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- 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.
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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.
Feb 7, 2006 · Last Edited February 1, 2017. John Graves Simcoe, army officer, lieutenant-governor of Upper Canada (born 25 February 1752 in Cotterstock, Britain; died 26 October 1806 in Exeter, Britain). Simcoe served as an officer with the British army in the American Revolutionary War, but is best known to Canadians as the first lieutenant-governor of the ...
Leader of the most successful British partisan unit in the Revolutionary War, Simcoe’s troops plagued American forces from New York to South Carolina. This article appears in: February 2011. By Mike Phifer. British Army officer John Graves Simcoe wanted to command a corps of irregular troops.
Apr 13, 2015 · To be exact, he was the first royal Lieutenant Governor of the province of Upper Canada, answering to the Governor of Lower Canada. That doesn’t sound so scary, does it? Ad – content continues...
Apr 8, 2024 · John Graves Simcoe was a British soldier and statesman who became the first lieutenant governor of Upper Canada (present-day Ontario). Simcoe—educated at Exeter Grammar School, Eton College, and Oxford University—entered the British army as an ensign in 1770.
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Biography – SIMCOE, JOHN GRAVES – Volume V (1801-1820) – Dictionary of Canadian Biography. Source: Library and Archives Canada/MIKAN 2895901. SIMCOE, JOHN GRAVES, army officer and colonial administrator: b. 25 Feb. 1752 in Cotterstock, England, son of Captain John Simcoe, a naval officer, and Katherine Stamford; m. 30 Dec. 1782 Elizabeth ...
Jun 27, 2018 · SIMCOE, JOHN GRAVES. (1752–1806). British commander of the Queen's Rangers. Son of a Royal Navy captain who died at Quebec in 1759, John Simcoe was schooled at Exeter Grammar School, Eton College, and Merton College, Oxford, before becoming an ensign in the Thirty-Fifth Foot on 27 April 1770.
