5.9 Rue de la Barricade
from Place-Royale from today to yesterday, Quebec city. (videos) Hosted by Musée de la civilisation
In June 1774, the local authorities of the Thirteen Colonies—which would later form the United States of America—made plans to take the province of Québec by force. A year-and-a-half later, in December 1775, Colonel Benedict Arnold and General Richard Montgomery laid siege to the city of Québec. At dawn on December 31 of that year, Montgomery ordered his men to take the city by armed force. While his occupying troops made a show of settling in on the Plains of Abraham, Arnold and Montgomery planned an attack against the Lower Town, with the aim of reaching the Upper Town on the same day. Montgomery came from the west of Place-Royale and headed towards the Côte de la Montagne. Before he even reached the Petit-Champlain district, he and his troops were ambushed by British soldiers and Canadian militiamen. To the east, Arnold and his men were heading down Rue du Sault-au-Matelot. They too met with defeat. They were trapped by a barricade, which was guarded by both regular soldiers and Canadian militiamen under Governor Guy Carleton’s command. The barricade’s location, once called Rue Saint-Jacques, now bears the name Rue de la Barricade in memory of this 1775 event. Start the video Map of Place-Royale
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