. 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. ™1 X K V^ CALhXHE DRIVING. to join them in their revolt, and though it is true that a smallband responded, the majority remained stanch in their alle-giance to Britain and resisted the blandishments of passive attitude of the French Province, when it wasexpected to rally to the standard of revolt, so angered theAmericans that thej
. 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. ™1 X K V^ CALhXHE DRIVING. to join them in their revolt, and though it is true that a smallband responded, the majority remained stanch in their alle-giance to Britain and resisted the blandishments of passive attitude of the French Province, when it wasexpected to rally to the standard of revolt, so angered theAmericans that thej determined to invade Canada and wrestit from the British Crown. In 1755 two expeditions werefitted out for this purpose, one of which seized the forts onLake Champlain, the gateway of Canada, and, thinking thatthe Canadians would offer no resistance, proceeded to investMontreal. Another expedition advanced upon Quebec. Mont-real being indifferently garrisoned, surrendered to the Amer-icans, but the attack on Quebec failed, after some weeks American general, Montgomery, who had formerly foughtfor Britain in Canada, was killed in storming the Citadel on the31st of December, and the discomfited invading force was inthe following spring
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