GRANT, JAMES
\ɡɹˈant], \ɡɹˈant], \ɡ_ɹ_ˈa_n_t]\
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(1720-1806), met with a severe defeat in command of an expedition against Fort Duquesne in 1758. He commanded two brigades of British troops at Long Island, and was in command of New Jersey during the battles of Trenton and Princeton. He served as a major-general in the battles of Brandywine and Germantown in 1777, and defeated Lee at Monmouth in 1778.
By John Franklin Jameson
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