"L'an mil sept cens cinquante-neuf, le quatorzième du mois de Septembre, a été inhumé dans l'Eglise des Religieuses Ursulines de Québec, haut et puissant Seigneur Louis Joseph Marquis de Montcalm, Lieutenant Général des armées du Roy, Commandeur de l'ordre Royal et militaire de St. Louis, Commandant en chef des troupes de terre en l'Amérique Septentrionale, décédé le même jour de ses blessures au combat de la veille, muni des sacrements qu'il a reçus avec beaucoup de piété et de Religion. Etoient présents à son inhumation MM. Resche, Cugnet et Collet, chanoines de la Cathédrale, M. de Ramezay, Commandant de la Place, et tout le corps des officiers. (Signé,) "RESCHE, Ptre. Chan. "COLLET, Chne." FOOTNOTES: [A] Les Ecossais en France, Vol. II., P. 449. [B] Formerly, inward bound ships, instead of taking the south channel lower down than Goose Island, struck over from Cape Tourmente, and took the south channel between Madame Island and Pointe Argentenay. [C] General Abercrombie's army consisted of 6,000 regular troops and 7,000 provincials, according to the English; but the French gave them out to be 6,300 troops, and 13,000 provincials--in all 19,300 men. [D] The French say the English lost between four and five thousand men. [E] Unfortunately, the plans here alluded to do not accompany the manuscript. [F] This contest is generally denominated the Battle of the Monongahela. Capt. Daniel Liénard de Beaujeu commanded the Canadians, and achieved a most brilliant victory over General Braddock and George Washington; the English losing their provisions, baggage, fifteen cannon, many small arms, the military chest, Braddock's papers. Washington, after the battle, wrote: "We have been beaten, shamefully beaten, by a handful of French."--(J. M. L.) [G] De Vergor's post apparently stood about a 100 yards to the east of the spot on which Wolfe's Field-cottage has since been built. The ruins still exist.--(J. M. L.) [H] De Vergor's guard was composed chiefly of Militiamen from Lorette, who on that day had obtained leave to go and work on their farms, provided they also worked on a farm Captain De Vergor owned.--"_Mémoires sur les Affaires de la Colonie de 1749-60._" Some historians have intimated that De Vergor--a _protége_ of Bigot's--was a traitor to his King.--(J. M. L.) [I] I incline more to General Wolfe's opinion than what Voltaire reports in the war of 1781, to have been the King of Prussia's maxim:--"That we ought always to do what the enemy is afraid of." Where the enemy is afraid of anything in particular, he has there his largest force, and is there more on his guard than anywhere else.--(MANUSCRIPT NOTE.) [J] Bigot's coterie.--(J. M. L.) [K] It was reported in Canada, that the ball which killed that great, good and honest man, was not fired by an English musket. But I never credited this. [L] Arnoux gave me this account of his last moments.--MANUSCRIPT NOTES.