Happy Quebec day

[macwilkin]

I found this on the net today some interesting historical stuff for you mil buffs.

http://www.britishbattles.com/index.htm

with a bit tartan thrown in as appropriate

The Plains of Abraham, where the Battle of Quebec was fought, was named for a Scot, one Abraham Martin. And there was a Scot serving with the French forces under the Marquis de Montcalm -- the Chevalier de Johnstone, a former Jacobite.

Je me souviens!

Todd

[Ruanaidh]

Abraham Martin dit L'Écossais (the Scotsman) was born in France about 1589. Family legend tells the story that his father, a Scottish nobleman was a supporter of Mary, Queen of Scots. When Elizabeth I executed Mary in 1587, the family was forced to flee to France. Abraham arrived in New France about 1620 with his wife, Marguerite.

Abraham was one of the first colonialists of Canada and one of the first navigators of the St. Lawrence River. It was he who drew up the first navigational charts of the river.

The land owned by Abraham Martin at the top of Cap Diamants was called the "Plains of Abraham", a name later extended to the adjacent plateau, on which was fought the famous battle between Wolf and Montcalm for the possession of Québec.

Abraham fathered a large family and it is said that his blood flows in the veins of everyone of French-Canadian and Cajan descent.

Jamais Souillée