"Historically Inspiring - The Death of Wolfe" Topic

The Death of Wolfe and other FIW mumbling!!!

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Oh right, 18th century. I saw the title and was wondering how an assassin finally got past Archie. :)

Well to be fair there were (very rare) times Nero went undercover, didn't he pose as a crime boss once with some absurd pistol he designed himself as a sidearm?

Jason
Stafford, VA

The famous painting of a great historical event. Truly inspiring! Completely inaccurate…

Margard beat me to it.

Benjamin West is a distant cousin of mine.

Well to be fair there were (very rare) times Nero went undercover, didn't he pose as a crime boss once with some absurd pistol he designed himself as a sidearm?

At the risk of continuing the thread hijacking, Nero never indulged in gunsmithing. He went undercover only once, when he infiltrated the organization of Arnold Zeck, his Moriarty equivalent. There was no "absurd pistol" just a regular one in a briefcase with a false bottom, which neither he nor Archie actually fired. The whole point of the story was to get someone else to fire it, actually.

In The Best Families. One of Stout's best novels IMO.

one debate over the accuracy involves the kilted highlander . It is claimed that he represents the 79th Fraser Highlanders in the brown kilt. Most historians maintain that the 79th wore a variation of the government pattern while the recreated Fraser Highlanders claim and use the brown

Hmm, last post of the hijack, I'll have to dig the book out and re-read it. It has been many years and I was going off memory but there was something that struck me as absurd about a pistol in one of the Wolfe stories. Maybe a villain had the weapon but I can't remember off the top of my head. I'll take your word for it.

Back to the real thread I also hope to ramp up my F&I War gaming this year. In September I'm scheduled to go on a tour dealing with the 1758 Forbes campaign against Fort Duquesne. Hopefully I'll be able to turn what I learn into some good game scenarios!

Jason
Stafford, VA

I have read that "famous" "historical" persons paid the author to be feaured in paintings like this. And, some who SHOULD have been on the scene and did not pay were excluded.
Art is a business.

I have always liked the pose of the Indian in this painting. He reminds me of some enigmatic Masonic allegory.

I need some figures posed like the guys on the side, to adorn my 'dying officer' vignette.

I do have one of a Napoleonic French officer lying with his head on a kneeling Landwehr soldier. A couple mourning guys on either side would be nice.

I imagine Nero, a little older and a little heavier, still works out of his Brownstone with a greying Archie.

He came close to death on several occasions: the exploding cigar being my favourite.

It's more accurate than the etching of Montcalm's death that includes palm trees:
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Or this one coloured with the French troops in red etc.!
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And Montcalm died a few days later in the Ursuline convent more like this and not on the field.
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It's more accurate than the etching of Montcalm's death that includes palm trees:

I'm not sure about that:
"The General's senior officers assuredly did not gather around him in a picturesque group as depicted by Benjamin West; all the evidence is that not more than four people were with him when he died."
Stacey, Quebec, 1759 The Siege and the Battle

My understanding is that he had no love for Indians and there assuredly would not have been one present at his death. A metaphorical addition.

I always thought the Indian was trying to think of a suitable side dish!