The siege of Quebec : and the battle of the Plains of Abraham . betweenthe British right and the St. Lawrence. The movementwas quickly observed by Wolfe, who advanced some pla-toons from the Louisbourg Grenadiers and the Twenty-eighth Regiment to the small rising ground on his right,to intercept it, and as soon as Otways Regiment,—theThirty-fifth,—came up, he further strengthened his rightby extending that battalion between the Grenadiers andthe precipice sloping towards the river, and to formpart of a second line upon the right. The Fifteenth—Amhersts,—which had arrived at the same time, waso
The siege of Quebec : and the battle of the Plains of Abraham . betweenthe British right and the St. Lawrence. The movementwas quickly observed by Wolfe, who advanced some pla-toons from the Louisbourg Grenadiers and the Twenty-eighth Regiment to the small rising ground on his right,to intercept it, and as soon as Otways Regiment,—theThirty-fifth,—came up, he further strengthened his rightby extending that battalion between the Grenadiers andthe precipice sloping towards the river, and to formpart of a second line upon the right. The Fifteenth—Amhersts,—which had arrived at the same time, wasordered to form part of a second line on the left, whichwas filled in by two battalions of the Sixtieth Regiment-The left of the first line was completed by the addition ofthe Seventy-eighth,—Highlanders,—and the Fifty-eighth,Anstruthers. The entire formation was then as follows :first line, commencing on the right near the summit ofthe cliff overlooking the St. Lawrence, — Thirty-fifth,—arranged in a circular form on the slope of the hill,—. 1759] IN BATTLE ARRAY 121 followed towards the left by the Grenadiers, the Twenty-eight,—Braggs,—the Forty-third,—Kennedys,— formingthe centre, the Forty-seventh — Lascelles,— the High-landers, Anstruthers and Amhersts. Some of the enemyhaving shown an intention of flanking the British left,General Townshend, who had been detained at the land-ing place, formed the last named Regiment en potence^that is to say, caused it to face in two dire6lions, one atright angles to the other. General Wolfe, with Brigadiers Monckton and Murraycommanded the first line, Monckton to the right, whileMurray at first commanded the left. When BrigadierTownshend took charge of the left, he stationed himselfon the Ste. Foye Road, in charge of two battalions of theSixtieth, in addition to the Regiment which he had formeden potence^ and General Murray moved to the centre of theline. Colonel Howes Light Infantry and the Forty-eighthRegim
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