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Charles O'Hara

c. 1740–1802 · 18th century

Charles O'Hara was a British army officer who served as governor of the Province of Senegambia, Britain's colony on the Senegal and Gambia rivers, from 1765 to 1776, where he was accused of harsh rule and slave trading. In the American Revolutionary War he surrendered the British army at Yorktown in 1781 for Cornwallis. He later governed Gibraltar.

Charles O'Hara
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Province of Senegambia

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