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History of the American Negro in the Great World War

CHAPTER IX
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History does not record whether or not this was the same or a related Montgomery to the one who killed Crispus Attucks at Boston.
Hamet, one of General Washington's Negroes, was drawing a pension as a revolutionary soldier as late as 1839, Oliver Cromwell served six years and nine months in Col.

Israel Shreve's regiment of New Jersey troops under Washington's immediate command.

Charles Bowles became an American soldier at the age of sixteen years and served to the end of the Revolution.

Seymour Burr and Jeremy Jonah were Negro soldiers in a Connecticut regiment.
A Negro whose name is not known obtained the countersign by which Mad Anthony Wayne was enabled to take Stony Point, and guided and helped him to do so.
Jack Grove was a Negro steward on board an American vessel which the British captured.

He figured out that the vessel could be retaken if sufficient courage were shown.


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