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See also:WOLFE, See also:- JAMES
- JAMES (Gr. 'IlrKw,l3or, the Heb. Ya`akob or Jacob)
- JAMES (JAMES FRANCIS EDWARD STUART) (1688-1766)
- JAMES, 2ND EARL OF DOUGLAS AND MAR(c. 1358–1388)
- JAMES, DAVID (1839-1893)
- JAMES, EPISTLE OF
- JAMES, GEORGE PAYNE RAINSFOP
- JAMES, HENRY (1843— )
- JAMES, JOHN ANGELL (1785-1859)
- JAMES, THOMAS (c. 1573–1629)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (1842–1910)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (d. 1827)
JAMES (1727-1759) , See also:British See also:general, the See also:hero of See also:Quebec, was See also:born at Westerham in See also:Kent on the 2nd of See also:January 1727. At an See also:early See also:age he accompanied his See also:father, See also:Colonel (afterwards See also:Lieutenant-General) See also:Edward Wolfe, one of See also:Marl-See also:- BOROUGH (A.S. nominative burh, dative byrig, which produces some of the place-names ending in bury, a sheltered or fortified place, the camp of refuge of a tribe, the stronghold of a chieftain; cf. Ger. Burg, Fr. bor, bore, bourg)
- BOROUGH [BURROUGH, BURROWE, BORROWS], STEVEN (1525–1584)
borough's veterans, to the Carthagena expedition, and in 1741 his ardent See also:desire for a military career was gratified by his See also:appointment to an ensigncy. At the age of fifteen he proceeded with the 12th See also:Foot (now See also:Suffolk See also:Regiment) to the See also:Rhine See also:Campaign, and at See also:Dettingen he distinguished himself so much as acting See also:adjutant that he was made lieutenant. In 1744 he received a See also:company in See also:Barrel's regiment (now the 4th See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
King's Own). In the Scottish rising of the " See also:Forty-five " he was employed as a See also:brigade-See also:major. He was See also:present at See also:Hawley's defeat at See also:Falkirk, and at See also:Culloden. With his old regiment, the 12th, Wolfe served in the See also:Flanders See also:campaigns of the See also:duke of See also:Cumberland, and at Val (Lauffeld) won by his valour the See also:commendation of the duke. Promotion followed in 1749 to a See also:majority, and in 1750 to the lieutenant-colonelcy of the loth, with which he served in See also:Scotland. Some years later he spent six months in See also:Paris. When See also:war See also:broke out afresh in 1757 he served as a See also:staff officer in the unfortunate See also:Rochefort expedition, but his prospects were not affected by the failure, for had his See also:advice been taken the result might well have been different. Next See also:year he was sent to
" See also:Hugo Theodoricus iste dicitur, id est Francus, quia See also:ohm omnes Franci Hugones vocabantur . . .," Annales Quedlinburg. (See also:Pertz Script. iii. 42o.)
N. See also:America as a brigadier-general in the See also:Louisburg expedition under See also:Amherst and See also:Boscawen. The landing was effected in the See also:face of strenuous opposition, Wolfe leading the foremost troops. On the 27th of See also:July the See also:place surrendered after an obstinate See also:defence; during the See also:siege Wolfe had had See also:charge of a most important See also:section of the attack, and on his lines the fiercest fighting took place. Soon afterwards he returned to See also:England to recruit his shattered See also:health, but on learning that See also:Pitt desired him to continue in America he at once offered to return. It was now that the famous expedition against Quebec was decided upon, Wolfe to be in command, with the See also:local See also:rank of major-general. In a brief See also:holiday before his departure he met at See also:Bath See also:Miss Lowther, to whom he became engaged. Very shortly afterwards he sailed, and on the 1st of See also:June 1759 the Quebec expedition sailed from Louisburg (see QUEBEC). After wearisome and disheartening failures, embittered by the See also:pain of an See also:internal disease, Wolfe crowned his See also:work by the decisive victory on the Plains of See also:Abraham (13th of See also:September 1759) by which the See also:French permanently lost Quebec. Twice wounded earlier in the fight, he had refused to leave the See also:- FIELD (a word common to many West German languages, cf. Ger. Feld, Dutch veld, possibly cognate with O.E. f olde, the earth, and ultimately with root of the Gr. irAaror, broad)
- FIELD, CYRUS WEST (1819-1892)
- FIELD, DAVID DUDLEY (18o5-1894)
- FIELD, EUGENE (1850-1895)
- FIELD, FREDERICK (18o1—1885)
- FIELD, HENRY MARTYN (1822-1907)
- FIELD, JOHN (1782—1837)
- FIELD, MARSHALL (183 1906)
- FIELD, NATHAN (1587—1633)
- FIELD, STEPHEN JOHNSON (1816-1899)
- FIELD, WILLIAM VENTRIS FIELD, BARON (1813-1907)
field, and a third See also:bullet passing through his lungs inflicted a mortal injury. While he was lying in a swoon some one near him exclaimed, " They run; see how they run!" " Who run? " demanded Wolfe, as one roused from See also:sleep. " The enemy," was the See also:answer; " they give way everywhere." Wolfe rallied for a moment, gave a last See also:- ORDER
- ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
- ORDER, HOLY
order for cutting off the See also:retreat, and murmuring, " Now See also:God be praised, I will See also:die in See also:peace," breathed his last. On the See also:battle-ground a tall See also:column bears the words, " Here died Wolfe victorious on the 13th of September 1759." In the See also:governor's See also:garden, in Quebec, there is also a See also:monument to the memory of Wolfe and his gallant opponent Montcalm, who survived him only a few See also:hours, with the inscription " Wolfe and Montcalm. Mortem virtus communem, famam historia, monumentum posteritas dedit." In See also:Westminster See also:Abbey a public memorial to Wolfe was unveiled on the 4th of See also:October
1773.
See R. See also:Wright, See also:Life of Major-General James Wolfe (See also:London, 1864) ;
F. See also:Parkman, Montcalm and Wolfe (London, 1884) ; Twelve British Soldiers (London, 1899); General Wolfe's Instructions to See also:Young See also:Officers (1768–1780) ; Beckles Willson, The Life and Letters of James Wolfe (1909) ; and A. G. See also:Bradley, Wolfe (1895).
End of Article: WOLFE, JAMES (1727-1759)
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