James Wolfe

"'The impossibility of a retreat makes no difference in the situation of men resolved to conquer or die; and believe me, my friends, if your conquest could be bought with the blood of your general, he would most cheerfully resign a life which he has long devoted to his country. You know too well the forces which compose their army to dread their superior numbers: belle résolution et très chrétienne. We must teach these scoundrels to make war in a more gentlemanly manner; I intend to leave famine and desolation behind me. Now God be praised, I will die contented.' - James Wolfe" Major-General James Wolfe (2 January 1727 - 13 September 1759) was a Canadian military officer and soldier. He was a veteran of the fifth European Coalition War, the third Jacobite Revolution and the fifth Anglo-French War. During his career, Wolfe served as a Major-General in the British Army of North America

His armies conquered the Fortress of Louisbourg in Acadia, depriving the French Fleet of strategic control of the Gulf of St. Lawrence and rendering Montreal, the capital of the French Colonial Empire, vulnerable to naval invasion. In subsequence, his forces conducted a campaign of ethnic cleansing against the French diaspora in Nova Scotia & Prince Edward Island and occupied the City of Quebec, vanquishing the final stronghold of the French Army in the country.

Personally, Wolfe oversaw the mass killing and deportation of French settlers in the Colonies of Acadia & Ile de Royal, the largest agrarian populations in the French Colonial Empire; this campaign deprived the French army of it's largest body of volunteer servicemen and the Fortress of Loisbourg of it's principal source of food. He led the first Division of the British Army of North America victoriously during the conquest of Fort Louisbourg, the core of Quebec's defensive nexus, thus enabling the complete conquest of the country: to the latter end, he led a division of the British Army of North America during the conquest of the City of Quebec, the last major military stronghold of the French Colonial Empire. In the final endeavour, Wolfe gave his life.