Montcalm has decided to focus French manpower…
May 1759 CE
He places three thousand troops from the la Reine and Berry regiments under Brigadier General François-Charles de Bourlamaque for the defense south of Montreal, of which around twenty-three hundred are assigned to Fort Carillon.
He knows (after his own experience in the previous year's battle there) that this force is too small to hold Carillon against a determined British attack by competent leaders.
Instructions from Montcalm and New France's governor, the Marquis de Vaudreuil, to de Bourlamaque are to hold Carillon as long as possible, then to destroy it, as well as the nearby Fort St. Frédéric, before retreating toward Montreal.
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