Plains of Abraham

American  

noun

1. a high plain adjoining the city of Quebec, Canada: battlefield where the English under Wolfe defeated the French under Montcalm in 1759.

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Plains of Abraham British  

noun

1. (functioning as singular) 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

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Example Sentences

The Battle of the Plains of Abraham, marking the fall of Quebec to Britain — in 1759.

From Washington Post

The kidnapers espouse a cause that has inspired Quebeckers ever since General Wolfe's redcoats defeated Montcalm's French army on the Plains of Abraham in 1759 and imposed British rule.

From Time Magazine Archive

Priests and nuns rehearsed 25,000 school children for a pageant of greeting to Their Majesties on the Plains of Abraham.

From Time Magazine Archive

The last great scene is Wolfe dying on the Plains of Abraham, hearing a soldier say, "They run; see how they run!"

From Time Magazine Archive

The tune that Hamilton sang, called “General Wolfe’s Song,” was supposedly written by the great British general on the eve of his glorious death on the Plains of Abraham outside Quebec in 1759.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis