The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1903-01-24


base of the high rock upon which the
Upper Town was built.
The files, though thirty or forty
yards apart, were exposed to a terri
BILE fire from the ramparts, to which
no reply could be made, as only the
flash of the enemy's guns We're to be
seen. In forlorn hope they attacked
and carried the battery after dcs-
perate resistance, in which Arnold was
severely wounded, and had to be car
ried to the hospital. The men hurried
forward under the severe enfilading
and plunging fire of the garrison, to
the attack of the first barrier, Which
was carried, the embrasure being ell
tered when the enemy were disclarg-
ing their guns.''
From the first to the second barrier
there was a circular course of about
three hundred yards, partly through
Dog Lane, opening into the head Of
Sault-auMalelot street, where the sec
ond barrier closed the space between
the foot of the rock and the river bank
Here terrible conflict took place, the
enemy having dry and superior arms;
i'll front, Il shot-proof cover twelve feet
high; behind two tiers of musketeers,
supported by an elevated battery of
artillery, on either side, giving a plung-
ing fire from their upper windows; and
reinforcements continually arriving
from the other parts of the town now
unexposed, for already Montgomery
had fallen; Campbell, his successor
was in fight, and the party employed
to make the false attack had signally
failed.
Efforts to scale the barrier were
made in the face of desolating fire
Of musketry and grape; the platform
within was emptied by our unerring
rifemen; Morgan, Arnold's successor in
command, brave to temerity, stormed
and ragged; all that valor could do was
essayed; the killed and wounded liter
ally checked the detile; but human eff
forts could not prevail against such
surprising odds. Now it was that
Morgan, seeing the unequal hand-to-
hand encounter, ordered the occupation
of the houses on our side of the bar
rier, that our men might be better
screened and maintain more effective
fire.
1t was already daylight, and many OF
the best officers and men had been
killed or wounded; hesitation and
doubt seized many of the survivors;
and the critical moment for the last
cast of fortune was allowed to pass,
when Capt. Laws, ut the head of two
numbered Of the garrison, SORTED from
Palace Gate, cutting Off the retreat Of
the Americans, nearly four hundred of
whom were captured, the remaining
survivors having escaped across the
ice covering the Bay of ST Charles.
At the same time that Arnolds divi-
sion began it's march, Montgomery.
who could not be persuaded that the
communicating chief should not expose
his life in the advance, descended from
the Plains of Abraham, at the head
of his column less than three hundred
men, to the cover where Wolfe landed
in 1853, and then in Indian file cau-
tiously led his forlorn hope along the
margin Of the st. Lawrence toward the
very narrow pass of Pres de Willie,
having precipice toward the river
on one side, and the scarped rock en-
tending up to Cape Diamond on the
other.
Here all futller approach to the To-
wer Town was intercepted by the bar
rier, and the defile, only wide enough
for two or three abreast, was swept by
Il battery Of three-poundcrs loaded
with grape, placed in block-housc.
At day break Montgomcry's approach
was discovered by the guard and Bar
nesfare's gunncrs, who had been kept
under arms awaiting the attack they
had reason to expect, from reports of
deserters; and, rs had been previously
concerted. the Americans were allowed
to approach unmolcstcd TO within fifty
yards.
Montgomery, while the rear Of the
column was coming up with the lad
derS, halted to reconnoiter In the dim
dawn darliened with the driving north.
east storm. Deceived by the silence
of the enemy, who with port-hres
lighted were eagerly watching for his
approach, Montgomery cried out to his
little band, as soon as about sixty Were
assembled: "NIcn Of New York! You
will not fear to follow where your ge
neral leads! March on, brave boys
Quebec is ours" And then rushed
boldly to charge the battery. over the
drifting snow and blocks of ice, some
OF which he cleared away with his
| own hands, to make room for his
troops. The enemy waiting for this
| critical moment, discharged Il shower
| OF grape and musketry, with deadly
| precision, into the very faces Of the
| Americans. Montgomery, pierced will
| three balls, fell With others.
''Br f. brave, and glorious was hi.
young career
| His mOurnerS were two hosts-hi.