ntains a letter from "an officer of distinction" at Quebec
to Messrs. Green and Russell, proprietors of the newspaper. This
letter contains the following words: "He [_Montcalm_] died the
next day; and, with a little Improvement, one of our 13-inch Shell-Holes
served him for a Grave."

The particulars of his burial are from the _Acte Mortuaire du
Marquis de Montcalm_ in the registers of the Church of Notre
Dame de Quebec, and from that valuable chronicle, _Les Ursulines
de Quebec_, composed by the Superior of the convent. A nun of
the sisterhood, Mere Aimable Dube de Saint-Ignace, was, when a
child, a witness of the scene, and preserved a vivid memory of
it to the age of eighty-one.

Appendix K

Chapter 29. Sainte-Foy>

STRENGTH OF THE FRENCH AND ENGLISH AT THE BATTLE OF
STE-FOY

In the Public Record Office (_America and West Indies_, XCIX)
are preserved the tabular returns of the garrison of Quebec for
1759, 1760, sent by Murray to the War Office. They show the
exact condition of each regiment, in all ranks, for every month
of the autumn, winter, and spring. The return made out on the
24th of April, four days before the battle, shows that the total
number of rank and file, exclusive of non commissioned officers
and drummers, was 6,808, of whom 2,612 were fit for duty in
Quebec, and 654 at other places in Canada, that is, at Ste Foy,
Old Lorette, and the other outposts. This gives a total of 3,266
rank and file fit for duty at or near Quebec, besides which there
were between one hundred and two hundred artillerymen, and
a company of rangers. This was Murray's whole available force
at the time. Of the rest of the 6,808 who appear in the return,
2,299 were invalids at Quebec, and 669 in New York, 538 were
on service in Halifax and New York, and 36 were absent on furlough.
These figures nearly answer to the condensed statement of
Fraser, and confirm the various English statements of the numbers
that took part in the battle; namely, 3,140 (Knox), 3,000
(John Johnson), 3,111, and elsewhere, in round numbers, 3,000
(Murray) Levis, with natural exaggeration, says 4,000. Three or
four hundred were left in Quebec to guard the walls when the
rest marched out.

I have been thus particular because a Canadian writer, Garneau,
says "Murray sortit de la ville le 28 au matin a la tete de toute
la garnison, dont les seules troupes de la ligne comptaient encore
7,714 combattants, non compris les officiers." To prove thi