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at the beginning of the attack : we, on our 

 fide, have loft but three foidiersv M. de Bour- 

 lamaque^ a colonel of foot, has been flightly 

 wounded, together with feven or eight Cana- 

 dians ; but unhappily M. Decomble^ the engineer, 

 was fhot by one of our own Indians, who took 

 him for an Englifhman, on account of his uni^ 

 form, which was different from that of the other 

 French officers. 



The Marquis de Montcalm Is now employed in 

 deftroying the forts of Choaguen^ and in fending 

 the provifions and ammunition, and a hundred 

 pieces of cannon which have been found there, 

 to Front enac» 



At the Illinois^ the ziji 

 of July 1756. 



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