18 inches in diameter, smooth

@ 9 feet from the ground.

The The excavated earth had been thrown up en glacis on the counterscap with a very steep slope over the berm [covered way]. Loop holes and embrasures are formed in the pickets on a level with the earth thrown up on the berm and a scaffolding of carpenter's work extends all around so as to fire from above. It has eight guns and 4 mortars rising 8

ditch that encircles the fort, is 18 feet wide by 8 deep.

with double grenades.

The old Fort Chouaguen, situate on the left [or west] bank of the River, consists of a house with galleries (machecoulis) with loop holes on the ground floor and principal story, the walls of which are

three feet thick and encompassed at a distance of three toises [18 feet,] by another wall 1 feet thick and 10 high, loopholed and flanked by two large square towers. It has likewise a trench encircling, on the land side, the Fort where the enemy had placed 18 pieces of cannon and 15 mortars and howitzers.

Fort George is situate 300 toises beyond that of Choauguen on a hill that commanded it.

It is of

pickets and badly enough entrenched with earth on two sides.

JOURNAL OF THE SIEGE OF CHOUAGUEN, th AUGUST 1756, th AT NIGHT J BY THE MARQUIS OF MONTCALM. [Paris. Doc. XII.]

On the arrival of the French Troops in Canada in the month of May, every disposition having been made for the Campaign, the Marquis of Vaudreuil Governor General of New France detached a body of Colonial Troops and Militia towards the St. John River to harrass the English and receive the