. New France and New England. s along the coast where alanding might be effected if the sea were somewhat to sub-side, and the plan was to make demonstrations against allthese points while the extreme left wing under GeneralWolfe should advance against the most remote of them,known as Fresh Water Cove, with the intention of carryingit. Although this plan was matured on the 2d of June, itwas not until the 8th that there was enough of a lull in theviolence of the surf to admit of any approach to the shoreGeneral whatever. Then the plan was tried, and Wolfeseffectl a landing was achieved with bri
. New France and New England. s along the coast where alanding might be effected if the sea were somewhat to sub-side, and the plan was to make demonstrations against allthese points while the extreme left wing under GeneralWolfe should advance against the most remote of them,known as Fresh Water Cove, with the intention of carryingit. Although this plan was matured on the 2d of June, itwas not until the 8th that there was enough of a lull in theviolence of the surf to admit of any approach to the shoreGeneral whatever. Then the plan was tried, and Wolfeseffectl a landing was achieved with brilliant success. Al-landing though Fresh Water Cove was defended by onethousand Frenchmen behind entrenchments supported by abattery of eight cannon, Wolfe managed his landing so as to LOUISBURG 299 pass by their left flank, between it and the town, and thereto attack them in such wise as to cut them off. Under thesecircumstances the Frenchmen abandoned their works andfled to the woods, whence they made a circuitous retreat to. ADMIRAL EUWARH BOSCAWEN their comrades in the town. After this auspicious beginningthe remainder of the English arm}- was safely landed, andready for further operations. Troops were presently movedso as to threaten the communications of the Grand Batteryat the north end of the harbour, whereupon the Frenchabandoned it. The eastern side of the harbour ran in theshape of a sickle from the Grand Battery, terminating in apoint opposite the point of the peninsula on which the city 300 NEW FRANCE AND NEW ENGLAND Stood. The space of sea between these two points was theentrance to the harbour, and the small island already men-tioned, with its Island Battery, lay midway between the great superiority of the English fleet, theThehar- French had felt it rash to keep a detachment uponiTssecureT the opposite point, where it was liable to be cutrtht^ off, and they had therefore withdrawn it. NowEnglish Wolfe, witli twclvc hundred men, marched pastthe Gr
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