Colonial Attack Dbq 1775

The Colonial attack on Quebec in 1775
This battle was fought on December 31st 1775. The reason that the battle was fought on this day was because the enlistment contract runs out as of the New Year so if it was fought on January 1st Britain’s troops wouldn’t be enlisted. Another reason that the battle had been fought on this day was that there was a very bad snowstorm and it would hide the movement of the American troops. The plan was the attack on two fronts, one lower part of Quebec and then to scale the walls of the upper city and attack from an upper front.Arnold and the Americans had surrendered and backed off. They had held a blockade of the city until the British reinforcements had arrived. This battle was the first major defeat for the Americans in the revolutionary war. This war had
Inside Quebec the British had taken minimal casualties. The American troops had captured the city of Montreal on November 13th. Then early December they had joined the forces led by Arnold who had trekked through New England. During this battle and the siege on the city there had been French speaking Canadians on both sides. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Quebec_(1775) George Washington’s crossing of the Delaware in 1776
This was a battle led by General George Washington as he crossed the Delaware river in 1776 leading 5,400 troops in order to surprise the Hessian force celebrating Christmas at their base of Trenton, New Jersey. This had come at the result of several months of defeats on Washington’s part that had caused the loss of