| William Leete Stone - 1865 - 572 sidor
...informed that he had but ten or twelve hours to live at the most, he exclaimed, " So much the better, I am happy that I shall not live to see the surrender of Quebec." When consulted by the commander of the garrison in relation to the defence of the city, he replied,... | |
| Francis Parkman - 1884 - 542 sidor
...he had to live. " Twelve hours, more or less," was the reply. " So much the better," he returned. " I am happy that I shall not live to see the surrender of Quebec." He is reported to have said that since he had lost the battle it consoled him to have been defeated... | |
| Francis Parkman - 1884 - 538 sidor
...he had to live. " Twelve hours, more or less," was the reply. "So much the better," he returned. " I am happy that I shall not live to see the surrender of Quebec." He is reported to have said that since he had lost the battle it consoled him to have been defeated... | |
| Francis Parkman - 1884 - 554 sidor
...he had to live. " Twelve hours, more or less," was the reply. " So much the better," he returned. " I am happy that I shall not live to see the surrender of Quebec." He is reported to have said that since he had lost the battle it consoled him to have been defeated... | |
| 1893 - 376 sidor
...and Montcalm. (6) Wolfe— "Now God be praised, I will die happy." Montcalm — " Sn much the better, I am happy that I shall not live to see the surrender ot Quebec." Samuel Adams. Philadelphia, New York city, Annapolis, Trenton, York, and other cities.... | |
| Edward Eggleston - 1888 - 450 sidor
...everywhere, he said, " Now, God be praised, I die in peace ! " Montcalm, who was also mortally wounded, said, " I • ' am happy that I shall not live to see the surrender of Quebec." Quebec soon capitulated, and the fate of Canada was sealed. The French attempt- . ed to retake the... | |
| David Henry Montgomery - 1891 - 516 sidor
...peace." The French leader, when told that he must soon breathe his last, said, " So much the better, I am happy that I shall not live to see the surrender of Quebec." The fall of Quebec practically ended the war ; but four years later, Pontiac, chief of a Michigan tribe... | |
| David Henry Montgomery - 1891 - 528 sidor
...peace." The French leader, when told that he must soon breathe his last, said, " So much the better, I am happy that I shall not live to see the surrender of Quebec." The fall of Quebec practically ended the war; but four years later, Pontiac, chief of a Michigan tribe... | |
| Francis Parkman - 1893 - 406 sidor
...surgeons told him that he could not recover. "I am glad of it," was his calm reply. He then asked how.long he might survive, and was told that he had not many...to ask his orders and instructions. " I will give 110 more orders," replied the defeated soldier; " I have much business that must be attended to, of... | |
| 1900 - 758 sidor
...answer to his question, that he had scarcely twelve hours to live, he remarked, " So much the better; I am happy that I shall not live to see the surrender of Quebec." He spoke in complimentary terms of Wolfe and of his successor, Levis. When de Ramesay, the commandant... | |
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