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.



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