Period 3 Question 6 | Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History

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Engraving based on Benjamin West’s painting depicting the death of British General Wolfe at the Battle of the Plains Abraham near Quebec City in 1759. A British general lays dying at the center of the picture, flanked by other soldiers and a First Nations warrior (possibly Mohawk) as British and French troops fight in the distance.

S. Smith, The Death of General Wolfe, ca. 1861–1877 (The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History)