

Lewis, Major, II. <a href="#Page_139-V2">139</a>; 
   the expedition of Major Grant, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_151-V2">151</a>-<a href="#Page_155-V2">155</a>.<br />
"Licorne," the, ship, I. <a href="#Page_363-V1">363</a>.<br />
Liegnitz, successes of Frederic, II. <a href="#Page_388-V2">388</a>.<br />
Lighthouse Point, II. 
   <a href="#Page_053-V2">53</a>, <a href="#Page_062-V2">62</a>.<br />
Ligneris, Captain, II. <a href="#Page_244-V2">244</a>, 
   <a href="#Page_245-V2">245</a>; 
   at Fort Duquesne, I. <a href="#Page_208-V2">208</a>; 
	 encounter with the English under Braddock, I. <a href="#Page_216-V2">216</a>;
	 orders concerning prisoners, I. <a href="#footer_333">330 <i>note</i></a>; 
	 attack expected from Forbes, II. <a href="#Page_141-V2">141</a>; 
	 danger of starvation at the fort, II. <a href="#Page_155-V2">155</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_156-V2">156</a>; 
	 Fort Duquesne abandoned, II. <a href="#Page_159-V2">159</a>; 
	 at Venango, II. <a href="#Page_161-V2">161</a>;
	 letter of Montcalm concerning, II. <a href="#Page_169-V2">169</a>;
	 departs from Presquisle, II. <a href="#Page_245-V2">245</a>;
	 taken prisoner, II. <a href="#Page_248-V2">248</a>;
	 matters pertaining to a pension for, II. <a href="#Page_423-V2">423</a>, 
	 <a href="#Page_424-V2">424</a>; 
	 receives the cross of the Order of St. Louis, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_426-V2">426</a>.<br />
Ligonier, General, I. <a href="#Page_178-V1">178</a>.<br />
Ligonier Bay, II. <a href="#Page_251-V2">251</a>.<br />
"Lis," the, fate of, I. <a href="#Page_185-V1">185</a>.<br />
L'Isle-Dieu, Abb&eacute; de, I. <a href="#Page_106-V1">106</a>; 
   assertion concerning Jumonville, I. 
	    <a href="#footer_152">151 <i>note</i></a>.<br />
Lismahago, I. <a href="#Page_159-V1">159</a>.<br />
Little Meadows, arrival of Braddock's army at, I. 
   <a href="#Page_206-V1">206</a>.<br />
Little Niagara, Fort, II. <a href="#Page_243-V2">243</a>, 
   <a href="#Page_244-V2">244</a>.<br />
Livingston, William, I. <a href="#Page_419-V1">419</a>; 
   manor of, I. <a href="#Page_032-V1">32</a>.<br />
Logstown, I. <a href="#Page_046-V1">46</a>, 
	 <a href="#Page_047-V1">47</a>, <a href="#Page_053-V1">53</a>, 
	 <a href="#Page_060-V1">60</a>, <a href="#Page_133-V1">133</a>.<br />
"London Chronicle," the article upon provincial soldiery, II. 
   <a href="#Page_118-V2">118</a>.<br />
Long Saut, the, II. <a href="#Page_370-V2">370</a>.<br />
Longueuil, Baron de, Governor of Canada, I. <a href="#Page_082-V1">82</a>, 
	 <a href="#Page_103-V1">103</a>, <a href="#Page_486-V1">486</a>, II. 
	 <a href="#Page_086-V2">86</a>, 
   <a href="#footer_26Note">258 <i>note</i></a>; 
   complains of English traders, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_083-V1">83</a>, <a href="#Page_084-V1">84</a>; 
	 correspondence with Girard, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_106-V1">106</a>, <a href="#Page_107-V1">107</a>; 
	 paper drawn up by, I.
	    <a href="#Page_154-V1">154</a>, <a href="#Page_155-V1">155</a>; 
	 seeks to secure Indian allies, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_475-V1">475</a>, <a href="#Page_476-V1">476</a>.<br />
Loppinot, sent from Louisbourg for terms of capitulation, II. 
   <a href="#Page_071-V2">71</a>-<a href="#Page_074-V2">74</a>.<br />
Loramie Creek, the, I. <a href="#Page_051-V1">51</a>.<br />
Lords of Trade, the, instructions to the colonial Assemblies, I. 
   <a href="#Page_172-V1">172</a>, <a href="#Page_173-V1">173</a>; 
   leadership of Lord Halifax, I. <a href="#Page_179-V1">179</a>; 
	 quoted concerning the Acadians and their want of loyalty, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_257-V1">257</a>, <a href="#Page_258-V1">258</a>; 
	 complaints of Johnson, I. <a href="#Page_327-V1">327</a>.<br />
Lorette, I. <a href="#Page_209-V1">209</a>, 
	 <a href="#Page_371-V1">371</a>, <a href="#Page_485-V1">485</a>, II.
	 <a href="#Page_284-V2">284</a>, <a href="#Page_293-V2">293</a>, 
	 <a href="#Page_307-V2">307</a>, <a href="#Page_342-V2">342</a>,  
   <a href="#Page_357-V2">357</a>; 
   mission of, II. <a href="#footer_656">145 <i>note</i></a>; 
	 English outpost at, II. <a href="#Page_335-V2">335</a>; 
	 skirmish at, II. <a href="#Page_337-V2">337</a>.<br />
Lorimier, I. <a href="#Page_486-V1">486</a>.<br />
Loring, Captain, the navy built by order of Amherst, II. 
   <a href="#Page_241-V2">241</a>, <a href="#Page_242-V2">242</a>, 
	 <a href="#Page_251-V2">251</a>, <a href="#Page_252-V2">252</a>.<br /> 
Lotbini&egrave;re, a Canadian engineer, I. <a href="#Page_374-V1">374</a>, II. 
   <a href="#Page_087-V2">87</a>; 
   his work at Ticonderoga, I. <a href="#Page_378-V1">378</a>.<br />
Loudon, Earl, to be the commander-in-chief of the American troops, I. 
   <a href="#Page_383-V1">383</a>; 
   difficulties in providing for the soldiers, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_387-V1">387</a>, <a href="#Page_439-V1">439</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_440-V1">440</a>; 
	 arrives at Albany, I. <a href="#Page_399-V1">399</a>; 
	 royal orders concerning military rank, I. <a href="#Page_399-V1">399</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_400-V1">400</a>; 
	 the provincial forces examined, I. <a href="#Page_401-V1">401</a>;  
	 sends reinforcements to Oswego, I. <a href="#Page_405-V1">405</a>; 
	 orders Winslow to abandon Ticonderoga expedition, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_406-V1">406</a>;  
	 his charges against Shirley, I. <a href="#footer_432">413 <i>note</i></a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_420-V1">420</a>; 
	 English losses, I. <a href="#Page_419-V1">419</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_420-V1">420</a>; 
	 his campaign, I. <a href="#Page_421-V1">421</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_422-V1">422</a>;
	 his orders to Winslow, I. <a href="#Page_438-V1">438</a>;  
	 exaggeration of Vaudreuil, I. <a href="#Page_460-V1">460</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_461-V1">461</a>; 
	 his plans for reducing Louisbourg, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_468-V1">468</a>-<a href="#Page_471-V1">471</a>, 
	    <a href="#footer_492">473 <i>note</i></a>, 
			<a href="#Page_496-V1">496</a>, II. <a href="#Page_131-V2">131</a>; 
	 soldiers drawn from New York, I. <a href="#Page_474-V1">474</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_475-V1">475</a>; 
	 frontier exposed to attack, I. <a href="#Page_496-V2">496</a>;  
	 letters sent from Webb, I. <a href="#footer_512">498 <i>note</i></a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_501-V2">501</a>; 
	 despatches sent to Webb, II. <a href="#Page_001-V2">1</a>; 
	 his plan of action, II. <a href="#Page_002-V2">2</a>; 
	 plans an attack upon Ticonderoga, II. <a href="#Page_011-V2">11</a>; 
	 his failures, II. <a href="#Page_045-V2">45</a>;
	 recalled from his command, II. <a href="#Page_048-V2">48</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_083-V2">83</a>; 
	 money expended by Massachusetts on this expedition, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_084-V2">84</a>;  
	 consulted by Bradstreet, II. <a href="#Page_127-V2">127</a>;
	 his influence on the army, II. <a href="#Page_380-V2">380</a>;
	 letters concerning the massacre at Fort William Henry, II.
	    <a href="#Page_428-V2">428</a>, <a href="#Page_429-V2">429</a>.<br />
Louis XIII., I. 
   <a href="#Page_014-V1">14</a>, <a href="#Page_015-V1">15</a>.<br />
Louis XIV., I. <a href="#footer_289">284 <i>note</i></a>, II.
   <a href="#Page_409-V2">409</a>.<br />
Louis XV., I. <a href="#Page_043-V1">43</a>, <a href="#Page_066-V1">66</a>, 
   <a href="#Page_067-V1">67</a>, <a href="#Page_070-V1">70</a>, 
	 <a href="#Page_071-V1">71</a>, <a href="#Page_075-V1">75</a>, 
	 <a href="#Page_129-V1">129</a>, <a href="#Page_361-V1">361</a>; 
   possibility of the conquest of Canada, I. <a href="#Page_002-V1">2</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_003-V1">3</a>; 
	 condition of France during his reign, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_009-V1">9</a>-<a href="#Page_016-V1">16</a>; 
	 scenes at Versailles, I. <a href="#Page_011-V1">11</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_012-V1">12</a>; 
	 adornments given to Paris, I. <a href="#Page_013-V1">13</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_014-V1">14</a>; 
	 feeling towards, I. <a href="#Page_014-V1">14</a>; 
	 position of Madame de Pompadour, I. <a href="#Page_015-V1">15</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_179-V1">179</a>;
	 subjects of, in Acadia, I. <a href="#Page_091-V1">91</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_094-V1">94</a>-<a href="#Page_096-V1">96</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_102-V1">102</a>, <a href="#Page_105-V1">105</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_235-V1">235</a>, <a href="#Page_238-V1">238</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_260-V1">260</a>, <a href="#Page_284-V1">284</a>;
	 the English denounced by, I. <a href="#Page_115-V1">115</a>;
	 political alliances with, I. <a href="#Page_354-V1">354</a>; 
	 his detestation of Frederic the Great, I. <a href="#Page_355-V1">355</a>; 
	 the promotion of Montcalm, I. <a href="#Page_360-V1">360</a>;
	 troops sent against Austria, I. <a href="#Page_363-V1">363</a>; 
	 troops sent to reinforce New France, I. <a href="#Page_363-V1">363</a>; 
	 instructions sent to Vaudreuil, I. <a href="#Page_367-V1">367</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_368-V1">368</a>; 
	 expenses in Canada, I. <a href="#Page_370-V1">370</a>, 
	 <a href="#Page_372-V1">372</a>, <a href="#Page_453-V1">453</a>, II.
	 <a href="#Page_017-V2">17</a>-<a href="#Page_038-V2">38</a>, 
	 <a href="#Page_169-V2">169</a>-<a href="#Page_172-V2">172</a>,
	 <a href="#Page_321-V2">321</a>, <a href="#Page_322-V2">322</a>;  
	 sends the <i>cordon rouge</i> to Montcalm, I. <a href="#Page_454-V1">454</a>; 
	 his portrait on Indian medals, I. <a href="#Page_480-V1">480</a>;
	 promises of the Indians, I. <a href="#Page_488-V1">488</a>;
	 corruption at court, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_044-V2">44</a>, <a href="#Page_045-V2">45</a>;
	 Vaudreuil's efforts to slander Montcalm, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_164-V2">164</a>-<a href="#Page_167-V2">167</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_321-V2">321</a>, <a href="#Page_322-V2">322</a>; 
	 the refusal of forces from France to Canada, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_174-V2">174</a>-<a href="#Page_178-V2">178</a>; 
	 the loss of New France, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_375-V2">375</a>, <a href="#Page_376-V2">376</a>.<br />
<a name="louisbourg" id="louisbourg"></a>  
Louisbourg, I. <a href="#Page_029-V1">29</a>, <a href="#Page_105-V1">105</a>, 
   <a href="#Page_107-V1">107</a>, <a href="#Page_109-V1">109</a>, 
	 <a href="#Page_185-V1">185</a>, <a href="#Page_239-V1">239</a>, 
	 <a href="#Page_242-V1">242</a>, <a href="#Page_251-V1">251</a>, 
	 <a href="#Page_290-V1">290</a>, <a href="#Page_291-V1">291</a>; 
   fortress of, I. <a href="#Page_092-V1">92</a>, <a href="#Page_093-V1">93</a>, 
	 <a href="#Page_368-V1">368</a>, II. 
	 <a href="#Page_052-V2">52</a>-<a href="#Page_055-V2">55</a>;

<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_484-V2" id="Page_484-V2">484<br />V2</a></span>

   restored to the French, I. <a href="#Page_092-V1">92</a>; 
	 commanders at, I. <a href="#Page_101-V1">101</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_102-V1">102</a>, <a href="#Page_104-V1">104</a>; 
	 aid refused to Beaus&eacute;jour, I. <a href="#Page_250-V1">250</a>; 
	 plan of Loudon for the reduction of, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_468-V1">468</a>, <a href="#Page_469-V1">469</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_471-V1">471</a>, <a href="#Page_474-V1">474</a>; 
	 the English fleet wrecked, I. <a href="#Page_472-V1">472</a>; 
	 policy of Pitt regarding, II. <a href="#Page_047-V2">47</a>,  
	    <a href="#Page_048-V2">48</a>;
	 the siege and reduction of,  
	    by the English, II. <a href="#Page_048-V2">48</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_049-V2">49</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_051-V2">51</a>-<a href="#footer_19Note">82 <i>note</i></a>, 
			<a href="#Page_112-V2">112</a>, <a href="#Page_129-V2">129</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_162-V2">162</a>, <a href="#Page_177-V2">177</a>,
			<a href="#Page_190-V2">190</a>;
	 inhabitants of the town, II. <a href="#Page_054-V2">54</a>;
	 the batteries silenced by the enemy, II. <a href="#Page_061-V2">61</a>, 
	 <a href="#Page_062-V2">62</a>;
	 Drucour's efforts to protect the harbor, II. <a href="#Page_064-V2">64</a>;
	 the shipping burned, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_065-V2">65</a>-<a href="#Page_067-V2">67</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_069-V2">69</a>; 
	 the Governor's lodgings in flames, II. <a href="#Page_067-V2">67</a>, 
	 <a href="#Page_068-V2">68</a>; 
	 position of the besieged, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_069-V2">69</a>, <a href="#Page_070-V2">70</a>; 
	 the terms of capitulation finally accepted, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_071-V2">71</a>-<a href="#Page_074-V2">74</a>, 
			<a href="#footer_591">75 <i>note</i></a>; 
	 statistics of prisoners, cannon, etc., II. <a href="#Page_075-V2">75</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_076-V2">76</a>; 
	 Governor Drucour succeeded by Governor Whitmore, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_076-V2">76</a>; 
	 rejoicing at the fall of, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_076-V2">76</a>-<a href="#Page_078-V2">78</a>; 
	 Wolfe ordered to scatter the neighboring settlers, II.  
	    <a href="#Page_080-V2">80</a>, <a href="#Page_081-V2">81</a>; 
	 arrival of 43d Regiment, II.  <a href="#Page_183-V2">183</a>; 
	 departure of the fleet with Gen. Wolfe, II. <a href="#Page_193-V2">193</a>; 
	 dismantled and abandoned, II. <a href="#Page_363-V2">363</a>.<br />
Louisbourg Grenadiers, the, at Quebec, II. 
   <a href="#footer_27Note">298 <i>note</i></a>.<br />
Louisiana, I. <a href="#Page_072-V1">72</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_073-V1">73</a>, <a href="#Page_366-V1">366</a>, II. 
			<a href="#Page_002-V2">2</a>, <a href="#Page_155-V2">155</a>; 
   French possessions in, I. <a href="#Page_020-V1">20</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_024-V1">24</a>, <a href="#Page_039-V2">39</a>; 
	 communication with Canada, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_036-V1">36</a>, <a href="#Page_037-V1">37</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_039-V1">39</a>, <a href="#Page_040-V2">40</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_080-V1">80</a>, <a href="#Page_083-V1">83</a>;
	 arrival of the exiles from Acadia, I. <a href="#Page_283-V1">283</a>;
	 proposal of Montcalm concerning, II. <a href="#Page_179-V2">179</a>;
	 given to Spain, II. <a href="#Page_406-V2">406</a>.<br />
Louisville, I. <a href="#Page_058-V1">58</a>.<br />
Louvigny, I. <a href="#Page_458-V1">458</a>.<br />
Lowendal, I. <a href="#Page_010-V1">10</a>.<br />
"Lowestoffe," the, II. <a href="#Page_355-V2">355</a>, 
   <a href="#Page_356-V2">356</a>.<br />
Lowry, I. <a href="#Page_079-V1">79</a>.<br />
Lowther, Miss Katherine, II. <a href="#Page_190-V2">190</a>; 
   Wolfe's last message to, II. <a href="#Page_284-V2">284</a>.<br />
Loyalhannon, II. 
   <a href="#Page_149-V2">149</a>, <a href="#Page_151-V2">151</a>,
   <a href="#Page_154-V2">154</a>-<a href="#Page_156-V2">156</a>.<br />
Loyalhannon Creek, II. <a href="#Page_141-V2">141</a>.<br />
Lusignan, commandant at Ticonderoga, I. <a href="#Page_445-V1">445</a>.<br />
Lutherans, the, I. <a href="#Page_031-V1">31</a>, 
   <a href="#Page_032-V1">32</a>.<br />
Lutterberg, battle of, II. <a href="#Page_047-V2">47</a>.<br />
Lycurgus, II. <a href="#Page_091-V2">91</a>.<br />
Lydius, a trader, I. <a href="#Page_435-V1">435</a>.<br />
Lyman, Phineas, in the expedition against Crown Point, I. 
   <a href="#Page_290-V1">290</a>, <a href="#Page_313-V1">313</a>, 
	 <a href="#Page_314-V1">314</a>; 
   origin of Fort Lyman, I. <a href="#Page_294-V1">294</a>; 
	 takes command of Johnson's troops, I. <a href="#Page_306-V1">306</a>; 
	 conflicting reports concerning, I. <a href="#Page_316-V1">316</a>; 
	 at Fort Edward, I. <a href="#Page_401-V1">401</a>, 
	 <a href="#Page_402-V1">402</a>;
	 his chaplain, I. <a href="#Page_402-V1">402</a>; 
	 report concerning the camp, I. <a href="#Page_403-V1">403</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_404-V1">404</a>;
	 regiment of, II. <a href="#Page_095-V2">95</a>; 
	 meeting with Langy in the woods, II. <a href="#Page_097-V2">97</a>.<br />
Lyman, Fort, I.  
   <a href="#Page_295-V1">295</a>-<a href="#Page_297-V1">297</a>,
	 <a href="#Page_300-V1">300</a>, <a href="#Page_301-V1">301</a>,
   <a href="#Page_308-V1">308</a>-<a href="#Page_310-V1">310</a>; 
   building of, I. <a href="#Page_294-V1">294</a>;
	 afterwards called Fort Edward, I. <a href="#Page_294-V1">294</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_315-V1">315</a>.<br />
Lyon's Cove, I. <a href="#Page_268-V1">268</a>.<br />
</p>
<p><br /></p>
<h3>M.</h3>
<p>	
Macartney, Captain, his humanity, II. <a href="#Page_343-V2">343</a>, 
   <a href="#Page_344-V2">344</a>.<br />
McBryer, Andrew, I. <a href="#Page_085-V1">85</a>.<br />
Macdonald, Captain, 
   serves in the expedition of Major Grant, II. <a href="#Page_152-V2">152</a>; 
   his death, II. <a href="#Page_153-V2">153</a>.<br />
MacDonald, Captain Donald, 
   sent to attack the French at Le Calvaire, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_336-V2">336</a>; 
	 his death, II. <a href="#Page_349-V2">349</a>.<br />
McDonough, Thomas, II. <a href="#Page_440-V2">440</a>.<br />
McGinnis, Captain, I. <a href="#Page_308-V1">308</a>, 
   <a href="#Page_309-V1">309</a>.<br />
Machault d'Arnouville, 
   minister of marine and colonies (1754-1757), I. 
	 <a href="#Page_013-V1">13</a>, <a href="#Page_015-V1">15</a>, 
	 <a href="#Page_179-V1">179</a>, <a href="#Page_367-V1">367</a>, II. 
	 <a href="#Page_044-V2">44</a>.<br />
Machault, Fort, II. <a href="#Page_159-V2">159</a>.<br />
Mackay, Captain, I. <a href="#Page_152-V1">152</a>; 
   at Great Meadows, I. <a href="#Page_152-V1">152</a>, 
	 <a href="#Page_159-V1">159</a>, II. 
	 <a href="#Page_421-V2">421</a>-<a href="#Page_423-V2">423</a>.<br />
Mackellar, Patrick, 
   serves as an engineer under Braddock and Wolfe, I. 
	 <a href="#footer_228">221 <i>note</i></a>, II. 
	 <a href="#Page_208-V1">208</a>; 
	 to strengthen Fort Ontario, I. <a href="#Page_420-V1">420</a>, 
	    <a href="#footer_420">420 <i>note</i></a>.<br />
Mackenzie, Captain, II. 
   <a href="#Page_152-V2">152</a>-<a href="#Page_155-V2">155</a>.<br />
Macleane, Allan, II. <a href="#footer_741">245 <i>note</i></a>.<br />
McMullen, Lieutenant, sent to Crown Point, II. 
   <a href="#Page_254-V2">254</a>.<br />
Macnamara, Admiral, 
   accompanies La Motte's expedition, I. <a href="#Page_182-V1">182</a>, 
   <a href="#Page_183-V1">183</a>.<br />
MacVicar, Anne, recollections of Albany, I. <a href="#Page_319-V1">319</a>, 
   <a href="#Page_320-V1">320</a>.<br />
Madawaska, I. <a href="#Page_283-V1">283</a>.<br />
Madeira, I. <a href="#Page_287-V1">287</a>.<br />
Mahon, Lord, I. <a href="#Page_179-V1">179</a>.<br />
Maillard, missionary at Cape Breton, I. <a href="#Page_105-V1">105</a>, 
   <a href="#Page_119-V1">119</a>.<br />
Maillebois, I. 
   <a href="#Page_010-V1">10</a>, <a href="#Page_359-V1">359</a>.<br />
Maine, English possessions in, I. 
   <a href="#Page_020-V1">20</a>, <a href="#Page_124-V1">124</a>.<br />
Ma&icirc;tre Abraham, II. <a href="#Page_289-V2">289</a>.<br />
Manach, Father, I. <a href="#Page_252-V1">252</a>; 
   letter of Boish&eacute;bert to, quoted, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_265-V1">265</a>, <a href="#Page_266-V1">266</a>.<br />
Manila, II. <a href="#Page_401-V2">401</a>, 
   <a href="#Page_402-V2">402</a>.<br />
Manitou, the, I. <a href="#Page_479-V1">479</a>, 
   <a href="#Page_487-V1">487</a>, <a href="#Page_489-V1">489</a>.<br />
Mann, Sir Horace, 
   letters from Horace Walpole quoted, I. <a href="#Page_188-V1">188</a>; 
	 ambassador at Florence, II. <a href="#Page_323-V2">323</a>.<br />
Mansfield, I. <a href="#Page_008-V1">8</a>.<br />
Mante, Major Thomas, II. 
   <a href="#footer_19Note">82 <i>note</i></a>, <a href="#Page_097-V1">97</a>; 
   statistics of the force sent against Louisbourg, II. 
	    <a href="#footer_582">56 <i>note</i></a>.<br />
Maps of the Illinois colony, I. <a href="#footer_003">41 <i>note</i></a>; 
   map of Bonnecamp, I. <a href="#footer_02Note">62 <i>note</i></a>; 
	 of French and British dominion in North America, I. 
	    <a href="#footer_124">126 <i>note</i></a>.<br />
Maria Theresa, her inheritance from Charles VI., I. 
   <a href="#Page_018-V1">18</a>; 

<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_485-V2" id="Page_485-V2">485<br />V2</a></span>

   her heritage taken from her, I. <a href="#Page_019-V1">19</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_353-V1">353</a>, <a href="#Page_354-V1">354</a>; 
	 the enemy of Frederic the Great, I. <a href="#Page_353-V1">353</a>; 
	 flatters Pompadour, I. <a href="#Page_354-V1">354</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_355-V1">355</a>; 
	 the war in Europe, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_038-V2">38</a>-<a href="#Page_040-V2">40</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_409-V2">409</a>; 
	 condition of France, II. <a href="#Page_393-V2">393</a>.<br />
Marietta, I. <a href="#Page_048-V1">48</a>.<br />
Marigalante Island, restored by England, II. 
   <a href="#Page_405-V2">405</a>.<br />
Marin, I. <a href="#Page_486-V1">486</a>, II. <a href="#Page_020-V2">20</a>, 
   <a href="#Page_030-V2">30</a>, <a href="#Page_122-V2">122</a>, 
	 <a href="#Page_244-V2">244</a>; 
   promotion of, I. <a href="#Page_088-V1">88</a>; 
	 commander of Duquesne's expedition to the Ohio, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_129-V1">129</a>-<a href="#Page_131-V1">131</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_137-V1">137</a>; 
	 his sickness and death, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_129-V1">129</a>-<a href="#Page_131-V1">131</a>.<br />
Marin joins the war-party of Peri&egrave;re, I. 
   <a href="#Page_429-V1">429</a>-<a href="#Page_431-V1">431</a>; 
	 the slaughter at Fort Edward, I. <a href="#Page_485-V1">485</a>; 
	 official knavery, II. <a href="#Page_027-V2">27</a>; 
	 victory over, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_122-V2">122</a>-<a href="#Page_127-V2">127</a>;
	 taken prisoner, II. <a href="#Page_248-V2">248</a>.<br />
Marin, Madame, II. <a href="#Page_020-V2">20</a>.<br />
Marlborough, Duke of, I. <a href="#Page_316-V1">316</a>.<br />
Marolles, correspondence of, II. 
   <a href="#footer_19Note">81 <i>note</i></a>.<br />
Martel, the King's storekeeper, II. <a href="#Page_020-V2">20</a>, 
   <a href="#Page_030-V2">30</a>.<br />
Martin, Father, 
   evidence in relation to the massacre at Fort William Henry, I. 
	    <a href="#footer_526">514 <i>note</i></a>.<br />
Martin, Abraham.  See <a href="#abraham">Abraham</a>.<br />
Martin, Sergeant Joshua, one of Rogers' rangers, I. 
   <a href="#Page_444-V1">444</a>.<br />
Martinique, II. <a href="#Page_401-V2">401</a>, 
<a href="#Page_405-V2">405</a>.<br />
Maryland, I. <a href="#Page_332-V1">332</a>, II. <a href="#Page_132-V2">132</a>; 
   government and characteristics of, I. <a href="#Page_025-V1">25</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_033-V1">33</a>; 
	 aid asked from, by Dinwiddie, I. <a href="#Page_139-V1">139</a>; 
	 aids Virginia, I. <a href="#Page_168-V1">168</a>; 
	 commissioners sent to Albany for an Indian congress, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_173-V1">173</a>-<a href="#Page_176-V1">176</a>; 
	 council of governors held with Braddock, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_191-V1">191</a>-<a href="#Page_196-V1">196</a>; 
	 sufferings caused by Indian warfare, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_329-V1">329</a>, <a href="#Page_330-V1">330</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_422-V1">422</a>.<br />
Massachusetts, I. 
   <a href="#Page_168-V1">168</a>, <a href="#Page_260-V1">260</a>,
	 <a href="#Page_315-V1">315</a>, <a href="#Page_480-V1">480</a>, 
	 II. <a href="#Page_093-V2">93</a>; 
   religion, finance, and politics of, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_025-V1">25</a>-<a href="#Page_029-V1">29</a>, II. 
			<a href="#Page_084-V2">84</a>, <a href="#Page_085-V2">85</a>
			(see <a href="#assemblyMassachusetts">Assembly of Massachusetts</a>); 
	 commissioners sent to meet the Indians at Albany, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_061-V1">61</a>; 
	 council of governors held with Braddock, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_191-V1">191</a>-<a href="#Page_195-V1">195</a>; 
	 characteristics of the officers from, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_272-V1">272</a>, <a href="#Page_273-V1">273</a>; 
	 distribution of the exiled Acadians, I. <a href="#Page_282-V1">282</a>; 
	 the Crown Point expedition fitted out, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_285-V1">285</a>, <a href="#Page_286-V1">286</a>,
	    <a href="#Page_291-V1">291</a>, <a href="#Page_292-V1">292</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_313-V1">313</a>, <a href="#Page_314-V1">314</a>; 
	 money received from Parliament, I. 
	    <a href="#footer_388">382 <i>note</i></a>, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_085-V2">85</a>; 
	 method of raising and paying troops, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_384-V1">384</a>-<a href="#Page_387-V1">387</a>, II.  
	    <a href="#Page_084-V2">84</a>, <a href="#Page_085-V2">85</a>; 
	 tablet erected to Lord Howe, in Westminster Abbey, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_091-V2">91</a>; 
	 utterances from the pulpits after the fall of Canada, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_377-V2">377</a>-<a href="#Page_379-V2">379</a>.<br />
Massachusetts Historical Society, the, I. 
   <a href="#footer_319">316 <i>note</i></a>; 
   portrait of Captain Winslow in, I.
	    <a href="#footer_276">273 <i>note</i></a>.<br />
Massey, Colonel, II. <a href="#Page_247-V2">247</a>.<br />
Mathevet missionary for the Nipissings, I. <a href="#Page_487-V1">487</a>.<br />
Maumee River, the, I. <a href="#Page_040-V1">40</a>, 
   <a href="#Page_051-V1">51</a>, <a href="#Page_052-V1">52</a>,
   <a href="#Page_082-V1">82</a>, <a href="#Page_084-V1">84</a>.<br />
Maurault, Abb&eacute;, II. <a href="#footer_752">255 <i>note</i></a>.<br />
Maurepas, Comte de, I. <a href="#footer_269">259 <i>note</i></a>.<br />
Maurin, Fran&ccedil;ois, II. <a href="#Page_020-V2">20</a>; 
   official knavery, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_022-V2">22</a>-<a href="#Page_024-V2">24</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_030-V2">30</a>; 
   thrown into the Bastille, II. <a href="#Page_385-V2">385</a>.<br />
Mauritius, Island of, I. <a href="#Page_010-V1">10</a>.<br />
Maxen, II. <a href="#Page_388-V2">388</a>.<br />
Maxwell, Thomas, II. <a href="#footer_26Note">258 <i>note</i></a>.<br />
Mayhew, Jonathan, his prediction for the American colonies, II. 
   <a href="#Page_325-V2">325</a>.<br />
Maynard, Captain, II. <a href="#footer_643">123 <i>note</i></a>.<br />
Mazade, Madame, I. <a href="#Page_361-V1">361</a>.<br />
Mediterranean Sea, the, II. <a href="#Page_049-V2">49</a>.<br />
Meech, Lieutenant, his encounter with the enemy, II. 
   <a href="#Page_207-V2">207</a>.<br />
Mellen, Reverend John, 
   pastor of the Second Church in Lancaster, II. <a href="#Page_377-V2">377</a>; 
	 his sermon on the fall of Canada, II. <a href="#Page_378-V2">378</a>.<br />
Memeramcook, I. <a href="#Page_120-V1">120</a>, 
   <a href="#Page_122-V1">122</a>.<br />
Memphremagog, Lake, II. <a href="#Page_254-V2">254</a>, 
   <a href="#Page_256-V2">256</a>.<br />
Menomonies, the, I. <a href="#Page_407-V1">407</a>; 
   called to council by Montcalm, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_486-V1">486</a>-<a href="#Page_489-V1">489</a>.<br />
Mercer, Colonel, commandant at Oswego, I. 
   <a href="#Page_397-V1">397</a>, <a href="#Page_410-V1">410</a>; 
   his death, I. <a href="#Page_412-V1">412</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_413-V1">413</a>.<br />
Mercer, Lieutenant-Colonel, to hold the new Fort Duquesne, II. 
   <a href="#Page_160-V2">160</a>.<br />
"Mermaid," the, I. <a href="#Page_247-V1">247</a>.<br />
Messalina, I. <a href="#Page_353-V1">353</a>.<br />
Mexico, I. <a href="#Page_020-V1">20</a>.<br />
Mexico, Gulf of, I. <a href="#Page_040-V1">40</a>, 
<a href="#Page_205-V1">205</a>.<br />
Miami confederacy, the, I. <a href="#Page_040-V1">40</a>, 
<a href="#Page_052-V1">52</a>.<br />
Miami Indians, the, I. 
   <a href="#Page_051-V1">51</a>, <a href="#Page_079-V1">79</a>,
	 <a href="#Page_083-V1">83</a>, <a href="#Page_209-V1">209</a>;
   their chief (see <a href="#laDemoiselle">La Demoiselle</a>), 
	 home of, I. <a href="#Page_040-V1">40</a>,
	    <a href="#Page_051-V1">51</a>, <a href="#Page_052-V1">52</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_055-V1">55</a>, <a href="#Page_056-V1">56</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_058-V1">58</a>, <a href="#Page_084-V1">84</a>; 
	 visited by C&eacute;loron, I. <a href="#Page_051-V1">51</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_052-V1">52</a>; 
	 visited by Gist, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_055-V1">55</a>-<a href="#Page_058-V1">58</a>; 
	 their feeling towards the English, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_059-V1">59</a>, <a href="#Page_130-V1">130</a>; 
	 attacked and killed at Pickawillany, I. <a href="#Page_084-V1">84</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_085-V1">85</a>, <a href="#Page_130-V1">130</a>; 
	 called to a council by Montcalm, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_486-V1">486</a>-<a href="#Page_489-V1">489</a>; 
	 become allies of the French, I. <a href="#Page_130-V1">130</a>, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_142-V2">142</a>.<br />
Miami River, the, I. 
   <a href="#Page_040-V1">40</a>, <a href="#Page_051-V1">51</a>, 
	 <a href="#Page_056-V1">56</a>, <a href="#Page_083-V1">83</a>.<br />
Michigan Lake, I. 
   <a href="#Page_075-V1">75</a>, <a href="#Page_407-V1">407</a>, 
	 <a href="#Page_437-V1">437</a>, <a href="#Page_486-V1">486</a>.<br />
Michillimackinac, I. <a href="#Page_075-V1">75</a>, 
   <a href="#Page_084-V1">84</a>, <a href="#Page_486-V1">486</a>, II. 
	 <a href="#Page_248-V2">248</a>, <a href="#Page_249-V2">249</a>.<br />
Micmacs, the, I. <a href="#Page_023-V1">23</a>, 
   <a href="#Page_107-V1">107</a>, II. 
	 <a href="#Page_181-V2">181</a>, <a href="#Page_194-V2">194</a>; 
   their missionary, I. <a href="#Page_113-V1">113</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_121-V1">121</a> (see <a href="#leLoutre">Le Loutre</a>); 
	 disposition and characteristics of, I. <a href="#Page_113-V1">113</a>; 
	 at Beaubassin, I. <a href="#Page_116-V1">116</a>; 
	 murder of Captain Howe, I. <a href="#Page_118-V1">118</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_119-V1">119</a>; 
	 chief of, killed, I. <a href="#Page_252-V1">252</a>; 
	 called to a council by Montcalm, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_486-V1">486</a>-<a href="#Page_489-V1">489</a>; 
	 under Boish&eacute;bert, II. <a href="#Page_066-V2">66</a>.<br />
Middle Ages, the, I. <a href="#Page_017-V1">17</a>.<br />
Milbank, Mr., II. <a href="#Page_358-V2">358</a>.<br />
 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_486-V2" id="Page_486-V2">486<br />V2</a></span>

Mildmay, questions of boundary, I. <a href="#Page_123-V1">123</a>.<br />
Miller, Captain, I. <a href="#Page_428-V1">428</a>, II. 
   <a href="#Page_332-V2">332</a>.<br />
Mines, district of, I. <a href="#Page_235-V1">235</a>;  
   population of, I. <a href="#Page_264-V1">264</a>; 
	 the people summoned to hear the mandate of the King, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_271-V1">271</a>, <a href="#Page_272-V1">272</a>.  
			See <a href="#acadians">Acadians</a>.<br />
Mines, basin of, I. <a href="#Page_094-V1">94</a>, 
   <a href="#Page_237-V1">237</a>, <a href="#Page_240-V1">240</a>, 
	 <a href="#Page_241-V1">241</a>, <a href="#Page_260-V1">260</a>, 
   <a href="#Page_267-V1">267</a>-<a href="#Page_269-V1">269</a>, 
   <a href="#Page_276-V1">276</a>.<br />
Mingoes, the, I. <a href="#Page_040-V1">40</a>, <a href="#Page_046-V1">46</a>, 
   <a href="#Page_060-V1">60</a>, <a href="#Page_209-V1">209</a>; 
   attitude towards the English, I. <a href="#Page_059-V1">59</a>, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_150-V2">150</a>, <a href="#Page_151-V2">151</a>; 
   border warfare of, I. <a href="#Page_329-V1">329</a>.<br />
Minorca, I. <a href="#Page_036-V1">36</a>, II. <a href="#Page_040-V1">40</a>;  
   garrisons of, I. <a href="#Page_009-V1">9</a>; 
	 restored by France, II. <a href="#Page_405-V2">405</a>.<br />
Miquelon Island given to France, II. <a href="#Page_405-V2">405</a>.<br />
Miramichi, II. <a href="#Page_025-V2">25</a>, 
   <a href="#Page_080-V2">80</a>.<br />
Mirepoix, French ambassador at London, I. <a href="#Page_180-V1">180</a>; 
   correspondence of, I. <a href="#Page_183-V1">183</a>.<br />
Missaguash River, the, I. 
   <a href="#Page_116-V1">116</a>, <a href="#Page_118-V1">118</a>, 
	 <a href="#Page_120-V1">120</a>, <a href="#Page_235-V1">235</a>,
	 <a href="#Page_241-V1">241</a>, <a href="#Page_248-V1">248</a>, II. 
   <a href="#Page_181-V2">181</a>.<br />
Mission Indians, 
   the illegal traffic carried on by the French, by means of, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_065-V2">65</a>; 
	 allies of the French, I. <a href="#Page_371-V1">371</a>, 
	 <a href="#Page_372-V1">372</a>, <a href="#Page_475-V1">475</a>,
	 <a href="#Page_479-V1">479</a>, <a href="#Page_480-V1">480</a>, II. 
	 <a href="#Page_012-V2">12</a>; 
	 their ferocity, II. <a href="#Page_144-V2">144</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_145-V2">145</a>.<br />
Missionaries, 
   their work among the Indians, I. <a href="#Page_025-V2">25</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_064-V2">64</a>, <a href="#Page_065-V2">65</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_075-V2">75</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_243-V2">243</a>-<a href="#Page_245-V2">245</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_429-V2">429</a>, II. <a href="#Page_412-V2">412</a>; 
	 intrigues with regard to the Indians, Acadians, and English, I. 
	   <a href="#Page_099-V1">99</a>, <a href="#Page_100-V1">100</a>, 
	   <a href="#Page_102-V1">102</a>, <a href="#Page_103-V1">103</a>, 
		 <a href="#Page_243-V1">243</a>-<a href="#Page_245-V1">245</a>, II. 
	   <a href="#Page_420-V2">420</a>, <a href="#Page_421-V2">421</a>.<br />
Missisqui, I. <a href="#Page_485-V1">485</a>.<br />
Missisquoi Bay, II. <a href="#Page_254-V2">254</a>.<br />
Mississagas, the, I. <a href="#Page_070-V1">70</a>,
   <a href="#Page_486-V1">486</a>.<br />
Mississippi, the, I. <a href="#Page_020-V1">20</a>,
   <a href="#Page_024-V1">24</a>, <a href="#Page_040-V1">40</a>, 
	 <a href="#Page_042-V1">42</a>, <a href="#Page_124-V1">124</a>, 
	 <a href="#Page_125-V1">125</a>, <a href="#Page_130-V1">130</a>, 
	 <a href="#Page_170-V1">170</a>, <a href="#Page_335-V1">335</a>, 
	 <a href="#Page_372-V1">372</a>, II. <a href="#Page_179-V2">179</a>, 
	 <a href="#Page_405-V2">405</a>, <a href="#Page_406-V2">406</a>.<br />
Mitchell, 
   his map of the British and French Dominions, I. 
	    <a href="#footer_124">126 <i>note</i></a>.<br />
Moccasons, I. <a href="#Page_259-V1">259</a>.<br />
Mohawk River, the, I. <a href="#Page_028-V1">28</a>,
   <a href="#Page_032-V1">32</a>, <a href="#footer_02Note">62 <i>note</i></a>, 
	 <a href="#Page_064-V1">64</a>, <a href="#Page_080-V1">80</a>, 
	 <a href="#Page_287-V1">287</a>, <a href="#Page_319-V1">319</a>, 
	 <a href="#Page_321-V1">321</a>, <a href="#Page_374-V1">374</a>, 
	 <a href="#Page_375-V1">375</a>, <a href="#Page_393-V1">393</a>, 
	 <a href="#Page_406-V1">406</a>, II. <a href="#Page_006-V2">6</a>, 
	 <a href="#Page_086-V2">86</a>, <a href="#Page_116-V2">116</a>, 
	 <a href="#Page_128-V2">128</a>, <a href="#Page_240-V2">240</a>.<br />
Mohawks, the, I. <a href="#Page_028-V1">28</a>,
   <a href="#Page_065-V1">65</a>, <a href="#Page_073-V1">73</a>,
   <a href="#Page_088-V1">88</a>, <a href="#Page_287-V1">287</a>,
	 <a href="#Page_296-V1">296</a>, <a href="#Page_321-V1">321</a>,
   <a href="#Page_327-V1">327</a>, <a href="#Page_467-V1">467</a>, II. 
   <a href="#Page_002-V2">2</a>, <a href="#Page_417-V2">417</a>; 
   complaints of the tribe, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_171-V1">171</a>, <a href="#Page_172-V1">172</a>; 
	 joins Johnson's expedition, I. <a href="#Page_289-V1">289</a>,
	    <a href="#Page_295-V1">295</a>-<a href="#Page_310-V1">310</a>; 
	 their chief, I. <a href="#Page_301-V1">301</a>,
	    <a href="#Page_303-V1">303</a>, <a href="#Page_309-V1">309</a>; 
	 their bravery and ferocity, I. <a href="#Page_303-V1">303</a>,
	    <a href="#Page_309-V1">309</a>, <a href="#Page_310-V1">310</a>; 
	 council held with Johnson, I. <a href="#Page_391-V1">391</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_392-V1">392</a>.<br />
Mohegans, the, I. <a href="#Page_391-V1">391</a>, II. 
   <a href="#Page_256-V2">256</a>;
   council held with Johnson, I. <a href="#Page_392-V1">392</a>; 
	 ally themselves with the English, II. <a href="#Page_148-V2">148</a>.<br />
Mollwitz, battle of, I. <a href="#Page_019-V1">19</a>.<br />
Monckton, Robert, I. <a href="#Page_246-V1">246</a>; 
   appointed leader of the expedition against Acadia, I. 
	     <a href="#Page_194-V1">194</a>, <a href="#Page_196-V1">196</a>;  
	 the capture of Beaus&eacute;jour, I. <a href="#Page_196-V1">196</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_239-V1">239</a>, <a href="#Page_248-V1">248</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_254-V1">254</a>, <a href="#Page_260-V1">260</a>, II. 
			<a href="#Page_193-V2">193</a>; 
	 the Acadians removed from their homes, I. <a href="#Page_254-V1">254</a>, 
	   <a href="#Page_266-V1">266</a>-<a href="#Page_284-V1">284</a>
		 (see <a href="#acadians">Acadians</a>); 
	 despatched to the Bay of Fundy, II. <a href="#Page_078-V2">78</a>;
	 serves under Wolfe, at the siege of Quebec, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_193-V2">193</a>, <a href="#Page_213-V2">213</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_226-V2">226</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_231-V2">231</a>-<a href="#Page_233-V2">233</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_266-V2">266</a>, <a href="#Page_267-V2">267</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_274-V2">274</a>, <a href="#Page_290-V2">290</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_295-V2">295</a>, <a href="#footer_782">295 <i>note</i></a>, 
	    <a href="#footer_27Note">298 <i>note</i></a>, 
			<a href="#Page_309-V2">309</a>, <a href="#Page_438-V2">438</a>; 
	 disabled by his wounds, II. <a href="#Page_309-V2">309</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_317-V2">317</a>; 
	 joins Rodney, II. <a href="#Page_401-V2">401</a>.<br />
"Monmouth," the, II. <a href="#Page_049-V2">49</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_050-V2">50</a>.<br />
Monongahela River, the, I. <a href="#Page_136-V2">136</a>, 
	 <a href="#Page_144-V2">144</a>, <a href="#Page_145-V2">145</a>,
	 <a href="#Page_155-V2">155</a>, <a href="#Page_207-V2">207</a>,
	 <a href="#Page_208-V2">208</a>, II. 
   <a href="#Page_138-V2">138</a>, <a href="#Page_152-V2">152</a>, 
	 <a href="#Page_159-V2">159</a>, <a href="#Page_160-V2">160</a>.<br /> 
Monongahela River, the battle of the, I. 
   <a href="#Page_210-V1">210</a>-<a href="#Page_213-V1">213</a>, 
	 <a href="#Page_221-V1">221</a>, <a href="#footer_228">221 <i>note</i></a>, 
	 <a href="#Page_223-V1">223</a>, <a href="#footer_229">223 <i>note</i></a>, 
	 <a href="#Page_328-V1">328</a>.<br />
Monro, Lieutenant-Colonel, 
   commandant at Fort William Henry, I. <a href="#Page_495-V1">495</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_496-V1">496</a>; 
	 his danger, I. <a href="#Page_496-V1">496</a>-<a href="#Page_498-V1">498</a>; 
	 his correspondence with Webb concerning aid, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_497-V1">497</a>, <a href="#Page_502-V1">502</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_503-V1">503</a>; 
	 his correspondence with Montcalm, I. <a href="#Page_493-V1">493</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_499-V1">499</a>; 
	 his brave resistance, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_502-V1">502</a>-<a href="#Page_505-V1">505</a>, II. 
			<a href="#Page_088-V2">88</a>; 
	 the garrison capitulates, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_505-V1">505</a>-<a href="#Page_507-V1">507</a>; 
	 the massacre, I. <a href="#Page_505-V1">505</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_507-V1">507</a>-<a href="#Page_513-V1">513</a>, 
	    <a href="#footer_526">513 <i>note</i>, 514 <i>note</i></a>, II. 
			<a href="#Page_428-V2">428</a>-<a href="#Page_431-V2">431</a>.<br />
Montagu, George, letter from Walpole, II. <a href="#Page_390-V2">390</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_391-V2">391</a>.<br />
Montcalm, 
   father of Louis, the Marquis, I. <a href="#Page_357-V1">357</a>; 
	 death of, I. <a href="#Page_358-V1">358</a>.<br />
Montcalm, brother of Louis,
   his prodigious knowledge and early death, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_358-V1">358</a>.<br />
Montcalm, Chevalier de, son of the Marquis, 
   appointed to command a regiment in France, I. <a href="#Page_360-V1">360</a>; 
	 his marriage, II. <a href="#Page_176-V2">176</a>.<br />
Montcalm, Marquis de (1884), I. <a href="#footer_365">366 <i>note</i></a>.<br />
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Montcalm-Gozon de Saint-V&eacute;ran, 
   Louis Joseph, Marquis de, I. <a href="#Page_150-V1">150</a>,
	    <a href="#Page_356-V1">356</a>, <a href="#Page_489-V1">489</a>;
   his aides-de-camp, I. <a href="#Page_282-V1">282</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_363-V1">363</a>;
	 succeeds Dieskau in command, I. <a href="#Page_356-V1">356</a>; 
	 birth, education, and traits of character, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_356-V1">356</a>-<a href="#Page_358-V1">358</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_366-V1">366</a>, <a href="#Page_367-V1">367</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_413-V1">413</a>, <a href="#Page_414-V1">414</a>,
			<a href="#Page_465-V1">465</a>, <a href="#Page_466-V1">466</a>,  
			<a href="#Page_483-V1">483</a>, <a href="#Page_489-V1">489</a>, II. 
			<a href="#Page_167-V2">167</a>,
			<a href="#Page_318-V2">318</a>-<a href="#Page_322-V2">322</a>;  
	 the letter from D'Argenson, I. <a href="#Page_360-V1">360</a>; 
	 his wife and family, I. <a href="#Page_359-V1">359</a>, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_317-V2">317</a>; 
	 his military service, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_358-V1">358</a>-<a href="#Page_360-V1">360</a>; 
	 his letters to his mother quoted, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_360-V1">360</a>-<a href="#Page_362-V1">362</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_372-V1">372</a>, <a href="#Page_373-V1">373</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_453-V1">453</a>-<a href="#Page_457-V1">457</a>,
			<a href="#Page_464-V1">464</a>, II. 
	    <a href="#footer_638">112 <i>note</i>, 113 <i>note</i></a>, 
			<a href="#Page_164-V2">164</a>, <a href="#Page_174-V2">174</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_176-V2">176</a>, <a href="#Page_275-V2">275</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_426-V2">426</a>-<a href="#Page_428-V2">428</a>; 
	 his salary, I. <a href="#Page_361-V1">361</a>; 
	 letters to his wife quoted, I. <a href="#Page_362-V1">362</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_364-V1">364</a>-<a href="#Page_366-V1">366</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_453-V1">453</a>-<a href="#Page_456-V1">456</a>,
			<a href="#Page_474-V1">474</a>, II. <a href="#Page_111-V2">111</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_179-V2">179</a>; 
	 embarks for America, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_362-V1">362</a>-<a href="#Page_365-V1">365</a>;
	 his relations with Bougainville, I. <a href="#Page_363-V1">363</a>; 
	 his opinion of L&eacute;vis, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_363-V1">363</a>, <a href="#Page_378-V1">378</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_379-V1">379</a>, <a href="#Page_455-V1">455</a>, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_308-V2">308</a>; 
	 his arrival in Canada, I. <a href="#Page_365-V1">365</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_366-V1">366</a>;
	 his relations with Vaudreuil, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_366-V1">366</a>-<a href="#Page_368-V1">368</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_377-V1">377</a>, <a href="#Page_460-V1">460</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_462-V1">462</a>-<a href="#Page_466-V1">466</a>, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_003-V2">3</a>, <a href="#Page_004-V2">4</a>,  
      <a href="#Page_008-V2">8</a>-<a href="#Page_010-V2">10</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_164-V2">164</a>-<a href="#Page_175-V2">175</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_179-V2">179</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_180-V2">180</a>, <a href="#Page_197-V2">197</a>,  
      <a href="#Page_202-V2">202</a>, <a href="#Page_203-V2">203</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_293-V2">293</a>, <a href="#Page_301-V2">301</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_317-V2">317</a>-<a href="#Page_323-V2">323</a>; 
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_487-V2" id="Page_487-V2">487<br />V2</a></span>

   his relations with his troops, I. <a href="#Page_368-V1">368</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_369-V1">369</a>, <a href="#Page_421-V1">421</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_464-V1">464</a>, <a href="#Page_465-V1">465</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_502-V1">502</a>, II. 
			<a href="#Page_121-V2">121</a>, <a href="#Page_208-V2">208</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_209-V2">209</a>, <a href="#Page_228-V2">228</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_260-V2">260</a>, <a href="#Page_281-V2">281</a>; 
	 his relations with the Indians, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_372-V1">372</a>, <a href="#Page_373-V1">373</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_379-V1">379</a>, <a href="#Page_456-V1">456</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_463-V1">463</a>-<a href="#Page_465-V1">465</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_474-V1">474</a>-<a href="#Page_476-V1">476</a>,
			<a href="#Page_487-V1">487</a>, <a href="#Page_488-V1">488</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_499-V1">499</a>-<a href="#Page_501-V1">501</a>; 
	 life at Montreal and Quebec, I. <a href="#Page_376-V1">376</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_407-V1">407</a>, <a href="#Page_453-V1">453</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_455-V1">455</a>-<a href="#Page_459-V1">459</a>, II. 
			<a href="#Page_007-V2">7</a>, <a href="#Page_008-V2">8</a>; 
	 letters to the minister of war, I. <a href="#Page_377-V1">377</a>,  
			<a href="#Page_463-V1">463</a>-<a href="#Page_465-V1">465</a>; 
	 hastens to the defence of Ticonderoga, I. <a href="#Page_378-V1">378</a>; 
	 his victory at Oswego, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_405-V1">405</a>-<a href="#Page_416-V1">416</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_419-V1">419</a>, <a href="#Page_420-V1">420</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_460-V1">460</a>-<a href="#Page_465-V1">465</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_467-V1">467</a>, <a href="#Page_475-V1">475</a>, II. 
			<a href="#Page_127-V2">127</a>, <a href="#Page_292-V2">292</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_320-V2">320</a>; 
	 his situation at Ticonderoga, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_421-V1">421</a>, <a href="#Page_422-V1">422</a>; 
	 his descriptions of men and things, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_453-V1">453</a>-<a href="#Page_456-V1">456</a>; 
	 receives the <i>cordon rouge</i>, I. <a href="#Page_454-V1">454</a>; 
	 letters to Bourlamaque quoted, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_454-V1">454</a>, <a href="#Page_455-V1">455</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_457-V1">457</a>-<a href="#Page_459-V1">459</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_466-V1">466</a>, II. 
			<a href="#Page_007-V2">7</a>-<a href="#Page_009-V2">9</a>,
			<a href="#Page_167-V2">167</a>-<a href="#Page_169-V2">169</a>,
			<a href="#Page_212-V2">212</a>, <a href="#Page_275-V2">275</a>;
	 plans a new attack, I. <a href="#Page_472-V1">472</a>; 
	 the French troops at Ticonderoga, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_477-V1">477</a>, <a href="#Page_478-V1">478</a>; 
	 calls a council of Indians, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_485-V1">485</a>-<a href="#Page_489-V1">489</a>; 
	 joined by L&eacute;vis, I. <a href="#Page_492-V1">492</a>; 
	 prisoners taken on the lake, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_492-V1">492</a>, <a href="#Page_493-V1">493</a>; 
	 his letter to Monro, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_498-V1">498</a>, <a href="#Page_499-V1">499</a>; 
	 the attack and conquest of Fort William Henry, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_499-V1">499</a>-<a href="#Page_513-V1">513</a>, 
	    <a href="#footer_526">514 <i>note</i></a>, II. 
			<a href="#Page_167-V2">167</a>, <a href="#Page_168-V2">168</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_428-V2">428</a>-<a href="#Page_431-V2">431</a>;  
	 his position in relation to Fort Edward, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_003-V2">3</a>, <a href="#Page_004-V2">4</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_167-V2">167</a>, <a href="#Page_168-V2">168</a>; 
	 retires to Quebec, II. <a href="#Page_007-V2">7</a>
	 meeting at Montreal, II. <a href="#Page_010-V2">10</a>; 
	 reveals the frauds in trade, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_035-V2">35</a>, <a href="#Page_036-V2">36</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_321-V2">321</a>, <a href="#Page_322-V2">322</a>; 
	 expedition against Ticonderoga, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_086-V2">86</a>-<a href="#footer_638">113 <i>note</i></a>, 
			<a href="#Page_238-V2">238</a>, <a href="#Page_240-V2">240</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_431-V2">431</a>-<a href="#Page_436-V2">436</a>; 
	 joined by L&eacute;vis, II. <a href="#Page_103-V2">103</a>;
	 the fight with Abercromby, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_105-V2">105</a>-<a href="#Page_112-V2">112</a>; 
	 letter to Doreil, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_111-V2">111</a>, <a href="#Page_112-V2">112</a>; 
	 the cross planted on the battlefield, II. <a href="#Page_112-V2">112</a>;
	 parties sent to harass Abercromby, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_121-V2">121</a>, <a href="#Page_122-V2">122</a>; 
	 questions Major Putnam, II. <a href="#Page_126-V2">126</a>;
	 his camp broken up, II. <a href="#Page_130-V2">130</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_167-V2">167</a>-<a href="#Page_169-V2">169</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_175-V2">175</a>; 
	 his condition after the battle of Ticonderoga, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_164-V2">164</a>-<a href="#Page_169-V2">169</a>; 
	 resolves to stand by Canada, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_172-V2">172</a>, <a href="#Page_173-V2">173</a>; 
	 his promotion, II. <a href="#Page_174-V2">174</a>;
	 the refusal of forces from France, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_174-V2">174</a>-<a href="#Page_178-V2">178</a>; 
	 marriage of his children, II. <a href="#Page_176-V2">176</a>;
	 letter from Belleisle, II. <a href="#Page_176-V2">176</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_177-V2">177</a>;  
	 his plans for a final effort for Canada, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_178-V2">178</a>, <a href="#Page_179-V2">179</a>;
	 death of a child of, II. <a href="#Page_179-V2">179</a>;
	 his arrival at Quebec, II. <a href="#Page_198-V2">198</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_199-V2">199</a>;  
	 the siege and reduction of Quebec by Wolfe, II.
	    <a href="#Page_199-V2">199</a>-<a href="#Page_233-V2">233</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_259-V2">259</a>-<a href="#Page_325-V2">325</a>,
	    <a href="#footer_28Note">325 <i>note</i>, 326 <i>note</i></a>; 
	 his headquarters and camp, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_200-V2">200</a>, <a href="#Page_201-V2">201</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_208-V2">208</a>, <a href="#Page_209-V2">209</a>; 
	 his plan of battle and course of action, II. <a href="#Page_209-V2">209</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_210-V2">210</a>, <a href="#Page_218-V2">218</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_219-V2">219</a>, <a href="#Page_222-V2">222</a>,
			<a href="#Page_224-V2">224</a>, <a href="#Page_228-V2">228</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_260-V2">260</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_262-V2">262</a>-<a href="#Page_270-V2">270</a>; 
	 condition of Canadians, II. <a href="#Page_225-V2">225</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_226-V2">226</a>; 
	 Montmorenci evacuated, II. <a href="#Page_273-V2">273</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_274-V2">274</a>; 
	 deceived as to Wolfe's movements, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_282-V2">282</a>-<a href="#Page_285-V2">285</a>; 
	 the English army ascends the Heights, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_286-V2">286</a>-<a href="#Page_290-V2">290</a>; 
	 the night before the battle, II. <a href="#Page_290-V2">290</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_291-V2">291</a>; 			 
	 his last words to the army, and the final attack, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_291-V2">291</a>-<a href="#Page_300-V2">300</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_346-V2">346</a>; 
	 his wounds, II. <a href="#Page_297-V2">297</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_303-V2">303</a>, <a href="#Page_304-V2">304</a>;  
	 his remarks to the people, II. <a href="#Page_297-V2">297</a>, 
	    <a href="#footer_783">297 <i>note</i></a>; 
	 his death and burial, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_305-V2">305</a>-<a href="#Page_307-V2">307</a>,
	    <a href="#Page_309-V2">309</a>, <a href="#Page_310-V2">310</a>,
	    <a href="#Page_317-V2">317</a>,
	    <a href="#footer_28Note">326 <i>note</i></a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_441-V2">441</a>, <a href="#Page_442-V2">442</a>;  
	 his protecting care for the Canadians and French, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_309-V2">309</a>;
	 his last letter to Townshend, II. <a href="#Page_309-V2">309</a>;
	 papers given to Roubaud, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_321-V2">321</a>, <a href="#Page_322-V2">322</a>, 
			<a href="#footer_28Note">325 <i>note</i>, 326 <i>note</i></a>.<br />
Montcalm, Madame de, mother of the Marquis.  
   See <a href="#saintVeran">Saint-V&eacute;ran</a>.<br />
Montcalm, Madame de, wife of the Marquis, I. <a href="#Page_361-V1">361</a>, II. 
   <a href="#Page_168-V2">168</a>;
   her family, I. <a href="#Page_358-V1">358</a>; 
	 letters from her husband quoted, I. <a href="#Page_362-V1">362</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_454-V1">454</a>, <a href="#Page_474-V1">474</a>, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_111-V2">111</a>, <a href="#Page_112-V2">112</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_426-V2">426</a>, <a href="#Page_427-V2">427</a>.<br />
Montcalm, Mademoiselle de, 
   daughter of the Marquis, her marriage, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_176-V2">176</a>.<br />
Montcalm, Mir&egrave;te de, II. <a href="#Page_179-V2">179</a>.<br />
Montesquieu, I. <a href="#Page_016-V1">16</a>.<br />
Montgomery, Captain Alexander, II. <a href="#Page_261-V2">261</a>.<br />
Montgomery, Colonel, his regiment, II. <a href="#Page_132-V2">132</a>; 
   advance of Forbes's army, II. <a href="#Page_158-V2">158</a>.<br />
Montgomery, General Richard, II. <a href="#Page_261-V2">261</a>.<br />
Montguet, II. <a href="#Page_302-V2">302</a>.<br />
Montguy, II. <a href="#Page_099-V2">99</a>.<br />
Montigny, taken prisoner, II. <a href="#Page_248-V2">248</a>.<br />
Montmorenci, the heights of, II. 
   <a href="#Page_200-V2">200</a>, <a href="#Page_209-V2">209</a>; 
   the cataract, II. <a href="#Page_207-V2">207</a>,
			<a href="#Page_220-V2">220</a>, <a href="#Page_436-V2">436</a>; 
	 position occupied by Wolfe, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_216-V2">216</a>-<a href="#Page_221-V2">221</a>;
	 the disaster and evacuation of, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_228-V2">228</a>-<a href="#Page_233-V2">233</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_259-V2">259</a>, <a href="#Page_268-V2">268</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_269-V2">269</a>, <a href="#Page_273-V2">273</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_274-V2">274</a>, <a href="#Page_381-V2">381</a>.<br /> 
Montour, Andrew, the expedition with Gist, I. 
   <a href="#Page_054-V1">54</a>-<a href="#Page_059-V1">59</a>.<br />
Montour, Catharine, I. <a href="#Page_054-V1">54</a>.<br />
Montpellier, I. <a href="#Page_366-V1">366</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_457-V1">457</a>.<br />
Montreal, I.  
      <a href="#Page_052-V1">52</a>, <a href="#Page_064-V1">64</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_066-V1">66</a>, <a href="#Page_088-V1">88</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_129-V1">129</a>, <a href="#Page_131-V1">131</a>, 
      <a href="#Page_366-V1">366</a>, <a href="#Page_407-V1">407</a>, 
      <a href="#Page_414-V1">414</a>, <a href="#Page_418-V1">418</a>, 
      <a href="#Page_428-V1">428</a>, <a href="#Page_453-V1">453</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_467-V1">467</a>, <a href="#Page_474-V1">474</a>, 
      <a href="#Page_483-V1">483</a>, <a href="#Page_513-V1">513</a>, II. 
			<a href="#Page_004-V2">4</a>-<a href="#Page_007-V2">7</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_087-V2">87</a>, <a href="#Page_126-V2">126</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_251-V2">251</a>, <a href="#Page_318-V2">318</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_338-V2">338</a>; 
   social life among the officials, I. <a href="#Page_453-V1">453</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_457-V1">457</a>, <a href="#Page_458-V1">458</a>, II.
			<a href="#Page_018-V2">18</a>-<a href="#Page_022-V2">22</a>; 
	 scarcity of flour, II. <a href="#Page_010-V2">10</a>;  
	 La Friponne, II. <a href="#Page_024-V2">24</a>;  
	 census of, II. <a href="#Page_178-V2">178</a>; 
	 call to arms, II.  
	    <a href="#Page_195-V2">195</a>, <a href="#Page_198-V2">198</a>; 
	 approach of Amherst, II.  
	    <a href="#Page_236-V2">236</a>, <a href="#Page_265-V2">265</a>,
			<a href="#Page_361-V2">361</a>-<a href="#Page_371-V2">371</a>; 
	 L&eacute;vis sent to protect, II. <a href="#Page_250-V2">250</a>;  
	 supplies sent to Quebec, II. <a href="#Page_264-V2">264</a>; 
	 L&eacute;vis departs for Quebec, II. <a href="#Page_312-V2">312</a>; 
	 preparations to attack Quebec, II. <a href="#Page_340-V2">340</a>; 
	 the fall of Canada, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_360-V2">360</a>-<a href="#Page_382-V2">382</a>; 
	 the city described, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_371-V2">371</a>, <a href="#Page_372-V2">372</a>; 
	 capitulation of, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_372-V2">372</a>, <a href="#Page_373-V2">373</a>,
			<a href="#Page_383-V2">383</a>, <a href="#Page_403-V2">403</a>; 
	 the French soldiers return to France, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_374-V2">374</a>, <a href="#Page_383-V2">383</a>.<br />

<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_488-V2" id="Page_488-V2">488<br />V2</a></span>

Montreuil, Adjutant-General, I. <a href="#Page_376-V1">376</a>; 
   aids Dieskau, I. <a href="#Page_307-V1">307</a>; 
	 his letter concerning Montcalm, quoted, I. <a href="#Page_376-V1">376</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_377-V1">377</a>; 
	 delay in sending aid to Montcalm, II. <a href="#Page_301-V1">301</a>;  
	 his letters, II. <a href="#Page_438-V2">438</a>.<br />
Moore, Colonel William, letter to Governor Morris, I. 
   <a href="#Page_347-V1">347</a>.<br />
Moravian brotherhood, the, II. <a href="#Page_144-V2">144</a>.<br />
Moravians, the, I. <a href="#Page_031-V1">31</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_054-V1">54</a>, <a href="#Page_347-V1">347</a>; 
   mission of Frederic Post, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_144-V2">144</a>-<a href="#Page_149-V2">149</a>.<br />
Moro Castle, II. <a href="#Page_401-V2">401</a>, 
   <a href="#Page_402-V2">402</a>.<br />
Morris, Robert Hunter, 
   Governor of Pennsylvania, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_167-V1">167</a>, <a href="#Page_228-V1">228</a>, 
			<a href="#footer_238">233 <i>note</i></a>, 
			<a href="#Page_439-V1">439</a>, <a href="#Page_440-V1">440</a>, II. 
			<a href="#Page_131-V2">131</a>, <a href="#Page_144-V2">144</a>;
   correspondence with the younger Shirley quoted, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_188-V1">188</a>, <a href="#Page_201-V1">201</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_202-V1">202</a>, <a href="#Page_323-V1">323</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_324-V1">324</a>, <a href="#Page_340-V1">340</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_343-V1">343</a>; 
	 council of governors held with Braddock, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_191-V1">191</a>-<a href="#Page_195-V1">195</a>; 
	 relations of the Penns with, I. <a href="#Page_338-V1">338</a>;  
	 question of taxing proprietary lands, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_337-V1">337</a>-<a href="#Page_341-V1">341</a>,
			<a href="#Page_344-V1">344</a>-<a href="#Page_347-V1">347</a>,
			<a href="#Page_349-V1">349</a>; 
	 his relations with the Assembly, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_339-V1">339</a>-<a href="#Page_350-V1">350</a>; 
	 letter to, from William Moore, I. <a href="#Page_347-V1">347</a>; 
	 declares war against the Indians, I. <a href="#Page_392-V1">392</a>; 
	 sends Colonel Armstrong to attack Kittanning, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_423-V1">423</a>;  
	 Indian convention held at Easton, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_147-V2">147</a>, <a href="#Page_148-V2">148</a>.<br />
Morris, Captain Roger, aide-de-camp to General Braddock, I. 
   <a href="#Page_202-V1">202</a>, <a href="#Page_203-V1">203</a>; 
   wounded in the battle of the Monongahela, I.
	    <a href="#Page_219-V1">219</a>, <a href="#Page_229-V1">229</a>.<br />
Murdering Town, hamlet of, I. <a href="#Page_229-V1">136</a>.<br />
Murray Captain Alexander, I. <a href="#Page_268-V1">268</a>; 
   a memorial sent to, from the Acadians, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_260-V1">260</a>-<a href="#Page_263-V1">263</a>; 
	 his relations and correspondence with Colonel Winslow, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_268-V1">268</a>-<a href="#Page_271-V1">271</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_278-V1">278</a>; 
	 the removal of the Acadians, from their homes, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_269-V1">269</a>-<a href="#Page_272-V1">272</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_275-V1">275</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_278-V1">278</a>-<a href="#Page_281-V1">281</a>.  
			See <a href="#acadians">Acadians</a>.<br />
Murray, James, II. <a href="#Page_351-V2">351</a>;
   serves under Wolfe at the reduction of Quebec, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_193-V2">193</a>,  <a href="#Page_216-V2">216</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_217-V2">217</a>,  <a href="#Page_263-V2">263</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_266-V2">266</a>,  <a href="#Page_267-V2">267</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_274-V2">274</a>,  <a href="#Page_290-V2">290</a> 
			(see <a href="#quebec">Quebec</a>); 
   his character, II. <a href="#Page_193-V2">193</a>,  
	    <a href="#Page_331-V2">331</a>, <a href="#Page_332-V2">332</a>,
			<a href="#Page_345-V2">345</a>, <a href="#Page_346-V2">346</a>;
	 remains in command at Quebec, II. <a href="#Page_317-V2">317</a>,  
	    <a href="#Page_331-V2">331</a>, <a href="#Page_332-V2">332</a>; 
	 an attack expected from the French, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_335-V2">335</a>-<a href="#Page_338-V2">338</a>; 
	 expedition of L&eacute;vis against Quebec, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_340-V2">340</a>-<a href="#Page_358-V2">358</a>,
			<a href="#Page_442-V2">442</a>-<a href="#Page_444-V2">444</a>; 
	 his relations with his soldiers, II. <a href="#Page_351-V2">351</a>,
			<a href="#Page_352-V2">352</a>, <a href="#Page_365-V2">365</a>;
	 the courtesies of war, II. <a href="#Page_354-V2">354</a>; 
	 the fall of Canada, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_360-V2">360</a>-<a href="#Page_382-V2">382</a>; 
	 ascends the St. Lawrence to Montreal, II.
	    <a href="#Page_361-V2">361</a>-<a href="#Page_366-V2">366</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_368-V2">368</a>, <a href="#Page_371-V2">371</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_372-V2">372</a>.<br />
Muskingum River, the, I. <a href="#Page_048-V1">48</a>,
   <a href="#Page_055-V1">55</a>.<br />
</p>
<p><br /></p>
<h3>N.</h3>
<p>	
Naples, I. <a href="#Page_009-V1">9</a>.<br />
Napoleon I., I. <a href="#Page_001-V1">1</a>.<br />
Narrows, of Lake George, the, I. 
   <a href="#Page_430-V1">430</a>, <a href="#Page_434-V1">434</a>, 
	 <a href="#Page_441-V1">441</a>, <a href="#Page_491-V1">491</a>, II. 
	 <a href="#Page_092-V2">92</a>, <a href="#Page_093-V2">93</a>.<br />
Necessity, Fort, I. <a href="#Page_151-V1">151</a>, 
   <a href="#Page_156-V1">156</a>, II. <a href="#Page_277-V2">277</a>; 
   retreat of Washington's forces, I. <a href="#Page_160-V1">160</a>, 
	 <a href="#Page_161-V1">161</a>; 
	 matters pertaining to the capitulation of, II. 
	 <a href="#Page_421-V2">421</a>-<a href="#Page_423-V2">423</a>.<br />
Negroes, I. <a href="#Page_029-V1">29</a>, <a href="#Page_193-V1">193</a>, 
   <a href="#Page_228-V1">228</a>-<a href="#Page_230-V1">230</a>.<br />
"Neptune," the, II. <a href="#Page_192-V2">192</a>.<br />
Netherlands, the, II. <a href="#Page_404-V2">404</a>.<br />
New Brunswick, I. <a href="#Page_090-V1">90</a>, 
	  <a href="#Page_123-V1">123</a>, <a href="#Page_124-V1">124</a>.<br />
New England, I. <a href="#Page_055-V1">55</a>, 
	  <a href="#Page_123-V1">123</a>, <a href="#Page_291-V1">291</a>; 
   characteristics of her colonies, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_025-V1">25</a>-<a href="#Page_029-V1">29</a>,
			<a href="#Page_031-V1">31</a>, <a href="#Page_033-V1">33</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_246-V1">246</a>, <a href="#Page_273-V1">273</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_284-V1">284</a>, <a href="#Page_286-V1">286</a>, II.
			<a href="#Page_089-V2">89</a>, <a href="#Page_116-V2">116</a>,
			<a href="#Page_117-V2">117</a>, <a href="#Page_377-V2">377</a>; 
	 confederation of the colonies, I. <a href="#Page_034-V1">34</a>; 
	 the provincial troops, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_384-V1">384</a>-<a href="#Page_387-V1">387</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_399-V1">399</a>-<a href="#Page_402-V1">402</a>, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_338-V2">338</a>; 
	 rejoicing at the fall of Louisbourg, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_076-V2">76</a>-<a href="#Page_078-V2">78</a>; 
	 her joy over the victories in Canada, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_324-V2">324</a>, <a href="#Page_325-V2">325</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_377-V2">377</a>-<a href="#Page_379-V2">379</a>.<br />
New France, character of the country with regard to attack and defence, I. 
   <a href="#Page_023-V1">23</a>, <a href="#Page_024-V1">24</a>; 
   extent of, in America, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_023-V1">23</a>, <a href="#Page_024-V1">24</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_039-V1">39</a>-<a href="#Page_043-V1">43</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_053-V1">53</a>, <a href="#Page_071-V1">71</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_072-V1">72</a>, <a href="#Page_075-V1">75</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_079-V1">79</a>, II. 
			<a href="#Page_129-V2">129</a>, <a href="#Page_316-V2">316</a>;
	 the downfall of, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_378-V2">378</a>-<a href="#Page_382-V2">382</a>.  
			See <a href="#canada">Canada</a>.<br />
New Hampshire, II. <a href="#Page_120-V2">120</a>; 
   invaded by parties from Canada, I. <a href="#Page_176-V1">176</a>; 
	 the expedition sent against Crown Point, I. <a href="#Page_286-V1">286</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_290-V1">290</a>, <a href="#Page_291-V1">291</a>; 
	 money granted to, by Parliament, I. 
	    <a href="#footer_387">382 <i>note</i></a>; 
	 Rogers' rangers, I. <a href="#Page_431-V1">431</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_432-V1">432</a>; 
	 her sacrifices in time of war, II. <a href="#Page_086-V2">86</a>.<br />
New Haven, I. <a href="#Page_291-V1">291</a>.<br />
New Jersey, I. <a href="#Page_139-V1">139</a>, <a href="#Page_327-V1">327</a>, 
   <a href="#Page_419-V1">419</a>, II. <a href="#Page_093-V2">93</a>; 
   characteristics of, I. <a href="#Page_033-V1">33</a>;  
	 aids Virginia, I. <a href="#Page_168-V1">168</a>; 
	 Crown Point to be seized, I. <a href="#Page_194-V1">194</a>; 
	 the "Jersey Blues," I. <a href="#Page_320-V1">320</a>; 
	 money granted to, by Parliament, I. 
	    <a href="#footer_387">382 <i>note</i></a>; 
	 Indian warfare, I. <a href="#Page_422-V1">422</a>, 
   <a href="#Page_484-V1">484</a>.<br />
New Orleans, II. <a href="#Page_405-V2">405</a>; 
   chain of forts connecting the city with Quebec, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_036-V1">36</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_039-V1">39</a>-<a href="#Page_041-V1">41</a>; 
	 in the possession of France, II. <a href="#Page_405-V2">405</a>;
	 given to Spain, II. <a href="#Page_406-V2">406</a>.<br />
New Oswego, I. <a href="#Page_398-V1">398</a>, 
<a href="#Page_411-V1">411</a>.<br />
New York, I. <a href="#Page_040-V1">40</a>, <a href="#Page_124-V1">124</a>, 
   <a href="#Page_141-V1">141</a>, <a href="#Page_292-V1">292</a>, 
	 <a href="#Page_310-V1">310</a>, <a href="#Page_315-V1">315</a>, II. 
	 <a href="#Page_002-V2">2</a>, <a href="#Page_003-V2">3</a>,
	 <a href="#Page_079-V2">79</a>, <a href="#Page_162-V2">162</a>,
	 <a href="#Page_248-V2">248</a>, <a href="#Page_402-V2">402</a>;
   questions of boundary, I. <a href="#Page_028-V1">28</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_079-V1">79</a>, <a href="#Page_195-V1">195</a>;
	 matters of interest concerning the people and the place, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_032-V1">32</a>-<a href="#Page_035-V1">35</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_059-V1">59</a>, <a href="#Page_061-V1">61</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_328-V1">328</a>, <a href="#Page_349-V1">349</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_350-V1">350</a>; 
	 expeditions of war fitted out by, I. <a href="#Page_142-V1">142</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_144-V1">144</a>, <a href="#Page_162-V1">162</a>,
			<a href="#Page_173-V1">173</a>, <a href="#Page_286-V1">286</a>,
			<a href="#Page_292-V1">292</a>, <a href="#Page_383-V1">383</a>,
			<a href="#Page_474-V1">474</a>, II. 
			<a href="#Page_093-V2">93</a>, <a href="#Page_192-V2">192</a>;
	 Indian complaints, I. <a href="#Page_172-V1">172</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_176-V1">176</a>; 
	 council of governors held with Braddock, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_191-V1">191</a>-<a href="#Page_195-V1">195</a>; 
	 plans of Shirley to repel French invasion, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_193-V1">193</a> (see <a href="#shirley">Shirley</a>); 
	 orders for the removal of the Protestant population of, I. 
	    <a href="#footer_289">284 <i>note</i></a>; 
	 attitude of the Five Nations in time of war, I. <a href="#Page_372-V1">372</a>; 
	 council of war held, I. <a href="#Page_381-V1">381</a>; 
	 money granted to, by Parliament, I. 
	    <a href="#footer_387">382 <i>note</i></a>; 
	 expeditions of war planned, I. <a href="#Page_384-V1">384</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_469-V1">469</a>, <a href="#Page_470-V1">470</a>; 

<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_489-V2" id="Page_489-V2">489<br />V2</a></span>

   Indian warfare, I. <a href="#Page_422-V1">422</a>; 
	 difficulty in quartering the troops in winter, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_439-V1">439</a>, <a href="#Page_440-V1">440</a>;
	 exposed condition of the forts, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_474-V1">474</a>, <a href="#Page_475-V1">475</a>; 
	 rejoicing at the fall of Louisbourg, II. <a href="#Page_076-V2">76</a>.<br />
Newcastle, Duke of, I. <a href="#Page_008-V1">8</a>, 
   <a href="#Page_194-V1">194</a>, II. <a href="#Page_040-V2">40</a>, 
	 <a href="#Page_041-V2">41</a>, <a href="#Page_397-V2">397</a>; 
   at the head of the English government, I.
	    <a href="#Page_177-V1">177</a>, <a href="#Page_178-V1">178</a>; 
	 error in Braddock's campaign, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_196-V1">196</a>, <a href="#Page_197-V1">197</a>; 
	 his influence over England, II. <a href="#Page_041-V2">41</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_043-V2">43</a>;
	 blight of his administration, II. <a href="#Page_046-V2">46</a>; 
	 his idea of promotion in the army, II. <a href="#Page_191-V2">191</a>; 
	 influence upon the army, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_380-V2">380</a>-<a href="#Page_382-V2">382</a>;
	 disliked by George III., II. <a href="#Page_392-V2">392</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_400-V2">400</a>.<br />
Newell, Chaplain, preached to the army before Lake George, I. 
   <a href="#Page_296-V1">296</a>.<br />
Newfoundland, I. <a href="#Page_185-V1">185</a>, 
   <a href="#Page_471-V1">471</a>, II. <a href="#Page_402-V2">402</a>; 
   the fisheries, II. <a href="#Page_405-V2">405</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_410-V2">410</a>.<br />
Niagara, Fort, I. 
   <a href="#Page_070-V1">70</a>, <a href="#Page_075-V1">75</a>, 
	 <a href="#Page_080-V1">80</a>, II. <a href="#Page_010-V2">10</a>, 
	 <a href="#Page_127-V2">127</a>, <a href="#Page_142-V2">142</a>, 
	 <a href="#Page_160-V2">160</a>, <a href="#Page_242-V2">242</a>, 
	 <a href="#Page_370-V2">370</a>; 
   situation and importance of the post, I. <a href="#Page_075-V1">75</a>, 
	 <a href="#Page_076-V1">76</a>, <a href="#Page_079-V1">79</a>, 
	 <a href="#Page_318-V1">318</a>, <a href="#Page_324-V1">324</a>, II.
	 <a href="#Page_243-V2">243</a>, <a href="#Page_244-V2">244</a>, 
	 <a href="#Page_248-V2">248</a>, <a href="#Page_249-V2">249</a>;  
	 expedition against, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_192-V1">192</a>, <a href="#Page_194-V1">194</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_195-V1">195</a>, <a href="#Page_233-V1">233</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_318-V1">318</a>-<a href="#Page_329-V1">329</a>,
			<a href="#Page_373-V1">373</a>-<a href="#Page_376-V1">376</a>,
			<a href="#Page_399-V1">399</a>, II. <a href="#Page_222-V2">222</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_381-V2">381</a>, <a href="#Page_393-V2">393</a>; 
	 capture of, by Prideaux, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_242-V2">242</a>-<a href="#Page_249-V2">249</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_253-V2">253</a>.<br />
Niagara River, the, II. <a href="#Page_243-V2">243</a>.<br />
Niaour&eacute; Bay, I. <a href="#Page_408-V1">408</a>, 
   <a href="#Page_409-V1">409</a>.<br />
Nicholson, conquest of Acadia, I. <a href="#Page_090-V1">90</a>.<br />
N&icirc;mes, I. <a href="#Page_356-V1">356</a>.<br />
Nipissing Lake, I. <a href="#Page_485-V1">485</a>.<br />
Nipissings, the, I. <a href="#Page_040-V1">40</a>,
   <a href="#Page_074-V1">74</a>, <a href="#Page_154-V1">154</a>,
   <a href="#Page_485-V1">485</a>-<a href="#Page_489-V1">489</a>; 
   their missionary, I. <a href="#Page_487-V1">487</a>; 
	 death of a chief, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_493-V2">493</a>, <a href="#Page_494-V2">494</a>.<br />
Nivernois, Duc de, sent to London to negotiate for peace, II. 
  <a href="#Page_403-V2">403</a>.<br />
Niverville, I. <a href="#Page_486-V1">486</a>.<br />
Noix, Isle aux, II. <a href="#Page_178-V2">178</a>, 
   <a href="#Page_195-V2">195</a>, <a href="#Page_308-V2">308</a>, 
	 <a href="#Page_367-V2">367</a>; 
   the French entrenched at, II. <a href="#Page_238-V2">238</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_239-V2">239</a>, <a href="#Page_241-V2">241</a>,
			<a href="#Page_249-V2">249</a>, <a href="#Page_265-V2">265</a>;  
	 the French retreat from, II. 
      <a href="#Page_251-V2">251</a>-<a href="#Page_253-V2">253</a>.<br />
Normanville, brothers, I. <a href="#Page_210-V1">210</a>.<br />
North America, I. <a href="#Page_010-V1">10</a>. 
   See <a href="#america">America</a>.<br />
North Carolina, I. <a href="#Page_033-V1">33</a>, 
   <a href="#Page_187-V1">187</a>, <a href="#Page_382-V1">382</a>, II. 
	 <a href="#Page_132-V2">132</a>;  
   answers the appeal of Dinwiddie, I. <a href="#Page_139-V1">139</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_142-V1">142</a>; 
	 condition of forces from, I. <a href="#Page_162-V1">162</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_163-V1">163</a>;
	 council of governors held with Braddock, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_191-V1">191</a>-<a href="#Page_195-V1">195</a>; 
	 effect of the victory at Fort Duquesne, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_162-V2">162</a>.<br />
North pole, the, I. <a href="#Page_020-V1">20</a>.<br />
Northampton, I. <a href="#Page_290-V1">290</a>.<br />
Northern Department, the, II. <a href="#Page_393-V2">393</a>.<br />
Northwest Bay, I. <a href="#Page_490-V1">490</a>.<br />
Nova Scotia, I. <a href="#Page_239-V1">239</a>, 
   <a href="#Page_249-V1">249</a>, II. <a href="#Page_001-V2">1</a>, 
	 <a href="#Page_181-V2">181</a>, <a href="#Page_183-V2">183</a>,
	 <a href="#Page_192-V2">192</a>, <a href="#Page_381-V2">381</a>; 
   matters pertaining to Acadia, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_090-V1">90</a> 
			(see <a href="#acadia">Acadia</a> and <a href="#acadians">Acadians</a>);
	 rejoicing at the fall of Louisbourg, II. <a href="#Page_077-V2">77</a>; 
	 solitude of the forts, II. <a href="#Page_077-V2">77</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_078-V2">78</a>.<br />
Nuns, the, at Quebec, II. <a href="#Page_330-V2">330</a>. 
   See <a href="#ursulines">Ursulines</a>.
</p>
<p><br /></p>
<h3>O.</h3>
<p>	
Oath of allegiance.  See <a href="#acadians">Acadians</a>.<br />
Obadiah, name used in New England, I. <a href="#Page_246-V1">246</a>.<br />
O'Callaghan, I. <a href="#footer_526">514 <i>note</i></a>.<br />
Ochterlony, Captain, 
   escapes from Indians' cruelty, II. <a href="#Page_232-V2">232</a>.<br />
&OElig;dipus, II. <a href="#Page_009-V2">9</a>.<br />
Ogden, Captain, II. <a href="#Page_256-V1">256</a>; 
   sufferings of the rangers, II. <a href="#Page_257-V2">257</a>.<br />
Ogdensburg, I. <a href="#Page_038-V1">38</a>.<br />
Ohio Company, the, I. 
   <a href="#Page_053-V1">53</a>, <a href="#Page_142-V1">142</a>, 
	 <a href="#Page_155-V1">155</a>, <a href="#Page_196-V1">196</a>; 
   their trading-houses, I. <a href="#Page_059-V1">59</a>,
	 <a href="#Page_132-V1">132</a>, <a href="#Page_144-V1">144</a>, 
	 <a href="#Page_145-V1">145</a>, <a href="#Page_200-V1">200</a>.<br />
Ohio Indians, the, I. <a href="#footer_019">59 <i>note</i></a>, 
   <a href="#Page_150-V1">150</a>, <a href="#Page_153-V1">153</a>.<br />
Ohio River, the, I. 
   <a href="#Page_021-V1">21</a>, <a href="#Page_024-V1">24</a>, 
	 <a href="#Page_037-V1">37</a>, <a href="#Page_039-V1">39</a>,
	 <a href="#Page_042-V1">42</a>, <a href="#Page_043-V1">43</a>,
	 <a href="#Page_050-V1">50</a>, <a href="#Page_060-V1">60</a>, 
	 <a href="#Page_061-V1">61</a>, <a href="#Page_063-V1">63</a>,
	 <a href="#Page_065-V1">65</a>, <a href="#Page_086-V1">86</a>,
	 <a href="#Page_127-V1">127</a>, <a href="#Page_128-V1">128</a>, 
	 <a href="#Page_176-V1">176</a>, <a href="#Page_207-V1">207</a>, 
	 <a href="#Page_209-V1">209</a>, II. 
	 <a href="#Page_020-V2">20</a>, <a href="#Page_021-V2">21</a>,
	 <a href="#Page_142-V2">142</a>-<a href="#Page_144-V2">144</a>; 
   valley of, controlled by the French, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_076-V1">76</a> (see <a href="#french">French</a>); 
	 conflict of French and English for the surrounding territory, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_128-V1">128</a>-<a href="#Page_134-V1">134</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_142-V1">142</a>-<a href="#Page_161-V1">161</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_318-V1">318</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_329-V1">329</a>-<a href="#Page_350-V1">350</a>, II.
			<a href="#Page_144-V2">144</a>-<a href="#Page_151-V2">151</a>,
			<a href="#Page_244-V2">244</a>, <a href="#Page_247-V2">247</a>; 
	 forts on, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_137-V1">137</a>-<a href="#Page_139-V1">139</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_142-V1">142</a>, <a href="#Page_143-V1">143</a>.<br />
Ojibwas, I. 
   <a href="#Page_130-V1">130</a>, <a href="#Page_209-V1">209</a>, 
	 <a href="#Page_486-V1">486</a>-<a href="#Page_489-V1">489</a>.<br />
Oneida Lake, I. <a href="#Page_322-V1">322</a>, II. 
   <a href="#Page_242-V1">242</a>.<br />
Oneidas, the, I. 
    <a href="#Page_288-V1">288</a>, <a href="#Page_392-V1">392</a>, II. 
		<a href="#Page_006-V2">6</a>, <a href="#Page_128-V2">128</a>, 
		<a href="#Page_129-V1">129</a>; 
   in the Iroquois mission, I. <a href="#Page_065-V1">65</a>.<br />
Onondaga, I. <a href="#Page_172-V2">172</a>, <a href="#Page_173-V2">173</a>,
		<a href="#Page_395-V1">395</a>; 
   the Iroquois capital, I. <a href="#Page_066-V1">66</a>; 
	 council held by Johnson, I. 
	 <a href="#Page_391-V1">391</a>, <a href="#Page_392-V1">392</a>.<br />
Onondaga River, the, I. 
   <a href="#Page_073-V1">73</a>, <a href="#Page_322-V1">322</a>, II. 
	 <a href="#Page_128-V2">128</a>, <a href="#Page_242-V1">242</a>.<br />
Onondagas, the, I. <a href="#Page_392-V1">392</a>, II. 
   <a href="#Page_246-V2">246</a>; 
   efforts of the French to convert, I. 
	 <a href="#Page_065-V1">65</a>, <a href="#Page_171-V1">171</a>.<br />
Onontio, the, I. 
   <a href="#Page_067-V1">67</a>, <a href="#Page_154-V1">154</a>.<br />
Ontario, Fort, I. 
   <a href="#Page_398-V1">398</a>, <a href="#Page_410-V1">410</a>,
	 <a href="#Page_411-V1">411</a>, <a href="#Page_420-V1">420</a>;
   burned to the ground, I. 
	   <a href="#Page_415-V1">415</a>, <a href="#Page_416-V1">416</a>.<br />
Ontario, Lake, I. <a href="#Page_038-V1">38</a>, <a href="#Page_065-V1">65</a>,
	 <a href="#Page_072-V1">72</a>, <a href="#Page_075-V1">75</a>,
	 <a href="#Page_195-V1">195</a>, <a href="#Page_289-V1">289</a>,
	 <a href="#Page_321-V1">321</a>, <a href="#Page_322-V1">322</a>,
	 <a href="#Page_374-V1">374</a>, <a href="#Page_376-V1">376</a>, 
	 <a href="#Page_381-V1">381</a>, <a href="#footer_387">382 <i>note</i></a>, 
	 <a href="#Page_384-V1">384</a>, <a href="#Page_398-V1">398</a>,
	 <a href="#Page_399-V1">399</a>, <a href="#Page_408-V1">408</a>,
	 <a href="#Page_415-V1">415</a>, <a href="#Page_418-V1">418</a>, II.  
	 <a href="#Page_127-V2">127</a>-<a href="#Page_129-V2">129</a>, 
	 <a href="#Page_162-V2">162</a>, <a href="#Page_195-V2">195</a>, 
	 <a href="#Page_243-V2">243</a>, <a href="#Page_249-V2">249</a>, 
	 <a href="#Page_361-V1">361</a>; 
   journey of Father Piquet, I. <a href="#Page_069-V1">69</a>.<br />
Ord, Captain, mentioned in Campbell's letter, I. 
   <a href="#Page_227-V1">227</a>.<br />
Orl&eacute;ans, Isle d', II. <a href="#Page_199-V2">199</a>, 
	 <a href="#Page_204-V2">204</a>, <a href="#Page_207-V2">207</a>, 
	 <a href="#Page_216-V2">216</a>, <a href="#Page_229-V2">229</a>, 
	 <a href="#Page_344-V2">344</a>, <a href="#Page_362-V1">362</a>; 
   position of Wolfe, II. <a href="#Page_213-V2">213</a>.<br />
Orl&eacute;ans, Point of, II. 
   <a href="#Page_203-V2">203</a>, <a href="#Page_211-V2">211</a>, 
	 <a href="#Page_216-V2">216</a>, <a href="#Page_219-V2">219</a>, 
	 <a href="#Page_222-V2">222</a>, <a href="#Page_270-V2">270</a>, 
	 <a href="#Page_274-V2">274</a>, <a href="#Page_281-V1">281</a>.<br />
Orme, Captain Robert, aide-de-camp of Braddock, I. 
   <a href="#Page_191-V1">191</a>, <a href="#Page_202-V1">202</a>, 
	 <a href="#Page_203-V1">203</a>, <a href="#Page_224-V1">224</a>; 
   wounded in the battle of the Monongahela, I. <a href="#Page_219-V1">219</a>, 
	 <a href="#Page_225-V1">225</a>; 
	 his account of Braddock's death, I. <a href="#Page_225-V1">225</a>, 
	 <a href="#Page_226-V1">226</a>; 
	 correspondence with Dinwiddie, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_229-V1">229</a>-<a href="#Page_233-V1">233</a>.<br />
Orry, I. <a href="#Page_015-V1">15</a>.<br />

<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_490-V2" id="Page_490-V2">490<br />V2</a></span>

Osages, the, I. <a href="#Page_043-V1">43</a>, 
   <a href="#Page_083-V1">83</a>.<br />
Osborn, Admiral, expedition under, II. 
   <a href="#Page_049-V2">49</a>, <a href="#Page_050-V2">50</a>.<br />
Osgood, Captain, I. 
   <a href="#Page_270-V1">270</a>, <a href="#Page_272-V1">272</a>.<br />
Oswegatchie, I. <a href="#Page_052-V1">52</a>, II. 
   <a href="#Page_369-V2">369</a>; 
   La Pr&eacute;sentation, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_065-V1">65</a>-<a href="#Page_067-V1">67</a>.<br />
Oswegatchie River, the, I. <a href="#Page_038-V1">38</a>.<br />
Oswego, I. 
   <a href="#Page_038-V1">38</a>, <a href="#Page_052-V1">52</a>, 
	 <a href="#Page_070-V1">70</a>, <a href="#Page_073-V1">73</a>,
	 <a href="#Page_074-V1">74</a>, <a href="#Page_079-V1">79</a>,
	 <a href="#Page_088-V1">88</a>, <a href="#Page_195-V1">195</a>, 
	 <a href="#Page_321-V1">321</a>, <a href="#Page_374-V1">374</a>, 
	 <a href="#Page_467-V1">467</a>, II. 
	 <a href="#Page_128-V2">128</a>, <a href="#Page_242-V2">242</a>,
	 <a href="#Page_369-V2">369</a>, <a href="#Page_418-V2">418</a>; 
   life of the garrison at, I. <a href="#Page_062-V1">62</a>, 
	 <a href="#Page_068-V1">68</a>, <a href="#Page_069-V1">69</a>,
	 <a href="#Page_073-V1">73</a>, <a href="#Page_350-V1">350</a>,
	 <a href="#Page_397-V1">397</a>, <a href="#Page_398-V1">398</a>; 
	 French enmity towards, I. <a href="#Page_078-V1">78</a>, 
	    <a href="#footer_049">78 <i>note</i></a>, <a href="#Page_288-V1">288</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_324-V1">324</a>-<a href="#Page_327-V1">327</a>,
			<a href="#Page_374-V1">374</a>, <a href="#Page_393-V1">393</a>,
			<a href="#Page_405-V1">405</a>-<a href="#Page_416-V1">416</a>; 
	 arrival of Shirley's expedition, I. <a href="#Page_322-V1">322</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_381-V1">381</a>, <a href="#Page_384-V1">384</a>; 
	 importance of, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_398-V1">398</a>, <a href="#Page_399-V1">399</a>; 
	 account of the capture by the French, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_405-V1">405</a>-<a href="#Page_416-V1">416</a>,
			<a href="#Page_419-V1">419</a>, <a href="#Page_420-V1">420</a>,
			<a href="#Page_460-V1">460</a>-<a href="#Page_467-V1">467</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_475-V1">475</a>, II. <a href="#Page_127-V2">127</a>,
	    <a href="#Page_292-V2">292</a>, <a href="#Page_320-V2">320</a>; 
	 murders committed by the French, II. <a href="#Page_002-V2">2</a>; 
	 return of Bradstreet, II. <a href="#Page_129-V2">129</a>; 
	 to be re-established, II. <a href="#Page_235-V2">235</a>; 
	 plans of Amherst, II. <a href="#Page_249-V2">249</a>.<br />
Ottawa River, the, I. 
   <a href="#Page_125-V1">125</a>-<a href="#Page_154-V1">154</a>,
	 <a href="#Page_372-V1">372</a>, II. <a href="#Page_369-V2">369</a>.<br />
Ottawas, the, I. <a href="#Page_040-V1">40</a>, <a href="#Page_057-V1">57</a>, 
   <a href="#Page_084-V1">84</a>, <a href="#Page_209-V1">209</a>, 
	 <a href="#footer_608">487 <i>note</i></a>; 
   village of, I. <a href="#Page_076-V1">76</a>; 
	 their cannibalism, I. <a href="#Page_483-V1">483</a>; 
	 called to a council by Montcalm, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_486-V1">486</a>-<a href="#Page_489-V1">489</a>;
	 French allies, II. <a href="#Page_142-V2">142</a>.<br />
Otter Creek, II. <a href="#Page_241-V2">241</a>.<br />
Otway, his regiment at Albany, I. <a href="#Page_399-V1">399</a>.<br />
Oudenarde, battle of, II. <a href="#Page_391-V2">391</a>.<br />
Oueskak, inhabitants removed from, I. <a href="#Page_255-V1">255</a>.<br />
Oxford, I. <a href="#Page_142-V1">142</a>.<br />
</p>
<p><br /></p>
<h3>P.</h3>
<p>	
Pacific Ocean, the, II. <a href="#Page_406-V2">406</a>.<br />
Paine, Timothy, I. <a href="#Page_404-V1">404</a>.<br />
Panama, II. <a href="#Page_401-V2">401</a>.<br />
Panet, Jean Claude, II. <a href="#Page_439-V2">439</a>.<br />
Parfouru, Madame de, II. <a href="#Page_427-V2">427</a>.<br />
Paris, I. <a href="#Page_013-V1">13</a>, <a href="#Page_014-V1">14</a>, 
   <a href="#Page_016-V1">16</a>, <a href="#Page_186-V1">186</a>, 
	 <a href="#Page_192-V1">192</a>, <a href="#Page_311-V1">311</a>, 
	 <a href="#Page_360-V1">360</a>, <a href="#Page_361-V1">361</a>, 
	 <a href="#Page_457-V1">457</a>, II. <a href="#Page_047-V2">47</a>, 
	 <a href="#Page_322-V2">322</a>, <a href="#Page_374-V2">374</a>; 
   questions of American boundary, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_086-V2">86</a> (see <a href="#france">France</a>); 
	 trial of the dishonest officials, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_385-V2">385</a>, <a href="#Page_386-V2">386</a>.<br />
Paris, the peace of, II. 
   <a href="#Page_383-V2">383</a>-<a href="#Page_408-V2">408</a>.<br />
Parker, Colonel, his party captured by Indians, I. 
   <a href="#Page_484-V1">484</a>, <a href="#Page_489-V1">489</a>.<br />
Parkman, Rev. Ebenezer, II. 
   <a href="#footer_17Note">89 <i>note</i></a>.<br />
Parkman, George Francis, II. <a href="#Page_440-V2">440</a>.<br />
Parkman, William, opinion of Abercromby, II. <a href="#Page_089-V2">89</a>.<br />
<a name="parliament" id="parliament"></a>
Parliament, the, I. <a href="#Page_006-V1">6</a>, <a href="#Page_007-V1">7</a>, 
   <a href="#Page_167-V1">167</a>, <a href="#Page_170-V1">170</a>, 
   <a href="#Page_181-V1">181</a>, II. <a href="#Page_041-V2">41</a>, 
   <a href="#Page_083-V2">83</a>, <a href="#Page_084-V2">84</a>; 
   taxation by, I. <a href="#Page_171-V1">171</a>, 
	 <a href="#Page_177-V1">177</a>, <a href="#Page_193-V1">193</a>, II. 
	 <a href="#Page_413-V2">413</a>; 
	 raises money for campaigns in America, I. <a href="#Page_195-V1">195</a>, 
	 <a href="#Page_316-V1">316</a>, <a href="#Page_382-V1">382</a>; 
	 money paid to Massachusetts, II. <a href="#Page_085-V2">85</a>; 
	 elections in 1761, II. <a href="#Page_392-V2">392</a>; 
	 the peace between England and France, II. <a href="#Page_406-V2">406</a>; 
	 resistance of the British colonies, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_413-V2">413</a>.<br />
Parliament of Paris, the, I. <a href="#Page_363-V1">363</a>.<br />
Passamaquoddy Bay, II. <a href="#Page_183-V2">183</a>.<br />
Patten, Captain, assists Bradstreet, I. <a href="#Page_395-V1">395</a>.<br />
Patterson's Creek, I. <a href="#Page_342-V1">342</a>.<br />
Patton, John, I. <a href="#Page_080-V1">80</a>.<br />
Paxton, town of, I. <a href="#Page_344-V1">344</a>.<br />
Peabody, his bravery, I. <a href="#Page_428-V1">428</a>.<br />
P&eacute;an, I. <a href="#Page_458-V1">458</a>, II. 
   <a href="#Page_008-V2">8</a>, <a href="#Page_020-V2">20</a>; 
   his wife, I. <a href="#Page_087-V1">87</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_088-V1">88</a>, II. <a href="#Page_009-V2">9</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_019-V2">19</a>, <a href="#Page_028-V2">28</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_029-V2">29</a>; 
	 promotion of, I. <a href="#Page_088-V1">88</a>;
	 his official knavery, I. <a href="#Page_129-V1">129</a>, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_022-V2">22</a>-<a href="#Page_024-V2">24</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_028-V2">28</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_031-V2">31</a>-<a href="#Page_033-V2">33</a>, 
			<a href="#footer_17Note">37 <i>note</i></a>; 
	 letter to Duquesne, I. <a href="#Page_129-V1">129</a>;
	 effort to descend the Ohio thwarted, I. <a href="#Page_130-V1">130</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_131-V1">131</a>; 
	 at La Chine, II. <a href="#Page_009-V2">9</a>; 
	 thrown into the Bastille, II. <a href="#Page_385-V2">385</a>.<br />
P&eacute;an, Madame, I. <a href="#Page_087-V1">87</a>, 
   <a href="#Page_088-V1">88</a>, II. 
   <a href="#Page_009-V2">9</a>, <a href="#Page_019-V2">19</a>, 
	 <a href="#Page_028-V2">28</a>, <a href="#Page_029-V2">29</a>.<br />
Peleus, II. <a href="#Page_184-V2">184</a>.<br />
Penisseault, Antoine, II. <a href="#Page_020-V2">20</a>;
   official knavery, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_023-V2">23</a>, <a href="#Page_024-V2">24</a>; 
   thrown into the Bastille, II. <a href="#Page_385-V2">385</a>.<br />
Penisseault, Madame, II. <a href="#Page_029-V2">29</a>.<br />
Penn, Richard, proprietary of Pennsylvania, I. 
   <a href="#Page_338-V1">338</a>.<br />
Penn, Thomas, proprietary of Pennsylvania, I. 
   <a href="#Page_338-V1">338</a>.<br />
Penn, William, his plan of union for the colonies, I. 
   <a href="#Page_034-V1">34</a>; 
   first proprietary of Pennsylvania, I. <a href="#Page_338-V1">338</a>, 
	 <a href="#Page_339-V1">339</a>.<br />
Pennahouel, chief of the Ottawas, I. <a href="#Page_487-V1">487</a>; 
   his speech, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_487-V1">487</a>-<a href="#Page_489-V1">489</a>.<br />
Pennoyer, Jesse, II. <a href="#footer_26Note">258 <i>note</i></a>.<br />
Pennsylvania, I. <a href="#Page_227-V1">227</a>, II. 
   <a href="#Page_130-V2">130</a>; 
   matters of interest concerning the people and the place, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_025-V1">25</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_031-V1">31</a>-<a href="#Page_033-V1">33</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_035-V1">35</a>, <a href="#Page_037-V1">37</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_042-V1">42</a>, <a href="#Page_045-V1">45</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_054-V1">54</a>, <a href="#Page_059-V1">59</a>,
			<a href="#Page_060-V1">60</a>, <a href="#Page_086-V1">86</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_193-V1">193</a>-<a href="#Page_198-V1">198</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_339-V1">339</a>; 
	 efforts of Dinwiddie to obtain help from, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_139-V1">139</a>-<a href="#Page_141-V1">141</a>; 
	 relations of the Assembly with the people, I. <a href="#Page_142-V1">142</a>,
	    <a href="#Page_165-V1">165</a>-<a href="#Page_168-V1">168</a>,  
	    <a href="#Page_337-V1">337</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_339-V1">339</a>-<a href="#Page_350-V1">350</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_422-V1">422</a>, <a href="#Page_423-V1">423</a>, II. 
			<a href="#Page_131-V2">131</a>; 
	 commissioners sent to Albany, I.
	 		<a href="#Page_173-V1">173</a>-<a href="#Page_176-V1">176</a>; 
	 German population, I. <a href="#Page_193-V1">193</a>;
	 sufferings of the settlers,
	    <a href="#Page_329-V1">329</a>, <a href="#Page_330-V1">330</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_336-V1">336</a>-<a href="#Page_350-V1">350</a>,
			<a href="#Page_365-V1">365</a>, <a href="#Page_422-V1">422</a>,
			<a href="#Page_423-V1">423</a>, II. 
			<a href="#Page_131-V2">131</a>, <a href="#Page_132-V2">132</a>; 
	 questions of taxing proprietary lands, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_337-V1">337</a>-<a href="#Page_341-V1">341</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_344-V1">344</a>-<a href="#Page_347-V1">347</a>,
	    <a href="#Page_349-V1">349</a>;
	 a militia law passed, I. <a href="#Page_348-V1">348</a>;
	 roads to be made by the army, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_132-V2">132</a>-<a href="#Page_134-V2">134</a>; 
	 Indian allies sought for, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_142-V2">142</a>-<a href="#Page_142-V2">147</a>; 
	 expedition of Major Grant, II. <a href="#Page_152-V2">152</a>.<br />
Penobscot River, the, I. <a href="#Page_485-V1">485</a>.<br />
Penobscots, I. <a href="#footer_526">514 <i>note</i></a>.<br />
Pepperell, 
   his regiment, I. <a href="#Page_194-V1">194</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_320-V1">320</a>, <a href="#Page_382-V1">382</a>,
	    <a href="#Page_398-V1">398</a>, <a href="#Page_410-V1">410</a>.<br />
Pepperell, Fort, condition of, I. <a href="#Page_411-V1">411</a>.<br />
Peri&egrave;re, 
   war-party sent out under, I. <a href="#Page_429-V1">429</a>.<br />

<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_491-V2" id="Page_491-V2">491<br />V2</a></span>
<a name="peronney" id="peronney"></a>
Peronney, Captain, killed in battle, I. <a href="#Page_230-V1">230</a>.<br />
Perrot, Isle, II. <a href="#Page_371-V2">371</a>.<br />
Persians, II. <a href="#Page_323-V2">323</a>.<br />
Perth, II. <a href="#Page_185-V2">185</a>.<br />
Peter the Great, I. <a href="#Page_017-V1">17</a>, 
   <a href="#Page_018-V1">18</a>.<br />
Peter III., II. <a href="#Page_399-V2">399</a>.<br />
Peter, Captain, the mission of Frederic Post, II. 
   <a href="#Page_149-V2">149</a>, <a href="#Page_150-V2">150</a>.<br />
Peticodiac, disaster to the English, I. 
   <a href="#Page_275-V1">275</a>, <a href="#Page_276-V1">276</a>.<br />
Petrie, Johan Jost, taken prisoner, II. <a href="#Page_007-V2">7</a>.<br />
Peyroney, Ensign, I. <a href="#Page_158-V1">158</a>. 
   See <a href="#peronney">Peronney</a>.<br />
Peyton, Lieutenant, his escape from Indians, II. 
   <a href="#Page_232-V2">232</a>.<br />
Philadelphia, I. <a href="#Page_196-V1">196</a>, 
   <a href="#footer_225">219 <i>note</i></a>, 
   <a href="#Page_228-V1">228</a>, <a href="#Page_231-V1">231</a>, 
	 <a href="#Page_233-V1">233</a>, II. 
	 <a href="#Page_132-V2">132</a>, <a href="#Page_161-V2">161</a>; 
   relative size of, I. <a href="#Page_031-V1">31</a>; 
	 its prosperity, I. <a href="#Page_336-V1">336</a>, 
	 <a href="#Page_337-V1">337</a>; 
	 influence of the Quakers, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_336-V1">336</a>, <a href="#Page_337-V1">337</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_339-V1">339</a>; 
	 council of, I. <a href="#Page_426-V1">426</a>; 
	 difficulty in quartering the troops, I. <a href="#Page_439-V1">439</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_440-V1">440</a>; 
	 rejoicing at the fall of Louisbourg, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_076-V2">76</a>-<a href="#Page_078-V2">78</a>.<br />
Philippines, the, II. <a href="#Page_401-V2">401</a>.<br />
Philipsbourg, siege of, I. <a href="#Page_358-V1">358</a>.<br />
Philistines, II. <a href="#Page_126-V2">126</a>.<br />
Phillips, governor of Acadia, I. <a href="#Page_097-V1">97</a>, 
   <a href="#footer_082">101 <i>note</i></a>.<br />
Phillips, Lieutenant, surrender of, II. 
   <a href="#Page_013-V2">13</a>, <a href="#Page_014-V2">14</a>.<br />
Phipps, Governor, letter from John Ashley to, I. 
   <a href="#Page_387-V1">387</a>.<br />
Piacenza, I. <a href="#Page_359-V1">359</a>.<br />
Piankishaws, the, I. <a href="#Page_083-V1">83</a>.<br />
Pichon, Thomas, commissary at Fort Beaus&eacute;jour, I. 
   <a href="#Page_243-V1">243</a>; 
   his treachery, I. <a href="#Page_243-V1">243</a>, 
	    <a href="#footer_249">243 <i>note</i></a>; 
	 his writings, I. <a href="#footer_249">243 <i>note</i></a>, 
	    <a href="#footer_258">251 <i>note</i></a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_266-V1">266</a>, II. 
			<a href="#footer_19Note">81 <i>note</i></a>.<br />
Pickawillany, I. <a href="#Page_052-V1">52</a>, 
   <a href="#Page_055-V1">55</a>-<a href="#Page_058-V1">58</a>, 
	 <a href="#Page_081-V1">81</a>, <a href="#Page_209-V1">209</a>; 
   the Indians cajoled by the English, I. <a href="#Page_082-V1">82</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_083-V1">83</a>; 
	 the town attacked, and the English traders slaughtered, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_084-V1">84</a>, <a href="#Page_085-V1">85</a>.<br />
Pique Town (Pickawillany), I. <a href="#Page_052-V1">52</a>; 
   his importance of, I. <a href="#Page_052-V1">52</a>.<br />
Piquet, Abb&eacute;, I. <a href="#footer_029">65 <i>note</i></a>, 
   <a href="#Page_392-V1">392</a>; 
   his mission and plans, I. <a href="#Page_038-V1">38</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_052-V1">52</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_065-V1">65</a>-<a href="#Page_075-V1">75</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_078-V1">78</a>, <a href="#Page_171-V1">171</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_414-V1">414</a>, <a href="#Page_487-V1">487</a>, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_242-V2">242</a>, <a href="#Page_369-V2">369</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_417-V2">417</a>, <a href="#Page_418-V2">418</a>;
	 his banners, II. <a href="#Page_418-V2">418</a>.<br />
Pisiquid, I. <a href="#Page_094-V1">94</a>, 
   <a href="#Page_244-V1">244</a>.<br />
Pisiquid River, the, I. <a href="#Page_268-V1">268</a>.<br />



Pitt, William, I. <a href="#Page_006-V1">6</a>, 
   <a href="#Page_408-V1">408</a>, II. <a href="#Page_040-V2">40</a>,
	    <a href="#Page_190-V2">190</a>, <a href="#Page_432-V2">432</a>; 
   his characteristics and his politics, I. <a href="#Page_008-V1">8</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_009-V1">9</a>, II. 
			<a href="#Page_042-V2">42</a>-<a href="#Page_049-V2">49</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_391-V2">391</a>, <a href="#Page_392-V2">392</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_398-V2">398</a>, <a href="#Page_400-V2">400</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_407-V2">407</a>; 
	 his relations with Newcastle, I. <a href="#Page_179-V2">179</a>,
			<a href="#Page_400-V2">400</a>; 
	 his decline in power, I. <a href="#Page_469-V2">469</a>, 
	    <a href="#footer_491">470 <i>note</i></a>, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_041-V2">41</a>, <a href="#Page_044-V2">44</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_045-V2">45</a>, <a href="#Page_398-V2">398</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_399-V2">399</a>, <a href="#Page_401-V2">401</a>; 
	 his views and plans for war, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_047-V2">47</a>, <a href="#Page_048-V2">48</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_083-V2">83</a>-<a href="#Page_085-V2">85</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_089-V2">89</a>, <a href="#Page_118-V2">118</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_131-V2">131</a>, <a href="#Page_132-V2">132</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_141-V2">141</a>, <a href="#Page_157-V2">157</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_193-V2">193</a>, <a href="#Page_235-V2">235</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_236-V2">236</a>, <a href="#Page_240-V2">240</a>,
			<a href="#Page_391-V2">391</a>, <a href="#Page_392-V2">392</a>,
			<a href="#Page_400-V2">400</a>, <a href="#Page_401-V2">401</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_408-V2">408</a>;  
	 report made by Pownall, II. <a href="#Page_084-V2">84</a>,  
	    <a href="#Page_085-V2">85</a>; 
	 naming of Pittsburg, II. <a href="#Page_159-V2">159</a>; 
	 the expeditions against Louisbourg and Quebec, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_191-V2">191</a>-<a href="#Page_193-V2">193</a>, 
			<a href="#footer_24Note">194 <i>note</i></a>,
			<a href="#Page_268-V2">268</a>-<a href="#Page_271-V2">271</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_323-V2">323</a>, <a href="#Page_345-V2">345</a>; 
	 disliked by George III., II. <a href="#Page_391-V2">391</a>,  
	    <a href="#Page_392-V2">392</a>, <a href="#Page_397-V2">397</a>; 
	 negotiations with Choiseul, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_393-V2">393</a>-<a href="#Page_397-V2">397</a>;  
	 an explanation demanded of Spain, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_396-V2">396</a>, <a href="#Page_397-V2">397</a>; 
	 the peace of Paris, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_400-V2">400</a>-<a href="#Page_407-V2">407</a>; 
	 carried into the House of Commons, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_406-V2">406</a>, <a href="#Page_407-V2">407</a>.<br />
Pitt, Fort, built by Stanwix, II. <a href="#Page_159-V2">159</a>.<br />
Pittsburg, II. <a href="#Page_235-V2">235</a>, 
    <a href="#Page_236-V2">236</a>,  <a href="#Page_244-V2">244</a>; 
   site of, I. <a href="#Page_046-V1">46</a>,
	    <a href="#Page_060-V1">60</a>, <a href="#Page_142-V1">142</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_143-V1">143</a>, <a href="#Page_207-V1">207</a>; 
	 naming of the place, II. <a href="#Page_159-V2">159</a>.<br />
Plassey, the victory of, II. <a href="#Page_045-V2">45</a>, 
   <a href="#Page_408-V2">408</a>.<br />
Plates, leaden, bearing inscriptions, I. <a href="#Page_043-V1">43</a>. 
   See <a href="#celoron">C&eacute;loron</a>.<br />
Plymouth Colony, the, I. <a href="#Page_245-V1">245</a>.<br />
Pococke, Admiral, Sir George, II. <a href="#Page_401-V2">401</a>, 
   <a href="#Page_402-V2">402</a>.<br />
Pointe-aux-Trembles, II. 
   <a href="#Page_019-V2">19</a>, <a href="#Page_224-V2">224</a>,
   <a href="#Page_263-V2">263</a>, <a href="#Page_278-V2">278</a>,
   <a href="#Page_341-V2">341</a>, <a href="#Page_361-V2">361</a>.<br />
Poisson, Jeanne.  See <a href="#pompadour">Pompadour</a>.<br />
Poland, I. <a href="#Page_010-V1">10</a>.<br />
Polson, Captain, I. <a href="#Page_227-V1">227</a>, 
   <a href="#Page_230-V1">230</a>.<br />
Pomeroy, Abigail, II. <a href="#Page_237-V2">237</a>.<br />
Pomeroy, Rev. Benjamin, II. <a href="#Page_237-V2">237</a>, 
   <a href="#Page_238-V2">238</a>.<br />
Pomeroy, Daniel, in the expedition against Crown Point, I. 
   <a href="#Page_291-V1">291</a>, <a href="#Page_311-V1">311</a>.<br /> 
Pomeroy, Rachel, I. <a href="#Page_311-V1">311</a>.<br /> 
Pomeroy, Lieutenant-Colonel Seth, I.  <a href="#Page_290-V1">290</a>; 
   in the expedition against Crown Point, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_290-V1">290</a>, <a href="#Page_291-V1">291</a>;
	 quotations from his letters, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_291-V1">291</a>-<a href="#Page_294-V1">294</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_311-V1">311</a>, <a href="#Page_312-V1">312</a>, 
			<a href="#footer_319">316 <i>note</i></a>; 
	 the battle of Lake George, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_303-V1">303</a>, <a href="#Page_305-V1">305</a>, 
			<a href="#footer_316">312 <i>note</i></a>.<br />
Pomeroy, Seth, jr., I. 
   <a href="#Page_291-V1">291</a>.<br />
Pomeroy, Theodore, I. <a href="#footer_319">316 <i>note</i></a>.<br />
<a name="pompadour" id="pompadour"></a>
Pompadour Madame de (Jeanne Poisson), I. <a href="#Page_002-V1">2</a>, 
   <a href="#Page_353-V1">353</a>, II. <a href="#Page_044-V2">44</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_394-V2">394</a>; 
   her political influence, I. 
	 <a href="#Page_002-V1">2</a>, <a href="#Page_003-V1">3</a>, 
	 <a href="#Page_015-V1">15</a>, <a href="#Page_179-V1">179</a>, 
	 <a href="#Page_354-V1">354</a>, <a href="#Page_355-V1">355</a>, 
	 <a href="#Page_363-V1">363</a>, II. 
	 <a href="#Page_038-V2">38</a>-<a href="#Page_045-V2">45</a>,
	 <a href="#Page_173-V2">173</a>, <a href="#Page_174-V2">174</a>,  
	 <a href="#Page_393-V2">393</a>, <a href="#Page_409-V2">409</a>.<br />
Pondicherry, II.  
   <a href="#Page_389-V2">389</a>, <a href="#Page_402-V2">402</a>.<br />
Pont-&agrave;-Buot, I. <a href="#Page_248-V1">248</a>.<br /> 
Pontbriand, Bishop, II. <a href="#Page_265-V2">265</a>, 
   <a href="#Page_309-V2">309</a>.<br /> 
Pontiac, I. <a href="#Page_209-V1">209</a>, 
   <a href="#footer_355">347 <i>note</i></a>, II. 
	 <a href="#Page_122-V2">122</a>.<br /> 
Pontleroy, II. <a href="#Page_100-V2">100</a>.<br /> 
"Porcupine," the, II. <a href="#Page_284-V2">284</a>.<br /> 
Port Royal (Annapolis), I. <a href="#Page_108-V1">108</a>.<br /> 
Portland, former name of, I. <a href="#Page_169-V1">169</a>.<br /> 
Portland, town on Lake Erie, I. <a href="#Page_038-V1">38</a>.<br /> 
Portneuf, to build a trading-house at Toronto, I. <a href="#Page_069-V1">69</a>, 
   <a href="#Page_070-V1">70</a>.<br /> 
Portugal, II. <a href="#Page_402-V2">402</a>, 
   <a href="#Page_411-V2">411</a>.<br /> 
Post, Christian Frederic, II. <a href="#Page_144-V2">144</a>;
   his mission, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_144-V2">144</a>-<a href="#Page_149-V2">149</a>;
	 sent as envoy to the hostile tribes, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_144-V2">144</a>-<a href="#Page_151-V2">151</a>; 
	 his journal, II. <a href="#footer_657">147 <i>note</i></a>, 
	    <a href="#footer_22Note">163 <i>note</i></a>.<br />
Potomac River, the, I. <a href="#Page_059-V1">59</a>, 
   <a href="#Page_191-V1">191</a>, <a href="#Page_200-V1">200</a>.<br /> 
Pottawattamies, the, I. <a href="#Page_076-V1">76</a>, 
   <a href="#Page_130-V1">130</a>, <a href="#Page_209-V1">209</a>,
   <a href="#Page_437-V1">437</a>, <a href="#Page_438-V1">438</a>,
	 <a href="#Page_486-V1">486</a>-<a href="#Page_489-V1">489</a>, II. 
	 <a href="#Page_142-V2">142</a>.<br />


<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_492-V2" id="Page_492-V2">492<br />V2</a></span>

Pouchot, Captain, I. <a href="#Page_374-V1">374</a>, II. 
   <a href="#Page_010-V2">10</a>, <a href="#Page_011-V2">11</a>; 
   the attack on Oswego, I. <a href="#Page_409-V1">409</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_410-V1">410</a>; 
	 arrives at the camp of Montcalm, II. <a href="#Page_103-V2">103</a>; 
	 attacked, and surrenders at Niagara, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_242-V2">242</a>, <a href="#Page_249-V2">249</a>; 
	 the surrender of Fort L&eacute;vis, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_370-V2">370</a>.<br />
Poulariez, Colonel, the capitulation of Quebec, II. 
   <a href="#Page_291-V2">291</a>, <a href="#Page_303-V2">303</a>.<br />
Pownall, Thomas, Governor of Massachusetts, I. 
   <a href="#footer_526">513 <i>note</i></a>, II. 
   <a href="#Page_084-V2">84</a>, <a href="#Page_430-V2">430</a>, 
	 <a href="#Page_431-V2">431</a>;  
   despatch sent to Loudon, II. <a href="#Page_001-V2">1</a>; 
	 statement concerning the war-debt of Massachusetts, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_084-V2">84</a>-<a href="#Page_086-V2">86</a>.<br /> 
Prague, the battle of, II. <a href="#Page_039-V2">39</a>.<br />
Prairie &agrave; la Roche, I. <a href="#Page_041-V1">41</a>.<br />
Preble, Major Jedediah, I. 
   <a href="#Page_275-V1">275</a>, <a href="#Page_276-V1">276</a>.<br />
Presburg, the Diet at, I. <a href="#Page_019-V1">19</a>.<br />
Presbyterians, the, I. <a href="#Page_032-V1">32</a>, II. 
   <a href="#Page_116-V2">116</a>, <a href="#Page_117-V2">117</a>; 
   in Pennsylvania, I. <a href="#Page_031-V1">31</a>, 
	     <a href="#Page_336-V1">336</a>-<a href="#Page_339-V1">339</a>, 
			 <a href="#Page_347-V1">347</a>.<br />
Presquisle, I. <a href="#Page_089-V1">89</a>, <a href="#Page_128-V1">128</a>, 
   <a href="#Page_131-V1">131</a>, <a href="#Page_137-V1">137</a>, 
	 <a href="#Page_144-V1">144</a>, II. <a href="#Page_159-V2">159</a>, 
   <a href="#Page_160-V2">160</a>, <a href="#Page_244-V2">244</a>; 
   the fort burned, II. <a href="#Page_247-V2">247</a>.<br />  
Pr&eacute;vost, the intendant at Louisbourg, I. <a href="#Page_104-V1">104</a>, 
   <a href="#Page_105-V1">105</a>, II. <a href="#Page_072-V2">72</a>, 
	 <a href="#footer_19Note">81 <i>note</i></a>; 
   memorial brought to Drucour, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_072-V2">72</a>-<a href="#Page_074-V2">74</a>.<br />  
Prideaux, Brigadier, II. 
   <a href="#Page_235-V2">235</a>, <a href="#Page_236-V2">236</a>; 
   the capture at Fort Niagara, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_242-V2">242</a>-<a href="#Page_249-V2">249</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_253-V2">253</a>; 
	 his death, II. <a href="#Page_245-V2">245</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_249-V2">249</a>.<br />
Prince Edward's Island, I. <a href="#Page_098-V1">98</a>, II. 
   <a href="#Page_074-V2">74</a>, <a href="#Page_075-V2">75</a>.<br />
Princess's Bastion, the, II. <a href="#Page_055-V2">55</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_064-V2">64</a>.<br />
Pringle, Captain, joins a scouting-party, II. <a href="#Page_012-V2">12</a>; 
   his bravery, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_013-V2">13</a>-<a href="#Page_016-V2">16</a>.<br />
Protestantism, I. <a href="#Page_031-V1">31</a>, 
   <a href="#Page_355-V1">355</a>.<br />
Province Arms, the, II. <a href="#Page_076-V2">76</a>.<br />
Provincial troops, the, II. 
   <a href="#Page_116-V2">116</a>, <a href="#Page_119-V2">119</a>. 
	 See <a href="#army">Army</a>.<br />
"Prudent," the, II. 
   <a href="#Page_067-V2">67</a>-<a href="#Page_069-V2">69</a>.<br />
Prussia, political condition of, I. <a href="#Page_002-V1">2</a>, 
   <a href="#Page_017-V1">17</a>, <a href="#Page_019-V1">19</a>, 
	 <a href="#Page_353-V1">353</a>-<a href="#Page_355-V1">355</a>, II.
	 <a href="#Page_399-V2">399</a>, <a href="#Page_400-V2">400</a>, 
	 <a href="#Page_405-V2">405</a>, <a href="#Page_409-V2">409</a>; 
   the Seven Years War, II. <a href="#Page_038-V2">38</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_039-V2">39</a>, <a href="#Page_409-V2">409</a>;  
	 successes of, II. <a href="#Page_046-V2">46</a>; 
	 campaigns under Frederic, II. <a href="#Page_387-V2">387</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_388-V2">388</a>; 
	 policy of George III., II. <a href="#Page_393-V2">393</a>; 
	 number of lives lost in the war, II. <a href="#Page_409-V2">409</a>.<br />
Puritans, the, i, <a href="#Page_026-V1">26</a>, <a href="#Page_029-V1">29</a>; 
   the settlers in Massachusetts, I. <a href="#Page_026-V1">26</a>;  
	 the class holding Roundhead traditions, I. <a href="#Page_029-V1">29</a>; 
	 dislike of the ways of the Virginians, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_030-V1">30</a>.<br />
Putnam, Israel, in the expedition against Crown Point, I. 
   <a href="#Page_291-V1">291</a>; 
   his bravery, I. <a href="#Page_428-V1">428</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_429-V1">429</a>; 
	 meeting with Langy's men, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_096-V1">96</a>, <a href="#Page_097-V1">97</a>; 
	 his biography, II. <a href="#Page_123-V1">123</a>; 
	 taken prisoner, II. <a href="#Page_123-V1">123</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_124-V1">124</a>; 
	 his adventures, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_123-V1">123</a>-<a href="#Page_126-V1">126</a>; 
	 tortures inflicted upon, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_124-V1">124</a>-<a href="#Page_126-V1">126</a>; 
	 exchanged, II. <a href="#Page_126-V1">126</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_127-V1">127</a>.<br />
Puysieux, Marquis de, I. <a href="#Page_015-V1">15</a>.<br />
Pygmalion, I. <a href="#Page_465-V1">465</a>.<br />
Pynchon, Doctor, I. <a href="#Page_306-V1">306</a>.<br />
Pyrrhic dance, the, I. <a href="#Page_407-V1">407</a>.<br />
Pythoness, the, I. <a href="#Page_438-V1">438</a>.<br />

</p>
<p><br /></p>
<h3>Q.</h3>
<p>	
Quakers, the, their attitude towards the Indians, 
   and their influence in Pennsylvania, I.  <a href="#Page_031-V1">31</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_032-V1">32</a>, <a href="#Page_141-V1">141</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_166-V1">166</a>, <a href="#Page_193-V1">193</a>,
			<a href="#Page_196-V1">196</a>,
			<a href="#Page_337-V1">337</a>-<a href="#Page_341-V1">341</a>,
			<a href="#Page_344-V1">344</a>-<a href="#Page_347-V1">347</a>,
			<a href="#Page_349-V1">349</a>, <a href="#Page_422-V1">422</a>,
			II. <a href="#Page_142-V2">142</a>;
	 their trades, I. <a href="#Page_339-V1">339</a>.<br />
<a name="quebec" id="quebec"></a>
Quebec, I. 
   <a href="#footer_124">126 <i>note</i></a>, 
	 <a href="#footer_185">184 <i>note</i></a>, 
   <a href="#Page_244-V1">244</a>, <a href="#Page_282-V1">282</a>, 
	 <a href="#Page_468-V1">468</a>, II. <a href="#Page_018-V2">18</a>,
	 <a href="#Page_212-V2">212</a>, <a href="#Page_224-V2">224</a>,  
	 <a href="#Page_250-V2">250</a>, <a href="#Page_261-V2">261</a>, 
	 <a href="#Page_306-V2">306</a>;  
   rule of the military governor, I. <a href="#Page_022-V1">22</a>;
	 chain of French forts connecting the city with New Orleans, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_036-V1">36</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_039-V1">39</a>-<a href="#Page_041-V1">41</a>; 
	 priests of Acadia controlled by the diocese of, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_094-V1">94</a>, <a href="#Page_255-V1">255</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_256-V1">256</a>; 
	 relations with the Acadians, I. <a href="#Page_242-V1">242</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_282-V1">282</a>, <a href="#Page_283-V1">283</a> 
			(see <a href="#acadians">Acadians</a>); 
	 questions of French conquest, I. <a href="#Page_238-V1">238</a>; 
	 described by Montcalm, I. <a href="#Page_456-V1">456</a>;
	 the Lenten season, I. <a href="#Page_458-V1">458</a>; 
	 Montcalm retires to, II. <a href="#Page_007-V2">7</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_008-V2">8</a>; 
	 social life among the officials, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_018-V2">18</a>-<a href="#Page_030-V2">30</a>; 
	 La Friponne, II. <a href="#Page_024-V2">24</a>;
	 war-policy of Pitt, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_047-V2">47</a>, <a href="#Page_048-V2">48</a>;
	 preparations for an English attack, II.  
	    <a href="#Page_079-V2">79</a>, <a href="#Page_176-V2">176</a>;
	 the expedition fitted out against, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_191-V2">191</a>-<a href="#Page_194-V2">194</a>; 
	 the siege and reduction of, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_195-V2">195</a>-<a href="#Page_233-V2">233</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_299-V2">299</a>-<a href="#Page_325-V2">325</a>,
			<a href="#footer_28Note">325 <i>note</i>, 326 <i>note</i></a>, 
			<a href="#Page_436-V2">436</a>-<a href="#Page_438-V2">438</a>,
			<a href="#Page_442-V2">442</a>; 
	 census of, II. <a href="#Page_178-V2">178</a>;
	 natural defences of, II. <a href="#Page_178-V2">178</a>,
	    <a href="#Page_209-V2">209</a>, <a href="#Page_289-V2">289</a>; 
	 preparations for the defence of, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_198-V2">198</a>-<a href="#Page_200-V2">200</a>,
			<a href="#Page_209-V2">209</a>, <a href="#Page_210-V2">210</a>,
			<a href="#Page_215-V2">215</a> 
			(see <a href="#montcalm">Montcalm</a>); 
	 the fireships, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_201-V2">201</a>,
	    <a href="#Page_210-V2">210</a>-<a href="#Page_212-V2">212</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_227-V2">227</a>;
   the Palace Gate, II. <a href="#Page_201-V2">201</a>;
	 scarcity of food, II. <a href="#Page_203-V2">203</a>;
	 the Cathedral, II. <a href="#Page_208-V2">208</a>;
	 the Seminary garden, II. <a href="#Page_208-V2">208</a>;
	 the Recollets, II. <a href="#Page_208-V2">208</a>;
	 the Ursulines, II. <a href="#Page_208-V2">208</a>;
	 the Jesuits, II. <a href="#Page_208-V2">208</a>;
	 the proclamations issued by Wolfe, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_213-V2">213</a>, <a href="#Page_214-V2">214</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_223-V2">223</a>, <a href="#Page_225-V2">225</a>,
			<a href="#Page_226-V2">226</a>, <a href="#Page_261-V2">261</a>;  
	 the town bombarded, and dwellings burned, II. <a href="#Page_214-V2">214</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_215-V2">215</a>, <a href="#Page_261-V2">261</a>,
			<a href="#Page_262-V2">262</a>, <a href="#Page_265-V2">265</a>; 
	 the disaster of Montmorenci, II.  
	    <a href="#Page_228-V2">228</a>-<a href="#Page_233-V2">233</a>,
			<a href="#Page_259-V2">259</a>, <a href="#Page_268-V2">268</a>,
			<a href="#Page_269-V2">269</a>;
	 the siege continued, II.  
	    <a href="#Page_259-V2">259</a>-<a href="#Page_272-V2">272</a>;
	 the Upper and Lower Towns, II. <a href="#Page_267-V2">267</a>;
	 despatches sent from Wolfe to England, II. <a href="#Page_270-V2">270</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_272-V2">272</a>, <a href="#Page_323-V2">323</a>; 
	 the Heights of Abraham ascended, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_272-V2">272</a>-<a href="#Page_288-V2">288</a>;
	 action of Holmes's squadron, II.  
	    <a href="#Page_278-V2">278</a>, <a href="#Page_280-V2">280</a>;
	 the last battle between Wolfe and Montcalm, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_288-V2">288</a>-<a href="#Page_297-V2">297</a>, 
	    <a href="#footer_27Note">298 <i>note</i></a>,
			<a href="#Page_305-V2">305</a>;
	 the Plains of Abraham, II. <a href="#Page_289-V2">289</a>;
	 the death of Wolfe, II. <a href="#Page_297-V2">297</a>;
	 the French routed, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_299-V2">299</a>-<a href="#Page_305-V2">305</a>;
	 the town abandoned by the army, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_307-V2">307</a>-<a href="#Page_310-V2">310</a>;
	 the death of Montcalm, II.
	    <a href="#Page_308-V2">308</a>, <a href="#Page_309-V2">309</a>;
	 the grief and poverty of the people, II.  
	    <a href="#Page_310-V2">310</a>, <a href="#Page_311-V2">311</a>;
	 L&eacute;vis attempts to save the city, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_312-V2">312</a>-<a href="#Page_315-V2">315</a>;
	 the capitulation, of, II., 
	    <a href="#Page_315-V2">315</a>-<a href="#Page_318-V2">318</a>;
	 the city left in command of Murray, II. <a href="#Page_317-V2">317</a>;
	 the rejoicing over the victory, II.
	    <a href="#Page_323-V2">323</a>-<a href="#Page_325-V2">325</a>;

<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_493-V2" id="Page_493-V2">493<br />V2</a></span>

   authorities for information concerning, II. 
	    <a href="#footer_28Note">325 <i>note</i>, 326 <i>note</i></a>; 
	 drawings made of the ruins, II. <a href="#Page_327-V2">327</a>; 
	 confusion after the siege, II.  
	    <a href="#Page_327-V2">327</a>-<a href="#Page_331-V2">331</a>;
	 kindness of the nuns, II. <a href="#Page_330-V2">330</a>,
				 <a href="#Page_331-V2">331</a>, <a href="#Page_335-V2">335</a>;
	 the rule of Murray, II.  
	    <a href="#Page_331-V2">331</a>-<a href="#Page_333-V2">333</a>;
	 rumors of an attack from the French, II.  
	    <a href="#Page_335-V2">335</a>-<a href="#Page_340-V2">340</a>;
	 the expedition of L&eacute;vis against, 
	    and the battle of Ste.-Foy, II.
			   <a href="#Page_340-V2">340</a>-<a href="#Page_358-V2">358</a>,
				 <a href="#Page_442-V2">442</a>-<a href="#Page_444-V2">444</a>;
	 arrival of the British squadron, II. <a href="#Page_355-V2">355</a>,
	    <a href="#Page_356-V2">356</a>;
	 the siege raised, II. <a href="#Page_357-V2">357</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_358-V2">358</a>; 
	 the fall of Canada, ii,  
	    <a href="#Page_360-V2">360</a>-<a href="#Page_382-V2">382</a>;
	 self-devotion of the missionaries, II. <a href="#Page_412-V2">412</a>; 
	 maps referring to, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_440-V2">440</a>, <a href="#Page_441-V2">441</a>.<br />
Quebec, basin of, II. 
   <a href="#Page_213-V2">213</a>, <a href="#Page_282-V2">282</a>.<br />
Quebec, Bishop of, I. <a href="#Page_106-V1">106</a>, 
   <a href="#Page_255-V1">255</a>, <a href="#Page_260-V1">260</a>.<br />
Queen's Bastion, the, II. 
   <a href="#Page_055-V2">55</a>, <a href="#Page_068-V2">68</a>.<br />
Queen's Battery, the, at Quebec, II. <a href="#Page_208-V2">208</a>.<br />
Querdisien-Tremais, to investigate the frauds in Canada, II.
   <a href="#Page_036-V2">36</a>.<br />
</p>
<p><br /></p>
<h3>R.</h3>
<p>	


Race, Cape, I. <a href="#Page_185-V1">185</a>.<br />
"Racehorse," the, II. <a href="#Page_343-V2">343</a>, 
   <a href="#Page_358-V2">358</a>.<br />
Rameau, his estimate concerning Canadian population, I. 
   <a href="#footer_001">20 <i>note</i></a>; 
   Acadian emigrants, I. <a href="#footer_241">235 <i>note</i></a>.<br />
Ramesay, Chevalier de, II. <a href="#Page_202-V2">202</a>; 
   his battery refused to Montcalm, II. <a href="#Page_292-V2">292</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_293-V2">293</a>, <a href="#Page_346-V2">346</a>; 
	 his field-pieces in action, II. <a href="#Page_294-V2">294</a>; 
	 his last interview with Montcalm, II. <a href="#Page_308-V2">308</a>; 
	 at Montcalm's funeral, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_309-V2">309</a>, <a href="#Page_310-V2">310</a>; 
	 left in charge at Quebec, without supplies, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_310-V2">310</a>-<a href="#Page_314-V2">314</a>; 
	 calls a council of war, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_311-V2">311</a>, <a href="#Page_312-V2">312</a>; 
	 the capitulation of Quebec, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_315-V2">315</a>-<a href="#Page_318-V2">318</a>; 
	 his sister, II. <a href="#Page_331-V2">331</a>.<br />
Ranelagh Gardens, the, I. <a href="#Page_007-V1">7</a>.<br />
Rapide Plat, the, II. <a href="#Page_370-V2">370</a>.<br />
Rascal, Fort, I. <a href="#Page_398-V1">398</a>, 
   <a href="#Page_411-V1">411</a>, <a href="#Page_415-V1">415</a>.<br />
Raymond, Comte de, commandant at the post on the Maumee, I. 
   <a href="#Page_052-V1">52</a>, <a href="#Page_082-V1">82</a>; 
   command taken at Louisbourg, I. <a href="#Page_102-V1">102</a>; 
	 royal instructions given to, 
	    with regard to the Indians and Acadians, I. 
			   <a href="#Page_102-V1">102</a>, II. 
				 <a href="#Page_420-V2">420</a>, <a href="#Page_421-V2">421</a>.<br />
Raynal, Abb&eacute;, his ideal picture of the Acadians, I. 
   <a href="#Page_258-V1">258</a>.<br />
Raystown, II. 
   <a href="#Page_133-V2">133</a>, <a href="#Page_135-V2">135</a>,
   <a href="#Page_137-V2">137</a>, <a href="#Page_141-V2">141</a>,
   <a href="#Page_154-V2">154</a>, <a href="#Page_156-V2">156</a>.<br />
Rea, Dr. Caleb, his religious views, II. 
   <a href="#Page_116-V2">116</a>-<a href="#Page_118-V2">118</a>.<br />
Reading, I. <a href="#Page_344-V1">344</a>.<br />
Recollets, the, II. <a href="#Page_208-V2">208</a>, 
   <a href="#Page_328-V2">328</a>.<br />
Redstone Creek, I. <a href="#Page_145-V1">145</a>, 
   <a href="#Page_155-V1">155</a>; 
   English storehouse on, I. <a href="#Page_144-V1">144</a>; 
	 the storehouse burned, I. <a href="#Page_161-V1">161</a>.<br />
Rehoboam, II. <a href="#Page_115-V2">115</a>.<br />
Rennes, I. <a href="#Page_362-V1">362</a>.<br />
Repentigny, II. <a href="#Page_028-V2">28</a>, 
   <a href="#Page_218-V2">218</a>, <a href="#Page_316-V2">316</a>.<br />
Restoration, the, I. <a href="#Page_005-V1">5</a>.<br />
Revolution, the, in America, I. <a href="#Page_003-V1">3</a>, 
   <a href="#Page_004-V1">4</a>, <a href="#Page_034-V1">34</a>, 
	 <a href="#footer_163">164 <i>note</i></a>, <a href="#Page_219-V1">219</a>, 
	 <a href="#Page_319-V1">319</a>, II. 
	 <a href="#Page_119-V2">119</a>, <a href="#Page_351-V2">351</a>.<br />
Revolution, the French, I. <a href="#Page_014-V1">14</a>.<br />
Reynolds, Sir Joshua, I. <a href="#Page_202-V1">202</a>.<br />
Rhine, the, I. <a href="#Page_016-V1">16</a>, II. 
   <a href="#Page_400-V2">400</a>.<br />
Rhode Island, I. <a href="#footer_388">382 <i>note</i></a>, II. 
   <a href="#Page_093-V2">93</a>; 
   the colony compared with others, I. <a href="#Page_025-V1">25</a>;
	 men voted for the expedition against Crown Point, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_286-V1">286</a>;
	 character of the troops from, I. <a href="#Page_292-V1">292</a>.<br />
Richelieu, I. <a href="#Page_010-V1">10</a>, II. <a href="#Page_047-V2">47</a>; 
   power given to, by Louis XIII., I. <a href="#Page_015-V1">15</a>.<br />
Richelieu River, the, I. <a href="#Page_289-V1">289</a>, 
   <a href="#Page_378-V1">378</a>, <a href="#Page_428-V1">428</a>, 
	 <a href="#Page_453-V1">453</a>, II. 
	 <a href="#Page_249-V2">249</a>, <a href="#Page_332-V2">332</a>.<br />
"Richmond," the, frigate, II. <a href="#Page_205-V2">205</a>.<br />
Rickson, Lieutenant-Colonel, II. <a href="#Page_190-V2">190</a>.<br />
<a name="rigaud" id="rigaud"></a>
Rigaud de Vaudreuil, brother of Governor Vaudreuil, I. 
   <a href="#Page_408-V1">408</a>, <a href="#Page_463-V1">463</a>, 
	 <a href="#Page_485-V1">485</a>, II. <a href="#Page_086-V2">86</a>;
   capture of Oswego, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_408-V1">408</a>-<a href="#Page_420-V1">420</a>; 
	 his party attacks Fort William Henry, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_448-V1">448</a>-<a href="#Page_451-V1">451</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_456-V1">456</a>; 
	 festivities given to his officers, I. <a href="#Page_457-V1">457</a>; 
	 seeks to gain Indian allies, I. <a href="#Page_475-V1">475</a>;
	 his command, I. <a href="#Page_458-V1">458</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_459-V1">459</a>, <a href="#Page_477-V1">477</a>;
	 frauds in trade, II. <a href="#Page_027-V2">27</a>.<br />
Rigaud, Madame de, II. <a href="#Page_020-V2">20</a>.<br />
Rimouski, country of, I. <a href="#Page_125-V1">125</a>.<br />
Roanoke, return of Gist, I. <a href="#Page_058-V1">58</a>.<br />
Robison, Professor John, II. <a href="#Page_285-V2">285</a>.<br />
Robinson, Sir Thomas, I. 
   <a href="#Page_201-V1">201</a>, <a href="#Page_241-V1">241</a>;
   in the House of Commons, I. <a href="#Page_179-V1">179</a>; 
	 correspondence of, I. <a href="#Page_183-V1">183</a>, 
   <a href="#Page_239-V1">239</a>, <a href="#Page_240-V1">240</a>.<br />
Roche, Lieutenant, II. 
   <a href="#Page_012-V2">12</a>, <a href="#Page_013-V2">13</a>; 
	 his adventures, and escape from death, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_014-V2">14</a>-<a href="#Page_016-V2">16</a>.<br />
Rochbeaucourt, stationed at Pointe-aux-Trembles, II. 
   <a href="#Page_361-V2">361</a>.<br />
Rochefort, I. <a href="#Page_182-V1">182</a>, 
   <a href="#Page_183-V1">183</a>, <a href="#Page_184-V1">184</a>, II.  
   <a href="#Page_048-V2">48</a>-<a href="#Page_051-V2">51</a>; 
   the expedition against, II. <a href="#Page_189-V2">189</a>.<br />
Rochester, I. <a href="#Page_071-V1">71</a>.<br />
Rocky Mountains, the, I. <a href="#Page_020-V1">20</a>, 
   <a href="#Page_129-V1">129</a>, <a href="#Page_130-V1">130</a>.<br />
Rodney, Admiral, sails for Martinique, II. <a href="#Page_401-V2">401</a>.<br />
<a name="rogers" id="rogers"></a>
Rogers, Richard, I. <a href="#Page_432-V2">432</a>; 
   his corpse outraged, II. <a href="#footer_532">5 <i>note</i></a>.<br />
Rogers, Robert, I. <a href="#Page_389-V1">389</a>, 
   <a href="#Page_390-V1">390</a>, II. <a href="#footer_532">5 <i>note</i></a>; 
   exploits of his rangers, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_431-V1">431</a>, <a href="#Page_432-V1">432</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_437-V1">437</a>-<a href="#Page_446-V1">446</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_471-V1">471</a>, II. 
			<a href="#Page_011-V2">11</a>-<a href="#Page_016-V2">16</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_090-V2">90</a>-<a href="#Page_094-V2">94</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_097-V2">97</a>,
			<a href="#Page_121-V2">121</a>-<a href="#Page_124-V2">124</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_165-V2">165</a>, <a href="#Page_221-V2">221</a>,
			<a href="#Page_251-V2">251</a>-<a href="#Page_258-V2">258</a> 
			<a href="#footer_26Note"><i>note</i></a>, 
			<a href="#Page_261-V2">261</a>, <a href="#Page_347-V2">347</a>,
			<a href="#Page_362-V2">362</a>, <a href="#Page_368-V2">368</a>; 
	 his portrait, I. <a href="#Page_431-V1">431</a>;
	 his character and bravery, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_431-V1">431</a>-<a href="#Page_433-V1">433</a>, II. 
			<a href="#Page_254-V2">254</a>, <a href="#Page_257-V2">257</a>; 
	 sent to destroy the Abenakis town, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_251-V2">251</a>-<a href="#Page_258-V2">258</a>; 
	 suffers from hunger, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_254-V2">254</a>-<a href="#Page_257-V2">257</a>.<br />
Rogers Rock, I. 
   <a href="#Page_429-V1">429</a>, <a href="#Page_441-V1">441</a>,
	 <a href="#Page_478-V1">478</a>, <a href="#Page_490-V1">490</a>, II. 
   <a href="#Page_012-V2">12</a>, <a href="#Page_015-V2">15</a>,
   <a href="#Page_094-V2">94</a>, <a href="#Page_095-V2">95</a>.<br />

<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_494-V2" id="Page_494-V2">494<br />V2</a></span>

Rollo, Lord, II. <a href="#Page_078-V2">78</a>; 
   follows Murray, II. <a href="#Page_363-V2">363</a>.<br />
Roma, quotation from, I. <a href="#Page_096-V1">96</a>, 
   <a href="#Page_097-V1">97</a>.<br />
Roman Empire, the, I. <a href="#Page_016-V1">16</a>, 
   <a href="#Page_017-V1">17</a>.<br />
<i>Roman politique</i>, 
   disquisition entitled, I. <a href="#Page_126-V1">126</a>.<br />
Romans, II. <a href="#Page_323-V2">323</a>.<br />
Rome, I. <a href="#Page_321-V1">321</a>.<br />
Roquemaure, I. <a href="#Page_298-V1">298</a>; 
   joined by Bougainville, II. <a href="#Page_367-V2">367</a>, 
	 <a href="#Page_368-V2">368</a>; 
	 at Montreal, II. <a href="#Page_372-V2">372</a>.<br />
Rose, Captain, I. <a href="#Page_227-V1">227</a>.<br />
Rossbach, II. <a href="#Page_039-V2">39</a>, 
	 <a href="#Page_046-V2">46</a>, <a href="#Page_408-V2">408</a>.<br />
Rostaing killed, I. <a href="#Page_186-V1">186</a>.<br />
Roubaud, Jesuit missionary, I. <a href="#Page_480-V1">480</a>, 
   <a href="#Page_487-V1">487</a>; 
   his description of an Indian war-feast, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_480-V1">480</a>-<a href="#Page_482-V1">482</a>; 
	 Indian cruelty described, I. <a href="#Page_482-V1">482</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_483-V1">483</a>, <a href="#Page_493-V1">493</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_505-V1">505</a>, <a href="#Page_506-V1">506</a>; 
	 statements in relation to the massacre at Fort William Henry, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_512-V1">512</a>, <a href="#footer_526">514 <i>note</i></a>; 
	 the dishonesty in Canada, II. <a href="#Page_321-V2">321</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_322-V2">322</a>; 
	 papers given to, by Montcalm, II. <a href="#Page_321-V2">321</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_322-V2">322</a>, 
			<a href="#footer_28Note">325 <i>note</i>, 326 <i>note</i></a>.<br />
Rouill&eacute;, De, colonial minister at Versailles, I. 
      <a href="#footer_092">105 <i>note</i></a>; 
   instructions given to La Jonqui&egrave;re injurious to the English, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_078-V1">78</a>-<a href="#Page_081-V1">81</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_084-V1">84</a>, <a href="#footer_092">105 <i>note</i></a>;  
	 instructions to Duquesne, I. <a href="#Page_086-V1">86</a>, 
	 <a href="#Page_087-V1">87</a>; 
	 official documents relating to the Acadians, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_095-V1">95</a>, <a href="#Page_096-V1">96</a>; 
	 aids the French to destroy the English, I. <a href="#Page_101-V1">101</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_102-V1">102</a>, II. <a href="#Page_418-V2">418</a>; 
	 treachery and double-dealings of, I. 
	    <a href="#footer_092">105 <i>note</i>, 106 <i>note</i></a>.<br />
Rous, Captain, fires on the "St., Fran&ccedil;ois," I. 
   <a href="#Page_115-V1">115</a>; 
   in the expedition sent against Nova Scotia, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_247-V1">247</a>-<a href="#Page_250-V1">250</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_253-V1">253</a>.<br />
Rousseau, I. <a href="#Page_016-V1">16</a>; 
   philosophy of, I. <a href="#Page_126-V1">126</a>.<br />
Roussillon, Royal, battalion of, I. <a href="#Page_363-V1">363</a>, II. 
   <a href="#Page_104-V2">104</a>, <a href="#Page_107-V2">107</a>, 
	 <a href="#Page_230-V2">230</a>; 
   sent to defend Ticonderoga, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_377-V1">377</a>, <a href="#Page_378-V1">378</a>;
	 advance of the French upon Fort William Henry, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_477-V1">477</a>, <a href="#Page_491-V1">491</a>; 
	 the fall of Quebec, II. <a href="#Page_292-V2">292</a>.<br />
Royal Americans, the, II. 
      <a href="#Page_093-V2">93</a>, <a href="#Page_132-V2">132</a>,
      <a href="#Page_133-V2">133</a>, <a href="#Page_232-V2">232</a>;
   serve in the expedition of Forbes, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_132-V2">132</a>-<a href="#Page_163-V2">163</a>;
	 in Grant's expedition, II. <a href="#Page_151-V2">151</a>; 
	 at the siege of Quebec, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_230-V2">230</a>-<a href="#Page_233-V2">233</a>,
	    <a href="#Page_290-V2">290</a>.<br />
Royal battery, the, II. <a href="#Page_208-V2">208</a>.<br />
Royal William, the, II. <a href="#Page_317-V2">317</a>.<br />
Royale, l'Isle, I. <a href="#Page_109-V1">109</a>.<br />
Ruggles, the battle at Lake George, I. <a href="#Page_307-V1">307</a>; 
   his regiment, II. <a href="#Page_378-V2">378</a>.<br />
Russell, II. <a href="#Page_442-V2">442</a>.<br />
Russia, influence of Peter the Great, I. <a href="#Page_017-V1">17</a>, 
   <a href="#Page_018-V1">18</a>; 
   political outlook of, I. <a href="#Page_353-V1">353</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_354-V1">354</a>, II.
			<a href="#Page_038-V2">38</a>-<a href="#Page_040-V2">40</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_386-V2">386</a>, <a href="#Page_387-V2">387</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_393-V2">393</a>; 
	 peace with Prussia and Sweden, II. <a href="#Page_399-V2">399</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_400-V2">400</a>.<br />
Ryswick, the treaty of, I. <a href="#Page_043-V1">43</a>.<br />

</p>
<p><br /></p>
<h3>S.</h3>
<p>	
S&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;, Miss Sylvia, I. <a href="#Page_188-V1">188</a>.<br />
Sabbath, the, observance of, I. <a href="#Page_240-V1">240</a>, 
   <a href="#Page_295-V1">295</a>, <a href="#Page_296-V1">296</a>.<br />
Sabrevois, I. <a href="#Page_486-V1">486</a>.<br />
Sackett's Harbor, former name of, I. <a href="#Page_408-V1">408</a>.<br />
Sacs, the, I. <a href="#Page_130-V1">130</a>, 
   <a href="#Page_486-V1">486</a>-<a href="#Page_489-V1">489</a>.<br />
Saint-Andrew, II. <a href="#Page_126-V2">126</a>.<br />
Saint-Ange, I. <a href="#Page_083-V1">83</a>.<br />
St. Augustin, II. 
   <a href="#Page_307-V2">307</a>, <a href="#Page_314-V2">314</a>,
   <a href="#Page_336-V2">336</a>, <a href="#Page_342-V2">342</a>.<br />
Saint-Blin, II. <a href="#footer_573">37 <i>note</i></a>.<br />
St. Charles River, the, II. <a href="#Page_021-V2">21</a>,
   <a href="#Page_200-V2">200</a>, <a href="#Page_201-V2">201</a>,
   <a href="#Page_285-V2">285</a>, <a href="#Page_289-V2">289</a>,
	 <a href="#Page_300-V2">300</a>, <a href="#Page_302-V2">302</a>,
   <a href="#Page_307-V2">307</a>, <a href="#Page_314-V2">314</a>,
   <a href="#Page_348-V2">348</a>, <a href="#Page_436-V2">436</a>;
   the French camp, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_208-V2">208</a>, <a href="#Page_209-V2">209</a>.<br />
St.-Denis, Ruisseau, II. <a href="#Page_287-V2">287</a>.<br />
Saint Florentine, Marquis de, I. <a href="#Page_015-V1">15</a>.<br />
St. Francis, the mission of, I. 
   <a href="#Page_209-V1">209</a>, <a href="#Page_371-V1">371</a>, 
	 <a href="#Page_480-V1">480</a>, <a href="#Page_485-V1">485</a>, II. 
   <a href="#Page_251-V2">251</a>, <a href="#Page_321-V2">321</a>; 
   Jesuit influence, II. <a href="#Page_144-V2">144</a>;
	 the Abenakis attacked by Rogers, II. <a href="#Page_251-V2">251</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_253-V2">253</a>-<a href="#Page_258-V2">258</a>
			<a href="#footer_752"><i>note</i></a>.<br />
St. Francis River, the, II. <a href="#Page_254-V2">254</a>.<br />
"St. Fran&ccedil;ois," brig, I. <a href="#Page_115-V1">115</a>.<br />
St. George, I. <a href="#Page_470-V1">470</a>, II. 
   <a href="#Page_075-V2">75</a>, <a href="#Page_355-V2">355</a>.<br />
St. Germain, I. <a href="#Page_014-V1">14</a>.<br />
St. Helen, Island of, I. <a href="#Page_458-V1">458</a>, II. 
   <a href="#Page_375-V2">375</a>.<br />
Saint-Ignace, M&eacute;re Aimable Dub&eacute; de, II. 
   <a href="#Page_442-V2">442</a>.<br />
St. James, I. <a href="#Page_030-V1">30</a>.<br />
St. Jean, Isle, I. 
   <a href="#Page_098-V1">98</a>, <a href="#Page_107-V1">107</a>, 
	 <a href="#Page_109-V1">109</a>, <a href="#Page_110-V1">110</a>,
	 <a href="#Page_235-V1">235</a>, <a href="#Page_281-V1">281</a>, II. 
	 <a href="#Page_074-V2">74</a>, <a href="#Page_075-V2">75</a>,
	 <a href="#Page_078-V2">78</a>.<br />
St. Jean River, the, I. <a href="#Page_115-V1">115</a>,
   <a href="#Page_241-V1">241</a>-<a href="#Page_253-V1">253</a>,
	 <a href="#Page_282-V1">282</a>, <a href="#Page_283-V1">283</a>, II. 
	 <a href="#Page_078-V2">78</a>, <a href="#Page_368-V2">368</a>,
	 <a href="#Page_385-V2">385</a>.<br />
St. Joachim burned by order of Wolfe, II. <a href="#Page_261-V2">261</a>.<br />
St. John, city, I. <a href="#Page_428-V1">428</a>, II. 
   <a href="#Page_301-V2">301</a>, 
   <a href="#Page_367-V2">367</a>, <a href="#Page_368-V2">368</a>.<br />
St. John, Fort, I. <a href="#Page_024-V1">24</a>, 
   <a href="#Page_453-V1">453</a>;
   abandoned by the French, II. <a href="#Page_368-V2">368</a>.<br />
Saint John's taken by the French, and retaken by the English, II. 
   <a href="#Page_402-V2">402</a>.<br />
Saint Joseph River, the, I. <a href="#Page_040-V1">40</a>.<br />
Saint-Julien, Lieutenant-Colonel de, the defence of Louisbourg, II. 
   <a href="#Page_059-V2">59</a>.<br />
St.-Laurent, visit of Knox to the church of, II. 
   <a href="#Page_207-V2">207</a>, <a href="#Page_208-V2">208</a>.<br />
St. Lawrence, Gulf of, I. <a href="#Page_039-V1">39</a>, 
   <a href="#Page_115-V1">115</a>, <a href="#Page_123-V1">123</a>, II. 
	 <a href="#Page_079-V2">79</a>, <a href="#Page_080-V2">80</a>, 
   <a href="#Page_384-V2">384</a>; 
   islands in, ceded to Great Britain, II. <a href="#Page_405-V2">405</a>.<br />
St. Lawrence River, the, I. <a href="#Page_003-V1">3</a>, 
   <a href="#Page_004-V1">4</a>, <a href="#Page_020-V1">20</a>, 
	 <a href="#Page_022-V1">22</a>, <a href="#Page_038-V1">38</a>, 
	 <a href="#Page_065-V1">65</a>, <a href="#Page_068-V1">68</a>, 
	 <a href="#Page_123-V1">123</a>, <a href="#Page_124-V1">124</a>, 
	 <a href="#Page_365-V1">365</a>, <a href="#Page_453-V1">453</a>, II. 
	 <a href="#Page_008-V2">8</a>, <a href="#Page_079-V2">79</a>, 
	 <a href="#Page_172-V2">172</a>, <a href="#Page_175-V2">175</a>, 
	 <a href="#Page_176-V2">176</a>, <a href="#Page_179-V2">179</a>, 
	 <a href="#Page_182-V2">182</a>, 
	 <a href="#Page_192-V2">192</a>-<a href="#Page_195-V2">195</a>,  
	 <a href="#Page_249-V2">249</a>-<a href="#Page_253-V2">253</a>, 
	 <a href="#Page_368-V2">368</a>; 
   rapids of, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_178-V2">178</a>, <a href="#Page_242-V2">242</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_370-V2">370</a>, <a href="#Page_371-V2">371</a>; 
	 measures of defence taken during the siege of Quebec, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_200-V2">200</a>, <a href="#Page_201-V2">201</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_204-V2">204</a>,
			<a href="#Page_208-V2">208</a>-<a href="#Page_213-V2">213</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_219-V2">219</a>, <a href="#Page_289-V2">289</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_304-V2">304</a>; 
	 danger in passing through the Traverse, II.
	    <a href="#Page_204-V2">204</a>-<a href="#Page_206-V2">206</a>;
	 steepness of the banks, II. <a href="#Page_228-V2">228</a>; 
	 action of the fleet of Holmes, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_278-V2">278</a>-<a href="#Page_285-V2">285</a>;
	 expedition of L&eacute;vis, II. <a href="#Page_341-V2">341</a>; 
	 humanity rewarded, II. <a href="#Page_343-V2">343</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_344-V2">344</a>; 

<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_495-V2" id="Page_495-V2">495<br />V2</a></span>

   arrival of the "Lowestoffe," II. <a href="#Page_355-V2">355</a>; 
	 the river blockaded, II. <a href="#Page_360-V2">360</a>; 
	 islands ceded to Great Britain, II. <a href="#Page_405-V2">405</a>.<br />
St. Louis, I. <a href="#Page_037-V1">37</a>, II. 
   <a href="#Page_028-V2">28</a>.<br />
St. Louis, the cross of the Order of, II. <a href="#Page_174-V2">174</a>, 
   <a href="#Page_426-V2">426</a>.<br />
St. Louis, site of, I. <a href="#Page_041-V1">41</a>.<br />
St. Louis, Lake, II. <a href="#Page_371-V2">371</a>.<br />
St. Lucia, II. <a href="#Page_401-V2">401</a>, 
   <a href="#Page_405-V2">405</a>.<br />
St. Malo, II. <a href="#Page_033-V2">33</a>, 
   <a href="#Page_047-V2">47</a>.<br />
St. Michael, II. <a href="#Page_267-V2">267</a>.<br />
St. Nicolas, II. <a href="#Page_279-V2">279</a>, 
   <a href="#Page_280-V2">280</a>.<br />
Saint-Ours, I. <a href="#Page_491-V1">491</a>.<br />
Saint-Ours, Madame de, I. <a href="#Page_458-V1">458</a>.<br />
St. Patrick's Day, I. <a href="#Page_446-V1">446</a>; 
   at Fort Cumberland, II. <a href="#Page_182-V2">182</a>.<br />
St. Paul, village sacked and burned, II. <a href="#Page_261-V2">261</a>.<br />
St. Paul's Church, II. <a href="#Page_076-V2">76</a>, 
   <a href="#Page_398-V2">398</a>.<br />
St. Phillippe, a French hamlet, I. <a href="#Page_041-V1">41</a>.<br />
Saint-Pierre, Legardeur de, I. <a href="#Page_129-V1">129</a>, 
   <a href="#Page_143-V1">143</a>, <a href="#Page_144-V1">144</a>; 
   journey of exploration made by, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_130-V1">130</a>-<a href="#Page_138-V1">138</a>; 
	 letter from Governor Dinwiddie 
	    introducing Washington, I. <a href="#Page_132-V1">132</a>, 
      <a href="#Page_133-V1">133</a>-<a href="#Page_135-V1">135</a>;
	 his dealings with Washington, I.  <a href="#Page_134-V1">134</a>, 
      <a href="#Page_135-V1">135</a>, <a href="#Page_138-V1">138</a>;
	 leads the Indians in the expedition of Dieskau, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_297-V2">297</a>; 
	 his death, I. <a href="#Page_303-V1">303</a>.<br />
St. Pierre Island, given to France, II. <a href="#Page_405-V2">405</a>.<br />
St. Roch, II. <a href="#Page_222-V2">222</a>, 
   <a href="#Page_300-V2">300</a>, <a href="#Page_311-V2">311</a>, 
	 <a href="#Page_344-V2">344</a>.<br />
St. Sacrament, Lac, name of, changed to Lake George, I. 
   <a href="#Page_315-V1">315</a>.<br />
St.-Servan, capture of, II. <a href="#Page_047-V1">47</a>.<br />
<a name="saintVeran" id="saintVeran"></a> 
Saint-V&eacute;ran, Madame de, the mother of Montcalm, I. 
   <a href="#Page_356-V1">356</a>, <a href="#Page_359-V1">359</a>; 
   letters from her son quoted, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_360-V1">360</a>-<a href="#Page_362-V1">362</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_372-V1">372</a>, <a href="#Page_373-V1">373</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_454-V1">454</a>, <a href="#Page_457-V1">457</a>, II. 
			<a href="#footer_638">112 <i>note</i></a>, 
			<a href="#Page_164-V2">164</a>, <a href="#Page_174-V2">174</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_176-V2">176</a>.<br />
St. Vincent, II. <a href="#Page_401-V2">401</a>, 
   <a href="#Page_405-V2">405</a>.<br />
St. Yotoc, I. <a href="#Page_048-V1">48</a>.<br />
Sainte Anna-de-la-P&eacute;rade, II. <a href="#Page_019-V2">19</a>.<br />
Sainte-Claude, M&egrave;re de, II. <a href="#Page_331-V2">331</a>.<br />
Sainte-Foy, II. <a href="#Page_306-V2">306</a>,  
   <a href="#Page_327-V2">327</a>-<a href="#Page_358-V2">358</a>,
	 <a href="#Page_381-V2">381</a>;
   Quebec after the siege, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_321-V2">321</a>-<a href="#Page_333-V2">333</a>; 
	 occupied by the English, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_335-V2">335</a>, <a href="#Page_342-V2">342</a>; 
	 expedition of L&eacute;vis against Quebec, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_342-V2">342</a>-<a href="#Page_358-V2">358</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_442-V2">442</a>, <a href="#Page_444-V2">444</a>.<br />
Sainte-Marie, Fort, garrison at, I. <a href="#Page_075-V1">75</a>.<br />
Sainte-Th&eacute;r&egrave;se, II. <a href="#Page_366-V2">366</a>.<br />
Samos, post of, II. 
   <a href="#Page_276-V2">276</a>, <a href="#Page_288-V2">288</a>, 
   <a href="#Page_291-V2">291</a>.<br />
Sander.  <i>See</i> <a href="#lauder">Lauder</a>.<br />
Saratoga, I. <a href="#Page_387-V1">387</a>, 
   <a href="#Page_401-V1">401</a>, <a href="#Page_452-V1">452</a>; 
   the fort burned, I. <a href="#Page_174-V1">174</a>.<br />
Sardanapalus, II. <a href="#Page_044-V2">44</a>.<br />
Sardinia, I. <a href="#Page_019-V1">19</a>.<br />
Saul, George, commissary of supplies, I. <a href="#Page_278-V1">278</a>, 
   <a href="#Page_279-V1">279</a>.<br />
Saunders, Admiral, II. <a href="#Page_192-V2">192</a>; 
   aids Wolfe in the reduction of Quebec, II. <a href="#Page_192-V2">192</a>, 
	    <a href="#footer_24Note">194 <i>note</i></a>, 
			<a href="#Page_268-V2">268</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_272-V2">272</a>-<a href="#Page_274-V2">274</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_282-V2">282</a>, <a href="#Page_290-V2">290</a>; 
	 his fleet sails for England, II. <a href="#Page_317-V2">317</a>.<br />
"Sauvage," the, ship, I. <a href="#Page_363-V1">363</a>.<br />
Saxe, Marshall, I. 
   <a href="#Page_012-V1">12</a>, <a href="#Page_180-V1">180</a>, 
   <a href="#Page_182-V1">182</a>, <a href="#Page_310-V1">310</a>;
   his death, I. <a href="#Page_010-V1">10</a>, 
   <a href="#Page_181-V1">181</a>.<br />
Saxony, I. <a href="#Page_010-V1">10</a>, II. <a href="#Page_038-V2">38</a>; 
   joins the league against Prussia, I. <a href="#Page_355-V1">355</a>.<br />
Saxony, Elector of, the, I. <a href="#Page_010-V1">10</a>.<br />
Scarroyaddy, Indian chief, I. <a href="#Page_204-V1">204</a>.<br />
Schenectady, village of, I. <a href="#Page_321-V1">321</a>, 
   <a href="#Page_322-V1">322</a>, II. <a href="#Page_007-V2">7</a>, 
   <a href="#Page_086-V2">86</a>.<br />
Schuyler, General, I. <a href="#Page_319-V1">319</a>, II. 
   <a href="#Page_098-V2">98</a>, <a href="#Page_126-V2">126</a>, 
	 <a href="#Page_127-V2">127</a>; 
   action between Bradstreet and Villiers, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_394-V1">394</a>-<a href="#Page_396-V1">396</a>.<br />
Schuyler, Mrs., I. <a href="#Page_319-V1">319</a>; 
   her affection for Lord Howe, II. <a href="#Page_091-V2">91</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_098-V2">98</a>.<br />
Schuyler, Pedrom, II. <a href="#Page_098-V2">98</a>.<br />
Schuyler family, the, I. <a href="#Page_032-V1">32</a>,
   <a href="#Page_033-V1">33</a>.<br />
Scioto, town of, I. <a href="#Page_048-V1">48</a>,
   <a href="#Page_049-V1">49</a>.<br />
Scioto River, the, I. <a href="#Page_055-V1">55</a>.<br />
Scipio, I. <a href="#Page_420-V1">420</a>.<br />
Scotch, the, in Pennsylvania, I. <a href="#Page_031-V1">31</a>, 
   <a href="#Page_339-V1">339</a>.<br />
Scotland, II. <a href="#Page_049-V2">49</a>, 
   <a href="#Page_185-V2">185</a>.<br />
Scott, Lieutenant-Colonel George, I. <a href="#Page_246-V1">246</a>; 
   the siege of Beaus&eacute;jour, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_249-V1">249</a>-<a href="#Page_253-V1">253</a>; 
   his gallant action, II. <a href="#Page_060-V2">60</a>.<br />
Scurvy, I. <a href="#Page_131-V1">131</a>, II. <a href="#Page_339-V2">339</a>,
   <a href="#Page_352-V2">352</a>.<br />
S&eacute;gur, Count, quotation from, I. <a href="#Page_016-V1">16</a>.<br />
Seneca, Lake, I. <a href="#Page_054-V1">54</a>.<br />
Senecas, the, I. <a href="#Page_044-V1">44</a>; 
   visited by Bienville, I. <a href="#Page_044-V1">44</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_045-V1">45</a>;
	 efforts of the French to convert, I. <a href="#Page_065-V1">65</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_070-V1">70</a>, <a href="#Page_071-V1">71</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_171-V1">171</a>; 
	 their alliances, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_142-V2">142</a>-<a href="#Page_144-V2">144</a>.<br />
Senegal, II. <a href="#Page_047-V2">47</a>,
   <a href="#Page_400-V2">400</a>, <a href="#Page_406-V2">406</a>.<br />
Senezergues, mortally wounded, II. <a href="#Page_303-V2">303</a>.<br />
Seven Years War, the, I. <a href="#Page_003-V1">3</a>, 
   <a href="#Page_004-V1">4</a>, II. 
	 <a href="#Page_038-V2">38</a>, <a href="#Page_039-V2">39</a>,
	 <a href="#Page_405-V2">405</a>-<a href="#Page_407-V2">407</a>,  
	 <a href="#Page_409-V2">409</a>; 
   deportment of British officers, II. <a href="#Page_119-V2">119</a>.<br />
Seventy-eighth Regiment, the, at Quebec, II. 
   <a href="#footer_27Note">298 <i>note</i></a>.<br />
Sewell, Colonel Matthew, I. <a href="#Page_310-V1">310</a>; 
   letter to Holdernesse quoted, I. <a href="#Page_310-V1">310</a>.<br />
Sharpe, Governor of Maryland, I. <a href="#Page_191-V1">191</a>, 
   <a href="#Page_201-V1">201</a>, <a href="#Page_202-V1">202</a>; 
   council of governors held with Braddock, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_191-V1">191</a>-<a href="#Page_195-V1">195</a>.<br />
Shawanoes, the, I. <a href="#Page_040-V1">40</a>,
   <a href="#Page_045-V1">45</a>, <a href="#Page_046-V1">46</a>,
   <a href="#Page_048-V1">48</a>, <a href="#Page_057-V1">57</a>,
   <a href="#Page_130-V1">130</a>, <a href="#Page_209-V1">209</a>, 
   <a href="#Page_391-V1">391</a>, <a href="#Page_392-V1">392</a>; 
   their attitude towards the English, I. <a href="#Page_059-V1">59</a>,
   <a href="#Page_203-V1">203</a>, <a href="#Page_329-V1">329</a>, 
   <a href="#Page_343-V1">343</a>, <a href="#Page_344-V1">344</a>, II. 
	 <a href="#Page_150-V2">150</a>, <a href="#Page_151-V2">151</a>; 
	 present at a convention of Indians, II. <a href="#Page_142-V2">142</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_143-V2">143</a>.<br />
Shebbeare, Dr., I. 
   <a href="#footer_200">196 <i>note</i>, 197 <i>note</i></a>.<br />
Shepherd, Captain, I. <a href="#Page_434-V1">434</a>; 
   his capture and escape, I. <a href="#Page_434-V1">434</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_435-V1">435</a>.<br />
Sheppard, Jack, I. <a href="#Page_007-V1">7</a>.<br />
Sherbrooke, II. <a href="#footer_26Note">258 <i>note</i></a>.<br />
Shingas, Indian chief, II. <a href="#Page_145-V2">145</a>.<br />
Ship, sign of the, a tavern, I. <a href="#Page_227-V1">227</a>.<br />
Ship-building, I. <a href="#Page_072-V1">72</a>,
   <a href="#Page_073-V1">73</a>.<br />
Shippensburg, II. <a href="#Page_136-V2">136</a>, 
   <a href="#Page_142-V2">142</a>.<br />   
Shirley, Captain John, son of Governor Shirley, I. 
   <a href="#Page_323-V1">323</a>, <a href="#Page_326-V1">326</a>;

<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_496-V2" id="Page_496-V2">496<br />V2</a></span>

   extracts from his letter to Governor Morris, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_323-V1">323</a>, <a href="#Page_324-V1">324</a>; 
	 a victim of the war, I. <a href="#footer_322">324 <i>note</i></a>; 
	 his popularity, I. <a href="#footer_322">324 <i>note</i></a>.<br />
<a name="shirley" id="shirley"></a>
Shirley, William, Governor of Massachusetts, I. 
   <a href="#Page_123-V1">123</a>, <a href="#Page_168-V1">168</a>; 
   tries to repel the French invasions, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_141-V1">141</a>, <a href="#Page_170-V1">170</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_171-V1">171</a>, <a href="#Page_192-V1">192</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_234-V1">234</a>; 
	 his dealing with the Assembly of Massachusetts, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_168-V1">168</a>, <a href="#Page_169-V1">169</a>,  
			<a href="#Page_241-V1">241</a>, <a href="#footer_290">285 <i>note</i></a>; 
	 council held with Braddock, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_191-V1">191</a>-<a href="#Page_195-V1">195</a>; 
	 his French wife, I. <a href="#Page_192-V1">192</a>; 
	 defends taxation by Parliament, I. <a href="#Page_193-V1">193</a>; 
	 his troops, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_194-V1">194</a>, <a href="#Page_246-V1">246</a>,
			<a href="#Page_320-V1">320</a>, <a href="#Page_326-V1">326</a>, II. 
			<a href="#Page_380-V2">380</a>; 
	 the decisions of the council at Albany, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_194-V1">194</a>, <a href="#Page_195-V1">195</a>; 
	 leads the expedition against Niagara and Fort Frontenac, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_194-V1">194</a>-<a href="#Page_196-V1">196</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_318-V1">318</a>-<a href="#Page_329-V1">329</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_374-V1">374</a>, II. <a href="#Page_127-V2">127</a>;  
	 desires Mackellar to draw plans for Braddock's expedition, I. 
	    <a href="#footer_228">221 <i>note</i></a>; 
	 his view of Dunbar's conduct, I. <a href="#footer_238">233 <i>note</i></a>; 
	 becomes commander-in-chief of the troops in America, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_233-V1">233</a>, <a href="#Page_245-V1">245</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_328-V1">328</a>; 
	 his correspondence with Governor Lawrence quoted, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_239-V1">239</a>; 
	 his plan with regard to expelling the French from Nova Scotia, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_234-V1">234</a>,
			<a href="#Page_239-V1">239</a>-<a href="#Page_241-V1">241</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_245-V1">245</a>-<a href="#Page_247-V1">247</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_257-V1">257</a>; 
	 the expedition sent against Crown Point, I.
	    <a href="#Page_285-V1">285</a>-<a href="#Page_317-V1">317</a>;
	 his campaigns boldly planned, I. <a href="#Page_318-V1">318</a>; 
	 border warfare, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_318-V1">318</a>-<a href="#Page_350-V1">350</a>; 
	 at Fort Oswego, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_322-V1">322</a>-<a href="#Page_324-V1">324</a>;
	 loss of his sons, I. <a href="#Page_323-V1">323</a>, 
	    <a href="#footer_322">324 <i>note</i></a>; 
	 councils of war called, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_325-V1">325</a>, <a href="#Page_326-V1">326</a>; 
	 the Niagara expedition abandoned, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_326-V1">326</a>, <a href="#Page_381-V1">381</a>; 
	 his quarrels with Johnson and with Delancey, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_327-V1">327</a>, <a href="#Page_328-V1">328</a>; 
	 letters from Governor Morris quoted, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_340-V1">340</a>, <a href="#Page_343-V1">343</a>; 
	 plans for a new campaign, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_381-V1">381</a>, <a href="#Page_382-V1">382</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_393-V1">393</a>, <a href="#Page_447-V1">447</a>; 
	 renews his expedition against Niagara, and Frontenac, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_381-V1">381</a>-<a href="#Page_383-V1">383</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_393-V1">393</a>; 
	 recalled from command, I. <a href="#Page_383-V1">383</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_399-V1">399</a>, <a href="#Page_400-V1">400</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_420-V1">420</a>; 
	 a cabal formed against, I. <a href="#Page_383-V1">383</a>;  
	 his zeal and courage, I. <a href="#Page_384-V1">384</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_400-V1">400</a>; 
	 his boatmen placed under Bradstreet, I. <a href="#Page_393-V1">393</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_405-V1">405</a>; 
	 sends men to defend Oswego, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_393-V1">393</a>-<a href="#Page_398-V1">398</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_405-V1">405</a>, <a href="#footer_432">413 <i>note</i></a>, 
			<a href="#Page_420-V1">420</a>; 
	 interview with Loudon, I. <a href="#Page_399-V1">399</a>; 
	 Oswego seized by the French, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_407-V1">407</a>-<a href="#Page_416-V1">416</a>;  
	 vindicates himself, I. <a href="#footer_432">413 <i>note</i></a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_420-V1">420</a>, <a href="#footer_436">420 <i>note</i></a>; 
	 causes leading to his failure, I. <a href="#Page_417-V1">417</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_418-V1">418</a>; 
	 Loudon prejudiced against, I. <a href="#Page_420-V1">420</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_468-V1">468</a>; 
	 sails for England, I. <a href="#Page_421-V1">421</a>; 
	 made governor of the Bahamas, I. <a href="#Page_421-V1">421</a>; 
	 the opinion of Franklin concerning, I. <a href="#Page_421-V1">421</a>; 
	 succeeded by Governor Pownall, II. <a href="#Page_084-V2">84</a>.<br />
Shirley, William, son of the governor, 
   secretary of Braddock, I. <a href="#Page_187-V1">187</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_188-V1">188</a>, <a href="#Page_191-V1">191</a>; 
   letter quoted concerning Braddock's expedition, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_201-V1">201</a>, <a href="#Page_202-V1">202</a>; 
	 shot through the head, I. <a href="#Page_219-V1">219</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_229-V1">229</a>, <a href="#Page_323-V1">323</a>; 
	 letter to Governor Morris quoted, I. <a href="#Page_323-V1">323</a>.<br />
Shirley, Fort, I. <a href="#Page_423-V1">423</a>.<br />
Short, Richard, drawings of Quebec after the siege, II. 
   <a href="#footer_816">327 <i>note</i></a>.<br />
Shubenacadie River, the, I. <a href="#Page_113-V1">113</a>.<br />
Shute, John, I. <a href="#Page_444-V1">444</a>.<br />
Silesia, I. <a href="#Page_019-V1">19</a>, <a href="#Page_353-V1">353</a>, 
   <a href="#Page_345-V1">345</a>, II. <a href="#Page_040-V2">40</a>, 
	 <a href="#Page_388-V2">388</a>.<br />
Silhouette, I. <a href="#Page_122-V1">122</a>, 
   <a href="#Page_123-V1">123</a>.<br />
Sillery, II. <a href="#Page_215-V2">215</a>, <a href="#Page_274-V2">274</a>,
   <a href="#Page_276-V2">276</a>, <a href="#Page_288-V2">288</a>, 
	 <a href="#Page_333-V2">333</a>, <a href="#Page_344-V2">344</a>, 
	 <a href="#Page_346-V2">346</a>, <a href="#Page_347-V2">347</a>,
	 <a href="#Page_444-V2">444</a>.<br />
Sinclair, Sir John, quartermaster-general, I. 
   <a href="#Page_198-V1">198</a>, II. 
	 <a href="#Page_133-V2">133</a>, <a href="#Page_137-V2">137</a>; 
   in Braddock's expedition, I. <a href="#Page_214-V1">214</a>;
	 wounded in the battle of the Monongahela, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_219-V1">219</a>, <a href="#Page_227-V1">227</a>;
	 despatch sent from General Forbes, II. <a href="#Page_137-V2">137</a>;
	 his peculiarities, II. <a href="#Page_138-V2">138</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_139-V2">139</a>;
	 his dealings with Lieutenant-Colonel Stephen, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_138-V2">138</a>, <a href="#Page_139-V2">139</a>.<br />
Small-pox, the, I. <a href="#Page_083-V1">83</a>.<br />
Smith, Colonel James, I. <a href="#Page_211-V1">211</a>;
   cruelties practised by the Indians upon, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_209-V1">209</a>, <a href="#Page_210-V1">210</a>; 
	 his statement concerning the defeat of Braddock's army, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_221-V1">221</a>-<a href="#Page_223-V1">223</a>.<br />
Smith, John, I. <a href="#Page_227-V1">227</a>.<br />
Smith, William, his remark concerning the provincial army, I. 
   <a href="#Page_292-V1">292</a>.<br />
Smith, William, a Rhode Island soldier, his bravery, II. 
   <a href="#Page_108-V2">108</a>.<br />
Smollett, I. <a href="#Page_006-V1">6</a>, <a href="#Page_159-V1">159</a>, 
   <a href="#Page_178-V1">178</a>.<br />
Smyth, and English traveller, I. 
   <a href="#footer_163">164 <i>note</i></a>.<br />
"Siren," the, I. <a href="#Page_247-V1">247</a>.<br />
"Sir&egrave;ne," the ship, I. <a href="#Page_363-V1">363</a>.<br />
Six Nations, the, I. <a href="#Page_057-V1">57</a>; 
   desire to remain neutral, I. <a href="#Page_390-V1">390</a>. 
	 See <a href="#fiveNations">Five Nations</a>.<br />
Sodus Bay, I. <a href="#Page_072-V1">72</a>.<br />
Sorel, II. <a href="#Page_364-V2">364</a>, <a href="#Page_365-V2">365</a>.<br />
Soubise, I. <a href="#Page_010-V1">10</a>.<br />
South Bay, I. <a href="#Page_295-V1">295</a>, <a href="#Page_296-V1">296</a>, 
   <a href="#Page_298-V1">298</a>, <a href="#Page_301-V1">301</a>,
	 <a href="#Page_313-V1">313</a>, <a href="#Page_388-V1">388</a>,
	 <a href="#Page_435-V1">435</a>, <a href="#Page_496-V1">496</a>, II. 
	 <a href="#Page_121-V2">121</a>, <a href="#Page_241-V2">241</a>.<br />
South Carolina, I. <a href="#Page_033-V1">33</a>,
	 <a href="#Page_139-V1">139</a>, <a href="#Page_151-V1">151</a>,
	 <a href="#Page_152-V1">152</a>, <a href="#Page_176-V1">176</a>; 
   commissioners sent to meet the Indians at Albany, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_061-V1">61</a>; 
	 extent of British frontier, II. <a href="#Page_381-V2">381</a>.<br />
Spain, I. <a href="#Page_009-V1">9</a>, <a href="#Page_019-V1">19</a>, II.
   <a href="#Page_049-V2">49</a>, <a href="#Page_395-V2">395</a>; 
   succession of Carlos III., II. <a href="#Page_396-V2">396</a>;  
	 the Family Compact, II. <a href="#Page_396-V2">396</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_397-V2">397</a>; 
	 change of rulers, II. <a href="#Page_396-V2">396</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_399-V2">399</a>; 
	 influence of Pitt, II. <a href="#Page_400-V2">400</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_401-V2">401</a>; 
	 expedition of Pococke, II. <a href="#Page_401-V2">401</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_402-V2">402</a>; 
	 receives Havana from England, II. <a href="#Page_405-V2">405</a>; 
	 the peace of Paris, II. <a href="#Page_405-V2">405</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_406-V2">406</a>; 
	 acquisitions in America, II. <a href="#Page_406-V2">406</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_413-V2">413</a>; 
	 sinking into decay, II. <a href="#Page_411-V2">411</a>.<br />
Speakman, Captain, despatches sent to Winslow, I. 
   <a href="#Page_276-V1">276</a>.<br />

<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_497-V2" id="Page_497-V2">497<br />V2</a></span>

Spikeman, Captain, one of Rogers' scouting-party, I. 
   <a href="#Page_441-V1">441</a>; 
   adventures of the expedition, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_441-V1">441</a>-<a href="#Page_445-V1">445</a>.<br />
Spithead, embarkation of Wolfe, II. <a href="#Page_192-V2">192</a>.<br />
Split, Cape, I. <a href="#Page_268-V1">268</a>.<br />
Spruce-beer, I. <a href="#Page_259-V1">259</a>, II. 
   <a href="#Page_236-V2">236</a>, <a href="#Page_237-V2">237</a>, 
	 <a href="#Page_354-V2">354</a>.<br />
Stanhope, Earl, II. <a href="#footer_24Note">194 <i>note</i></a>.<br />
Stanley, his sketch of the Duc de Choiseul, II.
   <a href="#Page_393-V1">393</a>, <a href="#Page_394-V1">394</a>;
	 at Versailles, II. <a href="#Page_395-V1">395</a>.<br />
Stanley, Dean, II. <a href="#Page_433-V2">433</a>.<br />
Stanwix, Brigadier, 
   new fort to be erected at the Great Carrying Place, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_129-V2">129</a>;  
	 builds Fort Pitt, II. <a href="#Page_159-V2">159</a>; 
	 to relieve Pittsburg, II. <a href="#Page_236-V2">236</a>; 
	 Pittsburg endangered, II. <a href="#Page_244-V2">244</a>.<br />
Stanwix, Fort, II. <a href="#Page_242-V2">242</a>.<br />
Stark, John, I. <a href="#Page_432-V1">432</a>, 
   <a href="#Page_446-V1">446</a>;
	 his celebrity, I. <a href="#Page_291-V1">291</a>; 
   in the expedition against Crown Point, I. <a href="#Page_291-V1">291</a>; 
	 adventures in a scouting-party of Rogers, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_441-V1">441</a>-<a href="#Page_445-V1">445</a>;
	 wounded, I. <a href="#footer_471">451 <i>note</i></a>; 
	 serves under Abercromby, II. <a href="#Page_094-V2">94</a>.<br />
Stephen, Adam, 
   matters pertaining to Washington and Jumonville, I. 
	    <a href="#footer_152">151 <i>note</i></a>, II. 
			<a href="#Page_422-V2">422</a>; 
   trouble with Sir J. Sinclair, II. <a href="#Page_138-V2">138</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_139-V2">139</a>;
	 sent to succor Rogers, II. <a href="#Page_256-V2">256</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_257-V2">257</a>.<br />
Sterne, I. <a href="#Page_006-V1">6</a>.<br />
Stevens, the Indian interpreter, I. <a href="#Page_288-V1">288</a>; 
   escapes from Quebec, II. <a href="#Page_278-V2">278</a>.<br />
Stewart, Captain, I. <a href="#Page_220-V1">220</a>.<br />
Still, Isaac, II. <a href="#Page_149-V2">149</a>, 
   <a href="#Page_150-V2">150</a>.<br />
Stillwater, I. <a href="#Page_387-V1">387</a>, 
   <a href="#Page_452-V1">452</a>.<br />
Stirling, II. <a href="#Page_185-V2">185</a>.<br />
Stobo, Major Robert, I. <a href="#Page_159-V1">159</a>, II. 
   <a href="#Page_277-V2">277</a>; 
   detained at Quebec as a hostage, II. <a href="#Page_277-V2">277</a>; 
	 his escape, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_277-V2">277</a>, <a href="#Page_278-V2">278</a>; 
	 gives Wolfe the result of his knowledge of Quebec, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_277-V2">277</a>, <a href="#Page_278-V2">278</a>;  
	 his memoirs, II. <a href="#footer_765">278 <i>note</i></a>.<br />
Stockbridge, II. <a href="#Page_256-V2">256</a>.<br />
Stone, William L., I. <a href="#footer_319">316 <i>note</i></a>, II. 
   <a href="#footer_726">237 <i>note</i></a>.<br />
Stuarts, the, I. <a href="#Page_006-V1">6</a>, II. 
   <a href="#Page_049-V2">49</a>, <a href="#Page_392-V2">392</a>.<br />
"Success," the, I. <a href="#Page_247-V1">247</a>.<br />
Suffield, I. <a href="#Page_402-V1">402</a>.<br />
Sugar-trade, the, II. <a href="#Page_403-V2">403</a>.<br />
Sulpitian priests, the, I. 
   <a href="#Page_038-V1">38</a>, <a href="#Page_052-V1">52</a>,
	 <a href="#Page_066-V1">66</a>, <a href="#Page_458-V1">458</a>, II. 
   <a href="#Page_144-V2">144</a>.<br />
Superior, Lake, I. <a href="#Page_075-V1">75</a>, 
   <a href="#Page_372-V1">372</a>, <a href="#Page_486-V1">486</a>.<br />
Susquehanna River, the, I. <a href="#Page_342-V1">342</a>, 
   <a href="#Page_343-V1">343</a>, <a href="#Page_391-V1">391</a>, II. 
   <a href="#Page_143-V2">143</a>.<br />
"Sutherland," the, II. <a href="#Page_224-V2">224</a>, 
   <a href="#Page_280-V2">280</a>, <a href="#Page_284-V2">284</a>.<br />
Sweden joins the league against Prussia, I. <a href="#Page_355-V1">355</a>; 
   the Seven Years War, II. <a href="#Page_038-V2">38</a>,  
	    <a href="#Page_039-V2">39</a>;
	 peace with Prussia, II. <a href="#Page_399-V2">399</a>.<br />
Swedes in Pennsylvania, I. <a href="#Page_031-V1">31</a>.<br />
Sydney, II. <a href="#Page_078-V2">78</a>.<br />
</p>
<p><br /></p>
<h3>T.</h3>
<p>	
Tadoussac, I. <a href="#footer_124">126 <i>note</i></a>.<br />
Talon du Boulay, Ang&eacute;lique Louise, I. 
   <a href="#Page_358-V1">358</a>.<br />
Tantemar, I. 
   <a href="#Page_120-V1">120</a>, <a href="#Page_241-V1">241</a>,
	 <a href="#Page_254-V1">254</a>, <a href="#Page_255-V1">255</a>, II. 
	 <a href="#Page_181-V2">181</a>.<br />
Tass&eacute;, citation from, I. <a href="#footer_032">67 <i>note</i></a>.<br />
Tatten, Captain, I. <a href="#Page_227-V1">227</a>.<br />
Taxation, I. 
   <a href="#Page_171-V1">171</a>, <a href="#Page_193-V1">193</a>,
	 <a href="#Page_337-V1">337</a>, <a href="#Page_338-V1">338</a>,
	 <a href="#Page_344-V1">344</a>-<a href="#Page_347-V1">347</a>, II. 
	 <a href="#Page_392-V2">392</a>, <a href="#Page_402-V2">402</a>,
	 <a href="#Page_413-V2">413</a>.<br />
Teedyuscung, Indian chief, II. <a href="#Page_143-V2">143</a>.<br />
Temple, Lord, II. <a href="#footer_24Note">194 <i>note</i></a>,
   <a href="#Page_397-V2">397</a>.<br />
Thames River, the, II. <a href="#Page_206-V2">206</a>.<br />
Thirty-fifth Regiment, the, II. <a href="#footer_27Note">298 <i>note</i></a>.<br />
Thomas, Surgeon John, his diary quoted, I. <a href="#Page_250-V1">250</a>.<br />
Thompson, James, II. <a href="#Page_351-V2">351</a>; 
   diary of, II. <a href="#Page_439-V2">439</a>.<br />
Thousand Islands, the, I. <a href="#Page_068-V1">68</a>, II. 
   <a href="#Page_369-V2">369</a>.<br />
Three Rivers, I. 
   <a href="#Page_485-V1">485</a>, <a href="#Page_486-V1">486</a>, II.  
	 <a href="#Page_020-V2">20</a>, <a href="#Page_264-V2">264</a>,
	 <a href="#Page_312-V2">312</a>, <a href="#Page_341-V2">341</a>, 
	 <a href="#Page_360-V2">360</a>, <a href="#Page_363-V2">363</a>; 
	 census of, II. <a href="#Page_178-V2">178</a>.<br />
<a name="ticonderoga" id="ticonderoga"></a>
Ticonderoga, I. 
   <a href="#Page_350-V1">350</a>, <a href="#Page_453-V1">453</a>, II. 
	 <a href="#Page_002-V2">2</a>, <a href="#footer_543">16 <i>note</i></a>, 
	 <a href="#Page_083-V2">83</a>, <a href="#Page_102-V2">102</a>, 
	 <a href="#Page_119-V2">119</a>, <a href="#Page_162-V2">162</a>,
	 <a href="#Page_166-V2">166</a>, <a href="#Page_180-V2">180</a>, 
	 <a href="#Page_212-V2">212</a>, <a href="#Page_292-V2">292</a>; 
   camp at, I. <a href="#Page_373-V1">373</a>;
	 advance of Dieskau, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_297-V1">297</a>-<a href="#Page_299-V1">299</a>;
	 occupied by the French, I. <a href="#Page_313-V1">313</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_314-V1">314</a>;
	 attempt against, I. <a href="#Page_374-V1">374</a>;
	 held by the French, I. <a href="#Page_374-V1">374</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_376-V1">376</a>, <a href="#Page_390-V1">390</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_415-V1">415</a>, <a href="#Page_442-V1">442</a>; 
	 it importance and position, I. <a href="#Page_377-V1">377</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_378-V1">378</a>, <a href="#Page_427-V1">427</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_428-V1">428</a>, <a href="#Page_477-V1">477</a>, II. 
			<a href="#Page_099-V2">99</a>, <a href="#Page_100-V2">100</a>; 
	 plans of the English to capture, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_381-V1">381</a>, <a href="#Page_382-V1">382</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_387-V1">387</a>-<a href="#Page_389-V1">389</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_399-V1">399</a>, <a href="#Page_405-V1">405</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_406-V1">406</a>, <a href="#Page_447-V1">447</a>; 
	 war-parties sent out from, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_429-V1">429</a>-<a href="#Page_431-V1">431</a>; 
	 exploits of Rogers' rangers, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_433-V1">433</a>-<a href="#Page_437-V1">437</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_441-V1">441</a>-<a href="#Page_445-V1">445</a>, II. 
			<a href="#Page_011-V2">11</a>-<a href="#Page_016-V2">16</a>; 
	 a small party left in charge, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_439-V1">439</a>, <a href="#Page_448-V1">448</a>;
	 preparations to attack Fort William Henry, I. <a href="#Page_477-V1">477</a>; 
	 held by Montcalm's forces, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_490-V1">490</a>, <a href="#Page_491-V1">491</a>; 
	 expedition against, led by General Abercromby, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_086-V2">86</a>-<a href="#Page_113-V2">113 <i>note</i></a>; 
	 the battle and Montcalm's victory, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_104-V2">104</a>-<a href="#Page_113-V2">113 <i>note</i></a>;
	    <a href="#Page_128-V2">128</a>, <a href="#Page_164-V2">164</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_431-V2">431</a>-<a href="#Page_436-V2">436</a>; 
	 war-parties sent from, by the French, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_121-V2">121</a>-<a href="#Page_124-V2">124</a>; 
	 Putnam carried to, II. <a href="#Page_126-V2">126</a>; 
	 question of renewing the attack upon, by the English, II.  
	    <a href="#Page_129-V2">129</a>, <a href="#Page_130-V2">130</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_197-V2">197</a>;  
	 Bourlamaque established at, II. <a href="#Page_195-V2">195</a>;  
	 approach of Amherst, II. <a href="#Page_210-V2">210</a>,
   <a href="#Page_222-V2">222</a>; 
	 captured by the English, II.
	    <a href="#Page_235-V2">235</a>-<a href="#Page_240-V2">240</a>;  
	 blown up by the French, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_239-V2">239</a>, <a href="#Page_265-V2">265</a>;  
	 the legend of Inverawe, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_433-V2">433</a>-<a href="#Page_436-V2">436</a>.<br /> 
Titcomb, Colonel Moses, I. <a href="#Page_290-V1">290</a>; 
   his service at Louisbourg, I. <a href="#Page_290-V1">290</a>; 
	 the battle at Lake George, I. <a href="#Page_307-V1">307</a>.<br />
Tobacco, I. <a href="#Page_030-V1">30</a>, <a href="#Page_033-V1">33</a>.<br />
Tobago Island, to belong to England, II. <a href="#Page_405-V2">405</a>.<br />
Tomahawk Camp, II. <a href="#Page_161-V2">161</a>.<br />
Tongue Mountain, I. <a href="#Page_491-V1">491</a>.<br />


<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_498-V2" id="Page_498-V2">498<br />V2</a></span>

Tories, the, I. <a href="#Page_006-V1">6</a>, <a href="#Page_392-V1">392</a>, 
   <a href="#Page_398-V1">398</a>.<br />
Toronto, I. <a href="#Page_083-V1">83</a>; trading-house at, I. 
   <a href="#Page_070-V2">70</a>, <a href="#Page_072-V2">72</a>.<br />
Toronto, Fort, I. <a href="#Page_069-V2">69</a>, <a href="#Page_070-V2">70</a>; 
   plan of capture by the English, I. <a href="#Page_381-V1">381</a>.<br />
Toulon, II. <a href="#Page_049-V2">49</a>, <a href="#Page_050-V2">50</a>.<br />
Touraine, I. <a href="#Page_076-V1">76</a>.<br />
Tourmente, Cape, II. <a href="#Page_204-V2">204</a>,
   <a href="#Page_206-V2">206</a>, <a href="#Page_261-V2">261</a>.<br />
Tournois, Father, I. 
   <a href="#Page_064-V1">64</a>, <a href="#Page_065-V1">65</a>; 
	 his illegal trade, I. <a href="#footer_028">65 <i>note</i></a>.<br />
Townshend Captain, his efforts to assist the German settlement, II. 
   <a href="#Page_007-V1">7</a>; 
   his death, II. <a href="#Page_239-V2">239</a>.<br />
Townshend, Charles, secretary of war, I. <a href="#Page_008-V1">8</a>, II. 
   <a href="#Page_393-V2">393</a>.<br />
Townshend, George, his character, II. <a href="#Page_193-V2">193</a>;
   serves under Wolfe at the siege of Quebec, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_193-V2">193</a>, <a href="#Page_216-V2">216</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_217-V2">217</a>, <a href="#Page_266-V2">266</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_267-V2">267</a>, <a href="#Page_274-V2">274</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_289-V2">289</a>, <a href="#Page_290-V2">290</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_294-V2">294</a>,
			<a href="#footer_27Note">298 <i>note</i></a>, 
			<a href="#Page_314-V2">314</a>; 
	 succeeds Monckton in command, II. <a href="#Page_304-V2">304</a>;
	 note sent from the dying Montcalm, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_308-V2">308</a>, <a href="#Page_309-V2">309</a>;
	 the terms of capitulation for Quebec, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_315-V2">315</a>, <a href="#Page_316-V2">316</a>;
	 returns to England, II. <a href="#Page_317-V2">317</a>.<br />
Tracy, Lieutenant, II. <a href="#Page_123-V2">123</a>.<br />
Trading-posts, I. <a href="#Page_025-V1">25</a>, 
   <a href="#Page_070-V1">70</a>, <a href="#Page_087-V1">87</a>, 
	 <a href="#Page_192-V1">192</a>, <a href="#Page_193-V1">193</a>; 
   at Will's Creek, I. <a href="#Page_059-V1">59</a>,
   <a href="#Page_132-V1">132</a>, <a href="#Page_142-V1">142</a>, 
	 <a href="#Page_199-V1">199</a>, <a href="#Page_200-V1">200</a>.<br />
Trent, William, I. <a href="#Page_042-V1">42</a>,
   <a href="#Page_138-V1">138</a>, <a href="#Page_342-V1">342</a>;
   at Pickawillany, I. <a href="#footer_069">85 <i>note</i></a>; 
	 in Washington's expedition to the West, I. <a href="#Page_138-V1">138</a>; 
	 his band of backwoodsmen, I. <a href="#Page_142-V1">142</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_145-V1">145</a>; 
	 sufferings of the people, I. <a href="#Page_342-V1">342</a>.<br />
Trepezec, II. <a href="#Page_094-V2">94</a>, 
   <a href="#Page_095-V2">95</a>.<br />
<i>Troupes de terre</i>, I. <a href="#Page_368-V1">368</a>, 
   <a href="#Page_369-V1">369</a>.<br />
Trout Brook, II. <a href="#Page_012-V2">12</a>, 
   <a href="#Page_094-V2">94</a>-<a href="#Page_096-V2">96</a>.<br />
Truro, I. <a href="#Page_094-V1">94</a>.<br />
Tulpehocken, settlement destroyed by the Indians, I. 
   <a href="#Page_347-V1">347</a>.<br />
Turenne, I. <a href="#Page_010-V1">10</a>.<br />
Turkey Creek, II. <a href="#Page_158-V2">158</a>.<br />
Turner, Lieutenant, II. <a href="#Page_255-V2">255</a>; 
   attacked by the French, II. <a href="#Page_256-V2">256</a>.<br />
Turpin, Dick, I. <a href="#Page_007-V1">7</a>.<br />
Turtle, the, clan of, I. <a href="#Page_476-V1">476</a>.<br />
Turtle Creek, I. <a href="#Page_207-V1">207</a>.<br />
Tuscaroras join the Five Nations, I. <a href="#Page_063-V1">63</a>.<br />
Twenty-eighth Regiment, the, II. 
   <a href="#footer_27Note">298 <i>note</i></a>.<br />
Two Mountains, the, I. <a href="#Page_372-V1">372</a>.<br />
Two Mountains, Lake of the, I.
   <a href="#Page_154-V1">154</a>, <a href="#Page_474-V1">474</a>, 
   <a href="#Page_475-V1">475</a>, <a href="#Page_485-V1">485</a>, 
   <a href="#Page_486-V1">486</a>.<br />
Two Mountains, mission of, I. <a href="#footer_029">65 <i>note</i></a>; 
   ceremony in the Mission Church of, I. 
	    <a href="#footer_495">476 <i>note</i></a>.<br />
Tyburn, I. <a href="#Page_007-V1">7</a>.<br />
Tyrrell, name applied to Thomas Pichon, I. 
   <a href="#footer_249">243 <i>note</i></a>.<br />
</p>
<p><br /></p>
<h3>U.</h3>
<p>	
Ulster, I. <a href="#Page_031-V1">31</a>.<br />
United States, the, I. 
   <a href="#Page_048-V1">48</a>, <a href="#Page_193-V1">193</a>; 
	 her growth and opportunities, I. <a href="#Page_004-V1">4</a>, II. 
   <a href="#Page_408-V2">408</a>, <a href="#Page_411-V2">411</a>, 
   <a href="#Page_413-V2">413</a>, <a href="#Page_414-V2">414</a>.<br />
Upton, Mrs., I. <a href="#Page_189-V1">189</a>.<br />
Ursuline Convent, the, II. <a href="#Page_356-V2">309</a>.<br />
<a name="ursulines" id="ursulines"></a>
Ursulines, the, I. <a href="#Page_282-V1">282</a>, II.  
   <a href="#Page_208-V2">208</a>, <a href="#Page_222-V2">222</a>, 
   <a href="#Page_309-V2">309</a>, <a href="#Page_442-V2">442</a>;
   at the General Hospital, II. <a href="#Page_265-V2">265</a>; 
	 matters pertaining to the burial of Montcalm, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_317-V2">317</a>, <a href="#Page_441-V2">441</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_442-V2">442</a>.<br /> 
Utrecht, the treaty of, I. 
   <a href="#Page_043-V1">43</a>, <a href="#Page_079-V1">79</a>,
   <a href="#Page_090-V1">90</a>-<a href="#Page_092-V1">92</a>,
   <a href="#Page_094-V1">94</a>, 
   <a href="#Page_123-V1">123</a>-<a href="#Page_127-V1">127</a>,
   <a href="#Page_236-V1">236</a>-<a href="#Page_238-V1">238</a>.<br />
</p>
<p><br /></p>
<h3>V.</h3>
<p>
Valtry, M. de, I. <a href="#Page_074-V1">74</a>.<br />
Vanbraam, I. <a href="#Page_135-V1">135</a>;
   interpreter for Washington, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_133-V1">133</a>, <a href="#Page_158-V1">158</a>;
	 matters pertaining to the alleged assassination of Jumonville, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_158-V1">158</a>, <a href="#Page_159-V1">159</a>, II. 
			<a href="#Page_421-V2">421</a>-<a href="#Page_423-V2">423</a>.<br />
"Vanguard," the, II. <a href="#Page_356-V2">356</a>.<br />
Vannes, the siege at Beaus&eacute;jour, I. <a href="#Page_249-V1">249</a>,
   <a href="#Page_251-V1">251</a>.<br />
Van Renselaer, I. <a href="#Page_032-V1">32</a>.<br />
Varin, naval commissary, II. <a href="#Page_020-V2">20</a>; 
   number of French in the fight at Great Meadows, I. 
	    <a href="#footer_157">160 <i>note</i></a>; 
	 official knavery, II. <a href="#Page_029-V2">29</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_030-V2">30</a>, <a href="#Page_385-V2">385</a>.<br />
Varin, Madame, I. <a href="#Page_457-V1">457</a>, II. 
   <a href="#Page_428-V2">428</a>.<br />
Vaudreuil, Madame de, joins in the quarrel of her husband with Montcalm, II. 
   <a href="#Page_168-V2">168</a>.<br />
Vaudreuil, Phillippe de, early governor of Canada, I. 
   <a href="#Page_366-V1">366</a>.<br />
Vaudreuil, Pierre Fran&ccedil;ois Rigaud, Marquis de, 
   governor of New France, I. <a href="#Page_182-V1">182</a>,
	    <a href="#Page_288-V1">288</a>, <a href="#Page_289-V1">289</a>; 
   his estimate concerning the population of Canada, I. 
	    <a href="#footer_001">20 <i>note</i></a>; 
	 his friendship for Vergor, I. <a href="#Page_253-V1">253</a>, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_278-V1">278</a>; 
	 his traits of character, and his double-dealing, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_366-V1">366</a>-<a href="#Page_368-V1">368</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_376-V1">376</a>, 
			<a href="#footer_394">388 <i>note</i></a>, 
			<a href="#Page_445-V1">445</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_460-V1">460</a>-<a href="#Page_466-V1">466</a>, II. 
			<a href="#Page_007-V2">7</a>,
			<a href="#Page_020-V2">20</a>-<a href="#Page_031-V2">31</a>, 
			<a href="#footer_661">154 <i>note</i></a>, 
			<a href="#Page_167-V2">167</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_169-V2">169</a>-<a href="#Page_171-V2">171</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_173-V2">173</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_196-V2">196</a>-<a href="#Page_199-V2">199</a>, 
			<a href="#footer_26Note">258 <i>note</i></a>, 
			<a href="#Page_307-V2">307</a>, <a href="#Page_319-V2">319</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_322-V2">322</a>, <a href="#Page_376-V2">376</a>; 
	 life at Montreal, I. <a href="#Page_366-V1">366</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_455-V1">455</a>, <a href="#Page_456-V1">456</a>, II. 
			<a href="#Page_008-V2">8</a>-<a href="#Page_010-V2">10</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_018-V2">18</a>-<a href="#Page_022-V2">22</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_339-V2">339</a>;  
	 his relations with Montcalm, I.
	    <a href="#Page_366-V1">366</a>-<a href="#Page_368-V1">368</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_377-V1">377</a>, <a href="#Page_456-V1">456</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_460-V1">460</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_462-V1">462</a>-<a href="#Page_466-V1">466</a>, II. 
			<a href="#Page_003-V2">3</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_008-V2">8</a>-<a href="#Page_010-V2">10</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_035-V2">35</a>, <a href="#Page_036-V2">36</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_164-V2">164</a>-<a href="#Page_169-V2">169</a>,
			<a href="#Page_173-V2">173</a>, <a href="#Page_169-V2">175</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_179-V2">179</a>, <a href="#Page_180-V2">180</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_202-V2">202</a>, <a href="#Page_203-V2">203</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_292-V2">292</a>, <a href="#Page_293-V2">293</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_300-V2">300</a>, <a href="#Page_301-V2">301</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_315-V2">315</a>-<a href="#Page_323-V2">323</a>; 
	 his plans for defence, I. <a href="#Page_374-V1">374</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_376-V1">376</a>; 
	 induces the Indians to fight against the English, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_392-V1">392</a>, <a href="#Page_437-V1">437</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_438-V1">438</a>, <a href="#Page_467-V1">467</a>, II. 
			<a href="#Page_004-V2">4</a>, <a href="#Page_005-V2">5</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_262-V2">262</a>; 
	 party sent to cut off the supplies from Oswego, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_393-V1">393</a>, <a href="#Page_394-V1">394</a>; 
	 at Fort Frontenac, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_407-V1">407</a>, <a href="#Page_408-V1">408</a>; 
	 the French victorious at Oswego, I. <a href="#Page_413-V1">413</a>; 
	 despatches sent to Versailles, I. <a href="#Page_427-V1">427</a>; 

<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_499-V2" id="Page_499-V2">499<br />V2</a></span>

   war-party sent to reduce Fort William Henry, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_447-V1">447</a>-<a href="#Page_451-V1">451</a>;
	 his choice of Rigaud for commander, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_458-V1">458</a>, <a href="#Page_459-V1">459</a>; 
	 detractions made in regard to the French regulars, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_461-V1">461</a>-<a href="#Page_463-V1">463</a>; 
	 calls for troops, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_467-V1">467</a>, <a href="#Page_468-V1">468</a> 	 
	 the attack on Fort William Henry planned, I. <a href="#Page_472-V1">472</a>, 
	    <a href="#footer_526">514 <i>note</i></a> 
			(see <a href="#fortWilliamHenry">William Henry, Fort</a>); 
	 animus of Loudon towards, II. <a href="#Page_001-V2">1</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_002-V2">2</a>;  
	 the affair at German Flats, II. <a href="#Page_006-V2">6</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_007-V2">7</a>; 
	 his relations with Bigot, II. <a href="#Page_017-V2">17</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_018-V2">18</a>, <a href="#Page_323-V2">323</a>; 
	 his official corruption, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_020-V2">20</a>-<a href="#Page_031-V2">31</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_171-V2">171</a>, <a href="#Page_319-V2">319</a>; 
	 receives ministerial rebukes, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_032-V2">32</a>-<a href="#Page_035-V2">35</a>; 
	 his plans in regard to Ticonderoga, II.
	    <a href="#Page_086-V2">86</a>, <a href="#Page_087-V2">87</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_164-V2">164</a>, <a href="#Page_165-V2">165</a>; 
	 provides for the defence of Fort Duquesne, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_141-V2">141</a>, <a href="#Page_142-V2">142</a>; 
	 extracts from his letters to the colonial minister, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_141-V2">141</a>, <a href="#Page_142-V2">142</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_172-V2">172</a>-<a href="#Page_175-V2">175</a>;  
	 letters blaming Montcalm, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_164-V2">164</a>-<a href="#Page_166-V2">166</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_172-V2">172</a>, <a href="#Page_173-V2">173</a>; 
	 the loyalty of the Canadians, II. <a href="#Page_169-V2">169</a>; 
	 appeal made at court, for aid for Canada, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_171-V2">171</a>-<a href="#Page_173-V2">173</a>; 
	 receives the grand cross of the Order of St. Louis, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_174-V2">174</a>; 
	 a census of Canada made, II. <a href="#Page_178-V2">178</a>; 
	 ordered to defer to Montcalm, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_179-V2">179</a>, <a href="#Page_180-V2">180</a>; 
	 circular letter issued by, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_195-V2">195</a>, <a href="#Page_196-V2">196</a>; 
	 the siege and reduction of Quebec, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_195-V2">195</a>-<a href="#Page_233-V2">233</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_259-V2">259</a>-<a href="#Page_325-V2">325</a>, 
			<a href="#footer_28Note">325 <i>note</i>, 326 <i>note</i></a>, 
			<a href="#Page_437-V2">437</a>; 
	 measures taken by, in the defence of Quebec, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_198-V2">198</a>-<a href="#Page_203-V2">203</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_206-V2">206</a>, <a href="#Page_209-V2">209</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_218-V2">218</a>, <a href="#Page_222-V2">222</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_264-V2">264</a>, <a href="#Page_265-V2">265</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_274-V2">274</a>, <a href="#Page_276-V2">276</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_287-V2">287</a>, <a href="#Page_291-V2">291</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_292-V2">292</a>, <a href="#Page_301-V2">301</a>,
			<a href="#Page_302-V2">302</a>; 
	 his friendship for Cadet, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_199-V2">199</a>, <a href="#Page_323-V2">323</a>; 
	 tries to burn the English fleet, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_210-V2">210</a>-<a href="#Page_212-V2">212</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_227-V2">227</a>; 
	 proclamations of Wolfe, II. <a href="#Page_213-V2">213</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_214-V2">214</a>, <a href="#Page_223-V2">223</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_225-V2">225</a>, <a href="#Page_226-V2">226</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_261-V2">261</a>, <a href="#Page_262-V2">262</a>; 
	 councils of war held, I. <a href="#Page_218-V1">218</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_219-V1">219</a>, <a href="#Page_305-V1">305</a>;
	 his delight over the English disaster at Montmorenci, II.
	    <a href="#Page_233-V2">233</a>;  
	 the siege of Niagara by the English, II. <a href="#Page_235-V2">235</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_243-V2">243</a>-<a href="#Page_249-V2">249</a>; 	 
	 his orders to Bourlamaque, II. <a href="#Page_238-V2">238</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_239-V2">239</a>; 
	 the final battle and the death of Montcalm, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_292-V2">292</a>-<a href="#Page_297-V2">297</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_308-V2">308</a>-<a href="#Page_310-V2">310</a>; 
	 the question of capitulation discussed at Quebec, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_303-V2">303</a>-<a href="#Page_307-V2">307</a>; 
	 orders a retreat, II. <a href="#Page_307-V2">307</a>; 
	 his flight, II. <a href="#Page_308-V2">308</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_310-V2">310</a>; 
	 summons L&eacute;vis to his assistance, II. <a href="#Page_312-V2">312</a>;  
	 steps taken to repair his errors, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_312-V2">312</a>-<a href="#Page_314-V2">314</a>; 
	 Quebec surrenders, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_314-V2">314</a>-<a href="#Page_316-V2">316</a>; 
	 defames Ramesay, II. <a href="#Page_318-V2">318</a>; 
	 his correspondence, II. <a href="#Page_322-V2">322</a>, 
	    <a href="#footer_28Note">325 <i>note</i></a>, 
			<a href="#Page_438-V2">438</a>; 
	 his hope of retaking Quebec through the expedition of L&eacute;vis, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_340-V2">340</a>-<a href="#Page_358-V2">358</a>; 
	 his spirit, and chances of success, II. <a href="#Page_361-V2">361</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_362-V2">362</a>, <a href="#Page_366-V2">366</a>,
	    <a href="#Page_367-V2">367</a>, <a href="#Page_376-V2">376</a>;
	 his proclamation to the Canadians, II. <a href="#Page_366-V2">366</a>;  
	 orders given to Bougainville, II. <a href="#Page_367-V2">367</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_368-V2">368</a>; 
	 the English encamp near Montreal, II. <a href="#Page_372-V2">372</a>; 
	 the articles of capitulation for Montreal drawn up and signed, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_372-V2">372</a>-<a href="#Page_374-V2">374</a>; 
	 repairs to France, II. <a href="#Page_375-V2">375</a>,  
	    <a href="#Page_376-V2">376</a>, <a href="#Page_384-V2">384</a>; 
	 reproved for his action at Montreal, II. <a href="#Page_375-V2">375</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_376-V2">376</a>;  
	 imprisoned and tried, II. <a href="#Page_385-V2">385</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_386-V2">386</a>; 
	 acquitted, II. <a href="#Page_386-V2">386</a>; 
	 matters relating to Dumas and Ligneris, II. <a href="#Page_423-V2">423</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_424-V2">424</a>.<br />

Vaudreuil, Rigaud de. See <a href="#rigaud">Rigaud</a>.<br />
Vauquelin, his bravery at Louisbourg, II. <a href="#Page_063-V2">63</a>, 
	 <a href="#Page_341-V2">341</a>; 
   attacked by the English, II. <a href="#Page_356-V2">356</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_357-V2">357</a>.<br />
Vauvert, I. <a href="#Page_366-V1">366</a>.<br />
Venango, I. <a href="#Page_133-V1">133</a>, 
   <a href="#Page_135-V1">135</a>, <a href="#Page_423-V1">423</a>, II.
	 <a href="#Page_159-V2">159</a>-<a href="#Page_161-V2">161</a>, 
	 <a href="#Page_244-V2">244</a>; 
   the fort burned, II. <a href="#Page_247-V2">247</a>.<br />
Vend&ocirc;me, I. <a href="#Page_010-V1">10</a>.<br />
Verch&egrave;res, M. de, I. <a href="#Page_074-V1">74</a>.<br />
Vergor, Duchambon de, commandant at Beaus&eacute;jour, I. 
   <a href="#Page_239-V1">239</a>-<a href="#Page_242-V1">242</a>; 
   sustains Le Loutre, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_242-V1">242</a>-<a href="#Page_244-V1">244</a>; 
	 letter from Bigot advising official corruption, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_242-V1">242</a>; 
	 the siege of Beaus&eacute;jour, I.  
	    <a href="#Page_247-V1">247</a>-<a href="#Page_253-V1">253</a>; 
	 capitulation of the fort, I. <a href="#Page_251-V1">251</a>; 
	 tried and acquitted, I. <a href="#Page_253-V1">253</a>, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_278-V2">278</a>; 
	 his command on the Heights of Abraham, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_276-V2">276</a>-<a href="#Page_278-V2">278</a>; 
	 chances of success for Wolfe in his last venture, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_278-V2">278</a>, <a href="#Page_284-V2">284</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_285-V2">285</a>; 
	 shot in the heel, II. <a href="#Page_287-V2">287</a>.<br />
Vermont, I. <a href="#Page_290-V1">290</a>; 
   new road made across, II. <a href="#Page_241-V2">241</a>.<br />
Vernet, I. <a href="#Page_012-V1">12</a>.<br />
Verreau, Abb&eacute; H., II. <a href="#footer_17Note">37 <i>note</i></a>, 
   <a href="#footer_28Note">326 <i>note</i></a>.<br />
Versailles, I. 
   <a href="#Page_011-V1">11</a>, <a href="#Page_012-V1">12</a>, 
	 <a href="#Page_080-V1">80</a>, <a href="#Page_081-V1">81</a>, 
	 <a href="#Page_087-V1">87</a>, <a href="#Page_096-V1">96</a>, 
	 <a href="#Page_101-V1">101</a>, <a href="#Page_111-V1">111</a>,
	 <a href="#Page_180-V1">180</a>, <a href="#Page_182-V1">182</a>, 
	 <a href="#Page_253-V1">253</a>, <a href="#Page_361-V1">361</a>,  
	 <a href="#Page_474-V1">474</a>, II. <a href="#Page_032-V2">32</a>, 
	 <a href="#Page_354-V2">354</a>, <a href="#Page_395-V2">395</a>; 
   corruption at court, II. <a href="#Page_044-V2">44</a>; 
	 arrival of the envoys from Canada, II. <a href="#Page_174-V2">174</a>.<br />
Verte, Baye, I. 
   <a href="#Page_252-V1">252</a>-<a href="#Page_255-V1">255</a>.<br />
Vicars, Captain John, I. <a href="#footer_377">375 <i>note</i></a>, 
   <a href="#footer_410">398 <i>note</i></a>; 
	 at Albany, I. <a href="#Page_397-V1">397</a>.<br />
Viger, Hon. D.&nbsp;B., II. <a href="#Page_438-V2">438</a>.<br />
Viger, Jacques, II. <a href="#Page_418-V2">418</a>.<br />
Villars, I. <a href="#Page_010-V1">10</a>.<br />
Villejoin, I. <a href="#Page_458-V1">458</a>.<br />
Villeray, commandant at Fort Gaspereau, I. <a href="#Page_253-V1">253</a>; 
   surrenders to the English, I. <a href="#Page_253-V1">253</a>; 
	 brought to trial, I. <a href="#Page_253-V1">253</a>.<br />
Villiers, Coulon de, sent to Fort Duquesne, I. <a href="#Page_153-V1">153</a>; 
   the fight at Great Meadows, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_153-V1">153</a>-<a href="#Page_155-V1">155</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_157-V1">157</a>-<a href="#Page_161-V1">161</a>, II. 
			<a href="#Page_421-V2">421</a>-<a href="#Page_423-V2">423</a>; 
	 the fight with Bradstreet's boatmen, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_393-V1">393</a>-<a href="#Page_396-V1">396</a>; 
	 condition of his camp, I. <a href="#Page_402-V1">402</a>; 
	 encamped at Niaour&eacute; Bay, I. <a href="#Page_408-V1">408</a>; 
	 taken prisoner, II. <a href="#Page_248-V2">248</a>.<br />
Vincennes, I. <a href="#Page_083-V1">83</a>.<br />
Vincent, Earl St., II. <a href="#Page_284-V2">284</a>.<br />
Virginia, I. 
   <a href="#Page_068-V1">68</a>, <a href="#Page_069-V1">69</a>,  
	 <a href="#Page_142-V1">142</a>, <a href="#Page_163-V1">163</a>, 
	 <a href="#Page_181-V1">181</a>, <a href="#Page_182-V1">182</a>,
	 <a href="#Page_382-V1">382</a>, <a href="#Page_423-V1">423</a>; 
   manners, customs, and other matters of interest, 
	    pertaining to, I. 
			<a href="#Page_029-V1">29</a>-<a href="#Page_035-V1">35</a>,  
	    <a href="#Page_042-V1">42</a>, <a href="#Page_060-V1">60</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_086-V1">86</a>,
			<a href="#footer_163">164 <i>note</i></a>, 
			<a href="#Page_165-V1">165</a>, <a href="#Page_196-V1">196</a>, II. 
			<a href="#Page_022-V2">22</a>;

<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_500-V2" id="Page_500-V2">500<br />V2</a></span>

   questions of boundary, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_037-V1">37</a>, <a href="#Page_053-V1">53</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_061-V1">61</a>, <a href="#Page_174-V1">174</a>;
	 unpopularity of Lord Albemarle, I. <a href="#Page_136-V1">136</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_137-V1">137</a>; 
	 the settlers need protection from the Indians, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_139-V1">139</a>, <a href="#Page_140-V1">140</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_329-V1">329</a>-<a href="#Page_333-V1">333</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_336-V1">336</a>, <a href="#Page_343-V1">343</a>,
			<a href="#Page_365-V1">365</a>, <a href="#Page_380-V1">380</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_422-V1">422</a>, II. 
			<a href="#Page_131-V2">131</a>, <a href="#Page_132-V2">132</a>; 
	 meeting of the Assembly with Dinwiddie, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_164-V1">164</a>, <a href="#Page_165-V1">165</a>; 
	 enlistments in and preparations for Braddock's campaign, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_196-V1">196</a>, <a href="#Page_200-V1">200</a>; 
	 disposal of the Acadians, I. <a href="#Page_283-V1">283</a>; 
	 fears of a slave insurrection, I. <a href="#Page_331-V1">331</a>;  
	 condition of its forts, I. <a href="#Page_422-V1">422</a>, 
	    <a href="#footer_443">422 <i>note</i></a>; 
	 roads to Ohio, II. <a href="#Page_133-V2">133</a>. 
	 See <a href="#assemblyVirginia">Assembly of Virginia</a>.<br />
Virginia regiment, the, commanded by George Washington, I. 
   <a href="#Page_132-V1">132</a>, <a href="#Page_142-V1">142</a>, 
	 <a href="#Page_151-V1">151</a>;  
   distress of their marches, and difficulties of the service, I. 
	 <a href="#Page_153-V1">153</a>, 
	 <a href="#Page_156-V1">156</a>-<a href="#Page_159-V1">159</a>, 
	 <a href="#Page_163-V1">163</a>, <a href="#Page_216-V1">216</a>, 
	 <a href="#Page_217-V1">217</a>; 
	 the troops praised by Braddock and by Washington, I.   
	    <a href="#Page_226-V1">226</a>, <a href="#Page_230-V1">230</a>.<br />
Virginians, the, their service in the army, and merited commendation, I. 
   <a href="#Page_152-V1">152</a>, <a href="#Page_159-V1">159</a>, 
	 <a href="#Page_200-V1">200</a>, <a href="#Page_226-V1">226</a>, 
	 <a href="#Page_230-V1">230</a>, II. 
   <a href="#Page_133-V2">133</a>, <a href="#Page_138-V2">138</a>,
	 <a href="#Page_152-V2">152</a>, <a href="#Page_160-V2">160</a>.<br />
Vitr&eacute;, Denis de, pilots the English fleet, II. 
   <a href="#Page_203-V2">203</a>.<br />
Voltaire, I. <a href="#Page_001-V1">1</a>, <a href="#Page_016-V1">16</a>, 
   <a href="#Page_022-V1">22</a>; 
	 letter from Frederic II., II. 
      <a href="#Page_388-V2">388</a>.<br />
Voyageurs, I. <a href="#footer_001">20 <i>note</i></a>.<br />
</p>
<p><br /></p>
<h3>W.</h3>
<p>
Wabash River, the, I. <a href="#Page_040-V1">40</a>, 
   <a href="#Page_056-V1">56</a>, <a href="#Page_083-V1">83</a>.<br />
Waggoner, Captain, I. <a href="#Page_217-V1">217</a>, 
   <a href="#Page_331-V1">331</a>.<br />
Walker, Admiral, his fleet wrecked, II. <a href="#Page_203-V2">203</a>.<br />
Walpole, Horace, I. <a href="#Page_007-V1">7</a>; 
   his opinion of Edward Cornwallis, I.  
	    <a href="#Page_093-V1">93</a>, <a href="#Page_110-V1">110</a>; 
	 remark and anecdote concerning the Duke of Newcastle, I.  
	    <a href="#Page_177-V1">177</a>, <a href="#Page_178-V1">178</a>; 
	 observation concerning Mirepoix, I. <a href="#Page_180-V1">180</a>; 
	 sketch of General Braddock, I.
	    <a href="#Page_188-V1">188</a>, <a href="#Page_189-V1">189</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_191-V1">191</a>, <a href="#Page_198-V1">198</a>; 
	 remark concerning George Townshend, II. <a href="#Page_193-V2">193</a>; 
	 letters concerning Wolfe and Quebec, II. <a href="#Page_323-V2">323</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_324-V2">324</a>, <a href="#Page_358-V2">358</a>; 
	 recounts the death of George II., II.  
	    <a href="#Page_390-V2">390</a>, <a href="#Page_391-V2">391</a>; 
	 his writing concerns Pitt, II. <a href="#Page_406-V2">406</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_407-V2">407</a>.<br />
War-songs, I. <a href="#Page_474-V1">474</a>, <a href="#Page_476-V1">476</a>,
   <a href="#Page_481-V1">481</a>.<br />
Ward, Ensign, attacked by the French, and surrenders, I. 
   <a href="#Page_143-V1">143</a>.<br />
Warde, George, II. <a href="#Page_190-V2">190</a>.<br />
Warren, Sir Peter, Admiral, I. <a href="#Page_287-V2">287</a>.<br />
Washington, George, I. <a href="#Page_053-V1">53</a>; 
   sequence of events dating from the time of his youth, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_001-V1">1</a>; 
   enters upon his career, I. <a href="#Page_132-V1">132</a>;
	 adjutant-general of the Virginia militia, I. <a href="#Page_132-V1">132</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_142-V1">142</a>, <a href="#Page_151-V1">151</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_330-V1">330</a>; 
	 his embassy to Fort Le B&oelig;uf, with letter of introduction 
	    to Saint-Pierre, I. 
			   <a href="#Page_132-V1">132</a>-<a href="#Page_136-V1">136</a>, 
				 <a href="#Page_297-V1">297</a>; 
	 his adventure at Murdering Town, I. <a href="#Page_136-V1">136</a>;  
	 the site of Pittsburg examined by, I. <a href="#Page_142-V1">142</a>; 
	 the battle at Great Meadows, and the alleged assassination of Jumonville, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_145-V1">145</a>-<a href="#Page_162-V1">162</a>, II.
			<a href="#Page_421-V2">421</a>-<a href="#Page_423-V1">423</a>;
	 his traits of character, I. <a href="#Page_146-V1">146</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_147-V1">147</a>, <a href="#Page_150-V1">150</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_213-V1">213</a>, <a href="#Page_219-V1">219</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_331-V1">331</a>-<a href="#Page_334-V1">334</a>; 
	 at Fort Necessity, I. <a href="#Page_156-V1">156</a>; 
	 the capitulation drawn up by Villiers, I.  
	    <a href="#Page_158-V1">158</a>, <a href="#Page_159-V1">159</a>; 
	 retreat from Fort Necessity, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_160-V1">160</a>, <a href="#Page_161-V1">161</a>; 
	 opinion of, 
	    expressed by Half-King, I. <a href="#footer_159">160 <i>note</i></a>; 
	 the Fourth of July, I. <a href="#Page_161-V1">161</a>; 
	 quoted concerning Braddock, I. <a href="#Page_201-V1">201</a>;  
	 serves as aide-de-camp to Braddock in his expedition 
	    against Fort Duquesne, I. 
			   <a href="#Page_202-V1">202</a>, <a href="#Page_203-V1">203</a>; 
	 consultation with Braddock, I. <a href="#Page_206-V1">206</a>; 
	 letter to his brother quoted, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_206-V1">206</a>, <a href="#Page_207-V1">207</a>; 
	 crosses the Monongahela, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_212-V1">212</a>, <a href="#Page_213-V1">213</a>; 
	 battle of the Monongahela, and retreat of the English troops, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_214-V1">214</a>-<a href="#Page_233-V1">233</a>; 
	 letter quoted concerning the defeat, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_220-V1">220</a>, <a href="#Page_230-V1">230</a>; 
	 quoted concerning the suffering of the people, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_331-V1">331</a>-<a href="#Page_333-V1">333</a>, II. 
			<a href="#Page_131-V2">131</a>, <a href="#Page_132-V2">132</a>; 
	 his relations with Dinwiddie, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_332-V1">332</a>, <a href="#Page_333-V1">333</a>, II. 
			<a href="#Page_131-V2">131</a>, <a href="#Page_132-V2">132</a>; 
	 report of the affair at Kittanning, by Dumas, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_426-V1">426</a>, <a href="#Page_427-V1">427</a>; 
	 his relations with General Forbes, in his expedition against Fort Duquesne, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_134-V2">134</a>, <a href="#Page_137-V1">137</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_138-V2">138</a>, <a href="#Page_158-V1">158</a>.<br />
Waterbury, I. <a href="#Page_428-V1">428</a>.<br />
Webb, Colonel Daniel, I. <a href="#Page_439-V1">439</a>; 
   resigns his position as commander-in-chief, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_383-V1">383</a>; 
	 arrives at Albany, I. <a href="#Page_399-V1">399</a>; 
	 sent to reinforce Oswego, I. <a href="#Page_405-V1">405</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_406-V1">406</a>, <a href="#Page_415-V1">415</a>; 
	 at Fort Edward, I. <a href="#footer_511">496-498 <i>note</i></a>, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_002-V2">2</a>-<a href="#Page_004-V2">4</a>; 
	 his correspondence with Munro, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_496-V1">496</a>, <a href="#Page_497-V1">497</a>;
	 his lack of support for Munro, at Fort William Henry, I.
	    <a href="#Page_496-V1">496</a>, <a href="#Page_497-V1">497</a>,
			<a href="#Page_501-V1">501</a>, <a href="#Page_502-V1">502</a>,  
	    <a href="#footer_526">513 <i>note</i></a>, II. 
			<a href="#Page_001-V1">1</a>-<a href="#Page_003-V1">3</a>,
			<a href="#Page_428-V1">428</a>, <a href="#Page_429-V1">429</a>; 
	 his regiment at the siege of Quebec, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_297-V2">297</a>.<br />
Wedell, General, II. <a href="#Page_387-V2">387</a>.<br />
Weiser, Conrad, I. <a href="#Page_066-V1">66</a>,
			<a href="#Page_073-V1">73</a>, <a href="#Page_160-V1">160</a>; 
   letter to Governor Morris, I. <a href="#Page_347-V1">347</a>.<br />
Weld, Chaplain, I. <a href="#Page_404-V1">404</a>, 
   <a href="#footer_420">405 <i>note</i></a>.<br />
Wentworth, Governor, I. <a href="#footer_525">510 <i>note</i></a>.<br />
Wesley, John, I. <a href="#Page_006-V1">6</a>.<br />
West, Captain, leads a party to bury the dead, II. 
   <a href="#Page_159-V2">159</a>, <a href="#Page_160-V2">160</a>.<br />
West, Benjamin, II. <a href="#Page_159-V2">159</a>.<br />
West, the conflict for, of the French and the English, I. 
   <a href="#Page_002-V1">2</a>, 
	 <a href="#Page_063-V1">63</a>-<a href="#Page_090-V1">90</a>, 
	 <a href="#Page_132-V1">132</a>, <a href="#Page_134-V1">134</a>, 
	 <a href="#Page_137-V1">137</a>-<a href="#Page_141-V1">141</a>, 
   <a href="#Page_170-V1">170</a>, <a href="#Page_192-V1">192</a>, 
	 <a href="#Page_231-V1">231</a>, <a href="#Page_232-V1">232</a>, 
	 <a href="#Page_318-V1">318</a>, <a href="#Page_329-V1">329</a>,
	 <a href="#Page_415-V1">415</a>; 
   the forests, I. <a href="#Page_205-V1">205</a>; 
	 French and English settlements compared, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_146-V2">146</a>.<br />
West Indies, the, I. 
   <a href="#Page_010-V1">10</a>, <a href="#Page_137-V1">137</a>, 
   <a href="#Page_230-V1">230</a>, <a href="#Page_356-V1">356</a>, II. 
	 <a href="#Page_065-V2">65</a>, <a href="#Page_192-V2">192</a>, 
	 <a href="#Page_401-V2">401</a>;
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_501-V2" id="Page_501-V2">501<br />V2</a></span>

   power of England over, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_400-V2">400</a>, <a href="#Page_405-V2">405</a>.<br />
West Mountain, I. <a href="#Page_300-V1">300</a>.<br />
Westminster Abbey, tablet erected to Lord Howe, II. 
   <a href="#Page_091-V1">91</a>.<br />
Wheeling Creek, I. <a href="#Page_048-V1">48</a>.<br />
Whigs, the, I. <a href="#Page_006-V1">6</a>, <a href="#Page_179-V1">179</a>, II. 
   <a href="#Page_040-V2">40</a>, <a href="#Page_392-V2">392</a>, 
	 <a href="#Page_400-V2">400</a>.<br />
White Mountains, I. <a href="#Page_453-V1">453</a>.<br />
White Point, II. <a href="#Page_057-V2">57</a>.<br />
White Woman's Creek, I. <a href="#Page_055-V1">55</a>.<br />
Whitefield, I. <a href="#Page_006-V1">6</a>.<br />
Whitehall, I. <a href="#Page_298-V1">298</a>, II. 
   <a href="#Page_121-V2">121</a>, <a href="#Page_252-V2">252</a>.<br /> 
White's Chocolate-House, I. <a href="#Page_007-V1">7</a>.<br />
Whiting, Lieutenant-Colonel, I. <a href="#Page_302-V1">302</a>; 
   his men fall into Dieskau's ambush, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_302-V1">302</a>, <a href="#Page_303-V1">303</a>.<br />
Whitmore, brigadier, 
   serves in the expedition against Louisbourg, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_048-V2">48</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_057-V2">57</a>-<a href="#Page_076-V2">76</a>; 
   becomes the governor of Louisbourg, II. <a href="#Page_076-V2">76</a>.<br />
Whitworth, Dr. Miles, I. <a href="#Page_508-V1">508</a>; 
   summons to the Acadians drawn up, I. <a href="#Page_271-V1">271</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_272-V1">272</a>; 
	 present at the massacre at Fort William Henry, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_509-V1">509</a>, <a href="#Page_514-V1">514</a>, II. 
			<a href="#Page_430-V2">430</a>, <a href="#Page_431-V2">431</a>.<br />
Wiggins, George, II. <a href="#footer_19Note">82 <i>note</i></a>.<br />
Wilhelmina, death of, II. <a href="#Page_389-V2">389</a>.<br />
William, Duke of Cumberland, son of George II., I. 
   <a href="#Page_008-V1">8</a>.<br />
William III., his accession to the throne of England, I. 
   <a href="#Page_005-V1">5</a>, <a href="#Page_006-V1">6</a>.<br />
William and Mary College, I. <a href="#Page_163-V1">163</a>.<br />
<a name="fortWilliamHenry" id="fortWilliamHenry"></a>
William Henry, Fort, I. <a href="#Page_388-V1">388</a>, 
   <a href="#Page_452-V1">452</a>, <a href="#Page_457-V1">457</a>, II. 
	 <a href="#Page_088-V2">88</a>, <a href="#Page_114-V2">114</a>;
   its situation, I. <a href="#Page_316-V1">316</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_492-V1">492</a>; 
	 winter life of the garrison, I. <a href="#Page_350-V1">350</a>; 
	 its condition, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_401-V1">401</a>, <a href="#Page_402-V1">402</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_493-V1">493</a>, <a href="#Page_495-V1">495</a>; 
	 exploits of Lieutentant Kennedy and Captain Hodges, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_428-V1">428</a>, <a href="#Page_429-V1">429</a>; 
	 exploits of Rogers' rangers, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_433-V1">433</a>-<a href="#Page_437-V1">437</a>,
			<a href="#Page_441-V1">441</a>, <a href="#Page_445-V1">445</a>; 
	 attacked by Vaudreuil's war-party, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_446-V1">446</a>-<a href="#Page_451-V1">451</a>,
			<a href="#Page_456-V1">456</a>-<a href="#Page_458-V1">458</a>;  
	 a new attack planned, and the expedition prepared by the French, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_472-V1">472</a>,
			<a href="#Page_474-V1">474</a>-<a href="#Page_494-V1">494</a>;  
	 besieged and conquered by the French, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_494-V1">494</a>-<a href="#Page_513-V1">513</a>, 
			<a href="#footer_526">514 <i>note</i></a>, II. 
			<a href="#Page_001-V2">1</a>,
			<a href="#Page_002-V2">2</a>, <a href="#Page_005-V2">5</a>,
			<a href="#Page_006-V2">6</a>, <a href="#Page_237-V2">237</a>,
			<a href="#Page_292-V2">292</a>, <a href="#Page_320-V2">320</a>,
			<a href="#Page_321-V2">321</a>, <a href="#Page_381-V2">381</a>,
			<a href="#Page_428-V2">428</a>-<a href="#Page_431-V2">431</a>; 
	 some of the garrison massacred by the Indians, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_505-V1">505</a>-<a href="#Page_513-V1">513</a>,
	    <a href="#footer_526">514 <i>note</i></a>, II. 
			<a href="#Page_428-V1">428</a>-<a href="#Page_431-V1">431</a>.<br />
William Henry Hotel, I. <a href="#Page_401-V1">401</a>.<br />
Williams, Colonel Ephraim, I. <a href="#Page_290-V1">290</a>; 
   origin of Williams College, I. <a href="#Page_290-V1">290</a>; 
	 serves in the expedition against Crown Point, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_290-V1">290</a>-<a href="#Page_311-V1">311</a>; 
	 his wounds and death, I. <a href="#Page_302-V1">302</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_303-V1">303</a>, <a href="#Page_311-V1">311</a>.<br />
Williams, Colonel Israel, II. <a href="#footer_642">120 <i>note</i></a>;
   letters to, quoted, I. 
     <a href="#Page_292-V1">292</a>, <a href="#Page_293-V1">293</a>, II. 
     <a href="#Page_114-V2">114</a>, <a href="#Page_115-V2">115</a>.<br />
Williams, Josiah, I. <a href="#Page_311-V1">311</a>.<br />
Williams, Stephen, a chaplain, I. <a href="#Page_290-V1">290</a>; 
   preaches to the army at Lake George, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_295-V1">295</a>, <a href="#Page_296-V1">296</a>.<br />
Williams, Thomas, a surgeon, 
   serves in the expedition sent against Crown Point, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_290-V1">290</a>-<a href="#Page_293-V1">293</a>; 
   letters from, quoted, I. <a href="#Page_294-V1">294</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_311-V1">311</a>, 
			<a href="#footer_319">316 <i>note</i></a>, 
			<a href="#Page_406-V1">406</a>;
	 his account of the battle of Lake George, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_306-V1">306</a>,
			<a href="#footer_316">312 <i>note</i></a>;
	 his anxiety for Oswego, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_405-V1">405</a>, <a href="#Page_406-V1">406</a>.<br /> 
Williams, Colonel William, 
   account of the loss of Oswego, I.  
	    <a href="#Page_406-V1">406</a>, <a href="#Page_407-V1">407</a>; 
	 letters quoted concerning the army and the battle at Ticonderoga, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_114-V2">114</a>, <a href="#Page_115-V2">115</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_119-V2">119</a>, <a href="#Page_120-V2">120</a>.<br />
Williams College, I. <a href="#Page_290-V1">290</a>.<br />
Williams, Fort, I. <a href="#Page_374-V1">374</a>,
   <a href="#Page_375-V1">375</a>.<br />
Williamsburg, I. <a href="#Page_136-V1">136</a>,
   <a href="#Page_142-V1">142</a>, <a href="#Page_163-V1">163</a>, 
	 <a href="#Page_228-V1">228</a>, <a href="#Page_332-V1">332</a>; 
   society at, I. <a href="#Page_163-V1">163</a>,
   <a href="#Page_164-V1">164</a>.<br />
Will's Creek, I. <a href="#Page_059-V1">59</a>,
   <a href="#Page_139-V1">139</a>, 
	 <a href="#Page_142-V1">142</a>-<a href="#Page_144-V1">144</a>, 
	 <a href="#Page_151-V1">151</a>, <a href="#Page_161-V1">161</a>; 
   the trading-station established on, I. <a href="#Page_132-V1">132</a>,
   <a href="#Page_199-V1">199</a>, <a href="#Page_260-V1">260</a>.<br />
Winchester, I. 
   <a href="#Page_141-V1">141</a>, <a href="#Page_330-V1">330</a>.<br />
Windsor, I. <a href="#Page_094-V1">94</a>, <a href="#Page_268-V1">268</a>.<br />
Winnebagoes, the, I. <a href="#Page_486-V1">486</a>.<br />
Winslow, John, I.  
   <a href="#Page_169-V1">169</a>, <a href="#Page_495-V1">495</a>; 
   his education and circumstances, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_245-V1">245</a>, <a href="#Page_246-V1">246</a>; 
	 his letters and journal quoted concerning the Acadians, I.
	    <a href="#Page_249-V1">249</a>, <a href="#Page_250-V1">250</a>,
			<a href="#Page_252-V1">252</a>, <a href="#footer_261">253 <i>note</i></a>,
			<a href="#Page_254-V1">254</a>, <a href="#Page_255-V1">255</a>,
			<a href="#footer_275">266 <i>note</i></a>,
			<a href="#Page_267-V1">267</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_269-V1">269</a>-<a href="#Page_271-V1">271</a>,
			<a href="#Page_274-V1">274</a>, <a href="#Page_275-V1">275</a>,
			<a href="#Page_277-V1">277</a>, <a href="#footer_278">277 <i>note</i></a>, 
			<a href="#Page_278-V1">278</a>, <a href="#Page_279-V1">279</a>; 
	 the siege of Fort Beaus&eacute;jour, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_247-V1">247</a>-<a href="#Page_253-V1">253</a>; 
	 circumstances with regard to the removal of the Acadians, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_249-V1">249</a>-<a href="#Page_253-V1">253</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_266-V1">266</a>-<a href="#Page_284-V1">284</a>; 
	 relations with Captain Murray, I. <a href="#Page_269-V1">269</a>,
	    <a href="#Page_275-V1">275</a>, <a href="#Page_278-V1">278</a>; 
	 delivers the orders of George II. to the Acadians, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_272-V1">272</a>-<a href="#Page_274-V1">274</a>; 
	 his portrait, I. <a href="#Page_273-V1">273</a>;
	 his quarters at Half-Moon, I. <a href="#Page_387-V1">387</a>;
	 letter to Colonel Fitch, I. <a href="#Page_388-V1">388</a>; 
	 letters hastening the preparations for an attack on Ticonderoga, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_388-V1">388</a>, <a href="#Page_389-V1">389</a>,
			<a href="#Page_405-V1">405</a>, <a href="#Page_438-V1">438</a>;   
	 difficulty concerning the rank of provincials and regulars, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_399-V1">399</a>, <a href="#Page_400-V1">400</a>;  
	 his camp at Lake George, I. <a href="#Page_401-V1">401</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_421-V1">421</a>, <a href="#Page_438-V1">438</a>; 
	 his opinion of Israel Putnam, I. <a href="#Page_428-V1">428</a>;
	 his Letter Book cited, I. <a href="#Page_429-V1">429</a>;
	 prisoners brought into camp, I. <a href="#Page_431-V1">431</a>;
	 his sentinels killed, I. <a href="#Page_437-V1">437</a>;
	 ordered to remain in a defensive attitude, I. <a href="#Page_438-V1">438</a>; 
	 his letter to Shirley concerning the failure of the campaign, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_438-V1">438</a>, <a href="#Page_439-V1">439</a>; 
	 his troops garrisoned in winter-quarters, I. <a href="#Page_439-V1">439</a>; 
	 money expended on his expedition, II. <a href="#Page_084-V2">84</a>.<br />
Wisconsin, I. <a href="#Page_486-V1">486</a>.<br />
Wisconsin Historical Society, the, II. <a href="#Page_426-V1">426</a>.<br />
Wolf Island, I. <a href="#Page_409-V1">409</a>.<br />
Wolfe, Mrs., the filial devotion of her son, II. 
   <a href="#Page_185-V2">185</a>-<a href="#Page_190-V2">190</a>, 
	 <a href="#Page_192-V2">192</a>; 
   last letter from General Wolfe, II. <a href="#Page_269-V2">269</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_270-V2">270</a>; 
	 mourns his loss, II. <a href="#Page_324-V2">324</a>.<br />
Wolfe, Major-General Edward, II. <a href="#Page_184-V2">184</a>.<br />

<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_502-V2" id="Page_502-V2">502<br />V2</a></span>
<a name="wolfe" id="wolfe"></a>
Wolfe, James, II. <a href="#Page_048-V2">48</a>, <a href="#Page_345-V2">345</a>; 
   his opinion of Cornwallis, I. <a href="#Page_093-V2">93</a>;
	 serves in the expedition against Louisbourg, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_048-V2">48</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_057-V2">57</a>-<a href="#Page_081-V2">81</a>; 
	 his characteristics and ill health, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_048-V2">48</a>, <a href="#Page_058-V2">58</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_078-V2">78</a>-<a href="#Page_081-V2">81</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_183-V2">183</a>-<a href="#Page_188-V2">188</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_190-V2">190</a>-<a href="#Page_192-V2">192</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_219-V2">219</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_221-V2">221</a>-<a href="#Page_225-V2">225</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_262-V2">262</a>,  
			<a href="#Page_266-V2">266</a>-<a href="#Page_270-V2">270</a>,
			<a href="#Page_272-V2">272</a>, <a href="#Page_277-V2">277</a>,
			<a href="#Page_281-V2">281</a>, <a href="#Page_288-V2">288</a>,
			<a href="#Page_289-V2">289</a>, <a href="#Page_294-V2">294</a>, 
		  <a href="#Page_295-V2">295</a>; 
	 his age, II. <a href="#Page_184-V2">184</a>; 
	 confidential relation existing with his mother, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_185-V2">185</a>-<a href="#Page_190-V2">190</a>,
			<a href="#Page_192-V2">192</a>, <a href="#Page_269-V2">269</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_270-V2">270</a>; 
	 plans of attack at Louisbourg, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_057-V2">57</a>, <a href="#Page_058-V2">58</a>; 
	 the Island Battery silenced, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_062-V2">62</a>, <a href="#Page_063-V2">63</a>; 
	 the French ships burned, II. <a href="#Page_066-V2">66</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_067-V2">67</a>, <a href="#Page_069-V2">69</a>; 
	 the capitulation of Louisbourg, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_071-V2">71</a>-<a href="#Page_075-V2">75</a>; 
	 ordered to disperse the French settlers, II.  
	    <a href="#Page_080-V2">80</a>, <a href="#Page_081-V2">81</a>; 
	 sails for England, II. <a href="#Page_081-V2">81</a>; 
	 his opinion of Abercromby and of Lord Howe, II.
	    <a href="#Page_089-V2">89</a>; 
	 an expedition fitted out to serve under, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_181-V2">181</a>-<a href="#Page_184-V2">184</a>; 
	 his rank and campaigns, II. <a href="#Page_185-V2">185</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_189-V2">189</a>, <a href="#Page_191-V2">191</a>; 
	 the Rochefort expedition, II. <a href="#Page_189-V2">189</a>; 
	 letters to Major Wolfe and Lieutenant-Colonel Rickson, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_190-V2">190</a>-<a href="#Page_192-V2">192</a>; 
	 his betrothed, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_190-V2">190</a>, <a href="#Page_284-V2">284</a>; 
	 to command the expedition against Quebec, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_191-V2">191</a>-<a href="#Page_193-V2">193</a>; 
	 embarks for America, II. <a href="#Page_192-V2">192</a>; 
	 authorities on his life, II. <a href="#footer_24Note">194 <i>note</i></a>; 
	 siege and reduction of Quebec, II.
	    <a href="#Page_195-V2">195</a>-<a href="#Page_233-V2">233</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_259-V2">259</a>-<a href="#Page_299-V2">299</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_436-V2">436</a>-<a href="#Page_441-V2">441</a>; 
	 arrival of the fleet in the St. Lawrence, and passage of the Traverse, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_203-V2">203</a>-<a href="#Page_206-V2">206</a>; 
	 at the Island of Orl&eacute;ans, II. <a href="#Page_208-V2">208</a>; 
	 his view of the French camp, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_208-V2">208</a>, <a href="#Page_209-V2">209</a>; 
	 the descent of the fireships, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_210-V2">210</a>-<a href="#Page_212-V2">212</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_227-V2">227</a>; 
	 seizes Point Levi, II. <a href="#Page_213-V2">213</a>; 
	 his proclamations to the Canadians, II. <a href="#Page_213-V2">213</a>,
	    <a href="#Page_214-V2">214</a>, <a href="#Page_223-V2">223</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_225-V2">225</a>, <a href="#Page_226-V2">226</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_260-V2">260</a>, <a href="#Page_261-V2">261</a>;  
	 his position at Montmorenci, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_216-V2">216</a>-<a href="#Page_220-V2">220</a>; 
	 Quebec bombarded, II. <a href="#Page_216-V2">216</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_217-V2">217</a>, <a href="#Page_228-V2">228</a>; 
	 his determination to persevere in the siege, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_228-V2">228</a>;
	 the disaster at Montmorenci, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_228-V2">228</a>-<a href="#Page_233-V2">233</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_259-V2">259</a>, <a href="#Page_260-V2">260</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_268-V2">268</a>, <a href="#Page_269-V2">269</a>; 
	 ballads written concerning, II. <a href="#footer_25Note">233 <i>note</i></a>; 
	 the expected aid from Amherst, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_240-V2">240</a>, <a href="#Page_241-V2">241</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_250-V2">250</a>, <a href="#Page_272-V2">272</a>;  
	 proposes to fortify Isle-aux-Coudres, II. <a href="#Page_260-V2">260</a>; 
	 plans of attack considered by, II. <a href="#Page_260-V2">260</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_266-V2">266</a>-<a href="#Page_272-V2">272</a>; 
	 despatches sent to Pitt, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_268-V2">268</a>-<a href="#Page_272-V2">272</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_323-V2">323</a>;
	 the discovery of the path ascending the heights, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_272-V2">272</a>, <a href="#Page_278-V2">278</a>; 
	 his determination to climb the heights, and attack the French, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_272-V2">272</a>-<a href="#Page_280-V2">280</a>;  
	 movements of the squadron under Holmes, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_278-V2">278</a>-<a href="#Page_285-V2">285</a>;  
	 his last orders from the "Sutherland," II. 
	    <a href="#Page_280-V2">280</a>, <a href="#Page_281-V2">281</a>; 
	 statistics of his troops, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_281-V2">281</a>, <a href="#Page_283-V2">283</a>,
			<a href="#Page_290-V2">290</a>, 
			<a href="#footer_27Note">298 <i>note</i></a>, 
			<a href="#Page_437-V2">437</a>, <a href="#Page_438-V2">438</a>, 
			<a href="#Page_444-V2">444</a>; 
	 assisted by Saunders, II. <a href="#Page_282-V2">282</a>; 
	 the pretended attack at Beauport, II. <a href="#Page_282-V2">282</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_283-V2">283</a>; 
	 makes use of the French provision-boats, II. <a href="#Page_283-V2">283</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_284-V2">284</a>, <a href="#Page_286-V2">286</a>; 
	 his presentiment, II. <a href="#Page_284-V2">284</a>; 
	 his chances of success, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_284-V2">284</a>, <a href="#Page_285-V2">285</a>; 
	 the ascent of the heights, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_284-V2">284</a>-<a href="#Page_289-V2">289</a>; 
	 remark concerning Gray's Elegy, II. <a href="#Page_285-V2">285</a>; 
	 the challenge to the boats, II. <a href="#Page_286-V2">286</a>; 
	 his troops drawn up ready for action, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_289-V2">289</a>-<a href="#Page_292-V2">292</a>; 
	 the charge and victory of the English, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_295-V2">295</a>-<a href="#Page_297-V2">297</a>; 
	 his wounds, II. <a href="#Page_296-V2">296</a>; 
	 his last words, II. <a href="#Page_297-V2">297</a>,  
	    <a href="#footer_783">297 <i>note</i></a>
	 his death, II.
	    <a href="#Page_297-V2">297</a>, <a href="#Page_317-V2">317</a>, 
	    <a href="#Page_323-V2">323</a>, <a href="#Page_324-V2">324</a>;  
	 his remains carried to England, II. <a href="#Page_317-V2">317</a>;  
	 his death written upon by Walpole, II. <a href="#Page_323-V2">323</a>,
	    <a href="#Page_324-V2">324</a>;  
	 the fruits of the victory, II. <a href="#Page_325-V2">325</a>,
	    <a href="#Page_352-V2">352</a>, <a href="#Page_400-V2">400</a>;   
	 remarks of the Rev. E. Forbes, II. <a href="#Page_378-V2">378</a>; 
	 his "Instructions to Young Officers," II. 
	    <a href="#Page_439-V2">439</a>.<br />
Wolfe, Walter, the uncle of James Wolfe, II. 
   <a href="#Page_190-V2">190</a>, <a href="#Page_192-V2">192</a>; 
   letters from his nephew quoted, II. 
	    <a href="#Page_191-V2">191</a>-<a href="#Page_193-V2">193</a>.<br />
Wolfe's Cove, II. <a href="#Page_278-V2">278</a>.<br />
Wood Creek, I. <a href="#Page_295-V1">295</a>, <a href="#Page_297-V1">297</a>, 
   <a href="#Page_321-V1">321</a>, <a href="#Page_374-V1">374</a>, 
	 <a href="#Page_388-V1">388</a>, <a href="#Page_406-V1">406</a>, II. 
   <a href="#Page_121-V2">121</a>.<br />
Wooden Horse, the, I. <a href="#Page_386-V1">386</a>.<br />
Woolsey, Colonel, II. <a href="#Page_432-V2">432</a>, 
   <a href="#Page_433-V2">433</a>.<br />
Wooster, Colonel David, I. <a href="#Page_389-V1">389</a>.<br />
Worcester,  I. <a href="#Page_404-V1">404</a>.<br />
Wraxall, I. <a href="#footer_308">301 <i>note</i></a>; 
   eulogies of Johnson, I. <a href="#Page_316-V1">316</a>.<br />
Wright, his Life of Wolfe, II. <a href="#footer_19Note">82 <i>note</i></a>, 
   <a href="#Page_194-V1">194</a>.<br />
Wright, Dr., II. <a href="#Page_120-V2">120</a>;
   sickness in the army, II. <a href="#Page_120-V2">120</a>.<br />
Wyandot, I. <a href="#Page_054-V1">54</a>, <a href="#Page_076-V1">76</a>.<br />
Wyandots, the, I. <a href="#Page_040-V1">40</a>, <a href="#Page_041-V1">41</a>, 
   <a href="#Page_057-V1">57</a>.<br />
Wyoming, II. <a href="#Page_143-V2">143</a>.<br />
</p>
<p><br /></p>
<h3>Y.</h3>
<p>
Yadkin, the, I. <a href="#Page_058-V1">58</a>.<br />
Yale College, I. <a href="#Page_290-V1">290</a>.<br />
York, I. <a href="#Page_007-V1">7</a>.<br />
Youghiogany river, the, I. 
   <a href="#Page_145-V1">145</a>, <a href="#Page_146-V1">146</a>, 
   II. <a href="#Page_138-V2">138</a>.<br />
Young, Lieutenant-Colonel, I. <a href="#Page_496-V1">496</a>;
   sent to Montcalm for terms of capitulation, I. 
	    <a href="#Page_505-V1">505</a>.<br />
</p>
<p><br /></p>
<h3>Z.</h3>
<p>
Zeisberger, David, I.   
   <a href="#footer_015"><i>55 note</i></a>.<br />
Zinzendorf, Count, I. 
   <a href="#Page_054-V1">54</a>, <a href="#Page_055-V1">55</a>.<br />
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<h3>France and England in North America</h3> 
<ol>
<li><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/3721">
		Pioneers of France in the New World</a> (1865)<br />
		Revised (1885)</li> 
<li><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/6933">
    The Jesuits in North America in the seventeenth century</a> (1867)</li> 
<li><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/9997">
    The Discovery of the West</a> (1869) <br />
		<a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/40143">
    La Salle and the Discovery of the Great West</a> (1879)</li> 
<li><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53000">
    The Old R&eacute;gime in Canada</a> (1874)<br />
		Revised (1894)</li>
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    Count Frontenac and New France under Louis XIV.</a> (1877)</li>
<li>A Half Century of Conflict (1892)<br />
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    <span class="smcap">Montcalm and Wolfe</span> </a> (1884)</li>
</ol>

<p>
The year that each book was published is printed and enclosed by parenthesis
after the title of each volume.  In three cases, there are two listings for
a line item.  For those parts, Parkman issued a volume with major revisions
subsequent to the initial release of the book.
</p>
<p>
The revised version of <i>Pioneers of France</i> (Part One) contains new 
descriptions of Florida and some changes to the section on Samuel Champlain.  
Parkman revised <i>Discovery of the West</i> (Part Three) after obtaining 
access to Margry's collection.  The revised version of <i>The Old 
R&eacute;gime</i> (Part Four) includes three new chapters regarding 
La Tour and D'Aunay.
</p>
<p>
Volume 3 was not only revised, but the title was altered.  Parkman first 
released Volume 3 as <i>The Discovery of the West.</i>  His updated version of 
Volume 3 was entitled <i>La Salle and the Discovery of the Great West.</i>
</p>

<h3>Other Principal Works</h3> 
<ul>
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		The Oregon Trail</a> (1849)</li> 
<li><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/39253">
    The Conspiracy of Pontiac</a> (1851)</li> 
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	 <h3>Introduction</h3>
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<p>
Welcome to <span class="smcap">Project Gutenberg's</span> edition of
<i>Montcalm and Wolfe</i>.  While this book was the sixth part released by 
Francis Parkman in his seven-part series called <i>France and England 
in North America,</i> Parkman refers to this book as Part Seven. In
the Preface to this book, Parkman noted that these two volumes were
a departure from the chronological sequence of the series.  The events 
of the epoch that was passed over formed the topics of <i>A Half 
Century of Conflict</i>, Part Six of this series.  Parkman published both
volumes of Part Six in 1892.</p>
<p> 
The author was in poor health when he began work on these volumes, and 
wondered if he would only be able to write one more book.  He chose to 
tell first the story that he most ardently wished to tell. </p>
<p>
Our version of <i>Montcalm and Wolfe</i> is based on the 1885 edition of 
this book, published by Little, Brown, and Company.  This book is essentially 
the same book as the original work, published one year before by the same 
publisher. The 1884 book is of slightly better quality, but practical 
considerations factored into our decision to use the book available from 
Yale University.  Future claims of errata may be consulted against the 
scanned pages of the 1885 book, available through Hathitrust.</p>
<p>
The footnotes have been produced using the <span class="smcap">Project 
Gutenberg</span>&trade; standard.  Footnotes follow the paragraph in 
which they were mentioned.  Footnotes have been set in smaller print 
and have larger margins than regular text.  Footnotes are numbered 
sequentially. There are a total of 877 numbered footnotes in this book.  
There are also eleven end of chapter footnotes, which are in addition to 
the sequentially numbered footnotes.  </p>
<p>
This text generally preserved the italicization of <i>words, phrases, and 
the titles of references</i> which are presented in <i>italics</i> in the 
printed book.  The standard of the book is to not use italics on numbers.
For example, it is easier to write:  <i>Webb to Loudon, 1 Aug. 1757</i>,
but the book displayed the content as follows:  <i>Webb to Loudon</i>, 
1 <i>Aug</i>. 1757.  We have tried to match that policy in this e-book.    
<span class="smcap">Small capitalization</span> has also been retained.   
</p>
<p>
The topics list in the <i>Contents</i> are supposed to match the topics
list at the beginning of each chapter.  The variances were most often
present in the capitalization of words.  There was one case of variance 
in punctuation, and another case where a word was changed.  Our emendations 
in these matters made the topics list in the contents match the topics list 
at the beginning of each chapter.  See the <i>Detailed Notes</i>
for individual changes.  
</p>
<p>
Detailed notes describe problems or issues in transcribing a specific 
portion of the text.  Emendations are listed, and described, in the 
<i>Detailed Notes</i>, as well as other issues in transcribing the  
text.  
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<h3>Detailed Notes Section:</h3>



<div id="notes">

<p><br /></p>
<h4> Chapter 1:</h4>
<p>
   On <a href="#Page_030-V1">Page 30</a>, slave-masters is hyphenated and
	 split between two lines.  There are no other occurrences of the word
	 in the book.  We retained the hyphen in the sentence: <strong>They may be 
	 described as English country squires transplanted to a warm climate and 
	 turned slave-masters.</strong>
</p>
<p>
   On <a href="#Page_032-V1">Page 32</a> and 
	 <a href="#Page_372-V2">Page 372</a> in Vol II, non-combatants is hyphenated
	 and split between two lines.  The word is hyphenated and not split there
	 on <a href="#Page_141-V1">Page 141</a>, <a href="#Page_311-V2">Page 311</a>,
	 and <a href="#Page_409-V2">Page 409</a>.  There are no occurrences of 
	 noncombatants without the hyphen.  Therefore, we retained the hyphen in our 
	 transcription. 
</p>
<p><br /></p>
<h4> Chapter 2:</h4>
<p>
   On <a href="#Page_048-V1">Page 48</a>, (and also 
	 <a href="#Page_385-V1">Page 385</a>), powder-horn is hyphenated and
	 split between two lines.  Powder-horn is used in three other instances:  
	 <a href="#Page_211-V1">Page 211</a>,  <a href="#Page_291-V1">Page 291</a>, 
	 and <a href="#Page_306-V1">Page 306</a>. There is no usage of powder-horn 
	 without the hyphen.  Therefore, we retained the hyphen in our transcription 
	 in the two cases in question.
</p>
<p><br /></p>
<h4> Chapter 3:</h4>
<p>
   On <a href="#Page_073-V1">Page 73</a> and <a href="#Page_076-V1">Page 76</a>,
	 block-houses appear with a hyphen.  Both words are written this way, in the 
	 middle of a line, in the text by Parkman.  There are many other occurrences
	 of the word blockhouse where the word is spelled without a hyphen.  See the
	 detailed notes of Chapter 8 for more information.  We kept the transcription 
	 as it appears in the printed book, and simply advise readers that the author 
	 or the publisher, and not the transcriber, originated the inconsistency.  
</p>
<p>
   On <a href="#Page_075-V1">Page 75</a>, in <a href="#footer_041">footnote 41</a>,
	 the word servir appears to have an accent over the r.  The 1884 volume
	 does not have the accent; therefore, the assumption is that the accent in 
	 the 1885 volume is an imperfection.  We transcribed the word as 'servir,' 
	 without the accent over the r. 
</p>
<p>
   On <a href="#Page_085-V1">Page 85</a>, verb tenses do not agree in the 
	 sentence: Seventy years of missionaries had not weaned them from cannibalism, 
	 and they boiled and <strong>eat</strong> the Demoiselle.  Nevertheless, the 
	 sentence was transcribed as Parkman wrote it.
</p>
<p><br /></p>
<h4> Chapter 4:</h4>
<p>
   On <a href="#Page_095-V1">Page 95</a> in <a href="#footer_075">footnote 
	 75</a>, Sa <strong>Ma jest&eacute;</strong> is split between two lines 
	 without a hyphen. We assume that the missing hyphen was a typo. The 
	 word was transcribed Majest&eacute;.
</p>
<p>
   On <a href="#Page_101-V1">Page 101</a> remove period after Le in the 
	 clause: <strong>another from Le. Loutre, declaring that he and 
	 Father Germain were consulting together how to disgust the English with 
	 their enterprise of Halifax;</strong>....  This period did not exist in
	 the 1884 version of this book.
</p>
<p><br /></p>
<h4> Chapter 5:</h4>
<p>
   On <a href="#Page_132-V1">Page 132</a> pack-horses is hyphenated and split
	 between two lines.  On <a href="#Page_205-V1">Page 205</a>, 
	 <a href="#Page_206-V1">Page 206</a>, and <a href="#Page_212-V1">Page 212</a>,
	 the author omitted the hyphen, spelling packhorses.  Parkman retained the 
	 hyphen on <a href="#Page_134-V2">Page 134</a> of Volume II.  Also, on 
	 <a href="#Page_214-V1">Page 214</a>, pack horses was spelled as two words.
	 We went with the majority vote and transcribed the word packhorses, without 
	 the hyphen, in the clause: <strong>and four or five white men with 
	 packhorses.</strong>	 
</p>
<p>
   On <a href="#Page_149-V1">Page 149</a> corrected the exotic spelling of
	 Washington in the clause: <strong>that which the cruel Vvasinghton
	 had promised himself.</strong>  This error does not exist in the 1884 book.
</p>
<p>
   With seventeen other occurrences of storehouse spelled without the hyphen, 
	 and none with, the transcription of the hyphenated word on 
	 <a href="#Page_155-V1">Page 155</a> was an easy decision in the clause:
	 <strong>and turned back for the storehouse</strong>.  This logic also 
	 applies to the transcription on Page 374 in Chapter 11.
</p>
<p><br /></p>
<h4> Chapter 7:</h4>
<p>
   On <a href="#Page_199-V1">Page 198</a>, add missing period at the 
	 conclusion of the clause: as it was favorable to its political 
	 longings<strong>.</strong>   This period was not missing in the 1884
	 edition.
</p>
<p>
   On <a href="#Page_208-V1">Page 208</a>, guard-house is hyphenated and
	 split between two lines.  Guard-houses of Page 328 in Volume II is
	 also hyphenated and split between two lines.  
	 On <a href="#Page_319-V1">Page 319</a> in Volume I, guard-house is 
	 hyphenated in the middle of a line.  There are no other occurrences
	 of the word.  Therefore, we have transcribed the word guard-house, 
	 both here and on page 328 in Volume II.
</p>
<p>
   On <a href="#Page_208-V1">Page 208</a>, musket shot is spelled as two 
	 words, without the hyphen. There is some confusion as to whether shot
	 is a noun or a verb, i.e., a musket-shot (noun) from the ramparts or a 
	 musket shot (verb) from the ramparts.  There are eight other occurrences 
	 of the word spelled musket-shot, with a hyphen, in the book.  In some of
	 those instances, the word was split between two lines for spacing and
	 transcribed as musket-shot.  There is another instance where musket shot 
	 appears without the hyphen, on page 50 in Volume 2.  The usage on page 50
	 appears to be a noun.  We kept the transcription as it is in the printed 
	 book.   
</p>
<p>
   On <a href="#Page_214-V1">Page 214</a>, pack horses was spelled as two words
	 in the clause: <strong>the pack horses and cattle, with their drivers
	 ...</strong>.  No change was made despite the spelling being inconsistent
	 in this book. See the detailed notes of Chapter 5 for more details.
</p>   
<p><br /></p>
<h4> Chapter 8:</h4>
<p>
   On <a href="#Page_234-V1">Page 234</a>, changed Persist to persist in 
	 <span class="smcap">The Acadians Persist in their Refusal</span> in the
	 topics list at the beginning of Chapter 8.  
</p>
<p>
   On <a href="#Page_248-V1">Page 248</a>, block-house is hyphenated and
	 split between two lines.  There are ten other occurrences of blockhouse
	 in the book, without the hyphen.  There are two occurrences of block-house,
	 on page 73 and page 76, with the hyphen.  Majority rules:&mdash;we have
	 transcribed the word blockhouse, without the hyphen, in the clause:
	 there was a large <strong>blockhouse</strong> and a breastwork of timber 
	 defended by ...
</p>
<p>
   On <a href="#Page_256-V1">Page 256</a> in <a href="#footer_264">footnote 
	 264</a>, corrected the spelling of <i>L'&Eacute;v&eacute;que de 
	 Qu&eacute;bec</i> to <i>L'&Eacute;v&ecirc;que de Qu&eacute;bec</i>. 
	 <a href="#footer_075">Footnote 75</a> and 
	 <a href="#footer_106">Footnote 106</a> opt for the circumflex in 
	 l'&Eacute;v&ecirc;que. The source for Footnote 75 is the same source
	 as Footnote 264.  The grave after v appears to be a typo.  This error 
	 was also present in the 1884 version of the book.
</p>
<p>
   On <a href="#Page_278-V1">Page 278</a> heart-sick is hyphenated and split
	 between two lines.  There are no other occurrences of the word in these
	 two volumes.  Heartsick without the hyphen may be found in Mr. Webster,
	 but not the hyphenated word.  Therefore, the hyphen was not retained in 
	 transcribing the clause: Winslow grew <strong>heartsick</strong> at the 
	 daily sight of miseries ... 
</p>
<p><br /></p>
<h4> Chapter 9:</h4>
<p>
   On <a href="#Page_290-V1">Page 290</a> in <a href="#footer_296">footnote 
	 296</a>, we have placed a period after VI in the source: <i>Provincial 
	 Papers of New Hampshire, VI. 429.</i> Footnote 393 and 457 refer to 
	 the same source, and both other references have a period after VI.
</p>
<p><br /></p>
<h4> Chapter 10:</h4>
<p>
   On <a href="#Page_326-V1">Page 326</a>, Parkman uses a hyphen in 
	 whale-boat, which is inconsistent with his usage of the word in these
	 two volumes.  There are two other occurrences of whale-boat:  1) On 
	 Page 271, as part of a quote, and 2) On Page 323, as part of the quote.
	 The presumption is that Parkman had no choice in the spelling of quoted
	 text.  There are twelve occurrences of whaleboat in the text without the 
	 hyphen.  There was one additional case where whale-boat was hyphenated and 
	 split between two lines for spacing (see the detailed notes for Chapter 21). 
	 That word was transcribed as whaleboat.  We made no change in the sentence: 
	 At the end of October, leaving seven hundred men at Oswego, Shirley returned 
	 to Albany, and narrowly escaped drowning on the way, while passing a rapid 
	 in a <strong>whale-boat,</strong> to try the fitness of that species of craft 
	 for river navigation.  However, this usage is an outlier. 
</p>
<p><br /></p>
<h4> Chapter 11:</h4>
<p>
   On <a href="#Page_374-V1">Page 374</a>, store-houses is split between two
	 lines and hyphenated for spacing.  We transcribed the word without the
	 hyphen in the clause: <strong>Fort Bull, a mere collection of storehouses
	 surrounded by a palisade ...</strong>.  See the detailed notes of Chapter
	 5 for a more detailed explanation.
</p>
<p><br /></p>
<h4> Chapter 12:</h4>
<p>
   On <a href="#Page_385-V1">Page 385</a>, powder-horn is split between two
	 lines and hyphenated for spacing.  We transcribed the word with the
	 hyphen in the clause: <strong>A powder-horn, bullet-pouch, blanket, 
	 knapsack, and "wooden bottle," or canteen, were supplied by the
   province; ...</strong>.  See the detailed notes of Chapter
	 2 for a more detailed explanation.
</p>
<p><br /></p>
<h4> Chapter 13:</h4>
<p>
   On <a href="#Page_417-V1">Page 417</a>, bush-fight is hyphenated in the
	 topics list of this chapter.  Bushfighter, on 
	 <a href="#Page_429-V1">Page 429</a>, is not hyphenated.  This inconsistency
	 appears throughout the book with bushfight and its variants.
	 Bushfighter appears on page 429 in volume 1, and page 123 in volume 2.
	 Bushfighters appears on page 246 in volume 2, but on page 371 in volume 1, 
	 the hyphen is used in bush-fighters.  Bushfight appears on page 381 of 
	 volume 2, but Bush-fight is hyphenated in the topics list of Chapters 13 
	 and 16.  Bush-fighting is hyphenated on pages 501 and 502 of volume 1.   
</p>
<p>
   On <a href="#Page_446-V1">Page 446</a>, small-pox is hyphenated and split
	 between two lines for spacing.  There are six other occurrences of
	 small-pox, spelled with a hyphen, in the middle of a line.  There is no
	 occurrence of smallpox, without the hyphen.  We transcribed the word with
	 the hyphen in the sentence: <strong>The effects of his wound and an attack 
	 of small-pox kept Rogers quiet for a time.</strong>  
</p>
<p>
   On <a href="#Page_446-V1">Page 446</a>, changed gripe to grip in the clause:
	 heralding that dismal season when winter begins to relax its 
	 <strong>gripe,</strong> but spring still holds aloof;  This error is
	 also found in the 1884 version of the book. 
</p>
<p><br /></p>
<h4> Chapter 15:</h4>
<p>
   On <a href="#Page_497-V1">Page 497</a>, hard-pressed was hyphenated and split
	 between two lines for spacing. There was no other usage of the word in both
	 volumes.  We transcribed the word with the hyphen in the clause: 
	 <strong>wrote the hard-pressed officer</strong>.
</p>
<p><br /></p>
<h4> Chapter 18:</h4>
<p>
   On <a href="#Page_038-V2">Page 38</a>, changed 1757-1758 to 1757, 1758 
	 in the heading of Chapter 18.<br />
	 On <a href="#Page_038-V2">Page 38</a>, capitalize new in the topic: 
	 <span class="smcap">The new Ministry</span>.
	 On <a href="#Page_038-V2">Page 38</a>, added comma after Court in
	 the topic: <span class="smcap">She controls the Court and directs 
	 the War</span>.
</p>
<p>
   On <a href="#Page_048-V2">Page 48</a>, short-coming is hyphenated and 
	 split between two lines for spacing.  Shortcoming is spelled without
	 the hyphen on page 50 and page 227 in volume 2.  Shortcomings is spelled 
	 without the hyphen on page 300 in Volume 2.  There are no occurrences of 
	 shortcoming or shortcomings with a hyphen in these volumes.  We 
	 transcribed the word without the hyphen in the clause: 
	 <strong>and make amends for all shortcomings of his chief.</strong>
</p> 
<p>
   On <a href="#Page_050-V2">Page 50</a>, musket shot is spelled as two 
	 words, without the hyphen.  Shot is used as a noun in this clause:
	 Gardiner was killed by a musket shot.  The book, in other cases, spelled
	 musket-shot with a hyphen when shot is used as a noun.  See the note in 
	 Chapter 7 for more details.  No changes were made, but in this case, the
	 transcriber believes musket-shot, with the hyphen, is more consistent
	 usage.
</p>
<p><br /></p>
<h4> Chapter 19:</h4>
<p>
   On <a href="#Page_056-V2">Page 56</a>, fire-ships is hyphenated in the
	 clause: At the end of May Admiral Boscawen was at Halifax with twenty-three 
	 ships of the line, eighteen frigates and <strong>fire-ships</strong>, and 
	 a fleet of transports ...  Fireships is used eight other times in these
	 volumes without a hyphen.  The inconsistency came from the publisher or
	 author, not the transcriber.
</p>
<p><br /></p>
<h4> Chapter 20:</h4>
<p>
   On <a href="#Page_083-V2">Page 83</a>, capitalized Frightful of
	 <span class="smcap">A frightful Scene</span> in the topics list
	 at the beginning of Chapter 20.  
</p>
<p>
   On <a href="#Page_089-V2">Page 89</a> in <a href="#footer_607">footnote 
	 607</a>, we have placed a comma after Parkman:
   Great-uncle of the writer, and son of the Rev. Ebenezer <strong>Parkman 
	 a</strong> graduate of Harvard, and minister of Westborough, Mass.  This
	 error is also found in the 1884 version of the book.	 
</p>
<p><br /></p>
<h4> Chapter 21:</h4>
<p>
   On <a href="#Page_114-V2">Page 114</a>, capitalized Routed in 
	 <span class="smcap">The routed Army</span> in the topics list
	 at the beginning of Chapter 21.  
</p>
<p>
   On <a href="#Page_114-V2">Page 114</a>, a curious character appears
	 after the y in the date of the letter of Colonel Williams. In a 
	 document in the Appendix, on <a href="#Page_429-V2">Page 429</a>,
	 there is the clause "We did not march till ye 10th."  Because of that
	 document in the Appendix, we transcribed the date:  
	 "Lake George (sorrowful situation), July y<span class="superscript">e</span> 
	 11<span class="superscript">th</span>," 
</p>
<p>
   On <a href="#Page_128-V2">Page 128</a>, whale-boats is hyphenated and
	 split across two lines for spacing.  We transcribed the word without
	 the hyphen in the clause:  <strong>On the twenty-second of August his 
	 fleet of whaleboats and bateaux pushed out on Lake Ontario;</strong>
	 See the detailed notes in Chapter 10 for more details.
</p>
<p><br /></p>
<h4> Chapter 22:</h4>
<p>
   On <a href="#Page_134-V2">Page 134</a>, Parkman uses a hyphen in 
	 pack-horses, which is inconsistent with his usual spelling of the word.
	 See the note in Chapter 5 for more details.  We retained the spelling
	 in the clause: as little impeded as possible with wagons and 
	 <strong>pack-horses</strong>.  
</p>
<p>
   On <a href="#Page_144-V2">Page 144</a>, war-like is hyphenated and split
	 between two lines for spacing.  On six other occasions of the two volumes,
	 Parkman used warlike, without the hyphen, in his text.  We transcribed the
	 word warlike in the clause ferocious instincts and <strong>warlike</strong> 
	 habits.
</p>
<p><br /></p>
<h4> Chapter 23:</h4>
<p>
   On <a href="#Page_164-V2">Page 164</a>, capitalized Despondent in 
	 <span class="smcap">The Canadians despondent</span> in the topics list
	 at the beginning of Chapter 23.  Capitalized Matrimonial in 
	 <span class="smcap">A matrimonial Treaty</span> in the topics list.
	 Also changed <span class="smcap">Boasts of Vaudreuil</span> to 
	 <span class="smcap">Promises of Vaudreuil</span>. We used the topic name 
	 in the contents at the opening of volume 2 because there was already 
	 a topic named Boasts of Vaudreuil in Chapter 22.   
</p>
<p><br /></p>
<h4> Chapter 24:</h4>
<p>
   On <a href="#Page_181-V2">Page 181</a>, capitalized Domestic in 
	 <span class="smcap">His domestic Qualities</span> in the topics list
	 at the beginning of Chapter 24.  
</p>
<p><br /></p>
<h4> Chapter 25:</h4>
<p>
   On <a href="#Page_195-V2">Page 195</a>, capitalized Futile in 
	 <span class="smcap">A futile Night Attack</span> in the topics list
	 at the beginning of Chapter 25.  
</p>
<p>
   On <a href="#Page_198-V2">Page 198</a>, the phrase 
	 <strong>ships-of-war</strong> is used.  There are eight occurrences of 
	 <strong>ships of war</strong>, without the hyphens, and no other case where 
	 ships of war is used with the hyphens.  The inconsistency is a function of 
	 the author or publisher.
</p>
<p>
   On <a href="#Page_210-V2">Page 210</a>, flat-boats is hyphenated in the
	 clause: <strong>and destroyed many of the flat-boats from which the troops 
	 had just disembarked.</strong>  Flatboat is used three times without the
	 hyphen:  on pages 92, 93, and 263 of volume 2.  On page 274, flat-boats
	 was hyphenated and split between two lines for spacing.  That usage was 
	 transcribed as flatboat as per majority vote. The usage of a hyphen on 
	 page 210 is therefore the only outlier, but we did not change it. 
</p>
<p><br /></p>
<h4> Chapter 26:</h4>
<p>
   On <a href="#Page_246-V2">Page 246</a>, deer-skin is spelled with a hyphen,
	 although on <a href="#Page_334-V2">Page 334</a> in volume 1, there is no
	 hyphen in deerskin.  We made no changes to either word.    
</p>
<p><br /></p>
<h4> Chapter 27:</h4>
<p>
   On <a href="#Page_259-V2">Page 259</a>, capitalized New in 
	 <span class="smcap">A new Plan of Attack</span>. Also capitalized Last in 
	 <span class="smcap">Wolfe's last Despatch</span>.  Both were changes in 
	 the topics list at the beginning of Chapter 27.  
</p> 
<p>
   On <a href="#Page_274-V2">Page 274</a>, flat-boat is hyphenated and
	 split between two lines for spacing in the sentence:  <strong> On the night 
	 of the fourth a fleet of flatboats passed above the town with the baggage 
	 and stores.</strong>  We transcribed flatboats without the hyphen.  See
	 the detailed note in Chapter 25 for more details.
</p> 
<p>
   On <a href="#Page_293-V2">Page 293</a>, field-pieces is hyphenated and
	 split between two lines for spacing in the clause:  <strong>for twenty-five 
	 field-pieces which were on the Palace battery.</strong>  There are seven
	 other occurrences of field-piece or field-pieces with the hyphen, and none
	 without.  We transcribed field-pieces with the hyphen.
</p> 
<p><br /></p>
<h4> Chapter 28:</h4>
<p>
   On <a href="#Page_301-V2">Page 301</a>, horse-back is hyphenated and 
	 split between two lines for spacing.  There are eleven other occurrences
	 of the word in these two volumes, and all are spelled without the hyphen.
	 We also did not use the hyphen in the clause: mounted on horseback.
</p> 
<p>
   On <a href="#Page_301-V2">Page 301</a>, musket-shot is hyphenated and
	 split between two lines for spacing in the clause:  <strong>he saw
	 within musket-shot a long line of British troops.</strong>  We transcribed
	 the word as musket-shot.  See the notes in Chapter 7 for more details.
</p> 
<p>
   On <a href="#Page_309-V2">Page 309</a>, towns-people is hyphenated and
	 split between two lines for spacing in the clause:  <strong>a throng
	 of towns-people.</strong>  There is no occurrence of townspeople,  
	 towns-people or towns people in both volumes.  We transcribed the word 
	 with the hyphen.  
</p> 
<p><br /></p>
<h4> Chapter 29:</h4>
<p>
   On <a href="#Page_328-V2">Page 328</a>, guard-house is hyphenated and
	 split between two lines.  See the <i>Detailed Notes</i> of Chapter 7
	 for our logic to determine that the hyphen should be kept in the 
	 transcription. 
</p>
<p>
   On <a href="#Page_333-V2">Page 333</a>, bush-rangers is hyphenated and
	 split between two lines for spacing.  There are five other occurrences in 
	 the two volumes with bushrangers, and no occurrences with the hyphen.
	 We transcribed the word without the hyphen in the clause: <strong>danger 
	 from Indians and bushrangers</strong>.
</p>
<p>
   On <a href="#Page_335-V2">Page 335</a>, add a period after services
	 to conclude this sentence:  At the same time a party of regulars, 
	 Canadians, and Indians took up a strong position near the church at 
	 Point Levi, and sent a message to the English officers that a large 
	 company of expert hairdressers were ready to wait upon them whenever 
	 they required their <strong>services.</strong> 
</p>
<p>
   On <a href="#Page_346-V2">Page 346-347</a>, wind-mill is hyphenated and
	 split between two pages.  There are three other occurrences of windmill,
	 all in volume 2, on pages 207, 302, and 348.  They are spelled without 
	 the hyphen.  We transcribed windmill without the hyphen in the clause:
	 was a house and a fortified <strong>windmill</strong> belonging to one 
	 Dumont.
</p>
<p>
   On <a href="#Page_355-V2">Page 355</a>, mast-head is hyphenated and split
	 between two lines for spacing.  There are two other occurrences of 
	 mast-head, both in volume 2, on pages 63 and 204, spelled with the 
	 hyphen.  We have transcribed mast-head with the hyphen in the sentence:
	 Slowly her colors rose to the <strong>mast-head</strong> and unfurled to 
	 the wind the red cross of St. George. 
</p>
<p><br /></p>
<h4> Chapter 31:</h4>
<p>
   On <a href="#Page_383-V2">Page 383</a>, changed Signed to signed in
	 <span class="smcap">The Treaty Signed</span> in the topics list
	 at the beginning of Chapter 31 to match the presentation in the contents.
</p>
<p>
   On <a href="#Page_401-V2">Page 401</a>, mid-summer was hyphenated and split
	 between two lines in the sentence:  <strong>The pitiless sun of the tropic 
	 midsummer poured its fierce light and heat on the parched rocks where the 
	 men toiled at the trenches.</strong>  There are four other occurrences
	 of midsummer in the text spelled without the hyphen, and none with, so
	 midsummer was transcribed without the hyphen.
</p>
<p>
   On <a href="#Page_405-V2">Page 405</a>, pleni-potentiaries was hyphenated and 
	 split between two lines in the clause:  <strong>the plenipotentiaries of 
	 England, France, and Spain</strong>.  There is one other occurrence of
	 plenipotentiary, on page 79 in volume 1, and it is spelled without the 
	 hyphen.  Plenipotentiaries was transcribed without the hyphen.
</p>
<p><br /></p>
<h4>Index:</h4>
<p>
   We are more willing to make changes to the <i>Index</i> than we are in
	 the text when we believe the reader may be better served by doing so.
	 For instance, we will make emendations an Index entry when the word is
	 spelled differently than it was in the text.  
</p>
<p>
   Four times in the index, fireships was spelled with a hyphen.  These
	 hyphens were taken out to match the text.  See the detailed notes
	 for Chapter 19.  
</p>
<p>
   The phrase <strong>ships-of-war</strong>, with hyphens, is used several 
	 times in the index, but only once in the text.  The text most often uses 
	 the phrase <strong>ships of war</strong>, without hyphens. See the detailed 
	 notes in Chapter 25 for more information.  We made no changes to the text 
	 or the index, and only point this out as a note of reference.
</p>
<p>
   Change spelling of Le Boeuf and Le Bo&ecirc;uf to Le B&oelig;uf in the
	 index to match the spelling of the fort used consistently in the text.
</p> 
<p>
   Please note that supply-boats, used twice in the index, is not used in the 
	 text--but neither is supply boats.  
</p>
<p>
   On <a href="#Page_452-V2">Page 452</a>, the index for Appendix I left out 
	 the location of the actual Appendix.  Since all of the other entries
	 indicated the location of the Appendix, we added the location here:<br />
   Appendix I., <strong>II. 438;</strong> reference to, II. 298 note.
</p>
<p>
   On <a href="#Page_452-V2">Page 452</a>, we added note to a sub-reference
	 for the index entry of Appendix K:<br />
	 reference to, II. 359 <strong><i>note</i></strong>.
</p>
<p>
   <strong>Beaucour, La Roche</strong>, an index entry on 
	 <a href="#Page_453-V2">Page 453</a>, and <strong>Rochbeaucourt</strong>,
	 an index entry on <a href="#Page_493-V2">Page 493</a>, are probably the
	 same person.  Additional varieties of spelling this name, such as La
	 Roche Beaucourt, and Rochebeaucourt, may also be found in the text.
	 The village in the Province of Quebec named after this man is spelled yet 
	 another way.
</p> 
<p>
   Beauport was spelled incorrectly in two places of the index:
   On <a href="#Page_455-V2">Page 455</a>, under <i>Bougainville</i>,
	 <strong>sent from Beaufort to oppose the English,</strong>
	 and on <a href="#Page_502-V2">Page 502</a>, under <i>Wolfe</i>, 
	 <strong>the pretended attack at Beaufort</strong>.  The spelling 
	 of both index entries was corrected to Beauport.
</p>
<p>
   On <a href="#Page_460-V2">Page 460</a>, add period after Penn in
	 <strong>Carlisle, Penn</strong> index entry to make clear that Penn
	 is short for Pennsylvania. 
</p> 
<p>
   On <a href="#Page_461-V2">Page 461</a>, change 106 note to 106 in
	 entry <strong>influence of, in regard to the oath of allegiance 
	 for the Acadians,</strong> under Clergy.  The note is a reference, 
	 but the paragraph beginning page 106 mentions that the Acadian clergy
	 used their influence to prevent the residents from taking the oath.
</p> 
<p>
   On <a href="#Page_462-V2">Page 462</a>, fire-raft is spelled with a 
	 hyphen in the topics under Courval.  However, fireraft is used three
	 times in the text, never with a hyphen.  Therefore, we removed the hyphen
	 from fireraft in the index entry.
</p> 
<p>
   On <a href="#Page_466-V2">Page 466</a>, add acute accent to &Eacute;cho
	 in the index entry: <strong>"&Eacute;cho," the, number of her guns, II. 
   54 <i>note</i>.</strong>  This change makes the index entry match the
	 name of the vessel used in the text.
</p> 
<p>
   On <a href="#Page_467-V2">Page 467</a>, change Piquetown to Pique Town
	 in the sub-entry: "importance of <strong>Pique Town</strong> and 
	 of Oswego" under index entry England. 
</p> 
<p>
   On <a href="#Page_469-V2">Page 469</a>, leave acute accent off the index
	 entry Etechemin River, but retain the acute accent in the 
	 entry Etech&eacute;mins.
</p> 
<p>
   On <a href="#Page_474-V2">Page 474</a>, correct spelling of Gethan 
	 in the index entry: <strong>Gethen, Captain</strong>.
</p> 
<p>
   On <a href="#Page_479-V2">Page 479</a>, change the reference for page
	 445 in volume 2 under the subentry 'with Rogers' rangers' to volume 1.
</p>  
<p>
   On <a href="#Page_481-V2">Page 481</a>, correct spelling of M. de la Pause
	 in the index entry <strong>La Panse, M. de la.</strong>
</p> 
<p>
   On <a href="#Page_483-V2">Page 483</a>, correct spelling of Longueuil
	 in the index entry <strong>Longueil, Baron de, Governor of Canada.</strong>
</p> 
<p>
   On <a href="#Page_484-V2">Page 484</a>, change spelling of Lowestoffe
	 in the index entry <strong>"Lowestoff," the.</strong>  In <i>David 
	 Copperfield,</i> the town is spelled Lowestoff, but Parkman wrote 
	 Lowestoffe, with the e at the end, in the text for the name of the boat.
</p> 
<p>
   On <a href="#Page_486-V2">Page 486</a>, correct spelling of Mollwitz
	 in the index entry <strong>Mollnitz, battle of.</strong>
</p> 
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