ABERCROMBIE, JAMES
\ˌabəkɹˈɒmbi], \ˌabəkɹˈɒmbi], \ˌa_b_ə_k_ɹ_ˈɒ_m_b_i]\
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(1706-1781), a British major-general, commanding in America during part of the French and Indian War, 1758. He failed disastrously in an attack on Ticonderoga in July, 1758, losing 2000 men killed and wounded out of a force of 15,000, and was replaced by Sir Jeffrey Amherst.
By John Franklin Jameson
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