THE LONDON CHRONICLE, England, Sept. 18, 1759

• Battle of the Plains of Abraham
• Capture of Quebec, Canada

Page 6 has two paragraphs of reports headed: "America", one beginning: "The Assembly in Maryland...voted 2000 men for the general service of this year, and 2100 rangers for the protection of their frontiers...".
Page 7 has a letter dated July 10 from a person in the expedition against Canada to his friend in Boston, dated in the River St. Lawrence". This nice letter details the early events of the siege of Quebec by the British.
It begins: "I am just now come down from within a little better than a mile of Quebeck city...Our army has been landed some days, to the amount of about 8000...one on the eastern extremity of Orleans Isle, the other on Point Levi...on the south shore...Where I am now is about 18 leagues from Quebec city. I expect some push has been made since the firing began...I hope in a month or two to bring an account of the reduction of the whole country; and that the walls of Quebec will be attacked by British coolers flying thereon." with more particulars.
Indeed, Quebec fell to the British on September 13, before this issue was published.
Eight pages, 8 1/4 by 11 1/4 inches, never bound nor trimmed, a small hole in each leaf, fortunately, does not affect any mentioned reports, nice condition.

Background: This issue holds immense historical significance and visual scarcity as a primary source, vividly capturing the agonizing real-time lag of 18th-century transatlantic communications during the Seven Years' War. The issue's notable content lies in its dramatic ironies and rare first-person field reports: while London readers were absorbing official colonial dispatches regarding Maryland's provincial troop votes alongside a July eyewitness account detailing General James Wolfe’s early positioning at Île d'Orléans and Point Levi, the climax of the campaign had already transpired five days earlier. Unbeknownst to the British public reading this soldier's hopeful anticipation that "the walls of Quebec will be attacked by British colours flying thereon" (misprinted here as "coolers"), Quebec had already fallen on September 13 following the fateful Battle of the Plains of Abraham, claiming the lives of both Wolfe and the Marquis de Montcalm. Original issues of The London Chronicle from the pivotal year of 1759 are exceptionally rare and highly sought after by collectors and institutions; surviving eight-page editions function as tangible time capsules that preserve the tense, unedited anticipation of the British Empire just days before news of its greatest North American victory reached London shores.