Juliet signal. [volume] (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.) 1844-1???, 1861-07-23
THE sTORMING OF QUEBEC
PROM BANCRoFTs HISTORY.

| PROM BANCRoFTrS HISTORY.
! As the time for the assault drew near.
| three captains IN Arnold's battalion, whose
| term OF service was soon to expire. created
dissen7ion and showed at mutinous disaf
( lection to the service. In the eyening If
| inc twenty-third, Montgomery repaired to
their quarters, and in a few words gave
them leave to stand aside: he would com !.
pei none he wanted with him no uerson
who went with reluctance His words re-
called the othcers TO their duty, but the in
clueht hurried hln into a resolution 70 at
tempt gaming Quebec befrre the first of
January, when his legal authority to re-
strain the waywardness of the discnntented
would cease AtsuGdown of Christmas he
reviewed Arnold's battalion at Inorganic
quarters. and addressed them with spirIt !;
ai'er winch n council OF war agreed on u
night attack on the lower town For the
following days the troops kept themselves
IN readiness at moments warning. In
the interval the intention was revealed by
deserter to the garrison, so that every
preparation was made against a surprise !:
two-th'rds of the men lay on their arms ::
IN the upper town, Carleton and others not
on duty, slept in their clothes; in the lower
volunteer pickets kept watch and thew all
wished ardentiy that the adventurous at
tempt mi ght not be DELAYED.
The night of the Goth was clear. and 90
cold that no man could handle his arms or
scale wall The evening Of the 9th was
hazy, and the troops were put in motion :.
but as the sky soon cleared up, the General
vino was tender of their lives, called them
choosing 10 wait for shelter Of a favorable
nlght-that is. for a night Of clouds and
darkness, with storm IF wind and snow
For the next two days the air was serene
aud mud westerly wind frightened the
sky On the 30th a snow from the north
east set in But few hours more Of the
old year remained, and with it the engage
ment OF many of his troops; he therefore
directed the army to be re- adv at two O clock
OF the following morning; aud that thew
might recognize one another, each soldier
wore on bis cap piece Of white psrer. on
which some OF them wrvte Liberty or
| Death
1t war Montgomery's plan to alarm the
garrison at once, along the whole line Of
their dciences. Col. James Livingston
with less than 200 Canadians, was n at
tract attention by appearing befire St
johns gate, on sCuthW est; While a COM
pGny OF Americans under Brown was tn
teign movement under Captain Diamond
where the wall faces south by west. and
from that high ground, at the proper time.
were to fire rocket as the signal for lie,
ginning The real attack on the lower town.
under Arnold from the West and North,
uuder Montgomery from the South and
East.
The General reserved for his own marty
less than three hundred Workers., led them
Indian file from headquarters at Holland
House to Wolle's Cove, and then about two
miles along the shore. The path was so
rough that in several pieces iIey were
Obliged to scramble up slant rocks covered
with two feet of snow, and then, with a
preciplce on their right, to descend bv
shdmg down fifteen or twenty feet. The
wind which was at the east bv north. blew
| furinusly in their faces, with cutting hail
| which the eye could not endure; their son
slant step were the frozen show into little
Jumps of ice, so that the men were fatigued
by their struggles not to fall, and thew
could not keep their arms dry.
The signal from Capt Diamond heinz
given more than half an hour too soon, the
! General with has Abide Camrs Macpher
! son and Burr, pushed on with the front.
| composed OF Cheeseman's company and
Motifs and more than half an hour before
| day they arrived at the first barrier. with
/ the guides and carpenters The rest of the
! party Jagged behind, and the ladders were
not within half a mile. Montgomery and
| Cheesemen were the first that entered the
undefended barrier, passing on between
the rock and the pickets, which the car
| penters began to saw ard wrench ayav.-
While message was sent back to hurry
up the troops. Montgomery went forward
| to observe the Path befure him. 1t WAS n
very narrow de6le, falling away to the riv
er preciFitcusiy on one side. and sbut in
| by the scraped rock and over banging cliff
| on the other so that no more than five or
six persons could walk abreast. a bouse
built of logs and extending to the soutb
nearly to the river, with loopholes for mus
/ kerry and battery of two three FOUNDERS.
intercepted the passage. /, was held hv n
! party consisting of thirty Canadian and
eight British milita-men under John Cof-
! I'm, with Hlne seamen under Barnesrare
! the master of transport, as cannoniers.-
/ The General listened, and heard no sonnd.
and 1t was soon afteTward thought that the
| Guard were not on the alert; but lights
from lanterns on the plains of Abraham. as
well as the signal rockets, had given the
| alarm and at day break through the storm.
the body Of troops we're seen in full march
from Volts Cove. At the approach to the
barrier, a part Of the guard was scared
with panic > but Coffin who during the
siege had never missed an hours duty re-
stored order. and the sailors stood at their
guns with lighted linstocks
Montgomery waited till about sixty men
had Joined him inside the row of pickets.
Men of New York, you will NOT fear to
follow where Your General leads push on
brave boys; Quebec is ours p be pressed on
a double quick time to carry the battery
As he appeared on little rising in the
ground distance of fifty yards or less
from the mouth of the cannon, which we're
loaded with grape-shot, BarDsfare dis
charged them With deadly aim Montgom
cry; bis aid. Macpherson. the young and
gallant Cheeseman. and otheIs, ins.ant-
ly fell dead; Montgomery from three
wounds. With him the scui OF the ere