. Illustrated Quebec, (The Gibraltar and tourists' Mecca of America) Under French and English occupancy : the story of its famous annals; with pen pictures descriptive of te matchless beauty and quaint mediaeval characteristics of the Canadian Gibraltar. well nigh daily occurrence. buildings were seen blazing at once, presenting the appear-ance of a vast conflagration. On the 17th of July, and again onthe 19th, large numbers of buildings were set on fire by the shot,and continued a long time burning, as if the whole citj- had be- 42 come a prey to the flames. Before the siege
. Illustrated Quebec, (The Gibraltar and tourists' Mecca of America) Under French and English occupancy : the story of its famous annals; with pen pictures descriptive of te matchless beauty and quaint mediaeval characteristics of the Canadian Gibraltar. well nigh daily occurrence. buildings were seen blazing at once, presenting the appear-ance of a vast conflagration. On the 17th of July, and again onthe 19th, large numbers of buildings were set on fire by the shot,and continued a long time burning, as if the whole citj- had be- 42 come a prey to the flames. Before the siege ended, more than five hundred buildings were destrojed,induding private and public edifices, the cathedral and other places of worship. Of the ,inhabitants, thenon - combattants, whohad not retired before,fled for refuge into thecountrj, many werekilled and wounded,struck by cannon balls,some in the streets andthoroughfares, otherswithin the walls of pub-lic places of resort andprivate dwellings. Bythe middle of Augustthe city was virtuallydestroyed—most of itsresident population hav-ing vainshed, its princi-pal habitations and edi-fices in ruins, and eventhe pieces of ordinanceon the ramparts for themost part rendered use-less. Another mouth. ST. ROCH S SUBUKISS. AND THE VALLEY OF THE ST. CHARLES, 43 passed, a month of fruitless effort on the part of the assailants. Wolfe became increasingly sick anddiscouraged. Recovering his spirits, however, as he saw something must be done before the approach ofwinter, he daringly grappled with a project which led him to victory and to a victors grave. This projectwas to scale the almost inaccessible cliffs of .Siller)- and gain the Plains of Abraham, in rear of the citj%and there to bring Montcalm to battle. Orders were issued to have the fleet in readiness to make a feignedattack on the Beauport .shore, while the bulk of the army was to move up the river, drop down againover night, climb the precipice and form on the heights to attack
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