194 “ The Wiltshire Regiment for Wiltshire.” 
to Seventy-Fifth Foot. Amongst them, Colonel William Strode to be 
Colonel of the Sixty-Second Regiment of Foot ; Major John Jennings 
to be Lieutenant-Colonel ; and Major Joseph Higginson to be Major 
to the said regiment ; and Colonel James Wolfe to be Colonel of the 
the Sixty-Seventh Regiment of Foot. There are in the same Gazette 
nominations of Lieutenant-Colonel and Major to the Twentieth 
(Kingsley’s) Regiment in which Wolfe had hitherto been. 
Meanwhile war had come; four companies of the 2nd battalion 
of the Fourth were already in America, and had been present at the 
siege of Louisberg. In July, 1758, that place had capitulated, and 
5637 prisoners were sent to England. 
Those four companies—lucky fellows—by this time known as be- — 
longing to the Sixty-Second Regiment of Foot, were in the following 
year in the victory on the heights of Abraham, when Wolfe and his 
army won Quebec, apparently forming part of Colonel Howe’s Light 
Brigade; but as the numbers of the regiments are not given in 
despatches, I have found it impossible to trace them. 
Few events in military history are more replete with interest, or 
adventure, than this; how Wolfe, with the assistance of Rear 
Admiral Holmes, reconnoitred, planned and checkmated Montcalm, 
disposing his forces so as to meet on the cliffs, and then in the dead 
of night embarking with his men in boats and dropping down the river 
past picket and battery to the rendezvous. 
The boats as they were filled with troops, were ranged in line, the 
light infantry in the van, the other corps by seniority. At two o’clock, : 
all being on board, the signal was given to start, General Wolfe being 
in the leading boat. The night, though still, was very dark—and - 
it is said that those close to Wolfe could hear him whispering Gray’s 
Elegy :— 
‘‘ The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power, 
And all that beauty, all that wealth e’er gaye, 
Await alike the inevitable hour ; 
The paths of glory lead but to the grave,” 
As he finished he said, “‘ I would rather be the author of that piece - 
than take Quebec.” But this other life or the recollections of his 
lady love, whose portrait he had entrusted that night to the future 
