After the conquest the British commandants who came in acted as civil judges also.

Colonel Arbuthnot, the British commandant there, treated them generously.

This the British commandant at once granted.

But the British commandant was in no condition to comply with their request, or to begin offensive operations.

The British commandant, awakened by the noise at his door, came out and was ordered to surrender the fort.

The agents of the British commandant at Detroit had been busy among the Indians seeking to enlist their aid against the revolutionists.

As some compensation for his former sufferings he received from the British commandant of Michili-Makinak the exclusive fur trade of Lake Superior.

The British commandant, Captain Farmer, knowing that the place could not sustain a siege, after a few shots, submitted to terms of capitulation.

I had no passes, and our British commandant would not on his own responsibility either give me leave or lend me the necessary outfit.

The wife and children of the former British commandant-thecreole Rocheblave-wereto be treated with particular respect, and not suffered to want for any thing.

The British commandant assumed the place of the procureur du roi, although there were one or two half-hearted efforts made to introduce the Common Law.

He was immediately conducted to New York, and introduced to the British commandant, to whom he presented a letter from the captain of the galley.

Deborah Franklin was banished from New York Nov. 21st, 1780, by the British commandant, for her unbounded liberality to the American prisoners.