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About Robert Monckton
Lieutenant-General Robert Monckton was a British Army officer, politician and colonial administrator. He had a distinguished military and political career, being second in command to General James Wolfe at the Battle of the Plains of Abraham and later being named the governor of New York. Monckton is also remembered for his role in a number of other important events in the French and Indian War, most notably the capture of Fort Beauséjour in Acadia, and the island of Martinique in the West Indies, as well as for his role in the expulsion of the Acadians from Nova Scotia and Acadia.
Everything about Robert Monckton →- Occupation
- military officer, politician, colonial administrator
- Position held
- Governor of Nova Scotia, member of the 14th Parliament of Great Britain, member of the 15th Parliament of Great Britain, member of the 10th Parliament of Great Britain
- Citizenship
- United States
- Born
- June 24, 1726
- Died
- May 21, 1782