Chapter 27 DICK'S JUDGMENT.

Two days later Amherst landed his troops at La Chine, marched them unopposed to Montreal, and encamped before the city on its western side. Within the walls M. de Vaudreuil called a council of war.

Resistance was madness. From east, south, west, the French commanders-Bourlamaque, Bougainville, Roquemaure, Dumas, La Corne- had all fallen back, de