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''battery); and the third battalion of the Eoyal Americans. In the 

 " space between which last and the main body, the forty-eighth was 

 " drawn up as a body of reserve." This general disposition of the army, 

 that is to say, the line, the reserve and the rear, is confirmed by the' 

 historians, and also by several of the maps and plans of the battlefield 

 and forms a total linear space less than 1000 yards from front to rear. 

 (2,950 feet), tliat is to say from the gaol to the post on Marchmont. 



Col. Fraser continues : " The army was ordered to march on slow- 

 " ly in line of battle, and halt several times, till about half an hour 

 '' after ten.^" Here begins the real point of controversy, the gordian- 

 knot, which we shall try to untie before cutting it. Did the army 

 march in line as thus stated ? or was it formed into line at once on the 

 eminence of the gaol and from thence extended on each side? We shall 

 use the words of Mr. Doughty on this march. (Paper, p. 378) " By 

 " referring to plan A, it will be seen that a very short march would be 

 " necessary to bring the army to the line indicated on the plan.''^ He 

 means from the eminence of the gaol, past de Salaberry street, to a 

 point near the Orphan Asylum, where Wolfe is indicated to be in com- 

 mand and fall, 1175 feet of actual march. 



As Wolfe's Redoubt, where he fell, stood only 475 feet from the 

 eastern boundary of the race course, this slow march would then com- 

 mence 1175 feet west of this redoubt and be a space for marching of 

 700 feet, on the plains towards town. W^e are willing to be generous 

 and give away 500 feet to Mr. Doughty, being satisfied with the remaind- 

 er. And thus we shall be west of, near to and' on line with Maple 

 avenue, " on the open ground," and the perfect level shown there in all 

 direction; the same referred to by Captain Knox when speaking of the 

 ground upon which the army halted after its march towards town in 

 files as being " an even piece of ground which Mr. Wolfe had made 

 '' choice of." 



The first fomiation may reasonably account for t'he heavy losses 

 then and previously thereto suffered on the English side by the galling 

 fire on their whole line, continued from a few brushes and a little hillock 

 from Canadian and Indian skirmishers, snap-shooters and skulkers, on 

 each wing and on the rear. Vol. V, pp. 28, 104. 



Knox, quoted by Doughty (Paper, p. 374), states that after the line 



was formed " About nine the two armies moved a little nearer 



" to each other." 



" Les deux armées," says Le Journal de V Armée, séparées par une 

 petite colline, se cannonaient depuis " environ une heure." 



Mr. Doughty himself confirms such eminence in front (Paper, p. 

 402). " The General before the battle, while reviewing the position 



