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The biography traces the life of an eighteenth-century American soldier who rose from a Pennsylvania landowner and surveyor to a Continental Army officer and later general. It recounts early surveying work and civilian business, service throughout the Revolutionary War — including campaigns in Canada, Ticonderoga, Brandywine, Paoli (after which he won an acquittal), Germantown, Valley Forge, Monmouth, and the surprise capture of Stony Point for which Congress awarded a medal — and his postwar command against Native confederacies in the Old Northwest that culminated in a decisive victory and the founding of Fort Wayne. It also describes his combative temperament, leadership style, and military reputation.
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