HERO'S BI-CENTENARY.

Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 3, 5 January 1927, Page 7

HERO'S 81-CENTENARY.

COMMEMORATION OF WOLFE. ] WHY CANADA IS BRITISH. LONDON, January 4. At the bi-centenary dinner held to celebrate the birth of General Wolfe, the hero of Quebec, the Prince of Wales was the principal guest. The anniversary was also celebrated at Westerham, K.ent, which was Wolfe's birthplace. An eloquent panegyric upon the measureless consequences of the victory of the Heights of Abraham was delivered by Mr. Winston Churchill, Chancellor of the Exchequer, at the dinner. General James Wolfe, who had already achieved military distinction, was chosen by Pitt to attempt the capture of Quebec. On a night in September, 1759, Wolfe's little army, having descended the St. Lawrence in boats and stealthily scaled the heights of Abraham, was discovered at dawn by the astounded French commander, Montcalm, drawn up in battle array before Quebec. The fightin<r which followed was of a desperate character, in which Wolfe himself was mortally wounded, but the capture of Quebec "wrested Canada from France. A monument in Westminster Abbey was j erected to Wolfe in commemoration of his achievement.