als as these may we fear a rebuff?
Advance, grenadiers, and let fly your Hot Stuff!

When the forty-seventh regiment is dashing ashore,
While bullets are whistling and cannons do roar,
Says Montcalm: "Those are Shirley's--I know the lappels."
"You lie," says Ned Botwood, "we belong to Lascelles'!
Tho' our cloathing is changed, yet we scorn a powder-puff;
So at you, ye b----s, here's give you Hot Stuff."
P/

On the repulse at Montmorenci, _Wolfe to Pitt, 2 Sept. 1759. Vaudreuil
au Ministre, 5 Oct. 1759_. Panet, _Journal du Siege_. Johnstone,
_Dialogue in Hades. Journal tenu a l'Armee, etc. Journal of the Siege of
Quebec, by a Gentleman in an eminent Station on the Spot. Memoires sur
le Canada, 1749-1760_. Fraser, _Journal of the Siege. Journal du Siege
d'apres un MS. depose a la Bibliotheque Hartwell_. Foligny, _Journal
memoratif. Journal of Transactions at the Siege of Quebec_, in _Notes
and Queries_, XX. 164. John Johnson, _Memoirs of the Siege of Quebec.
Journal of an Expedition on the River St. Lawrence. An Authentic Account
of the Expedition against Quebec, by a Volunteer on that Expedition. J.
Gibson to Governor Lawrence, 1 Aug. 1759_. Knox, I. 354. Mante, 244.

Chapter 26

1759

Amherst. Niagara

Pitt had directed that, while Quebec was attacked, an attempt should be
made to penetrate into Canada by way of Ticonderoga and Crown Point.
Thus the two armies might unite in the heart of the colony, or, at
least, a powerful diversion might be effected in behalf of Wolfe. At the
same time Oswego was to be re-established, and the possession of Fort
Duquesne, or Pittsburg, secured by reinforcements and supplies; while
Amherst, the commander-in-chief, was further directed to pursue any
other enterprise which in his opinion would weaken the enemy, without
detriment to the main objects of the campaign.[722] He accordingly
resolved to attempt the capture of Niagara. Brigadier Prideaux was
charged with this stroke; Brigadier Stanwix was sent to conduct the
operations for the relief of Pittsburg; and Amherst himself prepared to
lead the grand central advance against Ticonderoga, Crown Point, and
Montreal.[723]

[Footnote 722: _Pitt to Amherst, 23 Jan., 10 March, 1759_.]

[Footnote 723: _Amherst to Pitt, 19 June, 1759. Amherst to Stanwix, 6
May, 1759_.]

Towards the end of June he reached that valley by the head of Lake
George which for five years past had been the annual musteri