Note 117 — Chapter IV

So ruinous were the fortifications, that "General Wolfe himself was obliged to place sentinels upon the ramparts, for the private men and the sutlers entered through the breaches and gaps with as much ease as if there had only been an old ditch."—Translation of a Letter from M. de Drucour to M. ——, dated Andover, October 1, 1758, when he was a prisoner in England.