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Old Pat Putnam Strenuous American Hero of Revolution
A biographical sketch celebrates Israel Putnam born 1718 Salem Massachusetts as a fierce frontier leader and Revolutionary War general. It highlights his action packed life from French and Indian War exploits to guarding the Hudson Highlands and the famous Horseneck escape, plus frontier tales like the wolf hunt and the bear with a painted Indian.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Israel Putnam
New England
Montreal
Canada
Havana
Cuba
Detroit
Connecticut
Boston
Concord
Lexington
Trumbull
Bunker Mill
Putnam
Horseneck
Greenwich
Conn
Theodore Roosevelt
Sevalyton
Pat
Hickory
Jackson
Tippecanoe
Harrison
Abe’’ Lincoln
Taylor
Salem
Mass
Joseph Putnam
Samuel Parris
Israel
Hannah Pope
Pomfret
Duybreak
Connecticut Volunteers
Sir William Johnson
C Point
the Sears
Mander
Robert Rogers
Kenneth Roberts
Rogers’ Rangers
Marin
Ticonderoga
England
France
Spain
Morro Castle
County Fair Grounds
Connecticut Assembly
Deborah Lothrop Gardiner
Company of Military Adventurers
Phineas Lyman
Lower
Mississippi
West
Florida
Bunker Hill
New York
Long Island
Highlands of
the Hudson
Montgomery
Clinton
Dergetets
United States of America
Province of
Massachusetts
Iinels