1758 - 1758 Centuries: 17th century - 18th century - 19th century Decades: 1700s 1710s 1720s 1730s 1740s - 1750s - 1760s 1770s 1780s 1790s 1800s Years: 1753 1754 1755 1756 1757 - 1758 - 1759 1760 1761 1762 1763 Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Events 1.1 Ongoing events 2 Births 3 Deaths Events July 8 - French and Indian War: French forces hold Fort Carillon against British at Ticonderoga, New York. July 25 - French and Indian War: The island battery at Fortress Louisbourg is silenced and all French warships are destroyed or taken. November 25 - French and Indian War: British forces capture Fort Duquesne from French control. December 25 - Halley's Comet appears First European settlement in what is now Erie County by the French.
1758 in literature - 1758 in literature See also: 1757 in literature, other events of 1758, 1759 in literature, list of years in literature. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Events 2 New Books 3 Births 4 Deaths Events Voltaire buys estate at Ferney Annual Register founded by Edmund Burke and Robert Dodsley New Books Births October 16 - Noah Webster Deaths.
Allan Ramsay (1686-1758) - Allan Ramsay (1686-1758) Allan Ramsay (October 15, 1686 - January 7, 1758), Scottish poet, was born at Leadhills, Lanarkshire. He was educated at the parish school of Crawford, and in 1701 was apprenticed to a wig-maker in Edinburgh. He married Christian Ross in 1712; a few years after he had established himself as a wig-maker (not as a barber, as has been often said) in the High Street, and soon found himself in comfortable circumstances. His first efforts in verse-making were inspired by the meetings of the Easy Club (founded in 1712), of which he was an original member; and in 1715 he became the Club Laureate. In the society of the members he assumed the name of "Isaac Bickerstaff," and later of "Gawin Douglas," the latter partly in.
Battle of Carillon (1758) - Battle of Carillon (1758) The Battle of Carillon was fought on July 7, 1758, and resulted in a French victory under the Marquis de Montcalm and the Chevalier de Levis against the British under General James Abercrombie..
Battle of Ticonderoga (1758) - Battle of Ticonderoga (1758) The first Battle of Fort Ticonderoga was fought in 1758, during the French and Indian War. A British army under General James Abercrombie tried to take the fort from a French garrison under General Marquis Louis-Joseph de Montcalm, but repeated assaults were unsuccessful and the British finally withdrew. the following needs editing Battle at Fort Ticonderoga, July 7-8, 1758 Highland Regiment: Lord John Murray's Highlanders of the 42nd Highland Reg. (1st Battalion) Other Regiments: the 27th, 44th, 46th, 55th, and the 1st & 4th battalions of the 60th Battle Under General Command of: Major-Generals Abercromby, Hopson, and Lord Charles Hay; Colonels Lord Howe and Forbes Abridged text: Ticonderoga is situated on a point of land between Lake Champlain and Lake George, and is surrounded.
Kate Greenaway - 'Kate Greenaway' children, all of them little girls and boys too young to be put in trousers, according to the conventions of the time, were dressed in her own versions of Regency fashions, high-waisted smocks and pinafores and dresses, mobcaps and straw bonnets. The influence of children's clothes in portraits by British painter John Hoppner (1758-1810) may have provided her some inspiration. Liberty of London adapted Kate Greenaway's drawings as designs for actual children's clothes. A full generation of mothers in the liberal-minded 'artistic' British circles that called themselves the 'Souls' dressed their daughters in Kate Greenaway pantaloons and bonnets in the 1880s and 90s..
Kaministiquia River - of the water route into western Canada. A fur trading post was established here in 1683 by Daniel Greysolon, Sieur du Lhut ("Duluth"), but this location was eventually abandoned by the French in 1758. The trading post of Fort William was established here in 1803 by the North West Company at the river's mouth. Kakabeka Falls located on this river is the largest waterfall in the Lake Superior watershed at a height of 39 metres. Kakabeka means "steep cliffs" in Ojibway. There is an ancient legend about a princess of the Ojibway, Greenmantle, who led a Sioux war party over these falls and, in so doing, saved her village. Tributaries of this river include the: Dog River Shebandowan River Kashabowie River Whitefish River.
King's Royal Rifle Corps - Royal American Regiment. They fought their first major battles in Canada at Louisbourg in 1758 and Quebec in 1759 against the French. They fought during the American War of Independence, withdrawing to Canada following the surrender. During the Napoleonic Wars the unit played a part in the Peninsular War. The unit's name was not changed until after the Napoleonic Wars; first to The Duke of York's Own Rifle Corps and then in 1830 to the King's Royal Rifle Corps. In 1858 the Rifle Depot at Winchester was made their headquarters. During the rest of the 1800s the unit was active in China, Canada, Afghanistan, India, Burma and South Africa. In World War I the unit was expanded to twenty-two battalions and saw much action on the Western Front. Over 12,000 soldiers.
J. W. L. Gleim - Gleim was the title accorded to him throughout all literary Germany on account of his kind-hearted though inconsiderate and undiscriminating patronage alike of the poets and poetasters of the period. He wrote a large number of feeble imitations of Anacreon, Horace and the minnesingers, a dull didactic poem entitled Halladat oder das rote Buch (1774), and collections of fables and romances. Of higher merit are his Preussische Kriegslieder von einem Grenadier (1758). These, which were inspired by the campaigns of Frederick II., are often distinguished by genuine feeling and vigorous force of expression. They are also noteworthy as being the first of that long series of noble political songs in which later German literature is so rich. With this exception, Gleims writings are for the most part tamely commonplace in thought.
James Monroe - James Madison Succeeded by: John Quincy Adams Date of Birth April 28, 1758 Place of Birth: Westmoreland County, Virginia Date of Death: July 4, 1831 Place of Death: New York City, New York First Lady: Elizabeth Kortwright Monroe Occupation: lawyer Political Party: Democratic-Republican Vice President: Daniel D. Tompkins James Monroe (April 28, 1758 - July 4, 1831) was the fifth (1817-1825) President of the United States. He is credited with the development of the Monroe Doctrine. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Early years 2 Presidency 3 Places named for James Monroe 4 Supreme Court appointments 5 Related articles 6.
James Wolfe - junior officer in 1742 and fought at the Battle of Dettingen in the following year. He participated in the campaign to defeat the Jacobite army of Bonnie Prince Charlie, taking part in the Battle of Culloden in 1746, and by 1758 he was a colonel. His success in Amherst's expedition to Cape Breton and the capture of Fortress Louisbourg let to his being given the command of the Quebec expedition. His army scaled the cliffs in order to surprise the French forces under Montcalm on the Plains of Abraham. Both Montcalm and Wolfe himself died in the subsequent battle, the outcome of which was victory for the British. Wolfe lived in McCartney House in Croom's Hill, Greenwich, London. His body was buried in St Alfege's Church nearby, a statue of the.
James Stephen - James Stephen James Stephen (1758-1832) was an English lawyer, associated with the abolitionist movement. Stephen was born in Poole, Dorset, and began his career reporting on parliamentary proceedings. He held an official post in St. Kitts, at that time a British colony. His experiences in the West Indies turned him against the concept of slavery , and he joined the abolitionist movement, marrying the sister of William Wilberforce in 1800. In 1808 he became an MP and rose to the position of under-secretary in the Colonial Office. He was the grandfather of Sir James Fitzjames Stephen and Sir Leslie Stephen. Works The Slavery of the British West Indies (1824).
Jacques Antoine Marie de Cazalès - de Cazalès Jacques Antoine Marie de Cazalès (1758 - November 24, 1805), French orator and politician, was born at Grenade in Languedoc, of a family of the lower nobility. Before 1789 he was a cavalry officer, but in that year was returned as deputy to the states general. In the Constituent Assembly he belonged to the section of moderate royalists who sought to set up a constitution on the English model, and his speeches in favour of retaining the right of war and peace in the king's hands and on the organization of the judiciary gained the applause even of his opponents. Apart from his eloquence, which gave him a place among the finest orators of the Assembly, Cazalès is mainly remembered for a duel fought with Barnave. After the insurrection.
James Macpherson - Edinburgh, but took no degree. He is said to have written over 4000 lines of verse while a student, but though some of this was published, notably The Highlander (1758), he afterwards tried to suppress it. On leaving college, he returned to Ruthven to teach in the school there. At Moffat he met John Home, the author of Douglas, for whom he recited some Gaelic verses from memory. He also showed him manuscripts of Gaelic poetry, supposed to have been picked up in the Highlands, and, encouraged by Home and others, he produced a number of pieces translated from the Gaelic, which he was induced to publish at Edinburgh in 1760 as Fragments of Ancient Poetry collected in the Highlands of Scotland. Dr Hugh Blair, who was a firm believer in.
James Abercrombie - America during the French and Indian War who met with disaster in the Battle of Ticonderoga (1758). He was born in Scotland to a wealthy family, and purchased a Major's commission to enter the army in 1742. He was promoted to Colonel in 1746, and Major General in 1756. Abercrombie commanded a Brigade at Louisbourg in 1757 and became commander of the British forces in America after the departure of Loudoun in March of 1758. That summer, he led an expedition against Fort Ticonderoga. Abercrombie was a genius at organization, but vacillated in his leadership to the point where his troops called him Mrs. Nanny Cromby. He managed the remarkable feat of assembling 15,000 troops and moving them and their supplies through the wilderness. Then, on July 8, 2,000 of them.
Jeffrey Amherst, 1st Baron Amherst of Montreal - during the Seven Years' War, particularly in the North American campaign known in the United States as the French and Indian War. Amherst led the British attack in 1758 on Louisbourg (the Siege of Louisbourg) and as leader of the British army in North America, helped the British seize most French territory, principally capturing Montreal, Quebec. The hostility between the English and Native Americans during the Pontiac Uprising of 1763 led to the first documented use of biological warfare in American history. In response to the Indian uprising led by the Ottawa Chief Pontiac, Jeffrey Amherst attempted to spread smallpox among the Native Americans. In 1763, Amherst was appointed Governor of Virginia, and in 1778 was made commander-in-chief of the army. In 1776, he was made Baron Amherst of Holmesdale, but.
Jean-Jacques Dessalines - Dessalines Jean-Jacques Dessalines (1758-1806), was born as a slave in Grande-Riviere-du-Nord on Haiti. He first served as an officer in the French army and later rose to become a commander in the revolt against the same colonial power. After the capture of Toussaint L'Ouverture in 1801 Dessalines became leader of the revolution and after defeating the French troops sent by Napoleon in November 1803, he declared Haiti independent. In 1804 he made himself Emperor as Jacques I of Haiti, but was assassinated in 1806 after an oppressive rule. The national anthem of Haiti, La Dessalinienne, is in his honor. See also: History of Haiti.
Jean-Georges Noverre - later he returned to Paris, where he mounted the ballets of Gluck and Piccini. In 1755 he was invited by Garrick to London, where he remained two years. Between 1758 and 1760 he produced several ballets at Lyons, and published his Lettres sur la danse et les ballets. From this period may be dated the revolution in the art of the ballet for which Noverre was responsible. He was next engaged by the duke of Wurttemburg, and afterwards by the empress Maria Theresa, until, in 1775. he was appointed, at the request of Queen Marie Antoinette, maître des ballets of the Paris Opera. This post he retained until the Revolution reduced him to poverty. He died at St Germain. Noverre's friends included Voltaire, Frederick the Great and David Garrick (who called.
Jean-François Marmontel - collected form, under the title Elements de Litterature, still rank among the French classics. He also wrote several comic operas, the two best of which probably are Sylvain (1770) and Zémire et Azore (1771). In the Gluck-Piccinni controversy he was an eager partisan of Piccinni with whom he collaborated in Didon (1783) and Penelope (1785). In 1758 he gained the patronage of Madame de Pompadour, who obtained for him a place as a civil servant, and the management of the official journal Le Mercure, in which he had already begun the famous series of Contes moraux. The merit of these tales lies partly in the delicate finish of the style, but mainly in the graphic and charming pictures of French society under King Louis XV. The author was elected to the.
Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau - Rhine, and in 1747 had attained the rank of colonel He took part in the siege of Maestricht 111 1748, became governor of Vendôme in 1749, and after distinguishing himself in 1756 in the Minorca expedition was promoted brigadier of infantry. In 1758 he fought in Germany, notably at Crefeld, received several wounds in the battle of Clostercamp (1760), was appointed maréchal de camp in 1761 and inspector of cavalry and was frequently consulted by the ministers on technical points. In 1780 he was sent, with the rank of lieutenant-general, in command of 6000 French troops to help the American colonists under Washington against the English. He landed at Newport, Rhode Island, on July 10, but was held here inactive for a year, owing to his reluctance to abandon the French.
