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Abercromby, James

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Abercromby, James, 1706–81, British general in the French and Indian Wars French and Indian Wars, 1689–1763, the name given by American historians to the North American colonial wars between Great Britain and France in the late 17th and the 18th cent.
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, b. Scotland. He arrived in America in 1756 and in 1758 replaced the earl of Loudoun as supreme British commander. After failing to take Ticonderoga from General Montcalm, Abercromby was replaced (1758) by Jeffery Amherst Amherst, Jeffery Amherst, Baron (ăm`ərst), 1717–97, British army officer.
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