Lieutenant-General Sir Charles William Maxwell CB (1775 – 23 September 1848, Broadstairs) was a British soldier and colonial administrator.
He was the eldest son of Charles Maxwell of Terraughty, Dumfriesshire and his third wife, Helen Douglas.[1]
He joined the British Army in 1796. He was knighted in 1836 and was appointed Lieutenant General in 1841.[1] He was appointed Colonel of the 3rd West India Regiment in 1843.[2]
Cape Mesurado raid edit
Cape Mesurado was being used as a base for the slave trade and in 1815 Maxwell, then Governor of Sierra Leone, sent an armed force to raid the settlement, seizing ships, merchandise and enslaved Africans from the factories there. The factory owners were sentenced to fourteen years' transportation to New South Wales by the vice admiralty court.[3]: 1145
References edit
- ^ a b Maxwell, W. Harold. "The Claimants". www.maxwellsociety.com. Retrieved 31 December 2017.
- ^ "No. 20197". The London Gazette. 17 February 1843. p. 553.
- ^ Helfman, Tara (2006). "The Court of Vice Admiralty at Sierra Leone and the Abolition of the West African Slave Trade" (PDF). Yale Law Journal. 115 (5): 1122–1156. doi:10.2307/20455647. JSTOR 20455647. Retrieved 27 February 2016.