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The General…repeated nearly the whole of Gray's Elegy…adding, as he concluded, that he would prefer being the author of that poem to the glory of beating the French to-morrow.

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James Wolfe

James Wolfe
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Born: January 2, 1727
Died: September 13, 1759 (aged 32)
Bio: Major General James Wolfe was a British Army officer, known for his training reforms but remembered chiefly for his victory over the French at the Battle of the Plains of Abraham in Canada in 1759.
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