Prevost, Intendant at Louisbourg, 90-91
Prideaux, British Brigadier, sent
to take Niagara, 507
begins siege, 511
killed in action, 513
Pringle, Captain, British volunteer
with Rogers’ Rangers, 360-361
lost in forest, 362-363
saved from Indians by
French officers, 363
Prussia (See Frederick the Great)
Puritanism in New England, 42
Putnam, Israel, 210
his expert scouting
praised, 299
at Ticonderoga, 416
captured by Indians,
433
his tortures, 434-435
rescued by Marin, 435
prisoner in Montreal,
436
exchanged, 436
Puysieux, Marquis de, 35
Pynchon, Dr., 220
Q
Quakers, characteristics of, 239
cause of military paralysis,
240-248
their quarrel with Presbyterians,
239
attitude toward Indians,
239
influence in Pennsylvania,
240-248
oppose defense of borders
against Indians, 295
Quebec, (See also Montcalm
and Vaudreuil)
Montcalm’s praise
of, 316
suspense over threat
to, 324
Montcalm prefers to
Montreal, 358, 360
Quebec, Siege of, 481-505, 523-548
threatened with attack,
468, 482
Montcalm and Vaudreuil
arrive, 483
troops and Indians pour
in, 483
patriotism of its people,
484
English fleet starts
up the St. Lawrence, 486
nature of the countryside,
488-489
city’s strength
as natural fortress, 489
British army lands below,
489
fire ships fail to harm
British, 491-492, 501
steady bombardment of,
494-498, 526
British treatment of
prisoners, 498-501
French victory at Montmorenci,
523
sickness in Wolfe’s
army, 526
short rations of French,
526
Wolfe plans new attack,
531-532
heights of Abraham scaled,
540-542
British army forms on
plains of Abraham, 543
French forces attack,
544
defeat and rout of French,
546-549
death of Wolfe, 546
death of Montcalm, 547,
555
French and British losses,
547n., 548, 552, 637-638
Quebec, fall of, 549-567
Vaudreuil’s behavior
after defeat, 550-551, 553, 558
army flees the city,
554
New France ends with,
556
Vaudreuil’s responsibility
for, 559
garrison refuses to
fight, 559
city surrenders, 559
ruin and chaos from
bombardment, 567-568
Quebec, under British rule, 571-588
troops suffer from cold and sickness,
571-572, 575
rumors of French attack,
573-574
French try to retake,
580-586
British ships arrive
and French retire, 587
R
Ramesay, Chevalier de, commandant
at Quebec, 485
refuses Montcalm artillery,
544
left without supplies
after battle, 556
forced to surrender,
559


