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Meaning of Plains of Abraham | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C1

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  1. A plain in Quebec city, Quebec, Canada; a riverside plain atop the escarpment at the edge of the Saint-Lawrence River
  2. Ellipsis of 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).

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