Quebec 1759 - Reid Stuart
Quebec 1759 - Reid Stuart 'What a scene!' wrote Horace Walpole. Lawrence to stand with the French Canadian capital before them; and in one short sharp exchange of fire, tumble the Marquis de…
Specifikacia Quebec 1759 - Reid Stuart
Quebec 1759 - Reid Stuart
'What a scene!' wrote Horace Walpole. Lawrence to stand with the French Canadian capital before them; and in one short sharp exchange of fire, tumble the Marquis de Montcalm's French army into bloody ruin. '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!' It was indeed a drama, as Major-General James Wolfe's army scaled the cliffs above St.
Sir John Fortescue famously described it as the 'most perfect volley ever fired on a battlefield', and this book explores how in just a few hectic minutes, one of the British Army's most consummate professionals decided the fate of a continent.