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Wolfe Recites Gray Elegy Before Que bec Assault
Gray's Elegy is cited as a source of fame by Macaulay and the anecdote recalls Wolfe on the eve of the Quebec campaign reciting the poem. He reportedly tells comrades he would rather author the poem than conquer the city, foreshadowing his fate.
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Gray
Savanah Republican
Wolfe
Webster
Macaulay
Canada
Quebec
St. Lawrence
France
Dr. K
Kinkelin
N. W. Cor
Third
Hunter
North Seventh Street
Philadelphia
United States
Williams
New-York
Warren
Pittsburgh City Glass
Hoofland
C. N. Jackson
Arch Street
Boston Bee
Koofland
Scott's Weekly
C. D. Hineline
Camden
N. J
Hoornasy
Union
C. M. Jackson
G. Merrill
Warren and
Buffalo
Water Street
Vaughn
G.C. Vaughn
G. C. Vaughn
Main Street
Olcott, McKesson & Robins
Maiden Lane
New York City
Mrs. B. Kidder & Co
Boston
Burdsall & Co
Cincinnati
J. Owen & Co
Detroit
Lettsville- Willson and Hiller
Sugar Grove
Leech & Willoughby
Columbus
T. Mullin
Tidioute
L. B.loughby
Carroll
N. Y
W.C. Clarke, Co
Busti Brown
Rennet
Baron Liebig
Naughton
Combe
Pereira
John W. Draper
N. Y. University
Donglison
Silliman
Yale College
Carpenter
Houghton
M. D
Hazeltine & CO
G. W. Hazeltine
Jamestown
Warren Foundry
PEXUE
Warren County
Kingsbury
Mike
N.B
Kingsbury & Rathbun