in the _Atalante_, which fought a gallant rearguard action
all the twenty miles to Pointe-aux-Trembles, where she
was driven ashore and forced to strike her colours, after
another, and still more desperate, resistance of over
two hours. That night Levis raised the siege in despair
and retired on Montreal. Next morning Lord Colville
arrived with the main body of the fleet, having made the
earliest ascent of the St Lawrence ever known to naval
history, before that time or since.

Then came the final scene of all this moving drama. Step
by step overpowering British forces closed in on the
doomed and dwindling army of New France. They closed in
from east and west and south, each one of their converging
columns more than a match for all that was left of the
French. Whichever way he looked, Levis could see no
loophole of escape. There was nothing but certain defeat
in front and on both flanks, and starvation in the rear.
So when the advancing British met, all together, at the
island of Montreal, he and his faithful regulars laid
down their arms without dishonour, in the fully justifiable
belief that no further use of them could possibly retrieve
the great lost cause of France in Canada.




BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

Wolfe is one of the great heroes in countless books of