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Title: Washington and the generals of the American revolution ..
Year: 1848 (1840s)
Authors: Griswold, Rufus W. (Rufus Wilmot), 1815-1857 Simms, William Gilmore, 1806-1870 Ingraham, Edward D. (Edward Duncan), 1793-1854
Subjects: Washington, George, 1732-1799 United States. Army Generals -- United States United States -- History Revolution, 1775-1783 Biography
Publisher: Philadelphia, Carey and Hart
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
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for a momentof shrinking from it himself, the conqueror of Dieskaudismounted, delivered the horse to a sentry, shoulderedhis gun, and marched on foot across the Neck. On reaching the hill, he took a station at the rail-fence, in the 323 324 JETHRO SUMNER. hottest of the battle. His person was known to thesoldiers, and his name rang with shouts along the line. A few days after the battle of Bunker Hill eight briga-dier-generals were appointed by Congress, the first ofwhom was Colonel Pomroy. He had held a commissionunder Sir William Johnson, and commanded a regimentof the provincial militia; but his appointment as seniorbrigadier causing some difficulty in the adjustment ofquestions of rank, he declined it, and soon after retiredto his farm. In the following year, however, when NewJersey was overrun by the enemy, he headed the militiaof his neighbourhood, who marched to the Hudson river,and never returned from that expedition. He died atPeekskill, in New York, in 1777. END OF VOL. I. \
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