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" Putnam, your life is as clear to you as mine 

 is to me, I am determined to go." One hun- 

 dred of the van under Putnam, immediately 

 filed olF with lord Howe. They soon fell in 

 with the left flank of the enemy's advanced par- 

 ty, and their first fire proved fatal to his lord- 

 ship. Thus fell this gallant young nobleman, 

 unspeakably regretted by all who knew him. 



His manners and his virtues had made him 

 the idol of the army. From his first arrival in 

 America, he had accommodated himself and 

 his regiment to the peculiar nature of the ser' 

 vice. He cut his hair short, fashioned his 

 clothing, and divested himself and his regiment 

 of all superfluous baggage, that they might not 

 be entangled by the woods, or be easily captur- 

 ed by the Indians, " Exemplary to the officer, 

 a friend to the soldier, the model of discipline, 

 he had not failed to encounter every hardship 

 and hazard."'* Such v/ere his virtues and ser- 

 vices that the province of Massachusetts, mov- 

 ed by gratitude erected a monument in West- 

 minster Abbey, as a testimony of the regard 

 and affection which their officers and soldiers 

 bore to his memorv-f 



Nor was his death without its influence and 

 iise, Putnam and the troops which saw him 

 fall, move'd on with an animated determination 

 to avenge his death ; they cut their way ob- 

 liquely through the enemy's ranks, and being 

 joined by some other parties, charged so furi- 

 ously in the rear, that nearly three hundred of 

 the enemy were killed on the spot, and one 



* Putnam's Lifc,p. 5*- 

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