The siege of Quebec : and the battle of the Plains of Abraham . line of battle, and hence thoseof them who served in the French army on the 13*^ ofSeptember, were placed in the wood near the Ste. Foye (i) Colonial Documents, Vol. X, page 638. I759J ^N BATTLE ARRAY 141 Road, and in otlier ambush, to harrass the British by theirdesultory fire, from positions where it was virtually impos-sible to charge them. One has only to read the accountof their manner of dispatching their foes, as given in theMemoirs of tJic Quarter-Master Sergeant^ ^^ to be able toappreciate the horror inspired in European
The siege of Quebec : and the battle of the Plains of Abraham . line of battle, and hence thoseof them who served in the French army on the 13*^ ofSeptember, were placed in the wood near the Ste. Foye (i) Colonial Documents, Vol. X, page 638. I759J ^N BATTLE ARRAY 141 Road, and in otlier ambush, to harrass the British by theirdesultory fire, from positions where it was virtually impos-sible to charge them. One has only to read the accountof their manner of dispatching their foes, as given in theMemoirs of tJic Quarter-Master Sergeant^ ^^ to be able toappreciate the horror inspired in European soldiers by thetomahawk and the scalping knife, and the determinationalready arrived at by every member of the army that facedthem that morning, drawn up under the red cross of , to submit to neither capture nor torture, but tofight until the outcome of the struggle should bring toeach and to all of them the realization of the battle cry, Death or Victory. ^^^ (i) Vol. V. of the present work, page 165.(2) Vol. V. of the present work, page loi. ^^^^-T. CHAPTER X. THE CLASH OF ARMS TOURING the early hours of the 13^^^ of September, 1759,*^ the Plains of Abraham were sprinkled with lightshowers of rain, ere they were moistened with the blood ofthe heroic sons of England and of France. Towards tenoclock the hovering clouds had passed away giving place toa flood of warm sunshine which illumined the gorgeouscrimson, purple and yellow foliage of the neighbouringwoodlands, and of the more distant heights of Levis on theone side, and of Lorette, Charlesbourg and Beauport on theother. It was refledled from the glittering steel of twoarmies drawn up in battle array, and facing each otherwith hostile intent. It has already been seen that the French army was toomuch cramped by the nature of the ground near the city,and the shrubbery which occupied so much of it, to be ableto form its columns into line of battle until they reachedthe more open space, extending towards the British li
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