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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.

EMBELLISHED WITH PORTRAITS.

BY THOMAS WILSON,

OF PHILADELPHIA.

Assisted by several Literary Gentlemen, in different parts of the
United States; and carefully collected from the most authentic sources.

SPEAK OF MAN AS HE IS, IN THE LANGuage of truth, and not
OF ADULATION.

IN TWO VOLUMES.

VOL. I.

NEW-YORK:

frinted and puBLISHED BY JOHN LOW.

NO. 139 CHERRY-STREET.

1817.

District of New-York, ss.

BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the fith day of April, in the forty

first year of the Independence of the United States of AmerL. S. ica, John Low, of the said district, hath deposited, in this office the title of a Book, the right, whereof he claims as Pro

prietor 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. Assisted by several Literary Gentlemen, in different parts of the United States; and carefully collected from the most authentic sources. Speak of Man as he is, in the language of truth and not of adulation. In two volumes."

In conformity to the act of Congress of the United States, entitled, An act for the encouragement of Learning, hy 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 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 times therein mentioned, and extending the benefits thereof to the arts of designing, engraving and etching historical and other prints."

THERON RUDD,

Clerk of the Southern District of New-York

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