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Title: The British invasion from the north. The campaigns of Generals Carleton and Burgoyne, from Canada, 1776-1777, with the journal of Lieut. William Digby, of the 53d, or Shropshire regiment of foot
Year: 1887 (1880s)
Authors: Digby, William, fl. 1776 Baxter, James Phinney, 1831-1921, ed
Subjects: Carleton's Invasion, 1776 Burgoyne's Invasion, 1777
Publisher: Albany, N.Y., J. Munsell's Sons
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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en among the most uncivilized nations do notjustify the exertion of such a scene of torture. Beneath this humble sod j Lie Capn Adams, Lieut- Culbertson & 2 privates of the 2<1 Pensilvanian regiment. Not Hirelings but Patriots Who fell not in battle, but unarmed,Who were barbarously murdered and inhumanlyscalped by the emissaries of the once just butnow abandoned Kingdom of Britain.Sons of America rest in quiet here,Britannia blush, Burgoyne let fall a tear.And tremble Europes Sons with savage raceDeath and revenge await you with disgrace^^ opposing the British troops in their attempt to subjugatethem were trained in arms. For his success in wrestingCanada from the French, he received the order of the Bath.In 1763 he was made governor of Virginia, and in 1770 ofthe Isle of Guernsey. In 1772 he was made commander-in-chief of the army, and in 1776 was created a baron. He iw Very few particulars of this distressing occurrence havecome down to us. Robert Adams was the son of Thomas
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Lieutenant Digbys Journal. 137 The main land was but a small distance from us,it scarce there deserves the name of a lake, it being died, after a most brilliant career, August 3, 1787. VideBritish Army Lists, in loco; The Conquest of Canada, pp.230-277, et passim; History of the United States (Hinton),Boston, 1834, vol. I, Book 2; History of Nova Scotia(Haliburton), Halifax, 1829, vol. i, pp. 199-229. and Katharine Adams, and was born in 1745 in what wassubsequently Toboyne township, in Cumberland county,Pennsylvania. He was a soldier in the Bouquet expeditionto the westward in 1764, and when the Revolution openedhe raised a company of Associators, which formed thesecond company of Colonel William Irvines regiment, of.which he was commissioned captain, January 9, 1776.Joseph Culbertson was the son of Alexander and MargaretCulbertson, and was born in 1753 in the Cumberland Valley.His ancestors came from the North of Ireland about theyear 1730, subsequently locating about seven miles fr

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