biography
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| (1753–1813)
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| biography:
| US soldier, born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. Quaker-educated, he fought under Washington (1778–80) and on the southern front (1781–3) during the American Revolution. From 1784–91 he headed the new nation's one-regiment military establishment. His 1790 expedition against Indians in Ohio was a notable failure, and he resigned (1792) and served as the Pennsylvania adjutant general (1793–9). |
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