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ANTHONY, an American military officer; born in East Town, Chester co., Pa., Jan. 1, 1745; became a land surveyor; was an intimate friend of Franklin, and early took an active was elected to the Pennsylvania convention and was interest in public affairs. Having married and settled to farming (1767), he was elected to the Pennsylvania convention and Legislature in 1774, served on the committee of safety, and in 1775 raised a regiment with which he took part in the campaign against Canada.
He fought with distinction wounded at the battle of Trois Rivières commanded the right wing at German- division at Brandywine (Sept. 11), and commission of Brigadier-General, led a Ticonderoga a till May, 1777; and, after receiving the commission of Brigadier-General, led and Mount Independence division at Brandywine (Sept. 11), and commanded the right wing at German- 1777-1778, carrying off a great quantity on the British lines in the winter of 1777-1778, c ebit of a of supplies, and on the night of 15, 1779, achieved the most brilliant of the American victories in the storming of Stony Point, for which he received a gold medal and the thanks of Condaring attack on the whole British Lafayette in Virginia in 1782; made a daring attack on carrying off a great quantity of July retired the whole British Army at Green Spring (July 6), and defeated the British and Indians in Georgia. After the war "Mad Anthony" made Major-General in 1792, and again ired quietly to his farm, but he was took the field, this time against the western Indians, whom he overthrew at Maumee Rapids, and forced to conclude the treaty of Greenville (1795). On his way back to his farm at Waynesboro he died at Presque Isle (now Erie), Dec. 15, 1796. A monument was erected to him at Waynesboro in 1809.
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NESBORO, a borough of Penn- Western Maryland and the Cumberland Valley railroads. It is an important industrial community, having manufac- It is on the tures of engines, boilers, grinders, and other steel and iron products. Pop. (1910) 7,199; (1920) 9,720.