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Wayne, Anthony, 1745-1796

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Personal name headingWayne, Anthony, 1745-1796
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LocatedGeorgia
Birth date1745-01-01
Death date1796-12-15
Place of birthChester County (Pa.)
Place of deathPennsylvania
Field of activityUnited States--Politics and government Pennsylvania--Politics and government Georgia--Politics and government
AffiliationUnited States. Continental Army
Profession or occupationFounding Fathers of the United States Soldiers Statesmen Politicians
Found inAnthony Wayne, Washington's reliable general, c1988: t.p.
Wikipedia, Oct. 28, 2022: (Anthony Wayne; born January 1, 1745, in Chester County, Pa.; died December 15, 1796, in Pennsylvania; an American soldier, officer, statesman, and Founding Father of English descent; elected to the Pennsylvania General Assembly and helped raise a Pennsylvania militia unit in 1775; during the Revolutionary War, he served in the Invasion of Quebec, the Philadelphia campaign, and the Yorktown campaign, and was promoted to major general in 1783, he retired from the Continental Army soon after; after the war, Wayne settled in Georgia and briefly represented Georgia in the United States House of Representatives; he returned to the Army to accept command of U.S. forces in the Northwest Indian War; Wayne died during a return trip to Pennsylvania)
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