ABERCROMBY, JAMES

1706–81, British general in the French and Indian Wars, b. Scotland. He arrived in America in 1756 and in 1758 replaced the earl of Loudoun as supreme British commander. After failing to take Ticonderoga from General Montcalm, Abercromby was replaced (1758) by Jeffery Amherst.

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books on: Abercromby James  - 456 results

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James VI of Scotland and the Throne of England
Book by Helen Georgia Stafford; D. Appleton-Century Company, 1940
Subjects: Great Britain--History--Elizabeth, 1558-1603, James--I--King Of England--1566-1625, Scotland--History--James Vi, 1567-1625
JAMES VI OF SCOTLAND and the THRONE OF ENGLAND THE AMERICAN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION JAMES VI OF SCOTLAND and the THRONE OF ENGLAND BY HELEN...250 ELIZABETHS PENSION TO JAMES 293 ABBREVIATIONS...
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The Life of Charles James Fox
Book by Edward Lascelles; Oxford University Press, 1936
Subjects: Fox, Charles James--1749-1806, Great Britain--Politics And Government--1760-1820
THE LIFE OF CHARLES JAMES FOX CHARLES JAMES FOX, circa 1783-4 From an engraving by JOHN JONES after the portrait by SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS THE LIFE OF CHARLES JAMES FOX BY EDWARD LASCELLES I love idleness so much and so...
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James Glen: From Scottish Provost to Royal Governor of South Carolina
Book by W. Stitt Robinson, Jon L. Wakelyn; Greenwood Press, 1996
Subjects: Glen, James--1701-1777, Governors--South Carolina--Biography, South Carolina--History--Colonial Period, Ca. 1600-1775
JAMES GLEN Recent Titles in Contributions in American History...Zebulon Butler: Hero of the Revolutionary Frontier James R. Williamson and Linda A. Fossler Clio Confused...Federal Antitrust Policy During the Kennedy-Johnson Years James R. Williamson The Home-Front War: World War II and...
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James Bryce: (Viscount Bryce of Dechmont, O.M.) - Vol. 1
Book by H. A. L. Fisher; Macmillan, 1927
Subjects: Bryce, James Bryce--Viscount--1838-1922
...to enter the Nonconformist Ministry. One of them was named Abercromby -- a man of great metaphysical talent. I think he must have...strictest practice, the University was still what Archbishop Laud JAMES BRYCE AS AN UNDERGRADUATE designed it to be, a training ground...
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James Bryce: Viscount Bryce of Dechmont, O.M - Vol. 2
Book by H. A. L. Fisher; Macmillan, 1927
Subjects: Bryce, James Bryce--Viscount--1838-1922
JAMES BRYCE VISCOUNT BRYCE OF DECHMONT, O.M. VOLUME II THE MACMILLAN COMPANY NEW YORK BOSTON...MELBOURNE THE MACMILLAN CO. OF CANADA, LTD. TORONTO -i- Lafayette photographer Emery Walker phisa James Bryce 1906 Chief Secretary for Ireland JAMES BRYCE VISCOUNT BRYCE OF DECHMONT, O. M. BY H. A. L. FISHER WARDEN OF NEW COLLEGE, OXFORD...
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journal articles on: Abercromby James  - 10 results

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Solórzano's De Indiarum Iure: Applying a Medieval Theory of World Order in the Seventeenth Century
Journal article by James Muldoon; Journal of World History, Vol. 2, 1991
Subjects: World History
...1965 ) 1:438. See also the two treatises by James Abercromby written before the revo lution but not published until recently: James Abercromby, Magna Carta for America , ed. J. P. Greene...
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Edgeworth's Ireland: History, Popular Culture, and Secret Codes
Journal article by Marilyn Butler; Novel, Vol. 34, 2001
Subjects: Culture, Edgeworth, Maria (1767-1849), Ireland, Novels, Writers
...Rebellion of two Scottish officers, General Abercromby and his next-in-command, Colonel John...many military units, as in Sir Ralph Abercrombys remarkable statement recorded in the...her uncle was the Duke of Tyrconnell, James IIs Lord Lieutenant in Ireland, who himself...
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"Justice with Courage": Considerations on the Weakness of British Imperial Power
Journal article by Adam Norman Lynde; Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, Vol. 97, 2007
...Louisbourg was subordinate to Major General James Abercromby, who operated against Canada out of New York. Abercrombys force, which came to grief at Ticonderoga...possessed an important strategic limitation. James Wolfe enthusiastically described amphibious...
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Battling the Elements: Reconstructing the Heroic in Robert Rogers
Journal article by Susan Glover; The Journal of American Culture, Vol. 26, 2003
Subjects: Cultural identity, Military history, Public figures, Seven Years War, Truces & cease fires
...Gordon 177). In 1758, General James Abercromby formally commissioned Rogers as...Majestys Service." The following year, James Wolfe requested Rogers and his rangers...one of his former ranger officers, James Tute, with instructions to travel...
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"Deserted His Majesty's Service": Military Runaways, the British-American Press, and the Problem of Desertion during the Seven Years' War
Journal article by Thomas Agostini; Journal of Social History, Vol. 40, 2007
Subjects: British history--Analysis, Communications industry--History, Communications industry--Influence, Mass media--History, Mass media--Influence, Seven Years' War, 1756-1763--History
...Amherst wrote that, although "Abercrombys is a fine Regt.," it was withdrawn...in 1758, for example, General James Abercromby confided: "I dare not be rigid...July 7, 1759, Number 222. 81. James Abercromby to Campbell, April 13, 1756...
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magazine articles on: Abercromby James  - 4 results

 
 
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Highnotes
Magazine article; Musical Opinion, Vol. 130, July 2007
...Fatichenti plays Granados Valse Poetico and Schumanns Carnival at St James Church, Piccadilly. This is just one of the many events taking...appearing with actress Elayne Shading at the Royal Scots Club, 30 Abercromby Place, Edinburgh EH3 6QE from 19-27 August at 11.05am. The...
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Band of Brothers: Stephen Brumwell Examines How the Death of a Charismatic Young British Officer 250 Years Ago This Month-And the Involvement of His Two Younger Brothers in Subsequent Military Operations in North America-Had a Lasting Impact on Anglo-American History
Magazine article by Stephen Brumwell; History Today, Vol. 58, June 2008
Subjects: British history, 1714-1815, Howe, George Augustus--History, Howe, Richard--History, Howe, William--History, United States history, 1600-1775 (Colonial period), United States history--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
...George. Although second-in-command to Major-General James Abercromby, Loudouns stolid replacement as commander-in-chief...hot morning of July 6th, 1758, advance elements of Abercrombys 15,000-strong army landed at the foot of Lake George...
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Pipes and Drums: R.S. Taylor Stoermer Takes a Transatlantic Perspective on the Anglo-Scottish Union of 1707
Magazine article by R.S. Taylor Stoermer; History Today, Vol. 57, May 2007
Subjects: British Empire, ca. 1600-1970--History, British history--Analysis, Scottish history--Analysis, United States history--Analysis
...northern region requesting my ordination. A letter to James Abercromby, the colonys agent in London, also may be of special...problem with Ogilvies request: neither Fairfax nor Abercromby had ever heard of Thomas Jefferson. Consequently...
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An Emancipation Election: (Louth, 1826)
Magazine article; History Today, Vol. 55, June 2005
Subjects: Elections--1826 AD, Elections--History, Louth, Ireland (City)--Elections, Louth, Ireland (City)--Political aspects, Political history--1826 AD, Political history--Analysis
...parties quickly realized the elections significance. This is a sort of little bloodless revolution, observed the Whig James Abercromby,the political power of the state has passed from the landed aristocracy... into the hands of the Catholic priests...


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newspaper articles on: Abercromby James  - 44 results

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A Civil Ending to US War Story; When an American Couple Heard about the Restoration of the World's First US Consulate in Liverpool They Had to Visit - after All, It Was Family
Newspaper article; Daily Post (Liverpool, England), November 14, 2008
Subjects: Maury, James
...Gilbert Stuart Newton portrait of James Maury. Cllr Rotheram was a...former Liverpool home at 19 Abercromby Square, is marked by an English...Prioleau, with Newtons portrait of James Maury (1746-1835) in Liverpool...Association lay a wreath at 19 Abercromby Square, the Prioleau familys...
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Celebrating the World of Physics; with Three Nobel Prize Winners to Its Credit, Physics Is Celebrating Its 125th Anniversary as Liverpool University's Oldest Department
Newspaper article; Daily Post (Liverpool, England), October 28, 2006
Subjects: Chadwick, James, University of Liverpool
...just behind the Georgian elegance of Abercromby Square testament to a different age and...1917 Nobel prize winner for physics. Sir James Chadwick (1897-1974) was born in Macclesfield...British nutty professor in full flower. Sir James Chadwick had been assistant to Ernest...
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ROLL OF HONOUR; FC ZENIT ST. PETERSBURG V GLASGOW RANGERS - MAY 14, 2008 YOUR CALLS
Newspaper article; Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland), May 19, 2008
...Knightshood; Ross Abercromby, Knightswood; Craig Abercromby, Knightswood; Andy Adam, Paisley; William...Beattie, Edinburgh; Graham Beck, Coatbridge; James Beck, County Antrim; John Beck, Cumnock...Bell, Gordon; Ian Bell, Bearsden; William James, Benson Alford; Aderyn Benting, Shrewsbury...
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DAY THREE MEN BROUGHT DOWN THE OLD FIRM WALLS OF HATE; TOMMY BURNS 1956-2008 CELTIC LEGEND Tommy Has Gone but His Legacy Could Be Something Miraculous as Walter and Ally Carry His Coffin to Fill Scotland's Great Divide
Newspaper article; Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland), May 21, 2008
...Carry His Coffin to Fill Scotlands Great Divide. Byline: BY JAMES TRAYNOR THERE was no thunderous sound of walls crashing down...around midday. Just outside the gates of St Marys RC Church in Abercromby Street, in fact. And it took the breath of everyone there away...
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Frank: My Beautiful Bhoys Are Back with Mowbray in Charge
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), June 8, 2009
...Hibernians Steven Fletcher and Hamiltons James McCarthy did not look like getting off...around. Abers Gonnae Get You by Billy Abercromby and Fraser Kirkwood is published by Macdonald...McAvennie and former Saints team-mate Abercromby
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encyclopedia articles on: Abercromby James  - 6 results

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Abercromby, James
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
ABERCROMBY, JAMES 1706 81, British general in the French and Indian Wars , b. Scotland...British commander. After failing to take Ticonderoga from General Montcalm, Abercromby was replaced (1758) by Jeffery Amherst . ____________________ Copyright...
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Gage, Thomas , English General in North America
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...ill-fated expedition against Fort Duquesne (1755). Later in the last of the French and Indian Wars he served under James Abercromby and Jeffery Amherst. Gage was appointed (1760) governor at Montreal and later succeeded Amherst (1763) as commander...
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Ticonderoga
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Wars took place. Fort Carillon, built there by the French in 1755, was successfully defended by Montcalm against James Abercromby in 1758, but it fell to Jeffery Amherst in 1759, when it was renamed Fort Ticonderoga. It was captured (May 10, 1775...
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Amherst, Jeffery Amherst, Baron
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...capture (1758) of the French fortress gave Britain her first important victory in the war, and Amherst replaced James Abercromby as supreme commander in America. The next year (1759), pushing northward from Albany, he took Crown Point and Ticonderoga...
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Montcalm, Louis Joseph De
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...withstood an attack by a large British force under Gen. James Abercromby. In 1759, still handicapped by Vaudreuils interference...successfully defended Quebec against the siege of Gen. James Wolfe until the strategy of the English effected...
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