Osprey Campaign 121 : Quebec 1759 : The Battle that Won Canada

'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. Text by Stuart Reid with illustrations by Gerry Embleton.

Contents

• Introduction
• Chronology
• Opposing Commanders
• The Armies
• Opposing Plans
• The Campaign
• The Plains of Abraham
• Aftermath
• The Battlefield Today
• Bibliography
• Index