[296] Drucour's letter, Annual Register, 1758, pp. 179-81.
[297] Bradley, The Fight with France for North America (1905), p. 217, says a million sterling had been spent on the fortifications since 1745.
[298] Grenville Correspondence, vol. i. 262.
[299] Quoted by Bradley, ut supra, p. 245.
[300] Annual Register, 1758, pp. 72, 73.
[301] Burke, Annual Register, 1759, p. 34.
[302] Major W. Wood, in The Siege of Quebec (1904), doubts the truth of this picturesque story.
[303] Bradley, Life of Wolfe (1895), p. 208.
[304] Hunt, Political History of England, 1760-1801 (1905), p. 141.
[305] Bancroft, History of the United States (1891), i. p. 525.