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Title: Montcalm and Wolfe
Author: Francis Parkman
Release Date: December 29, 2004 [EBook #14517]
Language: English
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FRANCIS PARKMAN
MONTCALM AND WOLFE
With a New Introduction by
SAMUEL ELIOT MORISON
COLLIER BOOKS
NEW YORK, N.Y.
This Collier Book is set from the 1884 edition
Collier Books is a division of The Crowell-Collier Publishing Company
First Collier Books Edition 1962
Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 62:16974
Copyright (c) 1962 by The Crowell-Collier Publishing Company All Rights
Reserved Hecho en los E.E.U.U. Printed in the United States of America
To
Harvard College,
the alma mater under whose influence the
purpose of writing it was conceived,
This Book
is affectionately inscribed.
Preface
The names on the titlepage stand as representative of the two nations
whose final contest for the control of North America is the subject of
the book.
A very large amount of unpublished material has been used in its
preparation, consisting for the most part of documents copied from the
archives and libraries of France and England, especially from the
Archives de la Marine et des Colonies, the Archives de la Guerre, and
the Archives Nationales at Paris, and the Public Record Office and the
British Museum at London, the papers copied for the present work in
France alone ex