Plains of Abraham

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Plains of Abraham: see Abraham, Plains of Abraham, Plains of, fairly level field adjoining the upper part of the city of Quebec, Canada. There, in 1759, the English under Gen. James Wolfe defeated the French under Gen. Louis Montcalm.
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Plains of Abraham

a field in E Canada between Quebec City and the St Lawrence River: site of an important British victory (1759) in the Seven Years' War, which cost the French their possession of Canada

Plains of Abraham

English victory decided last of French and Indian wars (1759). [Br. Hist.: NCE, 7]

See : Battle

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