"How General James Wolfe Died: Was it From a ..." Topic

…British Deserter?.

"Before the Battle of Quebec, which would ensure him immortality in British military annals, one of General James Wolfe's captains said of him, "No man can display greater activity than he does." Indeed, a full decade earlier, when he was a 22-year-old regimental commander in Scotland, another officer said of him, "Our acting commander here is a paragon. He neither drinks, curses, gambles, nor runs after women." Wolfe, who was the son of a Royal Marine colonel and was devoted to his parents and late brother above all else, had only hunting and fishing as hobbies outside his martial pursuits.

Wolfe lived only to die a glorious death in battle. "All I wish for myself is that I may at all times be ready and firm to meet that fate we cannot shun, and to die gracefully and properly when the hour comes," he wrote to his mother. "Being of the profession of arms, I'd seek all occasions to serve, and, therefore, have thrown myself in the way of the American war [against the French], though I know that the very passage [at sea] threatens my life, and that my constitution must be utterly ruined and undone," he wrote…"
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The article doesn't explore the question but merely repeats the unlikely tradition of a disgruntled deserter who held a grudge against Wolfe, believing him responsible for his being reduced to the ranks:
"The English sergeant who deserted to the French claimed that he fired the musket ball that killed Wolfe, but there is no confirmation of it."