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James Wolfe
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“Gentlemen, I would rather have written those lines than take Quebec tomorrow.”
James Wolfe (1727–1759) first seen 1759 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: To his troops, 12 September 1759, after reciting most of Thomas Gray's Elegy, Written in a Country Churchyard the evening before storming Quebec City. Quoted in Francis Parkman's (1884), and paraphrased in J. Playfair's…
“Now God be praised, I die contented.”
James Wolfe (1727–1759) said by 1759 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: His last words, on hearing of the defeat of the Americans at Quebec. Quoted in Francis Parkman's Montcalm and Wolfe (1884)