Henry Gladwin

Major-General Henry Gladwin, portrait by John Hall (1739–1797), Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, Michigan, ref. 53.6[1]
Ottawa chief Pontiac visits Major Henry Gladwin, commanding Fort Detroit, planning to kill him and start a massacre of the English. Gladwin, fore-warned, dismisses him. Engraving by "WLJ" in Cassell's History of the World.
Arms of Gladwin: Ermine, a chief azure over all a bend gules charged with a sword argent hilt and pomel or. Granted by the College of Arms in 1666.[2]
1777 portrait of Dorothy Gladwin (died 1792), sister of Gen. Henry Gladwin and wife of Rev. Basil Beridge, rector of Alderchurch, Lincolnshire, half-brother of Frances Beridge, wife of Gen. Henry Gladwin.[3] By Joseph Wright of Derby (1734–1797), Minneapolis Institute of Arts, US
"The Gravenor Family", by Thomas Gainsborough, c.1754.[4] One of the daughters is Anne Gravenor, sister-in-law of Henry Gladwin

Major-General Henry Gladwin (1729 or 1730 – 22 June 1791) was a British army officer in colonial America and the British commander at the Siege of Fort Detroit during Pontiac's Rebellion in 1763. He served in the disastrous campaign of Edward Braddock and in other actions in the French and Indian War but is best remembered for his defense of Detroit in Pontiac's Rebellion.

  1. ^ "John Hall: HENRY GLADWIN (53.6) — the Detroit Institute of Arts". Archived from the original on 16 January 2014. Retrieved 14 January 2014.
  2. ^ Moore (1897), p. 606.
  3. ^ Harleian Publication no. 38, 1895, Familiae Minorum Gentium ("Families of the Minor Gentry"), pp.616-618, pedigree of Gladwin, p.618
  4. ^ "The Gravenor Family". Archived from the original on 28 March 2013.

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