Samuel Elbert
Military officer, governor of Georgia · United States · On the map · Politicians · Lived 1740 to 1788 · aged 48
Samuel Elbert was an American merchant, military officer and politician from Savannah, Georgia.
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During the Revolutionary War, Elbert rose to the rank of major general in the Georgia militia and colonel in the Continental Army, commanding the victorious colonial forces in a naval battle near St. Simons Island, Georgia on April 19, 1778. He was wounded and captured at the Battle of Brier Creek the following year, though he regained his freedom in a prisoner exchange. He was brevetted a brigadier general after the end of the war.
