Québec History 20 - The End of the Rebellion

Québec a Nation History (Part 20)

The Patriots Rebellion of Lower Canada (Québec)

The Lower Canada Rebellion, La rébellion du Bas-Canada, is the name given to the armed conflict between the rebels of Lower Canada (now Québec) and the British colonial power of that province.

After the rejection of demands for reform, a series of public meetings by the leaders of the Patriot Party inflame passions during the summer of 1837. They culminate in an assembly at Saint-Charles-sur-Richelieu on October 23. The clashes began on 6 November by a firefight between the Loyalist and the Sons of Liberty. There were three major confrontation in Saint-Denis, St. Charles and St. Eustache. The Patriots managed to defeat the British troops at Saint-Denis on 23 November but little trained and poorly equipped rebel forces did not match the British colonial military forces more numerous and better prepared. Thus, the rebels were defeated on 25 November in St. Charles and December 14 in Saint-Eustache. Members of the patriot party, political party democratically elected by the people, declared Québec (Lower Canada) a independent Republic on 22 February 1838. Martial law was declared, there were hundreds of arrests, several patriots were hanged, some patriots fled to the United States, others were deported to Australia.

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[Patriote17]

@RoyalistCavalier who was threatening our language, religious and legal right in the first place, the British. The British invaded and annexed us. We get a parliament in 1792 mostly because the British were affraid we do like in the French Revolution. Monarchy is not democracy. Our old parliement was a fraud, the Patriot were the elected government, they had no real power, all the power was to the governor and the king of England. Fuck the British Empire.

[Patriote17]

@RoyalistCavalier I see, so now I am an anti-english biggot. You are the one who claim we should all have been exterminated and deported, you are just a fucking racist scum and you deserve absolutly no respect. Patriotes were elected and they were hanged and deported by the British. Royalism is a treason to democracy, treason to liberty.

[viperlulu]

f the british

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[articulategrunt1]

@griggs6860, yes they destryoed a house of god but it was the revolutionaries who decided to defile the church by using it as a defensive fortification. Rules of warfare dictate that once that is done if the priests/monks/imams cannot convince the occupiers to depart then it falls to the opposing force to determine whether to starve them out, open fire or abandon the site and reward the defenders with victory for such practices.

[griggs6860]

did they notice they destroyed the house of god

[engliscwarrior]

French people - losers

[HomoSapien2012]

They cowardly used small pox disease as a weapon against Pontiac's native american warrior, if they hadn't done so the braves should have defeated them in that war ages ago.

[fishiu]

@Talltrees84 Americas is an Empire, they grew and expanded from 13 colonies that went on to conquer the rest of the continent, taking the lands of the natives aswell as fighting wars with Mexico and annexing Islands in the Carriabean.

[91stalingrad]

@Talltrees84 I know all that, ...I just wanted to let you know, la rébellion des patriotes has nothing to do with France.

But I agree with you on all you said about french imperalism and their fake revolution. Great-Britain, France, ......... same story

[Talltrees84]

@91stalingrad While no one can undo the past we can only hope to learn from it and not repeat it. Unfortunately Empires learn too late until the rug is pulled from under them. Some say America is facing this moment with all the economic troubles it is having and with it having to maintain occupation of two Islamic nations. Empires have a shelf life. The question is how does it wish to go? A gradual planned phase out or going out with a bang.

[Talltrees84]

@91stalingrad No Empire is blameless. Not even the American one. The American Founding Fathers spoke of an Empire of Liberty and at the turn of the 20th century there were some American leaders and opinion makers who wanted a formal colonial empire like that of the European powers. While there is nothing called the American Empire some would say that the US's history and current political/military/economic/cu­ltural system makes it an Empire regardless what it calls itself.

[91stalingrad]

@Talltrees84 This war was not for France, it was a Canadian (old name of quebecers) vs British conflict. But I agree with you, french made a lot of crimes in their colonies, like all the super-powers of the time.

In this conflict, french-canadians has been separated from France by 70 years of british occupation and wanted to created their own republic. They wanted to instaure religious liberty, the end of the monarchy and make Natives equal citizens.