HISTORY OF QUEBEC. # 37 



of July attacked the French and was defeated with a loss of 182 

 killed, 650 wounded, and 15 missing. After some delay the Eng- 

 lish fleet sailed past the city and on the 14th of September landed 

 his troops at Wolfe's Cove, scaled the famous heights of Abra- 

 ham, met the astonished Montcalm and defeated him. Wolfe died 

 on the field in the moment of victory, and Montcalm, killed also, 

 was buried in the Ursuline Convent. The city was surrendered to 

 the English on the i8th of the month and General Murray with 

 6000 men was left as a garrison, — the former was also Governor. 

 The fleet with Wolfe's body sailed for England in October. On 

 the 28th of April the next year a French army of 10,000 men, 

 under De Levis, appeared on the Plains of Abraham and met 

 Murray with 3,000, sickness and death having reduced the number. 

 The English were obliged to retire behind the fortifications of the 

 city, but on the 15 th of May, an English fleet under Commodore 

 Saunders, arrived with reinforcements, and compelled the French 

 to retreat. At this time Quebec became an English colony. 



"In 1775 Quebec was again threatened. General Arnold, with 

 a small American army, arrived on the heights of Levis by the 

 Chaudiere valley and on the 14th November landed at Wolfe's 

 Cove ; soon General Montgomery took command ; the attack was 

 unsuccessful though much property was destroyed just outside the 

 town, while Montgomery was killed and Arnold wounded. 



"In 1837 Quebec suffered a rebellion within its own walls. The 

 mihtia were called out and the city placed under military rule but 

 nothing of consequence occurred. One night, however, there was 

 heard a loud ringing of bells, and it was said that the rebels had 

 risen and would sack the place. The cause of all this alarm 

 was, nevertheless, very simple — the singeing of a pig in the Hotel 

 Dieu Nunnery Yard. In the following year Messrs. Teller and 

 Dodge, two American sympathizers imprisoned with three others in 

 the Citadel, escaped ; four of them let themselves down from the 

 flagstaff bastion, and Teller and Dodge passing the city gates 

 reached the U. S. 



