biography
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| lived:
| (1718–90)
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| biography:
| American revolutionary soldier, born in Danvers, Massachusetts, USA. A captain in the French and Indian War (1755–63), he was tortured by the Indians, given command of a regiment in 1759, and in 1762 went on the West India campaign. In 1764 he helped to relieve Detroit, then besieged by Pontiac. Given command of the forces of Connecticut in 1775, then of New York, he was defeated by Howe (1776) at Brooklyn Heights. In 1777 he was appointed to the defence of the Highlands of the Hudson. |
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