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THE

BIOGRAPHY

OF THE PRINCIPAL

AMERICAN

Military and Naval Heroes;

COMPREHENDING

Details of their Achievements

DURING THE

Revolutionary and Late Wars.

Interspersed with authentic Anecdotes not found in any other work.

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EMBELLISHED WITH PORTRAITS.

BY THOMAS WILSON,

OF PHILADELPHIA.

Speak of Man as he is, in the language of Truth, and not of Adulation.

SECOND EDITION, REVISED.

IN TWO VOLUMES.

VOL. I.

NEW YORK:

PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY JOHN LOW,

NO. 139 CHERRY-STREET.

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Southern District of New-York, ss.

We it remembered, That on the twentieth day of January, in the forty-fifth year of the Independence of the United States L. S. of America, JOHN Low, of the said district, hath deposited in this office, the title of a Book, the right whereof he claims as Proprietor, in the words following, to wit:

"The Biography of the principal American Military and Naval Heroes; comprehending details of their achievements during the Revolutionary and Late Wars. Interspersed with authentic Anecdotes not found in any other work. Embellished with Portraits. By Thomas Wilson, of Philadelphia. Speak of Man as he is, in the language of Truth, and not of Adulation. Second Edition, revised. In two Volumes."

In conformity to an act of Congress of the United States, entitled, "An act for the encouragement of Learning, by securing the copies of Maps, Charts and Books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the time therein mentioned. And also to an act entitled "An act, supplementary to an act, entitled an Aet for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of Maps, Charts, and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies during the times therein mentioned, and extending the benefits thereof to the arts of designing, engraving, and etching historical and other prints."

GILBERT LIVINGSTON THOMPSON,

Clerk of the Southern District of New-York.

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