1-149-638 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The Death of General Richard Montgomery at Quebec, 1775, (1872). A romanticized version of the unsuccessful 1775-1776 winter assault on Quebec City by American forces under Montgomery (1736-1775), Irish-American soldier, who died at the approaches to Lower Town. Engraving from John Gilmary Shea's A Child's History of the United States, Hess and McDavitt, (New York, 1872).