Excerpt from A Short Authentic Account of the Expedition Against Quebec in the Year 1759: Under Command of Major-General James Wolfe The first accounts of the intended expedition came to Halifax in the beginning of April, and a squadron of eight men-of war of the line which had wintered there under the command of Admiral Durell, began to prepare for a cruise in the Gulf and River St Lawrence. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.