Colonel Arent Schuyler De Peyster was a British military officer best known for his term as commandant of Fort Michilimackinac and Fort Detroit during the American War of Independence. Following the capture of Lieutenant-Governor General Henry Hamilton in 1779, De Peyster became the de facto military leader of British and Indigenous forces in the Ohio Country and the upper Great Lakes region.
- Occupation
- military personnel
- Born
- June 27, 1736
- Died
- November 26, 1822
