[1167] See chapter vii.
[1168] In a massive old building, the manor-house of the first Seigneur of Beaufort (1634), which was destroyed in 1879. Cf. Lossing’s sketch in Harper’s Magazine (Jan., 1859), xviii. p. 180.
[1169] Turcotte’s Hist. de l’île d’Orléans (Quebec. 1867), ch. iii.
[1170] Among the officers of the army and navy here acting together were some who were later very famous,—Jervis (Earl St. Vincent), Cook, the navigator, Isaac Barré, the parliamentary friend of America, Guy Carleton, and William Howe, afterwards Sir William.
[1171] This point is prominent in most views of Quebec from below the town. Cf. Lossing, Field-Book of the Revolution, i. 185, etc. Montcalm was overruled by Vaudreuil, and was not allowed to entrench a force at Point Levi, as he wished. Beatson’s Naval and Mil. Memoirs.
[1172] The Life of Cook gives some particulars of an exploit of Cook in taking soundings in the river, preparatory to the attack from Montmorenci.
[1173] On the 2d, in a despatch to Pitt, he used a phrase, since present to the mind of many a baffled projector, for when referring to the plans yet to be tried, he spoke of his option as a “choice of difficulties.”
[1174] Wolfe’s Cove, as it has since been called. Views of it are numerous. Cf. Picturesque Canada; Lossing’s Field-Book; and the drawing by Princess Louise in Dent’s Last forty years, ii. 345.
[1175] Memoirs of Robert Stobo. Cf. Boston Post Boy, no. 97; Boston Evening Post, no. 1,258. Stobo had made his escape from Quebec early in May, 1759. Cf. Montcalm’s letter in N. Y. Col. Docs., x.970.
[1176] Montgomery, nearly twenty years later, with a similar task before him, said, “Wolfe’s success was a lucky hit, or rather a series of such hits; all sober and scientific calculations of war were against him until Montcalm gave up the advantage of his fortress.” (Force’s Am. Archives, iii. 1,638.)