The life and letters of James Wolfe . ely to the south. Onthe 30th JMonckton gained Point Levis, and brushing aside a hand-ful of Canadian militia seized it almost without a blow. Here, infull view of Quebec, with the assistance of the Marines, Moncktonthrew up entrenchments for his brigade. Townshend was orderedto march his brigade to Pointe dOrleans, on the island just oppositeMonckton, and there encamp. When Saunders had moved up his 1 Journal, vol. i. p. 298. 442 LIFE AND LETTERS OF WOLFE fleet into the basin, the situation ere sunset on July 1 may be saidto have been clearly revealed to b
The life and letters of James Wolfe . ely to the south. Onthe 30th JMonckton gained Point Levis, and brushing aside a hand-ful of Canadian militia seized it almost without a blow. Here, infull view of Quebec, with the assistance of the Marines, Moncktonthrew up entrenchments for his brigade. Townshend was orderedto march his brigade to Pointe dOrleans, on the island just oppositeMonckton, and there encamp. When Saunders had moved up his 1 Journal, vol. i. p. 298. 442 LIFE AND LETTERS OF WOLFE fleet into the basin, the situation ere sunset on July 1 may be saidto have been clearly revealed to both Admiral and General. Be-siegers and besieged confronted one another. We may therefore seize this opportunity to pierce through thebastions and entrenchments of the enemy, and briefly describe themen, and more particularly the man who, on this day afterwardsto be celebrated by millions as the birthday of the CanadianConfederation, was pitted against the hero of these pages in a life-and-death struggle for the possession of MAJOU-GESEKAL .MAIIQII^ DE MONTCALMFrom the family portrait in the Chateau dAvege XIX THE REVERSE AT IMONTMORENCI Never before had Canada boasted so many French soldiers ashad now been for some seasons arrayed under the command ofLouis Joseph, Marquis de ]\Iontcahn-Gozon.^ In the three years during which this eminent soldier had beenCommander-in-Chief of the Canadian Army he had, in spite ofmanifold difficulties and the dishonesty or maladroitness of hissuperiors, managed to set several important successes to his had fallen upon Oswego and destroyed it, taking 1,400prisoners and great booty. He had brought about the retirementof Lord Loudoun and his army, and from the strong Frenchfortress of Ticonderoga he had led 6,000 troops against FortWilliam Henry and compelled the commander, Colonel Mmiro, tocapitulate. In this siege INIontcalm had been assisted by a hordeof savage followers, who understood nothing of terms of capitula-tion or the
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