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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Battle of Longue-Pointe (redirect from Battle of Montreal (1775))
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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Boston campaign (redirect from British forces in Boston (Winter 1774-1775))
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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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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South Georgia (redirect from Isle de la Roche)
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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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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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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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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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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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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American Revolutionary War (redirect from Revolutionary war 1775)
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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James Henry Craig (section Service in Canada)
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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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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Quebec (redirect from Province de Québec)
Lefkowitz, Arthur S. (2008). Benedict Arnold's Army: The 1775 American Invasion of Canada during the Revolutionary War. Savas Beatie. ISBN 978-1-932714-03-6...
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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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Google Books, 8 October 2009. Morrissey, Brendan. Quebec 1775: the American invasion of Canada Osprey Pub. Oxford:2003. p38. Accessed through Google Books...
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