benjamin lincoln造句

• The town of Lincoln is named for Gen . Benjamin Lincoln, a Revolutionary War hero, not for President Abraham Lincoln, who served during the Civil War.
• Lincoln County was named for Major General Benjamin Lincoln, second in command of the U . S . Army at the end of the Revolutionary War.
• Washington turned to an old associate, General Benjamin Lincoln, formerly the second in command of the Continental Army and the acting Secretary of War of the Americans.
• Benjamin Lincoln held a council of war, and was advised by Lord Cornwallis crossed the Cooper River, assuming command of the British forces blocking an escape by land.
• Since the division commander Major General Benjamin Lincoln was absent, Wayne moved up from the command of the 1st Pennsylvania Brigade and Hartley took his place as acting brigadier.
• On November 19, 1779, his unit was transferred to the Southern theatre of war, and marched to join the army of Major General Benjamin Lincoln in Charleston, South Carolina.
• Cornwallis failed to appear at the official surrender ceremony, and sent General Charles Oharrow as his proxy; Washington then had General Benjamin Lincoln accept the surrender in his place.
• The area that is now Dennysville was part of a grant of 10, 000 acres granted to a group of Massachusetts proprietors led by American Revolutionary War general Benjamin Lincoln.
• Places named " Lincoln " in the American South tend to be named after Benjamin Lincoln rather than Abraham Lincoln, the 16th President ( the two were not related ).
• General Benjamin Lincoln marched his Continentals to Augusta to support the organization of civil government there, whereupon General Augustine Prevost threatened an attack upon Charleston, drawing Lincoln down with all haste.