Comparing Edmund Wright's Life And Work

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Born on the 7th of May, 1833 Edmund Wright was delivered to James and Martha Wright in a populated area of Vancouver. Both his parents were rich painters, therefore his childhood was suffused with luxury. Despite being intellectually superior, and having a promising career as a painter, he was enlisted in the army at age 18 by Sergeant Charles Northcott. Following his recruitment, he was directed to 13th Light Dragoons in Balaclava. It was there he was wounded in the right thigh by a fragment of a cannon shell, but received no medical attention. Instead, he was boarded on the vessel “Indiana”, and returned to the US in February 1855. He only served a few years, but he saw plenty of action. Later that year, after hospitalization, he