contrast, held back until the French were 40 to 60 yards away, then
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longer, then unleashed a single, more coordinated volley. Wolfe
had ordered his men to load their muskets with an extra ball, and
observers recorded that the effect of this one volley was devastating
to the French ranks. In just a few minutes, it was all over. The city
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x The fall of Quebec was a decisive moment. The battle directly
contributed to the birth of the United States because the British
crown levied new, heavier taxes on the American colonies to pay
for it: a source of considerable resentment and one of the principal
causes of the American Revolution.
x On the French side, the war weakened the monarchy and drained
the treasury, provoking harsh new taxes that contributed directly to
the French Revolution.x In the long term, the removal of French power along the
Mississippi River and other regions in the Midwest allowed
the newly independent American colonies to expand beyond
the Appalachians and claim the rest of what would become the
continental United States.Hibbert, Wolfe at Quebec.
Reid, Quebec 1759: The Battle That Won Canada.
Stacey, Quebec 1759: The Siege and the Battle.
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