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This week, episode 87, Canada in the spring of 1776.

So last week we finally saw the British evacuate Boston.

The British, however, were still holding Quebec,

and the Americans could not take the city. If they could not

take control before British reinforcements arrived in the spring, Canada would

almost certainly remain British. When we last left Canada in episode 79,

General Montgomery had been killed, Colonel Arnold injured,

and most of the army captured in the failed attempt to take the city of Quebec on January 1st, 1776.

Following the battle, Arnold, who found out about his promotion to general in late January, commanded the continued

siege of Quebec from his hospital bed.

His force of only a few hundred men was smaller than the force of the defenders in the city.

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