Frères chasseurs
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The Frères chasseurs (French for "Hunter Brothers") were a paramilitary organization that fought the Patriote Rebellion on the Patriote side, seeking to make Lower Canada, now Quebec, an independent and democratic republic.
After the failiure of the first uprising of 1837, the Frères chasseurs organization was founded in 1838 by Robert Nelson (the president), Cyrille-Hector-Octave Côté (the vice president), Edmond-Élisée Malhiot, Antoine Doré, Julien Gagnon, Louis-Guillaume Lévesque, François Mercure, François Lemaître, Célestin Beausoleil et David Rochon. In September, it was comprised of at least 35 lodges.
The Frères chasseurs attempted to invade Lower Canada from the United States to defeat the British army and its volunteers. On February 22, 1839, president Robert Nelson declared the independence of Lower Canada. Bishop Jean-Jacques Lartigue obtained information about the group and communicated it to John Colborne, who in turn used it to quell the Frères chasseurs. Members of the Frères chasseurs such as François-Marie-Thomas Chevalier de Lorimier were executed at the Pied-du-Courant Prison by the British authorities for their actions.
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- Hunters' Lodges
- Executions at the Pied-du-Courant Prison
- Patriote movement
- Quebec nationalism
- Quebec independence movement
- History of Quebec
- Timeline of Quebec history
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