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  2. Margaret Kemble Gage - Wikipedia

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    Margaret Kemble was born in New Brunswick, Province of New Jersey, and lived in East Brunswick Township. [1] [2] [3] She was the daughter of Peter Kemble, a wealthy New Jersey businessman and politician, and Gertrude Bayard; the granddaughter of Judge Samuel Bayard (b. 1669) and Margaretta Van Cortlandt (b. 1674); and the great-granddaughter of Mayor of New York City Stephanus Van Cortlandt ...

  3. Horatio Gates - Wikipedia

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    Horatio Lloyd Gates (July 26, 1727 – April 10, 1806) was a British-born American army officer who served as a general in the Continental Army during the early years of the Revolutionary War. He took credit for the American victory in the Battles of Saratoga (1777) – a matter of contemporary and historical controversy – and was blamed for ...

  4. Thomas Gage - Wikipedia

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    General Thomas Gage (10 March 1718/19 – 2 April 1787) was a British Army officer and colonial administrator best known for his many years of service in North America, including serving as Commander-in-Chief, North America during the early days of the American Revolution.

  5. Thomas Conway - Wikipedia

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    Thomas Conway (February 27, 1735 – March 1795) was an Irish-born army officer and colonial administrator who served as the governor of French India from 1787 to 1789. Over the course of his military career, he served in the French Royal Army, Continental Army and British Army and fought in the American Revolutionary War and the French Revolutionary Wars.

  6. Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis - Wikipedia

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    The first British statue to be erected in Calcutta, the capital of British India, was also to Cornwallis. The marble portrait statue, with figures of Fortitude and Truth on each side of the plinth's base, was completed by John Bacon Jr., and was a variant of the statue finished by John Bacon Sr. for East India House in London.

  7. Saratoga Battle Monument - Wikipedia

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    The Saratoga Monument of 1883 commemorates the surrender of the British General Burgoyne to American General Gates in 1777. The Saratoga Battle Monument is a 155-foot (47 m) granite obelisk located in the village of Victory, Saratoga County, New York.

  8. 'Roots' actor LeVar Burton learns he’s descended from a ...

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    LeVar Burton got hit with a one-two punch while tracing his family's ancestry on the Jan. 16 episode of PBS' hit series "Finding Your Roots.". Burton rose to fame as a child actor in the TV ...

  9. Portrait of Horatio Gates - Wikipedia

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    Portrait of Horatio Gates is a portrait painting by the American artist Gilbert Stuart.It depicts the British-American soldier Horatio Gates. [1]Born in England and a career soldier in the British Army, Gates settled in America and served in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War.