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Washington Life Guard and Loyal Dragoons in the Revolution
The narrative recalls Washingtons Life-Guard and the Dragoons during the American War of Independence. It details officers like Major Cotfax and Captains Grymes and Nicholas, their uniforms, roles in key actions from Barren Hill to Monmouth, and Morgan’s Woodsmen exploits. It also includes a vivid scene of Lafayette at the Schuylkill ford guiding the retreat and a later anecdote of a traveler’s night in an inn with humorous bed-sharing and a noisy sleeper and a Frenchman’s baggage.
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Custis
Gibbs
Rhode Island
Cotfax
New Jersey
Grymes d Nicholas
Virginia
Lous Corps
Bay
Washington’s Dragoons
Ien Hill
Marquis de Laftyellc
Barren Hill
Schuylkil
Allen Me Ae
Schuylkill
Lafayette
Eschajylus
Washington
Onmouth
Organ
Morgan
Gabriel Long
Col
John Nicholas
Ueman
Shy
France
Seay
Etrive
Monsieur
Tank Haven
Demish
Aigre Aneelne
Peedee
Ife
Stadum
Connecticut
Congress
Louis XVI
Crete