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1727 - 1759

English  general.  He  fought  against  the Jacobites  at  Culloden and was  sent  to  Canada  in 1756.  Promoted  to  general  after  his prominence  in  the  capture  of  Louisberg,  he  commanded  the British force which took Quebec.

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Gentlemen, I would rather have written those lines than take Quebec tomorrow.

1759  To his troops,12 Sep, after recitingThomas Gray's'Elegy, Written in a Country Churchyard' the evening before storming the ramparts of Quebec anddying a hero's death on the Plains of Abraham the following day. Quoted in Francis Parkman Montcalm andWolfe (1884).

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Now God be praised, I will die in peace.

James Wolfe
— 1759  Last words, on hearing of the defeat of the French at Quebec. Quoted inJ Knox HistoricalJournal of the Campaigns in North America (1909), ch.17.

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