[1484] Stanwix worked hard to put Pittsburgh into a defensible condition. Maury’s Huguenot Family, 416.
[1485] Indeed, military critics have questioned the general multiform plan of Pitt’s campaign as a serious error. Cf. Smollett’s England, and Viscount Bury’s Exodus, ii. 288. Pitt’s letter of Dec. 9, 1758, to the colonial governors on the coming campaign is in the New Hampshire Prov. Papers, vi. 703; and his letter of Dec. 29, 1758, to Amherst on the conduct of it is in the N. Y. Col. Docs., vii. 355. Cf. also Chatham Correspondence. Jared Ingersoll’s account of the character and appearance of Pitt in 1759 is given in E. E. Beardsley’s Life and Times of William Samuel Johnson, Boston, 2d ed., 1886, p. 21.
Col. Montresor submitted a plan for amendments which, in its main features, was like Pitt’s. Cf. Penna. Archives, 2d ser., vi. 433, and N. Y. Col. Docs., x. 907. (Cf. Collection de Manuscrits, Quebec, iv. 208.) The plan of Vaudreuil, Apr. 1, 1759, on the French side, is in Ibid., x. 952. In Dec., 1758, Gen. Winslow was in England, and William Beckford was urging Pitt to have recourse to him for information. Chatham Correspondence, i. 378.
[1486] Life of Johnson, ii. 394, etc.
[1487] There is a contemporary letter in the Boston Evening Post, no. 1,250, a composite account in the Annual Register, 1759, and another in Knox’s Hist. Journal, vol. ii. Papers from the London Archives are in the New York Col. Docs., vii. 395. There are among Charles Lee’s letters two (July 30 and Aug. 9, 1759) describing the siege of Niagara, and his subsequent route towards Duquesne is defined in another (March 1, 1760). N. Y. Hist. Soc. Coll., 1871, p. 9.
[1488] Vol. ii. 42; vol. iii. 165.
[1489] Cf. on Pouchot, N. Y. Col. Docs., x. 668, note. In the same (p. 990) are the articles of capitulation.
[1490] Vol. ii. p. 130.
[1491] Vol. ii. p. 104, etc.
[1492] Gage’s Letters, 1759-1773 (MS.), in Harvard College library. In one of them he says to Bradstreet: “You must not conclude that all the oxen that leave Schenectady reach this; and in your calculation of provisions make allowance for what may be lost, taken by and left at the Indian castles, beside what are used at the several posts.”