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He achieved considerable success as one of the senior officers on the North American coast, conducting and organizing several highly effective raids and counter-strikes. He was superseded however, and returned to Britain to play a role in the closing events of the war in European waters, before moving ashore to start a political career. He enjoyed a brief return to service with the resumption of war with France, and achieved flag rank, but died shortly afterwards." }, { "pid": "9NB6-62L", "imageURL": "https://tree-portraits-pgp.familysearchcdn.org/kxaoi/thumb200s.jpg", "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Clinton_(1738%E2%80%931795)", "name": "Henry Clinton", "gender": "Male", "desc": "General Sir Henry Clinton, KB (16 April 1730 – 23 December 1795) was a British Army officer and politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1772 and 1795. He is best known for his service as a general during the American War of Independence. 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He went on to be Commander-in-Chief, Portsmouth, then First Naval Lord and, after briefly returning to the Portsmouth command, became Commander-in-Chief, Mediterranean Fleet during the French Revolutionary Wars. 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During his life, he held various military and political offices, including Postmaster General, First Lord of the Admiralty, and Secretary of State for the Northern Department. He is also known for the claim that he was the eponymous inventor of the sandwich." }, { "pid": "L784-DKC", "imageURL": "https://tree-portraits-pgp.familysearchcdn.org/ctuij/thumb200s.jpg", "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Cornwallis,_1st_Marquess_Cornwallis", "name": "Charles Cornwallis", "gender": "Male", "desc": "Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis, KG, PC (31 December 1738 – 5 October 1805), styled Viscount Brome between 1753 and 1762 and known as the Earl Cornwallis between 1762 and 1792, was a British Army general and official. In the United States and the United Kingdom, he is best remembered as one of the leading British generals in the American War of Independence. His surrender in 1781 to a combined American and French force at the siege of Yorktown ended significant hostilities in North America. He later served as a civil and military governor in Ireland, where he helped bring about the Act of Union; and in India, where he helped enact the Cornwallis Code and the Permanent Settlement." }, { "pid": "L7J2-6BC", "imageURL": "https://tree-portraits-pgp.familysearchcdn.org/hh639/thumb200s.jpg", "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Howe,_5th_Viscount_Howe", "name": "William Howe", "gender": "Male", "desc": "William Howe, 5th Viscount Howe, KB PC (10 August 1729 – 12 July 1814), was a British Army officer who rose to become Commander-in-Chief of British land forces in the Colonies during the American War of Independence. Howe was one of three brothers who had distinguished military careers. 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He was the son of Sir William Johnson, 1st Baronet, who was the first British Superintendent of Indian Affairs." }, { "pid": "L8RM-4VM", "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hector_Munro,_8th_of_Novar", "name": "Hector Munro", "gender": "Male", "desc": "General Sir Hector Munro, 8th Laird of Novar, KB (1726 – 27 December 1805) was a Scottish army officer and politician who served as the ninth Commander-in-Chief of Bengal from 1764 to 1765.", "imageURL": "male" }, { "pid": "LBF2-KY3", "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Agnew_(British_Army_officer)", "name": "James Agnew", "gender": "Male", "desc": "Brigadier-General James Tanner Agnew, of Howlish Hall, Co Durham (1719 – 4 October 1777) was a British Army officer reportedly killed by a sniper in the Battle of Germantown during the American Revolutionary War.", "imageURL": "male" }, { "pid": "LC74-C47", "imageURL": "https://tree-portraits-pgp.familysearchcdn.org/5mlpi/thumb200s.jpg", "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Graves_Simcoe", "name": "John Graves Simcoe", "gender": "Male", "desc": "John Graves Simcoe (25 February 1752 – 26 October 1806) was a British Army general and the first lieutenant governor of Upper Canada from 1791 until 1796 in southern Ontario and the watersheds of Georgian Bay and Lake Superior. He founded York, which is now known as Toronto, and was instrumental in introducing institutions such as courts of law, trial by jury, English common law, and freehold land tenure, and also in the abolition of slavery in Canada." }, { "pid": "LH1L-BN3", "imageURL": "https://tree-portraits-pgp.familysearchcdn.org/f8i6j/thumb200s.jpg", "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Pitcairn", "name": "John Pitcairn", "gender": "Male", "desc": "Major John Pitcairn (28 December 1722 – 17 June 1775) was a Scottish military officer. Born in Dysart, Fife, he enlisted in the Marine Forces at the age of 23 and was stationed in North America during the French and Indian War, serving at the rank of captain. Arriving in Boston in 1774 as part of a British occupation of the city, he fought in the 1775 battles of Lexington and Concord during the outbreak of the American War of Independence. Two months later in June, Pitcairn was killed in action during the battle of Bunker Hill. Respected by both his men and Pitcairn's American opponents, he was buried at Boston's Old North Church." }, { "pid": "LH8X-Q1T", "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Campbell,_of_Strachur", "name": "John Campbell", "gender": "Male", "desc": "General John Campbell, 17th Chief of MacArthur Campbells of Strachur (1727 – 28 August 1806) was a Scottish soldier and nobleman, who commanded the British forces at the Siege of Pensacola, and succeeded Guy Carleton, 1st Baron Dorchester as Commander-in-Chief in North America in 1783 following the end of the American War of Independence.", "imageURL": "https://tree-portraits-pgp.familysearchcdn.org/x6frr/thumb200s.jpg" }, { "pid": "LHJ6-MXQ", "imageURL": "https://tree-portraits-pgp.familysearchcdn.org/6hnir/thumb200s.jpg", "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Jenkinson,_1st_Earl_of_Liverpool", "name": "Charles Jenkinson", "gender": "Male", "desc": "Charles Jenkinson, 1st Earl of Liverpool, PC (26 April 1729 – 17 December 1808), known as Lord Hawkesbury between 1786 and 1796, was a British statesman. He was the father of Prime Minister Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool." }, { "pid": "LHN4-N2B", "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliver_De_Lancey_Sr.", "name": "Oliver De Lancey", "gender": "Male", "desc": "Major-General Oliver De Lancey (September 17, 1718 – October 27, 1785) was a merchant and Loyalist politician and soldier during the American Revolutionary War. His surname is also sometimes written as de Lancey or Delancey.", "imageURL": "https://tree-portraits-pgp.familysearchcdn.org/80p0s/thumb200s.jpg" }, { "pid": "LHRT-6KM", "imageURL": "https://tree-portraits-pgp.familysearchcdn.org/k3oce/thumb200s.jpg", "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Burgoyne", "name": "John Burgoyne", "gender": "Male", "desc": "General John Burgoyne (24 February 1722 – 4 August 1792) was a British general, dramatist and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1761 to 1792. He first saw action during the Seven Years' War when he participated in several battles, most notably during the Portugal Campaign of 1762." }, { "pid": "LHTD-3ZR", "imageURL": "https://tree-portraits-pgp.familysearchcdn.org/gn1q2/thumb200s.jpg", "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Fawcett_(British_Army_officer)", "name": "William Fawcett", "gender": "Male", "desc": "General Sir William Fawcett KB (1727–1804) was an Adjutant-General to the Forces." }, { "pid": "LHZH-2JQ", "imageURL": "https://tree-portraits-pgp.familysearchcdn.org/imu89/thumb200s.jpg", "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guy_Carleton,_1st_Baron_Dorchester", "name": "Guy Carleton", "gender": "Male", "desc": "Guy Carleton, 1st Baron Dorchester KB (3 September 1724 – 10 November 1808), known between 1776 and 1786 as Sir Guy Carleton, was an Anglo-Irish soldier and administrator. He twice served as Governor of the Province of Quebec, from 1768 to 1778, concurrently serving as Governor General of British North America in that time, and again from 1785 to 1795. 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