Virtual Author Series featuring Michael P. Gabriel

The Fort Ticonderoga Author Series features presentations by authors of books related to Colonial and Revolutionary War history.

Available for the first time in English, Quebec during the American Invasion, 1775-1776: The Journal of François Baby, Gabriel Taschereau, & Jenkin Williams provides an insight into the failure to incite rebellion in Quebec by American revolutionaries. While other sources have shown how British soldiers and civilians and the French-Canadian gentry (the seigneurs) responded to the American invasion of 1775–1776, this journal focuses on French-Canadian peasants (les habitants) who made up the vast majority of the population; in other words, the journal helps explain why Quebec did not become the “fourteenth colony.”

Michael P. Gabriel is Professor and Chair of the Department of History at Kutztown University of Pennsylvania. He is also the author of Major General Richard Montgomery: The Making of an American Hero and The Battle of Bennington: Soldiers & Civilians.

Your participation in this online program through the Center for Digital History supports Fort Ticonderoga’s mission to preserve, educate, and provoke an active discussion about the past and its importance to present and future generations.