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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 eventual ceding of all French territory in continental North America to [[Kingdom of Great Britain|Britain]] (1759). |
'''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 eventual ceding of all French territory in continental North America to [[Kingdom of Great Britain|Britain]] (1759). |
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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 engaged and defeated the French force commanded by the Marquis de Montcalm, resulting in the eventual ceding of all French territory in continental North America to Britain (1759).
See also
They were planning to attack Quebec
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
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