Video: 'Battle of Quebec 1775 - America’s First Major Defeat?'

(New Year’s Eve, Sunday, December 31, 1775, approximately 5:00 a.m. local time; during the Battle of Quebec (1775), part of American Revolutionary War and the American Revolution) — The British repulsed an attack by Continental Army generals Richard Montgomery and Benedict Arnold this morning at the Battle of Quebec (1775) in Quebec City, present-day Canada; Montgomery, 37, was killed.