Events from the year 1756 in Canada.
Incumbents French Monarch: Louis XVGuéganic (2008), p. 13. British and Irish Monarch: George II
Governors Governor General of New France: Michel-Ange Duquesne de Menneville Colonial Governor of Louisiana: Louis Billouart Governor of Nova Scotia: Peregrine Hopson Commodore-Governor of Newfoundland: Richard Dorrill
Events France sends two battalions to Canada, with provisions, and 1,300,000 livres, in specie, which has the effect of depreciating the paper currency by 25 per cent. March - A Canadien force of 300 captures Fort Bull, between Schenectady and Oswego, and puts the garrison to the sword. May - Montcalm reaches Quebec with 1,400 soldiers. The Canadiens, suffering from smallpox and famine, are burthened with the support of their Indian allies. Saturday August 14 - Though opposed to attacking any British fort, Montcalm, at the head of 3,100 regulars, Canadiens and Indians, captures Fort Oswego, - a success attributable, mainly, to his intercepting a message to General Webb, commanding 2,000 men in the vicinity. Colonel Mercer is killed. The garrison (1,780) and about 100 women and children are taken prisoners. The Marquis de Montcalm assumes a troubled command of French troops in North America. (The Seven Years' War between Britain and France begins in Europe).
Births Jean François Hamtramck, French Canadian officer that joined American revolution. References