Québec History 12 - Battle of Carillon

Québec a Nation History (Part 12)

Battle of Fort Tinconderoga 1758

The Battle of Carillon, also known as the 1758 Battle of Ticonderoga, was fought on July 8, 1758, during the French and Indian War known in modern Quebec as the War of Conquest. It was fought near Fort Carillon, on the shore of Lake Champlain.

In the battle, which took place primarily on a rise about three-quarters of a mile from the fort itself, a French army of about 4,000 men under General Louis-Joseph de Montcalm and the Chevalier de Levis decisively defeated an overwhelmingly numerically superior force of British troops under General James Abercrombie, which frontally assaulted an entrenched French position without using field artillery. The battle was the bloodiest of the war, with over 2,500 casualties suffered, of which over 2,000 were British Soldiers.

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[ms2cristian]

French are not soldiers, are women

[Patriote17]

@ms2cristian our women can easily kick your ass. Jeanne d'Arc prove it.

[Talbot6832]

A common trend seems to be that when the French had massive fortifications to hide behind, they won, but when placed in open field and pitched against the British man for man.... they lost. Rather like the Americans and pretty much anyone else who has fought us.

[Patriote17]

@Talbot6832 by the way, French fought 1 vs 10. It was not man for man.

[mufarooqali]

france history in 18th century is one of the greatest !! Napoloen was one of the greatest commanders of all time !! iam not french but i respect what is truee ..

[monkeynuts76]

VIVE LA FRANCE!

[3dwardcullen69]

Yea, this is when the Americans were the Red coats. Just 16 more years and they would turn.

[czarnykocoor]

@ms2cristian ??? are you kidding? Hmm read about Napoleonic Wars. De Montcalm here was also very skilled commander, he knew that his only chance was to anticipate assualt and he repelled vastly superior British forces :)

[ASCfreak]

Quel est le titre de documentaire en entier, j'aimerais mettre la main dessus. Merci!

[MarkramUK]

@jpc1972fr The French outnumbered the British by a few thousand at Waterloo. And the Prussians didn't save the British, the plan was for Blucher to come in late so that Napoleon would have to fight two fronts after thinking he had won. The British were the ones who broke the Old Guard and the British were the ones who completely decimated the entire cavalry division of Napoleon's army.

[KD35Russell0]

@Talbot6832 actually that wasn't always true with the Americans. Just look at the Battle of Guilford courthouse.

[jpc1972fr]

@Talbot6832

Not forcely historically true... At waterloo for example, English outnumbered slightly the french and clearly outnumbered them when Prussians under Blücher saved them... Without blücher, English had lost tactically...

during French revolution, English tried to take french isles in the west of France and failed, but they had ships and outnumbered the French (Quiberon etc...).

I would also recall Austerlitz (even if there weren't any english there).