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Originally Posted by Legbreaker
It is therefore plausible the French only had a handful of suitable ships available, and whatever is going on in Quebec could be very low key and consist of just a company or so of troops and their supporting equipment.
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Fair point re: Quebec...I don't think there's anything that conclusively proves one way or the other how strong the French presence is - it's even suggested that the French ultimatum to the Canadian government could be a bluff
"The Canadian Federal Government, uncertain of whether or not the French could carry out their threat..."
It would probably also behoove the French to have the Canadians thinking that they (the French) were there in greater numbers than they actually were, something that could be achieved by supplying the Quebec forces with French uniforms and weapons - from a distance Canadian agents wouldn't know whether they were watching French combat troops or Quebec Separatists in French uniform.