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The next day about two in the Afternoon, fixty 

 Sloops were lent afhoar with ten or twelve hundred 

 Men, who ftood upon the Sand in very good or- 

 der. After that the Sloops went back to the Ships, 

 and brought afhoar the like Compliment of Men, 

 which was afterwards joyn'd by a third Comple- 

 ment of the lame number. Asfcon as thele uoops 

 were landed, they began to march towards the Ci- 

 ty with Drums beating, and Colours flying. This 

 Defcent was made over againft the Ifle of Orleans * 

 about a League and a half below Quebec. ; but 'twas 

 not fo expeditious, but that our C onfederate Sava- 

 ges, with two hundred Coureurs de Bois, and fifty 

 Officers, had time to poft themfelves in a Copfe of 

 thick Brambles, which lay half a League off the 

 place of Landing. It being impoffible for fo fmall 

 a Party to come to an open Battle with a numerous 

 Enemy, they were fore'd to fight after the manner 

 of the Savages, that is, to lay Ambufcadoes from 

 place to place in the Copfe, which was a quarter 

 of a League bro^d. This way of waging War 

 prov'd wonderfully fuccefsful to us, for our Men 

 being pofted in the middle of the Copfe, we fufrer'd 

 the Englijh to enter, and then fir'd upon 'em, ly- 

 ing flat upon the ground till they fir'd their pieces ; 

 after which we fprung up, and drawing into knots 

 here and there, repeated our fire with fuch fuccefs, 

 that the English Militia perceiving our Savages fell 

 into ctfnfufion and diforder, and their Battalions 

 were broke j infomuch, that they betook themfelves 

 to flight, crying out, Indians, Indians, and gave our 

 Savages the opportunity of making a bloody (laugh- 

 ter amoj^ig ? em, for we found three hundred Men 

 left upon the fpot, without any other lofs on our 

 fide, than that of ten Coufem de Bois, four Officers, 

 and two Savages. 



The next day the Englijh landed four pieces of 

 brafs Cannon mounted like Field-pieces, and fought 



M % very 



