Chronicles of Canada series: Volume 11

The Winning of Canada: a Chronicle of Wolfe

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. 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. His grandfather, his great-grandfather, his only uncle, and his only brother were soldiers too. Nor has the martial spirit deserted the descendants of the Wolfes in the generation now alive. They are soldiers still. The present head of the family, who represented it at the celebration of the tercentenary of the founding of Quebec, fought in Egypt for Queen Victoria; and the member of it who represented Wolfe on that occasion, in the pageant of the Quebec campaign, is an officer in the Canadian army under George V. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

Product details

Ebook Number: 8728
Author: Wood, William
Release Date: Aug 1, 2005
Format: eBook
Language: English
Publication Date: 1915
Publisher Country: Toronto

Contributors

Editor: Langton, H. H. (Hugh Hornby), 1862-1953 , Wrong, George McKinnon, 1860-1948