The French at once broke up their camp, and retreated hastily; but all hope was now gone, the loss of Quebec had cut them off from France.
Amherst invaded the country from the English colonies, and the French were driven back to Montreal, before which the united English forces, 17,000 strong, took up their position; and, on the 8th of September, 1760, Vaudreuil signed the capitulation, by which Canada and all its dependencies passed to the English crown.

All the French officers, civil and military, and the French troops and sailors, were to be sent back to France, in English ships.
James Walsham was not present at the later operations round Quebec.

He had been struck, in the side, by a shot by a lurking Indian, when a column had marched out from Quebec, a few days after its capture; and, for three or four weeks, he lay between life and death, on board ship.
When convalescence set in, he found that he was already on blue water, all the serious cases being taken back by the fleet when, soon after the capture of Quebec, it sailed for England.
The voyage was a long one, and, by the time the fleet sailed with their convoy into Portsmouth harbour, James had recovered much of his strength.

An hour after landing, he was in a post chaise on his way home.

It seemed strange, indeed, to him, as he drove through the little town, on his way up to the Hall.