George Prevost

Lieutenant-General Sir George Prevost Bt
Governor General of the Canadas
In office 1812–1815
Monarch	George III
Preceded by	Sir James Henry Craig
Succeeded by	Sir Gordon Drummond
Governor of Nova Scotia
In office 1808–1811
Monarch	George III
Preceded by	Sir John Wentworth
Succeeded by	Sir John Coape Sherbrooke
Personal details
Born	(1767-05-19)19 May 1767 New Barbadoes Township, Province of New Jersey, British America (now Hackensack, New Jersey, U.S.)
Died	5 January 1816(1816-01-05) (aged 48) London, England
Cause of death	Dropsy
Resting place	Church of St Mary the Virgin, East Barnet, London, England
Nationality	British
Spouse	Catherine Anne Phipps
Children	5
Parent(s)	Augustine Prévost and Anne Francoise Marguerite Grand [1]
Military service
Allegiance	Kingdom of Great Britain United Kingdom
Branch/service	British Army
Years of service	1779–1816
Rank	Lieutenant-General
Commands	The Canadas
Battles/wars	French Revolutionary Wars War of 1812

Sir George Prevost, 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.^[2] Born in New Jersey, the eldest son of Genevan Augustine Prévost, he joined the British Army as a youth and became a captain in 1784. Prevost 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 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.