You see, Monseigneur, that the
slightest change in my arrangements would have the most unfortunate
consequences."[695]
[Footnote 694: _Ordres du Roy et Depeches des Ministres, Lettre a
Vaudreuil, 3 Fev. 1759._]
[Footnote 695: _Vaudreuil au Ministre, 8 Avril, 1759._]
Whether he made good this valorous declaration will presently be seen.
* * * * *
NOTE. 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-Veran while on their mission to France. For copies of
these last I am indebted to the present Marquis de Montcalm.
Chapter 24
1758, 1759
Wolfe
Captain John Knox, of the forty-third regiment, had spent the winter in
garrison at Fort Cumberland, on the hill of Beausejour. 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.
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