[E.B. O'Callaghan (1849)] 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 4th 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 6th at the Bay of Niaour6, which the Marquis de Vaudreuil had designated as the rendezvous of all the Troops, and where the second division composed of Beam's batallion, of the Militia, of 80 batteaux of Artillery and provisions arrived on the 8th. The number of troops destined for the ex-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 10th 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 at the head of the batteaux.