The battle lasted until mid-day, and the result was a triumph for Wolfe’s tactics, for it was a carefully planned attack, and nothing was left to chance. Quebec surrendered, the French troops marched out with the honours of war, and the reign of France was virtually over in the New World. Montcalm was buried in the Ursuline chapel at Quebec, while Wolfe’s body was carried on the Royal William to Portsmouth in charge of Sergeant Donald MacLeod, of the Black Watch, all his years a soldier and with twelve sons in the army and navy. Years afterwards, to these two great generals, noble and self-sacrificing men, each doing his duty to his country even to the sacrifice of his life, a monument was erected in the city for whose possession they had fought. On one side is the word Montcalm; on the other Wolfe; and on the pedestal between these words: MORTEM VIRTUS COMMUNEM FAMAM HISTORIA MONUMENTUM POSTERITAS DEDIT. CHAPTER VII. PONTIAC AND THE LAST HOPE OF INDIAN SUPREMACY. “For a mausoleum a city has arisen above the forest hero; and the race whom he hated with such burning rancour trample with unceasing footsteps over his forgotten grave.” —PARKMAN. PONTIAC AND THE LAST HOPE OF INDIAN SUPREMACY. We sometimes speak of the victory of Wolfe on the Plains of Abraham and the subsequent surrender of Quebec as having involved the transfer of Canada or New France from the French to the English. It really was the first and most important in the series of events which led to this transfer. The situation at Quebec presented many difficulties. England had but a small force, and had barely defeated the French. It was the Fall of the year with the cold winter approaching which proved a terrible time for the English, unaccustomed to so severe a climate, and in a city much of which was in ruins. Unity of purpose and decisive action on the part of the French might have cut off the English, but in the dread of being separated from their base of supplies the French retreated to Montreal. Early in the spring Chevalier de Levis, second in command to Montcalm, gathered an army in Montreal of 7,000 men and reached Quebec in April. Murray, the English commander, marched out to the attack, but was badly defeated and retreated into the city. And now the fate of New France was in the balance. Quebec was not in condition to stand a siege. The English forces had met with a decided reverse. The French were heartened by the victory, but were not strong enough to follow it up vigorously. Word was received that ships were coming up the river. Were they French or English? It was an anxious moment, and when at last the English flag was seen floating at the masthead the French fell back upon Montreal and the fate of New France was practically settled.