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General Sir Roger Hale Sheaffe, 1st Baronet (15 July 1763 – 17 July 1851) was a Loyalist General in the British Army during the War of 1812. He was created a baronet in 1813 and afterwards served as Commander and acting Lieutenant Governor of Upper Canada.
General Sir Roger Hale Sheaffe, 1er Baronet (15 de julio de 1763 - 17 de julio de 1851) fue un general leal en el ejército británico durante la guerra de 1812. Fue creado un Baronet en 1813 y luego Sirvió como comandante y teniente gobernador interino del Alto Canadá.
Roger Hale Sheaffe. Title Lieutenant Governor of Upper Canada, Major General. War & Affiliation War of 1812 / British. Date of Birth - Death July 15, 1763 - July 17, 1851. Sheaffe was born in Boston to Loyalist parents, and educated at Harvard. In 1778, he secured a commission in the 5th Regiment of Foot.
Roger Hale was the third son of Lt William & Rosalie Danvers Sheaffe and the first Sheaffe birth in Australia at Wollongong in 1837. He accompanied his parents to Norfolk Is and later grew up on his father's farm at Stream Hill, Dapto.
25 de nov. de 2010 · Sheaffe was a major general on Brock's army staff when the WAR OF 1812 began. With Brock's departure to quell the American invasion rising from Detroit, Sheaffe arrived back at Fort George in command of the forces at the Niagara frontier, one of the main fronts of the war.
Arriving at Queenston at 2 p.m., shortly after Brock's death, Major General Roger Hale Sheaffe took charge of the remaining British regulars, Canadian militiamen, and Mohawk warriors. General Van Rensselaer determined at this point to re-cross to Lewiston to push forward reinforcements and munitions.
An American force, supported by a naval flotilla, landed on the western lakeshore and captured the provincial capital after defeating an outnumbered force of regulars, militia and Ojibwe natives under the command of Major General Roger Hale Sheaffe, the Lieutenant Governor of Upper Canada.
