VIEW OF LOUISBOURG.
From the northeast. One of Des Barres’ coast views. (In Harvard College library.) Dr. A. H. Nichols, of Boston, possesses a plan of Louisbourg made by Geo. Follings, of Boston, a gunner in the service. He has also a contemporary sketch of the fort at Canso.
ENTRANCE TO LOUISBOURG HARBOR.
One of Des Barres’ coast views, 1779. (In Harvard College library.) A contemporary view showing the town from a point near the light-house is given in Cassell’s United States, i. 528.
The printed materials on the French side are not nearly so numerous as on the English. Of importance is Thomas Pichon’s[1034] Lettres et Mémoires pour servir à l’histoire du Cap Breton (a la Haye, 1760), of which there is an English translation, of the same year, purporting to be copied from the author’s original manuscript.[1035]
After the print in Entick’s Gen. Hist. of the Late War, 3d ed., vol. iv. p. 90. See the engraving from Knox’s journal, on another page, in ch. viii.
Of individual experiences and accounts there are, on the English side, John Montresor’s journal, in the Coll. of the N. Y. Hist. Soc., 1881 (p. 151);[1036] An Authentic Account of the Reduction of Louisbourg in June and July, 1758, by a Spectator (London, 1758),[1037] which Parkman calls excellent, and says that Entick, in his General History of the Late War (London, 1764),[1038] used it without acknowledgment. The same authority characterizes as admirable the account in John Knox’s Historical Journal of the Campaigns in North America, 1757-1760[1039] (vol. i. p. 144), with its numerous letters and orders relating to the siege. Wright, in his Life of Wolfe, gives various letters of that active officer. Parkman also uses a diary of a captain or subaltern in Amherst’s army, found in the garret of an old house at Windsor, Nova Scotia. Some contemporary letters will be found in the Grenville Correspondence (vol. i. pp. 240-265);[1040] and other views of that day respecting the event can be gleaned from Walpole’s Memoirs of George the Second (2d ed., vol. iii. 134).[1041] Of the modern accounts, the most considerable are those in Warburton’s Conquest of Canada (N. Y., 1850, vol. ii. p. 74), Brown’s History of Cape Breton, and the story as recently told with unusual spirit and acquaintance with the sources in Parkman’s Montcalm and Wolfe (vol. ii. chap. xix).