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[[File:Winslow Homer - Wolfe's Cove, Quebec.jpg|thumbnail|250px|<center>''Wolfe's Cove'', by [[Winslow Homer]], 1895]] |
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'''L'Anse au Foulon''' is a small [[cove]] about one and one-half miles above [[Quebec City]]. It is also referred to by the name '''Wolfe's Cove'''. It was at L'Anse au Foulon that the British forces commanded by [[James Wolfe]] landed prior to proceeding to the [[Plains of Abraham]] where they [[Battle of the Plains of Abraham|engaged and defeated]] the [[Early Modern France|French]] force commanded by the [[Marquis de Montcalm]], resulting in the occupation of [[Quebec City]] and an eventual complete triumph by [[Kingdom of Great Britain|Great Britain]] in the North American theatre of the war. |
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Sources
- Lawrence J. Burpee, The Oxford Encyclopaedia of Canadian History, London and Toronto, Oxford University Press, 1926, 699 p., p. 692.
- Rickard, J. (1 November 2000), Louis-Joseph Montcalm (1712-1759), http://www.historyofwar.org/articles/people_montcalm.html