Chaudière River
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The Chaudière River is a 185-kilometre-long river with its source near the Town of Lac-Mégantic, in southeast Quebec, Canada. From its source Lake Mégantic in the Estrie region, it runs northwards to
Chutes-de-la-Chaudière
Lac Mégantic, head lake of the Chaudière.
The Grand Sault, near Saint-Martin.
The Sartigan dam at Saint-Georges.
In September 1775, early in the American Revolutionary War, Colonel Benedict Arnold led a force of 1,100 Continental Army troops on an expedition from Cambridge in the Province of Massachusetts Bay to
Chaudière River
…because the river was a natural link between New France and the British colonies to the south. It was also used by Benedict Arnold at the time of his 1775 expedition in the invasion of Quebec. In 1823, gold was found along its shores in the Eastern Townships of Quebec…
Marker commemorating the Arnold Trail to Quebec, the "Great Carrying Place" on the Kennebec River in Caratunk, Maine
Commemorative marker in Eustis, Maine
A 1776 mezzotint of Benedict Arnold by Thomas Hart
Daniel Morgan, by Charles Willson Peale