John Campbell, 4th Earl of Loudoun
- John Campbell, 4th Earl of Loudoun
John Campbell, 4th Earl of Loudoun (5 May 1705–27 April 1782) was a Scottish nobleman and military leader.
Campbell inherited the peerage on the death of his father in 1731, becoming Lord Loudon. The earl raised a regiment of infantry that took part in the Jacobite Rising of 1745 on the side of the Hanoverian government. The regiment consisted of twelve companies, with Loudoun as colonel and John Campbell (later 5th Duke of Argyll) as lieutenant colonel. The regiment was raised and served in several different parts of Scotland; three of the twelve companies, raised in the south, were captured at Prestonpans. Eight companies, under the personal command of Lord Loudoun, were stationed in Inverness. Loudoun set out in February 1746 with this portion of his regiment and several of the Independent Companies in an attempt to capture the Jacobite pretender, Prince Charles Edward Stuart. The expedition was ignominiously defeated by a small number of Jacobites in what became known as the Rout of Moy. After this debacle, Loudoun fell back to join the Duke of Cumberland's army, giving up the town of Inverness to the rebels.
In 1756 Loudoun was sent to North America as Commander-in-Chief and Governor General of Virginia, where he was unpopular with many of the colonial leaders. He planned an expedition to seize Louisbourg from the French in 1757 but called it off when intelligence (possibly including a French military deception) indicated that the French forces there were too strong for him to defeat. While Loudoun was thus engaged in Canada, French forces captured Fort William Henry from the British, and Loudoun was replaced by James Abercrombie and returned to London.
In 1762 he was sent to Portugal to counter the Spanish invasion of Portugal as second-in-command, and he became overall commander in 1763.
A bachelor, Loudoun was succeeded as earl by his cousin, James Mure-Campbell.
ee also
*Loudoun
*Fort Loudoun (Tennessee)
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