Nelson & His World

This is an article from today's Times (Monday 9 November) comparing the achievements of General Wolfe, the victor of Quebec, with Nelson's. Nelson himself greatly admired 'the immortal Wolfe'.


http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_a ... 908664.ece

As a poetry lover, I note with pleasure that Wolfe, as he sailed up the St Lawrence seaway to scale the Heights of Abraham, quoted in full Thomas Gray's great poem, 'Elegy in a Country Churchyard', then said, 'Gentlemen, I would prefer being the author of that poem to the glory of beating the French tomorrow'. (J. Playfair, Biographical Account of J. Robinson in Transactions Royal Society Edinburgh 1814, vii, p.114)

Here is a link to an on-line biography of Wolfe:

http://www.archive.org/stream/generalwo ... t_djvu.txt
_________________