s, he
cites the pay-roll of the garrison, which, in fact, corresponds to
the returns of the same date, if noncommissioned officers, drummers,
and artillerymen are counted with the rank and file. But
Garneau falls into a double error. He assumes, first, that there
were no men on the sick list, and secondly, that there were none
absent from Quebec, when in reality, as the returns show, considerably
more than half were in one or the other of these categories.
The pay-rolls were made out at the headquarters of each
corps, and always included the entire number of men enlisted in
it, whether sick or well, present or absent. On the same fallacious
premises Garneau affirms that Wolfe, at the battle on the Plains
of Abraham, had eight thousand soldiers, or a little less than
double his actual force.

Having stated, as above, that Murray marched out of Quebec
with at least 1,714 effective troops, Garneau, not very consistently,
goes on to say that he advanced against Levis with six thousand
or seven thousand men, and he adds that the two armies were
about equal, because Levis had left some detachments behind to
guard his boats and artillery. The number of the French, after
they had all reached the field, was, in truth, about seven thousand;
at the beginning of the fight it seems not to have exceeded five
thousand. The _Relation de la seconde Bataille de Quebec_ says:
"Notre petite armee consistoit _au moment de l'action_ en 3,000
hommes de troupes reglees et 2,000 Canadiens ou sauvages." A
large number of Canadians came up from Sillery while the affair
went on, and as the whole French army, except the detachments
mentioned by Garneau, had passed the night at no greater distance
from the field than Ste-Foy and Sillery, the last man must
have reached it before the firing was half over.

Index

A
Abenaki Indians, 50, 122, 157, 262, 335
destruction of their town, 520

Abercromby, James, British general, 270, 409, 410, 432, 434, 460
arrives in Albany, 280
praises Robert Rogers, 309, 310n.
joy at fall of Louisbourg, 404
Wolfe's comments on, 411
his blunders, 418, 428
attacks Ticonderoga (1758), 422-424
his defeat, 425
his retreat, 426

Abraham, heights of, 523 (_See also_ Quebec)
Wolfe's plan to climb, 521-532, 537
guarded by Captain de Vergor, 533, 535
surprised and captured, 540

Abraham, Plains of, 542 (_See also_ Quebec)
Wolfe's a