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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Book in excellent unread/unused condition. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> On the morning of 13 September 1759 the armies of Britain and France clashed on the Plains of Abraham outside the city of Quebec in French Canada. The battle was an overwhelming victory for the British forces but during the conflict the commander of the British forces General James Wolfe received a mortal wound. Dying before the battle was even finished he guaranteed himself a place in the hearts of the British nation as a man who had given his very life for his country. At almost the same time that Wolfe received his fatal wound the commander of the French forces General Louis-Joseph Marquis de Montcalm-Gozon de Saint- V?ran also received a fatal wound. Dying in agony the next day his death seemed to epitomise the end of the French regime in Canada. The deaths of Wolfe and Montcalm full of pathos and drama loom over the British campaign to conquer Canada. For many authors and historians the conquest of Canada is the story of Wolfe and its defence is the tale of Montcalm. (LL)