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Champlain surrenders Quebec to English privateers, the Kirke brothers, on 19 July 1629

Caption: Champlain surrenders Quebec to English privateers, the Kirke brothers, on 19 July 1629

When Champlain surrendered it in 1629, Quebec was only a small unfortified hamlet and could not hope to resist the much stronger English privateers led by the Kirke brothers. There was no fighting.