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. The first division reached the same Cove at midnight. A battery from Lake Ontario was forthwith erected there and the troops bivouacked during the night all the Troops, and

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On the ll ,h at break of day the Canadians and Indians advanced to within a quarter of a league of, and invested Fort Ontario, situated, as we have stated, on the right bank of the River Chouaguen. Sieur Decombles, sent at 3 o'clock in the morning to make arrangements for this siege and the attack, was killed, returning from his reconnoissance, by one of our Savages [a NipissingJ who escorted him and who took him in the dark, for an Englishman a mishap which was rendered of the greatest ,