Canadian+Invasion

Canadian Invasion: Battles of Quebec and Montreal
 Battle of Quebec (1775)

 [|The Battle of Quebec] was held on [|December 31, 1775]. The Americans wanted to capture [|Quebec] and enlist the French Canadians to help the war. The British had a force of [|1800], 5 casualties, 14 were wounded, and zero were captured. The Americans had a force of 1200, 48 casualties, 34 were wounded, and 431 were captured. [|Richard Montgomery] and [|Benedict Arnold] led the Americans along with some Canadian militia-men. [|General George Washington] was not at the battle because he was down in [|Boston, Massachusetts]. The men who led the British in Canada were [|Guy Carlton and Colonel Allen Maclean]. The Americans had planned a multiple pronged attack on Quebec, but due to bad weather and timing, it led to the attack not starting well. In the beginning of the battle Montgomery was killed and Arnold was hurt. Arnold was wounded early in the battle which led to [|Daniel Morgan] being forced to led the troops.  The British had control over Quebec at the time. It was the first [|big defeat] for the Americans in the Revolutionary War. When the two forces [|joined back] together they were going to start the invasion. [|Montgomery]'s forces turned back after he was killed, but Arnold's kept going. David Montgomery wrote [|letters] to General [|Philip Shuyler]. The [|second of the letters] was about how the troops needed money and provisions. While Montgomery was writing Shuyler, Arnold was writing to general [|David Wooster]. In the [|first letter] he was discussing the plan that they had to take over Quebec. In his [|next letter] to Wooster he talked about what had happened at the battle. They had tried to seize the province under the cover of a [|snowstorm and nighttime].  Eventually the [|British prevailed] and the threat to their power had ceased. The original plan of the Americans was to [|liberate the city] from the tyranny of the British Army. After the battle had been devastatingly lost the Americans [|returned] back to [|New York]. Although the Americans had lost this battle brutally, they went on to [|win the war] in total.



 An important person in the Battle of Quebec was [|Benedict Arnold]. He was born in [|Norwich, Connecticut in 1741]. He is most known for being the largest American traitor in history for nearly giving up [|West Point]. His name is ofter [|synonymous with the words traitor and spy]. That is not the case in the earlier years of the [|war]. He was a brilliant leader and military man who [|lost battles but also won some]. He lost the Battle of Quebec, but had won the [|Battle of Saratoga]. Although he had a long list of accomplishments, he was still[| a traitor to his country]. He had nearly gave up West Point which was the [|fort he was in command of]. His delivery boy was randomly stopped and searched of the road and had just happened to have the information on him, which [|crippled the plan].

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Battle of Montreal (1775)

 The battle of Montreal was held on [|September 25, 1775]. This battle is also known as the [|battle of Longue-Pointe]. A small force of [|American and Quebec] militia had marched their way to Montreal to save it from the strangling grip of the British. The Americans were led by colonel [|Ethan Allen] who was [|captured] at the battle, but escaped to freedom about two years later.  [|General Guy Carlton] had heard about the attack and [|sent a force] made up mostly of Quebec militia to meet them. This had cut off the escape route and forced them to surrender, which lead to [|Allen]'s capturing. This battle happened after the capture of [|Fort Ticonderoga]. Although the Americans had won Fort Ticonderoga, they had lost the [|Battle of Montreal].  The British had a very large advantage because the Americans were [|sick, cold, and starving] . The Americans [|rations] had become very little and they had to drink the rain water, which lead to dysentery. [|Allen] and [|Arnold] both lead the attack. Many had died and left the Americans with around [|600 men]. These unfortunate events led the British to win.



A very important figure in not only the Battle of Montreal, but also in the the Revolutionary War itself was Colonel Ethan Allen. He was born on [|January 21, 1738] in [|Litchfield, Connecticut] . He is most popularly known by association with the state of Vermont. He was a [|founder]  of the Green Mountain State. He is also commonly associated with the Green Mountain Boys who were a [|militia] organized in the area of Vermont before it existed. When he was captured in the [|Battle of Montreal] he managed to [|escape execution]. He escaped two years after the capturing by being taken to England and was returned to the United States on [|May 6, 1778]. He was returned because of a [|prisoner exchange.] He was given the rank of [|Major General] in the Vermont Militia. After the revolution was over Vermont could not join the new republic because New York, Massachusetts, and Connecticut had all claimed it as their own. The Vermonters were frustrated and even when to go talk to the governor of Canada, Frederick Haldimand, about maybe [|rejoining] the British empire once again.