Sir George Prevost (1767–1816)
Sir George Prevost, military officer and governor-in-chief of British North America, was born on 19 May 1767 in present-day Hackensack, New Jersey. Educated in England and continental Europe, he was commissioned at the age of eleven as an ensign in his father's foot regiment. In 1789 he married Catherine Anne Phipps (1766–1821); they would have four children who survived infancy. Prevost served in the West Indies during the Napoleonic Wars, rising to the rank of lieutenant general in 1808.
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