Montcalm also weakened his victories by alienating many of his Indian allies. A regular officer trained in Europe, Montcalm despised the disorder and atrocities of frontier raiding—a mode of war that the Canadian-born Vaudreuil championed as essential to the defense of undermanned New France. At Lake George, Montcalm enraged the Indians with his well-intentioned but ineffectual attempts to liberate their prisoners.
