The French and Indian War – Montcalm Ascendant

American Political History · Mar 1, 2023 · 23m

By 1757 the most powerful empire on earth was losing — beaten up one side of the continent and down the other by a smaller, poorer enemy with a better general. This is the story of the Marquis de Montcalm at the height of his power: the fall of Oswego, and then the siege of Fort William Henry, the fort on Lake George that ended in the most infamous bloodletting of the war. We trace why it happened — not as the “savagery” of legend, but as the collision of two ways of war, when a European surrender on the honors of war denied two thousand Native allies the captives and plunder they had crossed…