Plains of Abraham

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Plains of Abraham

PLAINS OF ABRAHAM. 15 November 1775. After completing his famous march from Boston across Maine to Quebec city, Benedict Arnold crossed the St. Lawrence with seven hundred men, climbed the bluffs west of Quebec City, and established himself roughly on the same piece of relatively flat ground where the British under James Wolfe had defeated the French under the marquis de Montcalm sixteen years earlier (13 September 1759). His attempt to bluff the Quebec garrison into surrender was unsuccessful.

SEE ALSO Arnold, Benedict; Arnold's March to Quebec; Canada Invasion.

                       revised by Harold E. Selesky

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