. 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. His army was camped on the Island of Orleans, from which he detaclied a corps under his own command to capture a redoubt, which would afford an admirable point of reconnaisance. The troops were rowed across in boats belonging to the fleet, and were met with a furious fire as soon as they got within range. A few were sunk, the others pressed fo
. 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. His army was camped on the Island of Orleans, from which he detaclied a corps under his own command to capture a redoubt, which would afford an admirable point of reconnaisance. The troops were rowed across in boats belonging to the fleet, and were met with a furious fire as soon as they got within range. A few were sunk, the others pressed forward, the sailors encouraging one another at the ■. oar, and the soldiers shouting from time to time, as it were in defiance of the fate that threatened them. A terrific hand-to-hand fight took place on the beach. The redoubtwas carried under fire from a frigate moored in mid channel, but Wolfewas eventually compelled to order the retreat of the corps, which waseffected in good order. It is a fact not generally known that the Britishlosses were greater in this fight than in the battle of the Plains of on this ground one can realise the scene on that eventful Highlanders, who, under the leaderhip of the Master of Lovet,. AX H.^BIT.^.N r. 91 as he was styled, took so prominent and heroic a part in the conquest of Canada, were the same men whojoined the standard of the Pretender on the rising of the vScottish clans a few years previously. There weremany among them Roman Catholics who remained in Canada, where, after retiring from the British service,they intermarried with the French-Canadians and settled among them. To this day their descendents, bear-ing the old Scotch names, but French in other respects, are to be found all over the Province of years ago a proposition was made to form an association of these Scoto-Canadians, when it was foundthat of Frasers alone there were several thousands, besides many McKays, McDonalds, Camerons,MacDon
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