Plains of Abraham, which is considered the most iconic battle in Canadian history."

Try the most overrated battle in Canadian history. Wolf forces were only a third of the forces invading New France General Jeffery Amherst had 18,000 men coming up from the US overland. If Wolf loses, the French have to deal with a considerably larger force under Amherst.

Basically the French lost because of the superiority of the English navy and the population difference between New France and the English colonies, 65,000 French vs 1.6 million Anglo Americans. BTW the US colonies had according to one historian I read, the highest birth rate in the world at the time.

This is the British trying to make their army look good after a series of embarrassing defeats and the French want to delude themselves they had a chance.