  A DIALOGUE IN HADES. A PARALLEL OF MILITARY ERRORS, OF WHICH Title: A Dialogue in Hades Author: James Johnstone, chevalier de Johnstone Language: English Character set encoding: UTF-8 E-text prepared by Charlie Howard |
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DIALOGUE IN HADES.
A PARALLEL OF MILITARY ERRORS, OF WHICH THE FRENCH
AND ENGLISH ARMIES WERE GUILTY, DURING THE
CAMPAIGN OF 1759, IN CANADA.
ATTRIBUTED TO CHEVALIER JOHNSTONE.
Published under the Auspices of the
Literary and Historical Society of Quebec
[REPRINTED.]
QUEBEC: PRINTED AT THE “MORNING CHRONICLE” OFFICE.
1887.
[The original of this manuscript is deposited in the French war archives, in Paris; a copy was, with the permission of the French Government, taken in 1855, and deposited in the Library of the Legislative Assembly of Canada. The Literary and Historical Society of Quebec, through the kindness of Mr. Todd, the Librarian, was permitted to have communication thereof. This document is supposed to have been written about the year 1765, that is five years after the return to France from Canada of the writer, the Chevalier Johnstone, a Scottish Jacobite, who had fled to France after the defeat at Culloden, and obtained from the French monarch, with several other Scotchmen, commissions in the French armies. In 1748, says
[Published under the auspices of the Literary and Historical Society of Quebec.]
