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Sumter (THOMAS an American military)

THOMAS, an American military officer; born in Virginia in 1734.

He was distinguished for his skill and success as a partisan leader and was known among his followers as the "Carolina gamecock." In the early part of the Revolutionary War he was lieutenantcolonel of a regiment of South Carolina riflemen, but after the capture of Charleston in 1780, he was made a brigadier-general of light cavalry. He gained

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