Contents

• Incumbents
• Governors
• Events
• Births
• Deaths
• References

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Events from the year 1757 in Canada.

Incumbents

• French Monarch: Louis XV
• British and Irish Monarch: George II

Events

• Thursday March 17 to Tuesday March 22 - In four nights 1,500 Canadiens and Indians destroy the out-works of Fort William-Henry.
• Saturday July 30 - Seven thousand men are collected to attack Fort William Henry.
• Tuesday August 9 - The Fort, garrisoned by 2,200, capitulates. Violating the terms of capitulation, Indians kill, or recapture, many of the garrison, whereupon Montcalm exclaims: "Kill me, but spare the English who are under my protection."
• Of the 5,000 French soldiers expected, only 1,500 reach Canada.
• December - The troops, in Canada, complain of being fed on horse-flesh and too little bread.

Births

• June 22: George Vancouver, naval officer, explorer (d.1798)

Deaths

• November 2  : Louis Coulon de Villiers, military officer.

References