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Section One: The War
– Year by Year – Example quickly overtaken and captured
herself. The two Grenadier
companies and 3 companies from each of the regiments of Languedoc and La
Reine were taken on the Lys[1]. The Actif, who’s commander had become
suspicious of the English fleet and had luckily hung back further than the Fleur de Lys was able to hug the wind
and disappear into the fog. The ships slowly filed into Quebec from the 19th to
the 26th of June. Upon arriving,
the regiments were quartered temporarily with the inhabitants or sent to the
hospitals to recover. The
regiments of Bearn and Guyenne were not alotted much time to recover,
however, as the first 7 factionnaire companies[2]
began to file off at 8:00am on the 30th for Montreal, the first stop on their
way to Fort Frontenac.. Each soldier was issued rations for the trip, being
1-1/2 pounds of bisquets, 1/2lb pork, 8 ounces of peas and 1/2 pint of brandy
per man per day. The early divisions
had the advantage of being able to travel via batteaux. The first division was made up of 28
batteaux each carrying 11 or 12 soldiers and an officer or Sergent as well as
4 canadians as crew. The second division, made up of the Grenadier company
and the remaining 5 companies of Bearn likewise departed on the first of
July. These two divisions
arrived at Montreal on 7 July, and 9 July respectively.[3] The regiment of Guyenne
left shortly after, with the first 5 companies forming the first division
leaving Quebec on the 10th. The
Chevalier dela Pause, Captain in Guyenne, travelled with this division and
kept a journal of each step in the journey. On the 11th they passed Pointe-aux-Trembles, Ecureils and
Cap Sante, the 12th Deschambault, the 13th the Grondines and Ste Anne, the
14th Batiscan, the 15th Champlain, the 16th Trois Rivieres, the 17th Pointe
du Lac and Machiche. On the 18th, they left Machiche. LaPause states here
that they passed Riviere du Loupe, but he must have been mistaken. (?) Bearn marched on the 18th to Lachine where the troops were
issued their equipment for the remainder of the voyage. With
Bearn well on their way to Fort Frontenac, and Guyenne not far behind,
Dieskau was able to order Languedoc and La Reine to begin their march from
Quebec on the 16th of July. His plan to was to have all the regiments meet at
Fort Frontenac and in one glorious stroke they would head south to take out
the troublesome fort at Chouaguen.
On the 18th, the first of three divisions of
Bearn marched to Lachine where they received 15 days of rations.[4] The first division, made up of the
grenadier company and the first 4 companies of fusiliers, embarked in 25
batteaux, each of which carried 1 officer or a sergent as well as 7 soldiers or
4 canadians.
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