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Drummond (SIR GEORGE GOR- DON an English)

SIR GEORGE GOR- DON, an English soldier; born in 1771.

He entered the British army as ensign in 1789; became lieutenant-colonel, 1794; served with distinction in the Holland campaign, 1794-1795, and in Egypt, 1800; was staff-officer at Jamaica several years; on duty in Canada, 1808-1811; promoted lieutenant-general, 1811; again ordered to Canada as second in command under Sir George Prevost, 1813; planned and effected the capture of Fort Niagara, and planned the successful attack on Black Rock and Buffalo; led a combined military and naval force against Oswego and destroyed the American works and stores, May, 1814; was in command of the British forces at the battle of Lundy's Lane, July 25, and in August invested, but failed to capture, Fort Erie. In 1815 he was appointed Governor-General of Canada, resigned and returned to England, and in 1817 received the grand cross of the Order of the Bath. He died in 1854.