Note 28 — LIVRE X.
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Note 28: (retour) «We burned and destroyed upwards of 1,400 fine farm houses, for we durin the siege were masters of a great part or their country along shore, and parties were almost continually kept out, ravaging the country; so that'tis tho't it will take them half a century to recover the damage.»--A Journal of the expedition up the river St.-Lawrence &c., publié dans le New-York Mercury du 31 décembre 1759. Et cependant un écrivain du temps, parlant de la conduite de M. de Contades et du maréchal Richelieu en Allemagne par opposition à celle du général Wolfe en Canada, ajoute avec naïveté: «But (said the late general Wolfe) Britons breathe higher sentiments of humanity and listen to the merciful dictates of the Christian Religion, which was verified in the brave soldiers whom he led on to conquest, by their shewing more of the true Christian spirit than the subjects of His Most Christian Majesty can pretend to.»