1760 in Canada

Table of contents

1 Events
2 Births
3 Deaths

Events

Sunday April 20 - Seven thousand French troops start to recapture Quebec.
Monday April 28 - Murray's 7,714 troops retire to the Citadel, after fighting the Canadians outside the walls of Quebec. The French prepare to besiege.
Friday May 9 - The belligerents, of each nationality, expect a fleet bringing troops and supplies. An approaching frigate proves to be British.
Thursday May 15 - Two more British war-ships arrive. The British win a naval battle near Quebec.
Saturday May 17 - The French raise the siege of Quebec.
Saturday September 6 - General Jeffrey Amherst invests Montreal.
September 6 to September 7 - A council of war, at Montreal, favors capitulation.
Monday September 8 - Amherst's, Murray's, and Haviland's commands, around Montreal, are about 17,000.
The articles of capitulation are agreeable to the French, except that they do not concede "all the honors of war" or "perpetual neutrality of Canadians."
De Levis threatens to retire to St. Helen's Island and fight to the last; but the Governor orders him to disarm.
Fortress Louisbourg demolished by the British.
Fall of Montreal and surrender of Great Lakes and Ohio Valley French forts to English. Lord Jeffrey Amherst starts a "get tough with Indians" policy, including the first biological warfare --smallpox-infested blankets. Amherst granted some Seneca (originally his allies) lands to his officers. Odawa chief Pontiac (and the Delaware Prophet) organize a resistance preaching return to traditional Indian customs. The 1761 draft Proclamation (to English governors), and the Royal Proclamation of 1763 (with a large Indian country in what's now the U.S. Great Lakes/Midwest) were part of the English Crown's attempt to mollify the Indians. Neither proclamation of undisturbed Indian lands was followed by settlers or the Crown.
The British Conquest. General James Murray is appointed first British military governor of Quebec.