Recherche dans la collection - Part 4, Fields of Battle

CANADIAN BROADCASTING CORPORATION, TELEVISION: KINES FROM PARC, TORONTO

1986-0810

Film

1 of 1

1963-06-16

Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

research, Ian Thome; host, Harry Mannis

Fourth program in a six-part series recreating the major battles of the Seven Years' War, the American War of Independence and the War of 1812. This episode examines the military career of British General James Wolfe from his participation in the siege at Louisbourg in 1758, in which he was second-in-command of the land forces, to his death on the Plains of Abraham in 1759. Includes film segments of the sites as they are today. Old paintings, prints and graphic drawings are used to illustrate the past. Spoken portions of the program are comprised entirely of excerpts from diaries, letters and military orders. <30mn>

English

Libre

V1 2006-10-0086

GAD 0FD547

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