Events from the year 1757 in Canada.

Incumbents

  • French Monarch: Louis XV
  • British and Irish Monarch: George II

Governors

  • Governor General of New France: Pierre François de Rigaud, Marquis de Vaudreuil-Cavagnal
  • Colonial Governor of Louisiana: Louis Billouart
  • Governor of Nova Scotia: Charles Lawrence
  • Commodore-Governor of Newfoundland: Richard Edwards

Events

  • Thursday March 17 to Tuesday March 22 - In four nights 1,500 Canadiens and Indians destroy the out-works of Fort William-Henry.
  • Saturday July 30 - Seven thousand men are collected to attack Fort William Henry.
  • Tuesday August 9 - The Fort, garrisoned by 2,200, capitulates. Violating the terms of capitulation, Indians kill, or recapture, many of the garrison, whereupon Montcalm exclaims: "Kill me, but spare the English who are under my protection."
  • Of the 5,000 French soldiers expected, only 1,500 reach Canada.
  • December - The troops, in Canada, complain of being fed on horse-flesh and too little bread.

Births

  • June 22: George Vancouver, naval officer, explorer (d.1798)

Deaths

  • November 2 : Louis Coulon de Villiers, military officer.

References