| WOLFE | 1759: Battle of Quebec victor, General James ___ |
| MONTCALM | Wolfe's 1759 Battle of Quebec opponent |
| FIGHTFORBRITAIN | What General Wolfe's soldiers would do in the Battle of Quebec in 1759: 3 wds. |
| HEIGHTS | ___ of Abraham: scene of a 1759 battle between British and French troops (7) |
| MINDEN | Soldiers capturing more than half of India in 1759 battle (6) |
| QUEBEC | ____ House, childhood home in Kent of General James Wolfe (6) |
| TYNER | Jazz pianist McCoy or 1876 Postmaster General James |
| LETITIA | Attorney General James |
| FIGHTFORENGLAND | Be on General Wolfe's side of the battlefield at the Plains of Abraham as a 1759 soldier: 3 wds. |
| JAMESWOLFE | British general who died in the hour of victory when capturing Quebec from the French in 1759 |
| PLAINSOFABRAHAM | Plateau in E Canada between the city of Quebec and the St Lawrence River; scene of an important British victory (1759) in the Seven Years' War (6,2,7) |
| PLAINSOF | Field between central Quebec City and the St Lawrence River, Canada; site of a 1759 British victory |
| GUINNESS | Founder in 1759 of a brewery specialising in Irish dry stout; or, an actor who starred in The Bridge on the River Kwai and Lawrence of Arabia (8) |
| VOLTAIRE | Pseudonym of French writer and philosopher Francois Marie Arouet, author of works including the 1759 satire Candide (8) |
| PANGLOSS | 'Professor of metaphysico-theologocosmolo-nigology' who tutors the title character of the 1759 satire Candide by French writer Voltaire (8) |
| ABRAHAM | Field between central Quebec City and the St Lawrence River, Canada; site of a 1759 British victory in the Seven Years" War (6,2,7) |
| CANDIDE | Hero of a 1759 satire by Voltaire (7) |
| CHARLESIII | King of Spain from 1759-88 |
| RASSELAS | Prince of Abyssinia in a 1759 novel by Samuel Johnson (8) |
| SATIRE | Genre of Voltaire's 1759 book Candide |
