John Campbell (general)

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John Campbell ( ? - 1806) was a British soldier, born in Strachur, Scotland. He entered the army in 1745 and fought with distinction in the Scottish rebellion (1745) and in Flanders (1747). During the French and Indian War in America he served as captain of the Forty-second Highlanders and was wounded at Ticonderoga (1758). As lieutenant colonel of the Forty-seventh Infantry he again came to America with his regiment in 1776 and was successively appointed major general (1779), colonel of his regiment (1780), and commander of the British forces in West Florida, where he was eventually compelled to surrender Pensacola to the Spaniards, May 9, 1781. He was promoted general in 1797.

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