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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 ...
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.
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 ...
Gates had assigned the left wing of the defenses to Arnold, and assumed command himself of the right, which was nominally assigned to General Lincoln, whom Gates had detached in August with some troops to harass the British positions behind Burgoyne's army. [31] Initial dispositions and movements at the Battle of Freeman's Farm, 19 September 1777
The British army was accorded the honours of war, and Burgoyne had his sword returned to him by Gates. Baroness Frederika Riedesel, wife of General Riedesel, just emerged from her shelter in the cellar of the Marshall House, attended the surrender ceremony which she vividly describes in her Journal: "On the 17th of October the capitulation was ...
Survivor of British Bill Gates’ superyacht disaster recounts struggle to save her baby—‘All I could hear around me was the screams of others’ Chloe Berger August 20, 2024 at 2:14 PM
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 ...
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.