John Forbes Military person

John Forbes (5 September 1707 – 11 March 1759) was a British general in the French and Indian War. He is best known for leading the Forbes Expedition that captured the French outpost at Fort Duquesne and for naming the city of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania after British Secretary of State William Pitt the Elder.

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John Forbes
Birth dateSeptember 05, 1707
Birth place
Scotland , Fife , Dunfermline
Date of deathMarch 11, 1759
Place of death
Province of Pennsylvania , Philadelphia
Resting place
Christ Church Philadelphia

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military operations
War of the Austrian Succession
Jacobite rising of 1745
Seven Years' War
military branch
British Army
service start1735
service end1759

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