Excerpt from Memorials of Our Father and Mother: Also a Family Genealogy In 1775, at the age of fifteen, with his pa rents' approval, at the very outbreak of hos tilities between England and the Colonies, he enlisted in the army of the Revolution. June 17, 1775, only fifteen years and three months old, he was at the battle of Banker's Hill - not in the fight, but on picket duty upon the marsh near by, watching an English vessel, to keep her men from landing, with no defense from their repeated shot except a low, frail ...
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Excerpt from Memorials of Our Father and Mother: Also a Family Genealogy In 1775, at the age of fifteen, with his pa rents' approval, at the very outbreak of hos tilities between England and the Colonies, he enlisted in the army of the Revolution. June 17, 1775, only fifteen years and three months old, he was at the battle of Banker's Hill - not in the fight, but on picket duty upon the marsh near by, watching an English vessel, to keep her men from landing, with no defense from their repeated shot except a low, frail breastwork of rails and hay, behind which they lay all day in the scorching sun. After the evacuation of Boston, Gen. Wash ington removed his army to Long Island. Here, August 27, 1776, another disastrous battle occurred. Our father was in it, and with our retreating army crossed over to New York. From thence our army, being flanked iby the British, retreat-ed to White Plains. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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