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"clumps of higli brush which aflordcd good cover, and brought on a 

 " skirmishing wliich was warmly kept up on both sides, during the 

 "assembling and disjiosition of the troops for a general action. 



" Tlieir irregulars consisting of Canadians and Indians, were dis- 

 " persed in flying parties on our flanks, particularly on our left, where 

 " they were very numerous, and before the charge of the main body, 

 "' made some weak advances, as if they were about to attack us on this 

 "flank. But General Townshend having ordered two pickets of the 

 "Fifteenth to advance by turn, and fire on them, they hastily retired 

 " to a gafe distance." This extract confirms, in every particular, the 

 evidence of Townshend, Knox and Malartic, as to the position of this 

 coppice or brush wood. 



We have already shown that according to the evidence of Malartic, 

 many of the French were killed at a short distance from Claire Fon- 

 taine. The Chevalier Johnstone also gives the place where many 

 Canadians were killed. 



On page 44, wei find this passage, " The brave Canadian militia 

 " saw us with heavy hearts, grief and despair, from the other side of 

 " the St. Charles river, cut to pieces upon the heights, stopped as they 

 " were, in the horn work, and prevented by superior orders from rush- 

 " ing to our assistance. About 200 brave and resolute Canadians 

 " rallied in the hollow at the bakehouse,® and returned upon the 

 "heights. They fell instantly upon your left wing with incredible 

 "rage; stopped your army for some' minutes from pursuing our soldiers 

 '' in their flight by attracting your attention to them; resisted, un- 

 " daunted, the shock of your left, and when repulsed, they disputed 

 "the ground inch by inch from the top to the bottom of the height, 

 " pursued by your troops down the valley at the bakehouse, opposite 

 " to the hornwork. Tliese unfortunate heroes — who were most of 

 "them cut to pieces — saved your army the loss of a great many men." 



The journal of Major Moncrief, or Mr. James Thompson, from 

 which we give a further extract, gives evidence of fighting and loss 

 within a few yards of the city. 



" They were by ten o'clock pursued within a musket shot (200 or 

 "250 yards) of their own walls, and scarcely looked behind them till 

 "they got within them. Their irregulars upon our left moved towards 

 "the town when tlieir line gave way, but still maintained their ground 

 " along the bank on that side, whence, under cover of some coppice 

 " and some brush they kept up a continual fire. Brigadier Murray, 

 "who with Fraser's battalion of Highlanders, the 78th, had pursued 

 " the enemy within musket shot of St. Ursula's bastion, being informed 

 " that all our generals were wounded and the enemy having totally 



