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tected side of the town, towards the Ste. Foye road and 

 Plains of Abraham ; though no guns were placed on 

 the summit of Cape Diamond commanding the town 

 until 1693. Town Major Prevost in the absence of 

 Frontenac, then in Montreal, had very judiciously 

 pushed on vigorously to completion these new works, 

 and placed in position batteries wherever he could. 

 " The cliffs along the St. Lawrence ", says Parkman, 

 " and those along the tributary river, St. Charles had 

 three accessible points, guarded (until 1871) by the 

 Prescott Gate, the Hope Gate and the Palace Gate. 

 Prevost had secured them by barricades of heavy 

 beams and casks filled with earth. A continuous line 

 of palisades ran along the strand of the St. Charles, 

 from the great cliff called the ' Sault-au-Matelot ' to the 

 Palace of the intendant. At this latter point began the 

 line of works constructed by Frontenac to protect the 

 rear of the town. They consisted of palisades strength- 

 ened by a ditch and an embankment, and flanked at 

 frequent intervals by square towers of stone. Passing 

 behind the garden of the Ursulines, they extended to a 

 windmill (Dupont de iSTeuville's) on a hillock called 

 ' Mt. Carmel,' and then to a brink of the cliffs in front. 

 Here there was a battery of eight guns near the present 

 Public Garden (Le Jardin du Fort), two more, each of 

 three guns, were planted at the top of the Sault-au- 

 Matelot ; another at the barricade of the Palace Gate ; 

 and another near the windmill of Mt. Carmel ; while a 

 number of light pieces were held in reserve for such 

 use as occasion might require. The Lower Town had 

 no defensive works ; but two batteries, each of three 

 guns, eighteen and twenty-four pounders were placed 

 here at the edge of the river " efficiently directed by Le 

 Moyne de Ste. Helene and Le Moyne de Maricourt, two 

 brave brothers of Le Moyne de Longueuil, also serving 

 in this memorable campaign. 



