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    The Invasion of Quebec (June 1775 – October 1776, French: Invasion du Québec) was the first major military initiative by the newly formed Continental Army...
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    The Battle of Quebec (French: Bataille de Québec) was fought on December 31, 1775, between American Continental Army forces and the British defenders of...
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    Wikimedia Commons has media related to 1775. 1775 (MDCCLXXV) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting...
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    Events from the year 1775 in Canada. Monarch: George III Governor of the Province of Quebec: Guy Carleton Governor of Nova Scotia: Francis Legge Commodore-Governor...
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    British invasions of the River Plate were two unsuccessful British attempts to seize control of the Spanish colony of the Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata...
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  • campaigns, theaters, and expeditions of the war Boston campaign (1775–1776) Invasion of Quebec (1775–1776) New York and New Jersey campaigns (1776–1777) Saratoga...
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    Letters to the inhabitants of Canada were three letters written by the First and Second Continental Congresses in 1774, 1775, and 1776 to communicate directly...
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    The 1st Canadian Regiment (1775–1781) was an Extra Continental regiment of the American Patriots' Continental Army, consisting primarily of volunteers...
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    involving naval forces of the British Royal Navy and the Continental Navy from 1775, and of the French Navy from 1778 onwards. Although the British enjoyed more...
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    Richard Montgomery (category 1775 deaths)
    Revolutionary War, and he is most famous for leading the unsuccessful 1775 invasion of northeastern Quebec. Montgomery was born and raised in Ireland to...
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    fought throughout North America, the Caribbean, and elsewhere from April 19, 1775, to September 3, 1783. The war formally commenced at the Battles of Lexington...
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    Quebec militia to capture Montreal from British forces on September 25, 1775, early in the American Revolutionary War. Allen, who had been instructed...
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    Continental Army (category 1775 establishments in the Thirteen Colonies)
    States during the American Revolutionary War. It was formed on June 14, 1775, by a resolution passed by the Second Continental Congress, meeting in Philadelphia...
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    The campaign began with the Battles of Lexington and Concord on April 19, 1775, in which the local colonial militias interdicted a British government attempt...
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    experience. Claude Louis, Comte de Saint-Germain was France's war minister from 1775 to 1777. Alexandre Marie Léonor de Saint-Mauris de Montbarrey was France's...
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    The Invasion of Isle de France was a complicated but successful British amphibious operation in the Indian Ocean, launched in November 1810 during the...
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  • of French-Canadian and Acadian parents. Most of the men were members of the 1st Canadian Regiment of the Continental Army, recruited in 1775 by James Livingston...
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    Fort Ticonderoga on Lake Champlain on May 10, 1775, and invaded Canada later in 1775. In early June 1775, Ethan Allen and his then subordinate, Seth Warner...
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  • The New York Provincial Congress (1775–1777) was a revolutionary provisional government formed by colonists in 1775, during the American Revolution, as...
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    Fort Saint-Jean (Quebec) (category Military history of Canada)
    played a crucial role in the British defense strategy during the 1775 American invasion of the Province of Quebec. In 1663, the French King Louis XIV decided...
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    made the first landing, survey and mapping of the island, and on 17 January 1775 he claimed it a British possession, naming it "Isle of Georgia" after King...
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  • in 1775–6. Soon afterwards, he moved to Montreal and he was admitted to the bar there in 1777. He was elected to the 1st Parliament of Lower Canada for...
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    Montreal (redirect from Ville de Montréal)
    Revolution, the invasion of Quebec resulted after Benedict Arnold captured Fort Ticonderoga in present-day upstate New York in May 1775 as a launching...
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    The Death of General Montgomery in the Attack on Quebec, December 31, 1775 is an oil painting completed in 1786 by the American artist John Trumbull. It...
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  • throughout the French and Indian War. In 1775, during the American Revolutionary War, plans to invade Canada were drawn up as the first major military...
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    The American Revolutionary War (April 19, 1775 – September 3, 1783), also known as the Revolutionary War or American War of Independence, was a military...
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    second lieutenant in a cavalry regiment near the German border in February 1775. He was promoted to supernumerary captain in 1779 in a non-existent company...
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    the American colonies. After the outbreak of the War of Independence in 1775, Craig took part in the Battle of Bunker Hill, where he was badly wounded...
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    Sixty Years' War (category Military history of Canada)
    the American Revolutionary War (1775-1783). The war spilled onto the frontier, with British military commanders in Canada working with North American Indian...
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  • Ignace-Philippe Aubert de Gaspé, and studied at the Petit Séminaire de Québec. He helped defend the province against the invasion by the Americans in 1775-6. In 1786...
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