Frederick Philipse Robinson
Sir Frederick Philipse Robinson, GCB (September 1763 - 1 January 1852) was a soldier, born in the Highlands, near New York, in September, 1763, who fought for Britain during the American War of Independence. His father was a Virginian who moved to New York, marrying a wealthy heiress to the Philipse family lands.
On the conclusion of peace he went to England. He subsequently took part in the War of 1812 and commanded a brigade at the unsuccessful Battle of Plattsburgh. In 1813 and 1814 he commanded a brigade under Wellington in Spain. He was a provisional Lieutenant-Governor of Upper Canada in 1815. Afterwards he was governor of Tobago, and he became a general in 1841. He died at Brighton, England.
Read more about Frederick Philipse Robinson: Ancestry, America, West Indies, Bedford and London, Peninsula, Canada, Tobago, Personal
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