FOOTNOTES:
[6] Afterwards colonel of the twenty-seventh foot.
[7] Memoirs of Captain George Carleton. This officer was appointed lieutenant in the Fifteenth foot, from the Dutch service, in June, 1687. He was born at Ewelme in Oxfordshire, and was descended from an ancient and honorable family: Lord Dudley Carleton, who died Secretary of State to King Charles I., was his great-uncle; and in the same reign, his father was envoy in Spain, and his uncle ambassador in Holland. Several editions of his Memoirs have been printed.
[8] Carleton's Memoirs.
[9] London Gazette.
[10] Carleton's Memoirs.—From a defect of memory, Captain Carleton has placed the expedition to Inverlochy after the action at Cromdale.
[11] Cape Breton had been previously captured, in the year 1745, by the New England Militia, under the command of Colonel William Pepperell, assisted by a naval squadron under Commodore Warren. Mutual restitutions taking place by the conditions of the treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle, Cape Breton was restored to France, in exchange for Madras, which had been taken by the French.
[12] In censuring the grenadiers for their rash conduct, Major-General Wolfe observed in orders, 'Amherst's (the Fifteenth) and the Highlanders (seventy-eighth), alone, by the soldier-like and cool manner in which they formed, would, undoubtedly, have beaten back the whole Canadian army, if the enemy had ventured to attack them.'
[13] General Sir Charles Grey's despatch.