The fight with France for North America . th re-inforcements, coming up behind Wolfe, and above allhad noted the flotillas of Whitmore and Lawrencebetween them and the city, and were fearful of beingcut off should these last effect a landing. TheFrench were pursued over the rocks and throughthe scrubby pine-woods till the pursuers came withinplay of the guns of Louisbourg, which opened aheavy fire to cover the retreat. Over a hundredwere killed or taken prisoners, while the loss of theBritish in landing was not much less. Amherst now traced the lines of his camp along ashallow valley, watered
The fight with France for North America . th re-inforcements, coming up behind Wolfe, and above allhad noted the flotillas of Whitmore and Lawrencebetween them and the city, and were fearful of beingcut off should these last effect a landing. TheFrench were pursued over the rocks and throughthe scrubby pine-woods till the pursuers came withinplay of the guns of Louisbourg, which opened aheavy fire to cover the retreat. Over a hundredwere killed or taken prisoners, while the loss of theBritish in landing was not much less. Amherst now traced the lines of his camp along ashallow valley, watered by a small stream, which wasnot only out of range of the Louisbourg guns, butinvisible from the walls. Here he proceeded to in-trench himself, erecting blockhouses at extremitieswhere an attack might be expected from Acadians andMicmac Indians, with which the wilderness beyondwas thought to swarm. The sea, however, remainedso rough that it was some days before the troops couldget their tents, stores, and lighter guns on shore. It 222 o O. # 1758] WOLFES LIGHT INFANTRY was not till about the 17th, when the weather mode-rated, that the siege guns could be brought from thefleet. Both services worked with a will, but theirdifficulties may be estimated from the fact that overa hundred boats were destroyed in the operation. The French now drew all their men within thefortifications. A large battery of thirty guns on theopposite side of the harbour, with houses and fishstages, was destroyed by the garrison on the nightof the British landing, and a great conflagration red-dened both sky and sea. The guns were spiked, aswere those of a smaller battery at the eastern pointof the harbours mouth. Wolfe had a large corps oflight infantry, picked for their marksmanship fromvarious regiments, and trained, so far as a week ortwo at Halifax could train them, in tactics that be-came familiar enough later on, but were regarded atthe time as quite a strange innovation on the part ofthe vigorous an
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