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4; hands command over to his brigadiers, 154; his three plans for attack, 154; accepts plans of brigadiers, 155; convalescent, 156; letter to his mother, 156; his extreme despondency, 157; abandons position at Montmorency, 158; resolves to attack above Quebec, 159; gives general order to be ready for early landing, 163; goes to Pointe-aux-Trembles to reconnoitre, 164; his great discouragement expressed in letter to Lord Holdernesse, 166; goes down opposite Le Foulon and makes careful examination of it, 168; his propositions to council of war, as narrated by French author, 169; visits each ship in the fleet above Quebec, 170; his last proclamation from H.M.S. _Sutherland_, 172; bequests in his will, 175; intrusts portrait of Miss Lowther to Captain Jervis, 175; his boat takes the lead in moving down the river, 179; his conversation in the boat, 179; recites Gray's _Elegy_, 180; climbs up cliff and arranges troops in line of battle, 182; advances towards Quebec, 186; marches to battle at head of his troops, 197; death of, 200; his remains conveyed to England on _Royal William_, 238; grief of his mother, 239; monument to, in Westminster Abbey, 239. =Dr= His friendship for Carleton, 30; secures his appointment to Quebec expedition, 31. =P= Causes of his victory at Quebec, 143. =BL= Sydenham ranked with, 112. =Hd= Besieges Quebec, 25; preparations made in event of his failure, 28; his success and death, 34; compared with Amherst, 35; Gugy comes with, to Quebec, 62; glories won by, on Plains of Abraham, 121. =Bib.=: Doughty, _Siege of Quebec_; Wood, _Fight for Canada_; Willson, _Life and Letters of James Wolfe_; Salmon, _Life of Wolfe_; Bradley, _Life of Wolfe_ and _The Fight with France_. =Wolford Lodge.= =S= In Devon, family estate of Simcoe, 40, 220, 222. =Wolseley, Garnet Joseph, Viscount= (1833- ). Born in Golden Bridge House, Dublin county, Ireland. In 1852 entered the army as ensign; served in the Burmese War, 1852-1853; in the Crimean War, 1854-1856; and in India, 1857; in 1861 sent to Canada in connection with the _Trent_ incident; in 1867 deputy-quartermaster-general of Canada; and in 1869-1870 commanded the Red River Expedition during the Riel Rebellion; commanded the British army in the Ashantee War of 1873-1874; and in Egypt, 1882, and 1884-1885; field-marshal in 1894; and commander-in-chief of the army, 1895-1900. =Index=: =C= His expedition to North-West, 69-70; his article in _Blackwood's Magazine_, 70-71;
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