Montcalm and Wolfe . nce ofVaudreuil. — Last Letters of Montcalm. — French Vigi-lance. — British Squadron at Cap-Rouge. — Last OrdersOF Wolfe. — Embarkation. — Descent of the St. Law-rence.— The Heights scaled.—The British Line. — LastNight of Montcalm. — The Alarm. — March of FrenchTroops. — The Battle. — The Rout. — The Pursuit. — FallOP Wolfe and of Montcalm. Wolfe was deeply moved by the disaster at theheights of Montmorenci, and in a General Order onthe next day he rebuked the grenadiers for their pre-cipitation. Such impetuous, irregular, and un-soldierlike proceedings destroy all order,
Montcalm and Wolfe . nce ofVaudreuil. — Last Letters of Montcalm. — French Vigi-lance. — British Squadron at Cap-Rouge. — Last OrdersOF Wolfe. — Embarkation. — Descent of the St. Law-rence.— The Heights scaled.—The British Line. — LastNight of Montcalm. — The Alarm. — March of FrenchTroops. — The Battle. — The Rout. — The Pursuit. — FallOP Wolfe and of Montcalm. Wolfe was deeply moved by the disaster at theheights of Montmorenci, and in a General Order onthe next day he rebuked the grenadiers for their pre-cipitation. Such impetuous, irregular, and un-soldierlike proceedings destroy all order, make itimpossible for the commanders to form any dispositionfor an attack, and put it out of the generals powerto execute his plans. The grenadiers could not sup-pose that they could beat the French alone. The French were elated by their success. Every-body, says the commissary Berniers, thought thatthe campaign was as good as ended, gloriously for The Death of Wolfe. .^~\\\Aa ^a\. 1759.] DESPONDENCY OF WOLFE. 103 us. They had been sufficiently confident evenbefore their victory; and the bearer of a flag of trucetold the English officers that he had never imaginedthey were such fools as to attack Quebec with sosmall a force. Wolfe, on the other hand, had everyreason to despond. At the outset, before he hadseen Quebec and learned the nature of the ground,he had meant to begin the campaign by taking poston the Plains of Abraham, and thence laying siegeto the town; but he soon discovered that the Plainsof Abraham were hardly more within his reach thanwas Quebec itself. Such hope as was left him layin the composition of Montcalms army. He re-spected the French commander, and thought his dis-ciplined soldiers not unworthy of the British steel;but he held his militia in high scorn, and could hebut face them in the open field, he never doubted theresult. But Montcalm also distrusted them, andpersisted in refusing the coveted battle. Wolfe, therefor
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