ISBN: | 9781612772424 |
Publisher: | Kent State University Press |
Published: | 28 June, 1996 |
Format: | eBook |
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Jacob Jennings Brown may well be the most successful-yet forgotten-general of his time. Born into a Pennsylvania Quaker family on the eve of the American Revolution, Brown worked as a Quaker schoolteacher and surveyor and was a pioneer settler of northern New York before serving in the U.S. Army during the War of 1812, eventually rising to the highest command. Early in the war he commanded the militia defending 200 miles of the New York-Canadian border. His successful defense of the Lake Ontario
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