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American Revolution Podcast

Episode 079 The Battle of Quebec

American Revolution Podcast

Michael Troy

Education, History

4.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 13 January 2019

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

General Montgomery and Colonel Arnold make a desperate attempt to take Quebec City before their soldiers' enlistments expire at the end of 1775. Despite a brave attack, the attack fails, leaving the Continental Army in Canada in tatters. Visit https://blog.AmRevPodcast.com for more text, pictures, maps, and sources on this week's episode. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Today episode 79 the Battle of Quebec.

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When we left off last week, General Montgomery and Colonel Arnold

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had finally combined their forces just up river from Quebec City.

1:14.6

Their combined force of around 1100

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was smaller than each individual force had been at the outset of their marches a few months earlier.

1:25.0

Disease and illness related to exposure were big reasons for the loss of men.

1:31.0

Many of their forces had simply given up and gone home. Montgomery lost about half of his

1:37.6

remaining army after he took Montreal. Arnold had lost about one third of his force when one of his brigades had given up in the wilderness

1:47.0

and simply turned around and went back to Boston.

1:51.0

Even worse, most of the men who had held out this long looked forward to the end of the year

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when their enlistments ended and they too could go home. In less than a month, the army might dissolve away without a shot being fired.

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