HE EAN RO SN A SL NS nse By SRA i a is a " pi alii Real Story of Trenton Fight In the Star Magazine of February 22 was a raproduction of the picture by Emmanual Leutze of “Washington Croasing the Delaware” in which the general Is portrayed standing at the bow of the boat on “dress parade” *The descriptive article in regard to the picture said that it had been sug- Kested that Washington endangered his boat by standing that was no historical data as to the general's position in the boat. The fol- lowing lett from C. P Ibrick of Downey, Calif, throws eresting light on this ques and there er tien tion May I offer the following that may to some extent supply the deficiency? In 1860, starting from Boston for Kansas, mother me with her to to her old my birth, then a nine others that we | very man whose name [ cannot now recall, but who had Delaw with Washin He said th: time of the Trenton he was fourteen to compute his age as being ninety-eight at the time of our interview He was a native of Marblehead, Mass, and he belonged to the contin- gent known as the “Marblehead Fish- ermen,” which body men, history tells us, was very eflicient in the handling of boats for Washington, and rendered such famous <erossing of the Delaware, Spies had brought reports to Gen- eral Washington that the Hessians at Trenton were holding “high carnival” with Christmas hilarity: that, owing “or “anced Immunity possi- bi. of attack by Washington, then on the opposite side of the ice-gorged river, they had almost midtary vigilance, and, in fact, were mostly all “drunk.” Washington saw his opportunity to strike a blow and decided to make the attempt, issuing orders that silence must be maintained until the moment of collision with the enemy, and then to use the bayonet exclusive. the dis “Marble the were or- just b fore my took friends M boy inchester, N. H. years visited Was “crossed the ire’ gton. t at the a ba 1 Hittie of years old, so it Is easy service at from the abandoned absolute Iv. and to endeavor to avoid charge of firearms. To the head Fishermen” was assigned handling of the bo and all dered to obey the instructions of “water wise” body of men, Instructed to Lie Down, Accordingly, all armed Instructed to le down of the boats, Wasi down in one of the stern, “licker.” den, After landing, a its, that men were in the bottoms rton himself lay larzest boats, at its up with a fisherman's All loud talking was forbid covered rush was made for the Hessian sentry posts, many of the sentinels being caught napping. Al were, as the old man gleefully sald, *hagneted like rats.” When the quar ters reached the same method was applied to the Hessians as they swarmed out and attempt forma- tion. Colonel Rahl, the commander, was mortally wounded by numerous bayonet thrusts, Washington, ag we know, after most of the Hessians that were able to fight had been successfully “hagneted,” had to make a hurried getaway, as the main body of the British army was only a short distance away, The eap- tured survivors were hurried to the boats and taken back across the river as prisoners of war. Washington and most of his men were back to their old position before the British knew definitely what had happened, Hatred for Hessians, The foregoing 18 practically the old veteran's story, only eliminating a pro- fuse profanity with which it was dee. ornted. His hatred of the Hessians was intense, and his old eyes would gleam when he told of “ramming the bagnets in the dd Hessians,” The were bddbd Colonial soldiers regarded the Hes. sians as paid hirelings of King George. That was true, but they by the prince of Hesse-Darmstadt come over and fight sold and for vere obliged to England, Many of the Hessians hated the idea of having to fight against the liberty which they themselves had dreamed of, but the old Colonial soldiers had no knowledge of that, A Hessian In thelr estimation was no better than a rat. Many were butchered ruthlessly; and of course, in their desperation, they retaliated ir manner. No. General Washington did not stand up in the boat on “dress parade.” as portrayed by Leutze, He obeyed the orders of the “Marblehead Fish ermen” and lay down during the peril- ous crossing. Thereafter he on feet most emphatically.—Kansas ike Was his City Star, Seeded eb Pte e ere Peed & Haym Salomon a a Financier Whose Services He]ped Win Struggle for Independence. ——— 7 n grave in Philadelphia the body of Haym Salomon, loans to aid the for Independence were regarded by Robe ert Mortis ak having saved the Ameri. can Revolutionary war from disaster, That relatively unknown of the financial benefactor of his adopted is on An holds whose so be revs unEnov struggle grave between Eighth and Ninth streets, in the ceme- nd Porta. that Prussian country Spruce street, tery established by Spanish a in 1740, the Salomon was born in Li Poland Although born In Poland of Portuguese Hebrew descent, While a youth, he visited many coun. tries, acquiring various languages. and came to the United States before the Revolution, He in New York when the British took possession of the city, and was arrested with other patriots and thrown in prison. When released, he went to Philadelphia and gsoftled as a merchant and banker, He handled the war subsidies of France and Holland, and became the French banker in this country Throughout the Revolution he de voted his money and services to finane. ing the American cause. He lent $600. 000 to Robert Morris, financier of the Revolution, and gave funds outright to several leaders, including Jefferson, He financed agents or ministers of for. eign countries when they could not get money from thelr governments, When he died, In 1785, the govern. ment still owed him S$400.000, which Morris had borrowed, and his relatives sought to claim it. The matter came to the attention of congress, and, al though ecomuiitices reported at eral sensions that the claim was Jost and should be pald, Salomon's de. scendanty never wore able to calles, guese Jews year ssa, Kalomon was wis BOY. Statue at Philadelphia Recalls Memory of Great Patriot. Wed Pdddd ddd EATS A FOR AE On January all Pennsylvania, as well t tribute the memory of Benjamin Franklin, on his birthday anniversary. Here is his statue at the Post Philiandelphia, where he stood in a thun first ru Benjamin cemetery at the Arch streets in burial ground is The claim hag been advanced from time to time that Franklin's remains should be removed to Boston, the city of his birth, or to Washington, where a memorial erected in his honor to match that of Lincoln. Ow- ing to fact that this was known to be contrary to Franklin's own as other puys to Office marks the he flew iscovered the iments ity. lin lies In a little of Fifth and Philadelphia. Fran corner somewhat neglected. should be he far. It the paradoxes of man. kind's reverence for dead heroes that the simpler the memorial the less at- tention it And yet there much to commend this simplicity, pi the more is one of receives, all so when it and wish of i at and var expresses the character th him- & nan ns was Frank- IL ia toon » never lost og | b WAC eee Peete dd Ped et eid ry » John Sevier Forever Remembered for Glorious Victory at King's Mountain. Seed ede PPP Peed SPP Ped P deed 4 we : * @ nntain BE SOUnLain, of C., Is known to historians as i in the Rev. the most brilliant victo one ries olution. Henry Cabot Lodge described { its effect as “electric, «till wild wilderness King's mountain coun and picturesque, was stark in men, hearing 00) backwoods and fire. seemingly ime of fire under officer the dacs when the wearing wather jerkins filntlock, charged up pregnable in the from 3100 wellarmed troops Col. Patrick Ferguson, a crack | of George 111 Under leaders such Sevier, who had come from warfare with the French and Indians in the West, the valley ploneers gathered to turn the loyalists back to the sea, Their anawer to Ferguson's shout of “Crush the rebels,” was to gain the top of the ridge and take more than half his men captive, With Ferguson out of the reckoning, Cornwallis had to concentrate his army. Yorktown was then only a year away. As a military exploit, despite the thoroughness of the victory, the battie in Iteelf was of small import. Yet in ita effect it wis another Bennington, coming as it did at a time when hopes were lowest and It seemed the low: buming flume of the patriotic cause was about to flicker and die. It hearts ened and stimulated the whole coun try ands put an end to the wanton cruelty of Tory groups which had persecuted patriots snd driven them from thelr homes throughout the Youth, muzzle the 1 silk a aging Arms, slope face as Col. John SOP PLP IPI SL EPP PPPLIY De Kalb Volunteer Who Gave His Life for American Freedom. SPP 0RrPedEPPe of the Amerl- thelr military ra ll or is were free bright, great can Revolution inexperience needy soldiers and whose cot or and Great Britain drew upon the German reser- voir and the French hb Johann de Kalb tendorf, Bavaria, had military chiefly with whose necessities were whose prospects were dismal, eiped America. was born at Hut. July 20, 1721. He Europe, army, which wrved through experience in the French he entered in } He s the seven years’ war and came out of in as a © OTT rover it with the 1768 he secret ment, rank of major general. was America French accounts for his service in the tevolu- Like John Paul Jones it was his acquaintance with the Col. and with the American and thelr ideas that ma sent to agent of the and that visit subsequent tionary army onies people ie him sympa. thetic and eager to be of service when military service was needed, De Kalb general ia command of the surviving American army in the South, at Camden, 8S, C. in August, 1780, just in time to be In in the final of that general's reputation pretensions, In the defeat the troops were alm Mary. land regi lost half their nun » 4 The desperateness of ined Gates, the volved pee and Delaware ated and the the res nid the corr to his old con CEPI IPLIVVEEEVIEEEPIELIRLS > * Kosciuszko Patriot of Poland Who Fought for Liberty of America. SP Ped P PPP Ped LP ede PPP PoP e BEETAsE ron) FR More 1! has passed gince he an impover- ished and broken-hearted failure, yet the world still thrills to the name of Thaddeus the bt in A century 1 1 3 vil gid 0 exe, Kosciuszko, beloved one of the most useful and popular officers in the American army during the Revolution. He less than thirty when In the autumn of 1775 he left Poland for France, where the conversation was all of the struggle between Brite sin and her Nofth American colonies, So enthusiastic did he become over the prospects of fighting on foreign soil for a freedom denied his own country, that in the spring of 1776 galled for Philadelphia, where he vol unteered his services and was aceept- ed by the American forces, which he faithfully served during the six years that followed. was Philadelphia against possible by the British fleet, do his work that congress gave him the rank of colonel in the engineering Corps, wis the fortification of West Point on the Hudson, the site of which he is gitld to have chosen, He threw up the fortifications which saved Saratoga and fought brilliantly there and at Yel- lowaprings, succeeded Laurens in charge of mill: tary Intelligence. attack Paul Revere’s Midnight Ride the ommenced immortal Longfellow might his historic p relate in the North tower only to warn the safety, =o that In win lan- church Charlestovn and gone on to that the terns were hung aung committee of case Revere were captured river from Boston, ot} might be aid be dl River, Boston ” 5 Fr Revere at Medford. two haries ck” over rowed Revere friends wade for Medford where, “1 awaked the captain of the linute Men; and after that, I alarmed okt house. till 1 got to Lex- * There he found Messrs. Han- and Adams and told them it the Pritish soldiers on their wa) every was were to for Con- the nuni- either Lexington take them prisoner or bent cord for the purpose of destroying Colonists’ and tions. But dispatched by Revere left had Boston toxbury and there were no brid on the harles river Dawes 1 about a half he 1 it together for Concord the two messengers met a young Dr. Samuel Prescott who agread to store of guns another been before William by longer land route, via Neck to Lexington, through At from Boston to of ed Lex Dawes gone the time Owns other side the n react wir after Revere ol _ pany them and help spread the alarm among the people, many of whom he knew, But halfway to their destina- tion the trio were held up by mount. ed British officers and forced off the road into a pasture. Again, in Re vere's own words, “Doctor Prescott Jumped his horse over a low stone wall, and got to Concord” Dawes also escaped and reached Concord soon after the doctor. Back in Lexington, Revere, however, was questioned thoroughly by the British officers and conducted back to Lexington, where his captors, alarmed by the firing of a volley of guns, released Revere and rode off with his horse, Then Revere for the second time that night sought out Hancock and Adams, told them what had happened and helped Hancock's secretary, a Mr, Lowell, carry a trunk of papers from the tavern to another house whither Hancock amd Adams had fled. After Revere and Lowell had passed through cor militia, numbering some fifty or sixty, “who wore oh 8 green behind the Meetinghouse,” they saw the redconts appear and heard the firet shot fired by the British. Then volleys of shots, and the first battle of the Revolution was on. So when Longfellow wrote: “It was two by the villag lock when he {Revere) me by bridge in Concord town,” the great is somew] d the fa go to Concord Neverthel Revere to formed the Unite that memo- 1775. And inspired his c« i i rable ni 15-19, he, no doubt, ympanions, Dawes } Ha the ride who he in completing Lexington to Concord were, per- 5 2 NR nollie than PR, itd aan rebel Pree r eter treet ree ed John Stark Revolutionary Hero Who Won Commendation of Washington. Per Phd d ddd ddd E44 d bbe hero of ton, Bunker Hi of and Trenton, was one g figures of the Rev- had im- ‘ the outstandir olutionary war. Washington it faith in his patriotism and abi His soldiers loved him and would wade through anything if he gave the command. And Hampshire } always looked with deep pride as one of her most distinguished and ideal and At Bennington he had 1.750 men in his command. He opposed by a ns ur ary skill and experience, Pai ’ ity New upon him SONK, soldier ritizen, was force of veter mi a battery posted upon a com- position. Stark had no can- scarcely The miles from ork soll, It resulted in the of the British with a killed, 750 captured and Four equipmen: ler Colonel Baum, a of ad manding non and battle wy fo Bennir lasted any bayonets several New Y ours and shi # on own number wounded. y and much were {aken by the cannon other Americans, who lost thirty killed and forty wounded, As showing the importance of this battle, Washington said, on hearing the news: “One more such stroke and we shall have no great cause for anx- ety us to the future designs of Brit- ain," The “one more stroke” came sooner than be expected-—the surren- der of Burgoyne. Stark fought in the battle of Spring field, N. J. in 1780. He was 8 mem- ber of the tribunal that tried and con- victed Major Andre as a spy. Wash ington sent him with twenty-five hun dred troops to surprise the British on Staten Island,” He was given charge of the northern department, with head. quarters at Saratogs, and while there learned of the surrender of Cornwallis In 1783 he was ordered to headquar ters by Washington, ahd received the warm personal thanks of the eommans der in chief. He waz given the rank of major general by hrovet, He returned home sind resumed farming saw milling. He Nved forty-five year after the battle of Dene nington, surviving all officers of equal rank in the American army. He was the father of eleven chil dren, five sons and six danghters. Heo Hved until be was ninety four years old, dying May 8, 182%, # and
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