One hundred years with the State Fencibles : a history of the First Company State Fencibles, Infantry Corps State Fencibles, Infantry Battalion State Fencibles, and the Old Guard State Fencibles, 1813-1913 . ^ throughthe heart, he fell instantly dead. The convicts were still unsubdued, and they with heavy planks,used as a battering ram, were beating down the Sixth Street gate,when the Walnut Street gate was thrown open to admit a body ofcitizen soldiers and soon the passage bristled with bayonets andpresented a power against which they could not hope to Sheriff, Caleb North, put th
One hundred years with the State Fencibles : a history of the First Company State Fencibles, Infantry Corps State Fencibles, Infantry Battalion State Fencibles, and the Old Guard State Fencibles, 1813-1913 . ^ throughthe heart, he fell instantly dead. The convicts were still unsubdued, and they with heavy planks,used as a battering ram, were beating down the Sixth Street gate,when the Walnut Street gate was thrown open to admit a body ofcitizen soldiers and soon the passage bristled with bayonets andpresented a power against which they could not hope to Sheriff, Caleb North, put the force under the command ofColonel Biddle, who took prompt and soldierly measures to sup-press the riot. Mounting a marble block, the Colonel with that airof determination which marked his race, took out his watch andsaid: I give you just three minutes to march to your rooms, anyhesitation will bring upon you a volley from these muskets. Thatwas sufficient, they felt that now there would be no trifling and. i;^^^^/i4>^/i/t^ (::^^^/^^. FIKST CAtTAlX OK THE STATE KEXC1 liLES. 1820 PARADE—WASHINGTONS BIRTHDAY—FUNERAL 15 they sullenly took the way to their quarters. By the aid of themilitary, forty-five of the most prominent disturbers were put inthe cells and ironed, to await the .iudg:ment of the Court. A bodyof fifty men were kept on guard for three nights and four days,when order was again restored. In May, 1820, the Corps paraded with the 81st Regiment, P. M.,Col. Peter A. Browne, as right flank company. He was one of thesigners of the original papers for the formation of the State Fenci-bles, a prominent member of the Philadelphia Bar, and commandedthe Independent Blues in the Division under General Cadwaladerduring the War, He was counsel for the defendant in the caseof Richard Coutts Smith, who was convicted and executed for thenuirder of Captain Carson, and when the insurrection took placein the Prison, comer of Sixth and Walnut Streets, he renderedefficient servic
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