Maximilien Globensky

Lieutenant-Colonel Maximilien Globensky (15 April 1793 – 16 June 1866) was a French-Canadian who fought for the British in the War of 1812 and for the loyalists in the Rebellions of 1837.

[1] Born in Verchères, Lower Canada, Maximilien was the seventh child of August Franz Globensky, a Prussian-born Polish surgeon who served with Hessian mercenaries and settled in Lower Canada after his detachment fought on the side of the British in the American War of Independence.

[2] On 14 December 1837, Globensky's company blocked the retreat of Patriote rebels fleeing from government troops in Saint-Eustache.

His men were later accused of committing criminal reprisals on the civilian population of Saint-Eustache,[citation needed] an account disputed in an 1883 book published by his son Charles Auguste Maximilien Globensky.

His loyalist sympathies were brought into focus years later, in 1875, when his son sought a seat in the House of Commons of Canada.