Examples of Battle of Quebec in the following topics:
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- In the early stages of the American Revolution, battles over Quebec, New York, and New Jersey played an important role in the war.
- The objective of the campaign was to gain military control of the British Province of Quebec and to persuade the French-speaking Canadiens to support the revolution.
- In December 1775, Montgomery and Arnold's combined forces were defeated at the Battle of Quebec.
- Combined with news of the recovery of Quebec, circumstances suggested to British leaders that the war could soon be won.
- General George Washington rallying his troops at the Battle of Princeton, by William Ranney, 1848
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- The conflict, the fourth such colonial war between the kingdoms of France and Great Britain, resulted in the British conquest of all of New France east of the Mississippi River, as well as Spanish Florida.
- The outcome was one of the most significant developments in a century of Anglo-French conflict.
- The sole British successes in the early years of the war came in 1755, at the Battle of Lake George, which secured the Hudson Valley; and in the taking of Fort Beauséjour (which protected the Nova Scotia frontier).
- In 1756 William Pitt became Secretary of State of Great Britain.
- 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.
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- Although he won the bloody Battle of Prague and laid siege to the city, he lost the Battle of Kolin, which forced him to lift the siege and withdraw from Bohemia altogether.
- After winning the battles of Rossbach and Leuthen, Frederick once again established himself as Europe's premier general but the Prussians were now facing the prospect of four major powers attacking on four fronts (France from the west, Austria from the south, Russia from the east, and Sweden from the north).
- They succeeded in capturing territory in surrounding colonies and ultimately the city of Quebec (1759).
- Though the British later lost the Battle of Sainte-Foy west of Quebec (1760), the French ceded Canada in accordance with the Treaty of Paris (1763).
- Frederick the Great routed a vastly superior Austrian force at the Battle of Leuthen on December 5, 1757.
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- General John Burgoyne, in an attempt to isolate the northern colonies, was defeated by Patriot troops in the Battle of Saratoga.
- In the fall of 1777, the Battles of Saratoga changed the course of the American War of Independence, giving the Patriots the advantage.
- In the summer of 1777, British General John Burgoyne planned an attack from Quebec on the Continental Army.
- Leger was forced to raise the siege and head back through Oswego to Quebec.
- Just north of Saratoga, Burgoyne won a small tactical victory over General Horatio Gates and the Continental Army in the September 19th Battle of Freeman's Farm at the cost of 600 casualties, or ten percent of the British forces.
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- General Washington positioned 11,000 men between Howe and Philadelphia, but was outflanked and driven back at the Battle of Brandywine on September 11, 1777.
- In June 1777, Burgoyne marched
south from Quebec toward Albany with 8,000 troops severely weakened by Patriot
efforts to cut off British supply lines via raids and scorched earth tactics.
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September 19th, Burgoyne won a small tactical victory against
Continental General Horatio Gates at the Battle of Freeman’s Farm, the First Battle
of Saratoga.
- The British were quickly
defeated at the Battle of Bemis Heights, or the Second Battle of Saratoga, with
nearly 900 casualties versus the mere 150 suffered by the Continental Army.
- Washington, however, managed to intercept the evacuating forces at the New Jersey Monmouth Court House, resulting in one of the largest and most infamous battles of the Revolutionary War.
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- Seven days later, Arnold and 50 men boldly raided Fort Saint-Jean on the Richelieu River in southern Quebec, seizing military supplies, cannons, and the largest military vessel on Lake Champlain.
- In 1775, Fort Ticonderoga's location did not appear to be as strategically important as it had been in the French and Indian War, when the French famously defended it against a much larger British force in the 1758 Battle of Carillon.
- In 1775, it was garrisoned by only a small detachment of the 26th Regiment of Foot, consisting of two officers and 46 men, many of whom had limited duties because of disability or illness.
- After the war began with the Battles of Lexington and Concord on April 19, 1775, the British General Thomas Gage realized the fort would require fortification; simultaneously, several colonists had the idea of capturing the fort.
- In July of 1775, the fort was used as the staging ground for the invasion of Quebec that was launched in late August.
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- A British attempt at relief was foiled at the Battle of Minorca and the island was captured.
- Having received reports of the clashes in North America and having secured the support of Great Britain with an Anglo-Prussian alliance, Frederick II crossed the border of Saxony, one of the small German states in league with Austria.
- The Anglo-French hostilities were ended in 1763 by the Treaty of Paris, which involved a complex series of land exchanges, the most important being France's cession to Spain of Louisiana, and to Great Britain the rest of New France except for the islands of St.
- The Quebec Act of 1774, similarly intended to win over the loyalty of French Canadians, also spurred resentment among American colonists.
- A battle during the Seven Years War between British and Indians in North America
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- The Battle of Leyte Gulf is generally considered the largest naval battle of World War II and possibly the largest naval battle in history.
- The Battle of Leyte Gulf, also called the Battles for Leyte Gulf, and formerly known as the Second Battle of the Philippine Sea, is generally considered to be the largest naval battle of World War II and, by some criteria, possibly the largest naval battle in history.
- The Battle of Leyte Gulf consisted of four separate major engagements between the opposing forces: the Battle of the Sibuyan Sea, the Battle of Surigao Strait, the Battle of Cape Engaño, and the Battle of Samar; there were also other lesser actions.
- Kamikaze strikes were first used by the Japanese in the Battle of Leyte Gulf
- Identify the notable facts and the four major engagements of the Battle of Leyte Gulf.
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- Several years later, in 1608, Samuel De Champlain founded Quebec, which was to become the capital of the enormous, but sparsely settled, fur-trading colony of New France.
- This network was maintained through a vast system of fortifications, many of them centered in the Illinois Country and in present-day Arkansas.
- Because of this, for most of its history, New France lagged far behind the British North American colonies in both population and economic development.
- Acadia, a colony of New France that included parts of eastern Quebec, the Maritime provinces, and modern-day Maine to the Kennebec River, was lost to the British in the Treaty of Utrecht in 1713.
- Champlain founded New France and Quebec City on July 3, 1608.
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- To many of their inhabitants, the seaport cities of colonial America were truly British cities.
- Many Americans saw the colonies' systems of governance as modeled after the British constitution of the time, with the king corresponding to the colonial governor, the House of Commons to the colonial assembly, and the House of Lords to the governor's council.
- Increasing competition between Britain and France, especially in the Great Lakes and Ohio valley, was one of the primary origins of the war.
- Throughout the course of the war, British officers trained American ones for battle, who would later fight their mentors in the American Revolution.
- In the Treaty of Paris ending the war,Britain gained all French territory east of the Mississippi River, including Quebec, the Great Lakes, and the Ohio River valley.