. Montcalm and Wolfe. France and England in North America . the GreatConde. The forehead and chin receded; the nose,slightly upturned, formed with the other featuresthe point of an obtuse triangle; the mouth wasby no means shaped to express resolution; andnothing but the clear, bright, and piercing eyebespoke the spirit within. On his head he worea black three-cornered hat; his red hair was tiedin a queue behind; his narrow shoulders, slenderbody, and long, thin limbs were cased in a scarletfrock, with broad cuffs and ample skirts thatreached the knee; while on his left arm he worea band of cr
. Montcalm and Wolfe. France and England in North America . the GreatConde. The forehead and chin receded; the nose,slightly upturned, formed with the other featuresthe point of an obtuse triangle; the mouth wasby no means shaped to express resolution; andnothing but the clear, bright, and piercing eyebespoke the spirit within. On his head he worea black three-cornered hat; his red hair was tiedin a queue behind; his narrow shoulders, slenderbody, and long, thin limbs were cased in a scarletfrock, with broad cuffs and ample skirts thatreached the knee; while on his left arm he worea band of crape in mourning for his father, ofwhose death he had heard a few days before. James Wolfe was in his thirty-third year. Hisfather was an officer of distinction, Major-GeneralEdward Wolfe, and he himself, a delicate and sen-sitive child, but an impetuous and somewhat head-strong youth, had served the King since the ageof fifteen. From childhood he had dreamed of thearmy and the wars. At sixteen he was in Fland-ers, adjutant of his regiment, discharging the. WOLFE. HIS EARLY LIFE. 185 duties of the post in a way that gained him earlypromotion and, along with a painstaking assidu-ity, showing a precocious faculty for commandingmen. He passed with credit through several cam-paigns, took part in the victory of Dettingen, andthen went to Scotland to fight at Culloden. Nextwe find him at Stirling, Perth, and Glasgow,always ardent and always diligent, constant inmilitary duty, and giving his spare hours to mathe-matics and Latin. He presently fell in love; andbeing disappointed, plunged into a variety of dissi-pations, contrary to his usual habits, which werefar above the standard of that profligate time. At twenty-three he was a lieutenant-colonel,commanding his regiment in the then dirty andbarbarous town of Inverness, amid a disaffectedand turbulent population whom it was his duty tokeep in order : a difficult task, which he accom-plished so well as to gain the special c
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