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Captain Henry Milnes Captain Henry Milnes came to Canada on December 6, 1812, to serve as aide-de-camp to Sir George Prevost, the Governor General of Canada, who was his distant relative. Sir George's eighteen year old daughter Anne wrote: "Poor Captain Milnes was very prepossessing. He was unbecomingly tall and had an awkward stoop, but his countenance was very intelligent and pleasing...when Captain M. was in good humour, he was the most agreeable person I ever met with. He was fond of his mother and spoke of her with such affection...I could not see so much of his character and receive so much pleasing attention from him, without feeling my heart in some danger. Had he tried to gain my affection he probably would have succeeded: and what a bitter pang his death would have occasioned. Thank God! at least I escaped that sorrow." It was decided that Captain Milnes would be posted in the field. Whether he and Anne Prevost would have eventually married is a moot point; he was killed in a skirmish on the 25th August, 1813.
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