It was determined to capitulate in the name of the whole colony.

The English generals granted all that was asked by the Canadian population; to its defenders they refused the honors of war.

M.de Levis retired to the Island of Sainte-Helene, resolved to hold out to the last extremity; it was only at the governor's express command that he laid down arms.

No more than three thousand soldiers returned to France.
The capitulation of Montreal was signed on the 8th of September, 1760; on the 10th of February, 1763, the peace concluded between France, Spain, and England completed without hope of recovery the loss of all the French possessions in America; Louisiana had taken no part in the war; it was not conquered; France ceded it to Spain in exchange for Florida, which was abandoned to the English.

Canada and all the islands of the St.
Lawrence shared the same fate.