Montreal, Capture of (1760)

MONTREAL, CAPTURE OF (1760)

MONTREAL, CAPTURE OF (1760). The spirits of the French had been raised by the success of François Gaston de Lévis at Sainte Foy on 28 April 1760, but not for long. On 15 May the vanguard of the English ships appeared below Quebec. Lévis, abandoning hope of help from France, raised the siege and retreated up the river. The British plan to take Montreal had been carefully prepared. While Gen. Geoffrey Amherst descended the Saint Lawrence River, Gen. James Murray, with another army and the fleet, moved up the river, and Col. William Haviland approached by way of Lake Champlain. At Amherst's demand, on 8 September 1760 the governor, Pierre François de Rigaud, Marquis de Vaudreuil-Cavagnal, surrendered Montreal, and with it Canada.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Wrong, George M. The Fall of Canada: A Chapter in the History of the Seven Years' War. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1914.

Lawrence J. Burpee / a. r.

See also Canada, Relations with ; French and Indian War ; Montreal, Capture of (1775) .