On this day 250 years ago General Richard Montgomery met with Colonel Benedict Arnold and the other key officers in his army besieging Quebec City including Lieutenant Colonel Christopher Greene, Major Timothy Bigelow, Major Return Jonathan Meigs, Captain Daniel Morgan, Captain Aaron Burr, Captain William Hendricks, Captain John Lamb, Captain John MacPherson, and Captain Jacob Cheesman to discuss their next steps. The previous day, Christmas, Montgomery had addressed the troops to encourage them for the coming assault of the city before the enlistments of most of the men would expire at the end of the year.

Although some of the officers were pessimistic that the assault would succeed but Benedict Arnold convinced the other officers that an assault on the city must be tried, regardless of the chances of it succeeding. Because a frontal attack against the city’s granite walls was impossible they agreed to assault Quebec’s Lower Town. Colonel Arnold would lead his men to attack along the river from the north while General Montgomery would lead his troops against the Lower Town from the south. Capturing the Lower Town would cut off the Upper Town from resupply from ships on the St. Lawrence River. They also agreed to wait until the next snowstorm to launch the attack in order in the hope that the snowstorm would hide the assault until they breached the Lower Town’s outermost defenses.

Source: https://www.americanacorner.com/blog/quebec-assault

{note — other sources say this conference occurred on Christmas Day not on December 26]