Quebec Siege Of 1690
Sir William Phipps, having captured Port Royal
in May of this year, appeared before Quebec in October, with thirty-two
ships and a force of over two thousand men. He immediately summoned
Frontenac to surrender, and got a contemptuous refusal. Quebec was well
defended both in men and guns, and after a fruitless attack on the town
from the Beauport flats, and a subsequent bombardment in which he did
much less damage to the town than his ships suffered from Frontenac's
batteries, Phipps abandoned the siege. A little church then building in
the Lower Town was named Notre Dame de la Victoire, to commemorate the
victory. =Index=: See Quebec city; Phipps. =Bib.=: Myrand, Sir
William Phipps devant Quebec; Parkman, Frontenac.