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During the Seven Years' War, Sir John St. Clair served as Deputy Quartermaster General with British General Edward Braddock's disastrous campaign to capture Fort Duquesne at the Forks of the Ohio in 1755. St. Clair had great responsibilities during the campaign and was the first Deputy Quartermaster General in North America's history. History has laid a litany of blame at Braddock's feet: he was old, slow, logistically naive, a martinet poorly versed in tactics, uninterested in his soldiers' welfare and unwilling to cooperate with the colonists. Based on a new transcription of St. Clair's corr

Braddock's Campaign, 1755. --- Forbes Expedition against Fort Duquesne, Pa., 1758. --- Braddock's Campaign, 1755 --- Forbes Expedition against Fort Duquesne, Pa., 1758 --- Quartermasters --- St. Clair, John, --- United States --- History --- Campaigns.

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"In November 1758 Brigadier General John Forbes's army expelled the French army from Fort Duquesne at the forks of the Ohio River. Over seven months Forbes had co-ordinated three obstructive and competitive colonies, managed Indian diplomacy, and cut a road through over a hundred miles of mountain and forest. This is the first full biography of Forbes, which traces his rise from surgeon in the Scots Greys to distinguished service in War of the Austrian Succession before his 1757 posting to North America. John Oliphant puts Forbes' life and career in the wider context of the social and military world of the 18th century and offers important insights into the Seven Years' War in North America"--From publisher's website.

Generals --- Soldiers --- Austrian Succession, War of, 1740-1748 --- Seven Years' War, 1756-1763 --- Campaigns --- Forbes, John, --- Great Britain. --- Great Britain. --- Officers --- Surgeons --- Austrian Succession, War of (1740-1748) --- French and Indian War (United States : 1754-1763) --- Seven Years' War (1756-1763) --- United States --- Fort Duquesne (Pa.) --- Great Britain --- History --- Campaigns. --- History, Military --- History, Military