Wolfe survives the Plains of Abraham

[Baconheimer]

This is a POD I've been thinking about for a couple days now. What might James Wolfe's fate be if he was not killed at Quebec in 1759? He was only 32 when he died, so he has plenty of time to keep on living if he avoids the bullet that killed him. Would he still hold a reputation as a semi-legendary figure if he had lived, or was that a product of his death?

 

[Japhy]

His health was already collapsing and the battle plan was basically designed to be a suicide where he could avoid disgrace for surviving a failed campaign to die back in Britain.

He may try to push onto Montreal but odds are considering the fact his forces had destroyed the food supplies of Quebec in their months of stalemate that such an operation would be deadly for a good number of his men (The army barely survived the winter as it was just in Quebec City) and odds are with his health he's dead by the time the Forces from Montreal are on the Plains of Abraham a second time next spring.

It could actually be a real Cruel Optimism moment as the other thread on the page right now: Wolfe's temporary survival weakening his forces to the point that the French do manage to retake Quebec in 1760.