EBOOK THE WINNING OF CANADA ***
This etext was produced by Gardner Buchanan.
CHRONICLES OF CANADA
Edited by George M. Wrong and H. H. Langton
In thirty-two volumes
Volume 11
THE WINNING OF CANADA
A Chronicle of Wolfe
By WILLIAM WOOD
TORONTO, 1915
AUTHOR'S NOTE
Any life of Wolfe can be artificially simplified by
treating his purely military work as something complete
in itself and not as a part of a greater whole. But,
since such treatment gives a totally false idea of his
achievement, this little sketch, drawn straight from
original sources, tries to show him as he really was, a
co-worker with the British fleet in a war based entirely
on naval strategy and inseparably connected with
international affairs of world-wide significance. The
only simplification attempted here is that of arrangement
and expression.
W.W.
Quebec, April 1914.
CONTENTS
I. THE BOY
II. THE YOUNG SOLDIER
III. THE SEVEN YEARS' PEACE
IV. THE SEVEN YEARS' WAR
V. LOUISBOURG
VI. QUEBEC
VII. THE PLAINS OF ABRAHAM
VIII. EPILOGUE--THE LAST STAND
BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
CHAPTER I
THE BOY
1727-1741
Wolfe was a soldier born. Many of his ancestors had stood
ready to fight for king and country at a moment's notice.
His father fought under the great Duke of Marlborough in
the war against France at the beginning of the eighteenth
century.
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