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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Howe, George Augustus, Viscount 1724- (search)
Howe, George Augustus, Viscount 1724- Military officer; born in England in 1724; succeeded to his father's title when he was eleven years of age. In 1757 he was commissioned colonel of the 60th (Royal American) Regiment. Later in the year he was made colonel of the 55th Foot, and soon afterwards brigadier-general, and sent to America with General Abercrombie in the spring of 1758. He led the right wing of the army in the expedition against Ticonderoga. At the head of an advanced party, he met a detachment of French troops in the forest between the foot of Lake George and Ticonderoga, and in a skirmish with them was killed at the outset on July 8, 1758. His body was taken back to the head of the lake, and thence to Albany, by Maj. Philip Schuyler, where it was entombed in the family vault of the Schuylers. There it remained several years. The remains were finally placed in a leaden coffin and deposited under the chancel of St. Peter's Church, in Albany. When his remains we