Gordon Drummond

"'It was an honour to fight in defence of this, my native country.' - Address to the House of Commons of the Province of Ontario" General Sir Gordon Drummond GCB (27 September 1772 - 10 October 1854) was a Canadian colonial administrator, military officer and soldier. He was a veteran of the sixth European Coalition War and the Anglo-U.S. War. During his career, he served as the sixteenth Lieutenant-Governor of the Province of Ontario and the tenth Viceroy of British North America. He was the first administrator of Canada to be born in the country and the first viceregal official to possess control of both the civilian administration and military of British North America simultaneously; between 1812 & 1816, Sir Gordon ruled the Western Empire as a virtual autocrat.

Drummond's administration governed Canada between 1813-1816, during which time an attempted invasion of the country by the United States was thwarted, approximately one third of U.S. Territory was conquered by the Canadian Militia the U.S. Capital was conquered by the imperial forces of Britain, Canada & the West Indies and martial law was imposed throughout the occupied United States. In the duration of his tenure, he supervised the civilian administration of British North America and the occupation of U.S. territories in the North American Great Lakes basin and the Allegheny mountain range. He deported U.S. citizens from occupied territories, executed collaborators, defectors and deserters and led the Canadian Militia forces against the U.S. Army as the paramount commander of imperial forces in the country.

His armies conquered the United States of New Hampshire, Maine, Vermont & New York, the U.S. Territories of Illinois, Indiana & Michigan and repulsed the U.S. Army from the basin of the Boreal Great Lakes during attempted invasions of the Niagara and Ontario Peninsulas. Between 1814-1816, he commanded a military government throughout the occupied U.S. territories which demolished enemy, military fortifications, deported U.S. citizens and razed civilian settlements.

Personally, Sir Gordon fought alongside imperial forces during the expulsion of the Grand Army of France from the Ottoman Eyalet of Egypt; it was a successful campaign of a minor theatre of the war between the European Coalition and the French Empire. As Viceroy of British North America, he led the Militia of Canada during an attempted invasion by the U.S. Army and, subsequently, during the conquest of the States of New Hampshire, Maine, Vermont and New York and the occupation of the Territory of Michigan. Later, Drummond enshrined the Anglo-U.S. Treaty of 1814, resulting in a cessation of hostilities and the restoration of U.S. sovereignty in the occupied territories.

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 * Sir Gordon was the first viceregal administrator of Canada to be born in the country and the first to possess control of both the civilian and military administrations of the Western Empire simultaneously. British North America consisted of; the Dominion of Canada, the plantations of the Bahamas, Jamaica and Trinidad and the territories of Guiana, Honduras, Quebec and Rupertsland.