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This is from the American Revolution podcast, a short bonus episode to remind you about important anniversaries from the Revolutionary War. This week,

we remember the capture of Montreal on November 13, 1775.

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For several months in the early fall of 1775, the Continental Army had besieged the British Army at St. John's, Quebec.

The fort at St. John's sat on the Richelieu River just north of Lake Champlain and just south of Montreal.

British commander Guy Carlton had deployed the bulk of his British regulars there,

hoping to prevent the Continental Army from moving further north. The British defended themselves

against a much larger Continental Army besieging them. But after about two months, and after

Carlton's attempt to lead a force of loyalists and Indians to break the siege,

failed, the British commander at Fort St. John surrendered. Carlton was at Montreal when Fort St.

John's fell. He had with him the remainder of the British regulars in Canada, about 150 men.

They, of course, would be no match for the Continental Army that would

soon be approaching. On November 11th, after spending a few days spiking their cannons and

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