Years of service 1744-1775 Rank Lieutenant colonel | Service/branch British Army Name James Abercrombie | |
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Born January 1, 1732
Scotland ( 1732-01-01 ) Buried at King's Chapel Burying Ground (42°21′29″N 71°03′36″W / 42.358003°N 71.059994°W / 42.358003; -71.059994Coordinates: 42°21′29″N 71°03′36″W / 42.358003°N 71.059994°W / 42.358003; -71.059994) Allegiance Kingdom of Great Britain Commands held 1st Regiment of Foot
42nd Regiment of Foot
22nd Regiment of Foot Battles/wars Seven Years' War
War of the Austrian Succession
Jacobite Rising of 1745
French and Indian War
Battle of Carillon
American Revolutionary War
Battle of Bunker Hill Relations James Abercrombie (father)
Mary Duff (mother)
Ralph Abercrombie (brother) Role British Army officer, born 1732 Died June 23, 1775, Boston, Massachusetts, United States Place of burial King's Chapel Burying Ground, Boston, Massachusetts, United States Similar People John Pitcairn, Henry Clinton, Joseph Warren, William Howe - 5th Viscount, William Prescott | ||
Battles and wars Seven Years' War | ||
James abercrombie british army officer born 1732
Colonel James Abercrombie (1732 – 23 June 1775) was a British army officer who died during the American Revolutionary War.
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There is much uncertainty about Abercrombie's family. He may have been related to General James Abercrombie, but the Dictionary of Canadian Biography states that the common identification of him as the general's son or nephew is probably erroneous.
On 11 June 1744 Abercrombie was made Lieutenant of the 1st Foot. On 16 February 1756, he was promoted to the rank of Captain of the 42nd Foot. With this rank he served in the French and Indian War, notably as one of General Abercrombie's aides in the Battle of Fort Carillon at Ticonderoga in 1758 before being made aide-de-camp to General Amherst in 1759. He was promoted to the rank of lieutenant colonel in 1770.
On June 17, 1775, Abercrombie led the grenadier battalion in their charge of the redoubt on the Americans' left wing at the Battle of Bunker Hill. During the assault on Breed's Hill, he sustained a gunshot wound from an African soldier named Salem Poor. After removal from the Bunker Hill battleground, he was treated at a hospital facility in Boston. He succumbed to his wound a week later at the residence of British military engineer John Montresor.