James Abercrombie (British Army officer, born 1732)
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| Born | 1 January 1732 Jacobite Rising of 1745 |
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British army officer who died during the American Revolutionary War
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There is much uncertainty about Abercrombie's family. He may have been related to General
James Abercrombie, as described in Appletons' Cyclopedia of American Biography, but the Dictionary of Canadian Biography
states that the common identification of him as the general's son or nephew is probably erroneous.
On 11 June 1744 Abercrombie was made Lieutenant of the
General Amherst
in 1759. He was promoted to the rank of lieutenant colonel in 1770.
On 17 June 1775, Abercrombie led the
Breed's Hill, he sustained a large gunshot wound on his right thigh from an African soldier named Salem Poor, although there is probability that it was friendly fire.[citation needed] After removal from the Bunker Hill battleground, he was treated at a hospital facility in Boston. He succumbed to his wound a week later at the residence of British military engineer John Montresor
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Legacy
- namesake of Abercrombie, Nova Scotia
See also
References
- Russell, Peter E. (1979). "Abercrombie, James". In Halpenny, Francess G (ed.). Dictionary of Canadian Biography. Vol. IV (1771–1800) (online ed.). University of Toronto Press.
- Wilson, James G; Fiske, John (1888) "Abercrombie, James" in Appletons' Cyclopedia of American Biography. D. Appleton and Company, New York.
- Abercrombie, James; Green, Samuel A. (1897). A British account of the battle of Lexington; and the last meeting in the Dowse library at No. 30 Tremont St., Boston. Massachusetts Historical Society.
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