Liverpool Daily Post.co.uk (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
... the site of the pivotal 1759 battle in which British General James Wolfe defeated France’s Marquis Louis-Joseph de Montcalm.
Daily Star (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
... the site of the pivotal 1759 battle in which British General James Wolfe defeated France's Marquis Louis-Joseph de Montcalm."I think it's time to smoke the pipes of peace and to just, you know, put away your hatchet because I think it's a show of friendship," McCartney said of the nationalists' claims in an interview with Radio-Canada.
The Independent (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
... the Plains of Abraham (now Battlefields Park) that in 1759, General James Wolfe defeated General Louis-Joseph de Montcalm to seize "New France" for Britain.Nearly 250 years later, the ousting of the French lily by the English rose remains the moment that fuels the French separatism that still lingers in bilingual Quebec. It is the sentiment that informs the province's motto,...
Seattle Times (Free subscription) | 07/18/2008
McCartney tried to deflate the political rhetoric around Sunday's show on the Plains of Abraham, site of the pivotal 1759 battle between British General James Wolfe and France's Marquis Louis-Joseph de Montcalm.
Arizona Republic (Free subscription) | 07/18/2008
McCartney tried to deflate the political rhetoric around Sunday's show on the Plains of Abraham, site of the pivotal 1759 battle between British General James Wolfe and France's Marquis Louis-Joseph de Montcalm.
Seattle Times (Free subscription) | 07/18/2008
McCartney tried to deflate the political rhetoric around Sunday's show on the Plains of Abraham, site of the pivotal 1759 battle between British General James Wolfe and France's Marquis Louis-Joseph de Montcalm.
Daily Star (Free subscription) | 07/18/2008
... Abraham, site of the pivotal 1759 battle between British General James Wolfe and France's Marquis Louis-Joseph de Montcalm. "The kind of thing I read about in the schoolbooks when I was a kid was...who was General Wolfe?" he said jokingly. "I still haven't figured it out." Since the celebrations of the city's four centuries of uniquely French culture kicked off in July, Francophones...
