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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Varnum, James Mitchell 1748- (search)
he Revolution. He was made colonel of the 1st Rhode Island Regiment in January, 1775, and soon afterwards entered the Continental army, becoming brigadier-general in February, 1777. He was at Red Bank (Fort Mercer), in command of all the troops on the Jersey side of the Delaware, when the British took Philadelphia; and it was under his direction that Major Thayer made his gallant defence of Fort Mifflin (q. v.). General Varnum was at Valley Forge the following winter; took part in the battle of Monmouth (June 28, 1778) ; joined Sullivan in his expedition to Rhode Island, serving under the immediate orders of Lafayette, and resigned in 1779, when he was chosen major-general of militia, which office he held until his death. In the Continental Congress (1780-82 and 1786-87) he was very active, and an eloquent speaker. Appointed judge of the Supreme Court in the Northwestern Territory, he removed to Marietta, O., in June, 1788, and held the office until his death there, Jan. 10, 1789.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Weissenfels, Frederick H., Baron de 1738-1806 (search)
Weissenfels, Frederick H., Baron de 1738-1806 Military officer; born in Prussia in 1738; was an officer in the British army; emigrated to the United States in 1763 and settled in Dutchess county, N. Y. He served in the Revolutionary War and was present at the surrender of Burgoyne, and at the battle of Monmouth. He accompanied Gen. John Sullivan in his expedition against the Six Nations in 1779. He died in New Orleans, La., May 14, 1806.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), White Plains, battle of. (search)
ich was the deserted mansion of Roger Morris, who married Mary Phillipse The Morris House. (Washington, George). Morris had espoused the cause of the crown, and fled from his mansion with his family. At that council, held Oct. 16, 1776, it was determined to extend the army beyond the King's Bridge into Westchester county, abandoning the island, excepting the strong work known as Fort Washington, on the highest point of the island. Arranged in four divisions, under Generals Lee, Heath, Sullivan, and Lincoln, the army concentrated at the village of White Plains, and formed an intrenched camp. The two armies were each about 13,000 strong. On the morning of Oct. 28, after a series of skirmishes, 1,600 men from Delaware and Maryland had taken post on Chatterton's Hill, a lofty eminence west of the Bronx River, and to these General McDougall led reinforcements, with two pieces of cannon under Capt. Alexander Hamilton, and took the chief command there. Washington, with the rest of th
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Willett, Mabinus 1740-1830 (search)
in command, until January, 1776, and was soon afterwards made lieutenant-colonel of the 3d New York Regiment. In May, 1777, he was ordered to Fort Stanwix, and assisted in its defence in August following, making a successful sortie to effect a diversion in favor of General Herkimer (see Oriskany, battle of). He bore a message, by stealth, to General Schuyler, which led to the expedition up the Mohawk Valley, under General Arnold, that caused the abandonment of the siege of Fort Stanwix. He joined the army under Washington in June, 1776, and was in the battle of Monmouth; and in 1779 he accompanied General Sullivan's expedition against the Indians in New York. At the close of the war he was chosen sheriff of the city of New York, and remained so eight years (1784-92), and was mayor in 1807. In 1792 he was appointed a brigadier-general in the army intended to act against the Northwestern Indians, but declined. He published an autobiography. He died in New York City, Aug. 22, 1830.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), William and Mary, Fort (search)
Harbor by a band of young patriots led by John Sullivan, afterwards major-general in the Continentference to it in his Military services of General Sullivan is this: Soon after his return home [Sullhostility preceded it. Sparks, in his Life of Sullivan, gives practically the same details, and Bance Massachusetts Historical Society, defending Sullivan from aspersions of subsequent disloyalty to ttt and Stark from capture or annihilation. Sullivan was born at Somerworth, New Hampshire, in 174Illinois.) The most famous of her sons, John Sullivan, was married at twenty, and opened a law oot regarded with favor, for, on the coming of Sullivan, it is a tradition that the good citizens aboleave. Haranguing them from an upper window, Sullivan offered to submit the question to the test oflage, and the challenge was accepted. But John Sullivan was renowned for his strength, and it was who went, as far as I can remember, were Maj. John Sullivan, Capt. Winborn Adams, Ebenezer Thompson,
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