CHAPTER VII

THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR OF 1775

MONTREAL THE SEAT OF DISCONTENT

THE QUEBEC ACT, A PRIMARY OCCASION OF THE AMERICAN

REVOLUTION--MONTREAL BRITISH DISLOYAL--THE COFFEE HOUSE

MEETING--WALKER AGAIN--MONTREAL DISAFFECTS QUEBEC--LOYALTY

OF HABITANTS AND SAVAGES UNDERMINED--NOBLESSE, GENTRY AND

CLERGY LOYAL--KING GEORGE’S BUST DESECRATED--“DELENDA EST

CANADA”--“THE FOURTEENTH COLONY”--BENEDICT ARNOLD AND ETHAN

ALLEN--BINDON’S TREACHERY--CALL FOR VOLUNTEERS FEEBLY

ANSWERED--MILITIA CALLED OUT--LANDING OF THE REBELS--ENGLISH

OFFICIAL APATHY--MONTREAL’S PART IN THE DEFENCE OF CANADA--THE

FIRST SOLELY FRENCH-CANADIAN COMPANY OF MILITIA--NOTE: THE

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