biography
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| lived:
| (1727–59)
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| biography:
| British soldier, born in Westerham, Kent, SE England, UK. Commissioned in 1741, he fought against the Jacobites in Scotland (1745–6), and was sent to Canada during the Seven Years' War (1756–63). In 1758 he was prominent in the capture of Louisburg, and commanded in the famous capture of Quebec (1759), scaling the cliffs to defeat the French on the Plains of Abraham, where he was killed. |
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