biography
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| (1694–1771)
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| Colonial governor, born in Preston, West Sussex, S England, UK. He went to Massachusetts in 1731, and served as judge of admiralty and then advocate general, before becoming governor of the colony (1741–56). He took a broad view of Britain's colonial policies, and during the war between Britain and France (1744–8) he was perhaps the chief instigator of the operation that led to the English colonists' capture of the French fortress of Louisburg, Nova Scotia (1745). In 1755 he was named the supreme commander of British forces in North America during the French and Indian War, but after the failure of the Niagara expedition he was recalled to England (1756). He avoided court-martial and was later named governor of the Bahamas (1761–7). |
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