GEORGE, or Knights of St George, has been the denomination of several military orders, whereof that of the garter is one of the most illustrious. See Garter.

St George del Mina, the capital of the Dutch settlements, on the gold-coasts of Guinea, situated seven or eight miles west of Cape-coast castle, the capital of the British settlements there: W. long. 5°, and N. lat. 5°.

Fort St George, a town and fort on the coast of Coromandel, in the Hither India: E. long. 80°, and N. lat. 13°.

The town is divided into the White and Black town. The fort, and White-town, which adjoins to it, are inhabited only by British; the whole circumference, which is not above half a mile, being surrounded by a stone wall. The outward, or Black-town, called Madras, has been lately encompassed by a stone-wall and bastions and is about a mile and a half in circumference; the whole being almost environed by a river and the sea.

St George's, the largest of the Bermuda, or Summer-islands.

Crest of St George, a red one in a field argent, which makes part of the British standard.