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James Wolfe (* 2. Januar 1727 in Westerham, Kent; † 13. September 1759 in Québec) war ein britischer General, bedeutend durch seine Rolle bei der Eroberung Kanadas durch Großbritannien. Seine Eroberung der Stadt Québec in der Schlacht auf der Abraham-Ebene am 13. September 1759 war der Wendepunkt in den Franzosen- und Indianerkriegen, der ...
WOLFE, JAMES, army officer, commander of the British expedition that took Quebec in 1759; b. 2 Jan. 1727 (n.s.) at Westerham, England; d. 13 Sept. 1759 of wounds received in the battle of the Plains of Abraham. He was the son of Lieutenant-General Edward Wolfe, a respectable but not particularly distinguished officer, and Henrietta Thompson.
19 de may. de 2024 · James Wolfe. James Wolfe, son of Edward and Henrietta, was born in 1727 at Westerham in Kent. He was educated at a school in Greenwich and commissioned in his father's regiment in 1741. He had a brilliant career and was a Major-General at age 32. On his last expedition, with Admiral Sir Charles Saunders (who is buried not far from Wolfe's ...
Paths of Glory. : WINNER: 2008 C. P. STACEY PRIZE (Best book in Canadian Military History) WINNER: 2008 DISTINGUISHED BOOK AWARD, SOCIETY OF COLONIAL WARS Ugly, gangling, and tormented by agonising illness, Major General James Wolfe was an unlikely hero. Yet in 1759, on the Plains of Abraham before Quebec, he won a battle with momentous ...
10 de ene. de 2022 · Wolfe at Quebec: a new analysis. Sam Allison and Jon Bradley offer a forensic reappraisal of General James Wolfe’s spectacular victory. The September 1759 Battle of the Plains of Abraham was not a minor engagement and cannot be viewed simply as one of the multitude of clashes between the British and the French for control of North America.
Battle of Quebec. The Battle of Quebec was fought on 13 September 1759 during the Seven Years War (1756-63). British troops led by Major-General James Wolfe came up against the garrison of French general the Marquis de Montcalm. Wolfe’s victory ultimately led to the conquest of Canada by Britain. 10 min read.
4 de ene. de 2021 · Thirty-two year old James Wolfe had served in the British Army for almost eighteen years when he was given command of the roughly 9,000-man force that was tasked with defeating the French in and around Quebec City in 1759. He was hard-nosed and did not always get along with his subordinate generals, Robert Monckton, George Townshend, and James ...
