General Wolfe (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from General Wolfe On the 13th September will be commemorated the 150th anniversary of the death of General James Wolfe on the heights of Abraham. Of all the lives indelibly associated with the history of the Empire, certainly of the heroes of the eighteenth century, none has perhaps been so little "done" as that of the Conqueror of Quebec. The romance of Quebec has been described till it is almost a nursery tale, but among biographies of Wolfe there are only two that claim special attention - one, Wright's, which appeared more than sixty years ago and is necessarily out-of-date, the other, Mr. A. G. Bradley's, which appeared fourteen years ago and consequently could not include valuable material made more readily available in the interval. Francis Parkman, most indefatigable of searchers after hidden records, in his Montcalm and Wolfe added much to Wright on the Canadian side, and in his turn has been supplemented by Mr. A. G. Doughty, the Canadian archivist who has given us six big volumes, The Siege of Quebec. The Military Life of the First Marquess Townshend, by Col. C. F. V. Townshend, alone would seem to justify a new "life" of Wolfe, it revived old controversy and misled many. Miss Kimball's Correspondence of Pitt with Colonial Governors and Naval and Military Commissioners in America has placed many of the treasures of the Archives at the command of the student who cannot go to them for himself. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.