took its wing, leaving the dead hero a Victor, and the founder of 
     
     an empire that great then, and greater now, is yet only in the 
     
     infancy of its splendid course. 
     
    

    
     The ‘Great Commoner” of England, William Pitt, has well 
     
     said: ”The horror of the night, the precipice scaled by \7\7()lfe, the 
     
     empire he with a handful of men added to England, and the glorious 
     
     catastrophe of contentedly terminating his life where his fame began 
     
     ........ Ancient story may be ransacked, and ostentatious phi- 
     
     losophy thrown into the account, before an episode can be found to 
     
     rank with Wolfe's.” 
     
    

    
     On the French side the gallant Montcalm in vain tried to rally 
     
     his retreating forces. The path of defeat led him towards the gate 
     
     of Saint-Louis, but ere he could enter he was twice wounded. He 
     
     was assisted inside, but his injury was soon seen to be mortal. To 
     
     those around him weeping the brave Montcalm spoke: “It is 
     
     nothing, kind friends; pray do not weep over me." When told by 
     
     the attending surgeon that he had only a few hours to liVe, he 
     
     replied, “I am glad of it, I shall not see the surrender of Quebec.” 
     
     Before morning his earthly struggles were over. 
     
    

    
     Subsequent efforts to retake Quebec from the British failed, 
     
     and ere long it was seen that the ‘Battle of the Plains' was final in 
     
     its results. 
     
    

    
     The monument to Wolfe on the Plains of Abraham is erected 
     
     where the great general breathed his last; while the joint memorial 
     
     to Montcalm and \Nolfe, erected in the Governor’s Garden over- 
     
     looking Dufferin Terrace, fittingly marks the great struggle that has 
     
     joined two races in one empire of happy union and effort. 
     
    

    
     As the coming centuries go by, this battle will not only rank 
     
     equal to that of W'aterloo in importance—it will far surpass it on 
     
     account of the momentous hearing it will have on the future of the 
     
     British Empire and the progress of the world's true civilization. 
     
    

    
     Time passed on, and in the troublous days of the American 
     
     war of Independence the much—tried city of 
     
     Quebec was destined to besiegement for the fifth 
     
     time in its history. This time the attack came 
     
     from New England; a daring one it must be ad- 
     
     mitted, for the whole of the invader's forces 
     
     were brought over the Kennebec and Chaudiére 
     
     Rivers in the face of many obstacles. Arnold and 
     
     Montgomery, after a siege of two months, planned 
     
     to capture the citadel by a bold, surprise attack. 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
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