Jeremiah Olney
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Colonel Jeremiah Olney was a Continental Army officer. Born into an old family from Rhode Island, he formed a company of infantry from that state at the start of the American Revolutionary War. After
Site of Joseph Moulder's battery at Princeton. Hitchcock's brigade was to the right of this position.
Olney's brigade faced British grenadiers at Monmouth. Grenadier, 40th Foot.
Eleazer Oswald
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Eleazer Oswald was born at Falmouth, Cornwall, in England, but moved to Virginia as a young man. He became apprenticed to a printer, John Holt of Williamsburg, Virginia, and married the man's daughter
Jeremiah Olney
…enemy forces, Lee sent Durkee's soldiers to attack them. The matter was quickly straightened out and Durkee was shifted to support two guns commanded by Eleazer Oswald on the left flank. At this time Durkee was wounded and Olney succeeded him in command of Varnum's brigade. Soon after this, Lee became aware that British…
Eleazer Oswald
Oswald was captured at the Battle of Quebec
Charles Lee
British light dragoon, 1775