Eminent Americans - comprising brief biographies of leading statesmen, patriots, orators and others, men and women who have made American history (1886) (14596254248)

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Title: Eminent Americans : comprising brief biographies of leading statesmen, patriots, orators and others, men and women who have made American history
Year: 1886 (1880s)
Authors: Lossing, Benson John, 1813-1891
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Publisher: New York : John B. Alden
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation



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ed by his Statefor the defence of the country. The Quakers disowned him, and Wasliingtonand his country adopted him. His State had made him a Brigadier; Congressappointed him a Major-general in the Continental army. He was sick duringthe battle on Long Island, in August, 1776, but was in the engagements atTrenton, Princeton, Brandy wine, arid Germantown, during the next fifteenmonths. He was honored with the important office of Quarter-master generalin March, 1778, arjd in June he fought gallantly on the plains of Monmouth.In the Autumn of 1780, he took command of the remnant of the southern army 1. A dispute between seme o* the people and the troops occurred. A larpe crowd grathered in theBtreet&v the troops were drf\wii i.p in Ijtie, and after being: buffeted with words and missiles, for somrtime, some of (he soldiers fired. Three nersc.uo i.i Ihe crowd were killed. It was made thy occasionof great indignation against the trooivi aud j.Ovfojnui^ut otficials. 60 NATHANIEL GREENE.
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which had been defeated and dispersed at Camden, under General Gates; andbefore the close of 1781, he had driven the British from every strong interiorposition, in the South, and confined them to the cities of Charleston and Savan-nah. During that year, his famous retreat before Lord Cornwallis, across NorthCarolina, and the battles at Guilford, Camden, Ninety-Six, and Eutaw Springs,w^ere achieved; and the following year he marched victoriously into Charleston,amid the booming of cannons, the waving of handkerchiefs in fair hands frombalconies and windows, and shouts of welcome! from crowds of liberated free-men. At the same hour, the white sails of a British fleet, bearing the last hos-tile foot from our shores, south of New York, were glistening in the eveningsun. And yet the last resting-place, on earth, of this patriot and hero, is un-known to this generation. The grateful Georgians gave him a fine estate inthat land of the orange and palm; and while there, in June, 1786, he was o