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Identifier: magazineofamericv19stev (find matches)
Title: The magazine of American history with notes and queries
Year: 1877 (1870s)
Authors: Stevens, John Austin, 1827-1910. ed. cn DeCosta, B. F. (Benjamin Franklin), 1831-1904. ed. cn Johnston, Henry Phelps, 1842-1923, ed. cn Lamb, Martha J. (Martha Joanna), 1829-1893. ed. cn Pond, Nathan Gillett, 1832-1894 ed Abbatt, William, 1851-1935, comp
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Publisher: New York : A.S. Barnes
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The writer has also his private diary,kept while commanding a brigade under Hampton in 1813. These threedocuments prove that Izard was able to mold to his purposes the ma-terials at hand, that his conduct was always strictly professional, and thathe was condemned for not having been able to accomplish the impossible.Let us turn backward a moment and learn somewhat of his early life andeducation. His family were among the earliest settlers of South Carolina; hisfather, Ralph Izard, who had received his education in England, andinherited considerable fortune, married in 1767 Alice de Lanccy of NewYork, niece of James de Lancey, the lieutenant-governor of that province.He removed in 1772 to London with his family, purchasing a dwelling inBcrners Street. His third son, George, was born at Richmond, near Lon-don, October 21, 1776. The following year Ralph Izard went to France,and while there, was appointed by Congress commissioner to Tuscany. THE MILITARY CAREER OF GENERAL GEORGE IZARD 463
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MAJOR-GENERAL GEORGE IZARD, U. S. A. From a painting ty Otis, Philadelphia, 1817. 464 THE MILITARY CAREER OF GENERAL GEORGE IZARD He ascertained, however, in Paris, that nothing could be gained by a visitto Florence, and in 1779 returned to America alone. His wife andyounger children remained in France, where George was sent to school,and in 1780 first came to Charleston with his mother and was placed in agrammar school until the age of eleven. In 1789 Ralph Izard moved withhis family to New York, the seat of the new government, having beenappointed senator from South Carolina to take his place in the first Con-gress under the Constitution, and George was placed in a preparatoryschool for the freshman class in Columbia College. Another change be-came necessary the following year by the meeting of. Congress in Phila-delphia, and George entered the junior class of the college in 4th streetin the winter of 1790-91; he was graduated in February, 1792, at the earlyage of fifteen. Having be

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