Under the command of genearal James Wolfe, the troops captured any resources that they could, and burned down just about everything else, including the convent of Chateau-Richer.
His grandfather was Dr. Thomas Hinde (1737–1828) who had distinguished himself during the American Revolutionary War and during his service to General James Wolfe.
Colonel Joseph Frederick Wallet DesBarres (22 November 1721 – 27 October 1824 (or 24 October 1824 ) was a cartographer who served in the Seven Years War, in part, as the aide-de-camp to General James Wolfe.
The island was first known as Allright Island, then Alwright, and then Saunders, after sir Charles Saunders, a British admiral who accompanied General James Wolfe to Quebec City in 1759.
Marsden was the birthplace of Henrietta Thompson, the mother of General James Wolfe who took Quebec from the French in 1759.
This passed to the Thompson family, one of whose daughters was the mother of James Wolfe, hero of Quebec.
In 1759, the mill and other structures along the Beaupré coast were burned by the British General James Wolfe's soldiers during the Siege of Quebec.
American musicians to have participated in the exchange program to France included Sidney Harth (1951-1952), Theodore Lettvin (1951-1952), Lillian Kallir (1953), James Wolfe (1954), Shirlee Emmons (1954), and Betty Allen (1955) among others.
In 1759, General James Wolfe installed his headquarters there to monitor Quebec City and the two river channels of the Saint Lawrence River.
Elihu was a preeminent surgeon who attended to British General James Wolfe at the Battle of Quebec.
His father was a distant cousin of the great general James Wolfe; his mother was a sister of Admiral James Macnamara.
General James Wolfe, hero of the Battle of Quebec of 1759, is supposed to have spent some of his childhood at Yew Tree House near Verona.
According to Roy Palmer this is a re-writing of a ballad about General Wolfe.
Henry's romantic entanglements with an older woman lead up to his taking a commission in the British army and fighting under the command of General Wolfe at the capture of Quebec.
General James Wolfe was staying in the house when William Pitt, the elder commanded him to lead an expedition to Quebec.
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While the gradual conquest of New France by the British, culminating in Wolfe's victory at the Plains of Abraham in 1759, deprived France of her North American empire, the 'French of Canada' - Québécois or habitants, Acadians, Métis, and others - remained.
That year, British Prime-Minister William Pitt named General James Wolfe commander of the British troops in North America.
It was named Howe Island after William Howe, 5th Viscount Howe, a British officer who served under General James Wolfe at the Battle of the Plains of Abraham during the Seven Years' War, and first appeared on a map in 1818 following a survey by Captain (later Vice Admiral) William Fitzwilliam Owen of the Royal Navy.