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" ground niul maintain it to the last extremity, which I did until the 

 "two armies were engaged." Further passages relating to this redoubt 

 become still more involved. Mr. Ilawkins refers to this redoubt as the 

 place "against which the attack was directed, which Wolfe so gallantly 

 " urged on by his personal example." We have seen from the same 

 author that the French were near the right of the race stand at the 

 commencement of the attack, and that at the time the redoubt was 

 occupied by the English, nevertheless, Mr. Hawkins states, that Wolfe 

 gallantly led his men on to attack this redoubt. Wolfe was therefore, 

 leading an attack against his own army. Mr. Hawkins seems to have 

 had some doubt himself as to this position, for he adds "as he had been 

 " conveyed a short distance to the rear after being struck with the fatal 

 " ball, it must he presumed that this redoubt had been captured, and that 

 "the Grenadiers were pressing on when he received his fatal wound. 

 " This is corroborated by a letter." The letter, however, makes it clear 

 that it was not captured after the engagement, but that the English oc- 

 cupied it before without any action. "He took notice of a small rising 

 " ground between our right and the enemy's left, which concealed their 

 " motions'from us in that quarter, upon which the General did me the 

 "honour to detach me with a few Grenadiers to take that ground and 

 " maintain it to the last extremity, which I did, until the two armies 

 " were engaged." 



There is no mention of any action in connection with the taking 

 of this ground. The General, before the battle, while reviewing the 

 position of the armies, saw that it was an advantageous position, and 

 sent a few men to occupy it. It has been shown by other testimony 

 that Wolfe viewed the position of the armies from this rising ground 

 before he formed his line, and it was after so doing that he disposed his 

 troops in a circular form on its slope, and after this, again, according 

 to Knox, that the armies moved a little nearer to each other. 



It may be mentioned, that in 1841, seven years after the publication 

 of his book, Mr, Hawkins published a plan of the battle inscribed to 

 the Members of the United Service, and on this map, the four-gun 

 battery does not appear. Two views of the army are given, one with 

 the English line exactly at right angles with the gaol, and the other 

 with the lino exactly in the position placed by Jeffreys. These posi- 

 tions are probably correct. The first, no doubt, indicates the position 

 of the English before the arrival of all the troops, as mentioned by 

 Knox, and the second shows the final disposition of the troops made 

 by Wolfe, immediately before tlie decisive action. 



I think it is possible that Mr. Hawkins was not aware of the direc- 

 tion of tho road leading from Wolfe's Cove, in 1759, at the time he 

 wrote his book. 



