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Identifier: magazineofamericv11stev (find matches)
Title: The magazine of American history with notes and queries
Year: 1877 (1870s)
Authors: Stevens, John Austin, 1827-1910. ed. cn DeCosta, B. F. (Benjamin Franklin), 1831-1904. ed. cn Johnston, Henry Phelps, 1842-1923, ed. cn Lamb, Martha J. (Martha Joanna), 1829-1893. ed. cn Pond, Nathan Gillett, 1832-1894 ed Abbatt, William, 1851-1935, comp
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Publisher: New York : A.S. Barnes
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, in three columns,for the last dread trial. The plan, essentially different from that firstadopted and abandoned when disclosed by a deserter, was for the first andsecond divisions to assault the Lower Town, then to meet and unitedly forcetheir way into the city through the picketed passage at the foot of Moun-tain Street, since 1797 know as the Prescott Gate ; while the third, under Vol. XI.-No. 4.-20 290 MAJOR-GENERAL RICHARD MONTGOMERY Livingston and Brown, was, from the Plains of Abraham, to alarm and dis-tract the attention of the garrison by feigned attacks upon the UpperTown, in the neighborhood of St. Johns and St. Louis Gates and CapeDiamond bastion. The morning was dark and gloomy ; a violent peltingstorm of cutting hail almost blinded the men and the drifting snows ob-literated all traces of highways. To recognize each other, the soldierswore hemlock sprigs or pieces of white paper in their caps, on which someof them wrote : Liberty OR Death. A more daring attack than that
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PALACE GATE, QUEBEC. which they were about to undertake is, perhaps, not on record upon thepage of history. At five oclock the two assaulting columns of Montgomery and Ar-nold began their march. Arnolds division, himself leading the advanceguard of 30 men, followed by Lambs piece of artillery mounted on asledge, and the main body of about 500 infantry and riflemen, under Mor-gan, moved through the suburb of St. Roch, by way of St. Charles street,near the river. The advance guard approached a picketed two-gun bat-tery defending a barrier across the road, without being discovered, but themain body had scarcely reached the Palace Gate when a horrid roar of MAJOR-GENERAL RICHARD MONTGOMERY 29I cannon and a ringing of all the bells of the city sounded the alarm.Covering the locks of their guns with the lappets of their coats, to protectthem from the pelting storm, the infantry and riflemen ran single file, invery open order, as rapidly as the deep snow and the various obstacleswould permit

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