Good morning, Whitewater.
Sunday will be sunny with a high of seventy-nine. Sunrise is 6:39 AM and sunset 6:57 PM, for 12h 18m 16s of daytime. The moon is a waning gibbous with 95.9% of its visible disk illuminated.
Friday’s FW Poll asked readers whether it would be the Packers or Vikings tonight. Most respondents (71.43%) picked Green Bay.
On this day in 1759, the French surrender Quebec to Britain:
The Battle of the Plains of Abraham, also known as the Battle of Quebec, (Bataille des Plaines d’Abraham or Première bataille de Québec in French) was a pivotal battle in the Seven Years’ War (referred to as the French and Indian War in the United States). The battle, which began on 13 September 1759, was fought by the British Army and Navy against the French Army on a plateau just outside the walls of Quebec City, on land that was originally owned by a farmer named Abraham Martin, hence the name of the battle. The battle involved fewer than 10,000 troops between both sides, but proved to be a deciding moment in the conflict between France and Britainover the fate of New France, influencing the later creation of Canada.[4]
The culmination of a three-month siege by the British, the battle lasted about 15 minutes. British troops commanded by General James Wolfe successfully resisted the column advance of French troops and Canadien militia under General Louis-Joseph, Marquis de Montcalm, employing new tactics that proved extremely effective against standard military formations used in most large European conflicts. Both generals were mortally wounded during the battle; Wolfe received three gunshot wounds that ended his life within minutes of the beginning of the engagement and Montcalm died the next morning after receiving a musket ball wound just below his ribs. In the wake of the battle, the French evacuated the city; their remaining military force in Canada and the rest of North America came under increasing pressure from British forces….
In the wake of the battle, a state of confusion spread through the French troops.Governor de Vaudreuil, who later wrote to his government and put the full blame for the French rout on the deceased Montcalm,[59] decided to abandon Quebec and the Beauport shore, ordering all of his forces to march west and eventually join up with Bougainville, leaving the garrison in Quebec under the command of Jean-Baptiste Nicolas Roch de Ramezay.[60]
Meanwhile, the British, first under the command of Townshend and later with Murray in charge, settled in to besiege the city in conjunction with Saunders’ fleet. Within days, on 18 September, de Ramezay, Townshend and Saunders signed the Articles of Capitulation of Quebec and the city was turned over to British control.[61] The remaining French forces positioned themselves on the Jacques-Cartier River west of the city.