Happy Quebec day

[macwilkin]

Propagand remains propaganda...
Anyway, Montcalm was a Frenchman. Some say here that governor Vaudreuil could have won. But he was a Canadian (old meaning: French Canadian). So Montcalm ran the troops and lost.

Ironically, British Regular Officers such as Braddock viewed American provincial troops (like Washington's Virginia Regiment) in a similar fashion, and during the Revolution, the British Army did not make full use of their loyalist forces either. Conventional wisdom tends to cite this regular/colonial tension as one of the reasons for the American rebellion.

T.

[slohairt]

Yes, in many ways, a sad day indeed. Though in retrospect, it would be fair to say that Québec/New France would have become the territorial ambition of some other country at a later date. Unfortunately, France didn't take the colony as seriously as it should have, until it was too late.

On a somewhat related note, I really like the Québec Provincial Tartan (Plaid du Québec)! Does anyone have a kilt in this tartan? Calling all Canadians/Canadiens to post pictures!