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	Quebec, Canada (Capital) - LoveToKnow 1911
		Quebec is built on the northern extremity of an elevated tableland which forms the left bank of the St Lawrence for a distance of 8 m.
		Quebec is well lighted with gas and electric light, and has a system of electric tramcars, a plentiful supply of power being obtained from the Montmorency Falls (268 ft. in height), 6 m.
		Quebec is the seat of a Roman Catholic archbishop and of an Anglican bishop.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Quebec,_Canada_(Capital) (2648 words)

	The Seven Years War - French and Indian War - The Fall of New France
		This second battle of the Plains, better known as the battle of Ste Foy, was fought with the utmost determination on both sides, and the Canadian militia and American rangers held their own with the best.
		Lévis immediately commenced his first parallel at six hundred yards from Quebec, and pressed the siege with all his might, Murray had only 2,762 men left, and it began to look as if the French were going to regain their stronghold.
		The arms of France thus left Quebec with all the honours of war by land and sea.
	faculty.marianopolis.edu /c.belanger/quebechistory/encyclopedia/TheSevenYearsWar-FrenchandIndianWar-TheFallofNewFrance.htm (1501 words)

	Battle of the Plains of Abraham - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Battle of the Plains of Abraham, fought September 13, 1759, was a decisive battle of the North American theatre of the Seven Years' War (a theatre known in the United States as the French and Indian War).
		The battle was actually the culmination of a siege that began on June 26 when the British landed on Île d'Orléans in the St.
		In 1760 the British completed the conquest by capturing Montreal, but not before the Battle of Sainte-Foy had given the French one final taste of victory.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Battle+of+Quebec+(1759) (1274 words)

	Encyclopedia: Military history of Canada (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Ypres, 1917, in the vicinity of the Battle of Passchendaele.
		Foy in a battle similar to that of the previous year; now the situation was reversed, with the French laying siege to the Quebec fortifications behind which the British retreated.
		Battle of Queenston Heights Conflict War of 1812 Date October 13, 1812 Place Near Queenston, Ontario Result British victory The Battle of Queenston Heights was a battle of the War of 1812 on October 13, 1812 between the Americans led by Stephen Van Rensselaer and the British led by Isaac...
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Military-history-of-Canada (11912 words)

	History of Quebec -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The battle of (additional info and facts about Fort Carillon) Fort Carillon (nowadays (American revolutionary troops captured Fort Ticonderoga from the British in May 1775) Fort Ticonderoga) is well-known as one of the few French victories of the time.
		The (additional info and facts about Quebec Act) Quebec Act of 1774 was enacted to assure the loyalty of the newly acquired Quebec, through assuring the existence of the Catholic faith and the re-enactment of French civil law.
		Quebec gains the parts of the (A peninsular region of eastern Canada between Hudson Bay and the Labrador Sea; contains most of Quebec and the mainland part of Newfoundland and Labrador) Labrador Peninsula that are currently in Quebec.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/h/hi/history_of_quebec.htm (3591 words)

	Ralph Burton - Seven Years War - French and Indian War
		He served at Louisbourg in 1758 and at Quebec in 1759, and was again wounded at the battle of Montmorency.
		After the capture of Quebec in 1759, he was appointed lieutenant-governor of the town under James Murray ; and after the capture of Montreal in 1760, he was appointed governor of the district of Three Rivers.
		In 1760 he was promoted to be colonel of the 95th Regiment; and in 1762 he was gazetted a major-general.
	faculty.marianopolis.edu /c.belanger/quebechistory/encyclopedia/RalphBurton.htm (266 words)

	Battle of Sainte-Foy -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Meanwhile the British army, left behind in Quebec after the fleet sailed at the end of October 1759, suffered from hunger, (A condition caused by deficiency of ascorbic acid (vitamin C)) scurvy and the travails of living in a city largely destroyed in the seige.
		In April 1760, Lévis returned to Quebec with an army of over seven thousand men, including Canadian (Civilians trained as soldiers but not part of the regular army) militia and (additional info and facts about First Nations) First Nations warriors.
		The battle turned into a two-hour fight at close range; eventually, as more French soldiers joined the fray, the French turned the British flanks, forcing the British to retreat back to Quebec without their guns, which Lévis then turned on the city.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/B/Ba/Battle_of_Sainte-Foy1.htm (532 words)

	Encyclopedia: Battle of Carillon (1758) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The battle was lead by Rogers' Rangers pushing the few remaining scouts behind the entrenchments, the Rangers then moved out of the way to let the regular army through.
		The battle is also the site of the legend of Duncan Campbell who was cursed to die at Ticonderoga, a name that he had not heard until the battle.
		Flag of Quebec The flag of QuÃ©bec, called the FleurdelisÃ©, was adopted by the provincial government of QuÃ©bec, Canada, during the government of Maurice Duplessis.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Battle-of-Carillon-%281758%29 (3035 words)

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		The siege and capture of Quebec by Major-General James Wolfe was a victory which determined the matter of French rule in Canada - it changed the destiny of a continent.
		Quebec City, the only walled city in North America, is situated on the "rock of Quebec" which is the northeast end of a long, narrow triangular promontory, to the north of which lies the valley of the St. Charles and to the south that of the St. Lawrence.
		While the battle of Quebec in 1759 was not much more than a clash from the viewpoint of warfare, it resulted in permanent peace for Canada under British governance.
	www.andrews.edu /~knutson/112.BattleOfQuebec.html (625 words)

	Early Canada Historical Narratives -- Battle On The Plains of Abraham
		Nearly all the battles which are regarded as masterpieces of the military art have been battles of manoeuvre in which very often the enemy has found himself defeated by some novel expedient or device, some queer, swift, unexpected thrust or strategem.
		Battles that were masterpieces of military art were battles of manoeuvre in which the enemy was defeated by some novel tactic or device, some unexpected, unusual, swift thrust or stratagem.
		Quebec had fallen but the British had a long, harsh winter ahead before Canada was indisputably in their hands.
	www.uppercanadahistory.ca /wm/wm8.html (7886 words)

	Battle of Quebec - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Battle of Quebec (1691) - British attack during King William's War
		Battle of Quebec (1759) - British attack during French and Indian War
		Battle of Quebec (1760) - French attack during French and Indian War
	www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Battle_of_Quebec (148 words)

	Battle for Canada - Superior Middle School Heritage Fair Project
		He had been present at four full-scale battles and a score of lesser engagements; he trained his regiment to a point of efficiency which was handsomely acknowledged by his superiors, and he had taken note of how independent command should be exercised.
		The army of the French defender of Quebec, the marquis de Montcalm, was strongly entrenched on the high cliffs along the City’s river frontage.
		Quebec surrendered on September 18, and in 1760 Amherst received the surrender of Montreal and the rest of Canada.
	www.gnb.ca /0007/Heritage/Programs/Fairs2000/Battle.htm (920 words)

	Connecticut's Heritage Gateway
		For the Pequot campaign men from sixteen to sixty were recruited and armed with twenty bullets and two pounds of powder per man. The levy accounted for thirty percent of the colony's population.
		In 1759, Lyman assisted the British in the capture of the French fort at Ticonderoga on Lake Champlain, and Israel Putnam (1718-1790) participated in the Battle of Quebec.
		In 1760, Putnam distinguished himself in the fall of Montreal.
	www.ctheritage.org /encyclopedia/topicalsurveys/ctatwar.htm (3157 words)

	Quebec - MSN Encarta
		British troops, led by General James Wolfe, defeated the troops of French General Louis Joseph Marquis de Montcalm de Saint-Véran in a decisive battle on the Plains of Abraham during which both generals lost their lives.
		In 1834 the popular Patriote Party and its leader Louis Joseph Papineau led a battle in the elected legislative assembly to secure a greater voice for French Canadians in the government.
		Under the law, the federal government is obliged to begin negotiations on Quebec’s secession if both the referendum question and majority are deemed clear.
	ca.encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761551789_10/Quebec.html (5589 words)

	Descendants of Mathew Battle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Battle, a town in Essex, was named after the Battle of Hastings which was fought nearby.
		Battle Abbey, an ancestral family estate, was erected after the conquest by William 1.
		This Battle of Hastings is considered by some historians as being one of the top fifteen battles which have shaped the history of the world.
	www.jerrybattle.com /battle_page.htm (1302 words)

	French and Indian War information - Search.com
		In September of 1760, Pierre François de Rigaud, Marquis de Vaudreuil-Cavagnal, the King's Governor of New France, negotiated a surrender with British General Jeffrey Amherst.
		Today, some people in Quebec blame France for abandoning them in 1759, but the reality is that if France had sent a powerful navy to defend New France, she would have done so at the expense of mainland France.
		The final battle of the war in North America was the Battle of Signal Hill, in which the French surrendered St.
	www.search.com /reference/French_and_Indian_War (1982 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: The Ursulines of Quebec
		It underwent the siege and bombardment of Quebec by Phips (1690) and by Wolfe (1759).
		After the fateful battle of 13 Sept., 1759, the French hero, Montcalm, was buried by night in the convent chapel.
		The first superior elected (1760) after the conquest was Esther Wheelwright, a New England captive, rescued from the Abenakis by the Jesuit Bigot, and a protégée of the first governor, Vaudreuil.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/15229a.htm (758 words)

	Encyclopedia: Battle of Quebec (1759) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The Battle of the Plains of Abraham, fought September 13, 1759, was a decisive battle during the French and Indian War, the U.S. name for the North American phase of the Seven Years' War.
		This was about one quarter of the entire population of New France, but a significant portion of these forces was made up of inexperienced militia, unlike the British, most of whose forces had fought in the American colonies earlier in the Seven Years' War.
		Montcalm could have refused to meet them on the field (as his advisors suggested), and his decision to leave the fortified town and engage the British on the battlefield is often viewed as a mistake; his fear was that of British entrenchment.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Battle-of-Quebec-(1759) (1167 words)

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		Battle of Orleans 1429.] Then it was, that by a mysterious inspiration, Joan of Arc, a child and a peasant, led the French army to the besieged City of Orleans, and the crucial battle was won.
		Battle of Quebec, 1760.] Two years later a quarrel over the boundaries of their American colonies brought the French and English into direct conflict.
		Battles were lost and won, the courage and resources of the Americans holding out for years as if by miracle, until when reinforced by France the end drew near; and was reached with the defeat of Lord Cornwallis at Yorktown.
	public.planetmirror.com /pub/pg/etext04/vlmpr10.txt (21385 words)

	Battle of Quebec (1760)
		The Battle of Sainte-Foy, fought April 28, 1760, was a French victory under the Chevalier de Levis[?] over the British army under General Murray.
		In the meantime Lévis was unable to take Quebec City.
		The text of this article is licensed under the GFDL.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ba/Battle_of_Quebec_(1760).html (54 words)

	Battle of Quebec (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Battle of Quebec (1691) - British during King William's War
		Battle of Quebec (1711) - British during Queen Anne's War
		In 1981 while I was attending a French Immersion Program at Laval University in Quebec, I came across this book at the campus library.
	www.freeglossary.com /Battle_of_Quebec (394 words)

	Quebec
		Quebec's reads like a chronology: fleurs-de-lis in the chief representing the French Régime, an English lion in the centre (fess) representing the British Period, and maple leaves in the base for the Canadian period.
		As the king's representative in Quebec, it is possible that he just found it easiest to avoid the question of what were the appropriate arms to use on the flag: Quebec's version, or the sovereign's version.
		It is divided into three diagonal panels: the red at the hoist bears the national symbol of a maple leaf; the white in the centre, the city's arms; and the blue on the fly, the provincial emblem of a fleur-de-lis.
	fraser.cc /FlagsCan/Provinces/Quebec.html (9094 words)

	Battle of Kloster Kamp - Seven Years War
		Account: In the early autumn of 1760 the Archduke Ferdinand of Brunswick, the commander in chief of the allied army, lay behind the line of the River Diemel with his army.
		To create a diversion and draw the French armies to the West, the Archduke dispatched an army of some 20,000 men under the command of the Erbprinz to seize Wesel on the lower Rhine.
		At this critical point in the battle the Erbprinz was injured falling from his wounded horse, putting him out of action for a time.
	www.britishbattles.com /seven-years/kloster-kamp.htm (1137 words)

	French and Indian War interactive Scavenger Hunt
		The Battle of Quebec was fought on a flat area known as the Plains of ___________________.
		In the Battle of the Plains of Abraham (at Quebec City), British General James ______________ was mortally wounded.
		The Battle at Ticonderoga is often referred to as the Battle of Fort _______________.
	www.mrnussbaum.com /fiwarintscav.htm (440 words)

	Bill 1 - An Act Respecting the Future of Quebec
		The conquest of 1760 did not break the determination of their descendants to remain faithful to a destiny unique in North America.
		To battle against misery and poverty, to support the young and the elderly, are essential features of the society we would build.
		It is true to the aspirations of Quebecers for autonomy and would allow Québec to achieve sovereignty: to levy all of its taxes, pass all of its laws, sign all of its treaties.
	www.sfu.ca /~aheard/bill1.html (4427 words)

	List of battles 1401-1800 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Battle of Tannenberg) on July 15 Polish and Lithuanian army under Wladislaus II of Poland break the spine of the Teutonic Knights under Ulrich von Jungingen
		1547 Battle of Mühlberg April 24 HRE Charles V captures elector of Saxony and lays siege to Wittenberg in the Schmalkaldic War.
		1709 Battle of Malplaquet September 11 - Prince of Savoy and Duke of Marlborough defeat the French in the largest battle of the 18th century, though at a terrible cost.
	www.worldhistory.com /wiki/L/List-of-battles-1401-1800.htm (4262 words)

	Battle of Warburg - Seven Years War
		In late July 1760 Prince Ferdinand with his Hanoverian, Hessian, British and Prussian troops was forced to retreat north before Broglie’s superior French army, into the triangular area between the Diemel and Weser Rivers.
		On 30th July 1760, aware of the precariousness of his troops on the far side of the Diemel if Du Muy were reinforced, Ferdinand struck camp and marched for the river crossings.
		All the mounted regiments have Warburg as a battle honour.
	www.britishbattles.com /seven-years/warburg.htm (1372 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/French and Indian War
		In 1759, the Battle of the Plains of Abraham gave Quebec City to the British, who had to withstand a siege there after the Battle of Sainte-Foy a year later.
		General Amherst granted Vaudreuil's request that any French residents who chose to remain in the colony would be given freedom to continue worshiping in their Roman Catholic tradition, continued ownership of their property, and the right to remain undisturbed in their homes.
		The Battle of Fort Necessity, one of the opening engagements of the war, marked the first and only instance of George Washington surrendering in battle.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/French_and_Indian_War (2877 words)

	Québec Historical Retrospective - Tourist Guide of Quebec, The Portal of Quebec, Canada, Accommodation, Vehicules ...
		It wasn't until 1760, that the population reached 1700 residents.
		Due to the topography of the site, the city's physionomy was determined from the beginning and remains nearly unchanged to this day: religious establishments, hospitals and military buildings on the high ground, with the commercial activities and their installations downtown close to the waterways.
		Quebec's capture has always been the first objective of every Canadian invader, and the city was besieged five times.
	www.quebecweb.com /tourisme/quebec/villequebec/histoirang.html (611 words)

	SYW Chronology 1760
		February 29 1760: Battle near the Isle of Man. English Captain Elliot, with 3 frigates, defeats Thurot’s French force of 3 frigates, killing Thurot and causing all 3 of his ships to surrender.
		May 16 1760: In North America, the arrival of a English squadron bearing supplies and additional troops forces the French to break off their siege of Quebec and retreat to Montreal.
		September 19 1760: Allied General Wangenheim fights a small action on the left bank of the Weser, in western Germany, but is forced to retreat back to the right bank.
	www.sevenyearswarassociation.com /Reference/SYWChron1760.html (1091 words)

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