. American history:. ed to terms of capitulation. The surrender of this important post effectually cut otf the communication between Canada and Louisiana. 0. *While these events weretranspiring. General Wolle Masprosecuting the more importantpart of the campaign, the siegeof Having embarked * Auj- yO Xoo-ah> is a smiUl isliuid inthe ivivor Sore!, or Hiohelioii, a .*hort di-:::inMaboTe tlxe northern extremity of Lake Cham-plain. t Qiifbff. a strongly fortified city of Canada,is situated ou the side of the Rirer ^sxwTiMii-e, on a lofiy promontory formed bythat river an
. American history:. ed to terms of capitulation. The surrender of this important post effectually cut otf the communication between Canada and Louisiana. 0. *While these events weretranspiring. General Wolle Masprosecuting the more importantpart of the campaign, the siegeof Having embarked * Auj- yO Xoo-ah> is a smiUl isliuid inthe ivivor Sore!, or Hiohelioii, a .*hort di-:::inMaboTe tlxe northern extremity of Lake Cham-plain. t Qiifbff. a strongly fortified city of Canada,is situated ou the side of the Rirer ^sxwTiMii-e, on a lofiy promontory formed bythat river and the St. Charles. Tlie city con-sists of the Tpper and the Lower Town ; tielattor on .a n;»rrv>vy strip of laud, wholly thowork of art. nesr the waters e^lgf : and thaformer on a plain, difficult of access, moratlian 2lX) feet hijiher. Cape Diamond, the mostelevateil part of the Vpper Town, on whicbstiinds the citadel, i.^ 345 fe«t alxive the levetof the riTcr, and commands a grand vievr of k. Jaly 941 July Part II.] THE FRENCH AND INDIAN WAR. 281 about 8000 men at Louisburg, under convoy of a fleet of 1759. 22 ships of the Ime, and an equal number of frigates and small armed vessels, connnanded by Admirals Saunders Holmes; he safely landed* the army, near the end of J^^ i„^June, on the Isle of Orleans a few miles below Quebec, a. June French forces, to the number of thirteen thousand lOisposiiion , , . , of t>ie Prencit men, occupied the city, and a strong camp on the northern of the St. Lawrence, between the rivers St. Charlesand Montmorenci.* 7. ^General Wolfe took possession-- of Point Levi,= ^fjj*/^^where he erected batteries which destroyed the Lower woifeadop-Town, but did little injury to the defences of the city. He b. June after crossed the north channel of the St. Lawrence, =• ^^^JJ^Pand eucamped<* his army near the enemys left, the river a July lying between them. ^Convinced, however, 3 Dar
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