The grenadiers and light companies of the various regiments were, as was customary in those days, organized into separate battalions. The force, which was convoyed by twenty-three ships of the line, under Admiral Boscawen, on which the 62nd (Wiltshires) were serving as marines, arrived at Gabarus Bay, a little to the westward of the fortress, on June 8, 1758. The country was well known, for Commodore Sir R. Warren, with some colonial troops, had wrested it from the French in 1745. A reconnaissance revealed three possible landing-places, and, to make assurance trebly sure, Amherst determined to threaten all three, whilst the true attack should be made by Wolfe's brigade, with the grenadier and light infantry battalions, at Freshwater Cove, about three miles from the city. CASUALTIES AT THE SIEGE AND CAPTURE OF LOUISBURG, JULY 25, 1758. +-------------------------+-----------+-----------+ | |_Officers._| _Men._ | | _Regiments._ +-----+-----+-----+-----+ | | K. | W. | K. | W. | +-------------------------+-----+-----+-----+-----+ |Royal Artillery | - | 1 | 4 | 5 | |Royal Scots | 2 | 4 | 13 | 27 | |15th E. Yorks | 2 | 3 | 27 | 26 | |17th Leicester | 1 | 3 | 11 | 33 | |22nd Cheshire | - | 3 | 7 | 15 | |28th Gloucester | - | 1 | 12 | 25 | |35th R. Sussex | - | 4 | ? | ? | |40th S. Lancs | - | 1 | 8 | 21 | |45th Sherwood Foresters | - | - | 10 | 14 | |47th N. Lancs | - | - | 9 | 30 | |48th N'hampton | 1 | 1 | 8 | 17 | |58th N'hampton | - | 1 | 2 | 11 | |60th King's Royal Rifles | 1 | 1 | 24 | 57 | |78th[4] | 4 | 3 | 17 | 41 | +-------------------------+-----+-----+-----+-----+