On this day 250 years ago at Quebec, General Richard Montgomery ordered his cannon to begin bombarding the city after his men fired arrows over the city walls bearing letters demanding surrender the previous day and the British refused to capitulate. Unfortunately for the American Army their cannons would do very little damage to the fortress walls surrounding Quebec.

https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/December-8/americans-begin-siege-of-quebec

On that day in Charleston, Edward Rutledge wrote to Ralph Izard in London asking if the English are “determined to force us into independence or do they really imagine that we are so void of the feelings of humanity and so insensible to the call of reason as willing to submit to every insult, to every injury.”

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-O0Gf9DCiI

And on that day in Norfolk, Virginia, Governor Lord Dunmore ordered additional British troops, sailors and Loyalists to march to Fort Murray on the north end of the Great Bridge and to attack the Patriots the next day.

Source: https://archive.org/details/johnallanrevolut00brow/page/n3/mode/2up