Wolfe-Montcalm Monument

The Wolfe-Montcalm Monument is an obelisk more than 20 m in height. It was unveiled in 1828 in memory of the generals on both sides who died during the famous Battle of the Plains of Abraham. The monument stands behind the Château Frontenac hotel in Parc des Gouverneurs.

Major General James Wolfe (1727–1759) was a British Army officer, known for his training reforms but remembered chiefly for his victory over the French at the Battle of Québec in Canada in 1759.

Louis-Joseph de Montcalm-Gozon, Marquis de Saint-Veran (1712–1759) was a French soldier best known as the commander of the forces in North America during the Seven Years' War (whose North American theatre is called the French and Indian War in the US). In 1756 King Louis XV sent him to New France to lead its defence against the British in the Seven Years' War. Montcalm met with notable successes in 1756, 1757 and 1758 but British mobilisation of large numbers of troops against New France led to military setbacks in 1758 and 1759, culminating in Montcalm's death at the Battle of the Plains of Abraham.

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