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BATTLE OF MONTREAL

During the French and Indian War, after the loss of Quebec in 1759, the centre of the French force was Montreal. Upon this the English forces advanced from Quebec under Murray, from Lake Champlain under Haviland and from Lake Ontario under Amherst. The various outposts were driven in, and by September the 6th the English with 17,000 invested the town. The French were reduced to 2300 by desertion, and Vaudreuil, feeling resistance to be useless, surrendered, on September the 8th, 1759. The whole colony passed to the English, and the French army and officers were sent back to France. On the twelfth of November, 1775, General Montgomery captured the city of Montreal. It was a part of a scheme of the Revolutionary Americans to conquer Canada, which threatened their strategic centre, New York.
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