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Title: Seventeen hundred and seventy-six, or, The war of independence : a history of the Anglo-Americans, from the period of the union of the colonies against the French, to the inauguration of Washington, the first president of the United States of America ...
Year: 1852 (1850s)
Authors: Lossing, Benson John, 1813-1891
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Publisher: New York : Edward Walker, 114 Fulton Street
Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: The Durst Organization

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o was wounded and taken prisoner. The poorfellow begged the British officers to sign a certificate of his courageand fidelity, lest he should be punished for bribery, believing thatWolfes bold enterprise would be deemed impossible without corrup-tion. When morning dawned, Wolfe with his little army, nowreduced to less than five thousand men, stood upon the heights ofAbraham, in bold defiance of Montcalm and his overwhelming force. The French General at first could hardly credit his own senses,so impossible did it seem for an army to ascend those dangerouscliffs. He perceived that, unless the English could be driven fromtheir position, Quebec was lost. I see them, said he, wherethey ought not to be ; but since we must fight, I will go and crushthem ! and immediately, with his whole army, he crossed the St-Charles and advanced to the attack. The English reserved theirfire until the enemy were within a few yards of the front, and thea • Pictorial History of England, vol. iv., page 609.
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chap, i.) COLONIAL WARS—TO 1763. 45 Death ck Wolfe and Montcalm, and surrender of Quebec. poured in a terrible discharge, which compelled them to recoil withgreat confusion. But as Wolfe stood conspicuous in the front rank,cheering his men, a musket ball struck his wrist. He wrapped ahandkerchief around the wounded limb, continued giving his orders,and soon put himself at the head of his grenadiers, who had fixedtheir bayonets for the charge, when he was hit by a ball in theupper part of the abdomen. He seemed scarcely to heed thisserious wound, and was giving his orders and encouraging his men,when a musket ball struck him in the breast and brought him to theground. General Monckton, the second in command, was danger-ously wounded by his side, and the command devolved on GeneralTownshend. Wolfe was immediately conveyed to the rear by hisgrieved men, and while the agonies of death were upon him, hismind was intently fixed upon the battle. As his life-blood ebbedfast, and his eyes gr

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