. The Library of historic characters and famous events of all nations. M. ANTHONY WAYNE was the Neyof the War of American Independ-ence. His name has passed into asynonym for all that is nnsnrpassedin conrage. Men of Waynesclass have been, in all ages, thefavorites of the masses. He stoodalone among the American generalsin the terrible power which heinfused into a column of he been one of NapoleonsMarshals, he would have rivaledMacdonald at Wagram, or Ney at Waterloo. Anthony Wayne, whose ancestors were of English descent,was born at Easttown, Chester County, Pennsylvania, onJanuary
. The Library of historic characters and famous events of all nations. M. ANTHONY WAYNE was the Neyof the War of American Independ-ence. His name has passed into asynonym for all that is nnsnrpassedin conrage. Men of Waynesclass have been, in all ages, thefavorites of the masses. He stoodalone among the American generalsin the terrible power which heinfused into a column of he been one of NapoleonsMarshals, he would have rivaledMacdonald at Wagram, or Ney at Waterloo. Anthony Wayne, whose ancestors were of English descent,was born at Easttown, Chester County, Pennsylvania, onJanuary i, 1745. He received a fair education, and, at theage of eighteen, became a land-surveyor. At the age oftwenty-one he was sent to Nova Scotia as a sun^eyor in theservice of a wealthy association, on the recommendation ofBenjamin Franklin. In 1767 he married and settled perma-nently in his native county. As early as 1764 he had appliedhimself to the study of military science. In 1774 he waschosen one of the provincial deputies to consider the relationsbetween the Colon
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