a bloody battle on the plains of Abraham
in 1759 started a spiral effect that
resulted in France losing the vast
majority of its land ownership in North
America hi I’m Rebecca Brayton and
welcome to watchmojo.com and today we’ll
be learning more about the battle for
Quebec and its significance in the
course of world history tell us about
death or victory what moment in history
are you focusing on death or victory
focus on this incredible climactic
battle during the Seven Years War the
French Indian Wars is sometimes called
in North America in the 1750s and early
1760s so France was really the dominant
territorial power in North America and
this war and this battle helped turn
that round and Britain conquered North
American what makes Quebec so important
strategically Aboriginal word Quebec
means the narrows it’s where the San
Lawrence goes from being giant river to
just being less than a mile wide so if
this bottleneck and if you want to
access the continent of North America
you’ve got to go through Quebec
irregardless of Lawrence and you get to
the Great Lakes and you get through
great river systems and so Quebec is is
the gatekeeper of of North America what
were some of the biggest challenges
faced during this conflict these British
redcoats would come with their thick
woolen red coats and they didn’t know
one minute it was boiling hot it was
almost 40 degrees centigrade the next
minute be thunderstorms that would
drench them and I think it was that
there was terrible disease as a result
that was flooding within the camp and
the latrines were overflow and the water
would get polluted so the British really
struggled the cliffs meant that Quebec
was very well defended from the British
forces the British really struggled to
get at Quebec it was only very late in
September they managed to capture Quebec
they really call it a disaster we’re
gonna retreat right back up the river go
back to Halifax in Boston and say we
failed and they had one last gamble one
last throw the dice and they managed to
capture Quebec tell us about some of the
most important characters and most
important players in this event the
great thing is it’s an important story
is also full of historical and funny
characters and with weird neuroses and
stuff so the commander on the British
Isles called General Wolfe General James
Worf he’d never commanded No
so he was 32 years old and the British
thought it’s a good idea to give him
commander this army and so it’s
incredibly dangerous expedition a
thousand miles into enemy territory no
British fleet had managed to get up thus
the Lawrence River hundreds of years
whose bit nervous she was bit sickly we
fell out with his officers say they
didn’t like each other at the end of
summer he’d pretty much failed to
capture Quebec he wrote a letter to his
mum and he said mum I’m coming home and
I’m gonna resign and leave the army so
he’s a broken man anybody said I have
one last gamble further dice one more
time before I leave the French soldiers
commanded by a guy called the Marquis de
Montcalm who hated being Canada he
missed his family just before the battle
he was told one of his beloved daughters
had died in the South of France it was
me who’s depressed he was sad about that
we fell out with the French commanders
head sort of French Canadians here they
hated each other they couldn’t be in the
same room as each other so it’s a really
strange campaign everyone seemed to
dislike each other very much it’s just
just fascinating personalities tell us
about the fates of wolf and Malcolm in
the battle outside Quebec on the 13
September 1759 a general wolf he was
very brave he was a strange man but he’s
particularly brave he’s led by example
and he made his men lie down to protect
them from the Canadians that French
claims were incredibly effective
sharpshooters they were sniping and they
were killing lots of British soldiers he
made his men lie down he but he walked
up and down to show how brave yours he
was in charge so he could stay cool and
he was injured in the wrist and he
bounced up he said it’s nothing then he
was a bullet scraped his stomach and it
gave him a bad injury and then two
bullets thumped into his chest and he
died minutes later he died just in time
to hear the French were running off the
battlefield he just in time to hear that
he’d won the battle Montcalm was injured
going back into Quebec he was a popular
commander and they said he okay so don’t
worry friends I’m fine and he when he
died after a terrible night agonizing
pain he died after a night in Quebec and
he was buried a shell hole a british
shell had left in the ground I’ve seen
you call this one of the most decisive
encounters in history why why suddenly I
think the the summer the fighting over
the summer and the capture of Montreal
the next year 760 is very decisive
because it determines that North America
be largely British speaking and embraced
British ideas of law and politics and
Trade and Industry
if North America had remained carved up
some French some Spanish some British it
wouldn’t these two great powers Canada
or America would not have emerged and I
think that the 20th century would have
been very different thank you very much
thank you
in 1759 started a spiral effect that
resulted in France losing the vast
majority of its land ownership in North
America hi I’m Rebecca Brayton and
welcome to watchmojo.com and today we’ll
be learning more about the battle for
Quebec and its significance in the
course of world history tell us about
death or victory what moment in history
are you focusing on death or victory
focus on this incredible climactic
battle during the Seven Years War the
French Indian Wars is sometimes called
in North America in the 1750s and early
1760s so France was really the dominant
territorial power in North America and
this war and this battle helped turn
that round and Britain conquered North
American what makes Quebec so important
strategically Aboriginal word Quebec
means the narrows it’s where the San
Lawrence goes from being giant river to
just being less than a mile wide so if
this bottleneck and if you want to
access the continent of North America
you’ve got to go through Quebec
irregardless of Lawrence and you get to
the Great Lakes and you get through
great river systems and so Quebec is is
the gatekeeper of of North America what
were some of the biggest challenges
faced during this conflict these British
redcoats would come with their thick
woolen red coats and they didn’t know
one minute it was boiling hot it was
almost 40 degrees centigrade the next
minute be thunderstorms that would
drench them and I think it was that
there was terrible disease as a result
that was flooding within the camp and
the latrines were overflow and the water
would get polluted so the British really
struggled the cliffs meant that Quebec
was very well defended from the British
forces the British really struggled to
get at Quebec it was only very late in
September they managed to capture Quebec
they really call it a disaster we’re
gonna retreat right back up the river go
back to Halifax in Boston and say we
failed and they had one last gamble one
last throw the dice and they managed to
capture Quebec tell us about some of the
most important characters and most
important players in this event the
great thing is it’s an important story
is also full of historical and funny
characters and with weird neuroses and
stuff so the commander on the British
Isles called General Wolfe General James
Worf he’d never commanded No
so he was 32 years old and the British
thought it’s a good idea to give him
commander this army and so it’s
incredibly dangerous expedition a
thousand miles into enemy territory no
British fleet had managed to get up thus
the Lawrence River hundreds of years
whose bit nervous she was bit sickly we
fell out with his officers say they
didn’t like each other at the end of
summer he’d pretty much failed to
capture Quebec he wrote a letter to his
mum and he said mum I’m coming home and
I’m gonna resign and leave the army so
he’s a broken man anybody said I have
one last gamble further dice one more
time before I leave the French soldiers
commanded by a guy called the Marquis de
Montcalm who hated being Canada he
missed his family just before the battle
he was told one of his beloved daughters
had died in the South of France it was
me who’s depressed he was sad about that
we fell out with the French commanders
head sort of French Canadians here they
hated each other they couldn’t be in the
same room as each other so it’s a really
strange campaign everyone seemed to
dislike each other very much it’s just
just fascinating personalities tell us
about the fates of wolf and Malcolm in
the battle outside Quebec on the 13
September 1759 a general wolf he was
very brave he was a strange man but he’s
particularly brave he’s led by example
and he made his men lie down to protect
them from the Canadians that French
claims were incredibly effective
sharpshooters they were sniping and they
were killing lots of British soldiers he
made his men lie down he but he walked
up and down to show how brave yours he
was in charge so he could stay cool and
he was injured in the wrist and he
bounced up he said it’s nothing then he
was a bullet scraped his stomach and it
gave him a bad injury and then two
bullets thumped into his chest and he
died minutes later he died just in time
to hear the French were running off the
battlefield he just in time to hear that
he’d won the battle Montcalm was injured
going back into Quebec he was a popular
commander and they said he okay so don’t
worry friends I’m fine and he when he
died after a terrible night agonizing
pain he died after a night in Quebec and
he was buried a shell hole a british
shell had left in the ground I’ve seen
you call this one of the most decisive
encounters in history why why suddenly I
think the the summer the fighting over
the summer and the capture of Montreal
the next year 760 is very decisive
because it determines that North America
be largely British speaking and embraced
British ideas of law and politics and
Trade and Industry
if North America had remained carved up
some French some Spanish some British it
wouldn’t these two great powers Canada
or America would not have emerged and I
think that the 20th century would have
been very different thank you very much
thank you
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