Washington and the generals of the American revolution .. . ic in our heroic age, dowe remonstrate against a word of astute apology or exte-nuation of that which the common sense of mankind hasunited to condemn. The solitary traitor of the AmericanRevolution should be allowed to stand on the bad eminencewhich his iniquity has won. MAJOR-GENERAL WILLIAM SMALLWOOD. THIS officer was a native of Maryland. He arrived inNew York at the head of a battalion on the 8th of August,1776, and was in the actions which followed Long Islandand at White Plains. On the 23d of October he was cre-ated a brigadier
Washington and the generals of the American revolution .. . ic in our heroic age, dowe remonstrate against a word of astute apology or exte-nuation of that which the common sense of mankind hasunited to condemn. The solitary traitor of the AmericanRevolution should be allowed to stand on the bad eminencewhich his iniquity has won. MAJOR-GENERAL WILLIAM SMALLWOOD. THIS officer was a native of Maryland. He arrived inNew York at the head of a battalion on the 8th of August,1776, and was in the actions which followed Long Islandand at White Plains. On the 23d of October he was cre-ated a brigadier-general. In the summer of 1777, heaccompanied General Sullivan on his expedition to StatenIsland. When the British arrived in the Chesapeake, hewas despatched to assemble the militia of the westernshore of Maryland, with about one thousand of whom hejoined the main army on the 28th of September. In thebattle of Germantown, General Forman and GeneralSmallwood led the militia of New Jersey and the 19th of December, learning that the British in-.
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