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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1906 Excerpt: ... known what severe fighting lay before the young officer, he might not have been so sure that Washington would never die in battle. JAMES WOLFE WHO CAPTURED QUEBEC AFTER Braddock's defeat at the Monongahela, the French gained battle after battle. Then they began to lose and the English to win. There was only one thing which could end the war, and that was the capture of Quebec. So long as the French held the city on the rock, they could laugh at the attempts of the English to conquer Canada; and so long as they held the city, the English would never give up trying to capture it. This was what an Englishman named William Pitt was saying to himself. He was prime minister of England, and therefore he had to make plans for the war and choose the men to carry them out. Quebec must be taken, he thought, and James Wolfe can take it if any one can. Wolfe had been a soldier ever since he was a boy of fifteen. He was so earnest and so eager to succeed that some one once said to the king, That young Wolfe is mad. Mad, is he? the king growled. Then I only hope he will bite some of my generals. Before long, Montcalm, who was in command at Quebec, heard that the English were coming. They can never get up the river without pilots, he said; but he was too good a soldier not to make ready to receive them in case they did get through the zigzag channel. Quebec stood high and safe on the great rocky promontory. Below it was the St. Charles River, flowing into the St. Lawrence. Beyond the St. Charles was a steep bank which stretched along the St. Lawrence for seven or eight miles. Montcalm chained heavy logs together and fastened this boom across the St. Charles so no ships could sail up the ...

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