Category: Surrender of Montreal (1760)

Categories: French and Indian War Conflicts | Seven Years' War | New France Armed Forces

After the failed siege of Quebec, the British commanders were eager to bring the Conquest to a close. Thus, in September 1760, three British armies – led separately by James Murray, Brigadier William Havilland, and Major-General Jeffery Amherst – convened on the remaining French forces in Montreal. On 8 September 1760, to avoid another bloodbath, General Lévis and Governor General Pierre, Marquis de Vaudreuil-Cavagnal surrendered the entire French colony of Canada. Thus, with the capitulation of Montreal, the British had effectively won the war. The details of the Conquest, however, still had to be sorted out between England and France. In line with the Old World's "rules of war", Britain assured the 60,000 to 70,000 Francophone inhabitants freedom from deportation and from confiscation of property, freedom of religion, the right to migrate to France, and equal treatment in the fur trade.

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• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conquest_of_1760

Jacob Bailey 19 Jul 1726 Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts Bay Colony - 01 Mar 1815

Aaron Banks 01 Jun 1738 York, York, Maine - 06 Aug 1823

William Haviland abt 1717 Ireland - 16 Sep 1784

Phineas Lyman bef 06 Mar 1716 Durham, Hartford, Connecticut Colony - abt 10 Sep 1774

Peter Pond abt 18 Jan 1739 Milford, New Haven, Connecticut Colony - 06 Mar 1807

William Shaw 02 Nov 1735 County Wexford, Ireland - 1813

John Stuart 23 Aug 1735 Stenton, East Lothian, Scotland - abt 1805

Joseph Stuart 05 Aug 1731 Rowley, Essex, Massachusetts Bay - 14 Aug 1760

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