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7. Again he is in error when he takes upon himself to place the 

 four gun battery, as recorded by Hawkinis, at the redoubt (Plan No. 1), 

 marked by Major Holland on the eminence to command the St. Lewis 

 and. Ste. Foye roads. 



Hawkins did not fall into this mistake. He says, p. 344 : " The 

 first care of G-eneral Wolfe was to capiture the four gun battery on the 

 left of tàe English, which was accomplished by General Howe." Thus 

 the Samos battery is disposed of. So far there is no discrepancy with 

 Mr. Doughty. 



But Hawkins (p. 354) mistook the remains of the battery near the 

 race stand as existing on the 13th September, 1759, and as it appears 

 on the plan published by him in 1841, which contains the works, etc., 

 made on the Plains after the battle. But on the accompanying plan 

 of the details of the battle this error is corrected and no redoubt is 

 to be seen there. 



The subsequent redoubt was mounted, as it was believed, with 

 the four guns captured from the Samos battery. Mr. Doughty will 

 admit his misapprehension of Hawkins and charge the latter so far 

 as he was mistaken on a minor point, whilst " The Picture of Quebec," 

 he admits, '" is an exceedingly interesting work, and by a great many 

 is accepted as an authority of the highest order." (P. 397.) 



Mr. Doughty will pardon me in saying he is a newcomer to this 

 country and we welcome his accession among us. But he ignores our 

 early traditions, and we shall continue to hold, as transmitted to us by 

 our ancestors, that the spot where Wolfe received the fatal wound was 

 marked by Major Holland at the comer of the redoubt, called " Wolfe's 

 Redoubt," built on the eminence of the gaol, immediately after the 

 battle of the Plains; and that ihe expired at the .short distance in the 

 hollow where now stands his monument, distant only 75 yards from 

 the race-course. 



Let me give him the names of a few witnesses serving under him, 

 who survived the immortal hero many and many years after the con- 

 quest, such as the venerable Mr. James Thompson, who died in 1830, 

 at the ripe age of 98 years; Major Samuel Holland, who survived till 

 1802; Malcolm Fraser, of the 78th, till 1815; Simon Fraser, captain in 

 the same regiment, till 1813; and on the Frencïï side. Dr. P. Badelard, 

 till 1802; and a number of Canadian militiamen, among others the 

 grandfather of Garneau, our historian ; the father of the Hon. Elie Gin- 

 gras, M.L.C., who, at the age of 19, was serving under Montcalm; both 

 of whom transmitted directly to these their descendants faithful rela- 

 tions of the war. 



It is hard to be told that we have all been woefully in error for 

 the last hundred years as to the site of the battle, and that the square 



