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	January 2nd
		Jerom and others relate, that, a certain anchoret in Nitria having left one hundred crowns at his death, which he had acquired by weaving cloth, the monks of that desert met to deliberate what should be clone with the money.
		The death of General Wolfe was a kind of military martyrdom.
		It is generally stated that he never revisited his native country till near the close of his life, after his resignation of the chancellorship.
	www.thebookofdays.com /months/jan/2.htm (4780 words)

	The Death of General Wolfe - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Death of General Wolfe is a well-known 1770 painting by artist Benjamin West depicting the final moments of James Wolfe during the 1759 Battle of Quebec.
		Wolfe went into battle armed as his men were, although his musket was of higher quality.
		The Death of General Wolfe is currently in the collection of the National Gallery of Canadaas well as the Clements Library at the University of Michigan.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Death_of_General_Wolfe (363 words)

	James Wolfe - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Wolfe was born in Westerham, Kent, England, the son of General Edward Wolfe.
		Wolfe fought as a colonel under Jeffrey Amherst at the siege of Louisbourg on June 12, 1758, during the French and Indian War.
		In 1761, as a perpetual memorial to Wolfe, George Warde, a friend of Wolfe's from boyhood and the second son of John Warde Esq of Squerryes Court, Westerham,instituted the Wolfe Society which to this day meets annually in Westerham for the Wolfe Dinner to his "Pious and Immortal Memory".
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/James_Wolfe (684 words)

	Eye Weekly - The Death of General Wolfe - 01.28.99 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		General Wolfe uncomfortably toes the line between psychodrama and political allegory, and is filled with interesting choices that never quite come off.
		Quirt's exploration of the painting is periodically fascinating -- from the conventional mythology implied in West's composition to its historical inaccuracies: Wolfe died far from the battlefield; the stoic Indian sitting in witness would have fought for the French; and several of the other figures paid to have themselves inserted in the scene.
		The ghost of Wolfe's betrothed, Katherine, has some sharp comments on contemporary attitudes toward history, but her very presence is a weary convention and Quirt's character is lost in the script's machinations.
	www.eye.net /eye/issue/issue_01.28.99/art/wolfe.html (512 words)

	A NATIONAL TREASURE: The Phenomenon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		By representing Wolfe in modern uniform, West contravened rules of painting in the “grand manner” which dictated that the hero should be elevated from the mere mortal by being depicted in the nude or in classical dress.
		The iconography of General Wolfe’s heroic and glorious demise was used by satirists to ridicule contemporary politicians.
		In the pose of the noble Wolfe, the ignoble Pitt is surrounded by cronies and members of his government, all of whom were being satirized for the recent passing of two very repressive pieces of legislation.
	www.gnb.ca /0130/Wolfe/ThePhenomenon.html (907 words)

	Historical Biographies, Nova Scotia: James Wolfe (1727-1759).
		James Wolfe was present at the Battle of Falkirk which occurred on 17 January 1746; it was to be the last victory for the Highlanders.
		The thought of death to Wolfe, as he pointed out to his mother in this letter, though it might "frighten and terrify the half of Mankind," had no hold on Wolfe; it is, as if, he knew that he would live in the memories of fighting men -- for all time.
		Wolfe's father, who had become Colonel of the 8th Regiment and Lieutenant-general, was to die in the same year as his illustrious son, on the 26th March, aged 74.
	www.blupete.com /Hist/BiosNS/1700-63/Wolfe.htm (2027 words)

	The American Revolution (The Fall of Quebec)
		Wolfe kneeled and held him in his arms, promising a promotion when the fighting was over.
		Wolfe's troops stood still as death, the only moment, when a man fell and was replaced by another.
		Wolfe was leading the grenadiers when a bullet hit him in the chest, puncturing both lungs.
	www.theamericanrevolution.org /hevents/f_indWar/fall_quebec.asp (3653 words)

	Greenwich England: General Wolfe
		Wolfe's competence in the siege and capture (1758) of the French fortress of Louisbourg, N.S., earned him promotion to major general and the command of a military and naval expedition against Québec.
		The attack was unsuccessful, and Wolfe's aides counselled a landing on the north shore of the St. Lawrence.
		Inside the church are a number of memorials to Wolfe; they consist of a painting "The Death of Wolfe" by Edward Peary, 1762, a wall tablet of 1908, the replica of his coffin plate in the floor, and a modern stained glass window.
	wwp.greenwich2000.com /info/heritage/people/greats/wolfe.htm (767 words)

	The Death of Genral Wolfe
		General Wolfe, of a delicate constitution and sensitive nature, had been deeply mortified by the severe check sustained at the Falls of Montmorency, fancying himself disgraced; and these successes of his fellow-commanders in other parts increased his self-upbraiding.
		Wolfe was among the first that landed and ascended up the steep and narrow path, where not more than two could go abreast, and which had been broken up by cross-ditches.
		Wolfe saw his aim, and sent Brigadier Townshend to counteract him with a regiment which was formed on potence, and supported by two battalions, presenting on the left a double front.
	www.publicbookshelf.com /public_html/The_Great_Republic_By_the_Master_Historians_Vol_I/deathofg_fc.html (1256 words)

	Canadian Theatre and Monuments (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Memorializing and countermemorializing in The Death of General Wolfe, Angélique and Sled.
		Katherine and Wolfe engage in a seductive pose imitating the painting (29).
		Issues of spectatorship generally are central to Sled: Ann Wilson reads spectatorship in the context of violence as it relates to women.
	www.utpjournals.com /product/ctr/115/115_Tompkins.html (5053 words)

	Benjamin West and the death of General Wolfe - painter Benjamin West Magazine Antiques - Find Articles
		West considered his painting of Wolfe a "revolution in art,"(3) and credited himself with inaugurating a contemporary form of classicism in which the protagonists in a modern historical event were clad in modern dress.
		West painted a number of replicas of The Death of General Wolfe, the first of which was commissioned by George III.(4) An even more lucrative venture was an engraving of the painting to be issued in what was at the time the enormous number of twelve hundred impressions.
		He sat on the press plank muttering, so it was said, "I could soon be the death of Wolfe," and "General Wolfe is dying, and I'll be damned if I don't kill him quite." With that he picked up a hammer and smashed it into the engraving plate, destroying Wolfe's face.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1026/is_n5_v150/ai_18941800 (878 words)

	Liverpool University Press - Behold the Hero: General Wolfe and the Arts in the Eighteenth Century - McNairn, Alan
		General James Wolfe’s death on 13 September 1759 at the moment of British victory over the French on the plains of Abraham in New France instantly elevated him to the pantheon of British heroes.
		His courage, his glorious death, and his ability to lead the English and their American colonial brethren in their pursuit of liberty was celebrated in sermons, poetry, drama, music, sculpture, prints, paintings and decorative arts.
		McNairn argues that Wolfe became the embodiment of British patriotism and the superiority of the British way of life, and that the multitude of literary and visual works about Wolfe, which focus primarily on his death, were created in an environment in which legends of inspiring, politically persuasive heroics were much in demand.
	www.liverpool-unipress.co.uk /html/publication.asp?idProduct=3123 (283 words)

	General James Wolfe - Hero of Louisbourg
		Wolfe's outstanding work in the siege and capture of the French fortress of Louisbourg, N.S., earned him promotion to major general and the command of a military and naval expedition against Québec.
		The attack was unsuccessful, and Wolfe's aides counselled a landing on the north shore of the St. Lawrence.
		Inside the church are a number of memorials to Wolfe; they consist of a painting "The Death of Wolfe" by Edward Peary, 1762, a wall tablet of 1908, the replica of his coffin plate in the floor, and a modern stained glass window.
	www.louisbourg.ca /fort/hero.htm (1232 words)

	Iconography
		A similar arrangement of figures exists in these two paintings, Giotto's "Lamentation" and Benjamin West's "Death of General Wolfe," even though they were done over 400 years apart.
		In "The Death of General Wolfe" the young hero of the Battle of Quebec, General Wolfe, is dying on the battlefield where he is surrounded by his sorrowing troops.
		West deliberately used an arrangement of figures familiar from the Christian pictorial tradition to suggest the sadness of the event and the historical importance of the general's death.
	www.edtech.vt.edu:8080 /edtech/arthistory/icon/iconp6.html (122 words)

	HIstory of The General Wolfe (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Dan Lacey, a remarkably fit ninety-year old Wolfe Island resident, recalled during a recent interview that the Wolfe Island hotel was operated by Robert Payne about 1895.
		Thus a liquor lounge was opened for the first time in the General Wolfe Hotel in July of 1958.
		The hotel owners purchased waterfront property from the Township of Wolfe Island and adjoining land from George O'Brien and the Everest Whitaker estate in order to develop an excellent marina.
	www.generalwolfehotel.com /history.htm (274 words)

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		Major-General James Wolfe (1727-1759) was killed at Quebec, September 13, 1759 while at the command of the British forces during the French and Indian War.
		Wolfe’s French counterpart in the battle, the Marquis de Montcalm, also died in the battle.
		Wolfe is lying down mortally wounded in the foreground of the picture being supported by his aides.
	www.brucegimelson.com /content.asp?c=11 (526 words)

	The Death of General Wolfe (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		The ballad appeared shortly after Wolfe's death on broadsides in the colonies.
		During the French and Indian Wars, General James Wolfe led British forces in the Battle of Quebec, aka The Battle of the Plains of Abraham, (September 1759) against French General Montcalm.
		Wolfe seemed to revive while he lay dying,
	www.contemplator.com /america/wolfe.html (299 words)

	Brave Wolfe [Laws A1] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Wolfe had 9000 men; his opponent, Montcalm, only 4500.
		Wolfe's ability showed best in his ability to get his troops to the battlefield; he snuck them across the river and up an "impassable" cliff by night -- though only after various other tricks had failed.
		Wolfe, who had been ill for some time, was killed in the battle; Montcalm suffered a mortal wound and died the next day.
	www.csufresno.edu /folklore/ballads/LA01.html (1033 words)

	NPG D13769; The Death of Lord Viscount Nelson. K.B. (Horatio Nelson, Viscount Nelson)
		Benjamin West was the leading painter of military martyrdoms after the sensational success of The Death of General Wolfe which he had exhibited in 1771.
		The Death of Nelson, engraved by James Heath in 1811, was a suitably dramatic successor.
		The bittersweet combination of victory and death was promoted by iconic images such as this which contrasted the almost lifeless form of the fallen admiral and the energy of the two young men rushing in with hats raised to report the good news.
	www.npg.org.uk /live/search/portrait.asp?mkey=mw66376 (215 words)

	A NATIONAL TREASURE: Other Versions (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		The Death of General Wolfe at Quebec, late 18th century
		General Wolfe Expiring on Heights of Canada, c.
		General Wolfe Expiring in the Arms of a Grenadier & Volunteer at the Seige of Quebec, c.
	www.gnb.ca /0130/Wolfe/OtherVersions.htm (218 words)

	KENT RESOURCES: Westerham, Kent. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Its most famous son has to be General James Wolfe, the English hero of The Plains of Abraham, who enabled England to add red paint to another large piece of the globe.
		The Wolfe family became close friends of the Warde family who bought Squerryes Court and many of the family are buried in the local church of St. Mary the Virgin.
		It is said that after General Wolfe died at Quebec, a bag of earth was dug from his old garden and sent to Canada where it was placed around his monument there so that the flowers surrounding it could grow in Kent soil.
	www.digiserve.com /peter/westerh1.htm (370 words)

	Come all ye young men all, let this delight you / The Death of General Wolfe
		Both Wolfe and his French counterpart, General Montcalm were killed in the battle.
		In America, the backwoods bards paid tribute to the sweetheart he left grieving for him in the haunting ballad where she is made to say, 'Strange news is come to town, strange news is carried, Some say my love is dead...' in an echo of the English lovesong about the faithless flsmith.
		But, less sentimental, English ballad makers concentrated their attention on Wolfe as a military hero, on his warm human regard for the men who served under him and on his patriotic fervour.
	www.musicanet.org /robokopp/english/genwolfe.htm (429 words)

	'The Death of Nelson' , by Benjamin West \| Artwork of the Month
		West was at this time most famous for his portrayal of an event during the American War of Independence: 'The Death of General Wolfe' painted thirty years before in 1771.
		I never pass a print-shop with your ‘Death of Wolfe’ in the window, without being stopped by it.’ He asked the painter why he had done no more pictures like it.
		Both painter and engraver had agreed from the outset that their 'Death of Nelson' would form a commercially successful companion piece to West’s 'Death of Wolfe', prints of which had already made a considerable fortune for another publishing firm.
	www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk /picture-of-month/displaypicture.asp?venue=2&id=274 (498 words)

	Trumbull Drawing - Fordham University Libraries
		In 1770 West chose to defy this custom with his painting, The Death of General Wolfe (National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa), which depicted the last moments of the British hero, General Wolfe, who died in the course of a victorious battle in Canada during the recent French and Indian Wars.
		West insisted upon depicting General Wolfe in the brilliant red military garb of contemporary British soldiers, not in timeless classical drapery, and upon placing the military "martyrdom" in a recognizable Canadian setting.
		The first two paintings, The Death of General Warren at the Battle of Bunker's Hill, 1785-86 (Yale University Art Gallery), the only scene for which he was an eye-witness, and The Death of General Montgomery in the Attack on Quebec, 1786 (Yale University Art Gallery, fig.2, see preparatory drawing, cat.
	www.library.fordham.edu /trumbull/benjamin.html (2606 words)

	WEST BENJAMIN
		As a member of the Quaker religious group, he refused to be raised to the peerage after becoming president of the Royal Academy in 1792.
		West, who was long forgotten after his death, was however considered as a major painter during his lifetime.
		In «The Death of Wolfe», a painting produced in 1771, he showed figures wearing modern clothes, an initiative which was quiute audacious regarding historical paintings, which he produced in numerous quantities.
	www.artcult.com /west.html (290 words)

	Chapter 5: Toward the War for American Independence (Nation 4/e)
		The same year the American painter Benjamin West completed the painting commemorating the death of General Wolfe at Quebec, the Empire's great triumph, Paul Revere, a Boston engraver, published an etching of the Boston massacre.
		View the painting The Death of General Wolfe by Benjamin West and the widely circulated companion engraving (magnify image).
		For a discussion of Historian Simon Schema's perspective on the consequences of West's portrayal go to "The Many Deaths of General Wolfe" by Maryland State Archivist, Dr. Edward C.
	www.mhhe.com /socscience/history/usa/david4/graphics/davidson4non/ch05/intex/chap05intex.htm (1332 words)

	National Gallery of Art: Watson and the Shark - History Painting & Sources 2a (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		West's groundbreaking painting The Death of General Wolfe helped legitimize the artistic depiction of contemporary action-drama.
		In this picture he was able to invest a modern-day tragedy with a level of grandeur formerly attributed only to the antique.
		Benjamin West, The Death of General Wolfe, 1770, oil on canvas, 152.6 x 214.5 cm.
	www.nga.gov /feature/watson/history2a.html (93 words)

	Benjamin West Artworks and Fine Art at arthistorynet.com
		The Death of General Wolfe 1770 Oil on canvas 60 x 84 1/2 in.
		The Death of Wolfe, 1770,oil on canvas, National Gallery of Canada at Ottawa.
		Death on a Pale Horse, 1796,oil on canvas, Detroit Institute of Arts.
	www.absolutearts.com /masters/w/west-benjamin-main.html (90 words)

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