Notwithstanding the greatest possible diligence, the work at this trench could not be begun until midnight.

It was rather a parallel of about 100 toises

,

the front opened at 90 toises from the ditch

of the fort through ground embarrassed by obstructions and stumps of trees.

This parallel finished

day labourers who cut the lines of communicaThe enemy's fire which had been very brisk since the break

at five o'clock in the morning was completed by the

tion and commenced erecting batteries.

of day ceased about eleven o'clock at night, and it was perceived that the garrison evacuated Fort

They abandoned in and four mortars. The fort having been immediately occupied by the grenadiers of the trench, the workmen were commanded to continue the communication of the parallel to the river side where at nightfall was commenced a large battery placed so as to batter Fort Chouaguen, the road from that fort to Fort George, and take the entrenched camp in the rear. Twenty pieces of cannon were conveyed during the night in men's arms, a labour which occupied Ontario and passed over to that of Chouaguen at the opposite side of the river.

retiring 8 pieces of cannon

the whole army, with the exception of the picquets and the camp guard.

On the 14 th at daylight, the Marquis of Montcalm orderd Sieur de Rigaud to ford the river to the ,

other side with the Canadians and Indians, to occupy the woods and harrass the communication with