commanded the four battalions of troops ; sieur de Subercaze acted as Major General and there was an adjutant (./luk Major)
to each battalion of troops and militia; sieur de Saint Martin, a Calvinist captain, commanded the
Quebec battalion; sieur de Grandville, Lieutenant, that of Beaupre sieur le Grandpre, Major of Tliree Rivers, was at the head of the militia of that government, and sieur Deschambaux, King's ;
attorney at Montreal, commanded the battalion of that place.
except those
No officers remained in the country
whom infirmity prevented undertaking such a voyage and with difficulty were any ;
found for the requisite garrisons. Sieur de Maricourt, Captain, led the savages of the Sault and the Abenaki s who formed one corps sieur
Gardeur de Beauvaire, Lieutenant of those of the Mountain and of the Lorette Hurons, and
commanded the Algonquins, Socoquois, Nipissirmens, and the few there were of Ottawas, who constituted another corps. sieur de Beaucourt also Lieutenant,
The order of battle was not deranged during the march, and the troops which formed the van on one day, retired on the morrow to the rear. As there were nearly thirty leagues of Rapids to be passed, the
march was very tedious
;
it is, therefore, inconceivable
what difficulty was encountered
in making the portages, being obliged often several times in one day to discharge from the batteaux
the greater part of the freight.
[Vol.
I.]
Those who have no knowledge of the country, cannot understand what we call Cascades and Falls from seven to eight feet high are often met, and there fifty men find difficulty enough in dragging a batteau, and in places less troublesome they are under the necessity of getting into the Saults.