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A

MILITARY JOURNAL

DURING THE

AMERICAN REVOLUTIONARY WAR,

FROM 1775 TO 1783 ;

DESCRIBING INTERESTING EVENTS AND TRANSACTIONS OF
THIS PERIOD;

WITH NUMEROUS

HISTORICAL FACTS AND ANECDOTES,

FROM THE ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT.

TO WHICH IS ADDED,

AN APPENDIX,

CONTAINING

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES

OF

SEVERAL GENERAL OFFICERS.

BY JAMES THACHER, M. D.

LATE SURGEON IN THE AMERICAN ARMY.

SECOND EDITION, REVISED AND CORRECTED.

"As Americans we hail with delight any attempt to rescue from oblivion the words
or actions of those whose names we have been taught to revere."

BOSTON:

PUBLISHED BY COTTONS & BARNARD,

184, WASHINGTON-STREET.

John Cotton, printer.

1827.