biography
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| male
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| lived:
| (1800–46)
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| biography:
| US soldier, born in Washington Co, Maryland, USA. The son of a congressman, he trained at West Point (1818). At the head of a corps of ‘flying artillery’, he advanced his guns to within 100 yards of the Mexican lines at Palo Alto (8 May 1846), but was mortally wounded there and died a few days later. |
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