The March from Prospect Hill to Quebec: America Invades Canada, 1775

The Somerville Museum’s next Tavern Talk at Aeronaut Brewery concerns Benedict Arnold’s ill-fated invasion of British-held Canada, which embarked in September of 1775.  That episode actually began here in Somerville, when detachments from General Greene’s command at Prospect Hill left those lines to gather in Cambridge, where they would meet other detachments from New England and Virginia.  From there they made their way to Newbury and then to the Kennebec River–where absolutely everything began to go very, very wrong.  In this presentation, we will tell the story of an expedition–the first in US military history, in fact–that despite numerous privations, very nearly captured the great citadel of Quebec in the teeth of a driving snowstorm on New Years Eve, 1775.

September 3, 7:00pm
Aeronaut Brewery, 14 Tyler Street, Somerville

Ticket available via Eventbrite.

Tickets $18 (non-members), includes one drink ticket
Members $14 (members), includes one drink ticket