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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Maxwell , William 1775 - (search)
Maxwell, William 1775-
Military officer; born in New Jersey; was made colonel of the 2d New Jersey Battalion in 1775, and served in the campaign in Canada in 1776.
He had been in the provincial army continually for fifteen years before the Revolutionary War broke out. In October, 1776, he was appointed brigadier-general, and, in command of a New Jersey brigade, was distinguished at the battles of Brandywine, Germantown, and Monmouth.
He was in Sullivan's campaign in 1779, and soon after the action at Springfield, N. J., in 1780, he resigned.
He died Nov. 12, 1798.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Minisink , desolation of (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), New Brunswick , skirmish at (search)
New Brunswick, skirmish at
In June, 1777, Sir William Howe tried to outgeneral Washington in New Jersey, but failed, and was compelled to retreat.
Washington held Howe firmly in check at and near New Brunswick, on the Raritan; and on June 20 the former, with his army at Middlebrook, learned that his antagonist was preparing to fall back to Amboy.
Hoping to cut off his rearguard, Washington ordered (June 21) Maxwell to lie between New Brunswick and Amboy, and Sullivan to join Greene near the former place, while the main body should rest within supporting distance.
These orders failed of execution On the morning of the 22d the column of Germans, under De Heister, began its march towards Amboy.
The corps of Cornwallis moved more slowly, for it had to cross the Raritan over a narrow bridge, near the end of which stood Howe, on high ground, watching the movements Greene had a battery of three guns on a hill, but too far distant to be effective When more than one-half of Cornwallis
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Sullivan , James 1744 -1808 (search)
Sullivan, James 1744-1808
Lawyer; born in Berwick, Me., April 22, 1744; began practice in Biddeford in 1770; member of the Massachusetts constitutional convention in 1779-80; attorney-general of Massachusetts in 1790-1807; elected governor in 1807 and 1808.
His publications include Observations on the government of the United States; History of the District of Maine; History of land-titles in Massachusetts; Dissertation on the constitutional liberty of the press; Correspondence with Colonel Pickering; History of the Penobscot Indians, in the Massachusetts Historical collections, etc. He died in Boston, Mass., Dec. 10, 1808.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), William and Mary , Fort (search)