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That night, de Levis advanced the main French army towards Quebec. They occupied the former British outpost of St Foy, and their Canadians and Indians pushed further forward across the Plains of Abraham. With the British scouts withdrawing before them, the Canadians halted when they were only a couple of hundred yards from Ursule Redoubt, at Quebec’s outer defence line.
“Long rifle shot,” Kennedy mused as he saw the advanced French positions dim in the spring morning. “Could you reach them, Dickert?”
“Yes, sir.” Dickert balanced his rifle on the parapet and sighted on the closest of the Canadians. “I could blow his head off if you give the word.”
Far behind the scouts, more French were filing up, with the regulars in white uniforms further back and the Canadians and Indians in less
