8th, General Murray embarked with his troops on board the ships that lay about five leagues above Quebec, and Admiral Holmes took the command of the ships, without hoisting his flag: this body of troops consisted of Amherst’s, three battalions of Royal Americans, and a detachment of light infantry and marines, amounting in the whole to 1300 effective men. 9th, The fleet above the town anchored at Point Tremble ten leagues above the town, and with all the troops (except 200 marines) attempted to land at the village of Tremble, on the north shore, but were repulsed with the loss of forty killed, and about 100 wounded: the enemy consisted of 4000, of which were two battalions of regulars, and a party of horse. 14th, General Murray with his troops landed on the south shore, opposite Point Tremble, with the loss of 12 killed and 23 wounded: our troops encamped and took a considerable number of cattle, killed 8 of the enemy, and took a few prisoners: by one of them we were informed, that a general officer commanded at Point Tremble when we made the attack; that it was his express orders to his troops not to fire till ours were half on shore, but fear got the better of their discretion, and saved the best part of our troops. 15th, Six marines were surpriz’d and carried off from our camp at St. Anthony’s. General Murray sent out parties from thence to destroy all the houses in that district; parties were detach’d likewise from our camps at Montmorency and Point Orleans, to destroy all the buildings (churches excepted) and their corn: one of these detachments from Montmorency fell in with a party of Canadians, headed by a priest twenty of which they took prisoners, and killed several. In return for many acts of cruelty, the priest and the rest of the prisoners were put to death, and scalp’d by our rangers. 20th, The troops (marines excepted) embark’d from St. Anthony’s in the night, under General Murray, and row’d up under cover of it, to the village of Chambeau: at the same time, a feint was made to land at Point Tremble, in order to deceive the enemy. 21st, At break of day our troops landed at Chambeau, 18 leagues above Quebec, on the north shore, without any opposition: they destroy’d a grand magazine of the enemy’s regulars, the effects of the people of Quebec, a great quantity of powder, some plate and specie, which was all destroy’d by fire. At noon, having compleated their design, embark’d without loss, just as a great body of the enemy appear’d in sight. We learn’d here, that the six marines, taken the 15th, were scalp’d by the Indians. In the evening we burnt an arm’d sloop of the enemy’s, and then landed again at the camp of St. Anthony. From Chambeau we saw the enemy’s frigates very plain, lying about two leagues above us; but the channel being very intricate and dangerous, the merchant ships lay some leagues above the frigates.