The Regiment Royal Roussillon Was At
That Moment At The Distance Of A Musket Shot From The Hornwork
Approaching To Pass The Bridge.
As I had already been in such
adventures, I did not lose my presence of mind, and having still
A
shadow remaining of that regard which the army accorded me on account
of the esteem and confidence which M. de Levis and M. de Montcalm had
always shewn me publicly, I called to M. Hugon, who commanded, for a
pass in the hornwork and begged of him to accompany me to the bridge.
We ran there and without asking who had given the order to cut it, we
chased away the soldiers with their uplifted axes ready to execute
that extravagant and wicked operation.
"M. Vaudreuil was closeted in a house in the inside of the hornwork
with the Intendant and some other persons. I suspected they were busy
drafting the articles for a general capitulation and I entered the
house, where I had only time to see the Intendant with a pen in his
hand writing on a sheet of paper, when M. Vaudreuil told me I had no
business there. Having answered him that what he said was true, I
retired immediately, in wrath to see them intent on giving up so
scandalously a dependancy for the preservation of which so much blood
and treasure had been expended. On leaving the house, I met M.
Dalquier, an old, brave, downright honest man, commander of the
regiment of Bearn, with the true character of a good officer - the
marks of Mars all over his body.
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