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MG-B(D.778.002
10 Feb 1778:31 (3/146)
Anecdote. During the cannonade upon Fort Mifflin in the
river Delaware, Captain Lee erected a little battery at the
mouth of the Mantua creek, a few miles below the fort, to
annoy the enemy's shipping. The enemy soon perceived the
danger to be apprehended from this battery, and began a
furious cannonade upon it. A sergeant by the name of Ellis,
had occasion in the course of his duty to expose himself
upon the top of the breast work, in the height of the
cannonade. His son, a lad of eleven years of age, a fifer
in the company, seeing the extreme danger of his father,
called upon him to come down. . . [26 more lines, moral
story of beneficence and the value of bravery.]
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