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[Note 17: «Louisbourg is a little place and has but one casement in it, hardly big enough to hold the women. Our artillery made havock among them (the garrison) and soon opened the rempart: in two days more we should certainly have, carried it. If this force had been properly managed, there was an end of the french colony in North America, in one campaign, for we have exclusive of seamen and mariners, near to forty thousand men in arms.» Lettre du général Wolfe
A peine était-il assis que trois, hourras retentirent en son honneur sous l'immense voûte de la salle d'exercices. M. le maire Beaugrand proposa en anglais la santé de la Montreal Garrison Artillery et des autres bataillons qui, sans avoir participé
41 15 la ligne: in the French and English armies the term la ligne, 'the line, is applied ordinarily to the infantry of the regular army as opposed to the militia, cavalry, artillery, etc. In America the line includes all that part of the regular army whose business is actual fighting. 41 24 Crusoé: the final e of English proper names terminating in -oe is ordinarily pronounced in French; cf.
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