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{{quote-book|en|author=[[w:Elroy M. Avery|Elroy McKendree Avery]]|chapter=[[w:James Wolfe|Wolfe]] and [[w:Charles Saunders (Royal Navy officer)|Saunders]] before Quebec|title=A History of the United States and Its People from Their Earliest Records to the Present Time|location=Cleveland, Ohio|publisher=The Burrows Brothers Company|year=1908|volume=IV|page=269|pageurl=https://archive.org/details/cu31924091784698/page/n326/mode/1up|oclc=1019301454|passage=In spite of threats and punishment, many Canadians {{quote-gloss|in the French army}} deserted in order to care for their families and to provide food for the coming winter; more than two thousand are said thus to have '''taken French leave'''.}}

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1908, Elroy McKendree Avery, “Wolfe and Saunders before Quebec”, in A History of the United States and Its People from Their Earliest Records to the Present Time, volume IV, Cleveland, Ohio: The Burrows Brothers Company, →OCLC, page 269:
In spite of threats and punishment, many Canadians [in the French army] deserted in order to care for their families and to provide food for the coming winter; more than two thousand are said thus to have taken French leave.