Augustine Prévost

Augustine Prévost
Augustine Prévost
	60th Regiment of Foot
Battles/wars	Seven Years' War; American Revolutionary War Siege of Savannah;
Relations	Jacques Marcus Prevost (brother); George Prevost (son)

Augustine Prévost (born Augustin Prevost)

American War of Independence

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Early life and career

Prévost was born on 22 August 1723 in

Republic of Geneva.^[1] He was the son of Augustin Prevost, a member of Geneva's Council of Two Hundred, and Louise Martine.^[1] He began his military career in service of the Kingdom of Sardinia, and later became an officer in Dutch service.^[1]

Career in the British Army

Like his younger brothers

60th Regiment of Foot (Royal American Regiment) at the regiment's establishment in 1756.^[1] He fought in the French and Indian War,^[1]

during which he suffered a wound.

In 1763 he briefly acted as the interim military Governor of West Florida. After the war, Prévost was posted to the West Indies, where he served as deputy inspector general at Kingston, Jamaica.^[1] He was promoted to colonel in 1774.^[1]

American War of Independence

By the summer of 1776, Prévost was in charge of a contingent of the 60th stationed in

Georgia

. Prévost dispatched two units north: one under the command of lieutenant-colonel Lewis V. Fuser and the other under his brother Jacques-Marc.

Prévost arrived at

HMS Experiment. Garth was, however, captured before he could reach Savannah and Prévost remained to defend the town from a combined French and Continental force in an action that came to be known as the siege of Savannah

.

Prévost retired to England in 1780.[1] He died in East Barnet, London on 5 or 6 May 1786.^[1]

Personal life

In 1765, Prévost married Anne Grand, daughter of Swiss banker Georges Grand, who managed loans granted by France to the United States during the Independence War.^[3] He was the father of Lieutenant-General Sir George Prevost and Major Augustine Prévost (Geneva, 1744 – Greenville, New York, 1821). He was a member of the Albany Masonic Temple after 1768.^[1]

Descendants of Prévost settled in the United States and Peru.^{[citation needed]}

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l Lucienne Hubler: Augustin Prevost in German, French and Italian in the online Historical Dictionary of Switzerland.
^ Jacques Barrelet: Prévost (GE) in German, French and Italian in the online Historical Dictionary of Switzerland.
^ Gilbert Marion: Georges Grand in German, French and Italian in the online Historical Dictionary of Switzerland.

Bibliography

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

Military offices
Preceded by Gabriel Christie	Colonel-Commandant of the 2nd Battalion, 60th Regiment of Foot 1779–1786	Succeeded by Gabriel Christie

[HDS-1] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l Lucienne Hubler: Augustin Prevost in German, French and Italian in the online Historical Dictionary of Switzerland.

[2] Jacques Barrelet: Prévost (GE) in German, French and Italian in the online Historical Dictionary of Switzerland.

[3] Gilbert Marion: Georges Grand in German, French and Italian in the online Historical Dictionary of Switzerland.

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Authority control databases
International	FAST ISNI VIAF
National	Germany United States
Other	Historical Dictionary of Switzerland SNAC