ubt, and sent orders for Major-General Montreuil to advance his troops to the front. He also ordered Bourlamaque to post five companies of grenadiers in the windmill and its house, and to place the remaining five companies on a slight rise commanding the right. With the two wings secured, he then ordered de Lapause at the entrance to St. Foy road to cover the armies advance. The officers of the remaining regiments were sent word as to what position they would occupy. The brigades of the Royal Roussillion and Guyenne had just taken positions on the right, and Berry was dispersing from the road, when the British troops, having thrown down their tools, appeared on the elevation above where the French troops were defiling. In front of the Mill, de Aiguebelle with his grenadiers faced Dalling’s light infantry, while the grenadiers on the right opposed the volunteers and Hazen’s Rangers. The ground Murray occupied was as favorable as that were Wolfe had the previous September defeated Montcalm’s forces. On his left, he just regained control of the redoubt the French had recently abandoned. On his right, the light infantry was within a few feet of the mill. At the edge of the Sillery forest, where the Berry and marine brigades, advancing in haste to take up posts in the center of the French line. The Barn battalion was moving up the St. Foy road. Only Lvi’s right was drawn up in battle formation. The moment appeared to be right for crushing the French advance. Murray gave the order to attack. The artillery opened with grape-shot, which took terrible affect. The brigades of marines and Berry were hardest hit. Lvis, aware of this hazard.began pulling his army back to the edge of the woods, under a heavy artillery and musket fire. Murray ordered his men to charge, at the same time inclining to the right in order to seize Dumont’s mill and house, which commanded the road. Several guns already swept this road, across w...
