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Battle of Quebec (1775) The Battle of Quebec (French: Bataille de Québec) was fought on December 31, 1775, between American Continental Army forces and the British defenders of Quebec City early in the American Revolutionary War. The battle was the first major defeat of the war for the Americans, and it came with heavy losses. General Richard Montgomery was killed, Benedict Arnold was wounded, and Daniel Morgan and more than 400 men were taken prisoner. The city's garrison, a motley assortment of regular troops and militia led by Quebec's provincial governor, General Guy Carleton, suffered a small number of casualties.
Quebec City Quebec City (pronounced /kwɪˈbɛk/ ( listen) or /kəˈbɛk/;[8] French: Québec [kebɛk] ( listen)); French: Ville de Québec), officially Québec,[9][10][10] is the capital city of the Canadian province of Quebec. The city had a population estimate of 531,902 in July 2016, (an increase of 3.0% from 2011)[11] and the metropolitan area had a population of 800,296 in July 2016, (an increase of 4.3% from 2011)[12] making it the seventh-largest metropolitan area in Canada.