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Jan 2, 2016 · Advertisement. Photo added by William Bjornstad. Advertisement. James Wolfe V. Birth. 2 Jan 1727. Westerham, Sevenoaks District, Kent, England. Death. 13 Sep 1759 (aged 32) Quebec, Capitale-Nationale Region, Quebec, Canada. Burial. St. Alfege Churchyard. Greenwich, Royal Borough of Greenwich, Greater London, England Add to Map. Memorial ID. 4320.
Burial and Abbey Memorial. His body was brought back to England with military honours and at his mother's request James was buried with his father at St Alfege's church in Greenwich.
Raid on Rochefort. Siege of Louisbourg. Gulf of St. Lawrence Campaign (1758) Battle of Beauport. Battle of the Plains of Abraham ( DOW) Relations. Lieutenant-general Edward Wolfe (father) Signature. James Wolfe (2 January 1727 – 13 September 1759) was a British Army officer known for his training reforms and, as a major general, remembered ...
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. James Wolfe: The heroic martyr | National Army Museum
Already renowned for bold leadership, Wolfe’s death at the very moment of victory at Quebec cemented his heroic status on both sides of the Atlantic. Epic paintings of Wolfe’s dying moments transformed him into an icon of patriotic self-sacrifice, and a role model for Horatio Nelson.
Jan 29, 2008 · Last Edited May 17, 2021. James Wolfe, British army officer (born 2 January 1727 in Westerham, Kent, England; died 13 September 1759 near Quebec City ). Wolfe fought in the War of the Austrian Succession , the suppression of the Jacobite Rebellion and the Seven Years’ War.
Sep 15, 2011 · On a moonless night in the morning hours of September 13, 1759, a procession of boats steered silently down the St. Lawrence River. The boats contained the small British expeditionary force under the command of 32-year-old, red-haired Major-General James Wolfe, who in a low voice repeated line after line of Thomas Gray’s ‘Elegy in Country ...