WOLFE, JAMES

1727–59, British soldier. After a distinguished record in European campaigns, he was made (1758) second in command to Jeffery Amherst in the last of the French and Indian Wars. Through his skillful siege operations, he became a hero of the capture of Louisburg (1758) from the French, and he was rewarded with the command of an expedition against the French at Quebec, which he himself had urged. After frontal attacks on the positions of General Montcalm at Quebec had failed, Wolfe took 5,000 men in boats down the St. Lawrence by night and forced an open battle with the French on the Plains of Abraham (Sept. 13, 1759). The British were victorious, but both Wolfe and Montcalm were killed. The battle was decisive in the fall of New France to the British. Wolfe is vividly portrayed in Thackeray's Virginians.

See biographies by C. Hibbert (1959) and D. R. Robin (1960); F. Parkman, Montcalm and Wolfe (1884); R. Howard, Wolfe at Quebec (1965).

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The Correspondence of Thomas Wolfe and Homer Andrew Watt
Book by Oscar Cargill, Thomas Clark Pollock, Thomas Wolfe; New York University Press, 1954
Subjects: Watt, Homer Andrew--1884-1948--Correspondence, Wolfe, Thomas--1900-1938--Correspondence
...Company Paris, France My dear Wolfe: I have read with very much...1 James Buell Munn, since 1932 Professor...life. Faithfully yours, Tom Wolfe XI July the sixteenth 1925 Mr. Thomas Wolfe c/o American Express Company...
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The One Voice of James Dickey: His Letters and Life, 1942-1969
Book by Gordon Van Ness, James Dickey; University of Missouri Press, 2003
Subjects: Authors, American--20th Century--Correspondence, Dickey, James--Correspondence
...Hart, James Dickey and World War II History into Story, James Dickey Newsletter 14.2 (1998): 2 8. 7. Ibid, 4. recognition...Hemingway, Willa Cather, John Dos Passos, Sinclair Lewis, Thomas Wolfe, Ellen Glasgow, Theodore Dreiser, John Steinbeck, Kenneth Roberts...
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Tarnished Warrior: Major-General James Wilkinson
Book by James Ripley Jacobs; Macmillan, 1938
Subjects: Wilkinson, James--1757-1825
...Plains of Abraham when Quebec yielded to Wolfe. Once the enemy were in the open, Wilkinson...quickened with family pride. The youthful James had traveled far and was now at home in...surrender was left in the hands of Captain James H. Craig and Lieutenant-Colonel Nicholas...
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Thomas Wolfe: The Weather of His Youth
Book by Louis D. Rubin Jr.; Louisiana State University Press, 1955
Subjects: Wolfe, Thomas--1900-1938
...learned from Henry James," 4 there are too...commission. Whether or not Wolfe manages at any time...a girl named Laura James. Wolfe describes Laura as...Clara Paul as Laura James. Far from "jilting" Thomas Wolfe, however, Clara Paul...
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Thomas Wolfe at Washington Square
Book by Thomas Clark Pollock, Oscar Cargill; New York University Press, 1954
Subjects: Wolfe, Thomas--1900-1938
...THOMAS WOLFE, A REMINISCENCE James Mandel 93...for a given hour. James B. Munn, who administered...aside from this Wolfe found in Munn a...peculiarly his own. James B. Munn, who had...College and with whom Wolfe had renewed relationships...
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The Influence of Modernist Structure on the Short Fiction of Thomas Wolfe
Journal article by Joseph Bentz; Studies in Short Fiction, Vol. 31, 1994
Subjects: Modernism (Literature)--Analysis, Plots (Drama, novel, etc.)--Innovations, Wolfe, Thomas--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
...scholars have commented on James Joyces influence on Wolfe. Joyces term for the...Hills Beyond. In 1992 Wolfe scholar James Clark edited a much...May 202-13. Clark, James W., Jr., ed. The Lost...Novella. By Thomas Wolfe. Chapel Hill: U of...
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The Autobiographical Outline for "Look Homeward, Angel" by Thomas Wolfe
Journal article by Joseph M. Flora; The Mississippi Quarterly, Vol. 57, 2004
Subjects: Books--Book reviews, The Autobiographical Outline for "Look Homeward, Angel" by Thomas Wolfe (Autobiography)--Book reviews
...to Xanadu led Wolfe to identify with Coleridges exploration of the depths of memory to create poetry. James Joyces work, much beloved by Wolfe, also beckoned him forward in his new endeavor. Freudian theory also encouraged Wolfe in his push for...
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Bruccoli, Matthew J. and Judith S. Baughman, Eds. the Sons of Maxwell Perkins: Letters of F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Thomas Wolfe, and Their Editor
Journal article by Thomas K. Meier; Studies in the Novel, Vol. 38, 2006
Subjects: Books--Book reviews, The Sons of Maxwell Perkins: Letters of F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Thomas Wolfe, and Their Editor (Book)--Book reviews
...only Fitzgerald, Hemingway and Wolfe, but also Ring Lardner, Marjorie...Douglas Southall Freeman, Will James, Taylor Caldwell, Hamilton Basso...numbered Theodore Roosevelt, Henry James, George Washington Cable, and...fifty-seven, Hemingway thirty-two, and Wolfe twenty-two. The remaining fifteen...
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Wood, James. the Irresponsible Self: On Laughter and the Novel
Journal article by Andrew Harrison; Studies in the Novel, Vol. 37, 2005
Subjects: Books--Book reviews, The Irresponsible Self: On Laughter and the Novel (Book)
...Anglo-American contemporaries. In a strikingly acerbic essay on Tom Wolfe, that authors realist pretensions are comprehensively deflated...adverts or radio jingles. The literary celebrity enjoyed by Wolfe (and Rushdie) obviously offends Woods sense of literary value...
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An Interview with James Wilcox: January 1997(*)
Journal article by John Lowe; The Mississippi Quarterly, Vol. 52, 1999
Subjects: Authors--Interviews, Plots (Drama, novel, etc.)--Analysis, Writing--Analysis
...in Asheville. LOWE: Thats where Thomas Wolfe was from--he was another Southerner who...disappointed. It was the one that Henry James thought was her greatest, that she never needed to write another book. LOWE: Henry James sometimes had some very bad ideas about...
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Defending Quebec
Magazine article by Penelope Johnston; History Today, Vol. 51, August 2001
Subjects: Canada--History, New France--History, Quebec, Quebec--Description and travel, Wolfe, James--Conduct of life
...thirty-two-year-old British Major General James Wolfe sailed with his troops on the Neptune...Hearing the enemy fleeing, the dying Wolfe said, `Now I die content. Montcalm...800 British soldiers led by General James Murray. This time the British were...
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Wolfe Tone: Republican Hero or Whig Opportunist?
Magazine article by Andrew Boyd; History Today, Vol. 48, June 1998
Subjects: Government, Resistance to--Ireland, Ireland--History, Irish question--History, Tone, Theobald Wolfe--Influence
...Behalf of the Catholics in 1791, Wolfe. Tone did not actually know...George III personally at St James Palace. Employment as assistant...whose biography of Theobald Wolfe Tone was published in 1989...lead. The trouble for him and Wolfe Tone began when one William...
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Radical Un-Chic
Magazine article by James Panero; New Criterion, Vol. 26, December 2007
Subjects: Art festivals, Artists as authors--Speeches, lectures and essays, Artists--Criticism and interpretation, Artists--Works, Authors as artists--Speeches, lectures and essays, Authors--Speeches, lectures and essays, Wolfe, Tom--Speeches, lectures and essays, Writers--Speeches, lectures and essays
Radical Un-Chic. by James Panero Pablo Picasso was a fraud. So says Tom Wolfe, who does not like Picasso...clear. Picasso, according to Wolfe, "left school just before...would call it Cubism." Tom Wolfe! There he was, dressed in...
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Tom Wolfe's Revenge
Magazine article by Chris Harvey; American Journalism Review, Vol. 16, October 1994
Subjects: Journalism--Technique, Wolfe, Tom--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
...and find meaning." Many journalists say the narrative form Wolfe, Talese and Capote helped popularize will be only one of the...shoulders. Make a path, folks, here comes the reverend, the Rev. James A. Holman. Georgias older sister, Leila, when she was a girl...
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First, a Story. or Rather an "Anecdotal Lead," Which Seems Essential When Writing about Magazines-In This Case, Where They've Gone Wrong and How Maybe They Might Recapture One of the Great Pleasures They've Lost: The Story. Not the Article. Not the Piece. the Story
Magazine article by Michael Shapiro; Columbia Journalism Review, Vol. 41, November 2002
Subjects: Journalism--Achievements and awards, Periodicals--Evaluation, Wolfe, Tom--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
...was to come had been around well before Wolfe ever set eyes on Junior Johnson, his Last...What have you got to be sorry for?" James Newcombe said to his son. Dialogue? On...full six years before the young and eager Wolfe opened a copy of Esquire to find Gay Talese...
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The Wily Wolfe; Soldiering On: General James Wolfe Depicted in an Engraving
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), June 2, 2008
The Wily Wolfe; Soldiering On: General James Wolfe Depicted in an Engraving. Byline: Charles Legge...THIS quote is taken from a letter written by General James Wolfe (January 2,1727 to September 13, 1759) who participated...
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THE IRISH PIMPPERNEL; Revealed: Hidden Secrets of Wolfe Tone
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), November 23, 2007
...when this failedtheyturned to armed rebellion a stance which Wolfe Tone had always favoured. Within three years, the leader-ship...DuPetitThouarswasshowingthesightsoftherevolutionised capital to an American merchant, James Smith, he had befriendedduringthetransatlanticcrossing,Smithhaving...
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It Wasn't Cricket, but Barking Dog Couldn't Stop the Hungry Wolfe
Newspaper article; The Birmingham Post (England), July 23, 2005
Subjects: Law firms, Wragge and Co.
...The Wednesday evening match saw Bond Wolfe total a formidable 176/1 with Mike Comley, James Riley, Rory Daly and James Mattin all hitting 30s. In reply, the...10 wickets. Wednesday July 20 - Bond Wolfe 176/1 in 14 overs (M Comley 36 ret, J...
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THE JACOBITE AVENGER; Old Warrior: James Johnstone, Left, Defended Fort Carillon, above, against the Black Watch
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), July 12, 2008
...Champlain, and open the wayfor an assault on Montreal. The other was to attack the Gulf of St Lawrenceunder General James Wolfe, another Culloden veteran, and capture Quebec, thecapital of New France. The army had originally been commanded by John...
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Football: Marlow's Final Blast Is Discount Delight; around the Leagues MERSEYSIDE JUNIOR James Bags a Hat-Trick to Set Up Showdown with Thornton
Newspaper article; Liverpool Echo (Liverpool, England), March 13, 2007
...went down 3-2 to Wyncote and Dunlops (Kieran Kennedy 2, Warren Rim-mer) beat Hunts Cross KP 3-0. Woolton Gold under-9s (James Wolfe) survived a retaken penalty for a 1-0 victory over against Hillfoot United, leaders Woolton Diamonds (Alistair Clark...
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Wolfe, James
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
WOLFE, JAMES 1727 59, British soldier. After a distinguished...General Montcalm at Quebec had failed, Wolfe took 5,000 men in boats down the St. Lawrence...1759). The British were victorious, but both Wolfe and Montcalm were killed. The battle was...
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Tandy, James Napper
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
TANDY, JAMES NAPPER 1740 1803, Irish revolutionary. Originally a small tradesman...joined the Irish volunteer army (see Ireland ), and he aided Theodore Wolfe Tone in founding (1791) the Dublin branch of the United Irish Society (see...
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Fields, James Thomas
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
FIELDS, JAMES THOMAS 1817 81, American author and publisher, b. Portsmouth, N.H. He...in Boston. See her journals, Memories of a Hostess (ed. by M. A. De Wolfe Howe, 1922). ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University...
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Rhodes, James Ford
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
RHODES, JAMES FORD 1848 1927, American historian, b. Ohio City (now part of Cleveland...academic and literary institutions and societies. See biographies by M. A. De Wolfe Howe (1929) and R. Cruden (1961). ____________________ Copyright 2009...
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Lowell, James Russell
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
LOWELL, JAMES RUSSELL 1819 91, American poet, critic, and editor, b. Cambridge, Mass...letters (ed. by C. E. Norton, 2 vol., 1893) and New Letters (ed. by M. A. De Wolfe Howe, 1932) remain valuable for their shrewd and lively comments on public...
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