London Gazette Extraordinary – August 22, 1758

The London Gazette Extraordinary for Tuesday, August 22, 1758, contains a full account of the unsuccessful attack on Fort Ticonderoga of July 8, 1758 by British forces led by General James Abercromby and Brigadier Lord Howe, against the French and Canadian Provincials, led by the Marquis de Montcalm. As you can see, Brigadier General Lord Howe is listed as killed in action. Howe, who General James Wolfe considered “the best officer in the British Army.” According to History of the United States of American (Elson, 1908), “the nominal leader was General Abercrombie, the real one Lord Howe, a young man of great vigor… His death was an irreparable blow to the English.”