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Hello, and thanks for joining Revolution 250. This is where we remember events that took place

250 years ago this week. It is a short bonus episode from the American Revolution podcast

to remember these important anniversaries from the Revolutionary War.

This week, we remember the arrival of a delegation from the Continental Congress in Montreal

on April 29, 1776.

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The Continental Congress really wanted the province of Quebec to join the Revolutionary War.

It was the one really large colony that had not done so.

Quebec was largely populated by French-speaking colonists.

When France turned over Quebec to Britain at the end of the Seven Years' War,

the French colonists simply remained there, and they had to give their allegiance

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