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Murray to Pitt, 25 May, 1760. Memoirs of the Siege of Quebec, by Sergeant John Johnson. Mémoires sur le Canada, 1749-1760. Letters of Lévis, Bourlamaque, and Vaudreuil, May, June, 1760. Several letters from officers at Quebec in provincial newspapers. Knox, II. 292-322. The narratives of Mante, Entick, Wynne, Smith, and other secondary writers give no additional light. Fall of Canada
Mémoires sur le Canada, 1749-1760. Letters from officers on the spot in Boston Evening Post and Boston News Letter. 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.
Mémoires sur le Canada, 1749-1760. Vaudreuil au Ministre, 5 Oct. 1759. Panet, Journal du Siége. Foligny, Journal mémoratif. The presentiment of the unhappy burghers proved too true. The English batteries fell to their work, and the families of the town fled to the country for safety.
"Laloutre, ayant vu que les Acadiens ne paroissoient pas fort pressés d'abandonner leurs biens, avoit lui-même mis le feu á l'Église, et l'avoit fait mettre aux maisons des habitants par quelques-uns de ceux qu'il avoit gagnés," etc. Mémoires sur le Canada, 1749-1760. "Les sauvages y mirent le feu." Précis des Faits, 85. "Les sauvages mirent le feu aux maisons."
Cameron's new schemes in concealment , lest by divulging them they had indicated the channel of communication which, it is now well known, they possessed to all the plots of Charles Edward. To 'indicate' that secret 'channel of communication' between the Government of the Pelhams and the Jacobite conspirators of 1749-1760 is one purpose of this book.
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. Compare Mémoires sur le Canada, 1749-1760; N.Y. Col.
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