The French and Indian War - Pitt’s War

American Political History · Mar 1, 2023 · 30m

By 1758 the British had been losing the war in America for three years. Then William Pitt took hold of it in London — and instead of bullying the colonies as his predecessor had, he paid them, respected them, and led them, and the war began to turn. This is the story of that turn, and of the bloody exception to it: the Battle of Carillon, where a vast British army of sixteen thousand, having lost its beloved Lord Howe to a single musket ball, was thrown by the plodding General Abercromby straight into the Marquis de Montcalm’s abatis and slaughtered — two thousand men down before a force a…