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Life and Times of Washington, Volume 2 - Revised, Enlarged, and Enriched by Benson John Lossing;John Frederick Schroeder
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We must now call the reader's attention to the northern campaign of
1777 which, remote as it was from Washington's immediate scene of
action, was not conducted without his aid and direction.

1. Footnote: This was Lieut.-Col. Samuel Smith, of the Maryland line.
After serving in this perilous post at Fort Mifflin, he was made
general, and in that rank assisted in the defense of Baltimore in the
War of 1812. See Document [A] at the end of this chapter.

2. Footnote: Donop was a brave officer. He was found on the battlefield
by Captain Mauduit Duplessis, a talented French engineer, who had
assisted Greene in defense of the fort, and who attended the
unfortunate count on his death-bed till he expired, three days after
the battle, at the early age of thirty-seven. "I die," said he, in his
last hour, "a victim of my ambition, and of the avarice of my
sovereign." A fine commentary on the mercenary system of the German
princes. The government of Hesse Cassel quite recently caused the
remains of Count Donop to be removed from Red Bank, to be interred with
distinguished honor in his own country.

3. Footnote: Judge Marshall, the biographer of Washington, on whose
account of this affair ours is founded, was present on the occasion. He
served in the army from the beginning of the war; was appointed first
lieutenant in 1776, and captain in 1777. He resigned his commission in
1778, and, devoting himself to the practice of the law, subsequently
rose to the eminent office of Chief Justice of the United States. He
died at Philadelphia, July 6th, 1836, aged seventy-nine.


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