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(a) The Amherst Eegiment is placed on the verge of the coteau Ste. 

 Geneviève, one branch of the potence covering it and the other facing 

 west towards the Indians. 



(&) This formation at this point is impossible according to Mr. 

 Doughty's own text, because it would be exactly in the middle of the 

 Prench line of Canadians bordering the same coteau. 



(c) The object of forming en potence there would cease to exist, 

 since it was formed with the view of preventing the French from turning 

 'the English flank at that point. 



{d) This potence, as a matter of fact, was at some distance from the 

 cliff and near Ste. JPoye road, and was covered in rear from the Indians 

 by the Koyal American and light infantry. 



3. By thus disposing the English line as shown on the plan A, it will 

 be seen : 



{a) That Wolfe met his final death wound at a long distance, about 

 a quarter of a mile from the spot where he is known to have died, whereas 

 he was not carried in rear more than about 100 yards after he fell, accord- 

 ing to various and undoubted authorities, such as the Grenadiers who 

 supported and carried him to the rear. (James Henderson and others.) 



(&) As the fighting was continued by the resistance of the 1500 

 Canadian sharpshooters in the intervening copiée, who exerted themselves 

 at this instant with more than common ardour (Entick 4, p. 119), it is 

 hardly possible that Wolfe, having passed beyond that point, could have 

 been safely carried back to such a long distance without eminent danger 

 and severe contest, in which case some mention of it would be found in 

 some of the writers. 



(c) The two mortal wounds of Wolfe did not permit carrying him 

 at such distance, he was in the agonies of death and expired soon atter 

 the last shot he had received. 



" He first received a ball through his wrist, which immediately 

 wrapping up, he went on with the same alacrity, animating his troops by 

 precept and example. But in a few minutes after, a second ball, through 

 his body, an inch below the navel, and a third, Just above his right breast, 

 obliged him to be carried off a small distance in the rear, where roused 

 from fainting in the last agonies by the sound af 'they run ;' he eagerly 

 lasked, 'Who run?' and being told the French, and that they were de- 

 feated, he said: 'Then I thank God; I die contented,' and almost in- 

 stantly expired." (Entick, 4, p. 118, published 1763.) 



But what is most singular is that Mr. Doughty (p. 407), contradicts 

 his plan and confirms Entick as follows: 



" During this interval, however, that is between the time of firing, 

 when Wolfe received his wound, and the time when the pursuit com- 

 menced, Wolfe was on the spot where he died. It was after he had been 



