The London Magazine for 1759 has a plan of Quebec (Apr.) and of the siege (Nov.), with a map of the river (Sept.); and for 1760, a view of the taking of Quebec (p. 280), and a view of the town from the basin (p. 392).
There is a large folding plan, showing the fleet and the landing of the boats, in Mante’s Hist. of the Late War, 1772, p. 233. Alfred Hawkins published at London, in 1842, A Plan of the Naval and Military Operations before Quebec, accompanied by an engraving of West’s “Death of Wolfe.” (H. J. Morgan, Bibliotheca Canadensis, no. 179.)
In the Atlantic Neptune (Additional Plates, no. 1) is a plan of three sheets, called “A plan of Quebec and environs, with its defences and the occasional entrenched camps of the French, commanded by the Marquis of Montcalm, showing likewise the principal works and operations of the British forces under the command of Maj.-Gen. Wolfe, during the siege of that place, 1759.” It is accompanied by a key. In the same, Part ii. no. 16, there is a map of the St. Lawrence from Quebec to the gulf, which shows the region of Quebec on a large scale.
Among existing MS. plans of Wolfe’s attack may be noted one in the Faden Collection of maps in the library of Congress (E. E. Hale’s Catal. of the Faden Maps); others in the Catal. of the King’s Maps (Brit. Mus.), ii. 220, under date of 1755, 1759, 1760; also Brit. Mus. MSS., no. 15,535; and Additional MSS., no. 31,357; this last is a large plan in four sheets. Parkman (ii. 440) refers to a large MS. plan, 800 feet to an inch, belonging to the Royal Engineers, which was made by three engineers of Wolfe’s army, and of which he says that he possesses a fac-simile. In his Montcalm and Wolfe (ii. 200) he gives an eclectic plan; and other plans are in Lemoine’s Picturesque Quebec, p. 301 (being Jefferys’ on a small scale); Bancroft’s United States, orig. ed., iv. 315, etc., repeated in vol. i. of his Hist. of the Amer. Revolution (English edition).
A plan was published at Amsterdam in 1766.
Dussieux, in Le Canada sous la domination Française, gives a map of the siege, “D’après un manuscrit Anglais du Dépôt de la Guerre.”
PLAN OF THE CITY OF QUEBEC.
From Father Abraham’s Almanac (by Abraham Weatherwise, Gent.), 1761. Key: A, the west part of the Island of Orleans, on which General Wolfe landed. B, Point Leveé, on which one grand battery was erected. C, Wolfe’s camp to the east of Montmorency Falls. D, the river St. Charles. E E E, the river St. Lawrence, with some of the English ships going up. F, the lower town, to the right of which is a cross (in the middle of the passage to the upper town), and a man kneeling before it, saying his Ave Maria. G, the upper town and passage to the castle. H, Montcalm’s camp and entrenchments, to the west of Montmorency Falls, from whence he marched when Wolfe recrossed the river to Point Leveé, in order to get above the city, where they luckily met, and fought it out bravely. I, Montmorency Falls and Saunders’ ships playing upon the town.