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L’Encyclopédie de l’histoire du Québec / The Quebec History Encyclopedia
Edward Boscawen
Consult the extensive biography of Boscawen at Blupete's site and at the Dictionary of Canadian Biography. Return to the Seven Years' War home page Source: Lawrence J. BURPEE and Arthur G. DOUGHTY, The Makers of Canada. Index and Dictionary of Canadian History, Toronto, Morang & Co., Limited, 1912, 446p., p. 37. Portrait by Sir Johshua Reynolds, National Protrait Gallery. |
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Boscawen,
Edward (1711-1761). Born
in England. Served at Porto Bello, 1739-1740; at Cartagena, 1741; and
in the West Indies, 1747, Commanded on the North American station between
1755 and 1757, and in 1758 commander-in-chief of the fleet at the siege
of Louisbourg. In 1759 defeated the French in Lagos Bay, and in 1760
commanded the fleet at Quiberon Bay.