In 1756, Montcalm brought his ... European sensibility ... to Canada: a savage critic of most of his colleagues, Montcalm tried to make the defence of New France conform to European styles of warfare.(THE FIGHT FOR CANADA)

Esprit de Corps | September 1, 2005| | Copyright

It may be simplistic to say that Britain intended to win the war against France in Canada while France intended to defend Canada by winning the war in Europe. Other interests were involved. France had recently formed an alliance with her old enemy, Austria, while Britain had taken up with Prussia; and the Austrians and Prussians didn't care a damn about Canada. But William Pitt, the British prime minister who masterminded his country's prosecution of the Seven Years War, saw victory in Canada as the key to Britain's future greatness. Under Pitt, the war in Canada would no ...

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