biography
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| lived:
| (1740–95)
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| biography:
| US soldier and political leader, born in Somersworth, New Hampshire, USA. A lawyer by profession, he was a member of the First Continental Congress in 1775. He became a major-general in the Continental Army, and served at the siege of Boston (1775–6) and Staten Island (1777). He failed at the siege of Newport (1778), but in 1779 fought against the Six Nations and won at Elmira. He resigned his commission in 1779, and became attorney general of New Hampshire (1782–6). |
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