Workers in Quebec pose with 90kg cannonball fired by British in 1759 - unaware it is still live. Army bomb disposal experts had to take it away to be neutralised or destroyed ...

The Battle of Quebec: the plains of Abraham In terms of size, it was not an epic battle, but in terms of its effect on the course of world history, enormous. On the morning of September 13, 1759 ...

The 1759 Quebec Expedition whose example inspired MacArthur and swayed those admirals has suffered no shortage of historians. ... C.P. Stacey’s “Quebec, 1759: The Siege and the Battle” ...

The siege of Quebec began at 9 p.m. on July 12, 1759. (As portrayed in Canada: A People's History) Inside the city, François-Joseph de Vienne watched from his warehouse.

Today the Plains of Abraham serves Quebec City well as a city park, though strangely it is still run by a National Battlefields Commission established by Ottawa 100 years ago. Two hundred fifty years ...

The story of the Battle of Quebec. Dan Snow sets sail up the magnificent St Lawrence River following the route taken by the British before they faced the French in September 1759. Show more Over ...

Wolfe landed down the St. Lawrence River from Quebec on June 27, 1759, aquiver with dreams of glory. But for most of the summer, he fretfully wavered between various battle plans while his army ...

Thousands of people whose hopes of re-enacting the Battle of the Plains of Abraham were dashed will be in New York State this weekend to replay another British military victory over the French ...

YOUNGSTOWN, New York -- Fort Niagara still looks like a tough nut to crack. The outer walls trace the same outline of the high earthworks that greeted a British-led army sent to conquer the fort ...

The 90kg projectile failed to explode when it was fired during the siege of Quebec City in 1759. Skip to content. Watch Live ... unearthed a live shell fired by the British during a siege in 1759.