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the enemy appeared to be resolute to hold the ir 

 works, and to make a regular defence. They 

 soon found that they had an able oflicer to op-, 

 pose ; that Amherst was cautious, resolute, 

 ivtll prepared for undertaking the siege, and not 

 disposed to subject any thing to unnecessary 

 risk or hazard. Despairing of success by any 

 surprise, or extraordinary exertions, and h.ivi.ig 

 orders to retreat from place to place to-.vards 

 the centre of operations at Quebec, rather than 

 to run the risk of diminishing the French force 

 by surrendering prisoners of vit^r, they set about 

 dismantling the fortifications ; and having done 

 some small injuries to the works, they abandon- 

 ed them on the night of the twenty seventh of 

 July, and repaired to Crown Point ; leaving 

 their heavy artillery, several sunken boats, and 

 the works but little damaged though on fire. 

 The same day, Amherst took posstssion, and 

 encamped within the French lines. This im- 

 portant acquisition was effected without much 

 opposition or bloodshed : It was however mark- 

 ed with the loss of colonel Roger Townshcnd, a 

 very accomplished young officer, who was killed 

 by a cannon ball as he was reconnciterin.g the 

 fort. This young nobleman much resembled 

 the gallant lord Howe, in the circumstcinces of 

 birth, age, character, and useful qualifications. 

 He fell near the same spot, where that youngj 

 hero was sluin the year before. 



Having succeeded in his attempts agjnsfe 

 Ticonderoga, Amherst began to repair and en- 

 large the fortifications ; and to prepare his bat- 

 teaux and other vessels for an expedition a^ 

 gainst Crowa Point, Scoutli.g and ranging 



