    Sentence 1: What battle outside Quebec City  did British lose in 1760?    Sentence 2: British victories continued in all  theaters in the Annus Mirabilis of 1759, when  they finally captured Ticonderoga, James  Wolfe defeated Montcalm at Quebec (in a  battle that claimed the lives of both  commanders), and victory at Fort Niagara  succesfully cut off the French frontier forts  further to the west and south.    