Sieur de Rigaud de Vaudreuil, Governor of Three Rivers was, accordingly sent with a fresh body

of Colonial troops and Indians to assume command of Sieur de Villiers' Camp, established at Niaoure

bay about 15 leagues from Chouaguen; Sieur de Bourlamaque received orders to commence at Fort Frontenac whatever preparations he may deem necessary ; Sieur Decombles, Engineer, to proceed with a detachment of Canadians and Savages to reconnoitre Chouaguen and to conceal the project ;

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from the enemy, the Marquis de Montcalm departed 27 th June with Chevalier de Levis for Fort Carillon. The defensive positions to be adopted in this quarter the fortifications erecting at Caril;

lon ; the movements of the enemy at Fort Lydius and Albany ;

all these reasons justified

the Marquis

of Montcalm's presence at Lake St Sacrement.

This General remained there only long enough to make the necessary arrangements and put the English on the wrong scent. He placed the defence

men; returned on the 15 th received there his last Instructions and set out again

of that frontier in the hands of Chevalier de Levis with a corps of 3000

July to Montreal where lie arrived on the 19 th

;

on the 21 st and arrived at Frontenac on the 29 th

Beam's battalion had already received orders to

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repair thither from Niagara, and Sieur Mercier Commander of Artillery had arrived there two days before.

Having made those preparations inseparable from a new expedition in this country, which conseunknown in Europe, and provided every thing necessary to secure a