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James Wolfe. Portrait attributed to Joseph Highmore.
Photo by: Bonhams {{PD-US}}
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What could be crossing James Wolfe´s mind, while he sailed to Quebec, on June 1759? His health was not one his strenghts, everybody knew that. Even, is quite posible that between his men were crossing bets on his death. Would he die on combat… or of disease? He sure knew that, but it was not something to keep him sleepless. After all, since he was sixteen, he knew very well the risks of combat. Not for nothing he earned to be Liutenant Colonel, being twenty one years old (1748). He just seemed to compete with himself. The only thing that mattered was to fulfill his duty, and to do it soon.
