Blood in the Snow: The Doomed American Assault on Quebec, December 31, 1775

Inside the forgotten invasion that could have rewritten the American Revolution.

In the frigid winter of 1775, as the American Revolution struggled for momentum, a bold vision took shape: the invasion and liberation of Canada. If Quebec could be taken, General George Washington believed, Canada might rise as the Fourteenth Colony—and the trajectory of the entire war could shift.

In Blood in the Snow, historian Phillip Thomas Tucker resurrects this dramatic and often overlooked campaign: the f...