Montcalm and the remaining forces sailed the next day, and met with Lévis for the night at Ganaouske Bay.

In early August, Montcalm and 7, 000 troops besieged the fort, which capitulated with an agreement to withdraw under parole.

Montcalm focused his meager resources on the defense of the St. Lawrence, with primary defenses at Carillon, Quebec, and Louisbourg, while Vaudreuil argued unsuccessfully for a continuation of the raiding tactics that had worked quite effectively in previous years.

The Pyrenees mountain range forms a fantastic backdrop to the entire Ariège Department, rising some 10, 000 feet ( 3000m ) in the Montcalm Massif, along the border with Andorra and Spain.

* Blanchard is an unincorporated community within the township at, in the southwest corner of Isabella County on the border with Mecosta County and about two miles north of Montcalm County.

The Blanchard post office, with ZIP code 49310, also serves most of Rolland Township, as well as portions of Broomfield Township to the north and Fremont Township to the east ; and in Mecosta County: Wheatland Township to the northwest, Millbrook Township to the west, and Hinton Township to the west of Millbrook ; and in Montcalm County: Home Township.

* The village of Edmore is to the south in Montcalm County, and the Edmore post office, with ZIP code 48829, also serves a small area of southern Rolland Township.

The Carson City post office, with ZIP code 48811, serves most of Bloomer Township and southern portions of Crystal Township in Montcalm County and the western portions of North Shade Township and southwestern New Haven Township in Gratiot County.

The Greenville post office, with ZIP code 48838, also serves all of Eureka Township, a large portion of Montcalm Township and a smaller area of Pine Township to the north, Fairplain Township to the east, a small area of Otisco Township in Ionia County to the south, and a large part of Oakfield Township to the east and a smaller part of Grattan Township to the southwest, both in Kent County.

" Howard City schools were combined with Sand Lake schools to the south in 1962, and renamed Tri County, because students from Kent, Montcalm, and Newaygo counties all attended.

The Gowen post office, with ZIP code 49326, serves areas in the northwestern area of Montcalm Township, as well as a small area in southern Pine Township and a large portion of eastern Spencer Township and a small area in northeast Oakfield Township in Kent County.

* The city of Greenville is to the south, and the Greenville post office, with ZIP code 48838, also serves a large portion of Montcalm Township.

* The city of Stanton is to the northeast, and the Stanton post office, with ZIP code 48888, also serves an area in northeast Montcalm Township.

* The village of Sheridan is to the east, and the Sheridan post office, with ZIP code 48884, also serves a small area in eastern Montcalm Township.

* The community of Sidney is to the east in Sidney Township, and the Sidney post office, with ZIP code 48885, also serves an area in eastern Montcalm Township.

The Sheridan post office, with ZIP code 48884, also serves portions of the four surrounding townships: Evergreen Township to the northeast, Bushnell Township to the southeast, Fairplain Township to the southwest, and Sidney Township to the northwest, as well as part of Crystal Township to the east of Evergreen, Bloomer Township to the east of Bushnell, and Montcalm Township to the west of Sidney.

The Sidney post office, with ZIP code 48885, serves the central part of the township, as well as part of Montcalm Township to the west.

He therefore moved some 3, 800 men into the field, all he could muster, along with over twenty cannon, to the same position that Montcalm had occupied for the 1759 battle.

Montcalm, while concerned about the weak military position of the fort, conducted the defense with spirit.

Montcalm and Vaudreuil, who did not get along with each other, differed on how to deal with the British threat.

Montcalm arrived at Fort Carillon on June 30, and found there a significantly under-staffed garrison, with only 3, 500 men, and food sufficient for only nine days.

Bourlamaque, who was satisfied with his defensive situation, resisted, not withdrawing until Montcalm repeated the orders three times.

The following year Montcalm with a huge force of 7200 French and Canadiens and 2400 Native Americans laid siege to Fort William Henry on the southern shores of Lake George and after three weeks of fighting the British commander Monroe surrendered Montcalm gave him honorable terms to return to England and not to fight for 18 months.

Prince Franz Josef I and Louis-Joseph de Montcalm are among notable combatants.

French leadership, specifically Governor de Vaudreuil and General Montcalm, were unsettled by the British successes.

French regular army reinforcements arrived in New France in May 1756, led by Major General Louis-Joseph de Montcalm and seconded by the Chevalier de Lévis and Colonel François-Charles de Bourlamaque, all experienced veterans from the War of the Austrian Succession.

In 1756 a large force of French, Canadiens, and their Native American allies led by Marquis de Montcalm launched an attack against the key British post at Fort Oswego on Lake Ontario from Fort Frontenac and forced the garrison to surrender.

In 1756 he went to Canada as captain of dragoons and aide-de-camp to the Marquis de Montcalm.

Indeed, General Montcalm used the Fort as a staging point to attack the fortifications at Oswego in August 1756.

During the week of August 10, 1756, a force of regulars and Canadian militia under General Montcalm captured and occupied the British fortifications at Fort Oswego, located at the site of present-day Oswego, New York.

General Louis-Joseph de Montcalm arrived in Montreal in May 1756 to lead the French army troops.

In a major setback, a French and Indian army led by General Louis-Joseph de Montcalm captured the garrison and destroyed fortifications in the Battle of Fort Oswego in August 1756.

Following the success of his 1756 assault on Fort Oswego, Montcalm had been seeking an opportunity to deal with the British position at Fort William Henry, since it provided the British with a launching point for attacks against Fort Carillon.

On August 9, 1757, Montcalm, with an army of 7, 000 men consisting of French soldiers, Canadian militia, and Indians from various tribes, took Fort William Henry, situated at the southern point of Lake George.

The Siege of Fort William Henry was conducted in August 1757 by French General Louis-Joseph de Montcalm against the British-held Fort William Henry.

Vaudreuil and Montcalm were only minimally resupplied in 1758, as the British blockade of the French coastline limited French shipping.

Still, General Montcalm and two of his military engineers surveyed the works in 1758 and found something to criticize in almost every aspect of the fort's construction ; the buildings were too tall and thus easier for attackers ' cannon fire to hit, the powder magazine leaked, and the masonry was of poor quality.

Vaudreuil prevailed, and in June 1758 Montcalm left Quebec for Carillon.

On July 8, 1758, the British army of General James Abercromby with 16, 000 men, ( 6, 000 British soldiers and 10, 000 colonials ) and their allies the Mohawks ( who did not participate in the battle ), attacked Fort Carillon commanded by Louis-Joseph de Montcalm with 3, 600 soldiers, including 400 Canadians from Lévis and 300 Abenakis.

Both the French Commander ( the Marquis de Montcalm ) and the British General James Wolfe are fatally wounded.

Louis-Joseph de Montcalm | Montcalm trying to stop allied Native Americans from attacking British soldiers and civilians as they leave after the Battle of Fort William Henry.

British victories continued in all theaters in the Annus Mirabilis of 1759, when they finally captured Ticonderoga, James Wolfe defeated Montcalm at Quebec ( in a battle that claimed the lives of both commanders ), and victory at Fort Niagara successfully cut off the French frontier forts further to the west and south.

Following the French victory, Montcalm, anticipating further British attacks, ordered additional work on the defenses, including the construction of the Germain and Pontleroy redoubts ( named for the engineers under whose direction they were constructed ) to the northeast of the fort.

In the battle, which took place primarily on a rise about three-quarters of a mile ( one km ) from the fort itself, a French army of about 4, 000 men under General Louis-Joseph de Montcalm and the Chevalier de Levis decisively defeated an overwhelmingly numerically superior force of British troops under General James Abercrombie, which frontally assaulted an entrenched French position without using field artillery.

As early as March, Louis-Joseph de Montcalm, the commanding general responsible of the French forces in North America, and the Marquis de Vaudreuil, New France's governor, were aware that the British were planning to send large numbers of troops against them, and that they would have relatively little support from King Louis XV of France.

Montcalm believed this to be folly, as the plan would enable the British to easily divert some of their forces to fend off the French attack.

On learning the size of the British fleet, which was reportedly " large enough to cover the face of George ", Montcalm ordered Bourlamaque to retreat.

British troops commanded by General James Wolfe successfully resisted the column advance of French troops and Canadian military under Louis-Joseph, Marquis de Montcalm, using new tactics that proved extremely effective against standard military formations used in most large European conflicts.

Montcalm and his staff, Major-General François de Gaston, Chevalier de Lévis, Colonel Louis Antoine de Bougainville, and Lieutenant-Colonel de Sennezergue, distributed some 12, 000 troops in a nine-kilometre long collection of fortified redoubts and batteries from the Saint-Charles River to the Montmorency Falls, along the shallows of the river in areas that had previously been targeted by British attempts to land.

In 1759, the British besieged Quebec by sea, and an army under General James Wolfe defeated the French under General Louis-Joseph de Montcalm at the Battle of the Plains of Abraham in September.

After a lengthy siege Wolfe defeated a French force under Montcalm allowing British forces to capture the city.

Later, the journals of the Chevalier de Levis and the Marquis de Montcalm referred to the Heights of Abraham, as did the diaries of British soldiers, who also employed the phrase Plains of Abraham.

Both Wolfe and the French commander, the Marquis de Montcalm, died of their wounds, but the battle left control of Quebec City to the British, eventually allowing them to take control of Canada the following year.

Montcalm swept the fort with cannon fire, killing the British commander, Colonel Mercer, in the bombardment.

Montcalm gave much of the British supplies to his Indian allies, and destroyed the fort.

The British had been humiliated and Montcalm had shown the compassion of a great general by stopping any further bloodshed by the Indians and accompanying the survivors.