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After the war ended in , Thompson moved to London , where he was recognised for his administrative talents and received a knighthood from George III in A prolific scientist and inventor, Thompson also created several new warship designs. He subsequently moved to the Electorate of Bavaria and entered into the employ of the Bavarian government, heavily reorganising the Bavarian Army.

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Thompson was rewarded for his efforts by being made an Imperial Count in before dying in Paris in Thompson was born in rural Woburn , in the Province of Massachusetts Bay , on 26 March ; his birthplace is preserved as a museum. He was educated mainly at the village school, although he sometimes walked almost ten miles to Cambridge with the older Loammi Baldwin to attend lectures by Professor John Winthrop of Harvard College.

At the age of 13 he was apprenticed to John Appleton, a merchant of nearby Salem. Thompson excelled at his trade, and coming in contact with refined and well educated people for the first time, adopted many of their characteristics including an interest in science. While recuperating in Woburn in from an injury, Thompson conducted his first experiments studying the nature of heat and began to correspond with Baldwin and others about them.

Later that year he worked several months for a Boston shopkeeper and then apprenticed himself briefly, and unsuccessfully, to a doctor in Woburn. Thompson's prospects were dim in but in that year they changed abruptly. Her father was a minister, and her late husband left her property at Rumford, Province of New Hampshire , which is today in the modern city of Concord.