George Prévost
Military Commander
1767 – 1816
Who was George Prévost?
Sir George Prévost, 1st Baronet was a British soldier and colonial administrator. Born in Hackensack, New Jersey, the eldest son of Swiss French Augustine Prévost, he joined the British Army as a youth and became a captain in 1784. Prévost served in the West Indies during the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars, and was commander of St. Vincent from 1794 to 1796. He became lieutenant-governor of St. Lucia from 1798 to 1802 and governor of Dominica from 1802 to 1805. He is best known to history for serving as both the civilian Governor General and the military Commander in Chief in British North America during the War of 1812 between Britain and the United States of America.
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- Born
- May 19, 1767
Province of New Jersey - Spouses
- Religion
- Protestantism
- Nationality
- United Kingdom
- Employment
- British Army
- Lived in
- Hackensack
- Died
- Jan 5, 1816
London
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on July 23, 2013
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