Montcalm almost achieved this, delaying British attempts to capture Quebec until the autumn, when the British finally won the Battle of Quebec and captured the city.

Wolfe successfully sieges and captures Quebec, with both he and Montcalm dying from battle wounds.

Then, in 1629, an English pirate briefly captured Quebec.

Wolfe had a narrow window to capture Quebec during 1759 before the St Lawrence began to freeze trapping his force.

The ship served in the British operations to capture Quebec during the Seven Years' War before being wrecked off Pointe-aux-Trembles on 19 May 1760.

In the annus mirabilis of 1759 British forces captured Quebec and Guadeloupe.

He served with the British forces under James Wolfe that captured Quebec from France in 1759.

The surrender of the French fleet yielded a great deal of plunder for Kirke, and this alone made his expedition a tremendous success, despite the failure to capture Quebec.

However, by 1759, the British had gone onto the offensive in America and captured Quebec, the French colonial capital.

"Arundel" (1933) and its sequel "Rabble in Arms" (1945) by Kenneth Roberts take place during the campaign to capture Quebec early in the American Revolution.