CANADIAN GUIDE BOOK. 81 ✓ war, played by the most skilful hands, and for the noblest stake ! The scene of this heroic drama, the actors, and the event will be for ever memorable. The tale has been handed down by various writers; but to do justice to the narration it requires the pen of Wolfe himself. Wolfe, having safely landed his army on the 27th June near the Church of St. Laurent on the Isle of Orleans, where they encamped in one line about a mile from the shore, proceeded to the west end of the Island to reconnoitre the position of the enemy. The view he then beheld was most magnificent and imposing. The French army ex tended along the sloping ground upon the north shore, and occupied the heights of Beauport from Quebec on the right to the Cascades of Montmorenci on the left. The village of Beauport rose in the centre among the battalions of old France; the right rested upon the St. Charles with the beautiful village of Charlesbourg in its rear ; the left extended to the chasm at the Falls. The whole front was entrenched, and protected from the English cannon, while all accessible points along the shore were occupied and defended by batteries and by every means which the science of war provides. Beyond the right a bridge had been thrown over the St. Charles in order to communicate with the town and garrison. This was protect ed by tetes du ponl and strong works at each end, as well as by two batteries, of eight guns each, mounted upon hulks sunk in the chan nel. The French army was composed of about thirteen thousand men, six battalions of which were regulars, and the remainder well disciplined Canadian militia with some cavalry and Indians. The right was under the command of Brigadier General the Baron dc St. Ours, the centre, of Brigadier General De Senezergues, and the left of M. llerbin. The garrison was commanded by M. De Kamczay. Although the Fleet had safely arrived at the place of disem barkation, no sooner were the troops on shore than it met with one of those storms of wind and rain which are frequent in the St. Lawrence. The hurricane was of such violence as to do great damage to the transports and boats of the fleet by their driving on board each other.'