the one on July 31. It is a singular coincidence that
while Cook, the great British circumnavigator of the
globe, was trying to get Wolfe into Quebec, Bougainville,
the great French circumnavigator, was trying to keep him
out. Towards evening Saunders formed up his boats and
filled them with marines, whose own red coats, seen at
a distance, made them look like soldiers. He moved his
fleet in at high tide and fired furiously at the
entrenchments. All night long his boatloads of men rowed
up and down and kept the French on the alert. This feint
against Beauport was much helped by the men of Wolfe's
third brigade, who remained at the island of Orleans and
the Point of Levy till after dark, by a whole battalion
of marines guarding the Levis batteries, and by these
batteries themselves, which, meanwhile, were bombarding
Quebec--again like the 31st of July. The bombardment was
kept up all night and became most intense just before
dawn, when Wolfe was landing two miles above.

At the other end of the French line, above Cap Rouge,
Holmes had kept threatening Bougainville more and more
towards Pointe-aux-Trembles, twenty miles above the
Foulon. Wolfe's soldiers had kept landing on the south
shore day after day; then drifting up with the tide on
board the transports past Pointe-aux-Trembles; then
drifting down towards Cap Rouge; and then coming back
the next day to do the same thing over again. This had
been going on, more or less, even before Wolfe had made
his plan, and it proved very useful to him. He knew that
Bougainville's men were getting quite worn out by scrambling