Augustine Prévost

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Augustine Prévost
Augustine Prévost
Augustine Prévost
Naissance
Genève, République de Genève
Décès (à 62 ans)
East Barnet (en), Angleterre
Origine britannique
Grade Major-général
Conflits Guerre d'indépendance des États-Unis
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Augustine Prévost, né Augustin Prevost[1] le à Genève en République de Genève et mort le à East Barnet (en) en Angleterre, est un général britannique. Il se distingue durant la guerre d'indépendance des États-Unis.

Biographie

Sa famille est originaire de Bossy près de Genève est s’est établie à Genève dès le XIVe siècle[2]. Son père rejoint le régiment royal américain, qui accepte les personnes non britanniques[3].

Jeune il entre dans une école militaire en Angleterre. À 14 ans, il rejoint le 60th Royal American Regiment et devient major le . Il participe à la guerre de la Conquête.

Il est nommé colonel en 1776 et général en 1778. Augustine Prevost épouse Anne Francoise Marguerite Grand (Nanette) (1742-1809) le 21 août 1765 à l'église St. Sulpice d'Ecublens près de Lausanne.

Ils auront deux enfants :  George Prevost (1767 - 1816), général qui fut commandant des forces anglaise en Amérique en 1811 et William Augustine Prevost (1777 - 1824)

Il participe à la guerre d'indépendance des États-Unis, son régiment se bat durant le siège de Savannah et à la bataille de Stono Ferry.

Notes et références

  1. ↑ Augustin Prevost dans le Dictionnaire historique de la Suisse.
  2. ↑ Prevost (GE), dans le Dictionnaire historique de la Suisse.
  3. ↑ loyalist.lib.unb.ca

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Bibliographie

  • (en) Nesbit Willoughby Wallace, A regimental chronicle and list of officers of the 60th, or the King's Royal Rifle Corps, formerly the 62nd, or the Royal American Regiment of Foot, Londres, Harrison, , 312 p. (OCLC 1261897, lire en ligne).
  • Jacques-Augustin Galiffe, Notices généalogiques sur les familles genevoises, depuis les premiers temps jusqu'à nos jours, Genève, (lire en ligne), p. 277.
  • (en) David Lee Russell, The American Revolution in the Southern colonies, Jefferson, McFarland & Co, , 367 p. (ISBN 978-0-7864-0783-5, OCLC 44562323, présentation en ligne).

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