red line,' as surely as it was Wolfe alone who made the
plan that conquered Canada.

Meanwhile Montcalm had not been idle; though he was
perplexed to the last, because one of the stupid rules
in the French camp was that all news was to be told first
to Vaudreuil, who, as governor-general, could pass it on
or not, and interfere with the army as much as he liked.
When it was light enough to see Saunders's fleet, the
island of Orleans, and the Point of Levy, Montcalm at
once noticed that Wolfe's men had gone. He galloped down
to the bridge of boats, where he found that Vaudreuil
had already heard of Wolfe's landing. At first the French
thought the firing round the Foulon was caused by an
exchange of shots between the Samos battery and some
British men-of-war that were trying to stop the French
provision boats from getting in there. But Vergor's
fugitives and the French patrols near Quebec soon told
the real story. And then, just before seven, Montcalm
himself caught sight of Wolfe's first redcoats marching
in along the Ste Foy road. Well might he exclaim, after
all he had done and Vaudreuil had undone: 'There they
are, where they have no right to be!'

He at once sent orders, all along his six miles of
entrenchments, to bring up every French regular and all
the rest except 2,000 militia. But Vaudreuil again
interfered; and Montcalm got only the French and Canadian
regulars, 2,500, and the same number of Canadian militia
with a few Indians. The French and British totals, actually