John Forbes (British Army officer)

John Forbes
Brigadier General John Forbes 1707-1759
Born	(1707-09-05)5 September 1707 Dunfermline, Scotland
Died	11 March 1759(1759-03-11) (aged 51) Philadelphia, British America
Buried	Christ Church, Philadelphia
Allegiance	Kingdom of Great Britain
Service/branch	British Army
Years of service	1735–1759
Rank	Brigadier-general
Unit	17th Foot 1757-1759
Battles/wars	War of the Austrian Succession Dettingen (1743) Fontenoy (1745) Lauffeld (1747) French and Indian War Louisbourg Expedition (1757) Fort Duquesne (1758)
Relations	Duncan Forbes, Lord President

John Forbes (5 September 1707 – 11 March 1759) was a Scottish professional soldier who served in the British Army from 1729 until his death in 1759.

During the 1754 to 1763 French and Indian War, he commanded the 1758 Forbes Expedition that occupied the French outpost of Fort Duquesne, now Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. This required the construction of a military trail known as the Forbes Road, which became an important route for settlement of the Western United States.

Forbes died in Philadelphia and was buried in the chancel of Christ Church.