The surgeons who attended to him kept watching the battle from a distance.

"They fly," exclaimed one of them.

"Who ?" asked the general, raising himself painfully.

"The French!" was the answer.
"Then I am content to die." he murmured, and expired.
[Illustration: Death of Wolfe----209] Montcalm had fought like a soldier in spite of his wounds; when he fell he still gave orders about the measures to be taken and the attempts to be made.

"All is not lost," he kept repeating.