WHAT A SCENE!' WROTE HORACE WALPOLE. 'AN ARMY IN THE NIGHT DRAGGING ITSELF UP A PRECIPICE BY STUMPS OF TREES TO ASSAULT A TOWN AND ATTACK AN ENEMY STRONGLY ENTRENCHED AND DOUBLE IN NUMBERS!' In one short sharp exchange of fire Major-General James Wolfe's men tumbled the Marquis de Montcalm's French army into bloody ruin. Sir John Fortescue famously described it as the 'most perfect volley ever fired on a battlefield'. In this compact, illustrated guide, Stuart Reid details how one of the British Army's consummate professionals literally beat the King's enemies before breakfast and in so doing decided the fate of a continent.