This engraving, based on a drawing by General James Wolfe's aide-de-camp, Hervey Smyth (1734-1811), shows the fleet off Quebec City, the landing of troops, the ascent up the steep incline to the Plains of Abraham, and the confrontation of the British and French armies. Although the artist has given free rein to his imagination, this is a lively representation of the battle which sealed the fate of the French colony. Resistance crumbled after the fall of QuΘbec and a year later MontrΘal, besieged on all sides, surrendered without a struggle.
