Identifier: siegeofquebecbat03doug (find matches)
Title: The siege of Quebec : and the battle of the Plains of Abraham
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Doughty, Arthur G. (Arthur George), Sir, 1860-1936 Parmelee, G. W. (George William), 1860-1941
Subjects: Wolfe, James, 1727-1759 Montcalm de Saint-Véran, Louis-Joseph, marquis de, 1712-1759 Québec Campaign, 1759
Publisher: Quebec : Dussault & Proulx
Contributing Library: University of Connecticut Libraries
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atthis anxiety was by no means unnecessary, is shown bythe order of Vaudreuil to retain in camp some of the troopswhich Montcalm had instructed to march. Perhaps it wasJohnstons report to him of this strange action on the partof the Governor, which had decided him to ride back tothe camp. We shall see later how Vaudreuils efforts tothwart the endeavours of the Commander of his forces thatday, were made to prevail. One would have supposed thatthe startling character of the information from the heights,which had reached the camp from both Boishebert and theGeneral himself, would have induced Vaudreuil to set outimmediately to rejoin Montcalm, with all his availabletroops. It had no such effect however. Vaudreuil remainedin camp until too late to be of any service to his countryscause, only arriving upon the battlefield when the issueof the struggle had been decided, and when the battle thatwas to seal the fate of New France had resulted disas-trously to the cause of France and the King.
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CHAPTER IX IN BATTLE ARRAY TUTHEN Wolfe, after gaining the heights and ordering the^ capture of the four-gun battery at Sanios, set out toreconnoitre for the position of the enemy, he immediatelycrossed over to the Ste. Foye road to take in the situation,being already quite familiar with the ground, from theplans furnished him some time before by the chief engi-neer of his army. It was now daylight. His eye sweptthe valley of the St. Charles : all was quiet. Viewing theground between his own army and the city, his range ofvision could take in the ridge which spanned the plateauat a distance of about half a mile from the walls of the city.To gain this ridge and take possession of it would be quitea simple task; but the opportunity which the situationappeared at first sight to offer him, was one that it wasimpossible for him to seriously contemplate, since manydrawbacks far outweighed its apparent advantages. It wastoo close to the town, too well within the range of its guns,which could

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