Osprey's study of the decisive battle of the French and Indian War (1754-1763). '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.
| Published | Apr 20 2003 |
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| Format | Paperback |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 96 |
| ISBN | 9781855326057 |
| Imprint | Osprey Publishing |
| Illustrations | 17 b/w; 11 col |
| Dimensions | 248 x 184 mm |
| Series | Campaign |
| Short code | CAM 121 |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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