Tour Scotland Video Brigadier General John Forbes Memorial Dunfermline Fife

Tour Scotland video on a rainy morning of the Brigadier General John Forbes Memorial in Pittencrieff Glen on ancestry visit to Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland. John, born 5th of September 1707, died 11 of March 1759, was a British general in the French and Indian War. He is best known for leading the Forbes Expedition that captured the French outpost at Fort Duquesne and for naming the city of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania after British Secretary of State William Pitt the Elder. He was born on his family's Pittencrieff Estate in Dunfermline in 1707, the son of an army officer. After beginning to study medicine, he decided in his second year as a student to become a soldier and was accepted and commissioned as a lieutenant in the Scots Greys in 1735. He saw action in the War of the Austrian Succession and in the Jacobite rising of 1745, serving under the Duke of Cumberland as acting quartermaster-general.

Forbes surname derives from the Scottish Clan Forbes. Descendants of the Scottish clan are also present in Ireland from the 17th century. The name of an unrelated Irish sept, Mac Fhirbhisigh or MacFirbis, was also anglicised as Forbes.

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