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Alan McNairn claims in "Behold the Hero" that hundreds of epitaphs were submitted to commemorate the death of James Wolfe after the siege of Québec. Was this kind of passionate popular reaction commonplace for a fallen british officer, or was something else going on?

by /u/Gargatua13013 in /r/AskHistorians

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