Identifier: siegeofquebecbat03doug (find matches)
Title: The siege of Quebec : and the battle of the Plains of Abraham
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Doughty, Arthur G. (Arthur George), Sir, 1860-1936 Parmelee, G. W. (George William), 1860-1941
Subjects: Wolfe, James, 1727-1759 Montcalm de Saint-Véran, Louis-Joseph, marquis de, 1712-1759 Québec Campaign, 1759
Publisher: Quebec : Dussault & Proulx
Contributing Library: University of Connecticut Libraries
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efforts of all the officers. It was impossible, he said,to stop the fugitives, who were influenced by nothing butthe impressions of an unprecedented terror. So great wastheir disorder that it was impossible to rally them. ^^ General Montcalm was fatally wounded in the Frenchretreat while endeavoring to rally his men between theridge at Claire Fontaine street and St. Louis Gate. Whileapproaching the gate he was seen to waver. Two of hisfaithful Grenadiers ^^ supported him and he was conveyedwithin the walls where a surgeon examined and dressedhis wounds, which were declared to be mortal. The newsof his fall added considerably to the consternation of hisarmy. M. de Foligne, a naval officer, who during the Siegecommanded one of the principal batteries of the town, hasgiven a graphic description of the panic which followedthe mortal wounding of the French General. The troops,he says, believed that everything was now lost, and aban- (i) Vol. V, p. 298. (2) See chapter on death of Montcahu.
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