Added on Friday 29 January 2010 09:34:27
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http://www.nfb.ca/film/wolfe_and_montcalm/
This short film recreates the tense hours before the Battle of the Plains of Abraham, and then the battle itself in which both generals, Wolfe and Montcalm, were fatally wounded.
@RoyalistCavalier Or is it not «Had the English never conquered Canada, it would be a much better country with no language and unity problems that it has today.» ? Who brought broblems here ? Who brought problems in Ireland ? Who brought problems in scotland ? Who brought problems to the first nations ?
Also: to be ungrateful implies you should be grateful for something... i don't see what we should be grateful of. To exist, would your answer right ? Wow, what a humanist we have here...
@RoyalistCavalier Quite simplist to say «if you have the power and victory, then you have all rights, and morale is no longer needed». Everything an oppressive people may have done to an other is justified. Great. Orangists glorify things that have absolutely nothing to be glorified, such as the crushing of Scots, Irish, Welsh, French Canadians, Boers by overwhelming power. Then they can't help glorify their 1800's industrial capitalism which is probably the brink of exploitation and misery.
@fleurdelys1241 Everything that makes Canada a great place comes from Great Britain. I am talking about such things as parlimentary democracy, free market capitalism, English common law, etc. The countries that were once British colonies such as America, Canada, Australia and New Zealand are so much richer and stable then once Spanish colonies like Mexico, Argentina, Colombia and Peru for example. Canada would be like Latin America had it stayed apart of the French Empire. This is a fact.
@fleurdelys1241 The British after conquering Canada should have just mass deported you misserable and ungratefull French Canadians back to France. The British were to moderate and tollerannt of you pricks, now had they mass deported French Canadians back to France, the Canada of today would be a much better country with no language and unity problems that it has today. Well it is time for misserable and ungratefull French Canadians to leave because Canada belongs to British and to Anglo Saxons.
@fleurdelys1241 You are wrong, English Canadians do have rights to the Dominion of Canada. You see when Great Britain conquered Canada from France in the French and Indian War (1755-1763), France gave up Canada to Great Britain to retain it's islands in the West Indies in the Treaty of Paris (1763). This makes Canada the property of the British Empire and the successors of the British Empire in North America is Canada and the British Canadian people are the successors of the British People.
@RoyalistCavalier You mean Canada, in its original meaning, has been destroyed by the British. You can be proud of all your conquests and killing if you want, but that gives you no right to be arrogant. To me it would be more like the night never ends on the British empire.
@RoyalistCavalier And what kind of glory do you think you have for that Conquest angainst 60 000 people? Stupid and arrogant English-Canadians like you have no right to this country which we founded and that the British destroyed. Oppression, deportation, killing, looting and racism is the very best anglo-saxons of your kind have brought in this country. We have lost the war, but at least our people have nothing to be ashamed of.
@fortcarillon Well the British have everyright to be arrogent because the British are the ones who created the largest and most powerfull empire in history. About 1/4 of the globe was under British control at it's heigh. The sun never set for the British Empire. So if you dont like British arrogence, you are free to return to France where their is no British arrogence. Canada was created by the British and as far as I am concerned is still part of Great Britain.
BRITISH EMPIRE IS THE GREATEST.
@fortcarillon When France conquered Alsace-Lorraine from Germany after World War One (1914-1918), they imposed the French language on the German Alsace-Lorrainers and deported all German Alsace-Lorrainers to Germany if they did not accept French rule, now because of this policy, Alsace-Lorraine has no seperatism or language division. The British should have done this to the French Canadians in Canada, because had they did this then their would be no seperatism in Quebec and no language division.
@fortcarillon The British did offer to pay for re-locating French Canadians back to France for 18 months after they defeated the French in the French and Indian War (1765-1763), if they were unhappy about the tern of advents and if they did not want to swear loyalty to the crown and British Empire. Well as faf as I am concerned this offer still stands and French Canadians can return to France if they are unhappy in Canada and if they dont like the crown. Believe you me Quebec would be better off
@RoyalistCavalier As seen, for sure. It's just that British arrogance that I can not stand. So it is fair to say the truth. Ok Quebec part of Canada, but their thoughts, their language and their attachment to their French roots, you'll ever do. The greatest victory of the French-Canadian people, that's right!
@fortcarillon I dont care how many battles the French won in the French and Indian War (1755-1763), what is important is that the British WON the war and the French LOST the war. No to Vive Le Canada-Franbcais-Vive Le Quebec Libre Et Nation Quebecois. Quebec does not belong to but to Anglo Canadians. Anglo Canadians are the successors of the British in North America and have everyright to own all of Canada. You on ther other hand should go back to France where you bloody belong.
YOU ARE LOOSERS
Ha ha, I keep watching this. I love Canadian history and it's hard to find good videos about it. I especially like Montcalm. You don't learn enough about him in history classes. He was a really good general and losing Canada wasn't really his fault.
Thanks for posting this!
A beautiful English stupidity. Montcalm, our soldiers and their allies have résist 8 years old against English in 1 against 8. If we lost Quebec, that English remembers itself Oswego - William Henry - Monongahéla - Carillon - Montmorency and Sainte-Foy! So many French victories in Canada which they shall never obtain from it. And the pride of (French-speaking) people of Quebec is the most beautiful of all !!!!
VIVE LE CANADA FRANÇAIS - VIVE LE QUEBEC LIBRE ET LA NATION QUÉBÉCOISE
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