[casgeain] remarks ON "THE SIEGE OF QUEBEC" 105 



" time of w riting I had not received copies. Since this paper has been 

 " in the press I have received the two plans referred to, and they con- 

 " firm in every respect the accuracy of the positions established on plan 

 '' A." 



According to this iplan "the army was not at any 



time drawn up upon the ground forming the present race course." 



2nd. " The condition of the ground now foxming the race course 

 " would have prevented operations there on the day of tilie battle." 

 Id., p. 418. And the same is repeated, Vol. II, p. 395, more 

 emjphatically. " On the d.ay oi the battle the ground known as the 

 " race course was in such condition that it would have been impossible 

 ^' for an army to have been drawn up there in the position indicated on 

 " the several plans." 



" The ground now ccmmonly known as the Plains of Abraham, 

 ^■^ which has recently been acquired by the city for a park, formed no 

 '' part of the famous battle field of September the 13th, 1759.— Id., Vol. 

 II, p. 289. 



To be brief let us point out the moxe striking errors of the plan 

 " A," which crystallises the gist and purport of the whole paper, and 

 then we shall put it in Juxtaposition with the other plan, Vol. Ill, p. 

 96, the new one prepared for and approved by the authors, drawn and 

 supervised, by the same draftsmen, MM. Vallée, Charest & St. Michel, 

 to be the true and final criterion of the position of the two standing 

 armies. 



The patience of the reader, if not of the earnest student, must 

 necessarily be taxed by constant and tedious references to plans, but 

 this course is unavoidable in order to thoroughly understand the ccji- 

 tro verted points on this subject. 



Eef erring then to the said, plan " A " — 



1st. The spot where Montcalm is indicated to be in command, is 

 next to impossible; topographically he is out of sight, as in a well, 

 being at the foot of a hill and facing the rock called " La Eoche Ber- 

 nard " on John street. 



2nd. His right wing is carried away down the St. Charles valley 

 in Saint-Sauveur, reaching so far as the crossings of St. Monique and 

 St. Luc streets, more than a mile from the site of the conflict on the 

 Heights of Abraham. 



3rd. His left is too near the town, cannot see the enemy, and is 

 too far from the edge of the cliff, not to be easily outflanked there. 



4th. The spot where Wolfe fell mortally wounded, is carried much 

 too far. He never reached there; this would be a quarter of a mile 



