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Brigadier-General John Forbes (5 September 1707 – 11 March 1759) was a British Army officer. During the French and Indian War , he commanded the 1758 Forbes Expedition which occupied the French outpost of Fort Duquesne .
In the 200th year of the tradition, the Savannah St. Patrick's Day Parade Committee bestowed the honor of grand marshal for 2024 on John Forbes.
Captain Alasdair John STEHOUWER, Holsworthy NSW For outstanding achievement in the performance of duty through providing linguistic services to facilitate liaison between the Australian Federal Police and Indonesian authorities following the Bali bombings and for tireless service to families of the victims through understanding and support at ...
Dr John Michael Fenwick: For service to engineering through a range of executive roles, to the design and construction of major transport infrastructure, and to education. Professor John Frederick Forbes: For service to medicine in the field of breast cancer research, to the development of improved clinical practice standards, and to the community.
The Forbes Expedition was a British military campaign to capture Fort Duquesne, led by Brigadier-General John Forbes in 1758, during the French and Indian War. While advancing to the fort, the expedition built the Forbes Road .
The 2015 Australia Day Honours were announced on 26 January 2015 by the Governor General of Australia, Sir Peter Cosgrove.. The Australia Day Honours are the first of the two major annual honours lists, announced on Australia Day (26 January), with the other being the Queen's Birthday Honours which are announced on the second Monday in June.
John Forbes, drawing by John Partridge. Sir John Forbes FRCP FRS (17 December 1787 – 13 November 1861) was a Scottish physician, famous for his translation of the classic French medical text De L'Auscultation Mediate [1] by René Laennec, the inventor of the stethoscope. He was physician to Queen Victoria 1841–61.
John Forbes and Company, the British firm of John Forbes (1767–1823) and his brother Thomas (†1808), a trading company active in the southeastern United States and India, from 1804 to 1847; John Murray Forbes (1813–1898), American banker and railroad president; John Malcolm Forbes (1847–1904), American businessman, yachtsman and horseman