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| | Quebec Battlefields |
 | | THE Plains of Abraham stand alone among the world's immortal battlefields, as the place where an empire was lost and won in the first clash of arms, the balance of victory was redressed in the second, and the honour of each army' was heightened in both. |
 | | While, east and west, across the arena where he was about to contend for the prize of half a continent, the majestic River, full-charged with the right-hand force of Britain, ebbed and flowed, through gates of empire, on its uniting course between Earth's greatest Lakes and greatest Ocean. |
 | | A week before the battle he had sent a regiment to guard the Heights of Abraham ; and, on the very eve of it, had ordered back the saine regiment to watch the path up which Wolfe came next morning. |
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