Battle of Quebec

The fate of you who are listening of nations of the world has often hung upon accident or upon decisions that made any other way would have substantially altered the course of human events. Suppose, by a stroke of fate, Shakespeare had died before writing his great plays.

What if fate had decreed there had been no monitor to defeat the marinac in the war between the states? Would continued destruction of Union shipping have led to Confederate triumph? Yes, much depends upon a stroke of fate.

And tonight we partially rewrite history, as we present a dramatic conception of what might have happened. If, by a stroke of fate, there had been a different ending to a battle that determined the future of Canada and the United States.

The Battle of Quebec. Our story is historically true, up to the stroke of fate, which might have changed history. After that speculation, based on historical possibility, our story is told through the lips of two noble men, the small, keen-eyed, nervous, Marquite de Moncam, general of the French forces guarding Quebec, and the tall, thin, red-haired British general, James Wolff.

It is the year 1759, and I, James Wolff, have returned to North America as commander of the British Expeditionary's mission is to capture Quebec. For three years on three continents, France and my country England have been at war. France is well entrenched in the new world and her position as mistress of Canada affects the destiny of our American colonies, indeed,

of all of North America. To take Canada we will first have to capture the gateway to these northern provinces, the nearly impregnable city of Quebec, a natural fortress built higher top of rock difficult if not impossible to scale, and overlooking the twisting treacherous channels of the Broadenswift St. Lawrence River. It is in June 1759 that the vastomata and the