The English raised shouts of joy upon the ramparts, the cannon of the place saluted the arrivals.

During the night between the 16th and 17th of May, the little French army raised the siege of Quebec.

On the 6th of September, the united forces of Generals Murray, Amherst, and Haviland invested Montreal.
A little wall and a ditch, intended to resist the attacks of Indians, a few pieces of cannon eaten up with rust, and three thousand five hundred troops--such were the means of defending Montreal.

The rural population yielded at last to the good fortune of the English, who burned on their marsh the recalcitrant villages.

Despair was in every heart; M.de Vaudreuil assembled during the night a council of war.