Despite an air of defeatism among the…
July 1759 CE
Montcalm and his staff, Major-General François de Gaston, Chevalier de Lévis, Colonel Louis Antoine de Bougainville, and Lieutenant-Colonel de Sennezergue, distribute some twelve thousand troops in a nine-kilometer-long collection of fortified redoubts and batteries from the Saint-Charles River to the Montmorency Falls, along the shallows of the river in areas that had previously been targeted by British attempts to land.
Prior to the arrival of the British, a small fleet of supply ships had arrived in Quebec with much needed supplies.
These supplies, along with five hundred reinforcements, are likely behind the lengthened siege.
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François-Charles de Bourlamaque
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James Cook
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James Wolfe
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Jeffery Amherst, 1st Baron Amherst
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Louis-Joseph de Montcalm
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Pierre de Rigaud de Vaudreuil de Cavagnal, Marquis de Vaudreuil
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Robert Rogers
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Thomas Gage
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William Johnson, 1st Baronet
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William Pitt
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