[1326] The book, which is very rare, was published at Lexington, Ky., in 1799. (Field, Ind. Bibliog., no. 1,438; Thomson, Bibliog. of Ohio, 1,055.) It was reprinted in Cincinnati, in 1870 “with an appendix of illustrative notes by W. M. Darlington,” as no. 5 of the Ohio Valley Historical Series. (Field, no. 1,440.) It was reprinted at Philad. in 1831, since dated 1834. (Brinley, iii. 5,570.) The author published an abstract of it in his Treatise on the mode and manner of Indian war, Paris, Ky., 1812. (Field, no. 1,439.) Parkman calls the earlier book “perhaps the best of all the numerous narratives of captives among the Indians.”
There is a sketch of Col. James Smith in J. A. M’Clung’s Sketches of Western Adventure (Dayton, Ohio, 1852). There have been other reprints of the Remarkable Occurrences in Drake’s Tragedies of the Wilderness (Boston, 1841); in J. Pritt’s Mirror of Olden Time Border Life (Abingdon, Va., 1849); in James Wimer’s Events in Indian History (Lancaster, 1841); and in the Western Review, 1821, vol. iv. (Lexington, Ky.). These titles are noted at length in Thomson’s Bibliog. of Ohio.
[1327] They are: 1. “Relation du combat du 9 juillet, 1755.”
2. “Relation depuis le départ des trouppes de Québec, jusqu’au 30 du mois de septembre, 1755.”
3. Lettre “de Monsieur Lotbinière à Monsieur le Comte d’Argenson, au Camp de Carillon, le 24 oct., 1755.”
[1328] One hundred copies printed.
[1329] Contents.—Notice sur D. H. M. L. de Beaujeu [par J. G. Shea]; Relation de l’action par Mr. de Godefroy; Relation depuis le départ des trouppes de Québec jusqu’au 30 du mois de septembre, 1755; Relation de l’action par M. Pouchot; Relation du combat tirée des archives du Dépôt général de la guerre; Relation officielle, imprimée au Louvre; Relation des diuers mouvements qui se sont passés entre les François et les Anglois, 9 juillet, 1755; État de l’artillerie, munitions de guerre et autres effets appartenant aux Anglais qui se sont trouvés sur le champ de bataille; Lettre de M. Lotbinière, 24 octobre 1755; Extraits du registre du Fort Du Quesne. (Cf. Field, Indian Bibliog., no. 1,394.) Shea also edited in the Cramoisy series (100 copies), as throwing some light on the battle and its hero Beaujeu, Registres des baptesmes et sepultures qui se sont faits au Fort Du Quesne pendant les années 1753, 1754, 1755, & 1756. Nouvelle York, 1859. (iv. 3-51 pp.) An English translation of this by Rev. A. A. Lambing has been published at Pittsburgh.
Cf. the French account printed in the Penna. Archives, 2d ser., vi. 256, and the statement of the captured munitions (p. 262). Cf. N. Y. Col. Docs., x. 303, 311. Parkman (app. to vol. ii. 424) brings forward the official report of Contrecœur to Vaudreuil, July 14, 1755, and (p. 425) a letter of Dumas, July 24, 1756, written to explain his own services, both of which Parkman found in the Archives of the Marine at Paris. It has sometimes been held that Beaujeu, not Contrecœur, commanded the post. (Hist. Mag., Sept., 1859, iii. p. 274.) Parkman (i. p. 221) also notes other papers among his own MSS. (copies) now in the Mass. Hist. Soc. library. There is something to be gleaned from the Mass. Archives, Doc. collected in France (cf. vol. ix. 211), as well as from the documents copied in Paris for the State of New York (vol. xi., etc.).
Maurault, in his Histoire des Abénakis (1866), gives a chapter to “les Abénakis à la bataille de la Mononagahéla.” The part which Charles Langlade, the partisan chief, took is set forth in Tassé’s Notice sur Charles Langlade (in Revue Canadienne originally), in Anburey’s Travels, and in Draper’s “Recollections of Grignon” in the Wisconsin Hist. Coll., iii.
[1330] Vol. i. p. 38.