 | Smith Burnham - 1922 - 400 sidor
...more than twelve hours," said the surgeon in charge. "So much the better," said the dying Montcalm. "I am happy that I shall not live to see the surrender of Quebec." DANIEL BOONE, THE GREAT INDIAN FIGHTER OF KENTUCKY OF all the great American hunters, trappers, and... | |
 | Henry William Elson - 1926 - 652 sidor
...his body; and when his physician told him that his wound was mortal, he replied, "I am glad of it; I am happy that I shall not live to see the surrender of Quebec." His body was laid to rest beneath the floor of a convent in a grave partly made by the bursting of... | |
 | Rolla Milton Tryon, Charles Ramsdell Lingley - 1927 - 784 sidor
...Montcalm was inquiring of his followers how the battle went. When he heard that the French were beaten, he said, "I am happy that I shall not live to see the surrender of Quebec." - So great were the losses of France all over the world that her power as a trading and colony-holding... | |
 | Andre Bernard, Clifton Fadiman - 2000 - 808 sidor
...battle with the British. When told he would not live to see out the day, he said, "So much the better. I am happy that I shall not live to see the surrender of Quebec." MONTAGU, Lady Mary Wortley (1689-1762), British letter writer and traveler. 1 In Constantinople Lady... | |
 | 1904 - 410 sidor
...and when they informed him that he could not last twelve hours, " So much the better," he replied, " I am happy that I shall not live to see the surrender of Quebec." The war did not actually end with the battle of the Plains of Abraham. There was further discussion... | |
 | 1893 - 388 sidor
...and Montcalm. (b) Wolfe—" Now God be praised, I will die happy." Montcalm— " So much the better, I am happy that I shall not live to see the surrender of Quebec." 5. Samuel Adams. 6. Philadelphia, New York City, Annapolis, Trenton, York and other cities. 7. It was... | |
 | 1902 - 584 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... | |
 | Frederick Hiram Clark - 1888 - 470 sidor
...the result of the fight. Wolfe's words were, " God be praised, I die in peace." Montcalm said, " 1 am happy that I shall not live to see the surrender of Quebec."] 207. Conquest of Canada.—No attempt of the French forces Avas able to recover the surrendered fortress,... | |
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Almost at the same moment fell his great adversary, Montcalm, as he strove, with vain bravery, to rally his shattered ranks. Struck down with a mortal wound, he was placed upon a litter and borne to the General Hospital on the banks of the St. Charles.... 
