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Salaberry street and the walls of the city (p. 360) ; moreover, that the 

 condition of the ground now forming the race course would have pre- 

 vented operations there on the day of the battle (Note 5, p. 418). 



On the other hand, what is now asserted, as based on tradition and 

 the documentary evidence, is that the English army was formed into line 

 across the race course and extended from the ridge of the cliff to and be- 

 yond the Ste. Foye road; that the opening of the battle on the English 

 side took place when and after they had advanced on the eminence of the 

 gaol, where they awaited the fire of the enemy; and that on returning 

 the fire and charging, the fight extended from thence to the walls of the 

 town and down the valley of the St. Charles to the bridge of boats. 



Mr. Doughty ignores the operations at Sillery, in the morning, the 

 firing and skirmishing between the two foes for more than an hour by 

 outposts, before and during their forming into line ; also the advance, by 

 several halts, during half an hour, before the battle, of which he treats 

 very lightly. 



Mr. Doughty will allow us, therefore, a fair, impartial and brief 

 criticism in examining carefully some of his statements and more par- 

 ticularly the plans on which he bases his theory and on which he relies as 

 the gist of his contention. 



1. Kef erring to the plan A, p. 378, being a reliable plan of the 

 City of Quebec, with the neighbouring country extending to Marah- 

 mont, — as it appears to-day, — the position of the regiments of both 

 armies, English and French, are indicated by black marks, as standing 

 ready for action. 



This plan is drawn by St. Michel, June, 1899, and enlarged from 

 the original, which is on a very simall scale, and which was edited in 

 1760 by Tho'S. Jefferys (not Jeffreys) in his "Natural and Civil History 

 of the French Dominion in North and South America,'^ London, 1761. 



The extreme right of Montcalm, composed of the burgess of 

 Quebec and Indians, is miade there to extend in the valley of the St. 

 Charles, now St-Sauveur, from below the Coteau Ste-G-enevieve, op- 

 posite Martello Tower No, 4, so far as the corner of the modem streets 

 St. Luc and Ste. Gertrude, covering a space of more than half a mile 

 in length in a westerly direction. 



We confess we hardly credit citr eyes, so contrary is suoh position 

 to all the historians and to Mr. Dough ty's own text. 



(a) We have always read and believed that both armies, as a whole, 

 met on the Heights of Abraham. 



(&) That the burgess of Quebec and the Indians occupied the crest 

 of the Coteau Ste-Geneviève and extended even beyond the reserve of 

 tJtie English left. 



