--immediwhich he determined to organize three different detachments, to attack those rebels at all points at the same moment, and to punish them at various places for having afforded protection The first party was to rendezvous at Montreal, and proceed towards to our enemies, the Mohawks. Orange the second at Three Rivers, and to make a descent on New York, at some place between Boston and Orange; 1 and the third was to depart from Quebec, and gain the seaboard between

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Boston and Pentagouet, verging towards Acadia.

They all succeeded perfectly well, and I shall

communicate to you the details. The detachment which formed at Montreal, may have been composed of about two hundred and ten men, namely eighty savages from the Sault and from La Montague; sixteen Algonquins; and :

the remainder Frenchmen

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under the command of the Sieur Le Moyne de Sainte Helene, and

Lieutenant Daillebout de Mantet, both of whom are Canadians.

The Sieurs le Moyne d'Iberville and Repentigny de Montesson commanded under these. The best qualified Frenchmen were, the Sieurs de Bonrepos and de La Brosse, Calvinist officers, the Sieur la Moyne de Blainville, Le Bert du Chene, and la Marque de Montigny, who all served as volunteers. They took their departure from Montreal at the commencement of February. After having marched for the course of five or six days, they called a council to determine the route they should follow, and the point they should attack.

The Indians demanded of the French what was their intention. Messieurs de Sainte Helene and Mantet replied that they had left in the hope of attacking Orange, if possible, as it is the Capital of New York and a place of considerable importance, though they had no orders to that effect, but generally to act according as they should judge on the spot of their chances of success, without running too much risk.