The surprised French elected to attack across the flat terrain anyway, but their line of battle was shattered by a sharp volley from British muskets.  
As inspiration one commanding officer repeated most of Thomas Grey's famous "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard" from memory.  Afterwards, Brigadier General Robert Monckton, second in command, led  a force of 4,500 through Anse de Foulon, a lightly protected cove two miles south of the target city.  The surprised French elected to attack across the flat terrain anyway, but their line of battle was shattered by a sharp volley from British muskets.  Thus, it was actually fought on the Plains of Abraham.  FTP, name this fierce 1759 battle that saw the deaths of generals Montcalm and Wolfe outside a Canadian city.
As inspiration one commanding officer repeated most of Thomas Grey's famous "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard" from memory.  
Battle of Quebec (accept early buzz of Plains of Abraham)