Plains of Abraham

English thumb|Plains of Abraham in 1784, with the walls in the distance Etymology en fr Plaines d'Abraham, from fr plaine + Abraham. en Abraham Martin Scottish farmer fisherman river pilot, who immigrated to New France from Scotland; the landowner whose field occupied a part of the clifftop plain, along with the military drill field, outside the fortress and city walls. Proper noun en plain city:suf/Quebec p/Quebec c/Canada; a riverside plain atop the escarpment at the edge of the en Saint-Lawrence River en Battle of the Plains of Abraham an 1759 battle that resulted in the change in sovereignty of the colonial province of Canada, New France, from the French Crown to the British Crown; becoming the colonial province of Quebec, British North America (later the British colonial province of Canada, thence Dominion of Canada). en Battle of Quebec Translations plain French: fr Plaines d'Abraham battle French: fr Bataille des Plaines d'Abraham Further reading en Plains of Abraham en Battle of the Plains of Abraham