He did not know that they had left their artillery behind, and that they expected to destroy the French army with bayonet and rifle and musket.
The fire from the French barrier increased in volume.

Its crash beat heavily and continuously on the drums of Robert's ears.

A deadly sleet was beating upon the advancing English and Americans.

Already their dead were heaping up in rows.

Montcalm's men showed their heads only above their works, their bodies were sheltered by the logs and they fired and fired into the charging masses until the barrels of rifles and muskets grew too hot for them to hold.