Joshua Loring
| Joshua Loring | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1716 Boston, Massachusetts Bay Colony |
| Died | 1 October 1781 (aged 65) Highgate, England, Great Britain |
| Allegiance |
 Great Britain
|
| Service/branch |
 Royal Navy
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| Years of service | c. 1736-1760 |
| Rank | Commodore |
| Battles/wars |
King George's War French and Indian War |
| Relations |
Joshua Loring, Jr., son Henry Lloyd Loring, son Sir John Wentworth Loring, grandson |
| Other work | member of the Massachusetts Governor's Council under colonial Governor Thomas Gage |
Joshua Loring (3 August 1716 – 5 October 1781) was an 18th-century colonial American naval officer in British service. During the French and Indian War, he served as a commodore in the Great Lakes region and was active during much of the Ontario and Quebec campaigns.
Born in Boston, Massachusetts to parents Joshua and Hannah (Jackson) Loring, and a great great grandson to immigrant Thomas Loring, he was apprenticed as a tanner but instead chose to enlist in the Royal Navy as a young man. He rose to command a privateer during King George's War, however he was captured by the French in 1744. Held as a prisoner in Louisbourg, Nova Scotia for several months, he was eventually released and was made a captain on 19 December 1757.
During the French and Indian War, he was involved in naval operations on Lake George and Lake Champlain in 1759 and served under General James Wolfe at the capture of Quebec later that year. Transferred to Lake Ontario, he commanded the advance guard at the Battle of the Thousand Islands while accompanying Field Marshal Jeffrey Amherst to Montreal in August 1760. In the final months of the war, Loring was seriously wounded at an engagement on Lake Ontario and retired at half-pay due to his injuries.
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