[List-Cumbria] Carlisle Journal, 05 Mar 1814 - BMD

[Steve Hayes]

On 24 May 2020 at 19:18, Petra Mitchinson via List-Cumbria wrote:

> The 16th ult. at Galway, Ireland, aged 100, Thomas WILKINS, M. D. many
> years surgeon of the Galway County Infirmary. It was in his arms the
> immortal WOLFE breathed his last, after Quebec had surrendered to his
> Majesty's forces, on the 18th October, 1758 [sic - the battle of the
> Plains of Abraham, and General James WOLFE's death, took place on 13 Sep
> 1759]. 

I know what they mean, but still amused at the thought of the "immortal" 
Wolfe breathing his last. 


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