General Wolfe (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from General WolfeGentleman's Magazine of 1759 down to Miss Kimball and Mr. Doughty, frequently though Wolfe's mar vellons despatch of the 2nd September to Pitt has been published apparently at length, it has never been given in England without some qualification. Sin Canada it was given, I believe, in extenso, by Brymner in his Report on the Canadian Archives for 1898. Miss Kimball omits two passages - for no obvious reason - and three words, the absence of which makes a material difference. To the best of my opportunities I have gone to the originals and the despatch is now printed in an appendix, exactly as Wolfe sent it off. Among more general histories, the most important, from the point of View of Wolfe's work, is Mr. Julian Corbett's masterly study of amphibious strategy - combined naval and mili tary operations - in England in the Seven Years' War. Mr. Corbett, in his study of the Stopford Sackville mss., seized upon a very interesting and material fact in the record of Wolfe which no bio graphy has contained hitherto. It has sometimes struck me as remarkable that Macaulay did not find in Wolfe's life the motif of at least one glowing passage in his Essays, if not of an Essay itself. He only mentions him twice, so far as I am aware. Disraeli did not even mention him in that striking speech of the stranger in the forest inn to Coningsby which ends, The history of Heroes is the history of youth. Wolfe was more a case in point than either Nelson or Clive.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.