George Prévost

British Army officer and colonial administrator who is most well known as the "Defender of Canada" during the War of 1812

1767 CE to 1816 CE

Sir George Prévost, 1st Baronet (19 May 1767 – 5 January 1816) was a British Army officer and colonial administrator who is most well known as the "Defender of Canada" during the War of 1812.

Born in New Jersey, the eldest son of Genevan Augustine Prévost, he joins the British Army as a youth and becomes a captain in 1784.

Prévost serves in the West Indies during the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars, and is commander of St. Vincent from 1794 to 1796.

He becomes Lieutenant-Governor of Saint 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 (now part of Canada) during the War of 1812 between Britain and the United States.

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