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Schuyler (PHILIP an American military)

PHILIP, an American military officer; born in Albany, N. Y., in November, 1733. He served in the war against the French and Indians in 1756. served in the war French and Indians in 1756.

In June, 1775, he was commissioned commander of an army in New York with the rank of Major-General. He was about to move the army into Canada, but he was taken sick, and was succeeded in September by General Montgomery . He was appointed delegate to the Continental Congress later in the same year, and was again a delegate in 1777. In the latter year also he commanded the Continental forces against General Burgoyne, but was superseded by General Gates, ir consequence of the jealousy with which Congress regarded him. His conduct was vindicated by a court of inquiry. Later he rendered important services in military affairs, but he declined to take command of an army. He was a member of the Congress in 1778, and while holding that post resigned from the army in 1779, remaining in Congress till 1781. He was Federalist United States Senator from New York in 1789-1791, and was again elected a Senator, in place of Aaron Burr, in 1797. One of his daughters was the wife of Alexander Hamilton. He died in Albany, Nov. 18, 1804.

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