y,
shewing the principal Encampments and Works of the British
Army commanded by Major Gen'l. Wolfe, and those of the French
Army by Lieut. Gen'l. the Marquis of Montcalm_. It is the work
of three engineers of Wolfe's army, and is on a scale of eight
hundred feet to an inch. A facsimile from the original in possession
of the Royal Engineers is before me.
Among the "King's Maps," British Museum (CXIX. 27), is a
very large colored plan of operations at Quebec in 1759, 1760,
superbly executed in minute detail.
Appendix J
Chapter 28. Fall of Quebec
_Death and Burial of Montcalm_.--Johnstone, who had every
means of knowing the facts, says that Montcalm was carried after
his wound to the house of the surgeon Arnoux. Yet it is not quite
certain that he died there. According to Knox, his death took
place at the General Hospital; according to the modern author
of the _Ursulines de Quebec_, at the Chateau St.-Louis. But the
General Hospital was a mile out of the town, and in momentary
danger of capture by the English; while the Chateau had been
made untenable by the batteries of Point Levi, being immediately
exposed to their fire. Neither of these places was one to which the
dying general was likely to be removed, and it is probable that he
was suffered to die in peace at the house of the surgeon.
It has been said that the story of the burial of Montcalm in a
grave partially formed by the explosion of a bomb, rests only
on the assertion in his epitaph, composed in 1761 by the Academy
of Inscriptions at the instance of Bougainville. There is, however,
other evidence of the fact. The naval captain Foligny, writing
on the spot at the time of the burial, says in his Diary, under the
date of September 14: "A huit heures du soir, dans l'eglise des
Ursulines, fut enterre dans une fosse faite sous la chaire _par le
travail de la Bombe_, M. le Marquis de Montcalm, decede du matin
a 4 heures apres avoir recu tous les Sacrements. Jamais General
n'avoit ete plus aime de sa troupe et plus universellement regrette.
Il etoit d'un esprit superieur, doux, gracieux, affable,
familier a tout le monde, ce qui lui avoit fait gagner la confiance
de toute la Colonie: _requiescat in pace_."
The author of _Les Ursulines de Quebec_ says: "Un des projectiles
ayant fait une large ouverture dans le plancher de bas,
on en profita pour creuser la fosse du general."
The _Boston Post Boy and Advertiser_, in its issue of Dec. 3,
1759, co
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