WDW101Y1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 09: Habitants, Lower Canada, North West Company
15 Jun 2013
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Chapter nine: quebec society in the late eighteenth century. From the early 1770s, american radical propaganda denouncing the. The continental congress in philadelphia decided early in the revolutionary war to invade canada in order to prevent the british from concentrating their forces and in september 1775, general. After abandoning montreal to the americans in late november. 1775, carleton fled to quebec and feared for the worst. A fleet of british ships sailed up the st. lawrence on may 1776 and forced the americans to retreat. Carleton was then blamed for the failed campaigns in 1776 through no fault of his own. In 1777, the british conceived a plan to strike down from quebec to new york city, cutting the rebellious colonies in two. However due to the large american armies, the british suffered defeats at. The alliance of france and the americans in february 1778 changed the face of the war.
