On the evening of September 12th came the final effort so carefully planned.  “About nine o’clock, the night of the 12th, we went into the Boats as ordered.”  Fraser says that a shore battery began to fire on the British boats about 4.0 A.M. before they landed and that the landing at the Foulon to climb to the Heights was made at daybreak.

“Thursday, 13th September, 1759.—­The Light Infantry under the command of Colonel Howe, immediately landed and mounted the hill.  We were fired on in the Boats by the Enemy who killed and wounded a few.  In a short time, the whole army was landed at a place called ‘Le Foulon,’ (now Wolfe’s Cove) about a mile and a half above the Town of Quebec, and immediately followed the Light Infantry up the hill.  There was a few tents and a Picket of the French on the top of the hill whom the Light Infantry engaged, and took some of their Officers and men prisoners.  The main body of our Army soon got to the upper ground after climbing a hill or rather a precipice, of about three hundred yards, very steep and covered with wood and brush.  We had several skirmishes with the Canadians and Savages, till about ten o’clock, when the army was formed in line of battle, having the great River St. Lawrence on the right with the precipice which we mounted in the morning; on the left, a few houses, and at some distance the low ground and wood above the General Hospital with the River St. Charles; in front, the Town of Quebec, about a mile distant; in the rear, a wood occupied by the Light Infantry ... and the third Battalion of the Royal Americans....  The Army was ordered to march on slowly in line of battle, and halt several times, till about half an hour after ten, when the French began to appear in great numbers on the rising ground between us and the Town, and [they] having advanced several parties to skirmish with us, we did the like.  They then got two Iron field pieces to play against our line.  Before eleven o’clock, we got one brass field piece up the Hill, which being placed in the proper interval began to play very smartly on the Enemy while forming on the little eminence.  Their advanced parties continued to annoy us and wounded a great many men.  About this time, we observed the Enemy formed, having a bush of short brush wood on their right, which straitened them in room, and obliged them to form in columns.  About eleven o’clock, the French Army advanced in columns till they had got past the bush of wood into the plain, when they endeavoured to form in line of Battle, but being much galled by our Artillery, which consisted of only one field piece, very well served, we observed them in some confusion.  However they advanced at a brisk pace till within about thirty or forty yards of our front, when they gave us their first fire, which did little execution.  We returned it, and continued firing very hot for about six, or (as some say) eight minutes, when the fire slackening, and the smoke of the powder vanishing, we observed