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were driving past Dumont's mill, (1) lie stopped the 

 carriage and said : 



" You see this water course running north, well, 

 during the engagement of 1760, there was lying on 

 this plain M. de LaEonde, a brave officer, mortally 

 wounded. We were retreating at the double, mown 

 down by the English artillery and hacked by the 

 Highlanders' claymores, when on passing close to this 

 officer, he said to me, " A boire ! mon cher petit mon- 

 sieur, je vous prie ! " (Water ! for me, dear sir.) I 

 pretended not to hear him, the enemy was raining on 

 us a hell-tire and had I tried to give him water, I likely 

 the next minute would have had to ask my comrades 

 for a similar service. 



We had been ejected for the second time from this 

 important position, my uncle Baby added, but we 

 reformed our ranks behind a grove of trees, of which 

 you can still see remnants, and attempting for a third 

 time the assaults with fixed bayonets, we crushed the 

 enemy and left the mill (Dumont's) only to pursue the 

 flying English and to try and thrust them into the 

 River Saint-Charles, so as to prevent them from regain- 

 ing Quebec. This was a great blunder on our part ; 

 the city gates having remained open fully two hours, 

 we could have entered with the fugitives in the confu- 

 sion. Several Canadians present at the fight have 

 attested this fact to me." 



To return to the account of the death of M. de La 

 Naudiere, who had an agreeable interview with George 

 III, when still a French subject, and still more satis- 

 factory meeting with His Majesty after the conquest, the 

 English king having recognized him after an interval of 

 fifteen years, this old militaire, strange to say, caught 

 his death from exposure, one cold September night in 



(1) It stood on the spot were the Levi pillar was erected 

 in 1855. 



