Montcalm brought a certain number of these Algonkians to Montreal and took them on an expedition against Fort William Henry (or Fort George, now

part in the expedition led by Louis-Joseph de Montcalm* against the fortified base of Oswego (Chouaguen) (N.Y.). According to his own

). Montcalm* observed that “according to Abbé Picquet, the Indians say that the English have put a price on his head.” Lalande continues: “Generals, commanding officers, troops showed their esteem and

]. Then in August 1757 Picoté de Belestre took part in Montcalm*’s victorious offensive against Fort George (also called Fort

mla for the constituency of Montcalm. The limp response of many Liberals to the attacks of some Conservatives was no doubt

accordance with Montcalm’s favourite scheme for increasing the usefulness of colonial manpower. Writing to

reconsidered his decision and Perrault was able to pursue his career. In the 1890s Perrault was assigned to the École Montcalm, where A

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

garrisons, but it was in poor condition; Montcalm* referred to it as “good for nothing” and its complement of about 60

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

career in business, Paquet tried his hand at politics. In 1913 he was a municipal councillor for Montcalm (Quebec City). After this town was annexed at the end of the year, he held the same office at the

alderman in Ville-Montcalm (which two years later would be annexed to Quebec City). During his term of office he served as chairman of the committee on roads and waterworks. His extensive professional work

Montcalm*. The assembly was also a climax of military spending. The $1-million annual budget of the 1867–96 period was long

night. A marginal note in Montcalm*’s journal admonished that d’Olabaratz was “a man no longer to be employed in any command

 70 assisted Montcalm* in the capture of Fort William Henry (also called

], “Le monument Wolfe et Montcalm à Québec,” BRH, 5 (1899): 305–9. Quebec Chronicle-Telegraph, 21 June 1939.

. Casgrain, “Une autre maison Montcalm à Québec (1759),” BRH, VIII (1902), 330–33.

Upper Town. In the fall of 1857 he ran for election as a municipal councillor in Montcalm ward, where most of the Irish in the city lived. His victory was contested but was later confirmed by the Superior

Montcalm*. McCarty may have been a commissary with the Connecticut militia in William Haviland’s advance

Montcalm* during the siege of Fort William Henry (also known as Fort George, now Lake George, N.Y.) that summer, he was instrumental in capturing a British flotilla. In September 1757 Governor