Memoirs of Tarleton Brown a Captain of the Revolutionary Army
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His advantages for education were limited, and until the age of forty he was employed in the pursuits of agriculture. He was appointed in Feb. , 1776, a Brigadier, and soon after a Maj. - Gen. , in the Provincial army, and in Feb. , 1777, a Maj. -Gen. On NOTES. 55 the Continental establisliment. His services were conspicuous towards the close of that year, in the Northern Campaign. He was second in command in the army which, under Gen. Gates, captured the British under Burg-oyne. On the day aft...er the battle of Stillwater, he received a dangerous wound while recon- noitering. In the following year, he was appointed by Congress to take command in the Southern department, at the solicitation of the delegates from that portion of the Union. After a number of inferior operations, on the 20th of June, 1779, he made an un- successful attack on the British post at Stouo Ferry. He after- wards retired to Charleston, and attempted its defence, but was compelled on the 12th May, 1780, to capitulate.
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