Word: montcalm
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...difficulty is that Trudeau and Lévesque differ totally on the means to prevent the assimilation of the French?a problem that has dogged Canada ever since British General James Wolfe ended French rule in Quebec with his victory over the Marquis de Montcalm on the Plains of Abraham in 1759. For Trudeau, the safeguarding of the Gallic heritage of Quebec, as well as that of some 1 million other French-speaking Canadians in other provinces,* can and should be done within a tolerant, officially bilingual Canada. For Lévesque, the solution is a homogeneous, independent state where Quebecois...
...French explorer, the Marquis de Montcalm, advised King Louis XV that a waterway linking the Tennessee and Tombigbee rivers should be built to promote trade. Phooey said Louie. But the idea remained alive, and in 1870 a U.S. Government study was completed by an esteemed engineer who concluded that the project was technically feasible but asked, "From whence cometh the commerce" to justify it? More studies were done-in 1880, 1890, 1910, 1920, 1930 and 1938-but always the answer was the same: "Whence cometh...
...scuffling with an official, French fans smashed shop windows along Rue Ste. Catherine. Although this was a melee, not a rational debate, popular sociologists went as wild as the fans. Les Canadiens, they suggested, were not merely a hockey team. Rather they embodied all that might have been had Montcalm, not Wolfe, carried that September...
William Howe served in North America from 1758 to 1761 as a young officer, eventually leading his brigade up the cliffs at Quebec to help Wolfe defeat Montcalm on the Plains of Abraham. Less than two years ago, as a Member of Parliament from Nottingham, he told his constituents that if offered a command in any war against the Colonies, he would refuse to serve...
...this book, for example, Thomas reveals the fact that British General James Wolfe never took Quebec from the French in 1759 at all. The American colonies never banded together against King George III either. What actually happened was that Wolfe-no hero, but a mincing, vindictive incompetent-lost to Montcalm at Quebec and was later executed for his disgrace. Thereafter, all through the 1760s, the French hung on to Canada and the Ohio River valley, threatening colonial Virginia with invasion. The British meanwhile fell back on Boston and New York...