all together, in a world-wide Imperial war--Pitt, the
eagle-eyed and lion-hearted, at once marked Wolfe down
again for higher promotion and, this time, for the command
of an army of his own. And ever since the Empire Year of
1759 the world has known that Pitt was right.




CHAPTER VI

QUEBEC
1759

In October 1758 Wolfe sailed from Halifax for England
with Boscawen and very nearly saw a naval battle off
Land's End with the French fleet returning to France from
Quebec. The enemy, however, slipped away in the dark. On
November 1 he landed at Portsmouth. He had been made full
colonel of a new regiment, the 67th Foot (Hampshires),
and before going home to London he set off to see it at
Salisbury. [Footnote: Ten years later a Russian general
saw this regiment at Minorca and was loud in his praise
of its all-round excellence, when Wolfe's successor in
the colonelcy, Sir James Campbell, at once said: 'The
only merit due to me is the strictness with which I have
followed the system introduced by the hero of Quebec.']
Wolfe's old regiment, the 20th (Lancashire Fusiliers),
was now in Germany, fighting under the command of Prince
Ferdinand of Brunswick, and was soon to win more laurels