Stephen Brumwell

General Wolfe’s fatal wounding at the Battle of the Plains of Abraham, 1759, by Richard Caton Woodville, 1925. Prints, Drawings and Watercolors from the Anne S.K. Brown Military Collection. Brown Digital Repository. Brown University Library. Public Domain.

General Wolfe’s Men in Quebec

In 1759 a British army under General James Wolfe won a momentous battle on the Plains of Abraham. A neglected ingredient in Wolfe’s dramatic victory was the professionalism of the army he had helped to create.

Band of Brothers

Stephen Brumwell examines how the death of a charismatic young British officer 250 years ago this month – and the involvement of his two younger brothers in subsequent military operations in North America – had a lasting impact on Anglo-American history.

Home from the Wars

Stephen Brumwell discusses attitudes towards Veterans in mid-Georgian Britain, and the provisions made for them.