Enlightenment · North America · War
1759
Wolfe Takes Quebec on the Plains of Abraham
September 13, 1759
Before dawn, British troops scaled a goat path up the cliffs and formed lines on the plateau. Montcalm came out to meet them and both generals fell - Wolfe as the French broke, Montcalm the next day. Quebec surrendered; French Canada's fate was sealed in a fifteen-minute volley exchange. Benjamin West's painting of Wolfe's death became the most reproduced image in the British Empire.
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Enlightenment (1651–1800), one of 696 events from that era on Saeculum.
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