At the fall of Montreal or A soldier boy's final victory

“At the Fall of Montreal� is a compete story in itself but forms the third volume of a line known by the general title of “Colonial Series.�The first volume of this series entitled “With Washington in the West� related the fortunes of David Morris the son of a pioneer who settled at Wills’ Creek now known as Cumberland Va. David became well acquainted with Washington while the latter was a surveyor and later on served under the young commander during the fateful Braddock expedition against Fort Duquesne.The defeat of General Braddock left the English frontier at the mercy of the French and Indians and in the second volume of the series entitled “Marching on Niagara� were given the particulars of General Forbes’s advance on Fort Duquesne and also the particulars of the advance on Fort Niagara under General’s Prideaux and Johnson leading up to a decisive victory which gave the English control of all the vast territory lying between the great lakes and what was then the Louisiana Territory.viiiThe French hold on North America was now badly shaken but not altogether broken; and in the present volume are related the particulars of General Wolfe’s brilliant scaling of the Heights of Quebec the battle on the Plains of Abraham and the capture of the city itself.Following the surrender of Quebec came a winter of dreary waiting for both sides in this great conflict. Each army looked for re-enforcements and early in the spring the French made an attack hoping to regain the ground lost. But this attack was repulsed and then the French concentrated at Montreal and hither were hurried the three divisions of the English army including a goodly number of Colonial troops. With these forces was David Morris doing his duty to the end until the fall of Montreal brought this important and far-reaching war with France to a close.As in his previous works the author has sought to be as accurate as possible in historical detail—no easy task where American English and French historians differ so widely in their statements.Once again I thank my young friends for the interest they have shown in my books. May the present volume prove both pleasing and profitable to them.