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6 unusual facts about Battle of the Plains of Abraham


Colonial mentality

The idea that some Quebecers hold a colonial mentality, due to the conquest of Quebec by the British and subsequent domination by English Canada is prevalent in a segment of Québécois intellectual thought, notably within the Quebec nationalist and independence movements.

Gilles Vigneault

On 13 August 1974 130,000 spectators came together on the Plains of Abraham for the Superfrancofête, where Vigneault participated in an historic concert alongside Félix Leclerc, a representative, in a way, of the older generation, and Robert Charlebois, of the younger generation.

Howe Island

It was named Howe Island after William Howe, 5th Viscount Howe, a British officer who served under General James Wolfe at the Battle of the Plains of Abraham during the Seven Years' War, and first appeared on a map in 1818 following a survey by Captain (later Vice Admiral) William Fitzwilliam Owen of the Royal Navy.

New Hampshire Militia

Regiments of the New Hampshire provincial soldiers were at the Battle of Lake George, the Siege of Fort William Henry, the Siege of Louisbourg (1758), the 1758 Battle of Carillon and the fall of Fort Carillon (subsequently Fort Ticonderoga) in 1759, the Battle of the Plains of Abraham and the Battle of Sainte-Foy near Quebec, and were present at the final capitulation of New France at Montreal.

Samuel Tudor

Elihu was a preeminent surgeon who attended to British General James Wolfe at the Battle of Quebec.

Stoke, Cheshire East

General James Wolfe, hero of the Battle of Quebec of 1759, is supposed to have spent some of his childhood at Yew Tree House near Verona.


Hôpital-Général de Québec

The central portion of the hospital cemetery, where over 1,000 French and British soldiers who died in the battles of the Plains of Abraham and Sainte-Foy are interred, is a National Historic Site of Canada.

La Difference

# "The Conquest" examined the Battle of the Plains of Abraham and its role in shaping modern conflict between English and French in Canada; Gwyn interviewed Françoise Loranger, author of Le chemin du roy which satirized Charles de Gaulle's controversial 1967 "Vive le Québec libre" statement

Mamongazeda

During the French and Indian War, Mamongazeda raised a party of Lake Superior Ojibwa to fight with the French, and were part of Montcalm's army at the Battle of the Plains of Abraham.

Michel Chartier de Lotbinière, Marquis de Lotbinière

In the run up to the Battle of Quebec his cousin, Vaudreuil, employed him to build defences about the city, and during the battle he served as his aide-de-camp.

The Virginians

Henry's romantic entanglements with an older woman lead up to his taking a commission in the British army and fighting under the command of General Wolfe at the capture of Quebec.


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