High Forbes

High Forbes was an entrepreneur, swindler, mercenary, and playboy in the middle of the 19th century. A successful duelist, he was born on March 221813 under the name Sean Forbes. His later claim to fame, besides the successful "Tort Street Robbery and Swindle of 1850", was his association with the radical abolitionist John Brown.

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19th century - March 22 - 1813 - John Brown

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High Forbes, as later he became called, was the son of a Scottish lord and an heiress to the fortune of the Dutch Rivers Society in the village of Fox River Grove, in what is now Northern Ireland.

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At a young age, he later decided to join Giuseppe Garibaldi's campaign in Italy, where he reportedly killed 100 men.

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