[casgbain] KEMARKS ON "THE SIEGE OF QUEBEC" 12S 



because it will turn to the more perfect discovery of truth and to the 

 best advantage of our history; also it will serve to enhance the value 

 of Mr. Doughty's able and remarkably useful contribution. 



APPENDIX. 



Wheke the Battle of the Plains of Abkaham was Fought. 

 An Answer to Mr. Arthur Doughty. 



The Question Discussed iy Mr. P.-B. Casgrain. 



A brief review of the paper published in the Transactions of the 

 Eoyal Society of Canada, 1899-1900, Vol. V, p. 359, " The probable Site 

 of the Battle of the Plains of Abraham," by Arthur G. Doughty. 



K. Henry — What is this Casitle called that stand hard by ? 



M'ontjoy — They call it Agincourt. 



K. Henry — Then we call this the field of Agincourt. 



— /Shakespeare, Henry V., Act 4. scene 7. 



So might have said the immortal Wolfe, to his surrounding com- 

 panions, when, dying in the arms of victory on that glorious day, the 

 13th September, 1759, he cast a last failing glance on the field around 

 him : — " Let this be called the battle of the Plains of Abraham." 



And so it will be known for ever by that appropriate name and all 

 the field around the spot where he breathed his last. 



Credit is due to the author of the cited monograph for his 18 

 months' researches to elucidate, according to his own light, the " pro- 

 bable" site of that memorable battle. 



We are fully convinced that he is as intent on arriving at the whole 

 truth as he and we are intent on suppressing no portion of it. 



Should the writer have erred, as we propose showing, it is meet 

 erroneous statements and unwarranted conclusions should not pass un- 

 challenged ; otherwise they might go abroad in future as uncontroverted 

 historical facts, the more so, because they appear under the auspices of a 

 learned and distinguished body such as the Eoyal Society of Canada. 



We are not yet sure, unless further and better proof be furnished us, 

 that, as alleged in the Morning Chronicle of April 2nd, in reference to 

 the same paper, " the author has made a discovery to which older and 

 more distinguished men have been blind for years ***** ^^j^j 

 that the ideas that have prevailed among the ignorant and learned alike 

 for nearly a hundred years have been woefully unfounded.'^ 



The contention of Mr. Doughty is that the race course does not form . 

 any part of the battlefield and that the fighting was confined between de 



