L'Anse à Cormorandière / Kennington Cove, Wolfe's Landing Silver gelatin photo-composite Image dimension: 37-3/4 x 9-1/16 inches (960 x 230 mm) Frame dimension: 46-1/16 x 18-1/16 inches (1170 x 460 mm) Edition of three (3). Signed & numbered 1/3. Printed: March 2008 For sale: Cnd $650. Framed / ready to hang "The Kennington, Captain Jacobs, had taken up her position on the 3rd (Captains' Logs, No. 499). As they were being damaged from the fire from the shore, she and the other frigates were ordered by Boscawen to warp further off on the 4th (Boscawen's Journal). On the morning of the 8th, she took her position within a musket-shot of the shore (Captains' Logs, No. 499)." ... "Thursday, June 8, Durell rowed along the shore unmolested by the French, and came back to report that there was not so heavy a surf as to prevent landing, at least in Cormorandière. The French batteries began firing at the nearer ships, and their troops were mustered in the entrenchments. The frigates fired briskly on them for a quarter of an hour. It being then light, the watchers from the ramparts of the town, drawn there by the heavy firing giving poignancy to their anxiety, saw three to four hundred boats row in divisions from between the sheltering ships." ... "A sergeant in one of the boats, as they rowed into the first attack, stood up in his boat and cried out, 'Who would not go to Hell, to hear such music for half an hour?' A shorter time was given him, for he was shot dead as he stood; but there were many among the soldiery as reckless of consequences. Some of the boats, when they reached the rocky shore, were dashed to pieces or stove in by collision. The men, Wolfe among them, leaped into the water. Those who kept their feet waded ashore, those who fell were drowned or crushed by the heaving boats." --J.S. McLennan, Louisbourg from its foundation to its fall PREV | MAIN | NEXT