Battle of the Plains of Abraham
General Wolfe returned back to the troops in the little boats where he explained what he had saw on his walk. He told 4441 of his soldiers to go with him up to the Plains of Abraham. The rest of his troops he instructed to go back to Beauport for a distraction while he and the rest of the men headed over to the Plains of Abraham. Wolfe and his men sailed down the St. Lawrence until they had reached the path. The British headed up the path and killed the guards that were protecting the Fort that night. When they arrived at the Plains of Abraham Wolfe instructed his men to align in two lines one in front of the other instead of the usual three rows done in a European style war. Wolfe did this set up so that when the French noticed they were outside the fort they would be intimidated by the mile long row of soldiers. Another key instruction that Wolfe had given them was to load two balls of ammunition into the guns so they could hit twice as many people with every shot. The only problem with this is the ammunition wouldn't shoot in a straight line; these would now shoot left and right. This was alright as long as the man beside you wasn't shooting for the same soldier. When the French arrived outside the French Militia was unsure of what to do in this type of warfare being only volunteer soldiers. Montcalm lead his untrained soldiers into the battle because they had no choice. They lined up very scared face to face with the British soldiers. The French charged forward in an unsteady line which was not straight like it was typically supposed to be. The youngest of the militia were running ahead in excitement to kill the British while the older militia hung back and were second guessing the idea. There was a big problem with the initial charge by the French and it was that the militia were over 40 feet away from the British army when they started to fire their guns. The guns used in this battle only had a range of maximum 40 feet, the best, most accurate range for these guns was anywhere under 30 feet. The British laughed at the unorganized, not very thought through approach by the French. The British were surprised by the strange attack and fought right back with their organized line of troops and easily within the range of their guns (40 feet) with double the ammunition which made it easier to defeat the French the French were very scared at this point fearing they would be easily beaten by the British. The French then retreated back into the fort where the people still inside the fort got mad at the militia for being so scared and putting the ones inside the fort at risk; so out went the French back to the Plains of Abraham where they were quickly defeated by the British after only a 15 minute battle back and forth between the two nations. The battle did end with a British victory. The French unorganized approach was no match for the attacks of the British who were extremely familiar with this type of battle. With this victory the British were able to take over Fort Quebec.