first 30 years’ service in the west. In 1757, as liaison officer with Indian auxiliaries accompanying Montcalm

Montcalm*, who in Guy Frégault*’s opinion, also belonged “to the grand

Roman Catholic absolutism. As Parkman put it in Montcalm and Wolfe (1884): “It was the strife, too, of the past against the future . . . of barren absolutism against a

Montcalm’s inexperienced engineer, Jean-Nicolas Desandrouins*, in laying out the siege works. The French trenches and

* – Montcalm*, who had not witnessed the event, later ventured to say that Le Mercier had “caused M. de Dieskau’s defeat and capture.” During the French army’s retreat Le Mercier had the rear

following year by Montcalm*’s forces, securing control of the Great Lakes. In 1757 Fort George (Fort William Henry; now Lake George, N.Y

movements and the events in which he participated. The following summer Malartic took part in Montcalm*’s expedition against Oswego

Licorne with Montcalm*, the new commander formed a favourable impression of him. Pellegrin’s services were not in

priest of Quebec, Abbé Resche, officiated at Montcalm’s burial on the evening of 14 Sept. 1759

Lanoullier* de Boisclerc, on Rue des Remparts, for the sum of 14,500 livres. He was to rent it to Montcalm* during the

, Montcalm*, was hastily entrenching his force of some 3,500 men behind a rough breastwork of fallen trees. Led to believe that the French expected substantial reinforcement shortly, and advised by his

as “young and hare-brained,” was thought to be somewhat hasty by his superior officers. Montcalm* called him “hot-headed” but

Montcalm* at the siege of Fort William Henry (also called Fort George, now Lake George, N.Y.) in August. The fall of Fort Frontenac (Kingston, Ont.) in

Montcalm* gained a noted victory over James Abercromby*. Through hearsay and experience La Pelouze was initiated into the Indians’ style

Montcalm’s army to a camp near Cap-Santé at the mouth of the Rivière Jacques-Cartier. In the early months of 1760 Vaudreuil was concerned with the safe convoy of food to French military

or the Acadians, he had decided to surrender without offering any resistance. Montcalm remarked about Villeray: “He is the less guilty of the two commandants; but they wanted to sacrifice him

Montcalm*’s defeat, Ramezay returned to town and resumed command of his troops. He asked Pierre-André Gohin

Wolfe* and Louis-Joseph de Montcalm*, endures: Mortem virtus communem / Famam historia / Monumentum posteritas dedit

Montcalm* and Martin embarked on a large-scale biographical study of him; it was not until 1867, however, that Le Marquis de Montcalm et les dernières années de la colonie française au Canada

pursue his career. In the 1890s Perrault was assigned to the École Montcalm, where A. D. Lacroix was the principal. The two men did not get along well. Lacroix accused him of not respecting his