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The morning of September 25, 1775 the planned huzzahs ring through the air and Ethan Allen and Major John Brown execute their plan to capture Montreal taking it by surprise while also managing to capture Guy Carelton. In the time after the fall of Montreal Allen and Brown set about on what was originally their mission of recruiting locals to aid in the fight against the British and waited for the siege of Fort Saint John to finish so they could proceed on to capture Quebec. In October after hearing of Montreal’s capture Fort Saint John surrendered ending the siege and allowing Montgomery to move on first to Montreal and then to Quebec, he also wrote congress asking them to send a delegation to discuss the province joining them. They were not the only ones on their way to Quebec.

General Benedict Arnold had left Massachusetts on his way to take Quebec himself, but when he arrived on November 14 almost half his men had either deserted or died on their way north and the rest were starving and underequipped to take the city. They waited for the arrival of the forces and supplies from Montreal that they would need to capture Quebec. Montgomery arrived on November 17 and spent the next few days planning the attack with Arnold on the city. The morning on November 20 would see the start of the attack as they moved into the city under the cover of darkness moving through the lower town towards the upper town where they scaled the walls and finally took the city.


This is my first attempt at a timeline so I was unsure of how long this would end up being so I think it came out a little shorter than I had originally intended it to be.
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