William Campbell (British Army officer, died 1796)

Lieutenant-Colonel William Campbell (died 1796), was an officer of the 24th Regiment of Foot of the British Army and a briefly-serving Governor of Bermuda.

Campbell, then a Major, had been the commander of the British fort built in 1794 on the Miami Rapids, and had refused to engage with American troops before the advance of Major-General Anthony Wayne's Legion of the United States during the Northwest Indian War.[1] Having been appointed Governor of Bermuda, Campbell arrived at Bermuda on the 22 November 1796, but died on the 2 December and was buried at St. Peter's Church.[2][3]

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