WINCKWORTH TONGE (1728-92)

WINCKWORTH TONGE (1728-92)


I know nothing of Winckworth Tonge's early life, other than he was born, County Wexford, Ireland. We first pick him up in 1746, when, as an eighteen year old ensign, he would have been found at Louisbourg as part of the English garrison: the "Gibraltar troops."1 Tonge, in 1749, at which time Louisbourg was given back to the French, came down to be part of the newly establish military establishment at Halifax. By 1752 he was serving at Fort Lawrence. In 1755 (described then as an engineer) Tonge was with Monckton at the capture of Fort Beauséjour; with Amherst at the capture of Louisbourg ,