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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 3, 15th edition., Chapter XXI (search)
e were resolute and confiding—even women were ready to labor for the common defence. Men watched impatiently the approach of the fleet. Towards the last of August, it was said that peasants Aug. 25. at Matanes had descried ninety or ninety-six vessels with the English flag. Yet September came, and still from the heights of Cape Diamond no eye caught one sail of the expected enemy. The English squadron, leaving Boston on the thirtieth of July, after loitering near the Bay of Gaspe, Aug. 14-20. at last began to ascend the St. Lawrence, while Sir Hovenden Walker puzzled himself with contriving Hovenden Walker's <*>rna 121. how he should secure his vessels during the winter at Quebec. Fearing the ice in the river, freezing to the bottom, would bilge them, as much as if they were to be squeezed between rocks, he could think of no Chap XXI.} way but to disencumber them, and secure them on the dry ground, in frames and cradles, till the thaw. 171 While ascending the river, whi