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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
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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t successful; but on being tried by a general court-martial in 1815, he was acquitted of all blame. On the new organization of the army after the peace, he was not retained in the establishment. General Wilkinson had become possessed of large estates in Mexico, and not long after leaving the army he removed to that country. He died in the vicinity of the capital, on the 28th of December, 1825, and was buried in the parish of St. Miguel. The American minister, Mr. Poinsett, and many of the principal citizens, attended his funeral. General Wilkinson was twice married: his first wife was a daughter of John Biddle of Philadelphia; his second, who survived him, was a French woman, named Tradeau, whom he married at New Orleans in 1810. General Wilkinson published at Philadelphia, in 1816, Memoirs of his Own Times, in three very large octavovolumes. It is a work of great value to the historical student, who will have little difficulty in detecting the passages which are tinged with the authors prejudices. i
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j L5. MAJOR-GENERAL THOMAS SUMTER. THE early life of Thomas Sumter is involved in some obscurity ; a fact which is quite discreditable, in the case of a person so distinguished, to the state for which he performed so much, and the descendants who bear his name. We are only enabled to gather from a very meagre and imperfect tradition, that he was born in Virginia,somewhere about the year 1734. We are not in possession of any facts which can throw light upon his origin and family. He was still a mere boy, when, as tradition tells us,he went as a volunteer against the French and Indians in the old French war. There is a statement, which it is perhaps no longer possible to verify, that his courage,experience, and shrewdness, as a scout, commended him to the special favour of Lord Dunmore, who employed him in a trust, upon the frontier, of equal hazard and importance. He was present at Braddocks defeat, and was probably one of the Rangers, under Washington, in that disastrous expedition, to whose

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