Identifier: newfrancenewengl00fisk (find matches)
Title: New France and New England
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: Fiske, John, 1842-1901
Subjects: United States -- History Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 New England -- History Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
Publisher: Boston : Houghton, Mifflin
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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red In-dians under command of the able leaders Marin, Aubry, andLigneris, who had been the last commander at Fort Du-quesne. The original object of this western muster hadbeen to retrieve the last autumns disaster and take Pittsburgfrom the English ; but the Frenchmen had only advancedas far as PresquTsle and Le Boeuf when a message fromPouchot summoned them to come to the rescue at Fort Ni- (On Haldimands interesting career and invaluable services toAmerican history, see Kingsford, Histo)y of Canada, iv. 317, 318.Like Bouquet, he was a Swiss by birth. He gathered together twohundred and thirty-two volumes of manuscripts relating to Americanhistory for the years 1758-1785, which are now in the British Museum.They have been copied for the Canadian Archives, and have been cal-endared in Brymners Reports. Cf. Winsor, A\xrr. ami Crit. Hist.,viii. 461.) THE FALL OF QUEBEC 313 agara. They made all haste in that direction, but on arriv-ing in the neighbourhood were encountered by Sir William
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Johnson and totally defeated, losing all their principal lead-ers, who were taken prisoners. Nothing was left for Pouchotbut to surrender his fortress and men. This surrender. 314 NEW FRANCE AND NEW ENGLAND which was made on the 24th of July, was the final blow tothe French in the west. While these things were going on at Niagara, GeneralAmherst with thirteen thousand men was advancing fromthe Hudson River upon Ticonderoga. The terrible defenceswhich Montcalm had built, and which had cost Abercrombietwo thousand men in his attempt to carry them by storm,were still in position and once more confronted the bra\emen who returned to the spot. Montcalm was no longer inGeneral Command, having been called away to Quebec tomarches defend that supreme position against the expedi-against ^^^^ jg^j -^y Wolfe. Ticoudcroga was now com- liconder- -^ c oga manded by General Bourlamaque, who made as few signs of life as possible. Amherst was a man not givento erring on the side of rashness. Such an a

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