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“De Kalb has died, as he has lived, the unconquered friend of liberty”
On this date in 1780, Johann von Robias, Baron de Kalb, died of wounds received three days earlier during the Battle of Camden, South Carolina. de Kalb, born on June 19, 1721 in the Principality of Bayreuth, was in charge … Continue reading →
Posted in Battlefields & Historic Places, Battles, Emerging Revolutionary War, Memory, Revolutionary War, Southern Theater
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Tagged 1780, 1825, August 16, August 19, Baron DeKalb, Battle of Camden, Benjamin Franklin, British, Camden, Continental Army, Delaware, Emerging Revolutionary War, General Horatio Gates, George Washington, Lord Charles Cornwallis, Marquis de Lafayette, Marylanders, Phillip S. Greenwalt, South Carolina
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