Backs to the Wall: The Battle of Sainte-Foy and the Conquest of Canada

by D. Peter Macleod and D. Peter MacLeod

Book Overview

The Battle of the Plains of Abraham in 1759 and the subsequent capitulation of Quebec set the stage for an equally significant French-British engagement in the struggle for northeastern North America, the Battle of Sainte-Foy.

In the spring of 1760, after having suffered a brutal winter, Quebec garrison commander James Murray's troops were vulnerable and reduced to an army of skeletal invalids due to malnutrition and scurvy. Trapped in hostile...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1771621273
• ISBN13: 9781771621274
• Release Date: March 2017
• Publisher: Douglas & McIntyre
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.2"