Robert Abercromby
BIRTH
Oct 21, 1740
unknown
DEATH
November 3, 1827
Stirling, Scotland
FAMILY
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Abercromby, Robert
(1740-1827)
Robert Abercromby was a British Army officer who fought throughout the American Revolution. He served at Long Island, Brandywine, Germantown, Monmouth, Charleston, and Yorktown, where he commanded part of the British defenses before Cornwallis's surrender.
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Places | Image | Address | GPS | Site |
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Yorktown Battlefield National Historical Park | 1000 Colonial Nat'l Historical Pkwy, Yorktown, VA 23690 | MUSEUM | ||
Monmouth Battlefield State Park | 20 NJ-33 Business, Manalapan Township, NJ 07726 | MUSEUM | ||
Yorktown - Surrender Field | Historical Tour Road, Yorktown, Virginia, 23690, USA | MUSEUM | ||
Brandywine Battlefield Park | 1491 Baltimore Pike, Chadds Ford, PA 19317 | MUSEUM | ||
Battle of Crooked Billet | 25 Van Horn Dr, Warminster, PA 18974 | MARKER | ||
Battle of Brooklyn Marker | Belt Parkway, New York, New York, 11209, USA | MARKER | ||
Battle of Germantown Marker | 6418 Germantown Ave, Philadelphia, PA 19119 | MARKER | ||
Secretary Nelson's Property Marker | 209 Bacon St, Yorktown, VA 23690 | MARKER | ||
Crooked Billet Marker | 101 Meadowbrook Ave, Hatboro, PA 19040 | MARKER | ||
Brandywine Village Marker | 1800 N Market St, Wilmington, DE 19802 | MARKER | ||
British Campsite After Monmouth Marker | 259 Navesink Ave, Atlantic Highlands, NJ 07716 | MARKER |
DIED:
Stirling, Scotland
Nov 3, 1827
Robert Abercromby was born on Oct 21, 1740 in unknown. The surviving biographical summary provides only limited evidence about childhood, schooling, and the daily circumstances of the household, so those details are not reconstructed here without documentation. What can be stated securely is that this person belonged to the interconnected family world from which HistoryGPS traces participants, relatives, and later descendants of the Revolutionary generation.
The available biographical record identifies Robert Abercromby with work or public activity as a soldier. Those roles provide the clearest documented basis for including this person in the database and should be read in the political, military, professional, or household context of the period. Robert Abercromby died on Nov 3, 1827 in Stirling, Scotland. Additional claims about employment, public service, or accomplishments have been omitted where the consulted source did not support them.