G. A. Henty was a 19th century novelist, special correspondent and Imperialist. His best-known works are historical adventures. Henty said that his love of story telling began in his childhood when his family told tales after dinner. The British and French were struggling for power in North America. When Quebec fell the English would become supreme. The Anglo-Saxon race would be predominant in the New World. English commerce. Language, and literature would spread around the world. In With Wolfe in Canada James Walsham leaves England as a young man in 1755 and finds himself in the French and Indian War. Like most of Henty's novels this is a true adventure novel filled with historical detail.