Louis-Joseph de Montcalm

Louis-Joseph de Montcalm, Marquis de Montcalm, was born in 1712 at the Chateau of Candiac near Nimes in southern France and began his military career at age 20. Named Field Marshall in 1756, he arrived in Quebec on May 13 of that year to serve under Governor General Pierre Rigaud de Vaudreuil. Promoted to Lieutenant General in October 1758, he was given command of all military forces in New France. On September 13, 1759, with some of his troops, he confronted Major-General James Wolfe and the British army on the Plains of Abraham. Wounded in that battle, he died at dawn on September 14, 1759 in the house of the surgeon André Arnoux; Wolfe had died the same day as the battle.

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