Narrative and Critical History of America, Vol. 5 (of 8) / The English and French in North America 1689-1763

by Unknown

QUEBEC AS IT SURRENDERED, 1759.

After a plan in Miles’s Hist. of Canada, p. 363, which is mainly the same as the large folding map by Jefferys, published Jan. 15, 1760, which also makes part of the Hist. of the French Dominion in America, London, 1760, and of his General Topog. of North America and the West Indies, London, 1768, no. 19. There is another plan in the Nouvelle Carte de la Province de Québec selon l’edit du Roi d’Angleterre du 8 Sep^bre, 1763, par le Capitaine Carver et autres, traduites de l’Anglois, à Paris, 1777. One is annexed to Joseph Hazard’s Conquest of Quebec, a poem, London, 1769; and another to Lemoine’s Picturesque Quebec, 1882. Cf. Mag. of Amer. Hist., Apr., 1884, p. 280.

Richard Short made some drawings of the condition of Quebec after the bombardment, which were engraved and published in 1761.

The French plans of Quebec of this period, to be noted, are those of Bellin in Charlevoix, viz.: Plan du bassin de Québec et de les environs, 1744 (vol. iii. p. 70); Plan de la ville de Québec, 1744 (Ibid., p. 72); and Carte de l’isle d’Orléans, et du passage de la traverse dans le Fleuve St. Laurent, 1744 (Ibid., p. 65); beside the plan of Quebec in Bellin’s Petit Atlas Maritime, vol. i., 1764.

In vol. lxiv. of the Shelburne MSS. there are various plans of the fortifications and citadel, made after the surrender. Edw. Fitzmaurice reported on these in the Hist. MSS. Commission’s Fifth Report, p. 231.

Such books as Hawkins’s Picturesque Quebec and Lossing’s paper in Harper’s Magazine, xviii. 176, give pictures of most of the points of historical interest in and about the town. Cf. J. M. Lemoine’s “Rues de Québec,” in the Revue Canadienne, xii. 269.

Various views connected with the siege of Quebec are given in Picturesque Canada, Toronto, 1884, showing the present condition of Wolfe’s Cove and the ascent from it (pp. 25, 47), the martello towers (p. 27), as well as the monuments to commemorate Wolfe and Montcalm (pp. 27, 46).

Montcalm, mounted, borne on by the panic, was shot through the breast just before he entered the town, and was taken within to die.