Oct 18, 1781 Yorktown Virginia - Charles Cornwallis surrenders British Army at Yorktown; British begin peace negotiations, although they still control the north. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Oct 18, 1775 Chambly Quebec - Richard Montgomery 1736-1775 and the Army of the Continental Congress capture Fort Chambly en route to Quebec. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Oct 18, 1690 Quebec Quebec - William Phips 1651-1695 starts bombarding Quebec with 37 ships and 2,200 men, after Count Frontenac refused to surrender; shelling has little effect, and after a defeat at Beauport on the 21st, the English retreat. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Oct 18,1646 New York State - Jesuit Fathers Isaac Jogues & Jean de La Lande killed by Mohawks while on a peace mission. The 'black robes' are blamed for a smallpox epidemic among the Iroquois, since Jogues had left a chest of gifts for them the previous year, just before the outbreak of the disease; he is dispatched with a hatchet blow to the head. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Oct 18,1842 - Samuel Finley Breese Morse, whose friends all called him Sammy or F.B. for short, laid his first telegraph cable in New York Harbor between the Battery and Governor’s Island. This is the same Sam Morse of Morse code fame. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------------