The battery on Goat Island was silenced, after many days of hot fire from the English frigates.

A French vessel had fired in the harbour, and had been burned to the water's edge.

The garrison had sent a frigate with dispatches pressing for aid to their governor in Canada.

The frigate and dispatches fell into the hands of the English, and much valuable information was gleaned therefrom.
And day by day the camp stretched out in a semicircle behind the town.

It was a difficult task to construct it; for a marsh lay before them, and the road could only be made at the cost of tremendous labour, and often the fire of the enemy disturbed the men at their work.
Wolfe was the life and soul of the camp all through this piece of arduous work.