Barrimore "Barry" St. Leger (April 1733 – 1789) was a Brigadier-General of the British Army during the French and Indian War and the American Revolutionary War.
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Barrimore Matthew St. Leger was born in April 1733 in County Kildare, Ireland, and he was educated at Eton College and Cambridge in England. St. Leger joined the British Army in April 1756 and served with the British 28th Regiment of Foot in the Siege of Louisbourg and the Battle of the Plains of Abraham during the French and Indian War in North America. In 1775, he was promoted to Colonel and led the 1776 relief of Quebec during the American Revolutionary War, and in 1777 he commanded the British, Native American, and loyalist army that besieged Fort Schuyler in New York, fighting a hard battle at the Battle of Oriskany. Nicholas Herkimer's army was able to hold back the British, but Herkimer was killed in the process. He led forces in the western theater of the war until its end in 1783, and in 1784 he commanded British forces in Quebec before resigning the following year due to ill health, dying in 1789.