News came that
General Montgomery and his aid-de-camp1 [were] killed, and Col.
Arnold wounded at Quebec, and the army repulsed; and, on the 24th, we hear that
the army miss about 1200 men, killed, taken, and deserted.
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1 [Captain John] McPherson.
SOURCE: Fitch Edward
Oliver, Editor, The Diary of William
Pynchon of Salem, p. 2
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