Henry Hamilton

Henry Hamilton (c. 1734 – September 29, 1796) is an Anglo-Irish military officer and later government official of the British Empire.

He serves in North America as Lieutenant Governor of the Province of Quebec and later as Deputy Governor after the Revolutionary War.

He later serves as Governor of Bermuda and lastly, as Governor of Dominica, where he dies in office.

Hamilton is captured in 1779 by rebel forces at Fort Sackville in present-day Indiana, during the American Revolutionary War, while serving as the Lieutenant Governor and Superintendent of Indian Affairs, at the British outpost of Fort Detroit.

He is transported to Virginia, where he is held by Governor Thomas Jefferson's rebel government until October 1780.

He is sent to New York and gains freedom in a prisoner exchange in 1781, being allowed to depart for London, England.

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