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Events from the year 1760 in Canada. ==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 Canadiens 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 invades 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 Canadiens." * 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. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「1760 in Canada」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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