It's important to note the citadel (the big fortress that sits to the south west of the upper city) wasn't built until the 1820's after the War of 1812. Many tourists think that was part of the the city wall during the Late French early British period but it wasn't. Bu yea, when looking at the terrain, old walls, and the citadel... Quebec city was a beefy city before the age of flight. Which makes sense, since it was the gateway to the St. Lawrence river... Making it the bottleneck to the Great Lakes or the Atlantic Ocean depending on which way you were going. Making it one of the most economically strategic places in the Americas before the invention of the steam engine. This is something the French, British, and Americans alike all knew.
Lessons to be learned: 1. Don't assault an enemy in a fortified position if they outnumber you. Use a strategem if you must capture the fort, don't assault it. 2. WHY IN THE NINE HELLS ARE YOU INVADING CANADA IN THE WINTER?!
There’s also that the “lower town and upper town here” that wall is big and the cliff is also big. The city is built in a way so that those paths are choke points for invaders
they assaulted the citizen around the fortified city, the citizens from their home fought off the americans without the british military help inside the city. AKA they did have a plan to force the military out by attacking civilians, but the civilians held their ground and won over the american military
Fun fact: my great X8 grandfather was the french military engineer who designed both fort tyconderoga (formerly fort carillon) and the defenses around Quebec city. The walls of Quebec are the only fortified city walls remaining in north america.
that's the problem with building great fortifications manned by an inferior army … once they are taken by experienced command, they can be held forever.
I'm from Québec and, seeing a map of the city at the time is very interesting, I'm able to visualize where certain historical buidings are while also vizualizing where iconic buildings that did not exist at the time are today.
Just by looking at the overall shape of the wall you can guess where stuff is today it’s awesome that our walls are still holding and such an iconic figure of our city
From Québec as well, and that's what I kept looking at as well. It was interesting to match my knowledge of the geography of the city with a more detailed history of it. I knew "some" of the stuff that happened, but I never really learned who did what, and in which order. I'm more familiar with the battle of the plains of Abraham, but always knew of the battle of Quebec city without ever doing a deep dive. Great video.
@@LordKalte Dans le quartier champlain, il y a une Rue de la Barricade, et sur la pancarte en métal qui indique le nom de la rue, just en dessous du nom de la rue ça dit en tout petit: "Les forces américaines repoussées le 31 décembre 1775" 😄
@@HistoryRebels Also, tiny detail, but Montréal isn't pronounced "Mon-TRE-all", it's more like "MUN-treel". Keep on the good stuff, it's still a great video!
@@anderson00832 "Mon-réal" is of course the official, french-speaking way of pronouncing it (as a french québécois it's how I pronounce it). But there is also a way that english-speaking québécois pronounce it, which is just as valid as the french one. Just like for Toronto, you can say "To-Ron-To" in french, but in english it's more like "Chrunno".
I'm from Quebec and we learned all that at school, but it's been a while and the teachers were so boring that I had forgotten most of it. This, on the other hand, was entertaining and well done. Thank you for that, I dont think I'll forget it again.
I am from Chambly, QC. The French fort there was originally built from wood in the late 1600s and was promptly burned down. It was rebuilt in stone in the early 1700s and fell into British hands after the battle of the plains of Abraham. Apparently, the British gave up the fort without much of a fight during the campaign described in this video. There is a grave marker there for American soldiers that didn't make it, most of the deaths were caused by disease and malnutrition. In the 1980s Parks Canada restored the fort so you can visit it, small but very interesting. Other than Quebec it must be one of Canada's oldest forts that's still standing.There is a great book called The Path of Destiny that explains many of these situations that helped form the borders we have today. I hope to visit the other forts like Ticonderoga and Crown point when I get a chance.
The street where the Canadien militia repelled the Americans is still called "Rue de la Barricade" and there's a plaque commemorating the event. As said, it was a stormy day. The bodies were buried quickly in the snow. It's only in Spring that they were found. If the dogs didn't find them first. As for General Montgomery, he was brought before Carlton inside the city's walls. There's also a plaque on the house where the house he died was situated. That building is now an hotel called Maison du Général. He was buried soberly but with dignity since he was appreciated by both Americans and British.
I just finished watching the previous two videos, and was about to sign up to watch the next video, then you uploaded this, what a treat. I still plan on signing up to your patreon. I hope the algorithm gods bless this channel.
Thank you from Montreal, mom's from Halifax, dad met her there while in the navy, her mom survived The Halifax Explosion, very well done! I love hearing all the french last names when just over the border! Josée Noël
Great video! When the Continental army reached Montréal, they brought with them a printing press to be used as a way to convince the Canadiens to join the revolution. The newspaper was named La Gazette, written in French. After the Insurgents left, the paper remained and became bilingual, then English only. It still exists today as The Gazette. Governor Guy Carleton was disappointed with the support he received from the Canadiens. He once said: ''Nothing to fear from them when everything is fine but nothing to hope for when trouble comes''.
Wow more on top of all the interesting things I am eagerly learning, and soaking up during retirement. Thank you so much for sharing this, the question is how long will it remain in my brain LOL. another issue I'm dealing with, But we all have those. 👍
As a Quebecer, I can certify that attacking Québec City in the winter through the rivers is a very bad idea. Especially if you have shown anti french sentiments before.
It always fascinated me that the Americans managed to made it this far north into Canada during the American Revolutionary war. They practically had control of all the south of modern day Quebec province. In addition to the harsh weather, the invasion failed because the Americans were hit by a smallpox epidemic that severely weakened their forces. More Americans died of disease than actual fighting during the invasion. I recently visited Fort Lennox/Ile-aux-Noix were the Americans had set up a camp for their troops and it is said that so many men were infected with smallpox there that hundreds of them had died and were buried in a mass grave somewhere on the island. Fun facts : Accordingly, in order to troll the Americans during the siege of Quebec, the British put a wooden horse on the walls, in clear view of the besiegers, and then put a bundle of hay in front of it. They then put a placard that said something like "The city will surrender only when this horse will have completely eaten the hay". Also, it is said that when Daniel Morgan and his men were forced to surrender, he refused to give his sword to Carleton, giving it instead to a French Canadian priest who had came out of his hiding spot when the fighting was over. This was a really great video!
Ben Franklin went into Quebec city to try to drum up support for the American revolution, but from the perspective of French Canadians it was a war of the British on the British, which would result in fewer British. There was discrimination against Catholics by the ruling British back then that lasted well into the 20th Century. The discrimination against the Irish during the potato famine also comes to mind. They had a lot to lose and it's not clear that they would have won anything. French speaking kids in Louisiana in the 1950's were beaten school if caught speaking French to one another. The French language was so suppressed that these kids lost their native language and couldn't speak to their Grand-Parents. Keeping in mind that this is how Americans treated their French minority after the Louisiana purchase despite the help they received in the Revolutionary war from France. How immigrants from Mexico are sometimes treated when a Karen hear them speaking Spanish has not gone unnoticed either. With knowledge of what happened subsequently, they appeared to have made the right choice given concessions obtained by the British govt at the time.
@@HepCatJack There has been repression against French speakers in Canada too. Both the British authorities and the Canadian government have tried to assimilate the French Canadians. Through massive British immigration, the French Canadians had become a minority in their own country in the 1830s and in 1840, the Canadian parliament was reorganized so that the French Canadians were now also in a political minority (by number of seats). In the 1870s and 1880s, the Canadian government sent the army to take control over indigenous and Metis lands in Manitoba. In the following decades, many provinces adopted laws to prevent French Canadians to attend school in French. Almost all French Canadians and Acadians who moved to the US have now disappeared, but it was not necessarily easy for those who stayed in Canada.
Can you do one on John Lamb. He was an officer in the continental army and was good friends with Benedict Arnold. Who was also injured and captured at the battle of Quebec. He was also in command of West Point during the war. He was even named officer of the day for his command of the U.S. artillery forces during the siege of Yorktown against Cornwallis. He is a nearly forgotten but important figure during the war.
The population of Quebec was split, some helped the americans and there were punishments from the English on those who helped. Also Lafayette was asked at the end of the war to take Quebec but he refused. Said he didn't have enough men.
I was born and raised in Quebec. I remember when up near the gate near the plains of Abraham the were renovating the wall and cam across 100 or so bones of buried bodies. Also there is a elevated grave yard on St johns street near a church that is now a library and a corner store with a parking lot behind it the city was renovating the sidewalk around 1983-4 and discovered hundreds of arm and leg bones sticking out from under the wall of the sidewalk and the city dug a trench into the graveyard and came upon a crypt under another crypt with 2 coffins in it. One was of a lesser grade officer and the other was someone much more important. My friend stole the head as well as other bones and made tourist jewelry out of the bones. He kept the skull and to this day i believe he still has it. Maybe on his death bed he will give it back?
One of the most in depth videos on this battle I've seen. Well done! Normally, all I hear is the Americans trudged through the winter to get there, showed up exhausted and depleted by disease and the march, attacked in a blizzard and it didn't go well. That's it nothing to see here, pretend this didn't happen.
Just be Happy that we got to at less survive under the British and not get the same treatment as the Spanish and Indigenous people under the manifest destiny of American Imperialism
I'm a French-Canadian and i born in Montreal city and today, i live in Quebec City. I eat to the restaurant whit my wife in lower Quebec. In futur, i never see Quebec City as before. Thanks for that.
Knowing how good the defense quebec city are idk how you could ever think you can capture it while outnumbered especially from an attack to the lower part of the city since the upper part of the town is a fortress on the top of a cliff.
At 62 born in Pa. On our original Memorial Day May 30th I have always been fascinated with history. Particularly war. During schooling I believe due to undiagnosed issues, perhaps ADHD my only interest were sports & art. Having a family sporting goods store. involving me in hockey BMX my favorites, that afforded me to travel. But all sports I was involved in during school, but books didn't appeal to me. Not to be long-winded as I tend to, I'm enjoying learning at this later stage of life. I do not remember or had no clue that during our revolutionary War we went into Canada to fight. I am more a voyeur enjoying movies and documentaries like this to educate me. Better late than never, thanks to the creator of this video and all the interesting comments I'm reading I have been enjoying greatly. 👍🤙✌️
I like your expression about being a voueur enjoying these documentaries. I knew of the attempted invasion of current Canada. But this showed it in a different way and started helping me picture it from the other side.
Then the good old Kentucky boys did the same thing in 1812, marching into Canada wearing light clothing! Some things never change. That year former president Jefferson said "The acquisition of Canada... will be a mere matter of marching". The last thing any country wants to do is fight Canadians. Don't let our reputation as peace keepers fool you either.
This story hits home for me. I have a copy of a 1789 George Washington Letter, that was written up as an introduction for Montgomery's Widow - Janet, for when she was going to visit her In-Law's in Ireland. Janet personally carried this letter over the Atlantic. This letter was addressed to my Ancestor, which in turn, Janet visited his place. This letter, was inherited down through the family lineages & ended up in my Family History. My Ancestor, knew Richard's family very well. From what I've researched, the failure of this assault, as described by the narrator, Montgomery felt that some, if not most of his army would retreat on the 1st of January 1776, due to their term ending, Montgomery pushed onwards because of this deadline (they've come so far to fail - now or never), he payed the ultimate price. After the war, Aaron Burr was propelled into his Senate Seat, greatly assisted from Janet Montgomery, due to her influences with the President & her Livingston Family for assisting in getting Richard's body back to Janet. Though from what I understand, Burr didn't initially obtain / drag his body. The British buried him with honors (honours) & the American's had to get a release, in order for Richard's body to get dug up & handed back (this duty, is where Janet assisted in Burr to obtain the senate seat).
👍 Great work. I enjoyed and loved it. Wish some Western history UA-camrs and American Revolutionary War history enthusiasts cover other theaters of the American Revolutionary War(1775-83). Like the Anglo-Maratha War of 1775-83 and the humiliating and disastrous defeats suffered by British and British EIC forces in India at that time.
I live in New England and the Quebec government not wanting to join the continentals makes a lot of sense. On Hampton Beach (New Hampshire) from the 1760's to about the 1940's french, Italians and other tourists were not allowed to be on the beach or on the boardwalk. The hatred between French canadians and the people of New England runs deep.
@@guyl9456 yes as it turns out I did some more digging on this and it was actually around the 1940’s when French and Italian tourists were allowed on the beach in Hampton. Not the 1970’s like I previously had said.
Very nice graphics and clear explications, bravo! A little anecdote, Montgomery's corpse was stored in a snowbank awaiting repatriment :)I visted an exhibition in Montreal over 10 years ago on an american shipwreck that was transporting home revolutionary soldiers and sunk.
One of my ancestor grandfathers, Seth Hoyt, served under "then loyal" Benedict Arnold on his march through the Maine wilderness to attack Quebec. He survived this campaign and then went on to fight under George Washington at Trenton and Princeton. He survived that as well. He was one of the men that was due to get out on December 31 after the battle of Trenton but volunteered to stay and fight to take Princeton.
My 4th great-grandfather, Caleb Haskell, from Newburyport, Massachusetts, was there in Captain Samuel Ward's Company in Lt. Col. Christopher Greene's Battalion, part of Colonel Arnold's force. He had been at Cambridge with Colonel Moses Little's Regiment since the beginning of May and signed up for the Quebec Expedition in September. He kept a diary which has been published and it has been quoted a couple of times when the authors are talking about the smallpox in the army. Caleb got smallpox and missed the assault. His enlistment expired on Dec. 31, along with the rest of his company, and in the middle of January they were put under house arrest and court-martialed and threated with whipping if they didn't reenlist. Caleb finally got a pass to leave Quebec at the beginning of May, just hours before the reinforced British force attacked. It took him the rest of the month to get back home to Newburyport. He traveled up the St. Lawrence to the Richelieu, then to Crown Point and across Vermont down the Crown Point Military road.
this was all the stuff i was suppose to have learned growing up, and this guy sums it up in 16 mins............... nice work, i learned alot...........👍👍👍👍
I live in the first canadian town benedict harnold cross in canada (st georges de beauce). And from what i know, people here helped the american... there was even an hotel name "auberge benedict harnold". The hotel is still there but it changed name not so long ago...
My ancestry is pretty much all French Canadian some of the first settlers on Canadian soil were my ancestors. So the likelihood of them fighting in this is very likely and 1812 also.
"let's convince French-Canadians to join our cause" *captures Montreal, proceeds to close down churches and discriminate against the French* Good job lol
Good video, although you should have mentioned how relieved Arnold's expedition was when they reached Quebec, according to the Emerging Revolutionary War video on the Battle of Quebec.
Great point. I cut a lot of content (including the Battle of Longue-Pointe) to keep the episode 'tight', but it must have been quite something for the Continentals to finally arrive outside of Quebec...
French and indian war. The revolution, war of 1812, Mexican american war and Spanish american war are some real blind spots for mw so I'm glad to see someone make animated videos on them
My 7th GGF is Charles Grim from Winchester Virginia , close confidant to Daniel Morgan . They were both pow at Quebec. Crazy to think if he didn’t survive , I wouldn’t be here
Fun fact: Montréal and Québec, in both official languages in Canada, take an accent in their name when writing name. Just like Trois-Rivières or other French origin names.
don't expect squareheads to respect our language, they still say and write joan of arc instead of jeanne d'arc and st-lawrence instead of st-laurent, they only care about their language and transforming others people language into a butched variant of english to humiliate us
If the invading Americans had tolerated the Catholic church and allowed for more self-control - and the use of French - by the locals, they would have had massive local support and likely won. But nope, they behaved like the English did, with the same (then) Protestant intolerance, and same arrogance versus the locals. The local English rulers were more shrewd, and did give some more power and rights to the French Canadians (Quebecers). It pains me that it took so little to have them be neutral here. I don't get how so many armies don't seek the support of the locals, especially in cases like these where they openly resent the rulers.
TBF, they WERE british at the time and since they had not knowledge of the local population, they just acted in a way that was natural to them, while the local british inhabitants/ruler were more aware that you're not supposed to do that if you want to keep popular support
@@ephraimboateng5239 yep. But they must have had at least some contacts with natives. Even if Quebecers were not, just talking about some need to gain local support and adapt... or just pretend to adapt. BTW local English rulers were typically way more pragmatic, as they dealt with locals, while many big merchants and rulers in England proper were rigid condescending ideologues. Partly because of arrogance, but likely to gain clout, political gains and so on... as it's still the same today. Dumb politicians and disconnected Big Corps only thinking of themselves and personal gains, regardless of consequences to the population, soldiers, etc. Back to this case, since Americans were invading, and they must have surely known that the locals resented the rulers, it just would have made sense to gain local support! For food, lodging, good intel, etc. I mean, they had a common enemy! But protestants had been quite intolerant at the time. Just think how even if a few decades ago, if you weren't one, how you had no chance for big offices as a politician in the US.
To be fair, we had just been conquered by the british in 1759, so jumping aboard with another bunch of englishmen rebelling against the taxes that had been levied to conquer us was not a very appealing option... And the british crown was pretty devious in letting us keep our catholic religion, civil code and french language, so that we'd have even fewer reasons to rebel. But that would bring us to the 1837-38 rebellion, as well as the 1980 and 1995 independance referendums. ;-)
""And the british crown was pretty devious in letting us keep our catholic religion, civil code and french language, so that we'd have even fewer reasons to rebel."" First time I've ever heard being civil and fair minded as "devious". What would you have called it if they abolished all that? 😂 😂 Typical French. Always whining.
@@lyndoncmp5751it's called history; Understanding other culture's past enables you to understand their resonings, references and reactions, in order not to avoid being a jerk. Saying that we're "french" shows you lack this understanding. FYI. It is clearly established that the brits forcibly deported our acadian cousins in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick (look it up, it's called the "Grand dérangement"). There is ample evidence that they were taking steps to forcibly assimilate or deport us as well. But since the 13 colonies rebelled after refusing to pay for it all, but after capturing Lake Champlain and Montréal, they failed in the streets of Québec (in a snowstorm actually). Then the british crown bought the support of the catholic church to keep us in line. The correspondence from this time period clearly prove it.
Do you have another channel out there? There is no way you just woke up a couple months ago and said "Lets make a Channel on the American Revolution" And made videos of this quality. I also quite like series like these that cover a topic in detail in multiple chronological videos.
Ha so weirdly enough that is what happened! I spent a few months learning Adobe Photoshop and After Effects after work, and then got to it. I'm glad you like them! Battle of Long Island next...
Visited Quebec last year. Even today the city still looks like a formidable fortress. The walls and the geography are intimidating.
It's important to note the citadel (the big fortress that sits to the south west of the upper city) wasn't built until the 1820's after the War of 1812. Many tourists think that was part of the the city wall during the Late French early British period but it wasn't. Bu yea, when looking at the terrain, old walls, and the citadel... Quebec city was a beefy city before the age of flight. Which makes sense, since it was the gateway to the St. Lawrence river... Making it the bottleneck to the Great Lakes or the Atlantic Ocean depending on which way you were going. Making it one of the most economically strategic places in the Americas before the invention of the steam engine. This is something the French, British, and Americans alike all knew.
I lives right next to the fortress for 7 years, it's I sight to behold
Lessons to be learned:
1. Don't assault an enemy in a fortified position if they outnumber you. Use a strategem if you must capture the fort, don't assault it.
2. WHY IN THE NINE HELLS ARE YOU INVADING CANADA IN THE WINTER?!
murica babyyyy
Life would be a lot better in America if we were under British rule.
There’s also that the “lower town and upper town here” that wall is big and the cliff is also big. The city is built in a way so that those paths are choke points for invaders
@@redwater4778 *Look at England in 2023* Yeaaahhh I doubt that....
they assaulted the citizen around the fortified city, the citizens from their home fought off the americans without the british military help inside the city. AKA they did have a plan to force the military out by attacking civilians, but the civilians held their ground and won over the american military
Fun fact: my great X8 grandfather was the french military engineer who designed both fort tyconderoga (formerly fort carillon) and the defenses around Quebec city.
The walls of Quebec are the only fortified city walls remaining in north america.
Wow that’s really spectacular and interesting.
that's the problem with building great fortifications manned by an inferior army … once they are taken by experienced command, they can be held forever.
We may be cousins... or atleast our ancestors may have known each other. My grandfather was pierre comeau a cooper and carpenter at port royal
@@jaewok5GUK and USA are the worst septic tanks in the history of earth. English is the shittiest language in the history of earth. Understood ?
I live near Ticonderoga. Ive touched the walls your grandfather built. Vive Liberté mon amis!
I'm from Québec and, seeing a map of the city at the time is very interesting, I'm able to visualize where certain historical buidings are while also vizualizing where iconic buildings that did not exist at the time are today.
Just by looking at the overall shape of the wall you can guess where stuff is today it’s awesome that our walls are still holding and such an iconic figure of our city
From Québec as well, and that's what I kept looking at as well. It was interesting to match my knowledge of the geography of the city with a more detailed history of it. I knew "some" of the stuff that happened, but I never really learned who did what, and in which order. I'm more familiar with the battle of the plains of Abraham, but always knew of the battle of Quebec city without ever doing a deep dive. Great video.
Criss de mauvais plan d'attaquer le Petit Champlain par le sud, pas surprenant qu'ils se sont fait clancher en une salve
@@LordKalte Dans le quartier champlain, il y a une Rue de la Barricade, et sur la pancarte en métal qui indique le nom de la rue, just en dessous du nom de la rue ça dit en tout petit: "Les forces américaines repoussées le 31 décembre 1775" 😄
Are the Quebec walls still there?
Small but important detail (for a Montrealer): the "Montreal" dot in the video is actually Laval. Montreal is the big Island south-east of Laval.
Thank you! I’m not sure how that slipped through the cracks, but I’ve corrected for future videos :)
@@HistoryRebels It's impossible to be 100% perfect, overall good vidéo !!!
@@HistoryRebels Also, tiny detail, but Montréal isn't pronounced "Mon-TRE-all", it's more like "MUN-treel". Keep on the good stuff, it's still a great video!
@@SaltyRaccoon no , it's pronouced mon-réal ... you don't prononced the T in it
@@anderson00832 "Mon-réal" is of course the official, french-speaking way of pronouncing it (as a french québécois it's how I pronounce it). But there is also a way that english-speaking québécois pronounce it, which is just as valid as the french one. Just like for Toronto, you can say "To-Ron-To" in french, but in english it's more like "Chrunno".
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Enjoyed the video. As a Canadian I had actually forgotten about this campaign. Was a nice refresher, cheers.
I'm from Quebec and we learned all that at school, but it's been a while and the teachers were so boring that I had forgotten most of it. This, on the other hand, was entertaining and well done. Thank you for that, I dont think I'll forget it again.
C'est le probleme avec nos générations, on connait rien pis on se forme une opinion avec les grands médias qui nous bourrent de propagande....
I am from Chambly, QC. The French fort there was originally built from wood in the late 1600s and was promptly burned down. It was rebuilt in stone in the early 1700s and fell into British hands after the battle of the plains of Abraham. Apparently, the British gave up the fort without much of a fight during the campaign described in this video. There is a grave marker there for American soldiers that didn't make it, most of the deaths were caused by disease and malnutrition. In the 1980s Parks Canada restored the fort so you can visit it, small but very interesting. Other than Quebec it must be one of Canada's oldest forts that's still standing.There is a great book called The Path of Destiny that explains many of these situations that helped form the borders we have today. I hope to visit the other forts like Ticonderoga and Crown point when I get a chance.
Very interesting. Love me some early Canadian history.
The street where the Canadien militia repelled the Americans is still called "Rue de la Barricade" and there's a plaque commemorating the event. As said, it was a stormy day. The bodies were buried quickly in the snow. It's only in Spring that they were found. If the dogs didn't find them first. As for General Montgomery, he was brought before Carlton inside the city's walls. There's also a plaque on the house where the house he died was situated. That building is now an hotel called Maison du Général. He was buried soberly but with dignity since he was appreciated by both Americans and British.
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Thank you very much!
I just finished watching the previous two videos, and was about to sign up to watch the next video, then you uploaded this, what a treat. I still plan on signing up to your patreon. I hope the algorithm gods bless this channel.
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Thanks very much Charles, and really pleased you like the channel! More to come soon
Yes we must all make a sacrifice to the algorithm gods 😁
This is a great channel 👍
I wish queer bec wasn't in Canada at all. They drag us down in history and they will in the future
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Thanks a lot Dan, really appreciated. More to come soon!
Thank you from Montreal, mom's from Halifax, dad met her there while in the navy, her mom survived The Halifax Explosion, very well done! I love hearing all the french last names when just over the border! Josée Noël
Excellent series so far.. I really appreciate the honest outside perspective on the American Revolution. Looking forward to more!
Amazing work!! Keep these videos coming!!
So glad I stumbled upon your channel! This is fantastic work. Well done.
Very pleased you liked it! And thanks for the tip :)
Keep up the great show!
Thanks very much Jon, really appreciate the tip. More to come soon!
Again another brilliant video keep it up my man
As someone living in Quebec City, not thank you for reminding me that snow is only 2-3 months away...
Quebec City is such a beautiful city at least in the summer. Really great food, great people and great architecture.
Non pas encore l'hiver. Je préfère faire du vélo que passer le souffleuse à neige. 🙂
@Old_Ladies
It actually looks prettier in the snow. Like most places.
As someone from Québec, this was amazing !
lets go!!! Keep up the great work
The soundtrack, the animation, the flow is top class
Proud to see the epic History influence
Now this is a detailed telling of the Quebec campaign 👏 👌 top notch
Fantastique. Quality and detail. Thank you.
Great video! When the Continental army reached Montréal, they brought with them a printing press to be used as a way to convince the Canadiens to join the revolution. The newspaper was named La Gazette, written in French. After the Insurgents left, the paper remained and became bilingual, then English only. It still exists today as The Gazette. Governor Guy Carleton was disappointed with the support he received from the Canadiens. He once said: ''Nothing to fear from them when everything is fine but nothing to hope for when trouble comes''.
Carleton was one of the assholes who came in america to destroy New France. That POS expected support from the people who lived in New France ? 😂😂😂😂😂
I guess that's what you get for invading a nation.
Et oui les médias. Ça date !
Wow more on top of all the interesting things I am eagerly learning, and soaking up during retirement. Thank you so much for sharing this, the question is how long will it remain in my brain LOL. another issue I'm dealing with, But we all have those. 👍
Can't really blame the Canadiens, it was a fight between one English occupier or another.
Loving the series! Good balance for both sides. Can't wait for the next one!
These videos are awesome. Great content, delivery and just the right size vid. Keep them up!
As a Quebecer, I can certify that attacking Québec City in the winter through the rivers is a very bad idea. Especially if you have shown anti french sentiments before.
The brits + the local French Canadians AND Scottish immigrant population... yep
Au moins tu pourrais écrire : "as a QUÉBÉCOIS" un peu de fierte tabarnak !
@@ferlottes Tu prends les choses trop au sérieux mon ami
@@goldenturtle111 : j'apprécie ton rappel à l'ordre. Vive le Québec libre !
@@goldenturtle111C'est pourtant en ne se prenant pas au sérieux qu'on se fait encore manger la laine sul dos aujourd'hui.
It always fascinated me that the Americans managed to made it this far north into Canada during the American Revolutionary war. They practically had control of all the south of modern day Quebec province.
In addition to the harsh weather, the invasion failed because the Americans were hit by a smallpox epidemic that severely weakened their forces. More Americans died of disease than actual fighting during the invasion. I recently visited Fort Lennox/Ile-aux-Noix were the Americans had set up a camp for their troops and it is said that so many men were infected with smallpox there that hundreds of them had died and were buried in a mass grave somewhere on the island.
Fun facts : Accordingly, in order to troll the Americans during the siege of Quebec, the British put a wooden horse on the walls, in clear view of the besiegers, and then put a bundle of hay in front of it. They then put a placard that said something like "The city will surrender only when this horse will have completely eaten the hay".
Also, it is said that when Daniel Morgan and his men were forced to surrender, he refused to give his sword to Carleton, giving it instead to a French Canadian priest who had came out of his hiding spot when the fighting was over.
This was a really great video!
Dying of disease and other attritions massively affected a majority of moving armies at the time.
Ben Franklin went into Quebec city to try to drum up support for the American revolution, but from the perspective of French Canadians it was a war of the British on the British, which would result in fewer British. There was discrimination against Catholics by the ruling British back then that lasted well into the 20th Century. The discrimination against the Irish during the potato famine also comes to mind. They had a lot to lose and it's not clear that they would have won anything. French speaking kids in Louisiana in the 1950's were beaten school if caught speaking French to one another. The French language was so suppressed that these kids lost their native language and couldn't speak to their Grand-Parents. Keeping in mind that this is how Americans treated their French minority after the Louisiana purchase despite the help they received in the Revolutionary war from France. How immigrants from Mexico are sometimes treated when a Karen hear them speaking Spanish has not gone unnoticed either. With knowledge of what happened subsequently, they appeared to have made the right choice given concessions obtained by the British govt at the time.
@@HepCatJack There has been repression against French speakers in Canada too.
Both the British authorities and the Canadian government have tried to assimilate the French Canadians. Through massive British immigration, the French Canadians had become a minority in their own country in the 1830s and in 1840, the Canadian parliament was reorganized so that the French Canadians were now also in a political minority (by number of seats). In the 1870s and 1880s, the Canadian government sent the army to take control over indigenous and Metis lands in Manitoba. In the following decades, many provinces adopted laws to prevent French Canadians to attend school in French.
Almost all French Canadians and Acadians who moved to the US have now disappeared, but it was not necessarily easy for those who stayed in Canada.
@@HepCatJack Interesting read.
Intéressant de se rappeler qu'un jour les francophones étaient en majorité au Canada.@@TerreSeche213
Quebec City is the most underrated city of all time
I lived in Montréal all my life and going back to Québec has never disappointed 🙏
perhaps because the winter shifts through the weak just like in the video ahahah
@History Rebel
Congrats on your hard work; research, narration, animation, music putting them all together brilliantly!!!
Can you do one on John Lamb. He was an officer in the continental army and was good friends with Benedict Arnold. Who was also injured and captured at the battle of Quebec. He was also in command of West Point during the war. He was even named officer of the day for his command of the U.S. artillery forces during the siege of Yorktown against Cornwallis. He is a nearly forgotten but important figure during the war.
Loving the series. Have you thought about talking about the organization of a regiment?
The population of Quebec was split, some helped the americans and there were punishments from the English on those who helped. Also Lafayette was asked at the end of the war to take Quebec but he refused. Said he didn't have enough men.
I was born and raised in Quebec. I remember when up near the gate near the plains of Abraham the were renovating the wall and cam across 100 or so bones of buried bodies. Also there is a elevated grave yard on St johns street near a church that is now a library and a corner store with a parking lot behind it the city was renovating the sidewalk around 1983-4 and discovered hundreds of arm and leg bones sticking out from under the wall of the sidewalk and the city dug a trench into the graveyard and came upon a crypt under another crypt with 2 coffins in it. One was of a lesser grade officer and the other was someone much more important. My friend stole the head as well as other bones and made tourist jewelry out of the bones. He kept the skull and to this day i believe he still has it. Maybe on his death bed he will give it back?
Class is back in session!
Wonderful video!
One of the most in depth videos on this battle I've seen. Well done! Normally, all I hear is the Americans trudged through the winter to get there, showed up exhausted and depleted by disease and the march, attacked in a blizzard and it didn't go well. That's it nothing to see here, pretend this didn't happen.
As a French-Canadian American New Englander, I'm not sure how to feel about this 1 👀
enjoy it :) History happened exactly as it did so that you are here.
Man is a melting pot😂😂😂
Just be Happy that we got to at less survive under the British and not get the same treatment as the Spanish and Indigenous people under the manifest destiny of American Imperialism
Tu dois nous rejoindre, on manque de bras!
@@aoki6332 The Spanish deserved to be banished. Being under America would probably have been better for Quebec.
I'm a French-Canadian and i born in Montreal city and today, i live in Quebec City. I eat to the restaurant whit my wife in lower Quebec. In futur, i never see Quebec City as before. Thanks for that.
Amazing Video !!!
Knowing how good the defense quebec city are idk how you could ever think you can capture it while outnumbered especially from an attack to the lower part of the city since the upper part of the town is a fortress on the top of a cliff.
I live near Crown Point, i cant wait for your episodes on the wilderness war and the battles for Ticonderoga and Saratoga!
At 62 born in Pa. On our original Memorial Day May 30th I have always been fascinated with history. Particularly war. During schooling I believe due to undiagnosed issues, perhaps ADHD my only interest were sports & art. Having a family sporting goods store. involving me in hockey BMX my favorites, that afforded me to travel. But all sports I was involved in during school, but books didn't appeal to me. Not to be long-winded as I tend to, I'm enjoying learning at this later stage of life.
I do not remember or had no clue that during our revolutionary War we went into Canada to fight. I am more a voyeur enjoying movies and documentaries like this to educate me. Better late than never, thanks to the creator of this video and all the interesting comments I'm reading I have been enjoying greatly. 👍🤙✌️
I like your expression about being a voueur enjoying these documentaries. I knew of the attempted invasion of current Canada. But this showed it in a different way and started helping me picture it from the other side.
Very good. Love this project. 👍
Cannot wait for the next video. Very excited
Disaster campaign! I never ear about it. Great video, man 💪
C'est normal nos écoles sont pourries !
Excellent work!
God I love this channel. I can’t believe no other channel has videos on the revolution like this.
Awesome video and great detailed history. Keep it up. Can't believe what our ancestors were capable of in terms of weathering the elements.
Yooo he’s back
Amazing video
Nice to have you back. I can't wait to see you cover the Ten Crucial Days
That's coming soon! But first New York...
This is great
OMG YOU POSTED :D
Great video.
Great video
Hey let's start an invasion of Quebec in the fall, completely unprepared for winter 🥶
Dont forget to NOT bring your winter clothing! Surely canada cant be as cold as they say, right? RIGHT?
Then the good old Kentucky boys did the same thing in 1812, marching into Canada wearing light clothing! Some things never change. That year former president Jefferson said "The acquisition of Canada... will be a mere matter of marching". The last thing any country wants to do is fight Canadians. Don't let our reputation as peace keepers fool you either.
Tbf no one fights very hard for canada@@joeblog2672
This fall? I'm in. 👍👍
@@Sid-gu5qk Got my shorts and sandals packed ready to go 😁
Despite being born and living near Trois-Rivieres, it’s the first time I recall hearing about the battle of Trois-Rivieres.
same mon gars, je savais même pas et je suis née la
The graphics and story telling not to mention the additon of pictures reminds me a lot of epic history tv and i like it 👌
This story hits home for me. I have a copy of a 1789 George Washington Letter, that was written up as an introduction for Montgomery's Widow - Janet, for when she was going to visit her In-Law's in Ireland. Janet personally carried this letter over the Atlantic. This letter was addressed to my Ancestor, which in turn, Janet visited his place. This letter, was inherited down through the family lineages & ended up in my Family History. My Ancestor, knew Richard's family very well. From what I've researched, the failure of this assault, as described by the narrator, Montgomery felt that some, if not most of his army would retreat on the 1st of January 1776, due to their term ending, Montgomery pushed onwards because of this deadline (they've come so far to fail - now or never), he payed the ultimate price. After the war, Aaron Burr was propelled into his Senate Seat, greatly assisted from Janet Montgomery, due to her influences with the President & her Livingston Family for assisting in getting Richard's body back to Janet.
Though from what I understand, Burr didn't initially obtain / drag his body. The British buried him with honors (honours) & the American's had to get a release, in order for Richard's body to get dug up & handed back (this duty, is where Janet assisted in Burr to obtain the senate seat).
Excellent work sir
My 8th grade teacher back in the day would've def showed this to my class bro good work
Incredible Detailing
Beautiful Presentation
This Channel Is such a Wonderful Discovery
Lovely Work
Thank You
Yesssss. Another videooo
An excellent video. Well done.
👍 Great work. I enjoyed and loved it. Wish some Western history UA-camrs and American Revolutionary War history enthusiasts cover other theaters of the American Revolutionary War(1775-83). Like the Anglo-Maratha War of 1775-83 and the humiliating and disastrous defeats suffered by British and British EIC forces in India at that time.
Amazing and detailed analysis de l'histoire du Canada.
Imagine waging war in a location and time where your maps are so bad that you underestimate the distance your army WALKS by 180 miles.
Good stuff man, I love it! Im interested, how did you make your gun smoke effects?
Thanks mate, I’m a fan of your channel too! The gun smoke is from vecteezy, I also get the snow/mist animations from there too
I live in New England and the Quebec government not wanting to join the continentals makes a lot of sense. On Hampton Beach (New Hampshire) from the 1760's to about the 1940's french, Italians and other tourists were not allowed to be on the beach or on the boardwalk. The hatred between French canadians and the people of New England runs deep.
@@guyl9456 yes as it turns out I did some more digging on this and it was actually around the 1940’s when French and Italian tourists were allowed on the beach in Hampton. Not the 1970’s like I previously had said.
@@guyl9456 we were primarily a Protestant country it was the French held territories that were catholic (maybe I misunderstood you idk)
Very nice graphics and clear explications, bravo! A little anecdote, Montgomery's corpse was stored in a snowbank awaiting repatriment :)I visted an exhibition in Montreal over 10 years ago on an american shipwreck that was transporting home revolutionary soldiers and sunk.
I love what you do. Please keep it up
Awesome!
Starting an envasion in the end of august is crazy
Very well done! So glad to have found this channel. +1 sub.
Phoenix, AZ.
Great video. Keep it up!!
One of my ancestor grandfathers, Seth Hoyt, served under "then loyal" Benedict Arnold on his march through the Maine wilderness to attack Quebec. He survived this campaign and then went on to fight under George Washington at Trenton and Princeton. He survived that as well. He was one of the men that was due to get out on December 31 after the battle of Trenton but volunteered to stay and fight to take Princeton.
My 4th great-grandfather, Caleb Haskell, from Newburyport, Massachusetts, was there in Captain Samuel Ward's Company in Lt. Col. Christopher Greene's Battalion, part of Colonel Arnold's force. He had been at Cambridge with Colonel Moses Little's Regiment since the beginning of May and signed up for the Quebec Expedition in September. He kept a diary which has been published and it has been quoted a couple of times when the authors are talking about the smallpox in the army. Caleb got smallpox and missed the assault. His enlistment expired on Dec. 31, along with the rest of his company, and in the middle of January they were put under house arrest and court-martialed and threated with whipping if they didn't reenlist. Caleb finally got a pass to leave Quebec at the beginning of May, just hours before the reinforced British force attacked. It took him the rest of the month to get back home to Newburyport. He traveled up the St. Lawrence to the Richelieu, then to Crown Point and across Vermont down the Crown Point Military road.
Been waiting for this video!
this was all the stuff i was suppose to have learned growing up, and this guy sums it up in 16 mins............... nice work, i learned alot...........👍👍👍👍
Very nice video. I'm from Saint-Jean (known as Fort St. Johns back then)
I live in the first canadian town benedict harnold cross in canada (st georges de beauce). And from what i know, people here helped the american... there was even an hotel name "auberge benedict harnold". The hotel is still there but it changed name not so long ago...
Very well done series.
My ancestry is pretty much all French Canadian some of the first settlers on Canadian soil were my ancestors. So the likelihood of them fighting in this is very likely and 1812 also.
French Canadian militiamen saved Canada in 1775-1776 and the War of 1812
Very true. American regulars well trained stopped the British advances in 1814. Terrible wars.
Geeat video great voice haven't seen this battle before
Great job, keep up the good work!
"let's convince French-Canadians to join our cause"
*captures Montreal, proceeds to close down churches and discriminate against the French*
Good job lol
Good video, although you should have mentioned how relieved Arnold's expedition was when they reached Quebec, according to the Emerging Revolutionary War video on the Battle of Quebec.
Great point. I cut a lot of content (including the Battle of Longue-Pointe) to keep the episode 'tight', but it must have been quite something for the Continentals to finally arrive outside of Quebec...
@@HistoryRebels That's good to know. I hope you guys cover the Battle of Valcour Island/Fall of Fort Ticonderoga at some point!
French and indian war. The revolution, war of 1812, Mexican american war and Spanish american war are some real blind spots for mw so I'm glad to see someone make animated videos on them
Thanks Steve. Once we're finished with the Revolution, we'll definitely look to do one of these next!
Someone should make a game about thoses wars!
My 7th GGF is Charles Grim from Winchester Virginia , close confidant to Daniel Morgan . They were both pow at Quebec. Crazy to think if he didn’t survive , I wouldn’t be here
Fun fact: Montréal and Québec, in both official languages in Canada, take an accent in their name when writing name. Just like Trois-Rivières or other French origin names.
Trois-Rivières ça prend un s à la fin aussi !
Touché, esti! :D@@funkyjeff77
don't expect squareheads to respect our language, they still say and write joan of arc instead of jeanne d'arc and st-lawrence instead of st-laurent, they only care about their language and transforming others people language into a butched variant of english to humiliate us
Can't wait for the next video
This is great.
If the invading Americans had tolerated the Catholic church and allowed for more self-control - and the use of French - by the locals, they would have had massive local support and likely won. But nope, they behaved like the English did, with the same (then) Protestant intolerance, and same arrogance versus the locals. The local English rulers were more shrewd, and did give some more power and rights to the French Canadians (Quebecers). It pains me that it took so little to have them be neutral here. I don't get how so many armies don't seek the support of the locals, especially in cases like these where they openly resent the rulers.
Very good analysis of the political dynamic of this era
TBF, they WERE british at the time and since they had not knowledge of the local population, they just acted in a way that was natural to them, while the local british inhabitants/ruler were more aware that you're not supposed to do that if you want to keep popular support
@@ephraimboateng5239 yep. But they must have had at least some contacts with natives. Even if Quebecers were not, just talking about some need to gain local support and adapt... or just pretend to adapt. BTW local English rulers were typically way more pragmatic, as they dealt with locals, while many big merchants and rulers in England proper were rigid condescending ideologues. Partly because of arrogance, but likely to gain clout, political gains and so on... as it's still the same today. Dumb politicians and disconnected Big Corps only thinking of themselves and personal gains, regardless of consequences to the population, soldiers, etc. Back to this case, since Americans were invading, and they must have surely known that the locals resented the rulers, it just would have made sense to gain local support! For food, lodging, good intel, etc. I mean, they had a common enemy! But protestants had been quite intolerant at the time. Just think how even if a few decades ago, if you weren't one, how you had no chance for big offices as a politician in the US.
To be fair, we had just been conquered by the british in 1759, so jumping aboard with another bunch of englishmen rebelling against the taxes that had been levied to conquer us was not a very appealing option...
And the british crown was pretty devious in letting us keep our catholic religion, civil code and french language, so that we'd have even fewer reasons to rebel.
But that would bring us to the 1837-38 rebellion, as well as the 1980 and 1995 independance referendums. ;-)
""And the british crown was pretty devious in letting us keep our catholic religion, civil code and french language, so that we'd have even fewer reasons to rebel.""
First time I've ever heard being civil and fair minded as "devious". What would you have called it if they abolished all that? 😂 😂
Typical French. Always whining.
@@lyndoncmp5751it's called history; Understanding other culture's past enables you to understand their resonings, references and reactions, in order not to avoid being a jerk.
Saying that we're "french" shows you lack this understanding.
FYI. It is clearly established that the brits forcibly deported our acadian cousins in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick (look it up, it's called the "Grand dérangement").
There is ample evidence that they were taking steps to forcibly assimilate or deport us as well.
But since the 13 colonies rebelled after refusing to pay for it all, but after capturing Lake Champlain and Montréal, they failed in the streets of Québec (in a snowstorm actually). Then the british crown bought the support of the catholic church to keep us in line. The correspondence from this time period clearly prove it.
Do you have another channel out there? There is no way you just woke up a couple months ago and said "Lets make a Channel on the American Revolution" And made videos of this quality.
I also quite like series like these that cover a topic in detail in multiple chronological videos.
Ha so weirdly enough that is what happened! I spent a few months learning Adobe Photoshop and After Effects after work, and then got to it. I'm glad you like them! Battle of Long Island next...
@@HistoryRebels any update on when it releases? Real excited to see it
@@ethansmith8813 it’s on Early Access at the moment on Patreon & UA-cam Members - full youtube release next week!