The Shepherd of the Loyalists

General Guy Carleton, Baron of Dorchester (3 September 1724 - 10 November 1808) was a Canadian colonial administrator, military officer and soldier. He was a veteran of the fifth European Coalition War (1740-1748), the fifth Anglo-French War (1756-1763) and the second British Civil War (1775-1783). During his career, he served as the third Governor of the Province of Quebec (1768-1778), the first Commander-In-Chief of the Army of Canada (1775-1778), (1786-1796) and as the eleventh and final Commander-In-Chief of the British Army of North America, under which all American, British and Canadian Crown regiments in North America served until the end of the American Revolution. (1782-1783)