Название: The Life of John Marshall, Volume 1: Frontiersman, soldier, lawmaker, 1755-1788
Автор: Albert J. Beveridge
Издательство: Public Domain
Жанр: Биографии и Мемуары
isbn: http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/40388
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Marshall, i, 156. The fact that Marshall places himself in this detachment, which was a part of Maxwell's light infantry, together with his presence at Iron Hill, fixes his position in the battle of the Brandywine and in the movements that immediately followed. It is reasonably certain that he was under Maxwell until just before the battle of Germantown. Of this skirmish Washington's optimistic and excited Secretary wrote on the spot, that Maxwell's men killed thirty men and one captain "left dead on the spot." (Harrison to the President of Congress, Sept. 11, 1777;
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Thomas Marshall was promoted to be lieutenant-colonel Aug. 13, 1776; and colonel Feb. 21, 1777. (Heitman, 285.)
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Trevelyan, iv, 230.
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Marshall, i, footnote to 158.
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Marshall, i, 156; and Trevelyan, iv, 230-31. Washington reported that Wayne and Maxwell's men retreated only "after a severe conflict." (Washington to President of Congress, Sept. 11, 1777;
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Trevelyan, iv, 232.
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Marshall, i, 157-58.
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Marshall, i, 158-59.
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Four years afterward Chastellux found that "most of the trees bear the mark of bullets or cannon shot." (Chastellux, 118.)
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Washington to President of Congress, Sept. 11, 1777;
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Marshall (1st ed.), iii, 141, and see Washington to President of Congress, Sept. 23, 1777;
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Marshall, i, 160.
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Marshall, i, 160. When their enlistments expired, the soldiers took the Government's muskets and bayonets home with them. Thus thousands of muskets and bayonets continually disappeared. (See Kapp, 117.)
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Marshall, i, 160-61.
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Washington to President of Congress, Sept. 23, 1777;
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This is an inference, but a fair one. Maxwell was under Wayne; and Marshall was one of Maxwell's light infantry of picked men. (
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Marshall, i, 161. "The British accounts represent the American loss to have been much larger. It probably amounted to at least three hundred men." (
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Marshall repeatedly expresses this thought in his entire account of the war.
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Washington to President of Congress, Sept. 23, 1777;
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Marshall, i, 162.
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Washington to President of Congress, Sept. 23, 1777;
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American officer's description of the battle. (
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Marshall, i, 168.
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From an American officer's description, in
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"The rebels carried off a large number of their wounded as we could see by the blood on the roads, on which we followed them so far [nine miles]." (British officer's account of battle;
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Marshall, i, 170-71.
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Marshall (1st ed.), iii, 287. Marshall omits this sentence in his second edition. But his revised account is severe enough.
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The Reverend Jacob Duché, to Washington, Oct. 8, 1777;
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Washington to President of Congress, Dec. 10, 1777;
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Clark's Diary,
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Marshall, i, 184.
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Marshall, i, 184.
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It appears that, throughout the Revolution, Pennsylvania's metropolis was noted for its luxury. An American soldier wrote in 1779: "Philada. may answer very well for a man with his pockets well lined, whose pursuit is idleness and dissipation. But to us who are not in the first predicament, and who are not upon the latter errand, it is intolerable… A morning visit, a dinner at 5 o'clock – Tea at 8 or 9 – supper and up all night is the round
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Trevelyan, iv, 279.
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The influence of Margaret Shippen in causing Arnold's treason is now questioned by some. (See Avery, vi, 243-49.)
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Trevelyan, iv, 281-82.
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