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MORGAN, DANIEL (1736-1802)

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MORGAN, See also:DANIEL (1736-1802) , See also:American soldier, was See also:born in Hunterdon See also:county, New See also:Jersey, in the See also:winter of 1736, of Welsh ancestry. In 1753 he removed to See also:Virginia. In See also:June 1775, soon after the outbreak of the See also:War of See also:Independence, he was commissioned a See also:captain of Virginia riflemen, and he marched his See also:company to See also:Boston in 21 days. In the winter of 1775 he accompanied See also:General See also:Benedict See also:Arnold to See also:Canada, and in the See also:assault on See also:Quebec (Dec. 31) he and his riflemen penetrated well into the See also:city, where he was hemmed in and was forced to surrender. On the 7th of See also:August 1776 he was discharged on See also:parole; on the 12th of See also:November he was commissioned See also:colonel of the 11th Virginia; and soon afterwards he was released from his parole. In the summer of 1777 he was engaged in See also:minor skirmishes in New Jersey, and See also:early in See also:September joined General Horatio See also:Gates, then engaged in the See also:campaign against General See also:Burgoyne. At the first See also:battle of See also:Saratoga (See also:Sept. 19) he was, until Arnold's arrival See also:late in the See also:day, the ranking officer on the See also:field; and in the second battle (Oct. 7) also took a prominent See also:part. Morgan rejoined See also:Washington in November near See also:Philadelphia. In See also:March 1779 he was commissioned by See also:Congress colonel of the 7th Virginia; but in See also:July, suffering from poor See also:health and dissatisfied because Congress did not advance him further in See also:rank, he resigned from the See also:army and retired to Virginia.

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Camden, however, he joined Gates (then in command in the See also:South) at Hillsborough, See also:North Carolina, and on the 1st of See also:October took command of a See also:corps. On the 13th of the same See also:month Congress tardily raised him to the rank of brigadier-general. In See also:January 1781 See also:Cornwallis and See also:Tarleton attempted to entrap him, but at the See also:Cowpens (See also:Jan. 17) he defeated Tarleton and then escaped from Cornwallis into North Carolina. Apparently Morgan suggested to See also:Greene (who had superseded Gates) that general's See also:plan of battle at See also:Guilford See also:Court See also:House on the 15th of March. In See also:December ' 1793 he was commissioned See also:major-general of Virginia See also:militia, 'and in November 1794 commanded troops sent to suppress the See also:Whisky Insurrection in western See also:Pennsylvania. He was a Federalist representative in Congress in 1797-1799, and died in See also:Winchester, Virginia, on the 6th of July 1802. See See also:James See also:Graham, The See also:Life of General Daniel Morgan of the Virginia See also:Line (New See also:York, 1856) ; and Rebecca McConkey, The See also:Hero of Cowpens (rev. ed., New York, 1885).

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