James Wolfe Quotes:
Ocupation: Major
Life: January 2, 1727 - September 13, 1759
Birthday: January 2
Death: September 13
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Gentlemen, I would rather have written those lines than take Quebec tomorrow.
source: - 1759 To his troops,12 Sep, after reciting Thomas Gray's 'Elegy, Written in a Country Churchyard' the evening before storming the ramparts of Quebec and dying a hero's death on the Plains of Abraham the following day. Quoted in Francis Parkman Montcalm and Wolfe (1884).
Topics: Cancer, Mean, One Day, Thon, Penn State
There is such a choice of difficulties that I am myself at a loss how to determine.
Topics: Loss, Choices, Difficulty
Now God be praised, I will die in peace.
source: - Dying words, in J. Knox 'Historical Journal of Campaigns, 1757-60' (1769) (vol. 2, p. 114 1914 ed.)
Topics: Peace
Topics: Confidence, Rocks, Enemy, Steep
Topics: Soldier, Troops, France, British Soldiers
Topics: Bravery, Soldier, Important, Fellow Soldiers
