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...order issued to his troops before Quebec in 1759, Brigadier General James Wolfe wrote: "Next to valour, the best qualities in a military man are vigilance and caution." Thereupon, exercising vigilance and caution in sending his men up the heights of Quebec, Wolfe valorously engaged General Montcalm's French forces on the Plains of Abraham, routed them. The 13 years of American history which preceded this battle, in the French and Indian Wars, are the stuff of which Next to Valour is made. Its author, John Jennings, 33, began doing research on the period in 1935, in the belief...
...visit Fort Ticonderoga, an historical point of interest in this area. When the class of 1939, Harvard, gathers around its 25th re-union table, there will be men who will recall that memorable night in July when William Calfee '39 made a special study of the tactics of General Montcalm in the defense of the redoubts surrounding the Fort, and when Donald L. Daughters, '39, distinguished himself as official custodian of the few remaining mosquitos which insisted on spending a few early morning hours with...
...Last of the Mohicans (Reliance). During the siege of Fort William Henry on Lake George by the French and Hurons under Montcalm (1757), two daughters of the British commander, Alice (Binnie Barnes) and Cora Munro (Heather Angel) set out from Albany for the Fort...
...professors those who like to go out into the barn and torture the horses, will find similar enjoyment in the bureaucratic dismay. But a Cambridge Plains of Abraham may carry disaster not only to the wolves, but also to the lambs whose hope they are, unless New York's Montcalm decides to give everybody a nice surprise and print the outlines himself...
When the three Doukhobors arrived in Halifax they pretended to be pessimistic about their chances of saving Peter Verigin II. But just as the Montcalm was about to sail, a sheriff rushed aboard, served the captain with a writ. Peter Verigin II was taken ashore. This week Canadian immigration authorities were to appear in court, show cause for his detention...