274 BIOGRAPHY. 



arms, GEORGE WASHINGTON, of Virginia, commander-in-chief of the 

 Revolutionary armies, and first president of the United States, was 

 born February 22, 1732 ; and died December 14, 1799. General 

 Alexander Hamilton, of New York, fell in a duel, in 1804; and 

 Colonel Aaron Burr, his antagonist, died in 1836. General William 

 Moultrie, of South Carolina, also an historian, died in 1805. Colonel 

 Timothy Pickering, of Massachusetts, died in 1829 ; and Charles 

 C. Pinckney, of South Carolina, in 1825. Of other general officers 

 of the Revolution, General Joseph Warren, of Massachusetts, fell at 

 Bunker's Hill, in 1775 ; and General Richard Montgomery, of New 

 York, fell at Quebec, in the same year. General Hugh Mercer, of 

 Pennsylvania, fell at Princeton, in 1777. General Israel Putnam, 

 of Connecticut, died in 1790 ; General Nathaniel Greene, of Rhode 

 Island, in 1786 ; General Benjamin Lincoln, of Massachusetts, in 

 1810; General Henry Knox, of Massachusetts, in 1806; General 

 John Stark, of New Hampshire, in 1822 ; General Ethan Allen, 

 of Vermont, in 1789 ; General Philip Schuyler, of New York, in 

 1804 ; General Horatio Gates, of New York, in 1806 ; General 

 James Clinton, of New York, in 1812 ; General Anthony Wayne, 

 of Pennsylvania, in 1796 ; General Otho H. Williams, of Maryland, 

 in 1794 ; General Charles Lee, of Virginia, in 1782 ; General Daniel 

 Morgan, of Virginia, in 1799 ; General Francis Marion, of South 

 Carolina, in 1795 ; and General Thomas Sumter, of South Carolina, 

 died in 1832. Of foreign officers who assisted our country, besides 

 La Fayette, Kosciusko and Pulaski, already mentioned, Baron De 

 Kalb, of Germany, was slain near Camden, in 1780 ; and Baron 

 Steuben, of Prussia, died in 1794. Capt. Nicholas Biddle, of the 

 Continental Navy, fell in 1778 ; and Capt. John Paul Jones, died 

 in 1792. 



Of officers distinguished in the war of 1812, we would first name 

 General Zebulon M. Pike, of New Jersey, who fell at York in 

 Canada, in 1813. General Henry Dearborn, of Massachusetts, died 

 in 1829; General Thomas Pinckney, of South Carolina, in 1828; 

 General Jacob Brown, of New York, in 1828; General James 

 Wilkinson, of Maryland, in 1825 ; General James Winchester, 

 of Tennessee, in 1826; General William H. Winder, of Maryland, 

 in 1824 ; General John Strieker, of Maryland, in 1825 ; General 

 George Izard, of South Carolina, in 1823 ; General Ehazer W. 

 Ripley, of New Hampshire, in 1839 ; General Wade Hampton, of 

 South Carolina, in 1835 ; and General Stephen Van Rensselaer, died 

 in 1839. Generals Jackson, Porter, Macomb, Gaines, and Scott, 

 are, we believe, still living. Of distinguished naval officers, in the 

 war of 1812, Captain James Lawrence was slain in 1813 ; Captain 

 William Burrows, and Captain William H. Mien, fell in the same 

 year; Commodore William Bainbridge, died in 1833 ; Commodore 

 Stephen Decatur, in 1820 ; Commodore Oliver H. Perry, in 1820; 

 Commodore Thomas McDonough, in 1825 ; Commodore Joshua 

 Barney, in 1818; and Commodore John Rogers died in 1838. The 

 names of Barron, Stewart, Hull, Chauncey, Jones, Morris, and War- 

 rington, now stand at the head of the list of the United States navy. 



Of statesmen since the times of the Revolution, James Madison, 



