CAM121: Quebec 1759

Author
Stuart Reid

Author
Gerry Embleton

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 consummateprofessionals 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