1777 in Canada
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Events from the year 1777 in Canada.
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Incumbents
Events
- July 4 â Near Fort Ticonderoga, General Burgoyne offers condonement if colonists lay down their arms.
- September 19 â General Burgoyne's Indian and French allies desert at the battle of Stillwater.
- October 16 â Articles of Capitulation of 5,782 British, under Burgoyne are written.
- October 17 â Though aware of approaching relief, Burgoyne, having promised to capitulate, and fearing annihilation by a threatened attack, signs the capitulation. During its first session the Canadian Council passes sixteen ordinances, adopts English Commercial law, and constitutes itself a Court of Appeal, with final resort to the Privy Council in England.
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- In the House of Lords, Lord Camden declares: "If I were an American, I should resist to the last such manifest exertions of tyranny, violence and injustice."
- David Thompson enters Grey Coat School
Births
- June 20 â Jean-Jacques Lartigue, bishop of Montreal (d.1840)