The celerity of our operations in a soil which they considered impracticable, the erection of our batteries completed with so much rapidity, the idea these works gave them of the number of the French troops, the movement of the corps detached from the other side of the river, the dread of the savages, the death of Colonel Mercer, commandant of Chouaguen who was killed at eight o'clock in the Morning, 3 doubtless determined the beseiged to a step which we had not dared to expect so soon.

The Marquis de Montcalm sent Sieur de Bougainville, one of his aids de camp as a hostage and to propose articles of Capitulation which were to the effect that the garrison should render themselves prisoners of war and that the French troops should forthwith take possession of the Forts. The ar1.

A toise is a French measure of six feet.

Though there was considerable water in that River and the current 2. " Sieur Rigaud executed this order forthwith. was very rapid, he threw himself in and crossed over with the Canadians and Indians some swimming, others in the water up to the waist or to the neck and arrived at their destination without the fire of the enemy having been able to stop a ;

single Canadian or Savage."

Another account.

3. This officer was gazetted, 7th Oct. 1754, Lieut. Col. of Sir Wm, Pepperells, or the 2nd American, Regt. previously on half pay.

He had been

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