becoming a good officer. He lived and died as a son
of you two should. There was no part of his life that
makes him dearer to me than what you so often
mentioned--_he pined after me_.

It was this pining to follow Wolfe to the wars that cost
poor Ned his life. But did not Wolfe himself pine to
follow his father?

The next year, 1745, the Young Pretender, 'Bonnie Prince
Charlie,' raised the Highland clans on behalf of his
father, won several battles, and invaded England, in the
hope of putting the Hanoverian Georges off the throne of
Great Britain and regaining it for the exiled Stuarts.
The Duke of Cumberland was sent to crush him; and with
the duke went Wolfe. Prince Charlie's army retreated and
was at last brought to bay on Culloden Moor, six miles
from Inverness. The Highlanders were not in good spirits
after their long retreat before the duke's army, which
enjoyed an immense advantage in having a fleet following
it along the coast with plenty of provisions, while the
prince's wretched army was half starved. We may be sure
the lesson was not lost on Wolfe. Nobody understood better
than he that the fleet is the first thing to consider in
every British war. And nobody saw a better example of
this than he did afterwards in Canada.

At daybreak on April 16, 1746, the Highlanders found the
duke's army marching towards Inverness, and drew up in
order to prevent it. Both armies halted, each hoping the