. Illustrated Quebec, (The Gibraltar and tourists' Mecca of America) Under French and English occupancy : the story of its famous annals; with pen pictures descriptive of te matchless beauty and quaint mediaeval characteristics of the Canadian Gibraltar. M.\ TOWER. PL.^INS OF AI!S.\H.\M. 53. Britain, from Charles II. to George II. Thencomes the era of the Conquest, and how richis it in the figures that enoble the time ! Twoillustrious personages stand out distinctivelyand with pathetic interest from the canvas—the figures of Wolfe and Montcalm. Besidesthese immortal heroes, there were o
. Illustrated Quebec, (The Gibraltar and tourists' Mecca of America) Under French and English occupancy : the story of its famous annals; with pen pictures descriptive of te matchless beauty and quaint mediaeval characteristics of the Canadian Gibraltar. M.\ TOWER. PL.^INS OF AI!S.\H.\M. 53. Britain, from Charles II. to George II. Thencomes the era of the Conquest, and how richis it in the figures that enoble the time ! Twoillustrious personages stand out distinctivelyand with pathetic interest from the canvas—the figures of Wolfe and Montcalm. Besidesthese immortal heroes, there were on theFrench side De Levis, De Bougainville, DeRamezay, Senezergues, Bourlamarque and ; on the British side, Saunders andHolmes of the fleet, with Monckton, Towns-hend, Murray, Carlton and Amherst of thearmy. A little later, in the heroic annals ofthe city, appear Arnold and Montgomery, thetwo hapless leaders of the American army How the story intwines itself,through two fateful centuries, round theseseveral names ! Nor does the human interestin these actors on the stage of the AncientCapital end with the Conquest. Though Que-bec passes now under the peaceful rule ofBritain, interest does not altogether cease inthe rulers of the colony. The city has knownmany of these r
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