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31st December, 1775, laid low Brigadier General 

 Kichard Montgomery, the brave but luckless leader of 

 the invading host from New England. 



Sanguineus Journal mentions two distinguished offi- 

 cers in the French Canadian Militia, Chabot and Picard. 

 One English account gives the credit to Barnsfare of 

 Whitby, the captain of a transport wintering that 

 season at Quebec, whilst another siege-narrative selects 

 as the hero of the day, Sergeant Hugh McQuarters, R. A., 

 who expired in Chatn plain street, Quebec, in 1812. 



On examining the testimony set forth, the case might 

 in my opinion, be summed up thus : Lieut. Chabot and 

 Picard were undoubtedly on duty at Pres-de-Ville post, 

 on the morning in question, Captain Barnsfare pointed 

 the fatal cannon, and Sergent Hugh McQuarters applied 

 the match. 





Another inference may be drawn from Parkman's 

 narrative of the death of Wolfe ; it will be noticed that 

 no mention occurs of the part alledged to have been 

 played in the tragedy by the English deserter, whose 

 story appears in Hone's " Table Book ". Parkman spent 

 years searching through the archives of Canada, France 

 and England, and acquired the most complete and 

 reliable data possible, on even the minutest incidents 

 of the great siege of 1759. It has been my privilege, 

 on several occasions, during his many visits to Quebec, 

 to discuss with him the particulars of the death of both 

 heroes of the battle of the Plains of Abraham, and never 

 was the mode of death suggested by the Table Book 

 mooted. I was well aware and so was the learned his- 

 torian, of an analogous anecdote, contained in a foot 

 note, to be found in Dialogues of the Dead, concerning 

 the death of Montcalm, and as the incident may be 

 new to several. I herewith subjoin the passage and 



