Augustine Prevost
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Maj. General Augustin Prévost (ca. 1725 - May 5, 1786) was born in Geneva, Switzerland and served as a British General during the American Revolutionary War.
Prévost joined the 60th (Royal American) Regiment of Foot as a Major on January 9, 1756 at the Regiment's establishment. He fought in the French and Indian War, during which he suffered a wound. By the summer of 1776, Prévost, then a Colonel, was in charge of a contingent of the 60th stationed in St. Augustine, Florida.
In the winter of 1778, following a proposal of Lord George Germain, Prévost, now a Brigadier-general, was given orders by General Sir Henry Clinton to invade Georgia. Prévost dispatched two units north: one under the command of Lieutenant-colonel Lewis V. Fuser and the other under Major Jacques-Mark (James Mark) Prévost. Augustin Prévost arrived at Savannah, Georgia on January 17th, 1779 which was under occupation by British Lieutenant-colonel Archibald Campbell. Prévost assumed command and defended the town that year from a combined French and Continental force in an action that came to be known as the Siege of Savannah.
[edit] Family
- Augustin is the father of Sir George Prevost.
- Another son was Major Augustin Prevost {b.1744 Geneva-d.Januuary 1822} married to Susannah-daugther of George Croghan; reportably Croghan grandson Augustin Prevost was lost on liverpool packet Albion in Sept 1822
[edit] References
"A regimental chronicle and list of officers of the 60th, or the King's, royal rifle corps." by Nesbit Willoughby Wallace
"Notices généalogiques sur les familles-genevoises" by Jacques Augustin Galiffe, Eugène Ritter, Louis Dufour-Vernes, 1833, p. 277.
"The American Revolution in the Southern Colonies" by David Lee Russell
