[370] The Governor
and the General represented the two parties which were soon to divide
Canada,--those of New France and of Old.
[Footnote 366: _Vaudreuil au Ministre, 30 Oct. 1755._]
[Footnote 367: _Ordres du Roy et Depeches des Ministres, Fev. 1756._]
[Footnote 368: _Le Ministre a Vaudreuil, 15 Mars, 1756. Commission du
Marquis de Montcalm. Memoire du Roy pour servir d'Instruction au Marquis
de Montcalm_.]
[Footnote 369: _Ordres du Roy et Depeches des Ministres, 1756. Le
Ministre a Vaudreuil, 15 Mars, 1756_.]
[Footnote 370: _Vaudreuil au Ministre, 16 Juin, 1756_. "Qu'il ne se mele
que du commandement des troupes de terre."]
A like antagonism was seen in the forces commanded by the two chiefs.
These were of three kinds,--the _troupes de terre,_ troops of the line,
or regulars from France; the _troupes de la marine_, 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.[371] 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,[372] 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.
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