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" artillery liaJ been allowed to play and the army advanced regularly 

 " there would hnve been many more of the enemy killed and wounded, 

 " as we never came up with the main body. In advancing we passed 

 " over a great many dead and wounded, (French regulars mostly) lying 

 " in front of our regiment, who — I mean the Highlanders — to do them 

 "justice, behaved extremely well all day, as did the whole army. After 

 " pursuing the French to the very gates of the town, our regiment was 

 '- ordered to form fronting the town, on the ground whereon the French 

 '• formed first." 



The French army, according to the Chevalier Johnstone, who 

 served under General Montcalm, was drawn up in line of battle at a 

 distance of four hundred yards from the city walls, and this distance 

 may be roughly estimated as about midway between the walls of the 

 city and Claire Fontaine Street. " 'His town,' " as he called it — wias 

 *' defended by our army which covered it, being drawn up in battle 

 " about two hundred fathoms from it." (Johnstone, page 42.) 

 Fraser, therefore, agrees with Johnstone on this point. 

 We continue the quotation from the journal of Fraser. "At this 

 " time, the rest of the army came up in good order. General Murray 

 " having then put himself at the head of our regiment, ordered them 

 " to face to the left and march through the bush of wood towards the 

 " General Hospital, when they got a great gun to play upon us from the 

 " town, which, however, did no damage, but we had a few men killed 

 '• and ofïiceTs wounded by some skulking fellows with small arms, from 

 '■ the bushes and behind the houses in the suburbs of St. Louis and St. 

 " John. After marching a short way through the brush. Brigadier 

 " ^lurray thought proper to order us to return again to the high road 

 " leading from Porte St. Louis to the Heights of Abraham, where the 

 " battle was fought, and after marching till we got clear of the bushes, 

 " we were ordered to turn to the right and go along the edge of them 

 " towards the bank, at the descent between us and the General Hos- 

 " pital, under which we understood there was a body of the enemy who, 

 " no sooner saw us, than they began firing on us from the bushes 

 " and from the bank ; we soon dispossessed them from the bushes, and 

 " from thence kept firing for about a quarter of an hour on those under 

 " cover of the bank, but as they exceeded us greatly in numbers, they 

 " killed and wounded a great many of our men, and killed two officers, 

 "' which obliged us to retire a little, and form again, when the 58th 

 " lîegiment with the 2nd battalion of lloyal Americans having come 

 " up to our assistance, all three making about five hundred men, ad- 

 " vanccd against the enemy and drove them first down to the great 



