Quebec, 1759: The Siege and the Battle

by C. P. Stacey

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The fall of Quebec in 1759 to British forces under James Wolfe led to the ultimate defeat of the French empire in North America. The dramatic battle on the Plains of Abraham not only set the course for the future of Canada; it opened the door to the independence of the American colonies some 20 years later. Stacey's account is regarded as the best ever written. This new edition contains all the text and the pictures of the previous edition, in a smart and generous new format.… (more)

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Author name	Role	Type of author	Work?	Status
C. P. Stacey	—	primary author	all editions	calculated
Boire, Michael	Foreword	secondary author	some editions	confirmed
Graves, Donald E.	Editor	secondary author	some editions	confirmed

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1959 (first edition)

1966 (second printing with minor corrections)

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General James Wolfe

Louis-Joseph de Montcalm-Gozon

Louis-Antoine de Bougainville

Guy Carleton, 1st Baron Dorchester

François de Lévis

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Québec, Canada

Québec City, Québec, Canada

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Montmorency, Quebec, Canada

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Battle of the Plains of Abraham

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INTRODUCTION
TWO HUNDRED YEARS OF HISTORY
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"Very great rejoycings this night on the taking of Quebec." So wrote "Parson Woodforde" -- not yet a parson, but merely a junior scholar of New College, Oxford -- in his diary on the 18th of October, 1759.

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The fall of Quebec in 1759 to British forces under James Wolfe led to the ultimate defeat of the French empire in North America. The dramatic battle on the Plains of Abraham not only set the course for the future of Canada; it opened the door to the independence of the American colonies some 20 years later. Stacey's account is regarded as the best ever written. This new edition contains all the text and the pictures of the previous edition, in a smart and generous new format.

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