[277] Loudoun to Fox, 25th Jan.; to Pitt, 25th April 1757.
[278] Pitt's instructions to General Hopson, 19th Feb.; Holderness to Loudoun, 8th April, 2nd May; Loudoun to Holderness, 5th August 1757.
[279] Loudoun to Pitt, 30th May 1757.
[280] The regiments were the 3rd, 5th, 8th, 15th, 20th, 24th, 25th, 30th, 50th, 51st.
[281] Pitt to Loudoun, 20th Dec. 1757.
[282] Abercromby's instructions, 30th Dec. 1757.
[283] Abercromby's instructions.
[284] The order of Amherst's force in brigades was as follows, the regiments being enumerated from right to left. Right Brigade (Whitmore), 1 batt. 1st Foot, 40th, 3rd batt. 60th, 48th, 22nd. Centre Brigade (Wolfe), 17th, 47th, 2nd batt. 60th, 35th. Left Brigade (Lawrence), 28th, 58th, Fraser's Highlanders, 45th, 15th.—Enclosure in Amherst's letter to Pitt, 11th June 1758.
[285] The 22nd, 28th, 40th and 45th.
[286] The 1st, 17th, 47th, 48th, Fraser's Highlanders.