Wolfe Monument

General James Wolfe died here on September 13th 1759. A first monument was a stone rolled here by the army to mark the spot where Wolfe died in 1759. A second monument was erected in 1832 by the Governor General Lord Aylmer, G.C.B. A third monument was erected in 1849 by the British Army in Canada under his Excellency Lt. Gen. Sir Benjamin D’Urban, Commander of Forces, replacing the 1832 monument, which had been destroyed, with pieces remaining under the present monument. A fourth monument reproduced the column of the third one with the same decorative helmet and two inscriptions and was erected by the National Battlefields Commission in 1913. A fifth memorial was erected by the National Battlefields Commission in July 1965 to replace the column destroyed on March 26th 1963.

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