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John Forbes

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
John Forbes 1710-59, British general in the French and Indian Wars , b. Scotland. He entered the British army in 1735, won distinction and promotion in the War of the Austrian Succession, and in 1757 was made a colonel and was sent to reinforce the expedition against Louisburg, Nova Scotia. Courageous, thorough, and particularly able as a quartermaster, he was promoted (Dec., 1757) to brigadier general (in America only) and assigned to command an expedition to take Fort Duquesne, the French stronghold at the forks of the Ohio River. Forbes decided not to use the road that Gen. Edward Braddock... Read more
John Forbes
John Forbes The British general John Forbes (1710-1759) commanded the expedition that captured Ft. Duquesne during the French and Indian War. Little is known of John Forbes's early life other than that he was the son of Col. John Forbes... Read more
Forbes, John
Forbes, John (1707–59) British army officer, born in Fifeshire, England. During the French and Indian War (1754–63) he led the... Read more

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