Events from the year 1756 in Canada.

Incumbents

  • French Monarch: Louis XV
  • 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.

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