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

William Howe served in North America from 1758 to 1761 as a young officer, eventually leading his brigade up the cliffs at Quebec to help Wolfe defeat Montcalm on the Plains of Abraham.

From Time Magazine Archive

Every schoolboy knows General Wolfe breathing his last on the Plains of Abraham, the redcoats storming up Bunker Hill, or Washington crossing the Delaware.

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