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British army gathering to capture Quebec, 1759

General Wolfe assembling the British army on the Plains of Abraham to take Quebec, 1759.
Hand-colored halftone reproduction of a Frederic Remington illustration

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Louis de Buade, Count Frontenac, Governor General of New France, 1600s.
Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration from a statue

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Jeffrey Amherst with his signature

Jeffrey Amherst, commander-in-chief of the British army, Governor-General of British North America.
Hand-colored halftone reproduction of a portrait

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