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Fort Ligonier is a British fortification from the French and Indian War located in Ligonier, Pennsylvania, United States. The fort served as a staging area for the Forbes Expedition of 1758. During the eight years of its existence as a garrison, Fort Ligonier was never taken by an enemy.
In 1757, he was appointed Commander-in-chief and raised to the peerage as Viscount Ligonier in 1757, and in 1766 further elevated as Earl Ligonier. Ligonier was a Huguenot refugee who fled his native Castres for England in 1697, following the 1685 Edict of Fontainebleau , which stripped the rights of French Protestants to practice their religion.
Major-General Arthur St. Clair (March 23, 1737 [1] [O.S. 1736] – August 31, 1818) was a Scottish-born American military officer and politician. Born in Thurso, Caithness, he served in the British Army during the French and Indian War before settling in the Province of Pennsylvania.
The British troops, under Gen. Forbes and Col. Washington, pressed on after the Ligonier victory; when they arrived at Duquesne, they found the fort afire. The victory at Ligonier was the turning point for the British. They established their own fort, named it for Prime Minister William Pitt, thus giving birth to the city of Pittsburgh. [1]
Already severely ill, Forbes had to be carried in a litter and relied heavily on Bouquet, who commanded the advance guard. Construction of the road and bases such as Fort Ligonier was supervised by Lt-Colonel John St Clair, who proved to be incompetent and required Forbes to do much of the work, despite his poor health. [20]
A staff officer later claimed the fatal shell was British and Mercer is upheld as the most senior Canadian officer killed in combat and by friendly fire. [ 28 ] On the night of 4–5 August, during the First Battle of the Somme , the 13th Battalion of the Durham Light Infantry were fired on by Australian Artillery while in process of capturing ...
FORT LIBERTY — The 18th Airborne Corps at Fort Liberty published a memo over the weekend that says soldiers on staff duty have to sleep for at least four consecutive hours.
Ligonier Ministries, an international Christian discipleship organization founded by R. C. Sproul Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Ligonier .