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Between 1758 and 1760, the British military successfully penetrated the heartland of New France, and took control of Montreal in September 1760.
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 following year he took part in an expedition against the French fortress of Louisbourg, and in 1758 he was wounded in a failed assault on Fort Ticonderoga.
In 1758 he took Henry to meetings of the Royal Society and also to dinners of the Royal Society Club.
In 1758 he took up his residence at Towneley Hall
It took the Commissioners two years to agree who should carry out the work, but on 22 June 1758, John Smith jnr from Attercliffe, Yorkshire was contracted to construct 20 pound locks, 20 horse haling bridges and various other works at a cost of £ 14, 070.
This continued until 1758, when a local brewer, John Lewis, took the gatekeeper, who stopped him from entering the park, to court.
In 1758 after defeat in July at the Battle of Carillon, the British took Louisbourg in August, causing Atlantic Canada to fall into British hands, and opening the sea route to attack Quebec.
In 1758 he was involved in a major altercation with his superiors at the Admiralty which saw him strike his flag and return to port over a misunderstanding at which he took offence.
Starting at about age 15 during the French and Indian War ( part of the Seven Years War ), Brant took part with Mohawk and other Iroquois allies in a number of British actions against the French in Canada: James Abercrombie's 1758 expedition via Lake George that ended in utter defeat at Fort Carillon ; Johnson's 1759 Battle of Fort Niagara ; and Jeffery Amherst's 1760 expedition to Montreal via the St. Lawrence River.
In America they had lost Louisbourg ( 1758 ), Quebec ( 1759 ), and some possessions in the West Indies ; in India, the British victories at Plassey ( 1757 ) and Pondichéry ( 1761 ) had destroyed French power ; on the sea, the French took Port Mahón from the British ( 1757 ) but were defeated by Hawke in Quiberon Bay ( 1759 ).
In 1758 the British captured Louisbourg, gaining control over the mouth of the St. Lawrence, and also took control of key forts on the frontier in battles at Frontenac and Duquesne.
In 1757 a second battalion ( 2nd / 33rd ) had been raised and in 1758 this battalion became an independent regiment, the 72nd Regiment of Foot: Richmond was appointed Colonel of the new regiment and his younger brother George Lennox took command of the 33rd Regiment ( 1st / 33rd ).
He took part in the Raid on Cherbourg in 1758 and the Battle of Minden in 1759.
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.
She was duly launched in April 1758 and Lockhart took command, taking many of his officers and men from Tartar to crew her, with the Admiralty's permission.
During the Seven Years ' War ( 1756 – 1763 ), La Marche took part as a maréchal de camp in the Battle of Hastenbeck in July 1757 and in the Battle of Krefeld in June 1758.
In June 1758, the 1st Battalion took part in an expedition against France, landing at Cancalle Bay on the Brittany coast.
In 1758 the government of Joseph I of Portugal took advantage of the waning powers of Pope Benedict XIV and deported Jesuits from America after relocating the Jesuits and their native workers, and then fighting a brief conflict, formally suppressing the order in 1759.
In 1758, he took a prominent part in the unsuccessful Moravian campaign, after which he withdrew from the army to restore his broken health.
The elder son by the second marriage, Stephen ( 1704 – 1776 ), was created Lord Ilchester and Stavordale in 1747 and Earl of Ilchester in 1756 ; in 1758 he took the additional name of Strangways, and his descendants, the family of Fox-Strangways, still hold the Earldom of Ilchester.
On July 7 – 8, 1758 Rogers ' Rangers took part in the Battle of Carillon.
After his death ( 1796 ) Friedrich Jakob Floerken ( 1758 – 1799 ) took over the preparation of volumes 73 – 77, until he died too.
In 1758 he participated in the attack on Fort Carillon, where he led the advance guard following the death of General George Howe, and he commanded the British expedition of 3000 that captured Fort Frontenac, which took control of Lake Ontario from the French on 26 August 1758.

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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 French settlement was captured by a British expedition as part of the Seven Years ' War, but was later returned to France.
In 1758 the eastern part of Johnston County became Dobbs County.
In 1746 part of Edgecombe County became Granville County ; in 1758 another portion became Halifax County ; and in 1777 yet another part became Nash County.
Several French paintings entered the collection as part of the 260 paintings and miniatures ( not all the works were French, for example Carlo Crivelli's Virgin and Child ) that formed part of the Jones bequest of 1882 and as such are displayed in the galleries of continental art 1600-1800, including the portrait of François, Duc d ' Alençon by François Clouet, Gaspard Dughet and works by François Boucher including his portrait of Madame de Pompadour dated 1758, Jean François de Troy, Jean-Baptiste Pater and their contemporaries.
The Battle of Carillon, also known as the 1758 Battle of Ticonderoga, was fought on July 8, 1758, during the French and Indian War ( which was part of the global Seven Years War ).
The Qing authority resettled part of them from suburbs of Hohhot and Dolonnur to Ili after the fall of the Zunghar Khanate in c. 1758.
In 1758 he and the regiment were part of General James Abercrombie's failed attack at Ticonderoga.
As supposed by Fatio and Le Sage in 1690 / 1758 ( and before them, Huygens ) matter must consist mostly of empty space so that the very small particles can penetrate the bodies nearly undisturbed and therefore every single part of matter can take part in the gravitational interaction.
In 1758 MacDonald sailed to Louisbourg which was then under siege as part of the Seven Years ' War.
David Ramsay ( c. 1740 – c. 1810 ) was a controversial figure born in Leven, Scotland, who served as a cabin boy in the British Royal Navy, participated in the siege of Louisbourg in 1758 and later acted as a courier, translator and fur and alcohol trader, in part of the lower Great Lakes region consisting of present day southern Ontario, Canada, and western New York state.
It was through his initiative, too, that the Convention of Klosterzeven was signed ( 10 September 1757 ), and on the 4 May 1758 he concluded a still more promising treaty with France, whereby, in consideration of Denmark's holding an army-corps of 24, 000 men in Holstein till the end of the war, to secure Hamburg, Lübeck, and the Gottorp part of Holstein from invasion, France, and ultimately Austria also, engaged to bring about an exchange between the king of Denmark and the Cesarevitch, as regards Holstein.
Besides his masterpiece, he wrote L ' Art défensif supérieur à l ' offensif ( 1793 ; in reply to attacks made upon his earliest work, La Fortification perpendiculaire, of which in later editions it forms part ); Mémoire historique sur la fonte des canons ( Paris, 1758 ), and other works on the same subject ; ( London, 1777 ); Rotation des boulets ( Acad., 1755 ); and Relations du siège de Saint-Jean-d ' Acre ( Paris, 1789 ).

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He was promoted to captain in 1756 and to major in 1758.
In 1758, when British forces launched a major campaign to remove French forces from the forks of the Ohio, now Pittsburgh, this spot on Loyalhanna Creek was the site of their westernmost camp before reaching the Ohio.
In 1758 Hastings was made the British Resident in the Bengali capital of Murshidabad, a major step forwards in his career, at the instigation of Clive.
The town was recaptured by Anglo-German forces in 1758 and for the rest of the conflict was used as a major supply base by the British to support the ongoing war in Westphalia.
" Tinamidae " was defined as by Gauthier and de Queiroz ( 2001 ): " Tinamidae refers to the crown clade stemming from the most recent common ancestor of Tetrao major Gmelin 1789 and all extant birds sharing a more recent ancestor with that species than with Struthio camelus Linnaeus 1758 and Vultur gryphus Linnaeus 1758.
The fortress was attacked in two major sieges: once in 1745 and the again in 1758.
* P. m. major, described by Linnaeus in 1758, is found throughout much of Europe, Asia Minor, northern and eastern Kazakhstan, southern Siberia and northern Mongolia, as far as the mid-Amur Valley.
Sir Richard Colt Hoare, 2nd Baronet FRS ( 9 December 1758 – 19 May 1838 ) was an English antiquarian, archaeologist, artist, and traveller of the 18th and 19th centuries, the first major figure in the detailed study of the history of his home county, Wiltshire.
He was appointed a major of the 33rd Regiment of Foot, on 20 December 1756, transferred to the 72nd Regiment of Foot on 9 May 1758, and on 14 December 1761, lieutenant-colonel of the 17th Regiment of Foot, before in May 1762, transferring to the 50th Regiment of Foot, with which regiment he served in Germany during the Seven Years War.
In 1758, the British were successful in capturing major French trading bases along the Senegal River area and formed the first Senegambia – a crown colony.
In 1758 the regiment was shipped to Pomerania yet again, this time to participate in the Seven Years ' War, but Dalregementet saw no major battles during that war.
A simple major of a regiment, he was awarded the order of Chevalier de Saint-Louis in 1742, became commander in 1754, was decorated with the Grand Croix in 1758 and made knight of the Aigle Blanc de Pologne in the same year.

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