autumn he left for Quebec. Montcalm*, who did not like Boishébert, wrote to
officers to marry Canadian women. Montcalm*, who generally disapproved on the grounds that the officers were marrying below their social
, 1934–35. “Extrait d’un journal tenue à l’armée que commandait feu M. le marquis de Montcalm, lieutenant général,” Literary and Hist. Soc. of Quebec
Rigaud de Vaudreuil and later Montcalm* in the August campaign which would bring the capitulation of Fort William Henry (also
; he was consulted on Canadian matters, and seems to have met Montcalm* before the latter left for Canada
appointed assistant chief of staff under Montcalm*.
Because of the competition for
. Numerous accusations had been made by his contemporaries. Montcalm* called him “ignorant and greedy.” The author of the “Mémoire du Canada
(New York, 1973), 471–75. J. C. Long, Lord Jeffery Amherst: a soldier of the king (New York, 1933), 99, 126–36, 153, 261, 266–67, 306, 309. Francis Parkman, Montcalm
Montcalm*’s favour. On 20 June 1757 Montcalm wrote to Bourlamaque*: “I commend the Hertels to you: they are nephews
Dieskau*’s expedition. At Quebec, Montcalm* and
Monckton in 1755. The next year he served with distinction in Montcalm*’s attack on Oswego (Chouaguen), no doubt the reason for
-France (Trois-Rivières, 1968), 118–28; Canadian Jewish Archives (Montreal), I (1959), nos.4 and 5; P.-G. Roy, “La maison Montcalm sur les Remparts à Québec,” BRH, VIII
in March 1756. Oswego fell to Montcalm* that August and was destroyed. Fort William Henry (also known as Fort George, now Lake
in Quebec as aide-de-camp to Montcalm*. Following the siege of Quebec and the death of the general, he retreated with the army. At
, N.Y.) and Fort George (also called Fort William Henry, now Lake George). It was against Fort George that in August 1757 Montcalm
* – 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
Montcalm* called him “a man of merit.”
After the conquest Legardeur went to France and settled at Tours. In 1769 he entered the service of
operations on the Great Lakes planned by Lord Loudoun came to nothing when Montcalm*’s capture of Oswego (Chouaguen) drove British
Montcalm* to the army in Canada, Lévis accepted the post of second in command of the French regulars with the rank of brigadier. The position carried with it a salary of 18,000 livres, a
Montcalm*.
After some months as a prisoner of war at Quebec and Montreal, Mackellar was exchanged. He returned to Britain early in 1757 and on 14