Capturing Louisbourg
The tactic the British used to capture Louisbourg.
Siege
The walled-off fortress area of Quebec on a cliff where the nobility/rich lived.
Upper Town
The location of the bloodiest battle on Canadian soil.
The Plains of Abraham.
Pontiac.
In 1763, France and Britain signed this, ending their conflict officially.
The Treaty of Paris
This tactic was used against the French harbor at Louisbourg.
Blockade.
General Wolfe had only one hope to take Fortress Quebec and knew he needed to do this.
Draw the enemy out into battle.
This killed more British over the winter than the war.
Disease.
Lake Erie.
The Royal Proclamation was an attempt to do this.
Assimilate the French in New France and turn them British.
The British bombardment on the French at Louisbourg lasted for this long.
Seven weeks.
Montcalm believed the French would do something that they never did during Wolfe's attacks.
Send reinforcements.
The location of the French surrender.
Montreal.
First Nations became worried when English newcomers began arriving in this particular region.
The Ohio River Valley.
Official bilingualism is recognized for the first time on Canadian soil.
The Quebec Act.
Capturing Louisbourg first for the British was pivotal for this reason.
It guarded the St. Lawrence River.
The amount and soldiers INCLUDING Odawa allies that Montcalm had available in Fortress Quebec.
6000 soldiers including 300 Odawa's
The way in which General Wolfe surprised Montcalm and his troops.
He snuck 4000 men into the field behind Fortress Quebec during the night, climbing a steep path around the cliff.
Before the English could fully take control of New France, they had to negotiate this with the First Nations.
Neutrality- staying neutral
France received this when they signed the Treaty of Paris.
Guadeloupe, a sugar-producing island in the Caribbean
What year and where did the British depart from to begin their attack on the French at Louisbourg?
1758, the British collected a huge force of warships and troops at Halifax.
After nine weeks of canon fire, General Wolfe employed this tactic on the French. What was the tactic and what was the thinking behind it?
He burned and destroyed the surrounding farms/villages so people would have to flee to Fortress Quebec, overwhelming the population.
After 150 years, Canadiens lost control of this precious area.
The St. Lawrence River Valley.
The first move from Pontiac and his Odawa rebellion.
Laying siege to a British fort in Detroit.
The Royal Proclamation was signed by this person.
King George III