Mr. W. S. Appleton describes the medal struck to commemorate the capture of Quebec and Montreal, in the Mass. Hist. Soc. Proc., xi. 298, and in the Amer. Journal of Numismatics, July, 1874. A cut of it is given on the title of the present volume. Cf. Quebec Lit. and Hist. Soc. Transactions, 1872-73, p. 80.
[1501] Those on the English side are as follows:—
1. Journal of the expedition up the river St. Lawrence from the embarkation at Louisbourg ‘til after the surrender of Quebeck, by the sergeant-major of Gen. Hopson’s Grenadiers, Boston, 1759. (Sabin, ix. 36,723.). This appeared originally in the N. Y. Mercury, Dec. 31, 1759, and is reprinted in the second series of the Hist. Docs. of the Lit. and Hist. Soc. of Quebec.
2. Journal of the expedition up the river St. Lawrence, beginning at Perth Amboy, May 8, 1759. The original was found among the papers of George Allsop, secretary to Sir Guy Carleton, Wolfe’s quartermaster-general. It has been printed in the Hist. Docs., 4th ser., of the Lit. and Hist. Soc. of Quebec.
3. Capt. Richard Gardiner’s Memoirs of the siege of Quebec, and of the retreat of M. de Bourlamaque from Carillon to the Isle aux Noix on Lake Champlain, from the Journal of a French officer on board the Chezine frigate ... compared with the accounts transmitted home by Maj.-Gen. Wolfe, London, 1761.
4. An accurate and authentic Journal of the siege of Quebec, 1759, by a gentleman in an eminent station on the spot, London, 1759. (Brinley, i. 207; H. C. library, 4376.29; Carter-Brown, iii. 1,233.)
5. Genuine letters from a volunteer in the British service at Quebec, London [1760]. (Carter-Brown, iii. 1,257.)
6. “Journal of the particular transactions during the siege of Quebec,” by an officer of light infantry, printed in Notes and Queries, xx. 370. It is reprinted in the Hist. Mag. (Nov., 1860), iv. 321. It extends from June 26 to Aug. 8, 1759, purports to be penned “at anchor opposite the island of Orleans.” The original is said to have been in the possession of G. Galloway, of Inverness, and is supposed to have been written by an officer of Fraser’s regiment.
7. A short, authentic account of the expedition against Quebec, by a volunteer upon that expedition, Quebec, 1872. It is ascribed to one James Thompson.
8. Memoirs of the siege of Quebec and total reduction of Canada, by John Johnson, clerk and quartermaster-sergeant to the Fifty-Eighth Regiment. A MS. of 176 pages, cited by Parkman (ii. 440) as by a pensioner at Chelsea (England) Hospital. It belongs to Geo. Francis Parkman, Esq.