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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Quebec was under British control, as you said – there was no French military forces there.
However, the first major operation the Continental Army undertook *was* to invade Quebec and push out the British forces, to get the French Canadiens to side with them. It ended up a disaster, and was also the first major defeat suffered by the Continental Army.
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