Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface vii
4. 1. Introduction 3
5. 2. ‘One more card to play’: Revisiting Wolfe’s Final Stratagem at Quebec 19
6. 3. Crossing the Line? The British Army and the Application of European ‘Rules of War’ in the Quebec Campaign 44
7. 4. Falling into Oblivion? Canada and the French Monarchy, 1759–1783 69
8. 5. 1759: The Perils of Success 95
9. 6. The Slow Process of Conquest: Huron-Wendat Responses to the Conquest of Quebec, 1697–1791 115
10. 7. The Consequences of the Conquest: Quebec and British Politics, 1760–1774 141
11. 8. Commercial Interest and Political Allegiance: The Origins of the Quebec Act 166
12. 9. The Conquered and the Conqueror: The Mutual Adaptation of the Canadiens and the British in Quebec, 1759–1775 190
13. 10. ‘Delivered from all your distresses’: The Fall of Quebec and the Remaking of Nova Scotia 218
14. 11. ‘Cutting heads from shoulders’: The Conquest of Canada in Gaelic Thought, 1759–1791 241
15. Contributors 267
16. Index 269