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Monday, October 30, 2006
Brief Biographical Data About Sir Thomas Musgrave, British Lieutenant
Colonel Wounded at the Battle of Pelham on October 18, 1776
Sir Thomas Musgrave became a general in the British army in the 18th
century. He fought in the Battle of Pelham, apparently as a
Lieutenant-Colonel. He was wounded during that battle.
Below is brief biographical information about Sir Thomas Musgrave
published in 1879.
"MUSGRAVE, SIR THOMAS. 5th bart., a British gen., b.
1738; d. Dec. 31, 1812. Capt. 64th Regt. 1759; brev. major 1772; lieut-col.
40th Regt. Aug. 28, 1776; col. and aide-de-camp to the king 1782; brig.-gen
in Amer. 1782; maj.-gen. 1790; gen. 1802. He was wounded at the battle of
Pelham Manor, Oct. 18, 1776. At the battle of Germantown, Oct. 4, 1777, he
saved the day by throwing himself with 5 companies into Chew's stone
house, where he successfully held the Amer. forces at bay until the
repulsed British columns could rally: and the Americans were compelled to
abandon the field on which they came so near success."
Source: Drake, Francis S., Dictionary of American Biography, Including
Men of the Time; Containing Nearly Ten Thousand Notices of Persons of Both
Sexes, Of Native and Foreign Birth Who Have Been Remarkable or Prominently
Connected with the Arts, Sciences, Literature, Politics, or History of the
American Continent. Giving Also the Pronunciation of Many of the Foreign
and Peculiar American Names, a Key to the Assumed Names of Writers, and a
Supplement, pp. 649-50 (Boston, MA: Houghton, Osgood & Company, 1879).
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