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Arthur St. Clair. The high point of Arthur St. Clair's long military career, which began when he was a young British officer in the French and Indian War, came when General George Washington visited his quarters in Trenton, New Jersey on the evening of January 2, 1777.
Sep 15, 2011 · The Governor of the Northwest Territory, Major General Arthur St. Clair, a veteran general of the American Revolution, commanded an Army of militia, six-month volunteers and regulars. To...
Jun 8, 2018 · Arthur St. Clair (1736-1818), Scottish-born American soldier and politician, was the first territorial governor in United States history. Arthur St. Clair was born on March 23, 1736, in Thurso. He attended the University of Edinburgh and had some training with the prominent London anatomist William Hunter.
In 1775, he became a colonel in the Pennsylvania militia; a year later he joined the Continental Army at that same rank. By the end of 1776, he was a brigadier general. St. Clair fought in the early Revolutionary War battles of Trenton and Princeton. In 1777, he was promoted to major general.
Arthur St. Clair | To Form a More Perfect Union | Articles and Essays | Documents from the Continental Congress and the Constitutional Convention, 1774-1789 | Digital Collections | Library of Congress.
Arthur St. Clair ( March 23, 1737 [ O.S. 1736] – August 31, 1818) was a Scottish-American soldier and politician. Born in Thurso, Scotland, he served in the British Army during the French and Indian War before settling in Pennsylvania, where he held local office.
Arthur St. Clair - Honoring Our Patriots. Portrait of Maj Gen Arthur St. Clair by Charles Willson Peale. . I hold no man has a right to withhold his services when his country needs them. Be the sacrifice ever so great, it must be yielded upon the altar of patriotism. - Major General Arthur St. Clair.
