Quebec 1759
The battle that won Canada
*Users in the USA and Canada please select your location at the top of this page to see prices in your currency. Users in the UK and the Rest of the World will be billed in UK£
About this book
‘What a scene!’ wrote Horace Walpole. ‘An army in the night dragging itself up a precipice by stumps of trees to assault a town and attack an enemy strongly entrenched and double in numbers!’ In one short sharp exchange of fire Major-General James Wolfe’s men tumbled the Marquis de Montcalm’s French army into bloody ruin. Sir John Fortescue famously described it as the ‘most perfect volley ever fired on a battlefield’. In this book Stuart Reid details how one of the British Army’s consummate professionals literally beat the King’s enemies before breakfast and in so doing decided the fate of a continent.
Contents
Introduction · Chronology · Opposing Commanders · The Armies · Opposing Plans · The Campaign · The Plains of Abraham · Aftermath · The Battlefield Today · Bibliography · Index
Paperback; April 2003; 96 pages; ISBN: 9781855326057