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Armstrong, John, 1758-1843
Military officer; born in Carlisle, Pa., Nov. 25, 1758.
While a student at Princeton, in 1775, he became a volunteer in Potter's Pennsylvania regiment, and was soon afterwards made an aide-de-camp to General Mercer.
He was afterwards placed on the staff of General Gates, and remained so from the beginning of that officer's campaign against Burgoyne until the end of the war, having the rank of major.
Holding a facile pen, he was employed to write the famous
John Armstrong. Newburgh addresses.
They were powerfully and eloquently written.
After the war he was successively Secretary of State and Adjutant-General of Pennsylvania; and in 1784 he conducted operations against the settlers in the Wyoming Valley.
The Continental Congress in 1787 appointed him one of the judges for the Northwestern Territory, but he declined.
Two years later he married a sister of Chancellor Livingston, removed to New York, purchased a farm within the precincts of the ol
Alonzo Potter (search for this): entry armstrong-john
Armstrong, John, 1758-1843
Military officer; born in Carlisle, Pa., Nov. 25, 1758.
While a student at Princeton, in 1775, he became a volunteer in Potter's Pennsylvania regiment, and was soon afterwards made an aide-de-camp to General Mercer.
He was afterwards placed on the staff of General Gates, and remained so from the beginning of that officer's campaign against Burgoyne until the end of the war, having the rank of major.
Holding a facile pen, he was employed to write the famous
John Armstrong. Newburgh addresses.
They were powerfully and eloquently written.
After the war he was successively Secretary of State and Adjutant-General of Pennsylvania; and in 1784 he conducted operations against the settlers in the Wyoming Valley.
The Continental Congress in 1787 appointed him one of the judges for the Northwestern Territory, but he declined.
Two years later he married a sister of Chancellor Livingston, removed to New York, purchased a farm within the precincts of the old
John Burgoyne (search for this): entry armstrong-john
Armstrong, John, 1758-1843
Military officer; born in Carlisle, Pa., Nov. 25, 1758.
While a student at Princeton, in 1775, he became a volunteer in Potter's Pennsylvania regiment, and was soon afterwards made an aide-de-camp to General Mercer.
He was afterwards placed on the staff of General Gates, and remained so from the beginning of that officer's campaign against Burgoyne until the end of the war, having the rank of major.
Holding a facile pen, he was employed to write the famous
John Armstrong. Newburgh addresses.
They were powerfully and eloquently written.
After the war he was successively Secretary of State and Adjutant-General of Pennsylvania; and in 1784 he conducted operations against the settlers in the Wyoming Valley.
The Continental Congress in 1787 appointed him one of the judges for the Northwestern Territory, but he declined.
Two years later he married a sister of Chancellor Livingston, removed to New York, purchased a farm within the precincts of the old
John Armstrong (search for this): entry armstrong-john
Armstrong, John, 1758-1843
Military officer; born in Carlisle, Pa., Nov. 25, 1758.
While a student at Princeton, in 1775, he became a volunteer in Potter's Pennsylvania regiment, and was soon afterwards made an aide-de-camp to General Mercer.
He was afterwards placed on the staff of General Gates, and remained so from the be of that officer's campaign against Burgoyne until the end of the war, having the rank of major.
Holding a facile pen, he was employed to write the famous
John Armstrong. Newburgh addresses.
They were powerfully and eloquently written.
After the war he was successively Secretary of State and Adjutant-General of Pennsylvania; tack upon and capture of Washington in 1814, made him so unpopular that he resigned and retired to private life.
He died at Red Hook.
N. Y., April 1, 1843. General Armstrong wrote Notes on the War of 1812, and Lives of Generals Montgomery and Wayne for Sparks's American biography; also a Review of Wilkinson's memoirs, and treatis
Harmon Livingston (search for this): entry armstrong-john
1814 AD (search for this): entry armstrong-john