Which British general was defeated at the Battle of Carillon in 1758?

James Abercrombie was the British general defeated at the Battle of Carillon in 1758.

The battle took place on July 8 near Fort Carillon, at the narrow connection between Lake George and Lake Champlain in present-day New York. Abercrombie commanded a much larger British and colonial force—roughly 15,000 to 16,000 men—against about 4,000 French defenders led by Louis-Joseph de Montcalm, with Chevalier de Lévis among the senior officers.

Abercrombie ordered repeated frontal assaults against a strong French position protected by an abatis, a barrier of sharpened branches and felled trees. The British advanced without adequate artillery support, suffering severe losses as French troops fired from behind the entrenchments. The defeat was especially damaging because the expedition had expected to capture the fort quickly and open the route toward Montreal.

A common mix-up is Jeffery Amherst, who captured Fort Carillon the following year and renamed it Fort Ticonderoga. James Wolfe was another famous British commander in the war, but he was not the general defeated at Carillon.