Andrew Deveaux (30 April 1758 – 11 July 1812) was an American Loyalist from South Carolina who is most famous for his recapture of the Bahamas in 1783...
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Deveaux is a surname of French origin. Notable people with the surname include: André Deveaux (born 1984), Bahamian ice hockey player Andrew Deveaux (1758–1812)...
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Revolutionary War, when a Loyalist expedition under the command of Andrew Deveaux set out to retake the Bahamas from the Spanish. The expedition was successful...
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the ruins of an 18th-century plantation at Deveaux House mansion. It was given to Colonel Andrew Deveaux in 1783 for protecting Nassau from Spanish invasion...
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92-acre (37 ha) grant on Cat Island, Bahamas for playing a key role in Andrew Deveaux’s raid of April 1783 that drove the Spanish from Nassau. Lyford Cay,...
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Colonel Andrew Deveaux, a Loyalist in St. Augustine, Florida, heard that the nearby British territory of The Bahamas had been captured by Spain. Deveaux set...
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governor-general of Cuba, attacked New Providence with 5,000 men. In April 1783, Andrew Deveaux, an American Loyalist who resettled on the island, set forth and recaptured...
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DePeyster (1736–1822), Officer of the 8th Regiment of Foot Colonel Andrew Deveaux (1758–1812), Colonel in South Carolina Loyalist militia Doan Outlaws...
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Bahamas in 1782. A British-American Loyalist expedition led by Colonel Andrew Deveaux, recaptured the islands in 1783. After the American Revolution, the...
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Baring Powel, a son of John Hare Powel and Julia (née Deveaux) Powel (a daughter of Andrew Deveaux). Elizabeth Bayard (1826–1885), who married Col. Frederick...
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