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Paperback The Battle for Quebec 1759 Book

ISBN: 0752452207

ISBN13: 9780752452203

The Battle for Quebec 1759

(Part of the Battles & Campaigns Series)

On 13 September 1759, British and French forces fought one of the most decisive battles in history, on the Plains of Abraham outside the Canadian capital, Quebec. The British force decisively routed the French, seizing the city and, ultimately, all of Canada. But the struggle for Quebec was far more than one climactic battle: the campaign involved an immense military and naval operation, an eighteenth-century D-Day. Matthew Ward has researched extensively...

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Ward does a solid job with the operations here, descriptions of the armies, etc. What surprised me is the lack of biographical info on all of the key players. We don't really get to know them that well. Also, his chapter on how Wolfe gets to the point of chosing the location for his landing below the Plains of Abraham, why he did so, and how it came off was very abrupt. Ward gives us so much detail @ the ops up to that point, and then it seems like WHAM!!, Wolfe decides where and when to attack all of a sudden. Ward also seems not to have consulted a recent WMQ article about how the planners used the tides, charts, etc., to make a final decision on where and when to attack the city.
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