Erm…now what?–November 13, 1775

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Cover art for November 13, 1775: depiction of a scene from the Battle of Quebec, 1786. From Yale University Art Gallery.

Montgomery had done his thing at Fort St. Jean. Benedict Arnold had finally made it through the Maine (heh.) Now it was time to move in on Montreal.

What the Canadians didn’t count on was the possibility that Americans weren’t moving on Quebec, but Montreal. Americans can walk and chew gum at the same time, though, so they moved on Montreal, taking the city, and moved on Quebec at the same time, with less result. But the city was besieged just a few weeks later.

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