Editing New France (section)

==Treaties of cession==
{{further|Conquest of New France (1758-1760)}}
In 1758, British forces again [[Siege of Louisbourg (1758)|captured Louisbourg]], allowing them to blockade the entrance to the St. Lawrence River. This proved decisive in the war. In 1759, the British besieged Quebec by sea, and an army under General [[James Wolfe]] defeated the French under General [[Louis-Joseph de Montcalm]] at the [[Battle of the Plains of Abraham]] in September. The garrison in Quebec surrendered on 18 September, and by the next year New France had been conquered by the British after [[Montreal Campaign|the attack on Montreal]], which had refused to acknowledge the fall of Canada. The last French governor-general of New France, [[Pierre François de Rigaud, Marquis de Vaudreuil-Cavagnal]], surrendered to British Major General [[Jeffery Amherst, 1st Baron Amherst|Jeffery Amherst]] on 8 September 1760. France formally ceded Canada to the British in the [[Treaty of Paris (1763)|Treaty of Paris]], signed 10 February 1763.<ref>{{cite book |first=Junius P. |last=Rodriguez |title=The Louisiana Purchase: A Historical and Geographical Encyclopedia |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Qs7GAwwdzyQC&pg=PA272 |year=2002 |publisher=ABC-CLIO |page=272 |isbn=978-1-5760-7188-5}}</ref>