Excerpt from The Siege of Quebec and the Battle of the Plains of Abraham, Vol. 2
In accordance with the plan adopted in the first part of the Appendix, Vol. IV, a brief description is given of the documents published herein. The Townshend Papers, and the two French manuscripts, are of the highest value to the student.
(1) A Journal of the Expedition up the River St. Lawrence by the Sergeant Major of General Hopson's Grenadiers.
This account of the Siege of Quebec was published in Boston in November, 1759, and it appears to have formed the basis of an article printed in the New York Mercury in December, 1759.
Through the courtesy of the Librarian of Congress at Washington, a transcript was made of the pamphlet preserved in the Library.
(2) Genuine Letters from a Volunteer in the British Service at Quebec. The letters are dated from Quebec in September, 1759, and the writer describes himself as "a volunteer among a large body of seamen landed about 5 o'clock in the morning and appointed as a corps de reserve." The letters were published in pamphlet form in 1761.
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