Witnessed Unconditional Surrender

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From The magazine of American history...:

"Escaping from this defeat [Battle of Sainte-Foy also called the Battle of Quebec], the benefit of which was snatched from the French by the timely arrival of reinforcements, he was found among the twenty-four hundred effectives who embarked July 15 for the attack on Montreal, to which Haviland was advancing from Crown Point and Amherst from Oswego."

"He [Maunsell] took part in the joyful reunion of the war-worn veterans of Quebec with the comrades from whom they had been so long and so far separated, and with them witnessed the close of the dominion of the French in Canada by the capitulation of the city, September 8, 1760, almost the anniversary of the victory that had so signally initiated it. He witnessed the unconditional surrender of the enemy by laying down their arms, upon which General Amherst had insisted, 'for the infamous part the troops of France have acted in inciting the savages to perpetrate the most horrid and unheard of barbarities in the whole progress of the war, and for other open treacheries and flagrant breaches of faith, to manifest to all the world by this capitulation his detestation of such practices. 'Alas for human inconsistency! the British commanders sanctioned the same barbarities during the Revolution."'


See more about John Maunsell here