Chapter 1

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.

LIST OF 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