Guy Carleton, 1st Baron Dorchester
Guy Carleton, 1st Baron Dorchester, known between 1776 and 1786 as Sir Guy Carleton, was a British Army officer, peer and colonial administrator. He twice served as Governor of the Province of Quebec, from 1768 to 1778, concurrently serving as Governor General of British North America in that time, and again from 1785 to 1795. The title Baron Dorchester was created on 21 August 1786.
Guy Carleton, 1st Baron Dorchester
Bergen-op-Zoom where Guy Carleton first saw action in 1747. His son, George Carleton, would be killed in a later battle there.
Drawing by a soldier of Wolfe's army depicting the easy climbing of Wolfe's soldiers
Sir Guy Carleton
The Battle of Quebec was fought on December 31, 1775, between American Continental Army forces and the British defenders of Quebec City early in the American Revolutionary War. The battle was the first major defeat of the war for the Americans, and it came with heavy losses. General Richard Montgomery was killed, Benedict Arnold was wounded, and Daniel Morgan and more than 400 men were taken prisoner. The city's garrison, a motley assortment of regular troops and militia led by Quebec's provincial governor, General Guy Carleton, suffered a small number of casualties.
British and Canadian forces attacking Arnold's column in the Sault-au-Matelot, Charles William Jefferys
Brigadier-General Richard Montgomery's troops prepare to embark for the invasion of Canada from Crown Point, New York
Chaudière River, Arnold's route.
Guy Carleton, commander of the forces in the city (painter unknown)