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Thus Mr. Doughty reverses Wolfe's tactics and leaves a wide gap for 

 the enemy to slip along the cliff and outflank his right. And here we 

 may add that Mr. Doughty has fixed (Paper, p. 384), the effective range 

 of the musket against troops in column 200 yards (Wolfe also). There- 

 by Ke nullifies the then required efficiency of the fire of the Otway as 

 Wolfe would have had it. 



Our conclusion then is that on the Doughty plan, the Otway, the 

 Louisbourg-Grenadiers and the Braggs must necessarily be all carried 

 down southerly some 100 yards distance towards the cliff, and the spot 

 marked by the red star shall come nearer south, so as to be in line with 

 the meridian stone, if not out-passing it. The Sergeant-Quartermaster 

 Johnson, present on the field, confirms this southern position (Vol. V, 

 pp. 103-4), on the right wing, occupied by the Louisbourg Grenadiers, 

 at the head of which Wolfe sometimes commanded and sometimes at the 

 head of the former, — " and advanced at the head of the Louisbourg 

 " Grenadiers, with charged bayonets, when another shot pierced his 

 " breast." 



We have seen that Wolfe had just sent the 28th regiment, Braggs, 

 to the small rising ground on his right (the eminence of the gaol), so 

 that it could not stand nortli of the St. Louis Eoad, as Mr. Doughty will 

 have it. It must be left standing where directed by Wolfe, about 100 

 yards south of the road, having on its right the first company of the 

 Louisbourg Grenadiers. So much the worse for the average plan of the 

 experts and the red star of Mr. St. Michel. 



Kext we intend to prove satisfactorily that the alleged distance east 

 from the monument to the point of the red star is overstretched and is 

 not 300 yards. 



First of all, according to the scale of this plan, it is only 750 feet or 

 250 yards; also the same measure is found on the official plan of the 

 cadastre. This is, to begin with, a recoil of 50 yards. 



Secondly, adopting as a basis for correct measurements, the true 

 landière line above mentioned in the direction of the General Hospital, 

 and closing west the angle of 22°, 20', which it forms with the handière 

 given by Mr. St. Michel, we shall have mutatis mutandis, another retro- 

 gression of the whole English line proportional to the cord opposite the 

 star, about 85 feet, or 28 yards, reducing in consequence the 300 yards to 

 224 only. 



Now since the exact distance from the meridian stone to the 

 monument is exactly 126 yards, there remains only the small difference 

 of less than 100 yards between the landmark of Holland and the point 

 indicated by Mr. Doughty: a trifle. But, even without reckoning these 

 deductions, the whole difference could not exceed 174 yards. We shall 

 not therefore allow Mr. St. Michel to remove our well known land- 



