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Originally appearing in Volume V22, Page 729 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ANNE'S See also:BOUNTY, the name applied to a perpetual fund of first-fruits and tenths granted by a See also:charter of Queen Anne, and confirmed by See also:statute in 1703 (2 & 3 Anne, c. u), for the See also:augmentation of the livings of the poorer See also:Anglican led to the See also:summit. It was no See also:place for See also:artillery, and even for See also:infantry the climb was See also:long and exhausting, but the See also:attempt was made. Considered as a way of taking See also:Quebec, it was in the last degree a forlorn See also:hope, but See also:Wolfe, as a true soldier, See also:felt the imperative See also:necessity of preventing his opponent from sending reinforcements to the force opposing See also:Amherst, and staked everything upon achieving this at least. " Happy if our efforts here," as he wrote, " can contribute to the success of His See also:Majesty's arms in any other See also:part of See also:America." What with losses in See also:action and by sickness, and detachments to guard the camps and batteries, only 3600 men could be spared for the attempt. These embarked on the warships on the evening of See also:September 12, and sailed up stream. The watchful Montcalm sent a detachment to observe their movements, but the See also:ships proceeded to a point well above the See also:cove, luring the detachment out of the way. Then at 1 a.m. Wolfe, with See also:half his force, dropped down stream in the boats of the See also:squadron and landed. The path was guarded by a See also:redoubt, but the See also:light infantry which led the advance scarcely attempted to follow it, scrambling up the hillside wherever they could find a foothold. The See also:garrison of the redoubt, startled by the unforeseen attack, abandoned the See also:work, and by daylight Wolfe had assembled his 3600 men on the plains above the See also:city. Mont-See also:calm meanwhile had been held in check by a demonstration of part of the See also:fleet under See also:Admiral Saunders on Beauport, but at last, realizing that the real attack was coming from the other flank, he hurried all the troops he could collect over the St See also:Charles and See also:drew them up on the See also:plain, with their backs to the walls of the upper See also:town. He took the offensive at once.

He had plenty of militiamen and irregulars, and these rapidly drove the See also:

British light infantry on to their See also:main See also:body, which was threatened on both flanks. On so small a battlefield, the troops in Wolfe's See also:line of See also:battle quickly became aware that the eneniy was attacking in See also:superior force. But their See also:leader steadied them by his See also:personal example, and when the See also:French came within See also:close range one " perfect volley " from the whole line decided the battle. Then as the French stopped, with See also:great gaps in their lines, Wolfe led on his men to See also:complete the victory. He received two painful wounds and then a shot through the See also:breast. His last See also:order, one rare indeed in the See also:annals of 18th-See also:century fighting, was to send a force to the St Charles See also:bridge to cut off the See also:retreat of the French. Montcalm too was mortally wounded, and died next See also:day. On the 18th of September Quebec surrendered.

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