GUY CARLETON

(Guy Carleton, 1st Baron Dorchester)


Popular Quotes

Guy Carleton

My defense of the province [Quebec] would have succeeded had not this wretched people[the French Canadians] been blind to honor, duty, and their own interest.
0  
Citation
Guy Carleton

Delivering up the Negroes to their former masters would be delivering them up—some to execution and others to punishments which would in my own opinion be a dishonorable violation of the public faith
0  
Citation

Negotiations regarding the exchange of prisoners and property. This was his view of his supposed obligation to return Negro slaves who had escaped and gone to the British during the war. The treaty of peace specified that all “property” including slaves, taken by, the British be returned to the Americans. But he and other officers did not always do so as they thought they had higher moral obligations. See {621936} for example.

All Quotes
Guy Carleton
© Unknown authorUnknown author
Guy Carleton
  • Born: September 3, 1724
  • Died: November 10, 1808
  • Nationality:
  • Profession:
Biography

Guy Carleton, 1st Baron Dorchester KB, known between 1776 and 1786 as Sir Guy Carleton, was an Anglo-Irish soldier and 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.