Ticonderoga 1758
Subtitle: Montcalm's victory against all odds (Campaign)
Contributors: Patrice Courcelle (Illustrator)
Publisher: Osprey Publishing
Published: October 25, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 96
ISBN-13: 9781841760933
Subjects: American history: c 1500 to c 1800; Battles & campaigns; United States - Colonial Period; History - Military / War; History; History: American; Canada; United States - Revolutionary War; Europe - Great Britain - General; Military - Other; History / Military / General
First sentence: "Carillon" - that is the name by which Montcalm's greatest victory is known in the francophone world.
Description: "On 5 July 1758 General Abercromby's expedition against Fort Carillon set off from its camp. Within hours, tragedy struck. Some rangers ran into a French scouting party and in the fierce skirmish that followed Lord Howe was shot through the heart. The army was shattered at the loss and Abercromby went to pieces. He decided to attack Montcalm's completed breastworks head-on. Battalion after battalion was sacrificed in these hopeless assaults, and with the failure of his plan and the exhaustion of his army Abercromby retreated to the foot of Lake George -- Montcalm had saved Canada"--Page 4 of cover.