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The Virginia Gazette Domestic News November 30, 1759
Richmond, Richmond, Virginia
What is this article about?
French prisoners recount the Battle of Quebec, the deaths of Montcalm and Wolfe, and the strength of the fortifications.
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Measured from the scan
— how cleanly the OCR engine read the characters
- Mean ink quality
- 99.0% The length-weighted average confidence across the OCR lines — the mean of exactly the per-line scores whose tails the two figures below report. Typical is 99%.
- Illegible ink
- 0.0% Text sitting in OCR-detected lines that scored below 80% confidence — very shaky reads. Weighted by line length, so one long bad line counts for more than a short one.
- Uncertain ink
- 0.0% Text in lines that scored 80–90% — somewhat shaky reads.
- Matches source
- 96.74% How closely the served text matches the raw OCR of the same boxes, letter by letter, after collapsing spacing and case. This measures agreement, not correctness: the OCR is often wrong and the extractor corrects it, so 100% does not mean perfect, and a low figure usually means poor scan text was rewritten rather than that text was lost (length vs source shows loss).
- Length vs source
- 99.25% Below 100% means text was dropped from the OCR; above means text was added to make it read.
Assembled by the extraction model
— whether the stitched-together text holds up; catches layout and segmentation errors, which the scores above cannot see
- Transcription confidence
- 98.0% (typical 96%) How cleanly the extractor could assemble what it was given. Low here with clean ink scores points at layout analysis — the characters were read correctly but grouped or ordered wrongly.
- Comprehension
- 85.0% Whether the piece reads coherently start to finish. Can stay high while transcription confidence drops, when only part of the component is affected.
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NEW-YORK, November 5.
The French Prisoners say, That Mons. Montcalm was almost sure of Success before he attacked our Troops; telling his Men, Wolfe was but a young Officer, and he would soon chastise him.—Montcalm was killed on Horseback in the Engagement, and his Body taken and buried in the City. General Wolfe was shot as he was charging his Men to keep down, being squatted, till the Enemy gave three Vollies, and was mortally wounded by the Canadians; but being satisfied that the Enemy were flying before him, he quietly submitted to Death.- A Death in such a Manner, and in such a Case, rather to be envied than pitied!—It is said that most of the Indians have left the French Army: That the Batteries at Quebeck are surprisingly strong, the Walls of the Town being near 15 Feet thick.
The French Prisoners say, That Mons. Montcalm was almost sure of Success before he attacked our Troops; telling his Men, Wolfe was but a young Officer, and he would soon chastise him.—Montcalm was killed on Horseback in the Engagement, and his Body taken and buried in the City. General Wolfe was shot as he was charging his Men to keep down, being squatted, till the Enemy gave three Vollies, and was mortally wounded by the Canadians; but being satisfied that the Enemy were flying before him, he quietly submitted to Death.- A Death in such a Manner, and in such a Case, rather to be envied than pitied!—It is said that most of the Indians have left the French Army: That the Batteries at Quebeck are surprisingly strong, the Walls of the Town being near 15 Feet thick.
What sub-type of article is it?
Military
Death Or Funeral
What keywords are associated?
Battle Of Quebec
Montcalm
Wolfe
Prisoners
What entities or persons were involved?
Montcalm
Wolfe
Where did it happen?
Quebec
Domestic News Details
Primary Location
Quebec
Event Date
1759
Key Persons
Montcalm
Wolfe
Outcome
both generals killed.