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(c) On the plan they axe entirely cut off from the main body by 

 the steepness and height of the coteau and by their distance. 



(d) In that position they have no enemy to encounter, and would 

 have to scale this cliff before reaching him. 



(e) This position differs in toto from Mr. Doughty's own text. 



At page 391 he quotes Entick as mentioning the " Canadians as 

 being placed on the bank, and on the borders of the Cote Ste-G-ene- 

 viève, and o.n his plan, which is apparently the same as Jeffreys, the 

 Canadians are shown to be in this direction."' 



And what is more, he himself says that on the plan (A) it will be 

 noticed that the Canadians are placed on the sloping ground of Cote 

 Ste-Geneviève. 



They ought to be, but they are not. 



"All this evidence," he adds, " confirms the accuracy of the plan, 

 so far as the position of the Canadians are (sic) concerned. 



We admit our impossibility of conciliating the text with the plan, 

 however carefully measured and prepared by Mr. Oharest (p. 365). It 

 is erroneous. 



(/) If so, it remains evident, as a consequence, that the whole 

 line of Montcalm, being thus carried up half a mile, without any appar- 

 ent gap, is shown not to be able to extend far enoiugh on its left to 

 meet properly the right of Wolfe, which reaches very near the edge of 

 the Cape. 



(g) P. 401. To maintain the French battalions drawn into a 

 straight line, en front de iandière, as he was forced to do, he is more 

 "unfortunate than Mr. Hawkins, whom he alleges to have been so be- 

 cause he proved too precise as to the relative positions o-f the army 

 (French). 



Mr. Doughty might have found the terminus a quo et ad quern 

 on Jefferys' plan and in the text of the latter; and also on Hawkins' 

 plan of 1841 (which he does not controvert); that line passes from the 

 General Hospital to the heights of the Buttes-à-Nepveu, or Martello 

 Tower No. 3. 



(h) By placing the French line midway between Lewis Gate and 

 the Buttes-à-N epveu, on his plan A, Mr. Doughty has failed to observe, 

 as a fact under his eyes every day, that the down grade from these 

 Buttes to that middle point is such that the troops could not see, nor 

 tven be seen by the enemy from thence. 



2. I^ow let us examine the position of the English battalions on the 

 same plan. 



Their front is nearly a straight line, having the two extremities 

 formed en potence towards each cliff, and a reserve at some distance be- 

 hind. 



