Event
The Quebec Expedition, a British attempt to attack Quebec as part of Queen Anne's War
22 Aug 1711 · 49.64° N, 67.17° W
What the records say
- When
- 22 Aug 1711
- Kind
- Event
- Coordinates
- 49.64° N, 67.17° W
Placed at the coordinates of the event it links, Quebec expedition (1711).
Summary
The Quebec Expedition, a British attempt to attack Quebec as part of Queen Anne's War, fails when 8 of its ships are wrecked in the Saint Lawrence River and 890 people, mostly soldiers, drown.
3 sources record it
- Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributorsCreative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (German), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Die Québec-Expedition, die versuchte Eroberung Québecs durch die Briten, scheitert aufgrund eines schweren Schiffsunglücks”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (Russian), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Квебекская экспедиция”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page