Editing James Wolfe (section)

==Character==
Wolfe was renowned by his troops for being demanding on himself and on them. He was also known for carrying the same combat equipment as his infantrymen – a [[musket]], [[cartridge box]] and [[bayonet]] – which was unusual for officers of the period. Although he was prone to illness, Wolfe was an active and restless figure. Amherst reported that Wolfe seemed to be everywhere at once. There was a story that when someone in the British Court branded the young Brigadier mad, [[George II of Great Britain|King George II]] retorted, "Mad, is he? Then I hope he will bite some of my other generals."{{sfnp|Parkman|1885}}  A cultured man, before the [[Battle of Quebec (1759)|Battle of the Plains of Abraham]] Wolfe is said by [[John Robison (physicist)|John Robison]] to have recited Gray's ''[[Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard]]'', containing the line "The paths of glory lead but to the grave" to his officers, adding: "Gentlemen, I would rather have written that poem than take Quebec tomorrow".<ref>{{citation |last=Colombo |first=John |author-link=John Robert Colombo |title=Canadian Literary Landmarks |publisher=Hounslow Press |year=1984|page = 93}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|last=Morris|first=Edward E.|author-link = Edward Ellis Morris|date=January 1900|title=Wolfe and Gray's 'Elegy'|journal=[[The English Historical Review]]|volume=15|issue=57|pages=125–129|jstor =548418 }}</ref>

After being stung by rejection, in a letter to his mother in 1751 he admitted he would probably never marry and stated that he believed people could easily live without marrying.{{sfnp|Parkman|1885}} An apocryphal story was published after Wolfe's death saying that he had carried a locket portrait of Katherine Lowther, his supposed betrothed, with him to North America, and that he gave the locket to First Lieutenant [[John Jervis, 1st Earl of St Vincent|John Jervis]] the night before he died. The story holds that Wolfe had a premonition of his own death in battle, and that Jervis faithfully returned the locket to Lowther.<ref>{{cite book |last=Crimmin |first=P. K. |chapter=John Jervis, Earl of St Vincent – 1735–1823 |editor-last1=Le Fevre |editor-first1=Peter |editor-last2=Harding |editor-first2=Richard |title=Precursors of Nelson: British Admirals of the Eighteenth Century |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=A1Nmhx-ZO_kC&pg=PA325 |year=2000 |publisher=Stackpole Books |isbn=978-0-8117-2901-7}}</ref>