The Quebec Expedition, a British attempt to attack Quebec as part of Queen Anne's War

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22 Ağu 1711

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49.64° N, 67.17° W

Yerleştirildiği yer: coordinates of the event it links, Quebec expedition (1711).

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.

1711 failed British attempt to attack Quebec during Queen Anne's War

The Quebec expedition was a British attempt to attack French-held Quebec City in mid-1711 during Queen Anne's War, the North American theatre of the War of the Spanish Succession. It failed when seven troopships and one storeship were wrecked and 890 soldiers, sailors and women drowned in one of the worst naval disasters in British history.

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