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 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

-Joseph de Montcalm* and Montcalm’s aide-de-camp, Captain Louis-Antoine de

[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

lovers to court, which French law permitted him to do. This decision furnished Louis-Joseph de Montcalm

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

events in America upon the international scene, Roubaud conceived the idea of forging letters in which Montcalm* would predict that the

Andrews by his students (New Haven, Conn., and London, 1931; repr. Freeport, N.Y., 1966), 96–123; Francis Parkman, Montcalm and Wolfe (2v., Boston, 1884; repr. New York, 1962); J. R

, Dollard, Montcalm ou la trahison), and three biblical dramas (Le

. During the summer he commanded the advance guard of the forces under Montcalm*, who on 11 August invested the forts in the region

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

Louis-Joseph de Montcalm*. Richardson was appointed a trustee of the Royal Institution for the Advancement of Learning [see

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

,” according to Montcalm*, who in Guy

Wolfe* and Louis-Joseph de Montcalm*, Marquis de Montcalm. Erected in a prominent position near the Château Saint-Louis

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

Montcalm*’s latest victory, at Fort Carillon (Ticonderoga, N.Y.), to the minister. But certain people distrusted Péan; in fact, the financial commissary of wars, André

Dieskau* and later Montcalm* in the Lake Champlain region. During the winter of 1757–58 he was in Quebec, where he associated with

French forces converging on Fort Oswego (Chouaguen). Arriving on 12 August, he was ordered to assist Montcalm

the country for many years and whom Montcalm*, commanding the regular forces in Canada, regarded as one of the colony’s leading