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How War Started An

At the end of the eighteenth century, England was at war with France, in a dispute over the possession of Canada. General Wolfe, com manding the British force, sailed up the Great St. Lawrence River to the City of Quebec, where the French were in possession under the com mand of General Montcalm.

Just above the City of Quebec the shores of the river rise up precipitously, and a landing at that point being considered impossible, it was guarded by only one sentry.

General Wolfe decided to attempt the ap parently impossible. With a small force, he climbed the heights at night-time, and, when challenged by the sentry in the darkness, answered “Ami.” The sentry was taken off his guard, overpowered, and the force under General Wolfe occupied the Heights, and on the following day gave battle and defeated the French on the Plains of Abraham.

Prior to this occasion, French wine vinegar was largely used in England, but importation was stopped and this increased the demand for an English-made vinegar. A vinegar brewery was built in Stourport, Worcestershire, England, where pure malt vinegar was brewed from Eng lish barley. This was the foundation of the present House of Holbrook. Holbrooks now brew pure malt vinegar in Australia from Aus tralian barley, but the same methods of brewing are used as in the old days, and the reputation of this high quality of English vinegar is being maintained.