Rare HENRY DEARBORN Detroit Michigan War of 1812
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LOW STARTING BID!NO RESERVE! Served in the Revolutionary War and the War of 1812Fought at Bunker Hill (1775)Captured in the Battle of Quebec (1775), exchanged 1777With Washington at Valley Forge (Winter, 1777-1778)At Yorktown when Cornwallis surrendered (1781)Jefferson's Secretary of War (1801-1809)As Major General, captured York (now, Toronto) April 27, 1813Dearborn, Michigan named in his honorHENRY DEA RBORN (1751-1829) When fighting in the American Revolutionary War began, 24-year-old Henry Dearborn organized and led a local militia troop of 60 men to Boston w he fought at Battle of Bunker Hill as a captain in Colonel John Stark's First New Hampshire Regiment. He then volunteered to serve under Benedict Arnold during the ill-fated American expedition to Quebec. His journal is an important record for that campaign. He was captured on December 31, 1775, during the Battle of Quebec and detained for a year. He was released on parole in May 1776, but he was not exchanged until March 1777. After fighting at Ticonderoga, Freeman's Farm and Saratoga, Dearborn joined General George Washington's main army at Valley Forge as a lieutenant colonel w he spent the winter of 1777-1778. He fought at the Battle of Monmouth in 1778, and in 1779, he accompanied Major General John Sullivan on the Sullivan Expedition against the Iroquois in upstate
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