July 26,1758 Louisbourg Nova Scotia - Jeffery Amherst 1717-1797 captures Louisbourg after siege of nearly 2 months; with Admiral Edward Boscawen and Brigadier James Wolfe. French commander Augustin Boschenry de Drucour 1703-1762 surrenders with 3,500 soldiers and about 4,000 sailors and militia. Amherst promises the French regulars their lives, but will offer no terms to the Canadians or Indians; if captured they will be treated the same as the garrison at Fort William Henry. Drucour forced to accept these conditions, and the Canadians and Indians flee in their canoes. English send French troops to England as prisoners of war for five years, deport civilian population to France. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- July 26,1889 Lac Ste-Anne, - Group of over 100 people make a pilgrimage to the church at Lac Ste-Anne, 50 km NW of Edmonton; built to commemorate the vision of a parish priest from St. Albert, who saw a vision of the Saint on a visit to Ste. Anne's shrine in France in 1889; tradition continues today. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- - July 26, 1885 Calgary Alberta - Father Lacombe welcomes five teaching sisters from the Sisters Faithful Companions of Jesus who had been trapped in Batoche during the Riel Rebellion; that September, the sisters enroll 22 pupils in what will become Roman Catholic School District Number One. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- July 26,1814 Fort Erie Ontario - Major General Jacob Brown withdraws to Fort Erie with General Eleazor Ripley after mauling at Lundy's Lane; 853 US casualties, including 171 killed; end of American offensive in Niagara. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- July 26,1759 Ticonderoga New York - Jeffery Amherst 1717-1797 captures Fort Carillon (Ticonderoga); and Fort St-Frederic (Crown Point) five days later; French retreat to Montreal. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- July 26,1757 Lake George New York - Louis-Joseph, Marquis de Montcalm 1712-1759 and François de Lévis, Duc de Lévis 1719-1787 defeated by British troops led by Colonel Parker at Sabbath Day Point. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- July 26,1704 Quebec - Mgr. de St-Vallier captured by the English. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- July 26,1651 Montreal Quebec - Band of 200 Iroquois attack l'hôpital de Montréal. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------