Gentlemen, I would rather have written those lines than take Quebec tomorrow.
James Wolfe Quotes
The impossibility of a retreat makes no difference in the situation of men resolved to conquer or die; and, believe me, my friends, if your conquest could be bought with the blood of your general, he would most cheerfully resign a life which he has long devoted to his country.
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| Birth: | 2nd January, 1727 |
| Death: | 13th September, 1759 |
| Nationality: | British |
| Profession: | Army Officer |
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James Wolfe was born in Westerham, Kent, England. He was a British Army Officer, known for his training reforms but remembered chiefly for his victory over the French at the Battle of the Plains of Abraham in Canada in 1759. His service in Flanders and in Scotland, where he took part in the suppression of the Jacobite Rebellion, brought him to the attention of his superiors. Already a brigade major at the age of eighteen, he was a lieutenant-colonel by the age of twenty-three.
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