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The Sun Of Quebec

CHAPTER XVI
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Foy, even harder than in Wolfe's battle on the Plains of Abraham.

They were conspicuous for their valor and suffered many casualties.

Colden, Cabell and Stuart were wounded, but took no permanent hurt.

Charteris also received a slight wound, but he recovered entirely before his marriage in the summer with the lovely Louise de St.
Maur, the daughter of the Seigneur Raymond de St.Maur, in whose house he had been a prisoner a long time in Quebec.
It was Robert's own personal contact and his great friendship for Charteris, continuing throughout their long lives in New York, that caused him to take such a strong and permanent interest in this particular regiment which had been raised wholly in the colonies and which fought so valiantly at Duquesne, Louisbourg, Ticonderoga, Quebec, Ste.

Foy, and in truth in nearly all the great North American battles of the Seven Years' War.
It was at first the Sixty-Second Regular Regiment of the British Army, "Royal American Provincials," but through the lapsing of two other regiments it soon became the Sixtieth.


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