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unusual facts about Battle of Quebec


Battle of Quebec

Quebec Expedition (1711), British expedition to capture the city during the Queen Anne's War or War of the Spanish Succession; the expedition turned back after ships foundered on the coast of the Gulf of Saint Lawrence


Michel Chartier de Lotbinière, Marquis de Lotbinière

In the run up to the Battle of Quebec his cousin, Vaudreuil, employed him to build defences about the city, and during the battle he served as his aide-de-camp.

Montgomery County, Indiana

The county was named in honor of Richard Montgomery, an American Revolutionary War general killed on December 31, 1775, while attempting to capture Quebec City in the Battle of Quebec.

Samuel Tudor

Elihu was a preeminent surgeon who attended to British General James Wolfe at the Battle of Quebec.

Stoke, Cheshire East

General James Wolfe, hero of the Battle of Quebec of 1759, is supposed to have spent some of his childhood at Yew Tree House near Verona.


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