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General Sir James Henry Craig KB (1748 – 12 January 1812) was a British military officer and colonial administrator.
30 de out. de 2017 · James Henry Craig, an officer in the British army, fought in the Revolutionary War from the beginning to the end. He was at Bunker Hill, battled the Americans in Canada, assisted in the capture of Fort Ticonderoga, and negotiated the British surrender at Saratoga.
James Henry Craig (1748-12 janvier 1812) est un officier militaire britannique et un administrateur colonial. Il s'illustre notamment au cours de la guerre d'indépendance américaine. Il est gouverneur en chef de l'Amérique du Nord britannique et gouverneur du Bas-Canada de 1807 à 1811.
- British Army
- Général
- Ordre du Bain
No mere plaything in the hands of the officials or narrow-minded soldier reputed to have created French-Canadian nationalism through his policy of confrontation, Sir James Henry Craig appears rather as the person who brought out into the open a whole set of conflicts that turned two heterogeneous blocs in the colony against each other.
- Jean-Pierre Wallot
- CRAIG, Sir JAMES HENRY
- Dictionary of Canadian Biography, vol. 5
A short biography of James Craig, who led the British occupation of Wilmington, N.C., during the American Revolutionary War.
Craig, Sir James Henry (1748-1812), governor-in-chief of Canada (1807-11), was born in 1748 at Gibraltar, where his father was civil and military judge. He entered the British army in 1763 as an ensign in the 30th Regiment, and he served in America throughout the American Revolutionary War.
British officer and colonial governor. James Craig was born in Gibraltar in 1748, the son of Hew Craig, a Scots judge in the fortress. Gazetted ensign in the Thirtieth Foot in 1763 when he was fifteen, he was allowed to attend military schools in Europe before joining his regiment.
