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Thread #19105   Message #196559
Posted By: simon-pierre
16-Mar-00 - 11:01 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Plains of Abraham
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Plains of Abraham
I'll tell you what I know. Despite the character of Wolfe, wich I don't know, the facts seems rights. The last note is a translation of Montcalm's last word. I've always heard it in french as «Au moins je ne verrai pas les Anglais dans Québec» (at least, I will not see English in Québec), wich is more ambiguous: was he wrong and thought he would win the battle? Or he was really happy to die at the last moment the city remains French?

But history is a point of view; I don't see that Wolfe is so «brave», despite that he was a military who won a battle; and I wonder what means «Free America was his intention»... It was not a jail, and nobody was prisoner! It was a conquest battle and the land changed hands.

And now, as a Québec city resident, and like I've said it in another thread, Plains of Abraham are a wonderful park to drink beer and sings with your pals!

Yours SP