France and Britain had been arch enemies for centuries. New France (Quebec) was taken over by the British. Ben Franklin had a newspaper in Montreal. You’d think there’d be some influence and rationale for Quebec to secede from Britain and join the US during the war of independence, but it didn’t. Why not?
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The French and their Indigenous allies had been fighting the American settlers and their Indigenous allies for 150 years. There were open battles, like in the 7 years war, but in general it was tit for tat frontier warfare. As in find isolated farm on the frontier owned by your enemies, massacre the inhabitants and disappear before help arrives. The Quebecois hated the British, but they hated the American colonists more and the feeling was mutual.
We know a bit more about the massacres perpetrated by the French and their allies, because it was written down in English. There were probably an equal number of massacres perpetrated by the Americans and their allies.
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