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To the left are Lieutenant John Humphries and Oneida chief Joseph Louis Cook (also known as "Colonel Joseph Louis"), shown with raised tomahawk. Major Return Jonathan Meigs with Captains Samuel Ward and William Hendricks are in the left foreground shown in shock at Montgomery's death. [8]
Vaudreuil drew up plans for Montcalm that ordered him to march south and take the British bases south of Lake Champlain, Fort William Henry and Fort Edward a few miles further south. From Fort Carillon, Montcalm and a force of 6,200 regulars and militia, along with 1,800 natives set upon Fort William Henry on 3 August 1757. [ 6 ]
Wordsworth's Complete Poetical Works...New York Thomas Y. Crowell Company Publishers (The Complete Poetical works of William Wordsworth with an introduction by John Morley dated 1888) Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard by Thomas Gray ... New York Thomas Y. Crowell & Co. Publishers; The Drugstore Cat by Ann Petry and illustrated by Susanne ...
The third, a tribute to his friend Walter Scott, was inspired by the poets' last visit to the Yarrow the year before Scott's death. All three draw on the rich heritage of earlier poems and ballads set in the Yarrow Valley. "Yarrow Unvisited" is one of Wordsworth's most famous short poems, [1] and has been judged one of his finest. Modern ...
The loss of his brother John when the HMS Abergavenny sank in 1805 inspired the famous poet ... The loss of his brother prompted William Wordsworth to write three elegies between May and July of ...
"I thank you, sir, for your generous sympathy, but I die the death I always prayed for, the death of a soldier fighting for the rights of man." [ 47 ] — Baron Johann de Kalb , officer in the American War of Independence (16 August 1780), speaking to a British officer after being mortally wounded and captured at the Battle of Camden
[1] [2] The mason who made the monument was John Phillips and the architect was Captain John Crawford Young (1788–c. 1859) [3] of the 79th (Cameron) Highlanders. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] The monument commemorates the gallantry of the two generals, James Wolfe and Louis-Joseph de Montcalm , who fought (and both died) in the Battle of the Plains of Abraham ...