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

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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

quently presents difficulties

retreat in case superior forces rendered this inevitable, orders were given to two barks

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--one of 12

and the other of 16 guns to cruize in the latitude of Chouaguen. A corps of Scouts, Canadians and Indians, were sent on the road between the latter place and Albany, to intercept Runners. The Marquis de Montcalm left Frontenac on the 4 th August with the first division of the army consisting of De la Sarre's and De Guyenne's batallions and four pieces of cannon. 2 He arrived on the 6 th at the Bay of Niaour6, which the Marquis de Vaudreuil had designated as the rendezvous of

where the second division composed of Beam's batallion, of the Militia, of 80 The number of troops destined for the exbatteaux of Artillery and provisions arrived on the 8 th pedition was nearly 3000 men to wit, de la Sarre's, Guyenne's and Beam's batallions amounting to only 1300 men; the remainder, soldiers of the Colony, Militiamen and Indians. Sieur de Rigaud's corps, destined as the vanguard, set out on the same day to advance to a cove called, Vanse aux Cabanes (Wigwam Cove) 3 within three leagues of Chouaguen. The first division having arrived there on the 10 th at two o'clock in the morning, the vanguard proceeded four hours afterwards across the woods to another Cove situated half a league from Chouaguen to cover the debarcation of the artillery and troops.