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Osprey’s examine of the decisive battle of the French and Indian War (1754-1763). ‘What a scene!’ wrote Horace Walpole. ‘An army within the night dragging itself up a precipice by stumps of trees to assault a the city and attack an enemy strongly entrenched and double in numbers!’ In one short sharp exchange of fireside 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 ‘such a lot very best volley ever fired on a battlefield’. On this book Stuart Reid main points how one of the vital British Army’s consummate professionals literally beat the King’s enemies before breakfast and in so doing made up our minds the fate of a continent.