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by Dan Snow


  French Navy: basin of Quebec, battle for 141-2, 146, 164, 173; chart the St Lawrence, attempts to 9; fireships sent against British fleet on Île d’Orléans 117-24; floating batteries 75, 102, 135, 136, 139, 144, 164, 201, 206, 223, 244, 267, 315, 316; gunboats battle British on St Lawrence 146, 164, 173; radeaux à feu 117, 217-19; Seven Years War, battle with Royal Navy xviii, 403, 411, 417; strength of force in Canada 58-9; underfunded xviii

  Frontenac, Louis de Buade, Comte de 43-4, 69, 70, 147

  Gabarus Bay 23

  gabions 173

  Garrick, David 137, 406, 410

  Gaspereau 108

  George I, King 106, 110-11, 273

  George II, King xxii, 4, 6, 20, 24, 25, 46, 51, 56, 106, 108, 111, 112, 124-5, 211, 221, 273, 398, 403, 407, 418

  George III, King 410, 412, 424

  Georgia 2, 51

  General Hospital (nunnery) 73, 182, 241, 348, 384, 388

  Germany 7, 168

  Gibraltar 36

  Glorious Revolution, 1688-9 24

  Good Intent 31

  Goodwill 29, 30, 89, 90

  Gordon, Captain William 83, 85

  Goree, West Africa 420

  Gorham, Captain Joseph 97, 99, 255-7, 267

  Gorham’s Post 320, 322

  Gosselin, Joseph 181

  Gosselin, Marguerite 63, 181

  Gower, Lord 408

  Granville, Fort 51

  grape shot 230, 292

  Gravelines, battle of, 1588 118

  Great Lakes 35, 50, 51, 142

  Greenwich 408

  Guadeloupe 19, 421, 423

  guerrilla warfare see warfare, nature of North American

  Halifax, Nova Scotia 10, 14, 15, 18, 22, 37, 38, 59, 83, 99, 216, 229, 278, 367, 401

  Hamilton, Lieutenant 239

  Hankerson, Captain 38

  Hannah 31

  Harlequin’s Invasion 406

  Harrison, John 14

  Haslar Hospital, Gosport 12-13

  Havana 420

  ‘Hearts of Oak’ 406

  Heights of Abraham 339-40

  Henderson, James 374

  Henshaw, Lieutenant William 187, 276

  Hervey, Captain Augustus 292, 411

  Holland, Samuel 83, 204

  Holmes, Rear Admiral Charles 351; commands naval force above town of Quebec 251, 291, 304-5, 314, 315, 319, 320, 322-3; credit from Saunders for successful campaign 402; Foulon landings, role in 314, 315, 319, 320, 322-3, 330; Plains of Abraham battle and 376, 392, 394-5; surrender of Quebec and 397-8; Wolfe and 314, 315

  Holmes, Rear Admiral Sir Robert 118

  Horatio, Lord Nelson 410

  Hôtel Dieu (nunnery) 73, 182

  ‘Hot Stuff!’ (Botwood) 229-30

  Howard of Effingham, Lord 118

  Howe, Captain Richard 403

  Howe, George Augustus, 3rd Viscount 160, 212, 309

  Howe, Lieutenant Colonel William 403; embraces North American warfare 212; family and history 212; Foulon landings, role in 320, 326-7, 332, 334, 336, 337, 338, 339; instructs troops to alter uniform for North American theatre 212; Montmorency defeat, role in 220; Plains of Abraham battle, role in 349, 350, 356, 373

  Hudson Bay 142

  Hunter 31, 121, 206, 290-1, 331, 387

  Huron of Lorette 129

  Île aux Coudres 38, 40, 78, 80, 86, 93, 147, 255, 256, 278

  Île aux Galops 295

  Île aux Noix 250, 295, 306, 307

  Île d’Orléans 63, 114, 136, 181, 303, 368; British camp on 117, 120, 122, 124, 125, 137, 138, 139, 140, 142, 143, 144, 148, 149, 150, 162, 220, 222, 223, 224, 257, 290, 304; British land on 84, 85, 87, 88, 95, 97, 98, 99, 101, 151, 359; field hospital on, British 157, 190, 208, 284-5; French attack British camp on 120, 122, 124, 125, 148, 162, 257; women on 188, 190

  Île du Bic 1-2, 10, 38, 39, 62, 80, 83

  Île Ste Hélène 418

  India 46, 419, 420

  Industry 31

  Iowas (Native Americans) 130

  Iroquois Confederation 127, 247-8, 249

  Irving, Major Paulus Aemilius 354

  Isandlwana, battle of, 1879 5

  Jacques Cartier River 310, 388, 389, 395, 398

  Jervis, John 85

  Joannès, Armand de 395

  Johnson, Sergeant John: ambush, describes Canadian and Native American style of 162, 186; British atrocities, on 254; Chelsea pensioner 158; Foulon landings and 324, 325, 328; in Quebec 412-13, 415; illness in British camp, outlines 285; lands on Île d’Orléans 98; Montmorency defeat, on 228-9, 233; Native American method of attacking, describes 131-2, 162, 186; Plains of Abraham battle, describes 349, 355, 356, 366-7, 372, 373, 377; sickness in British army, outlines 285, 286; survives war 420

  Johnson, Sir William 247, 248, 297

  Johnstone, Chevalier 21, 75, 214, 21, 361, 389

  Jumonville, Joseph Coulon de 419

  Kamouraska 257

  Kennebec River 305

  Kennedy, Captain Quinton 305-6

  Killick, Thomas 29, 37, 89-90, 91

  Kirk, Robert 128-9, 424

  Knox, Lieutenant John 136, 243, 260-1, 267, 268, 278, 303, 306, 314, 315-16, 318, 319; appearance of British troops, observes irregular 211; bombardment of Quebec, observes British 173, 176, 183; family and history 22-3; fire rafts, describes 217, 218, 219; fireships, on French attack 119, 120, 121-2, 125; Foulon landings, observes 324, 328, 332, 335, 336-7, 346; 43rd Regiment and 22, 23-4; Halifax 22; Île d’Orléans camp 104; illness in British camp, observes 281-2, 284, 285, 286, 295; lands at Île d’Orléans 97-8, 99-100; looting, observes 160; Louisbourg, training at 23-4, 25, 26; Montmorency defeat, describes 227, 228, 231, 232; Montmorency Falls, on 152; Native American attacks and 133; on North American style of warfare 214; Plains of Abraham, observes battle of 353, 356-7, 364, 366, 368, 369, 373, 374, 390, 396; Point Lévis camp 163-4, 165, 166, 167, 187; punishments, on British army 269; Quebec defences, admiration for 103; Quebec, time in 399, 416-17; sails to St Lawrence 29, 30, 32, 33, 34, 35; St Lawrence clearances, observes 256, 257, 258; St Lawrence, sails up 37, 39, 40, 41, 86-7, 88, 89, 90; survives Seven Years War 420; Wolfe at Louisbourg, observes 23-4; Wolfe, praise for 390

  L’Anse au Foulon 204, 244, 310-11, 318-44, 346, 349, 361, 387, 392, 407, 416

  L’Anse des Mères 75, 146, 170, 244, 340

  la Chaudiere 257

  La Chézine 58, 59

  La Diable 75

  La Rochelle Chamber of Commerce 423

  Laffeldt, battle of, 1747 111

  Lake Champlain 187, 243, 250, 306, 307, 308, 418

  Lake George (Lac du Saint-Sacrement) 46, 51, 52, 66, 243, 248, 307

  Lake Ontario 20, 52, 248, 249, 418

  Lauffeld, battle of, 1747 22

  Le Harve 7

  Le Machau 293

  Le Mercier, François-Marc-Antoine 47, 75, 84, 85, 86, 147, 205, 216, 240, 241

  Le Senectaire 292

  Lee, Captain Charles 126

  Leeke, R. 404

  Lennox, Lord John 273

  de Lévis, François-Gaston de 168, 250, 264; Montcalm and 57, 61-2, 215, 219, 224, 243; Montmorency, role in French success at 227, 236, 243; in Montreal 250, 251, 264, 295, 311, 327, 361, 365, 379, 395, 398; Native Americans and 209; retreat from Quebec 399; returns to Quebec from Montreal 395, 398, 399; second siege of Quebec, role in 415, 416, 417; shortages of food in Montreal and 251, 295; surrender of Quebec and 398, 399; surrender of Vaudreuil at Montreal and 426; Vaudreuil and 57, 61-2, 209, 311, 327, 379, 426

  Lignery, François-Marie Le Marchand de 249

  Ligonier, Lord 107, 125, 281

  Lizard 218

  Louis XIV of France, King 3, 55, 56, 141, 157, 420

  Louis XV of France, King 2, 46, 55, 62, 378, 403, 422, 425

  Louisbourg 7, 14, 18, 20, 21, 23, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 32, 36, 37, 59, 70, 71, 82-3, 100, 101, 105, 107, 108, 124-5, 138, 140, 177, 178, 197, 294, 367, 412, 419

  Louisiana 50

  Lowestoft 32, 90, 95, 113-14, 206, 218, 290-1, 330, 375,
416, 417

  Lowther, Katherine 408

  Lyttelton, Lord 7

  MacDonald, Captain Donald 332

  MacDonnell, Captain 332

  Mackellar, Patrick 105, 114, 140-1, 146, 252, 277-8, 298, 304, 305; British bombardment of Quebec, on 180-1, 183; British defeat at Montmorency, on 222, 225, 227, 234, 237, 246, 247; British troops attitudes towards Canadians and Native Americans and 160; British wave of destruction along the St Lawrence, records 254-5; Deschambault, on Murray’s attack on 263, 264; family and history 100-1; fire rafts, on French 217; fireship attack, warns of 117, 121; Foulon landings, on 317, 319, 320, 330, 334, 339, 340; Île d’Orléans camp 139; in Quebec 399, 400; landing at Île d’Orléans 100, 101-2, 103; Montmorency attack, on 209, 210, 214, 215; Plains of Abraham, battle of 346, 354, 355, 356, 365, 366, 382, 386, 387, 389; Point Lévis attack 126; Wolfe and 100, 101-2, 354, 355

  MacPherson, Andrew 262

  MacPherson, John 354

  MacPherson, Robert 262, 326, 346, 372, 386

  Magnanime 403

  Mantell, Captain 88

  maps xii-xvi; Plan of Quebec and The Battle of the Plains of Abraham, 13th September, 1759 xvi; Seven Years War in North America xiv; siege of Quebec, June-September, 1759 xii-xiii; St Lawrence Theatre of Operations, 1759 xv

  Marie Galante 423

  Marseilles Chamber of Commerce 423

  Martha 31

  Martin, Abraham 345

  Martin, Marguerite 345

  Martinique 19, 419, 420, 423

  Massachusetts 51, 69, 128, 129, 404

  Maurès de Malartic, Anne-Joseph-Hippolyte de 365, 372-3

  May, Martha 190

  McIntyre, Alexander 350-1

  Mediterranean 8, 402

  Miamis (Native Americans) 248

  Minnesota 35

  Miquelon 423

  Missisauga (Native Americans) 130

  Mississippi River 50, 423, 424

  Mohawks (Native Americans) 126, 130-1, 161, 247, 248, 297, 306

  Mohawk River 20

  Mohegan (Native Americans) 129

  Monckton, Brigadier Robert 151, 231, 232, 233, 282, 288; family and history 108-9; Foulon landings and 319, 322, 323, 333; leaves Canada 400; Plains of Abraham battle, role in 348, 353, 375, 380, 383; Point Lévis 124, 126, 132, 134, 135, 136, 137, 138, 141, 164, 165, 172, 184-5, 188, 281, 287, 303; surrender of Quebec, reaction to 398; Wolfe and 108, 109, 135, 136, 137, 164, 184-5, 203, 204, 205, 216, 223, 226, 240, 252, 256, 266-8, 272-3, 281, 290, 322, 323; wounded 375, 380, 383, 398, 400, 404, 409

  Monmouth 292

  Monongahela, battle of, 1755 5-6, 100, 110, 131, 152, 168, 177-8, 271-2, 400

  Montcalm-Gozon, Louis-Joseph, Marquis de 115, 140, 141, 144, 147, 150, 155, 159, 200, 207, 208, 210, 215, 223, 224, 227, 230, 231, 243-4, 247, 248, 250, 254, 261, 264, 265, 266, 277, 289, 290, 292, 301, 302, 304, 305, 308, 316; appearance 44; British strength, overvalues 159; Canada, arrives in 47; Canadian and Native American raids on British, opinion on 159-60, 168, 169, 171; Canadian command, given 46; Canadians, opinion of 159-60, 168, 169, 171, 215, 378; character 44-5, 57, 103, 160, 243, 295, 319, 388, 426; death 380, 386, 404; desertion, attempts to encourage British 275-6; exhaustion 243; family and history 44-5; food shortages, on 177, 251; Foulon landings, reaction to 311-12, 313, 316, 327, 334, 340-2, 343, 344; frustration with fellow officers 216-17, 236; Native Americans, attitudes towards 49; North American warfare, opinion of 47, 159-60, 168, 169, 171; pessimistic view of French future in Canada 57, 103, 243, 295, 388, 426; Plains of Abraham, battle of, role in 343-4, 351, 352, 359, 360-3, 364, 365-6, 373, 378, 380, 381, 386; prepares for British attack 59-60, 61-2, 64, 65, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75, 76, 78, 80, 93, 97, 99, 102, 103, 115, 116; Quebec, on the effects of losing 404; reaction to Murray’s targeting of Deschambault 265, 266; response to British move upriver from Quebec 204-5; surrender of Quebec and 388; tactics 116, 121-2, 133, 134, 160, 168, 169, 171, 184, 204-5, 215, 250-1, 265, 266, 311-13, 334, 343-4, 351, 352, 359, 360-3, 364, 365-6, 373, 378, 380, 381, 386, 415, 416; Vaudreuil and 50-1, 52, 53, 54, 57-8, 61-2, 84, 236; Wolfe and 216-17, 219, 260, 295, 311-13

  Montgomery, Captain Alexander 259

  Montgomery, Field Marshal xvii

  Montmorency: British attack 150-2; British camp at 152-7, 185, 186, 187, 195, 208, 209, 210, 217, 220, 240, 253, 267, 268, 272, 290, 300, 301, 302, 304, 309, 310, 359; British defeat at 220-38, 243, 245, 247, 271, 279, 288, 354, 373; Falls of 74, 76, 102, 141, 145, 150, 151, 152, 224, 239, 253, 254-5, 276, 302; River 69, 144, 154-5, 157, 195, 209-10, 214, 215, 216, 222, 226, 227, 234, 238, 240, 242, 243, 245, 247, 257, 260, 287, 288, 289

  Montmorency, Henri, Duc de 152

  Montreal 42, 44, 59-60, 61, 65, 73, 74, 77, 102, 187, 250, 251, 265, 295, 306, 351, 360, 389, 395, 418, 419-20, 424, 426

  Montresor, Captain John: camp conditions, describes 284; conditions in Quebec, describes 412; family and history 36; French batteries, on effectiveness of 165; Montmorency and 151, 195, 223, 228, 234; Plains of Abraham, battle of and 395; Point Lévis attack and 136, 138-9; sail ships above the town of Quebec, describes British attempts to 198; St Lawrence, journey up 39, 40, 86, 87, 91; storm on day of British landing at Île d’Orléans, describes 113; Wolfe’s examinations of prisoners, describes 133-4

  Moore, Captain Henry 420

  Morris, Major 239

  Morlaix 54

  Mort de General Montcalm 410

  Munro, Hector 412

  Munsees (Native Americans) 248

  Murray, Brigadier General James 155, 280; advises Wolfe to attack upriver from Quebec 288-90; character 109-10; enters Quebec 396; family and history 109-10; Foulon landings, role in 318, 322, 323; governor of Quebec 400-1, 412, 413, 414-15, 418; Île d’Orléans 139; Montmorency, British defeat and 222, 223, 234; navy, praises 246; Plains of Abraham, role in battle of 353, 354, 368, 376, 378, 379, 380, 381, 387; reconnoitres north shore of St Lawrence 140, 146; Townshend and 281, 288-90, 318; upriver from Quebec, mission to harass French 242-4, 245-7, 250, 251-2, 263, 264, 265-7, 277; West’s painting of Wolfe, refuses to sit for 409; Wolfe and 110, 205-6, 209, 245, 288-90, 318, 322, 323, 353, 409

  muskets xxii-xxiii, 17, 20, 22, 24, 25, 28, 31, 33, 40, 48, 52, 53, 64, 81, 85, 87, 95, 98, 104, 106, 120, 124, 125, 126, 127, 134, 135, 137, 139, 143, 149, 150, 156, 158, 159, 170, 187, 190, 197, 210, 213, 218, 221, 223, 226, 228, 230, 231, 232, 233, 234, 235, 244, 246, 248, 256, 261, 265, 272, 274, 287, 302, 307, 315, 326, 335, 342, 347, 349, 350, 351, 352, 353, 356, 357, 359, 364, 3666, 367, 368, 369, 370, 371, 372, 373, 375, 376, 380, 381, 385, 386, 387, 406, 415, 417, 419

  Mutiny Act, 1689 24

  Napoleonic Wars 377

  Native Americans xxiv, 96, 107, 155, 167, 203, 204-5, 207, 209, 210, 222, 232, 233, 234, 236, 241, 246-7, 249, 261, 275, 310, 423; British attitudes towards xxiii, xxiv, 126, 131-2, 159-60, 215-16; British and French, differing attitudes towards 127-9; canoes 142-3, 222; casualties, number of 156, 159; French attitude towards 49-50, 51, 53, 54, 66-7, 126, 127-30, 133, 159-60, 209; ‘Mission Indians’ 129; Plains of Abraham battle, role in 348, 351, 354, 355, 356, 357, 360, 375, 378; Point Lévis, fight British at xxiv, xxv, 126, 132, 170; prisoners, treatment of 52, 133, 252-3; raids and skirmishes xxiii, xxiv, 20, 51-2, 78-9, 84, 123, 133, 139, 142-5, 148, 156, 158-60, 185-7, 195, 209-10, 214, 215, 253, 260-1, 268, 271-2; scalping xxi, 116, 129, 132, 133, 147, 156, 158, 186, 233, 259-60; warfare, nature of xxi, xxiii, xxiv, 47-8, 51-2, 115, 116, 129, 130-2, 145, 159, 212, 214, 233, 234 see also under individual tribe name

  navigation at sea 13-14

  Nawab of Bengal 6

  Neptune 13, 15, 21, 28, 30, 31, 36, 38, 88, 113, 140, 165, 287, 391

  New England 31, 69

  New Brunswick 83

  New France 2, 11, 44, 59, 66, 67, 70, 72, 73, 129, 130, 152, 169, 208, 247, 249, 250, 258, 261, 305, 344, 381, 396, 405, 417, 423, 424, 426

  New Hampshire 3

  New Orleans 2, 50, 142, 423

  New York 16, 18, 20, 48, 51, 247, 248-9, 404-5

  Newcastle, Thomas P
elham Holles, Duke of 4, 7, 8-9, 111, 191, 403-4, 408, 420

  Newfoundland 10, 423

  Niagara, Fort 52, 66, 248-50, 297, 305, 306

  Northumberland 401

  Notre Dame de Quebec 181, 183-4

  Notre Dame des Victories 42, 179

  Nova Scotia 10, 14, 15, 18, 22, 23, 68, 108, 333, 424

  Ochterlony, Captain David 229, 233, 234, 240-1

  Ohio valley 3, 4, 5, 248, 249, 422, 423

  Orford 40

  Oswego, Fort 52, 54, 247, 248

  Ottawas (Native Americans) 130

  Palliser, Captain 396

  Panet, Jean-Claude 134, 165-6, 170-1, 215, 241, 247, 293, 303, 309; British bombardment of Quebec, outlines 176, 179, 180, 183, 242; British prisoners, on French treatment of 78, 79; British treatment of prisoners, thoughts on 207, 208; British wave of destruction along St Lawrence, condemns 257, 293; floating batteries, describes French 75; French army, disgust with 304; French fireship attack on British, thoughts on 122; on lack of supplies within Quebec 59; Montmorency raids, on French 155, 156, 157; Montmorency, on British defeat at 227-8, 230, 233, 235; Native Americans, on nature of 156

  Parr, Captain Henry 150

  Payreau, Monsieur 264

  pays d’en haut 53, 143, 250

  Péan, Angelique Renaud d’Avène des Méloizes de 73

  Pearson, Jeremiah 399

  Peggy & Sarah 31-2

  Pembroke 15, 81, 82-3, 84, 86, 114, 201, 223

  Pennsylvania 4, 20, 36, 48, 51, 65, 249

  Petitcodiac River 255-6

  Philadelphia 20, 405

  Philippines 420

  Phips, Sir William 69, 70, 72

  Phoenix 31

  Pitt, William 102-3, 107, 111-12, 125, 156, 184, 205, 206, 216, 222, 223, 225, 226, 231, 262, 278, 296, 306-7, 334, 382, 383, 402, 403-4, 407, 408, 420, 425

  Plains of Abraham, Battle of, 13th September, 1759 xvi, xviii, 343-4, 345-83; ‘advance to contact’, British 346-8; artillery 84-5, 357-9, 365, 372; Bougainville’s troops arrive 381-2; British army, size of 351; British fire on French advance 368-73; British fix bayonets 375-6; British fortify positions after 387; British reaction to French advance 366-8; British victory 382-3; Canadians and Native Americans in 351, 352, 355-7, 365-6, 378-9; casualties, British 379, 380, 382, 384, 385-7, 412; casualties, French 370, 372-3, 382, 384-5, 386-7, 404; colours, British 352-3; commanders, British 353-5, 360-1, 362, 373, 374-5, 380-1, 382 see also under individual commander name; commanders, French 359-62, 372-3, 378-9, 380, 388-9 see also under individual commander name; French army, size of 351; French attack stalls 372-3, 375; French attack/advance 364-72; French battle line 351-2; French retreat 375, 376-8, 380, 384; Highlanders in 350-1, 376-8, 379; history, effect upon course of xvii-xviii; line of battle, British 348-9, 352, 353-4; musicians, British 353; sharpshooters and skirmishers 351, 352, 355-7, 382; thin red line, British 349; uniforms, British 353, 354; units, British 350; Wolfe’s death at 373, 374-5

 

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