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• Saturday July 8 - General Abercrombie, with 15,390 men, attacks 3,600 French and Canadian troops entrenched and barricaded at Fort Ticonderoga. The British and Colonial forces are repulsed and lose 2,000 killed and wounded.
• Wednesday July 27 - After a long siege, the British, under James Wolfe and Jeffrey Amherst, capture Louisbourg, defended by about 5,637.
• Friday August 25 - Colonel Bradstreet, with nearly 3,000 men, mostly colonists, takes and burns Fort Frontenac ( Kingston).
• Thursday September 14 - Major Grant, with 800 Highlanders and some Virginians, is defeated by French and Indians, from Fort Duquesne, under Aubry.
• Saturday November 25 - The garrison of Fort Duquesne (500) set it on fire and escape from George WashingtonGeorge Washington ( February 22, 1732— December 14, 1799), also called Father of his Country 1 was an American general and Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Army in the American Revolutionary War ( 1775 1783) and later the first President of the Unite, who has twice failed to take the place. He names it PittsburgPittsburg is the name of some places in the United States of America: Pittsburg, California Pittsburg, Kansas Pittsburg, New Hampshire Pittsburg was at one time also a common spelling of the city now always written as Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania., in honor of the Prime Minister.
• English begin capturing French fortifications, New FranceNew France ( French: la Nouvelle-France describes the area colonized by France in North America during a period extending from the exploration of the Saint Lawrence River by Jacques Cartier in 1534 to the cession of New France to the Kingdom of Great Brit and Ohio Valley, the war started going their way decisively this year.

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