A detachment, sent swiftly, seized the battery at Samos that was firing upon the ships and boats.

Another battery, farther away at Sillery, was taken also, and the landing of additional troops was covered.

A party of Canadians who came out of the town to see who these intrusive strangers might be, were driven back in a hurry, and then Wolfe and his officers advanced to choose their ground, the rangers hovering on the flanks of the regulars.
Where the plateau was only a mile wide and before Quebec, the general took his stand with the lofty cliffs of the St.Lawrence on the south and the meadows of the St.Charles on the north.

The field, the famous Plains of Abraham, was fairly level with corn fields and bushes here and there.

A battalion of the Royal Americans was placed to guard the ford of the St.Charles, but Robert saw the others, his friends among them, formed up in the front ranks, where the brunt of the battle would fall.
Another regiment was in reserve.