The Winning of Canada

The Winning of Canada: A
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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. 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.
The Wolfes are of an old and honourable line. Many hundreds of years
ago their forefathers lived in England and later on in Wales. Later still,
in the fifteenth century, before America was discovered, they were
living in Ireland. Wolfe's father, however, was born in England; and, as
there is no evidence that any of his ancestors in Ireland had married
other than English Protestants, and as Wolfe's mother was also English,
we may say that the victor of Quebec was a pure-bred Englishman.
Among his Anglo-Irish kinsmen were the Goldsmiths and the
Seymours. Oliver Goldsmith himself was always very proud of being a
cousin of the man who took Quebec.
Wolfe's mother, to whom he owed a great deal of his genius; was a
descendant of two good families in Yorkshire. She was eighteen years
younger than his father, and was very tall and handsome. Wolfe
thought there was no one like her. When he was a colonel, and had
been through the wars and at court, he still believed she was 'a match

for all the beauties.' He was not lucky enough to take after her in looks,
except in her one weak feature, a cutaway chin. His body, indeed,
seems to have been made up of the bad points of both parents: he had
his rheumatism from his father. But his spirit was made up of all their
good points; and no braver ever lived in any healthy body than in his
own sickly, lanky