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Title: The world's story; a history of the world in story, song and art, ed. by Eva March Tappan
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Tappan, Eva March, 1854-1930 Ploetz, Karl Julius, 1819-1881 Tillinghast, William Hopkins, 1819-1881 Dresser, Horatio W. (Horatio Willis), b. 1866
Subjects: World history
Publisher: Boston and New York : Houghton Mifflin company
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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th the tide. In three quarters of an hour the ships fol-lowed, and, though the night had become dark, aided bythe rapid current, they reached the cove just in time tocover the landing. Wolfe and the troops with him leapedon shore; the light infantry, who found themselves borneby the current a little below the intrenched path, clam-bered up the steep hill, staying themselves by the rootsand boughs of the maple and spruce and ash trees thatcovered the precipitous declivity, and, after a little firing,dispersed the picket which guarded the height. The rest 122 THE FALL OF QUEBEC THE FALL OF QUEBEC FROM AN OLD PRINT Of the capture of Quebec, John Fiske says, Thus came toa close one of the greatest scenes in the history of mankind,the final act in the drama which gave the North Americancontinent into the keeping of the Enghsh race instead of theFrench; and perhaps there has never been a historic dramain which the leading parts have been played by men ofnobler stuff than Montcalm and Wolfe.
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THE FALL OF QUEBEC ascended safely by the pathway. A battery of four gunson the left was abandoned to Colonel Howe. WhenTownshends division disembarked, the English had al-ready gained one of the roads to Quebec, and, advancingin front of the forest, Wolfe stood at daybreak withhis invincible battalions on the Plains of Abraham, thebattlefield of empire. It can be but a small party, come to burn a fewhouses and retire, said Montcalm, in amazement as thenews reached him in his intrenchments the other sideof the St. Charles; but, obtaining better information,—**Then, he cried, they have at last got to the weakside of this miserable garrison; we must give battle andcrush them before midday. And before ten, the twoarmies, equal in numbers, each being composed of lessthan five thousand men, were ranged in presence of oneanother for battle. The English, not easily accessiblefrom intervening shallow ravines and rail fences, wereall regulars, perfect in discipline, terrible in their fear-le

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