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Hace 3 días · An army reformer who attained high rank at a young age, Major-General James Wolfe was Britain’s most celebrated military hero of the 18th century. His victory over the French at Quebec in 1759 resulted in the unification of Canada and the American colonies under the British crown.
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James Wolfe: The heroic martyr. Major-General James Wolfe...
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Early career. John Moore (1761-1809) was commissioned into...
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Whether you know him as Arthur Wellesley, the Duke of...
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Major-General James Wolfe’s triumph ultimately led to the...
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James Wolfe: The heroic martyr. Major-General James Wolfe...
- Battle of Quebec
The armies. By 1759 James Wolfe was a rising star of the...
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French success. In July 1745, Saxe captured Ghent and its...
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Hace 3 días · Murder of James Wolfe. On January 8, 2019, a 26-year-old Seattle man stabbed his brother James Wolfe in the head with a 4-foot-long sword before calling 911 and confessing to the murder, saying he believed his brother was a lizard. During interrogation the man told detectives he saw lizards in the room and claimed that the detectives themselves ...
Hace 3 días · James Wolfe: The heroic martyr. Major-General James Wolfe was one of Britain’s most celebrated military heroes. But his death at the moment of his greatest victory at Quebec in 1759 earned him a reputation as a patriotic martyr.
Hace 3 días · James Wolfe: The heroic martyr. Major-General James Wolfe was one of Britain’s most celebrated military heroes. But his death at the moment of his greatest victory at Quebec in 1759 earned him a reputation as a patriotic martyr.
Hace 4 días · Virginia Woolf, English writer whose novels, through their nonlinear approaches to narrative, exerted a major influence on the genre. Best known for her novels Mrs. Dalloway and To the Lighthouse, she also wrote pioneering essays on artistic theory, literary history, women’s writing, and the politics of power.
- She was best known for her novels, especially Mrs. Dalloway (1925) and To the Lighthouse (1927). She also wrote pioneering essays on artistic theor...
- Virginia Woolf was married to British man of letters, publisher, and internationalist Leonard Woolf. They met before 1904 and married in August 1912.
- Virginia Woolf drowned herself in Sussex, England, on March 28, 1941, when she was 59 years old.
- In addition to Mrs. Dalloway (1925) and To the Lighthouse (1927), she wrote the novels The Voyage Out (1915), Jacob’s Room (1922), Orlando (1928),...
Hace 2 días · On 13 September 1759, General James Wolfe led 5,000 troops up a goat path to the Plains of Abraham, 1 mile west of Quebec City. He had positioned his army between Montcalm's forces an hour's march to the east and Louis Antoine de Bougainville 's regiments to the west, which could be mobilised within 3 hours.
Hace 3 días · Virginia Woolf. Adeline Virginia Woolf ( / wʊlf /; [2] née Stephen; 25 January 1882 – 28 March 1941) was an English writer. She is considered one of the most important modernist 20th-century authors. She pioneered the use of stream of consciousness as a narrative device.
