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=__Sir Guy Carleton__=

As you may know that the 1st Baron Dorchester was Sir guy Carleton, also an Irish-British soldier who twice served as Governor of the providence of Quebec, also was a commander in the Revolutionary war. He was one of the American leaders in the battle of Quebec along with General Montgomery. General George Washington had taken command of the rag-tag, bobtail state's militia camped around Boston, and was endeavoring to turn the "rabble" into an army. He and the Continental Congress made the decision on June 27 to wrest Quebec and the St. Lawrence River from the British. In Massachusetts on September 13, Benedict Arnold set out for Canada in command of 1,000 volunteers including Captain Daniel Morgan. Arnold planned to march up through Maine into Canada. The route turned out to be very difficult for the poorly supplied force with many portages to navigate, snowstorms and illness. On September 16, Schuyler returned to Fort Ticonderoga due to ill health, leaving Montgomery in command. OnSeptember 25, Ethan Allen was captured during a failed attack on the British fort at St. Johns. On October 25, Benedict Arnold lost 350 men who turned back, but the remaining 600 continued. In June 1776, he was promoted to be the Knight of the Bath. In July 1776 commanded British naval forces at the Battle of Valcour Island eliminated the American ships. On July 1, 1777, Carleton resigned his post as Governor, but London required him to remain in his post until June, 1778 when his replacement, Frederick Haldimand had arrived. Carleton left for England where he had been appointed governor or Charlemont in Ireland. After the Battle of Yorktown and the capitulation of Lord Cornwallis in October 1781, Sir Guy Carleton was appointed on February 22, 1782 Commander-in-Chief, North America, and arrived in New York City on May 6, 1782, succeeding Sir Henry Clinton. In August, Carleton was informed that Britain would grant the United States its independence. Sir Guy Carleton died in Maidenhead on November tenth, 1808.