Samuel Graham (British Army officer)

Lieutenant General Samuel Graham (20 May 1756 – 26 January 1831) was a British Army officer who commanded the 27th Enniskillen Regiment during the Anglo-Russian invasion of Holland.

[1] Educated at Paisley Grammar School, Graham studied medicine before entering the army.

[3][4] He transferred to the 76th Regiment of Foot and was deployed to North America in August 1779 during the American Revolutionary War.

[5] Following the British surrender at Yorktown, he was held as a prisoner of war (POW) in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

[6][7] After returning to England in February 1784,[8] he transferred to the 19th Regiment of Foot in April 1786[9] and was deployed to Jamaica in 1787.

An oil painting of military troops engaging in battle on the sea shore
The Battle of Callantsoog , 1797, during which Colonel Graham was wounded