The delay was brief. Amherst, advancing from Lachine, encamped before Montreal, above it, while Murray ferried his men from the island and encamped below. What there was left of the force which opposed Haviland withdrew across the river into the town, and Haviland’s tents dotted the shore which the French had left. The combined French army now numbered scarce 2,500; Amherst held them easily with a force of 17,000.
ROUTES TO CANADA, 1755-1763.
Follows map in Miles’s Hist. of Canada, p. 293.
Other contemporary maps showing the country, brought within the campaigns about Lakes Champlain and Ontario, are the following:—
A chorographical map of the country between Albany, Oswego, Fort Frontenac, and Les Trois Rivières, exhibiting all the grants by the French on Lake Champlain, which was included by Jefferys in his General Topog. of North America and the West Indies, London, 1768. It is, in fact, the northerly sheet of Jefferys’ Provinces of New York and New Jersey, with part of Pensilvania, drawn by Capt. Holland. The same General Topography, no. 32, etc., contains also in Blanchard and Langdon’s Map of New Hampshire (Oct. 21, 1761) a corner map, showing “The River St. Lawrence above Montreal to Lake Ontario, with the adjacent country on the west from Albany and Lake Champlain.”
Vaudreuil saw there was no time for delays, and at once submitted a plan of capitulation. A few notes were exchanged to induce less onerous conditions; but Amherst was not to be moved. On September 8th the paper was signed, and all Canada passed to the English king; the whole garrison to be sent as prisoners to France in British ships.
ROBERT ROGERS.