Now, Wolfe knew that the French expected to be attacked
either above Cap Rouge (up towards Pointe-aux-Trembles)
or below Quebec (down in their Beauport entrenchments).
He also knew that his own army thought the attack would
be made above Cap Rouge. Thus the French were still very
anxious about the six miles at Beauport, while both sides
were keenly watching each other all over the thirteen
miles above Cap Rouge. Nobody seemed to be thinking about
the nine miles between Cap Rouge and Quebec, and least
of all about the part nearest Quebec.

Yes, one man was thinking about it, and he never stopped
thinking about it till he died. That man was Montcalm.
On the 5th, when Wolfe began moving up-stream, Montcalm
had sent a whole battalion to the Plains. But on the 7th,
when the British generals were all at Pointe-aux-Trembles,
Vaudreuil, always ready to spite Montcalm, ordered this
battalion back to camp, saying, 'The British haven't got
wings; they can't fly up to the Plains!' Wolfe, of course,
saw that the battalion had been taken away; and he soon
found out why. Vaudreuil was a great talker and could
never keep a secret. Wolfe knew perfectly well that
Vaudreuil and Bigot were constantly spoiling whatever
Montcalm was doing, so he counted on this trouble in the
French camp as he did on other facts and chances.

He now gave up all idea of his old plans against Beauport,
as well as the new plan of the brigadiers, and decided
on another plan of his own. It was new in one way, because