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" Forty-seventh regiment, which after a few rounds obliged these skul- 

 " kers to retire. We were now ordered to lie down, and remained some 

 " time in this position. About eight o'clock we had two pieces of short 

 " brass six-pounders playing against the enemy, which threw them into 

 " some confusion, and obliged them to alter their disposition, and Mont- 

 " calm formed thein into three large columns ; about nine the two 

 "armies moved 'a little nearer to each other. The light cavalry had 

 " made a faint attempt upon our parties at the battery at Sillery, but 

 " were soon beat off, and Monsieur de Bougainville, with his troops 

 "'from Cape Eouge, came down to attack the flank of our second line, 

 "hoping to penetrate there, but by a masterly disposition of Briga- 

 "dier Townshend, they were forced to desist, and the third bat- 

 " talion of Eoyal Americans was then detached to the first ground 

 " we had formed on after we had gained the heights, to preserve com- 

 "munication with the beach and our boats. About ten o'clock the 

 "enemy began to advance briskly in three columns, with loud shouts 

 "and recovered arms, two of them inclining to the left of our army, 

 " and the third towards our right, firing obliquely at the two ex- 

 " tremities of our line from the distance of one hundred and thirt)^ — 

 "until they came within forty yards; which our troops withstood with 

 "the greatest intrepidity and firmness, still reserving their fire, tind 

 " paying the strictest obedience to their officers; this uncommon steadi- 

 "ness, together with the havoc which the grape shot from our field 

 " pieces made among them, threw them into some disorder, and was 

 "most critically maintained by a well timed, regular, and heavy dis- 

 " charge of our small arms, .such as they could no longer oppose; here- 

 " upon they gave way and fled with precipitation so that, by the time 

 "the cloud of smoke had vanished, our men were again loaded, and, 

 "profiting by the advantage we had over them, pursued them almost 

 " to the gates of the town, and the bridge over the little river." 



In this portion of his journal Knox refers to the corps by num- 

 bers, but on page 7i of his work, I find a table in which the names of 

 the regiments are given. I have, therefore, placed the name's in brac- 

 kets after the numbers, for convenience of reference. It would appear 

 from this account that the first disposition of the line was made from 

 a point about midway between the cliff and the Grande Allée on the 

 right, and from a point midway between Ste. Foye Eoad and the Grande 

 Allée on the left, and that the second disposition extended the line on 

 the right to the cliff, and on the left to near Cote Ste. Geneviève. 

 This was probably the final disposition of the army made by Wolfe, 

 immediately before the decisive firing, about ten o'clock. 



