Qualla: Battle of Saint-Charles https://qualla.com/battle-of-saint-charles en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:18 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/f/2/5/g/battle-of-saint-charles-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Battle of Saint-Charles https://qualla.com/battle-of-saint-charles Battle of Saint-Charles: Introduction https://qualla.com/battle-of-saint-charles/ Photo credit Edward Adams Clark, Public domain. Thomas Storrow Brown was attending to the baking of bread when the cannonball struck the church steeple. The failed Montreal merchant turned rebel commander had two hundred men, fifty rifles, and a brick manor house surrounded by frozen mud and log breastworks. Marching toward him along the Richelieu River on that November morning in 1837 were four hundred British regulars, twenty cavalry, and two artillery pieces. The Battle of Saint-Charles would last just two hours, but the grievances that brought those Patriotes to this riverbank had been building for half a century.

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]]> Mon, 23 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/f/2/5/g/battle-of-saint-charles-wp/f25g-battle-of-saint-charles-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Battle of Saint-Charles: The Seigneuries and the Simmering https://qualla.com/battle-of-saint-charles/ Photo credit Lithographed by Nathaniel Hartnell (c. 1829-1864) from a sketch by Lord Charles Beauclerck (1813-1861), Public domain. Lower Canada in the 1830s was a colony at war with itself. French-Canadian habitants -- farmers bound to the old seigneurial system -- watched English-speaking immigrants claim the best new land with British bureaucracy smoothing the way. The French elite educated at Catholic col...

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]]> Mon, 23 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/f/2/5/g/battle-of-saint-charles-wp/f25g-battle-of-saint-charles-the-seigneuries-and-the-simmering.mp3 0:06 2 full Battle of Saint-Charles: A Fortified Camp on Frozen Ground https://qualla.com/battle-of-saint-charles/ Photo credit Lithographed by Nathaniel Hartnell (c. 1829-1864) from a sketch by Lord Charles Beauclerck (1813-1861), Public domain. The Patriotes seized the brick manor house of seigneur Pierre Dominique Debartzch on November 19, sending the family under guard to Quebec City. Brown turned the house into a barracks and built earthen breastworks of logs and branches sealed with frozen mud, stretching from the R...

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]]> Mon, 23 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/f/2/5/g/battle-of-saint-charles-wp/f25g-battle-of-saint-charles-a-fortified-camp-on-frozen-ground.mp3 0:06 3 full Battle of Saint-Charles: Wetherall's March North https://qualla.com/battle-of-saint-charles/ Photo credit Lithographed by Nathaniel Hartnell (c. 1829-1864) from a sketch by Lord Charles Beauclerck (1813-1861), Public domain. Lieutenant Colonel George Wetherall departed Fort Chambly on November 18 with three companies of the Royal Regiment, one company of the 66th, twenty Royal Montreal Cavalry, and two field guns. His orders came from Sir John Colborne, veteran of the Peninsular War and commander of ...

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]]> Mon, 23 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/f/2/5/g/battle-of-saint-charles-wp/f25g-battle-of-saint-charles-wetheralls-march-north.mp3 0:06 4 full Battle of Saint-Charles: Two Hours at the Breastworks https://qualla.com/battle-of-saint-charles/ Photo credit Lithographed by Nathaniel Hartnell (c. 1829-1864) from a sketch by Lord Charles Beauclerck (1813-1861), Public domain. Wetherall's column came under Patriote sniper fire from roadside houses and barns beginning at 1 p.m. He ordered the buildings burned. Upon reaching Saint-Charles, he deployed his cannon and offered Brown terms: safe passage in exchange for the road. Brown demanded the British la...

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]]> Mon, 23 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/f/2/5/g/battle-of-saint-charles-wp/f25g-battle-of-saint-charles-two-hours-at-the-breastworks.mp3 0:06 5 full Battle of Saint-Charles: The Fires After https://qualla.com/battle-of-saint-charles/ Photo credit Lithographed by Nathaniel Hartnell (c. 1829-1864) from a sketch by Lord Charles Beauclerck (1813-1861), Public domain. Wetherall burned every building in the fortified camp except Debartzch's manor house. Twenty-five prisoners were locked in the Saint-Charles church. Brown, stripped of command by Nelson at Saint-Denis, disappeared into the countryside. The 1,000-strong Patriote force at nearby Sa...

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