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

* Charles Spencer, 3rd Duke of Marlborough ( 1706 – 1758 ), general and politician, second son of the 3rd Earl of Sunderland

The 1758 edition of the Index removed the general prohibition of works advocating heliocentrism as a fact rather than a hypothesis.

In 1758 he returned to South America as governor of Huancavelica in Peru and the general manager of the quicksilver mines there.

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.

Gage, who had been brevetted a brigadier general for the 1758 campaign, received in 1759 a full promotion to the position, largely through the political manoeuvring of his brother, Lord Gage.

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 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.

In 1758 the Catholic Church dropped the general prohibition of books advocating heliocentrism from the Index of Forbidden Books.

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.

Pinckney was long prominent in colonial affairs, serving as attorney general of the Province of South Carolina in 1733, speaker of the assembly in 1736, 1738 and 1740, chief justice of the province in 1752 – 1753, and agent for South Carolina in England in 1753 – 1758.

Although Linnaeus ’ system of binomial nomenclature was rapidly adopted after the publication of his Species Plantarum and Systema Naturae in 1753 and 1758 respectively, it was a long time before there was international consensus concerning the more general rules governing biological nomenclature.

In 1758 Theophilus Cibber obtained from William Howard, then the Lord Chamberlain, a general licence under which Foote tried to establish the Haymarket as a regular theatre.

The stadium was named after British general John Forbes, who fought in the French and Indian War, and named the city in 1758.

" The conference concluded on October 26, 1758 and in November, Governor Denny announced to the Pennsylvania Assembly that " a general peace was secured at Easton.

He ruled from Lahore under the regency of his Wazir, general Jahan Khan, who administered these territories for approximately one year, from May 1757 until April 1758.

The great general Zhao Hui defeated the Turkmen in two battles: the Battle of Oroi-Jalatu ( 1758 ) and the Battle of Khurungui ( 1758 ).

He served from 1758 as general starost of Podolia.

In 1757 during the Seven Years War, young Captain Nicholas Herkimer ( later to be a heroic general in the Revolutionary War ) had his first military command here when the French attacked German Flatts in 1757 and 1758.

In consulting the work of Fleury and its supplement, the general table of contents, published by Rondel, Paris, 1758, 1 vol.

* Mercurio general de Europa, lista de sucesos varios ( 1758 )-Mercury General of Europe, list of various events

Sir David Ochterlony, 1st Baronet GCB ( 12 February 1758 – 15 July 1825 ) was a British general.

The new stadium was built in the city's Oakland district and was named after John Forbes, the French and Indian War general who captured Fort Duquesne in 1758 and renamed it Fort Pitt.

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

On July 8, 1758, Abercromby ordered a frontal attack against the hastily assembled French works.

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.

Guyasuta led the Indians against General Grant in 1758.

In 1758 he participated in several expeditions made against the French coast, including the Raid on Cherbourg.

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.

It was first published in 1758 and was intended to be the rival of Montesquieu's Spirit of the Laws, with Helvétius arguing strongly against Montesquieu's theory that climate influenced the character of nations.

Rapidly moving up the trail his men continued to surprise British defenders and capture artillery pieces until they reached the height of land just before Ticonderoga, where they occupied the " old French lines " ( so named because it was there that a French defense improbably held against a much larger British army in the 1758 Battle of Carillon ).

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 1775, Fort Ticonderoga's location did not appear to be as strategically important as it had been in the French and Indian War, when the French famously defended it against a much larger British force in the 1758 Battle of Carillon, and when the British captured it in 1759.

Brought to Justice as one of the leaders of the most barbarous and execrable upheaval that, on the night of the 3rd of September 1758, was committed against the most royal and sacred person of the Lord Joseph I.

In 1758 he was employed as secretary to General Bligh in the expedition against Cherbourg ; and in the same capacity he accompanied the Earl of Kinnoull on his special embassy to the court of Portugal in 1760.

In June 1758, the 1st Battalion took part in an expedition against France, landing at Cancalle Bay on the Brittany coast.

They included three to enlarge the area of Qing control in Central Asia: two against the Dzungars ( 1755 – 1757 ) and the pacification of Xinjiang ( 1758 – 1759 ).

After the second campaign against the Dzungars in 1758, two Eastern Turkestan nobles the brothers Burhān al-Dīn and Khwāja-i Jahān began a Muslim revolt against the Qing Dynasty.

After leading the Royal Americans to Charleston, South Carolina to bolster that city's defences, the regiment was recalled to Philadelphia to take part in General John Forbes ' expedition against Fort Duquesne in 1758.

In 1758 it formed part of Lord Amhest's expedition against the fortress of Louisberg in French Canada.

In 1758, during the Seven Years War, the regiment was part of the amphibious expedition against, or descent on, the coast of France and participated in the disastrous British defeat at the battle of Saint Cast.

Osman Pazvantoğlu ( also spelled Osman Passvan-Oglou or Pasvanoglu, Pazvan Oglu / Oğlu ; 1758 – January 27, 1807, Vidin ) was a Bosnian Ottoman soldier, a governor of the Vidin district after 1794, and a rebel against Ottoman rule.

The 1st Marquess of Sligo named the town Louisburgh in memory of his Uncle-Captain Henry Browne-who fought on the British side, against the French, in the 1758 battle of Louisburg.