520 NATURAL AND CIVIL 



Marlborough's troops, and a battalion of ma* 

 rines : two regiments raised in New Hamp. 

 shire, Massachusetts, and Rhode Island, were 

 also embarked. The wliolc amounted to near 

 seven thousand men, with a fine train of artille- 

 ry^, and amply provided with the necessary war- 

 like stores, under the command of brigadier 

 general Hill. This force was fully competent 

 to the reduction of Quebec ; which at that time 

 was not strongly fortified, or in any preparation 

 to withstand a regular siege by a veteran army» 



On the same day in which the fleet sailed 

 from Boston, Nicholson set out on his journey 

 to Albany ; and in a few days appeared at the 

 head of four thousand men. This army was 

 raised in Connecticut, New York, and New 

 Jersey. Tlie Connecticut troops were comman* 

 ded by colonel Whiting, an experienced officer, 

 who had commanded them the year before at 

 Port Royal, The New York and New Jersey 

 troops Vv ere commanded by colonels Schuyler, 

 and Ingoidsby ; and Schuyler, with his usual 

 spirit of activity and enterprize, had procured 

 six hundred Indians of the five nations, to join 

 the colony troops. 



The enemy in Canada were not unacquaint- 

 ed with these preparations. Vaudrieul, the 

 governor general, sent his orders from Montreal 

 to Sieur Beaucourt, to hasten and strengthen 

 the works at Quebec ; and commanded all the 

 regular troops ..nd militia to hold themselves in 

 readiness, to rn^rch on the first alrm or notice. 

 Four or five hui.dred Indians of the distiint na- 

 tions, were coliected at Montreal. Several In- 

 dians, and two missioiiuncs, were sent among 



