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  • Time was on the side of the defence, and the French also had a first-rate general in Montcalm, a man for whom everybody ought to have the most unstinted admiration-and yet, with all those advantages, the French were defeated.

    Canada and the Spirit of General Wolfe 1926

  • The name of Montcalm is inscribed on our monuments and public places.

    Canada at the Grave of Wolfe 1910

  • If only he could get to close quarters with the "wily and cautious old fox," as he called Montcalm!

    The Conquest of New France A chronicle of the colonial wars George McKinnon Wrong 1904

  • Busy tell-tales repeated and twisted every impatient word Montcalm spoke, and altogether Canada was at sixes and sevens.

    The Passing of New France : a Chronicle of Montcalm William Charles Henry Wood 1905

  • Vaudreuil thereupon recalled Montcalm from Ticonderoga. [

    Montcalm and Wolfe Francis Parkman 1858

  • The marquis de Montcalm, who had commanded the army in New France since 1756, faced the flood of redcoats and English provincials with only 6,800 regulars, 2,000 troupes de la marine, and less than 16,000 militia.

    George Washington’s First War David A. Clary 2011

  • September 13: Battle on the Plains of Abraham; Montcalm and Wolfe both mortally wounded

    George Washington’s First War David A. Clary 2011

  • Ministry to Jonquière, MAY 1749, and Orders of the King and Ministers to Jonquière, APR 15 and nd, 1750, all quoted Parkman, Montcalm, 46.

    George Washington’s First War David A. Clary 2011

  • The first 100 rooms at the five-star Montcalm Hotel, just by the Barbican theater complex, are now open; the remaining 135 are scheduled to be ready for the official opening in September.

    New Fast-Train Service from Edinburgh to London Jeff Mills 2011

  • Montcalm de Saint-Véran, Louis-Joseph de Montcalm-Grozon, marquis de 1712–59, French military commandant in North America, 1756–59; killed at Quebec

    George Washington’s First War David A. Clary 2011

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