John Forbes: Scotland, Flanders and the Seven Years' War, 1707-1759

In November 1758 Brigadier General John Forbes''s army expelled the French army from Fort Duquesne at the forks of the Ohio River. Over seven months Forbes had co-ordinated three obstructive and competitive colonies, managed Indian diplomacy, and cut a road through over a hundred miles of mountain and forest.

This is the first full biography of Forbes, which traces his rise from surgeon in the Sco...