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Gentlemen, I would rather have written those lines than take Quebec tomorrow.

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1759 To his troops,12 Sep, after reciting Thomas Gray's 'Elegy, Written in a Country Churchyard' the evening before storming the ramparts of Quebec and dying a hero's death on the Plains of Abraham the following day. Quoted in Francis Parkman Montcalm and Wolfe (1884).

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Gentlemen, I would rather have written those lines than take Quebec tomorrow. - James Wolfe

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