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Louis-Joseph de Montcalm-Gozon, Marquis de Montcalm de Saint-Veran (French pronunciation: [lwi ʒozɛf də mɔ̃kalm ɡozɔ̃]; 28 February 1712 – 14 September 1759) was a French soldier best known as the commander of the forces in North America during the Seven Years' War (whose North American theatre is also referred to as the French and ...
Louis-Joseph de Montcalm-Grozon, marquis de Montcalm was a general who served as commander in chief of French forces in Canada (1756–59) during the Seven Years’ War, a worldwide struggle between Great Britain and France for colonial possessions.
Jan 21, 2008 · Louis-Joseph, Marquis de Montcalm, died of his wounds on 14 September 1759, the day after the Battle of the Plains of Abraham, at age 47. The day that he died, he was buried in a crater made by a British bomb that had exploded inside the church of the Ursuline Monastery in Quebec City.
With the outbreak of the French and Indian War, King Louis XV sent Montcalm to North America. He quickly gained a victory over the British when his force of 3,500 regular French, Canadian militia and Native American troops captured Fort Oswego in August 1756.
In the 17th century the family turned to military service and its members won distinction. At the age of nine, on 16 Aug. 1721, Louis-Joseph de Montcalm was commissioned an ensign in the Régiment d’Hainaut. Eight years later he obtained a captaincy, no doubt by purchase, in the same regiment.
Louis-Joseph de Montcalm. Born in 1712 near Nimes, France, young Montcalm came from a distinguished and noble family, and started his military life at the early age of nine. His family pushed...
Jun 11, 2018 · Montcalm, Louis-Joseph de Montcalm-Gozon, Marquis de (1712–59) French general in North America. Commander in chief of the French army in Canada (1756–59), he won several victories against the British, including the Battle of Fort Ticonderoga (1758).
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