. The great battles of all nations from Marathon to Santiago, 490 1898. * cliffs, and as Wolfe looked upon it. GENERAL WOLFEAfter a painting by Schack in the Xational Portrait Gallery on that June evening far away, it was girt and crowned with bat-teries. The banks of the St. Lawrence, that define what we havecalled the throat of the bull, are precipitous and lofty, and seemby mere natural strength to defy attack; though it was just here,by an ant-like track up two hundred and fifty feet of almost per-pendicular cliff. Wolfe actually climbed to the Plains of Abraham. 440 GREAT BATTL
. The great battles of all nations from Marathon to Santiago, 490 1898. * cliffs, and as Wolfe looked upon it. GENERAL WOLFEAfter a painting by Schack in the Xational Portrait Gallery on that June evening far away, it was girt and crowned with bat-teries. The banks of the St. Lawrence, that define what we havecalled the throat of the bull, are precipitous and lofty, and seemby mere natural strength to defy attack; though it was just here,by an ant-like track up two hundred and fifty feet of almost per-pendicular cliff. Wolfe actually climbed to the Plains of Abraham. 440 GREAT BATTLES OF ALL NATIONS To the east of Quebec is a curve of lofty shore, seven miles long,between the St. Charles and the Montmorenci. When Wolfes eyefollowed those seven miles of curving shore, he saw the tents ofa French army double his own in strength, and commanded by themost brilliant French soldier of his generation, Montcalm. Quebec,in a word, was a great natural fortress, attacked by nine thousandtroops and defended by sixteen thousand; and if a daring militarygenius urged the English attack, a soldier as daring a
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