“We’re off again.” As always, Chisholm was first with the news.
MacKim looked up. “Where to this time?”
“According to the rumours,” Chisholm said, “this is the big one, the final attack to take Quebec.”
MacKim grunted. After a summer of abortive expeditions and reverses, he no longer believed regimental hearsay. However, Captain Cameron soon confirmed Chisholm’s information. “The general has issued a general order, which I will read out.”
The Lights gathered in a semi-circle to listen to Cameron quoting Wolfe’s words.
“Ready, my men?” Cameron grinned at them all. “General Wolfe says that ‘a vigorous blow struck by the army at this juncture may determine the fall of Canada.’ The general adds that ‘We will land where the French seem least to expect us and march directly to the enemy and
