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Death or victory: the Battle of Quebec and the birth of empire

✍ Scribed by Wolfe, James;Snow, Dan

Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers; Harper Press
Year
2009
Tongue
English
Weight
477 KB
Category
Fiction
City
London, Canada, Québec (Québec), Canada., Québec--Québec., Québec.
ISBN-13
9781987199208

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

Assault on New France -- 'The enemy are out to destroy everything that calls itself Canada' -- Mastering the St Lawrence -- Beachhead -- First skirmishes -- A new kind of war -- 'Trust me, they shall feel us' -- Competing iedas -- Defeat at Montmorency -- 'It is war of the worst shape' -- 'We find ourselves outnumbered and we fear, out generaled' -- 'This man must finish with a great effort, and great thunder' -- The landings -- The Battle of the Plains of Abraham -- 'Our rejoicings are not yet over'.;An epic history of the battle of Quebec, the death of Wolfe and the beginnings of Britain's empire in North America.

✦ Subjects

Québec -- Québec

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