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It was then about ten in the morning when Nogaire arrived with the Indians, who not accustomed to such a terrible fire as was at that moment poured forth by the English batteries, very different from their way of fighting behind trees were not at all at ease, and furiously impatient to get out of the island. The hour of retreat was settled for ten that night.
After sixteen days' siege with a most violent cannonade, without a moment's interruption, M. Nogaire, an officer in the Regiment of Royal Roussillon, came to us from Montreal, having crossed directly through the woods, with some Indians for his guides, with two letters from De Bougainville, one of which was from him to Vaudreuil, and the other from M. de Levis.
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