of provisions, military stores and
merchandise; and nine armed vessels fell into their hands. Col.
Bradstreet having destroyed the fort and vessels, and such stores as
could not be brought off, returned to the main army." (Annals, Vol. II.,
p. 83.)]

[Footnote 243: "The extraordinary rejoicings in England at this victory
seemed to revive the honour of the northern British colonies as the
former conquerors of Cape Breton. The trophies taken were brought in
procession from Kensington to St. Paul's, and a form of thanksgiving was
ordered to be used in all the churches." (Minot's History of
Massachusetts Bay, Vol. II., p. 38.)]

[Footnote 244: History of Massachusetts Bay, Vol. III., p. 75.]

[Footnote 245: Holmes' Annals, Vol. II., p. 84.]

[Footnote 246: "The distant and important operations in Canada almost
wholly relieved the suffering inhabitants of the frontiers of the
Province; and, indeed, by a train of successes, gave a pledge of the
future ease and security which was about to spread over all the British
colonies. The fall of Crown Point, Ticonderaga, Niagara, and, above all,
the capture of Quebec, closed the year with universal rejoicing and
well-founded hope that the toils of war would shortly cease throughout
the land." (Minot's History of Massachusetts Bay, Vol. II., p. 55.)]

[Footnote 247: "The main body of the French army, which, after the
battle of the Plains of Abraham, retired to Montreal, and which still
consisted of ten battalions of regulars, had been reinforced by 6,000
Canadian militia and a body of Indians. Here the Marquis de Vaudreuil,
Governor-General of Canada, had fixed his head-quarters and determined
to make his last stand. For this purpose (after the unsuccessful attempt
of M. de Levi to retake Quebec) he called in all his detachments, and
collected around him the whole force of the colony." (Holmes' Annals,
Vol. II., pp. 98, 99.)]

[Footnote 248: "In the month of April, when the Upper St. Lawrence was
so open as to admit of transportation by water, his artillery, military
stores and heavy baggage were embarked at Montreal and fell down the
river, under convoy of six frigates; and M. de Levi, after a march of
ten days, arrived with his army at Point aux Tremble, within a few miles
of Quebec. General Murray, to whom the care of maintaining the English
conquest had been entrusted, had taken every precaution to preserve it,
but his soldiers had suffered so by the extreme cold of winter, a