bishop ordered public prayers for the late General Montcalm, the officers, soldiers, and militiamen, and

America (16v., Cleveland, Ohio, 1902–5), V. Parkman, Montcalm and Wolfe

Montcalm to Canada, also brought typhus. Nearly 1,000 people were stricken by the malady, and in June 1756 some 300 were hospitalized at the same time. Several nuns hospitallers paid for

capitulation of Quebec on 18 Sept. 1759, Hertel retired with the remnants of Montcalm’s army to a

Montcalm of Bougainville’s assistance when it was so desperately needed on the Plains of Abraham. On 6 September Holmes accompanied

de Montcalm (Casgrain), 431, 557, 595. “Journal du siège de Québec” (Fauteaux), APQ Rapport, 1920–21, 140, 146, 203, 239. Lettres de divers particuliers (Casgrain), 100, 218

Years’ War. He was the leader of an advance guard of Indians on Montcalm’s successful

AN, Col., E, 125; F3, 15, ff.225–30. Journal du chevalier de Lévis (Casgrain), 155, 161–64, 166. Journal du marquis de Montcalm (Casgrain), 110–11, 149–51, 192, 245, 462–63

Montcalm]. Following this success, scouting parties continually struck deep into English territory, leaving the enemy uneasy and uncertain where the French

Montcalm, Lombard sailed from Brest in the frigate Sauvage, which carried Lévis*, and reached Quebec on 31 May

first 30 years’ service in the west. In 1757, as liaison officer with Indian auxiliaries accompanying Montcalm

Montcalm he was able “to spend more on carriages, sets of harness, horses, than a conceited and harebrained young farmer general.” But in 1759 the affairs of the purveyor-general, Cadet, began to

MONTCALM, LOUIS-JOSEPH DE, Marquis de MONTCALM, seigneur of Saint-Veran, Candiac, Tournemine

accordance with Montcalm’s favourite scheme for increasing the usefulness of colonial manpower. Writing to

Montcalm brought a certain number of these Algonkians to Montreal and took them on an expedition against Fort William Henry (or Fort George, now

French forces converging on Fort Oswego (Chouaguen). Arriving on 12 August, he was ordered to assist Montcalm

priest of Quebec, Abbé Resche, officiated at Montcalm’s burial on the evening of 14 Sept. 1759

or the Acadians, he had decided to surrender without offering any resistance. Montcalm remarked about Villeray: “He is the less guilty of the two commandants; but they wanted to sacrifice him

lovers to court, which French law permitted him to do. This decision furnished Louis-Joseph de Montcalm