Quebec, Siege of, 1690

   Sir William Phipps, having captured Port Royal in May of this year, appeared before Quebec in October, with thirty-two ships and a force of over two thousand men. He immediately summoned Frontenac to surrender, and got a contemptuous refusal. Quebec was well defended both in men and guns, and after a fruitless attack on the town from the Beauport flats, and a subsequent bombardment in which he did much less damage to the town than his ships suffered from Frontenac's batteries, Phipps abandoned the siege. A little church then building in the Lower Town was named Notre Dame de la Victoire, to commemorate the victory.

   Index: See Quebec city; Phipps.

   Bib.: Myrand, Sir William Phipps devant Québec; Parkman, Frontenac.