The donnelly massacre - Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

David McLane - Answer- (1797) McLane was an American merchant. Met Pierre Adet, the french ambassador to the United States in 1796. McLane claimed that Adet hired him as a spy with the express intent of sending him to Lower Canada to encourage French Canadians to rise up against British Rule. By May 10, 1797, Met up with John Black, a member of the House of Assembly who was thought by McLane to have had revolutionary leanings. McLane told Black that he was planning an attack on the Quebec garris...