Excerpts from Books and Wikipedia
"The victory at Quebec secured Canada for the British under the terms of the peace treaty of 1763 and a hero's reputation for General James Wolfe." He found a place "where by night his men could haul themselves up a steep, narrow, ill-guarded road through the woods onto the Plains of Abraham, the heights south-west of Quebec. It was there that the French were brought to battle at last and swiftly routed." [1001 Days] ". . . a pivotal battle in the Seven Years' War (referred to as the French and Indian War in the United States). The battle, which began on 13 September 1759, was fought by the British Army and Navy against the French Army on a plateau just outside the walls of Quebec City . . . The battle involved fewer than 10,000 troops between both sides, but proved to be a deciding moment in the conflict between France and Britain over the fate of New France, influencing the later creation of Canada.[Wikipedia]