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Title: Illustrated Quebec, (The Gibraltar and tourists' Mecca of America) Under French and English occupancy : the story of its famous annals; with pen pictures descriptive of te matchless beauty and quaint mediaeval characteristics of the Canadian Gibraltar
Year: 1893 (1890s)
Authors: Adam, G. Mercer (Graeme Mercer), 1830-1912
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Publisher: Montreal : McConniff
Contributing Library: ASC - York University Libraries
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eek refuge in theCitadel. The commanders of both sides fell mortally wounded—Wolfe dying on the field, and Montcalmbreathing his last on the morrow within the walls of Quebec. Three days afterwards Quebec surrendered,and the flag of Britain supplanted the emblem of France. In the ensuing winter the city was held b)an English garrison, under General Murray, and in the following spring it narrowly escaped capture byDe Levis, at the head of seven thousand men who had come from Montreal to attack it. The timelyarrival of a British fleet saved the now British stronghold, while Montreal was in turn invested, and thatpost and all Canada surrendered to the British Crown. Three years later the Peace of Paris confirmed thecession of the country to Britain and closed the dominion of France in Canada. In the Revolutionary War the stability of Englands conquest of Quebec was threatened by Americaninvasions under Arnold and Montgomery. In the war, the Americans called upon the French-Canadians 44
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