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”It may be doubted whether he possessed those qualities which make a wary partisan, and which are so often possessed in an e there was none in the colony, until near the close of the war The inia of that day, covered as it ith forests, cut up by streams, and beset by predatory bands, would have been the Indian warrior; and as a soldier approached that model, would he have possessed the proper tactics for the tihter than Jay, or Livingston, or the Ada a partisan as Tarleton or Siht readily afford to concede; but that he evinced, what neither Jay, nor Livingston, nor the Adamses did evince, a determined resolution to stake his reputation and his life on the issue of arned his coer was refused him, exhibit a lucid proof that, whatever may have been his ultirand elements of military success,--personal enterprise, and unquestioned courage”[230]

FOOTNOTES:

[195] _Hist Mag_ for Aug 1867, 92

[196] 4 _Am Arch_ iii 375

[197] 4 _Am Arch_ ii 1902

[198] 4 _Am Arch_ ii 1834

[199] 4 _Am Arch_ ii 1849

[200] 4 _Am Arch_ ii 1850, 1851

[201] _Ibid_ ii 1852

[202] _Ibid_ ii 1878

[203] 4 _Am Arch_ ii 1879, 1883

[204] _Ibid_ ii 1884, 1885

[205] 4 _Am Arch_ ii 1902

[206] MS

[207] 4 _Am Arch_ iii 377

[208] _Ibid_ iii 377, 378

[209] _Ibid_ iii 378

[210] 4 _Am Arch_ iii 393 See, also, his oath of office, _ibid_ iii 411

[211] 4 _Am Arch_ iii 776

[212] Wirt, 159

[213] 4 _Am Arch_ iii 1067

[214] 4 _Am Arch_ iii 1713-1715

[215] Graphic contemporary accounts of this battle may be found in 4 _Am Arch_ iv 224, 228, 229

[216] Wirt, 178