Plains of Abraham

The plains of Abraham are plains in Quebec City famous for a battle that was fought there in 1759. The British under General James Wolfe defeated the French under the Marquis de Montcalm. Both generals were killed. The two seconds-in-command negotiated the surrender of Quebec, in Gaelic since both were Scots.

This was the key victory in the British conquest of the French colony of Quebec. Quebec remained a British colony from then until it became a province of Canada in 1867.