The town was named " Warren " after a British naval hero, Admiral Sir Peter Warren, following a victory at Louisburg in 1745.

Sir Peter Warren, KB ( 10 March 1703 – 29 July 1752 ) was a British naval officer from Ireland who commanded the naval forces in the attack on the French fortress of Louisbourg, Nova Scotia in 1745.

When they sailed in April 1745, he was commander-in-chief of the expedition, supported by a British naval squadron under Captain Peter Warren, appointed Commodore on a temporary basis at the time.

Warren graduated from Harvard in 1745, and in 1754 married his second cousin Mercy Otis Warren, a historian and playwright.

The most significant incident was the capture of the French Fortress Louisbourg on Cape Breton Island ( Île Royale ) by an expedition ( 29 April – 16 June 1745 ) of colonial militia organized by Massachusetts Governor William Shirley, commanded by William Pepperrell of Maine ( then part of Massachusetts ), and assisted by a Royal Navy fleet.

In the East Indies, attacks on French commerce by a British squadron under Curtis Barnett in 1745 led to the despatch of a French squadron commanded by Mahé de la Bourdonnais.

During the Jacobite Rising of 1745, he commanded the sloop Baltimore in the North Sea, and was severely wounded in the head while cooperating with a frigate in an engagement with two French privateers.

At Fontenoy in May 1745, Ligonier commanded the British, Hanoverian, and Hessian infantry.

There have been three well known battles in the town: The Battle of Inverurie ( 1308 ), the Battle of Harlaw ( 24 July 1411 ) between Donald of Islay, Lord of the Isles ( MacDonald ) and an army commanded by Alexander Stewart, Earl of Mar ; and the Battle of Inverurie ( 1745 ) during the Jacobite Rebellion of that year.

Entering the French army in 1721 he served in the war of 1734 against Austria ; he was present at Dettingen ( 1743 ), and commanded the regiment de Lally in the famous Irish brigade at Fontenoy ( May 1745 ).

During the War of the Austrian Succession, he commanded several ships and was a captain by 1745.

In the Second Silesian War ( 1744 – 1745 ) Schwerin commanded the army which, marching from Glatz, met the kings army under the walls of Prague, and in the siege and capture of that place he played a distinguished part ( 10 September 1744 ).

At the beginning of the 1745 Jacobite Rising, the Clan Macpherson chief commanded a company of his clan in the services of the British government.

He served as brigadier general of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company of Massachusetts, second in command of the colonial troops in the expedition against the French at Fortress Louisbourg in 1745, and commanded a brigade of Massachusetts militia at Lake Champlain during the French and Indian War.

* The brothers Friedrich ( died 1745 ) and Hans ( died 1788 ) both commanded Frederick the Great's famous Gardes du Corps, which Friedrich had founded.

In 1745, a group of courtiers, including her father-in-law, promoted her acquaintance with the monarch, who was still mourning the death of his third official mistress, the duchesse de Châteauroux.

In 1745, the Natagé are reported to have consisted of the Mescalero ( around El Paso and the Organ Mountains ) and the Salinero ( around Rio Salado ), but these were probably the same group, were oft called by the Spanish and Apaches themselves true Apaches, had had a considerable influence on the decision making of some bands of the Western Lipan in the 18th century.

The group was founded in 1712 and lasted until the death of the founders, starting in 1732 and ending in 1745, with Pope and Swift being the culturally most prominent authors.

In November 1745, Maria Clara and three of the children left Gosport for Georgia with a group of Lutheran Salzburgers who had been expelled from their Catholic-dominated homeland ( see Salzburg # Religious conflict ).

In 1745 Lambertini ( now Pope Benedict XIV ) established an elite group of 25 scholars known as the Benedettini (' Benedictines ', named after himself.

Ironically, given Murray's rumoured Jacobite leanings but public opposition to the group, his grandson, Lord George Murray became a famed general of the Jacobites and was responsible for their success throughout the greater part of the 1745 uprising.

Charles raised funds to fit out two ships: the Elisabeth, an old man-of-war of 66 guns, and the Doutelle ( le Du Teillay ) a small frigate of 16 guns, which successfully landed him and seven companions at Eriskay on 23 July 1745.

In 1745, having finished their scientific labours, Ulloa and Jorge Juan prepared to return to Spain, agreeing to travel on different ships in order to minimize the danger of losing the important fruits of their labours.

He became a merchant who built, owned, and outfitted ships, and in 1745 he was part owner of the privateering vessel Reprisal, in partnership with John Mawney, Sheriff of Providence, and son of Colonel Peter Mawney.

The shipping fleet was destroyed in 1745 by Bonnie Prince Charlie when some ship to shore skirmishes took place by batteries set by Jacobites to drive off the government ships.

The Elisabeth, carrying weapons, supplies and 700 volunteers from the Irish Brigade, encountered the British Navy ship HMS Lion and with both ships badly damaged in the ensuing battle the Elisabeth was forced back, but the Du Teillay successfully landed Charles with his seven men of Moidart on the island of Eriskay in the Outer Hebrides on 2 August 1745.

The making of scrimshaw began on whaling ships between 1745 to 1759 on the Pacific Ocean, and survived until the ban on commercial whaling.

In 1745 the Russian Navy had 130 sailing vessels, including 36 ships of the line, 9 frigates, 3 shnyavas ( шнява — a light two-mast ship used for reconnaissance and messenger services ), 5 bombardier ships and 77 auxiliary vessels.

The Watch Hill Lighthouse in Watch Hill, Rhode Island, has served as a nautical beacon for ships since 1745, when the Rhode Island colonial government erected a watchtower and beacon during the French and Indian War and Revolutionary War.

The parti philosophique was supported by the marquise de Pompadour, who acted as a sort of minister without portfolio from the time she became royal mistress in 1745 until her death in 1764.

In 1745 Hogarth painted a self-portrait with his pug dog ( now also in Tate Britain ), which shows him as a learned artist supported by volumes of Shakespeare, Milton and Swift.

In 1715, he had been a supporter of the House of Hanover, but in 1745 he changed sides and supported the Stuart claim on the crown of the United Kingdom.

Although Protestant, the MacLeods of Raasay supported Bonnie Prince Charlie in 1745.

He supported the Jacobite rebellion of 1745 and led a force of 400 men from Clan Mackenzie at the Battle of Falkirk in 1746.

He founded ' Dillon's Regiment ' of the Irish Brigade in the French Army, which was supported by the Wild Geese and achieved success at Fontenoy in 1745.

Commissions for portrait busts and monuments for country churches supported him until 1745, when he received the first of his commissions for a funeral monument in Westminster Abbey, for the late Duke of Argyll ( installed 1749 ).

In 1745 the Clan Farquharson are believed to have supported Lord Lewis Gordon during his victory at the Battle of Inverurie ( 1745 ).

The nonjurors thus supported Jacobitism, although they generally did not actively support the Jacobite rebellions in 1715 or 1745.

In 1745 when the second major Jacobite Uprisings began Inverness Castle was defended against the Jacobites by an Independent company from the Clan Ross who supported the British government.

During the Jacobite rising of 1745 the chief of Clan Grant again supported the British Government.

In 1745, the Clan Hay supported Bonnie Prince Charlie and assisted in financing his rebellion.

Unlike some highland clans, the Gunns did not rise under the standard of the Stuarts during the Jacobite rebellions, and indeed supported the government in the conflict of 1745 along with other Highland clans such as Clan Munro, Clan Campbell, Clan Mackay, Clan Sutherland and Clan Ross.

Like his father in the rebellion of 1715, William initially supported the Government side, but in the rebellion of 1745, owing either to a personal affront or to the influence of his wife or to his straitened circumstances he deserted George II and joined Charles Edward Stuart, the Young Pretender.