A Tour to Quebec, in the Autumn of 1819Sir R. Phillips and Company, 1822 - 128 pages |
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Ackland Albany American appears bank barrier battle beautiful boat Bouchette British army building built Burgoyne Burgoyne's calash camp Canada cannon Cape Diamond captain castle Chambly citadel of Quebec Colonel comfortable command Connecticut contiguous declivity distance duke elevated enemy English falls Fort Edward Fort William Henry Frazer French Gates ground handsome height hill horses Hudson immediately Indians interesting island Lake Champlain Lake George land Lawrence lower town meadows miles military Montmorenci Montreal morning Mount Defiance mountains nearly neat New-Lebanon night occupied officers passed plains of Abraham Point Levi precipice present principally probably Quebec rapid Reidesel remarkable respect ridge river road rock rocky Sandy Hill scarcely scene scenery seen Shakers shewed shore side soon Sorel spot stands steam-boat stone strata streets thousand Ticonderoga troops village VOYAGES and TRAVELS walls Whitehall Wolfe Wolfe's Cove wood wounded
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Page 30 - ... for twelve hours together, that a woman should be capable of such an undertaking as delivering herself to the enemy, probably in the night, and uncertain of what hands she might fall into, appeared an effort above human nature.
Page 32 - ... of their own injuries in the contemplation of our misfortunes. General Burgoyne was struck with General Schuyler's generosity, and said to him, ' You show me great kindness, though I have done you much injury.' ' That was the fate of war,' replied the brave man ;
Page 30 - Though I was ready to believe (for I had experienced) that patience and fortitude in a supreme degree were to be found, as well as every other virtue, under the most tender forms, I was astonished at this proposal. After so long an agitation of...
Page 43 - The fortune of war, General Gates, has made me your prisoner," to which the conqueror, returning a courtly salute, promptly replied, "I shall always be ready to bear testimony, that it has not been through any fault of your excellency.
Page 31 - I now found that he was General Schuyler. He treated me with excellent smoked tongue, beef-steaks, potatoes, and good bread and butter ! Never could I have wished to eat a better dinner. I was content. I saw all around me were so likewise ; and, what was better than all, my husband was out of danger. When we had dined, he told me his residence was at Albany, and that General Burgoyne intended to honour him as his guest, and invited myself and children to do so likewise.
Page 31 - Let such as are affected by these circumstances of alarm, hardship and danger, recollect that the subject of them was a woman of the most tender and delicate frame ; of the gentlest manners ; habituated to all the soft elegancies and refined enjoyments that attend high birth and fortune ; 'and far advanced in a state, in which the tender cares, always due to the sex, become indispensably necessary. Her mind alone was formed for such trials.
Page 42 - ... purpose of having his leg amputated, was struck by a shot, which carried away his other ; his comrades had left him, and when we went to his assistance we found him in a corner of the room, into which he had crept, more dead than alive, scarcely breathing. My reflections on the danger to which my husband was exposed now agonized me exceedingly, and the thoughts of my children and the necessity of struggling for their preservation alone sustained me.
Page 94 - Reine,"—" the Queen's." The soldier immediately replied, "passe," for he concluded at once, that this was a French convoy of provisions, which, as the English had learned, from some deserters, was expected to pass down the river to Quebec. The other sentinels were deceived in a .similar manner ; but, one, less credulous than the rest, running down to the water's edge, called out, " Pourquoi est ce que vous ne parlez plus haut?
Page 31 - Schuylcr, his wife, and daughters, not as enemies, but kind friends ; and they treated us with the most marked attention and politeness, as they did General Burgoyne, who had caused General Schuyler's beautifully finished house to be burnt. In...
Page 28 - The ball had passed through his body, and unhappily for the general, he had eaten a very hearty breakfast, by which the stomach was distended, and the ball, as the surgeon said, had passed through it. I heard...