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...American General Richard Montgomery and Colonel Benedict Arnold join in attack on Quebec and are routed. Montgomery killed...
William Howe served in North America from 1758 to 1761 as a young officer, eventually leading his brigade up the cliffs at Quebec to help Wolfe defeat Montcalm on the Plains of Abraham. Less than two years ago, as a Member of Parliament from Nottingham, he told his constituents that if offered a command in any war against the Colonies, he would refuse to serve...
...sometimes overlooked that the ambitious American policy drew much of its impetus from the Quebec Act, that tyrannical but farsighted statute by which George Ill's ministers reorganized the status of Canada within the Empire two years ago. The act denied Canadians both self-government and the right to trial by jury. But it confirmed the nearly feudal authority of the French landowning seigneurs, established the freedom (and thus the power) of Roman Catholicism in Canada, and granted to Canada great tracts of land spreading westward along the Ohio River...
Partly because several colonies (notably Virginia) lay claim to these same lands, American leaders regarded the Quebec Act as one of the so-called "Intolerable Acts" of the British government. Radicals were also incensed at a new abridgment of civil liberties. New Englanders were fearful of the apparent revival of a powerful Catholic neighbor to the north. (A 19-year-old student at King's College in New York, Alexander Hamilton, even wrote a pamphlet suggesting that the Inquisition would be reborn and might soon be burning heretics at the stake in America...
...influence of the church. The results are by now only too well known: as General Montgomery fought his way northward, occupying St. John's and Montreal, he enlisted few Canadian recruits despite his generous bonus offer. That virtually doomed the expedition even before the defeat last January at Quebec, where Montgomery was killed...