Anse au Foulon

Wolfe's Cove, by Winslow Homer, 1895

Anse-au-Foulon is a small cove in Quebec, Canada. It was located about one and one-half miles above Quebec City, in the formerly independent city of Sillery, until the 1st of January 2002, as part of the 2000–06 municipal reorganization in Quebec. Since that date, Anse-au-Foulon and Sillery (reconstituted as a neighbourhood (quartier) have been officially located in Quebec City.

The cove was known and referred to as Wolfe's Cove by Sillery's once-sizable English-speaking population.

It was at Anse-au-Foulon that the British forces commanded by James Wolfe landed, prior to proceeding to the Plains of Abraham, where they engaged and defeated the French forces commanded by the Marquis de Montcalm, resulting in the occupation of Quebec City, and the subsequent signing of the Treaty of Paris (1763). The treaty marked Great Britain's victory over France and Spain, during the Seven Year's War, and stipulated France's ceding of New France east of the Mississippi River to Great Britain.

See also

• France in the Seven Years War
• Great Britain in the Seven Years War

Sources

• Lawrence J. Burpee, The Oxford Encyclopaedia of Canadian History, London and Toronto, Oxford University Press, 1926, 699 p., p. 692.
• Rickard, J. (1 November 2000), Louis-Joseph Montcalm (1712-1759), http://www.historyofwar.org/articles/people_montcalm.html