Wolfe lives (Plains of Abraham, 1759)

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General Wolfe famously died at the Battle of the Plains of Abraham in Quebec in 1759 (as did the opposing general, Montcalm). He was only 32 years old. Had he lived he likely would have been a key general on the British side in the American War of Independence.

Most if not all of the British generals in that war were Whigs. They wanted to win over a wavering colonial population, so they were relatively restrained and generally tried to avoid massacres of civilians (with a few notable exceptions) and big set-piece battles that would have resulted in mass casualties.

Wolfe was a strident Tory and lacked whatever small sympathy for the American cause the Whig generals may have had. His tactical approach was also different from the standard genteel, avoid-mass-casualties warfare typical of Europe at the time. For instance, he believed that sending huge forces of soldiers into the meat grinder was actually a morale booster for the remaining troops, and used this to notable effect while sieging Quebec. He certainly would have approached the war differently than Howe, Clinton, Cornwallis et al.

How does the American Revolution play out differently with a bold, unorthodox Tory leading the British forces?