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3 days ago · He was replaced in 1766 by General Guy Carleton (later 1st Baron Dorchester), who was expected in Quebec to carry out the policy of the proclamation. However, Carleton soon came to see that the colony was certain to be permanently French.
3 days ago · British Gen. Guy Carleton’s hopes of moving quickly down Lake Champlain, however, were frustrated by Arnold’s construction of a fighting fleet. Forced to build one of his own, Carleton destroyed most of the American fleet in October 1776 but considered the season too advanced to bring Ticonderoga under siege.
3 days ago · Dorchester, Guy Carleton. British Headquarter Papers: 1747-1783. Call Number: HIL-MICL LMR .D6G8B7. Keywords: slavery, Black loyalists, American Revolution post-settlement, diplomacy
2 days ago · Only a few years after the ratification of the United States Constitution in 1788 and following the peace treaty signed between the U.S. and the British in 1794, the Governor in Council of British-controlled Lower-Canada, Guy Carleton, passed an act meant to regulate commerce between the province and the new country.
3 days ago · The British army, under Quebec Governor Sir Guy Carleton, in pursuit of an American force. They defeated an American counterattack, led by Gen. John Sullivan. Sullivan was impetuous and spoiling for a fight from the very beginning.
There are some small errors in the text: Isaac Allen was a minister in Lancashire, not Cheshire (p. 216), and Guy Carleton was a future dean of Carlisle, not bishop as is here claimed (p. 213).
3 days ago · The palace had for some time previous to this been used as a prison for the Royalists; Guy Carleton, Dean of Carlisle, was one of the persons committed to it, but he fortunately escaped and quitted England.
