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American Revolutionary War: A Continental Army garrison west of Montreal surrendered to British troops at the Battle of the Cedars.
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1775–1783 American war of independence from Great Britain
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Largest city in Quebec, Canada
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1776 skirmishes of the American Revolutionary War
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