The siege of Quebec : and the battle of the Plains of Abraham . ral received his mortal the two previous injuries which he had experienced asheretofore related from the fire of the enemys skirmishershis men knew nothing. ^^^ His manner was unchanged, hisexertions unrelaxed. Before the action commenced, hehad moved along the whole of his line, and had receivedhis two first wounds near its left and centre the time of the French advance he had remainedupon the small rising ground, at the right of his line, aknoll still to be seen a few hundred feet to the north ofthe Qu
The siege of Quebec : and the battle of the Plains of Abraham . ral received his mortal the two previous injuries which he had experienced asheretofore related from the fire of the enemys skirmishershis men knew nothing. ^^^ His manner was unchanged, hisexertions unrelaxed. Before the action commenced, hehad moved along the whole of his line, and had receivedhis two first wounds near its left and centre the time of the French advance he had remainedupon the small rising ground, at the right of his line, aknoll still to be seen a few hundred feet to the north ofthe Quebec Observatory. Here he obtained a good viewof the entire right and centre of the field of battle, occu-pying a position at the head of Braggs and the LouisbourgGrenadiers, where the attack was the hottest. Neitherwould he be prevailed on to the contrary, although he wasoften in imminent danger. -^^ His voice was still heard (i) Vol, IV, page 293. (2) Vol. v., page 268. (3) Vol. v., page 31. (4) See Memoirs of the Quarter-Master Sergeant, Vol. V., page 104,. 1759] ^HE CLASH OF ARMS 161 amidst the din of the fight, and he had barely given theorder to his men to charge the foe when he fell fatallywounded. ^^ It is related by a writer in the British Maga-zine for 1760, the year following the battle, that Wolfereceived this wound from the party of skulkers which hadbeen stationed by the French in the cornfield facing theBritish right, and already described. The familiar stor}^of his leaning upon the shoulder of an officer in order thathis brave men should not see him fall, the account of hisremoval to the rear of the battlefield, and his dying expres-sions of happiness and satisfaction upon being informed ofthe flight of the enemy, are household words wherever theEnglish language is spoken. Succeeding generations ofhis fellow-countrymen have paused, in contemplating theaccount of his heroic death to pay a tribute to his are so many versions of these closing scenes in
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