Although Louisbourg was captured by New Englanders with British naval assistance in 1745 and by the British again in 1758, Île Royale remained formally part of colonial France until it was ceded to Britain under the Treaty of Paris in 1763.

In 1758, the fortress of Louisbourg was laid siege for a second time within 15 years, this time by more than 27, 000 British soldiers and sailors with over 150 warships.

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

* 1758 – French forces hold Fort Carillon against the British at Ticonderoga, New York.

* 1758 – French and Indian War: the Siege of Louisbourg ends with British forces defeating the French and taking control of the Gulf of Saint Lawrence.

* 1758 – French and Indian War: British forces capture Fort Duquesne from French control.

In 1758 the French settlement was captured by a British expedition as part of the Seven Years ' War, but was later returned to France.

* 1758 – Battle of Saint Cast: France repels British invasion during the Seven Years ' War.

In April 1758 British forces captured the ill-defended fort of Saint-Louis in Senegal.

* August 10 – Sir John St Aubyn, 5th Baronet, British fossil collector ( b. 1758 )

** Thomas Picton, British general ( b. 1758 )

* October 21 – Horatio Nelson, British admiral ( mortally wounded in battle ) ( b. 1758 )

Between 1758 and 1760, the British military successfully penetrated the heartland of New France, and took control of Montreal in September 1760.

The British were supported in the war by the Iroquois, and also by the Cherokee — until differences sparked the Anglo-Cherokee War in 1758.

Vaudreuil and Montcalm were only minimally resupplied in 1758, as the British blockade of the French coastline limited French shipping.

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.

In the aftermath of generally poor French results in most theaters of the Seven Years ' War in 1758, France's new foreign minister, the duc de Choiseul, decided to focus on an invasion of Britain, to draw British resources away from North America and the European mainland.

Having captured Louisbourg in 1758, the British sailed up to Quebec the following year thanks to charts drawn up by James Cook.

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

In June 1758, British General James Abercromby began amassing a large force at Fort William Henry in preparation for the military campaign directed up the Champlain Valley.

However, the British did not attack again in 1758, so the French withdrew all but a small garrison of men for the winter in November.

* Battle of Ticonderoga – 1758 at British Battles

Duncan Campbell was a Scots nobleman who died on July 18, 1758, as a result of wounds received in an unsuccessful frontal attack against French forces at Fort Carillon ( renamed Fort Ticonderoga when the British took the fort a year later ).

The new regiment fought at Louisbourg in 1758 and Quebec in 1759 in the campaign which finally wrested Canada from France ; at Quebec it won from General James Wolfe the motto Celer et Audax ( Swift and Bold ).

In the Ile Saint-Jean Campaign ( 1758 ) General Jeffery Amherst ordered Colonel Andrew Rollo to capture the island.

Pope Clement XIII ( 1758 – 69 ) appointed him Cardinal-Priest of San Lorenzo in Panisperna in 1759, at the insistence of Lorenzo Ricci, the General of the Jesuits.

Charles Lee ( 1758 – 1815 ), U. S. Attorney General under John Adams.

Still, General Montcalm and two of his military engineers surveyed the works in 1758 and found something to criticize in almost every aspect of the fort's construction ; the buildings were too tall and thus easier for attackers ' cannon fire to hit, the powder magazine leaked, and the masonry was of poor quality.

General Jeffrey Amherst, 1st Baron Amherst | Jeffery Amherst promoted Montgomery to Lieutenant after the Siege of Louisbourg ( 1758 ) | Siege of Louisbourg.

* a British military trail built in 1758 by General John Forbes of England from Chambersburg to Pittsburgh during the French and Indian War, later known as the Pittsburgh Road and the Conestoga Road

It was not until General John Forbes attacked in 1758, four years after they had lost the original fort, that they recaptured and destroyed it.

Sabbath Day Point was used a landing place in 1758 for British armies en route to attack the French at Fort Carillion and again in 1759 when General Jeffery Amherst finally succeeded in capturing Fort Carillon.

Guyasuta led the Indians against General Grant in 1758.

Located along the Forbes road, a military road built under the command of Brigadier General John Forbes in 1758, the town became an important rest stop along the east-west route that eventually stretched from Philadelphia to Pittsburgh.

The Virginia General Assembly approved the charter for the town of " Stephensburgh " on October 12, 1758.

The most architectural space of the State Apartments, this expressive, deeply modelled corridor was originally built c. 1758 to the designs of the Surveyor General, Thomas Eyre.

* Charles Lee ( Attorney General ) ( 1758 – 1815 ), American lawyer and former United States Attorney General

William's eldest brother was General George Howe, who was killed just before the 1758 Battle of Carillon at Fort Ticonderoga.

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.

In June 1758, British General James Abercromby began amassing a large force at Fort William Henry in preparation for the military campaign directed up the Champlain Valley.

On July 8, 1758, the British army of General James Abercromby with 16, 000 men, ( 6, 000 British soldiers and 10, 000 colonials ) and their allies the Mohawks ( who did not participate in the battle ), attacked Fort Carillon commanded by Louis-Joseph de Montcalm with 3, 600 soldiers, including 400 Canadians from Lévis and 300 Abenakis.

In December 1758 Wolfe, now a Major General was given command of the upcoming campaign against the city of Quebec, and he selected Carleton as his quarter-master general.

Benjamin Chew was Speaker of the Lower House for the Delaware counties ( 1753 – 1758 ); Attorney General and member of the Council of Pennsylvania ( 1754 – 1769 ); Recorder of Philadelphia City ( 1755 – 1774 ); Master of Rolls ( 1755 – 1774 ); Provincial Councillor of Pennsylvania ( 1755 ); Commissioner of Philadelphia ( 1761 ); Register-General of Wills ( 1765 – 1777 ); Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania ( 1774 – 1777 ); and Judge and President of the High Court of Errors and Appeals ( 1791 – 1808 ).

In 1758, he was given a fourth regiment and joined the Duke of Marlborough as a Lieutenant General.