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Battle of Spencer's Ordinary. Siege of Yorktown. Haitian Revolution. 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.
- 1770–1806
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 8, 2024 · John Graves Simcoe (born February 25, 1752, Cotterstock, Northamptonshire, England—died October 26, 1806, Exeter, Devonshire) was a British soldier and statesman who became the first lieutenant governor of Upper Canada (present-day Ontario ).
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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 ...
Simcoe County. / 44.583°N 79.733°W / 44.583; -79.733. Simcoe County is located in the central portion of Southern Ontario, Canada. The county is just north of the Greater Toronto Area, stretching from the shores of Lake Simcoe in the east to Georgian Bay in the west.
Oct 31, 2012 · Simcoe was incorporated as a village in 1851 and as a town in 1878. Its position as the county seat of Norfolk accelerated the community's growth. The town of Simcoe, including the nearby hamlet of Hillcrest, was one of 6 area municipalities formed as part of the Regional Municipality of Haldimand-Norfolk in 1974.
