Tosh! Firstly, there are no doubts about Wolfe's bravery - he had his wrist broken by a musket ball and was ripped oped by a shell fragment before being shot through both lungs - a nasty way to go but he kept going as long as he could to reassure his men. It's quite unfair to blame Wolfe for his commanders - besides which destroying enemy farms was quite standard in the 18th century to deny the enemy supplies. Amherst was Wolfe's superior but it was Wolfe who decided on the desperate stroke of climbing the heights of Abraham and it was his tactics that decided the battle - double shotting his soldier's muskets and holding fire under French attack until the dreadful volley that won the battle. As for the rest - get real! He was an 18th-century English soldier, not a UN peace monitor!
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