CRAIG, SIR JAMES HENRY


Meaning of CRAIG, SIR JAMES HENRY in English

born 1748, Gibraltar

died Jan. 12, 1812, London, Eng.

British army officer and governor-general of Canada (1807–11).

In the American Revolution , he was wounded at the Battle of Bunker Hill in 1775 and helped repel the American army's invasion of Canada in 1776. He later served in India. As governor-general in Canada, he cooperated with the governing clique in Quebec but conducted an unpopular repressive policy toward French Canadians. He resigned in 1811 and returned to England.

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