Louis-Antoine de Bougainville, General Montcalm's aide-de-camp, was diminutive, overweight, asthmatic and possessed a good military mind. As he had already written two books on mathematics and was ...

Louis-Antoine de Bougainville's force of two thousand. Montcalm's men, stationed in the anticipation of another British assault on the hill at Beauport, were about an hour's march away.