[The occasional reference to Saint-Ours can be found in AN, Col., C11A, and in the Journal du marquis de Montcalm (Casgrain). The most interesting and informative material is to be

Montcalm and with the death of the fort’s commanding officer, James Mercer, a council of officers decided to surrender – a decision Schuyler evidently opposed. According to Montcalm, on 14

Oswego [see Montcalm]. For his role in this campaign he was awarded a pension of 500 livres. In 1757 he distinguished himself at the siege of Fort William Henry (also called Fort George

Montcalm], it was decided to strengthen Fort Cumberland on the Chignecto isthmus of Nova Scotia. On 12 November Wilmot was sent by Governor Charles

French had anticipated him. Montcalm, the French commander, had occupied and fortified that area, and 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

to be somewhat hasty by his superior officers. Montcalm* called him “hot-headed” but thought he had winning ways and the potential

Johnson – immediately led Montcalm* to weaken his army at Quebec by sending troops west. Amherst’s own cautious and

the capture of Fort George (also called Fort William Henry; now Lake George, N.Y.) in 1757 and in Montcalm*’s well-known victory over

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* on the Plains of Abraham in 1759 and so did not help to prevent the fateful decision by Jean-Baptiste-Nicolas-Roch de

once more on 1 July 1756 and then waited impatiently in Albany to set out again. In mid August, however, Montcalm* captured

of 14,500 livres. He was to rent it to Montcalm* during the general’s stay at Quebec. It was a good investment for Brassard

bringing the rites of the church to the wounded, whose number and sufferings increased daily. The day of Montcalm*’s defeat on the Plains

. From Montcalm*’s successful defence of Carillon in 1758 until the British capture of Quebec in 1759, Chartier de Lotbinière stayed in

Bull had also given the French time to prepare Montcalm*’s important capture of Fort Oswego (Chouaguen) in August 1756 when Léry

. At the end of the French régime, at the time of the final French attempt to retake Quebec after the victory of Sainte-Foy, Montcalm

Chaussegros* de Léry and known today as the Maison Montcalm, one built in 1728 on Place Royale for Joseph Duburon, an officer, and another built in 1729 on Rue Saint-Roch for navigator Abel

. du Canada (H. Garneau; 1913–20), II, 230, and Francis Parkman, Montcalm and Wolfe (2v., London, [1908]), II, 130, confuse Théodose-Matthieu Denys de Vitré with his son John. This

Montcalm*’s attack. After Lombard’s death on 11 August, Desandrouins, the sole remaining regular engineer, played a key role in the siege and capture of Oswego. He constructed an approach road for