He descended, crossed the meadow, reached the bridge, and rode over it to the great redoubt or hornwork that guarded its head.
Vaudreuil went from the hornwork to his quarters on the Beauport road and called a council of war.
Yet the river was wide and deep, and the hornwork was protected on the water side by strong palisades, with cannon.
Vaudreuil," pursues Johnstone, "was closeted in a house in the inside of the hornwork with the Intendant and some other persons.
Montreuil told them that "a fortification such as the hornwork was not to be taken so easily.
In the highway from the Sault to the hornwork there are eight or nine cross roads of communication from it to the road from the Sault to Lorette, which are shorter as they approach to the point of the angle at the Sault.
He went into the hornwork with his detachment, and fired the guns (pointed) at the heights of Abraham towards the English camp, which greatly alarmed them.
The hornwork appears to have covered about twelve acres of ground, surrounded by a ditch.
I then quitted the hornwork to join Poularies at the Ravine[S] of Beauport; but having met him about three or four hundred paces from the hornwork, on his way to it, I told him what was being discussed there.
In short, there arose a general cry in thehornwork to cut the bridge of boats.
Vaudreuil was closeted in a house in the inside of the hornwork with the Intendant and with some other persons.
In disorder they fled into an interior work followed by the English and French, who rushed bravely to the rescue, and the hornwork was won.
The loss of the hornwork made the city untenable, and a few weeks later the garrison surrendered.
Sergeant Wilkes, that amateur in siege-operations, had rightly prophesied from the first that the waste of life at the breaches would be wicked and useless until the hornwork had been silenced and some lodgment made there.
But he had mastered something of the theory, after his lights, and our batteries' neglect of the hornwork struck him as unscientific.
The sea-wall, for almost half its length, formed but a fausse braye for the hornwork towering formidably behind it.
It was found that the hornwork in which the mules were located came particularly under fire of the jong.
These were placed in a kind of hornwork thrown out to the right front.
I then quitted the hornwork to join Poulanes at the Ravine [292] of Beauport, but having met him about three or four hundred paces from the hornwork, on his way to it, I told him what was being discussed there.
The regiment Royal Roussillon was at that moment at the distance of a musket shot from the hornwork approaching to pass the bridge.
Montreul told them that a fortification such as the hornwork was not to be taken so easily.
In short there arose a general cry in the hornworkto cut the bridge of boats.
Vaudreuil was closeted in a house in the inside of the hornwork with the Intendant and some other persons.
Hugon, who commanded, for a pass in the hornwork and begged of him to accompany me to the bridge.
They say that within the hornwork the Governor and the Intendant were closeted together drafting the terms of capitulation of the whole colony, ready to submit to the English General!
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