What a scene!’ wrote Horace Walpole. ‘An army in the night dragging itself up a precipice by stumps of trees to assault a town and attack an enemy strongly entrenched and double in numbers!’In one short sharp exchange of fire Major-General James Wolfe’s men tumbled the Marquis de Montcalm’s French army into bloody ruin. Sir John Fortescue famously described it as the ‘most perfect volley ever fired on a battlefield’.In this compact, illustrated guide, Stuart Reid details how one of the British Army’s consummate professionals literally beat the King’s enemies before breakfast and in so doing decided the fate of a continent.
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Língua Inglês ● Formato PDF ● Páginas 96 ● ISBN 9781846036439 ● Editora Bloomsbury Publishing ● Publicado 2013 ● Carregável 3 vezes ● Moeda EUR ● ID 4891951 ● Proteção contra cópia Adobe DRM
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