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Overview
Osprey's study of the decisive battle of the French and Indian War (1754-1763). 'What a scene ' wrote Horace Walpole. '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 ' In one short sharp exchange of fire Major-General James Wolfe's men tumbled the Marquis de Montcalm's French army into bloody ruin. Sir John Fortescue famously described it as the 'most perfect volley ever fired on a battlefield'. In this book Stuart Reid details how one of the British Army's consummate professionals literally beat the King's enemies before breakfast and in so doing decided the fate of a continent.
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- ISBN-13: 9781855326057
- ISBN-10: 1855326051
- Publisher: Osprey Publishing (UK)
- Publish Date: April 2003
- Dimensions: 9.64 x 7.28 x 0.34 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.72 pounds
- Page Count: 96
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