Beckwith
SIR GEORGE, an Engish military officer, born in 1753. scene of action was largely in America in the United States , and the West Indies. He fought with the English in the American Revolution in 1776-1782, and was intrusted with important diplomatic commissions in 1782-1791, as there was then no British Minister to the United States. In 1804, he was made governor of St. Vincent , and four years later governor of Barbadoes. As England was then at war with France, land was then at war with France, he organized an expedition and conquered Martinique, for which he obtained the thanks of the House of Commons.
Later (1810) he conquered Guadeloupe, the last possession of the French in that part of the world. He died in London, March 20, 1823.