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French defenders of Quebec |
What I found so intriguing was that the New Englanders had actually mounted a seaborne invasion of the
This piece begins with a brief summary of the historical events on which the scenario is built. My sources for this are Mr Chartrand’s article and the book Frontenac and New France under Louis XIV by Francis Parkman written some 100 years ago. I don’t know if RC used this book as a primary source for his own writing or whether his information was gathered independently by I must acknowledge both sources as very helpful and in the main relatively un-contradictory. I have not quoted either text directly but rather paraphrased and added some of my own opinion in this first section.