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treal as a common centre. In accordance with this 

 plan, Sir Jeffrey Amherst embarked at Oswego, 

 crossed Lake Ontario, and descended the St. Law- 

 rence with ten thousand men ; while Colonel Havi- 

 land advanced by way of Lake Champlain and the 

 River Sorel, and General Murray ascended from 

 Quebec, with a body of the veterans who had 

 fought on the Plains of Abraham. 



By a singular concurrence of fortune and skill, 

 the three armies reached the neighborhood of 

 Monti*eal on the same day. The feeble and dis- 

 heartened garrison could offer no resistance, and 

 on the eighth of September, 1760, the Marquis 

 de Vaudreuil surrendered Canada, with all its 

 dependencies, to the British crown. 



