). Bégon, “Correspondance” (Bonnault), ANQ Rapport, 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

officers to marry Canadian women. Montcalm*, who generally disapproved on the grounds that the officers were marrying below their social

. Montcalm*, who did not like Boishébert, wrote to Lévis: “He has made a hundred thousand écus in the

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

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 error, the

-Joseph Chaussegros* de Léry and known today as the Maison Montcalm, one built in 1728 on Place Royale for Joseph

, Cugnet found himself at odds with Montcalm*’s successor, François de

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

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

increased daily. The day of Montcalm*’s defeat on the Plains of Abraham, 13 September, Pontbriand appointed Briand vicar general of

Lanoullier* de Boisclerc, on Rue des Remparts, for the sum of 14,500 livres. He was to rent it to Montcalm* during the

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

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

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

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* to weaken his army at Quebec by sending troops west. Amherst’s own cautious and ponderous operations had no such effect. More energy and more effective improvisation on his part might well have

as “young and hare-brained,” was thought to be somewhat hasty by his superior officers. Montcalm* called him “hot-headed” but

, 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

. Montcalm, the French commander, had occupied and fortified that area, and the main French force was encamped there. The first of many tactical reassessments was thus forced upon Wolfe

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