* 1758 – Franz Teyber, Austrian organist and composer ( d. 1810 )

The Battle of Hochkirch was a battle fought on October 14, 1758 during the Seven Years ' War between a Prussian army of 30, 000-36, 000 commanded by Frederick the Great and an Austrian army of 80, 000 commanded by Marshal Leopold Josef Graf Daun.

* Franz Bauer ( 1758 – 1840 ), Austrian botanical illustrator

* 1758 – Seven Years ' War: Battle of Krefeld – British forces defeat French troops at Krefeld in Germany.

In 1758 Pitt began to put into practice a new strategy to win the Seven Years War, which would involve tying down large numbers of French troops and resources in Germany, while Britain used its naval supremacy to launch expeditions to capture French forces around the globe.

The Forbes Expedition was a British campaign in September – October 1758, with 6, 000 troops led by General John Forbes to drive the French out of the contested Ohio Country.

During the 1758 Battle of Carillon, 4, 000 French defenders were able to repel an attack by 16, 000 British troops near the fort.

On July 5, 1758, these troops embarked on boats, which unloaded them at the north end of Lake George on July 6.

As the Seven Years ' War entered its later stages through 1758 and 1759, French forces and colonies in northeastern North America came under renewed attacks from British troops.

Montcalm met with notable successes in 1756, 1757 and 1758 but British mobilisation of large numbers of troops against New France led to military setbacks in 1758 and 1759, culminating in Montcalm's death at the Battle of Quebec.

At Fort Carillon in 1758, these troops were made up of the second battalions of seven regiments sent from different regions of France.

Later in 1758 they joined the allied forces of Duke Ferdinand of Brunswick in Germany, with the first detachment of British troops sent to the Continent.

His youngest son was George Monson ( 1730 – 1776 ), who served with the English troops in India from 1758 to 1763.

On 8 May 1758, the Marathas captured Peshawar, defeating the Afghan troops in the Battle of Peshawar.

After the Siege of Louisbourg ( 1758 ), Wolfe and Hardy led a force of 1500 troops in nine vessels to Gaspé Bay, arriving there on September 5.

The Battle of Zorndorf was a battle fought on August 25, 1758 during the Seven Years ' War, fought between the forces of the Russians troops under the command of Count William Fermor – and a Prussian army under King Frederick the Great.

In August 1758, Austria's ally Russia invaded East Prussia with 43, 000 troops under William Fermor advanced within of Berlin, and were poised to join the Austrians under Field Marshal Daun.

In fact, the British government, who had previously been opposed to any direct involvement on the continent, took the opportunity of the 1758 – 59 winter break in fighting to send nine thousand British troops to reinforce Ferdinand.

In 1758, Colonel Armstrong led 2, 700 Pennsylvania provincial troops on the Forbes expedition, the approach of which compelled the French to vacate and blow up Fort Duquesne.

Russian and Prussian troops alternately occupied the city from 1758 untiul 1763.

Over a thirty-year period, Henry's gun factory in Lancaster not only supplied arms to Pennsylvanian and, later, Revolutionary troops ( during the Revolution, his workmen were exempted from military service to ensure the continued production of necessary arms ): Henry himself, serving as armorer, accompanied troops on Edward Braddock's disastrous expedition in the summer of 1755 to retake Fort Duquesne and again on John Forbes's successful mission in 1758.

During this illustrious career in the course of which he passed through all important ranks of the hierarchy, Chevert seems to have known nothing but success, save for one small defeat at the battle of Meer ( or Mehr ) in 1758, where a large component of his corps consisted of green troops and militia.

During his reign, in 1758, the Hōreki Scandal occurred when a large number of the young court nobility were punished by the Bakufu for advocating the restoration of direct Imperial rule.

In 1757 he became an associate of the Imperial Academy of St Petersburg, and a foreign member of the Royal Society of London, and in 1758 a member of the Academy of Berlin, in 1766 of that of Stockholm, and in 1770 of the Academies of Copenhagen and of Bern.

* August 26 – Jeremiah Colegrove, Continental Army officer ( b. 1758 )

* Thomas Howard ( British Army officer ) ( died 1758 ), commander of the Buffs ( Royal East Kent Regiment )

The father of the first Hamilton Fish, Nicholas Fish ( born 1758 ), an officer in the Continental Army and later appointed adjutant general of New York State by Governor George Clinton.

Borrow was born at East Dereham, Norfolk, the son of Army recruiting officer Thomas Borrow ( 1758 – 1824 ) and farmer's daughter Ann Perfrement ( 1772 – 1858 ).

Lieutenant General Sir Thomas Picton GCB ( August 1758 – 18 June 1815 ) was a Welsh British Army officer who fought in a number of campaigns for Britain, and rose to the rank of lieutenant general.

General James Abercrombie or Abercromby ( 1706 – April 23, 1781 ) was a British Army general and commander-in-chief of forces in North America during the French and Indian War, best known for the disastrous British losses in the 1758 Battle of Carillon.

George Augustus Howe, 3rd Viscount Howe ( c. 1725 – 6 July 1758 ) was a career officer and a Brigadier General in the British Army.

* Melancthon Taylor Woolsey ( 1717 – 1758 )— colonel in the Colonial Army.

The only significant French victory in 1758 came when a large British Army commanded by James Abercrombie was defeated by a smaller French force in the Battle of Carillon.

* Ward, Matthew C. " The Microbes of War: The British Army and Epidemic Disease among the Ohio Indians, 1758 – 1765 ".

* McConnell, Michael N. Army and Empire: British Soldiers on the American Frontier, 1758 – 1775.

He was a Brigadier-General in the British Army and was killed during the Battle of Carillon in 1758.

That summer, he was a Staff Officer on the army expedition to St Malo, and, from 5 July 1758 to 31 August 1758, he received a short-term commission as Colonel and Lieutenant-General in the Dutch Army.

His son, James Lovell ( 1758 – 1850 ) served in the Continental Army from 1776 to 1782.

August became Major-General of the Polish Army in 1729, voivode of the Ruthenian Voivodship in 1731, General Starost of Podolia in 1750 – 1758, and a Knight of Malta.

In the year 1758, the Mughal Army of Faiz Mohammad Khan the Nawab of Bhopal was treacherously attacked by his step-mother Mamola Bai who suddenly besieged the Mughal garrison at Fortress of Raisen in 1758, according to the layout of the Marathas.

* Charles Stuart ( East India Company officer ) ( c. 1758 – 1828 ), Irish-born British Army General

From 1758 he served in the Prussian Army, then in the Russian one.

* Duncan Campbell ( British Army officer ) ( died 1758 ), Scottish nobleman

* George Joseph Dufour ( 1758 – 1820 ), French General of the Revolutionary Army.