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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 .
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 .
John Forbes, 8th Lord Forbes (1542–1606) was a Scottish aristocrat. He was a son of William Forbes, 7th Lord Forbes (1513-1593) and Elizabeth Keith, the heiress of ...
John Forbes, 6th Lord Forbes (died 1547) was a Scottish landowner. He was the son of William Forbes, 3rd Lord Forbes and Christian Gordon, daughter of Alexander Gordon, 1st Earl of Huntly . He became Lord Forbes after the death of his brother Arthur in 1493.
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
Grandson of John Forbes, John Murray Forbes (1813–1898), born in France, John Murray Forbes was the first of the family to enter the China trade and later invested in railroads and amassed a large fortune. Francis Blackwell Forbes (1839–1908), poppy botanist, wrote a book on Chinese plants, opium trader in the China trade.
Newminster Abbey was a civil parish: in 1891 the parish had a population of 174. [4] Newminster Abbey was formerly a township in Morpeth parish; [5] from 1866 Newminster Abbey was a civil parish in its own right [6] until it was abolished on 30 September 1894 and merged with Morpeth; part also went to form Newminster.
Craigievar Castle Portrait of Sir John Forbes, 2nd Baronet of Craigievar Sir Arthur Forbes (1784–1823), 6th Bt of Craigievar, painted by Gilbert Stuart. The Forbes baronetcy, of Craigievar in the County of Aberdeen, was created in the Baronetage of Nova Scotia on 20 April 1630 for William Forbes, son of the merchant William Forbes who built Craigievar Castle. [1]