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

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

Thereupon, exercising vigilance and caution in sending his men up the heights of Quebec, Wolfe valorously engaged General Montcalm's French forces on the Plains of Abraham, routed them.

From Time Magazine Archive

That afternoon Their Majesties went to the Plains of Abraham, there heard 50,000 school children sing O Canada and God Save the King in French.

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