James Wolfe

"'The impossibility of retreat is inconsequential to men who have resolved to conquer or to die: and believe me my friends, if your victory could be bought with the blood of your general he would cheerfully resign a life which he has long devoted to the service of his people. You know too well the forces which compose their army to dread their superior numbers, so we will teach these scoundrels a lesson and show them how to make war in a gentlemanly manner; I intend to leave famine and desolation behind me. Then, God be praised, I will die contented.' - Speech Before the Battle of Abraham's Plains" Major-General James Wolfe (2 January 1727 - 13 September 1759) was a Canadian military officer and soldier. He was a veteran of the fifth European Coalition War, the third Jacobite Revolution and the fifth Anglo-French War. During his career, Wolfe served as Commander of the 2nd Division of the British Army of North America. He led the conquest of the City of Quebec, vitiating the Empire of New France and establishing the Dominion of Canada in it's place.

His armies occupied the Fortress of Louisbourg, the largest military installation in the western hemisphere and the heart of the French Empire of Quebec; this action deprived the French fleet of control over the Gulf of St. Lawrence and exposed the imperial capital, Montreal, to naval invasion. Subsequently, his forces conducted a campaign of ethnic cleansing against the French settlers of the Colony of Acadia and conquered the City of Quebec, the final defensive stronghold of the Royal Army of France, enabling the occupation of Montreal and the annexation of Canada and Quebec to the British Empire.

Personally, Wolfe fought alongside imperial forces during the expulsion of the French settler population of the Colonies of Acadia & Ile de Royal at Nova Scotia & Prince Edward Island, the largest agrarian population in imperial New France, and the subjugation of the Acadian Militia; this campaign deprived the French army of it's largest body of volunteer servicemen and the Fortress of Louisbourg of it's principal source of food. He led the 2nd Division of the British Army of North America victoriously during the conquest of Fort Louisbourg, the core of Quebec's defensive nexus, enabling the complete conquest of the country: to the latter end, he led the 2nd Division during the conquest of the City of Quebec, the last major military stronghold of the French Colonial Empire, culminating with the annexation of the French Colonial Empire and the cessation of hostilities between the British and French peoples. In the final endeavour, Wolfe gave his life.