Thomas Evans (British Army officer)

Thomas Evans (British Army officer)

Lieutenant General Thomas Evans (9 March 1777 – 11 February 1863) was a British Army officer.

He served in the British Army from 1793 to 1838, fighting in the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars. In the War of 1812, then Major Evans was wounded at the Battle of Sackett's Harbor in New York.

He later retired to Canada.

References

* [http://www.biographi.ca/009004-119.01-e.php?&id_nbr=4415 Biography at the "Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online"]


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