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Product Identifiers
PublisherHelion & Company, The Limited
ISBN-101912866730
ISBN-139781912866731
eBay Product ID (ePID)28038810920
Product Key Features
Book TitleQuébec under Siege : French Eye-Witness Accounts from the Campaign of 1759
Number of Pages144 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2019
TopicModern / 18th Century, Military / United States
IllustratorYes
GenreHistory
AuthorCharles A. Mayhood
Book SeriesFrom Reason to Revolution 1721-1815 Ser.
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Length9.2 in
Item Width6.2 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
Dewey Edition23
Reviews...a worthy accomplishment in its breadth of translation and annotations, and is most assuredly ideal for the academic historian or history buff interested in primary source accounts of the French & Indian War.
Dewey Decimal971.4014
SynopsisLate in the summer 1759, Québec, the capital of New France, was under siege. British Major General James Wolfe had the city surrounded and cut off from reinforcements in Montréal, Vice Admiral Charles Saunders was in firm control of the rivers surrounding the city as well as the supply routes into the region. The French population found itself low on food and ammunition to defend themselves, and suffering daily bombardment by the English. The walls of Québec were manned by militiamen and sailors taken from French ships lost or anchored above the city for their protection. Lieutenant Général Louis-Joseph de Montcalm-Grozon and his aide-de-camp Louis-Antoine de Bougainville commanded the French regulars outside the city, moving them in rapid deployments to counter the British advances.Here the story is told by the citizens within the walls: an artillery captain, a prominent citizen, the emissary traveling between the British and the French commanders, and a Catholic nun working in the main hospital, treating the sick and wounded of both armies. Three of these works are offered in English for the first time, and all four are fully annotated. These journals and memoirs bring us inside the siege, allowing us to watch through their eyes as the fate of New France was determined., Late in the summer 1759, Québec, the capital of New France, was under siege. British Major General James Wolfe had the city surrounded and cut off from reinforcements in Montréal, Vice Admiral Charles Saunders was in firm control of the rivers surrounding the city as well as the supply routes into the region. The French population found itself low, Late in the summer 1759, Qu bec, the capital of New France, was under siege. British Major General James Wolfe had the city surrounded and cut off from reinforcements in Montr al, Vice Admiral Charles Saunders was in firm control of the rivers surrounding the city as well as the supply routes into the region. The French population found itself low on food and ammunition to defend themselves, and suffering daily bombardment by the English. The walls of Qu bec were manned by militiamen and sailors taken from French ships lost or anchored above the city for their protection. Lieutenant G n ral Louis-Joseph de Montcalm-Grozon and his aide-de-camp Louis-Antoine de Bougainville commanded the French regulars outside the city, moving them in rapid deployments to counter the British advances.Here the story is told by the citizens within the walls: an artillery captain, a prominent citizen, the emissary traveling between the British and the French commanders, and a Catholic nun working in the main hospital, treating the sick and wounded of both armies. Three of these works are offered in English for the first time, and all four are fully annotated. These journals and memoirs bring us inside the siege, allowing us to watch through their eyes as the fate of New France was determined.
LC Classification NumberE199
