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British officials in the American Revolution (1 C, 21 P) Pages in category "British people of the American Revolution" The following 12 pages are in this category, out of 12 total.
William Dalrymple (British Army officer) Thomas Davies (British Army officer) Oliver De Lancey (British Army officer, died 1822) Oliver De Lancey (American loyalist) Arent DePeyster; John Deseronto; John Despard; William Dickson (MP) Moore Disney; George Don (British Army officer) Guy Carleton, 1st Baron Dorchester; Sir John Doyle, 1st Baronet ...
Of all the loyalists who fought in the War of the American Revolution none were more famous in their day than those who formed the British Legion, generally known as Tarleton's Legion. [77] Only after the American Civil War was the British Legion sometimes called “Tarleton’s Raiders“ by analogy with some Confederate units of that war.
At first successfully driving the Continentals from South Carolina, he was eventually forced to surrender his army at Yorktown in the last major engagement between American French and British forces. Sir John Dalling, 1st Baronet was a general and governor of Jamaica until 1781, where he coordinated British military affairs throughout the ...
Mary Lindley Murray (1720 – December 25, 1782) is known in the American Revolution as the Quaker woman who in 1776 held up British General William Howe after the British victory against American forces at Kips Bay.
Hessians: German Soldiers in the American Revolutionary War (Oxford University Press, 2022). Website. ISBN 9780190249632. Katcher, Philip, Encyclopaedia of British, Provincial and German Army Units 1775–1783, 1973, ISBN 0-8117-0542-0; History of Hanoverian troops in Gibraltar: Minorca and the East Indies (in German)
In October 1781, the successful siege of Yorktown, Virginia, by General Washington in effect ended major fighting in the American Revolution. The American Army and allied forces defeated a British force there under Lord Charles Cornwallis, and on October 17, Cornwallis raised a flag of truce after having suffered not only the American attack ...
John Howard (1912–1999), British Army major who led the coup de main party that captured the Caen canal and Orne river bridges. Richard Howe, 1st Earl Howe (1726–1799), admiral; William Howe, 5th Viscount Howe (1729–1814), general in the American Revolutionary War; John Jellicoe, 1st Earl Jellicoe (1859–1935), admiral during the First ...