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Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online (5968 words) |
 | Wolfe had undoubtedly shown himself throughout the siege to be an unusually efficient and active officer, and his merits were forcibly brought to the attention of the British government and people by the prompt publication of Amhersts journal and other accounts. |
| Wolfe himself, full of eagerness, went forward as fast as the navy could take him; and on 27 June he landed on the south shore of the Île dOrléans with the main body of his army and proceeded to reconnoitre the French positions from the west point of the island. |
| Wolfes admirers have put strained interpretations upon these projects, suggesting that the general did not really mean them seriously; but there is no evidence whatever that they were not the best plans that Wolfe (who, it must be remembered, was a sick man) was able to produce. |
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