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The fleet consists of 22 sails of the line and many frigates. Carleton for a Qr.-Mr.-General, and upon whom I chiefly rely; for the engineering part, engineers very indifferent and of little experience, but we have none better. The regular troops in Canada consist of 8 battalions of old foot, about a battalion or 40 companies of mariners or colony troops, 40 men a company.
As they are attacked on the side of Montreal, by an army of 12 thousand fighting men, they must necessarily divide their force, but as the loss of the capital implies the loss of the colony, their chief attention will naturally be there, and therefore I reckon we may find at Québec 6 battalions, some companies of mariners, 4 or 5,000 Canadians and some Indians all together not much inferior to their enemy.
[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
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