The Siege of Quebec

This journal, compiled from an officer's wartime notes and first issued in the 1760s, covers the British campaigns in North America from 1757 to 1760. Captain John Knox of the 43rd Regiment records the Louisbourg operations, the ascent of the St Lawrence, Wolfe's siege of Quebec, the battle on the Plains of Abraham, and the later defence of the captured city through a Canadian winter until Montreal falls. He notes weather, rations, bombardment, and the conduct of regulars, provincials, and French forces. It is a campaign diary of the conquest of New France, not a biography of Wolfe.

Bound in red buckram with a design in gold, black spine-label. Map endleaves. Dark blue slipcase.