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• Sunday April 20 - Seven thousand French troops start to recapture Quebec.
• Monday April 28 - Murray's 7,714 troops retire to the Citadel, after fighting the Canadians outside the walls of Quebec. The French prepare to besiege.
• Friday May 9 - The belligerents, of each nationality, expect a fleet bringing troops and supplies. An approaching frigate proves to be British.
• Thursday May 15 - Two more British war-ships arrive. The British win a naval battle near Quebec.
• Saturday May 17 - The French raise the siege of Quebec.
• Saturday September 6 - General Jeffrey Amherst invests Montreal.
• September 6 to September 7 - A council of war, at Montreal, favors capitulation.
• Monday September 8September 8 is the 251st day of the year (252nd in leap years). There are 114 days remaining. Events 1331 Stefan Dusan declares himself king of Serbia 1380 Battle of Kulikovo Russian forces under Grand Prince Dmitrii Ivanovich defeat a mixed army of Tatar - Amherst's, Murray's, and Haviland's commands, around Montreal, are about 17,000.
• The articles of capitulation are agreeable to the French, except that they do not concede "all the honors of war" or "perpetual neutrality of Canadians."
• De Levis threatens to retire to St. Helen's Island and fight to the last; but the Governor orders him to disarm.
• Fortress LouisbourgFortress Louisbourg (fr. Forteresse de Louisbourg is a Canadian National Historic Site and the location of a partial reconstruction of an 18th century French fortress at Louisbourg, Nova Scotia. History French settlement on le Royale (now Cape Breton Isla demolished by the British.
• Fall of Montreal and surrender of Great Lakes and Ohio Valley French forts to English. Lord Jeffrey Amherst starts a "get tough with Indians" policy, including the first biological warfare -- smallpoxSmallpox (also known by the Latin names Variola or Variola vera is a highly contagious disease unique to humans caused by two virus variants called Variola major and Variola minor. major is the more deadly form, with a typical mortality of 20-40 percent o-infested blankets. Amherst granted some Seneca (originally his allies) lands to his officers. Odawa chief Pontiac (and the Delaware Prophet) organize a resistance preaching return to traditional Indian customs. The 1761 draft Proclamation (to English governors), and the Royal Proclamation of 1763The Royal Proclamation of 1763 was issued October 7, 1763 by the British government in the name of King George III to prohibit settlement by British colonists beyond the Appalachian Mountains in the lands captured by Britain from France in the French and (with a large Indian country in what's now the U.S. Great Lakes/Midwest) were part of the English Crown's attempt to mollify the Indians. Neither proclamation of undisturbed Indian lands was followed by settlers or the Crown.
• The British Conquest. General James MurrayJames Murray may refer to: James Murray a British military officer and governor of Quebec in the 1700's James Murray a British military officer and Chief of the Imperial General Staff in the 1900's James Murray a Scottish lexicographer James Murray lord o is appointed first British military governor of Quebec.