climenole’s posterous

[In July 1759 the siege of Quebec was just getting started. I'm thinking of live-blogging the whole thing, 250 years late. If any readers are deep into the sources on this, particularly the French sources inside Quebec, please get in touch - my library is not so extensive, and I would be glad to have co-authors on this]

July 3: General Wolfe, just getting his troops established on the Ile d'Orléans and the south shore...