The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1879-09-26
WHOLE NO. 1879.

but better known as Tconderogs. Fort From
tenac, at tho outlet OF Lake Ontario, was
French depot OF supplies for Detroit and the
other Western posts. This WAS attacked and
taken by the English on July %, and thus the
chain OF communication between tho French
on the st. Lawrence and their western posts.
was broken.
Beestre at Detroit took the alarm aud ra-
he'd the HurOns and other Indians OF the neigh
rhood, by whom many English were killed
and their scalps brought in Yes, the old Town
OF Detroit saw many scalps OF men and women
swung on rifles and carried through the streets
by the Indian ales OF the French.
The fort at Niagara was besieged; Fort Du-
quesne, at Pittsburgh, was abandoned, and at
the close OF 1858 the affairs of the French in
Canada seemed to be in rapidly declining
condition. At the same time most Of the able
bodied men had been called out to defend the
French possessions against the English, so
that farm culture had been greatly restricted,
the crops wers short, even where not foraged
by the enemy; there was great want OF the
nscessaries Of life, and much suffering among
the French population along the whole frontier
line.
1t was seen by both parties that the opera
tions OF 1859 must be decisive of affairs in
Canada, and both prepared for the struggle
At the same time NJ. Vaudeville, then tie
French lntendant or Governor General "
Canada, and his officers, and even mos, Of tie
Canadian population, were SO puffed up with
their own powers and consequence that they
deemed 1t wholly improbable that the English
would attempt the siege OF Quebec much lees
the conquest OF Canada.
In the Quebec documents, from which /
draw these sketches, 1 note the high sounding
titles and personal rivalry among officers, civil
and military, and disputed authority was among
the evils which the French, of Canada, suffered
and among the prominent causes wuich con-
tributed to the loss OF French America Still,
as 1t was known that the two English armies
under Wolfe and Amherst were preparing for
d decisive blow, the French FASTENED 10 collect
and concentrate their troops aud to repair aud
extend their fortiticatioas around QUEBEC.
Two hundred Indians are reported to have
arrived from Mackinaw, and minute details ara
gwen in the documents referred 10 OF the
siege in the summer OF 1865, from botn French
and English authority. Journals aud general
orderly books are printed at length, and IL
sounds rather odd, in tho general olders OF
Gen. Wolfe, to find the French called rascals
who dare not show themselves" and the In
diau allies Of the French called those scouD-
drels o: Indians Tie truth was that both
parties meant fgnt and they both got what
they meant.
During the siege OF Quebec the English and
their Iro4uois allies besieged For; Niagara
which was defended by N. Pouchot. rhe fort
surrendered on July "a, 1859. and the enemy
was thus brought one stage nearer to our own
town OF Detroit, which was thrown lnto great
alarm by that event. Seven days later on July 81,
the English suffered bloody defeat at or near
Montmorency-fse or SIX miles below Quepec
Indians OF various Westsrn tribss that were
friendly to the French, are reported as arriving
at Montreal aud Quebec from Saginaw and
other places in Michigan; but, although they
we're promised large presents, some o' which
were made on the spot, to induce them TO en-
gage in the contest, they as general thing de-
clined go to do and remained as idle spectators.
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