Note 1286 — Chapter VIII · (continued 2)

Cf. letter of Contrecœur in the Précis des Faits; in Pouchot’s Mémoire sur la dernière Guerre, i. p. 14 (also Hough’s translation); in Le Politique Danois, ou l’ambition des Anglais demasquée par leurs Pirateries, Copenhagen, 1756 (Stevens, Bibliotheca Geographica, no. 2,212; Sabin, xv. no. 63,831); in Histoire de la Guerre contre les Anglois (Geneva, 1759, two vols.), attributed to Puellin de Lumina, who speaks of “le cruel Washington;” in Thomas Balch’s Les Français en Amérique (p. 45); in Dussieux’s Le Canada sous la domination Française, 118; in Gaspe’s Anciens Canadiens, 396. There are other particular references given by Parkman. Garneau’s account and inferences in his Histoire du Canada are held to be strictly impartial. Jumonville’s loss is noted in the Collection de Manuscrits, etc. (Quebec, 1884), vol. iii. p. 521.