Walter Stewart (general)
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Walter Stewart was an Irish-born American military officer who served in the American Revolutionary War. Stewart began his military career as captain of a Continental Army company at the beginning of
Portrait by Charles Willson Peale, 1781
Horatio Gates, whom Stewart served as an aide-de-camp
The Battle of Germantown, where Stewart's men captured an earthwork
The Battle of Monmouth, where Stewart was wounded
Henry Monckton
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Henry Monckton was the fourth son of John Monckton, 1st Viscount Galway, and the younger half-brother of the more famous Robert Monckton.
Walter Stewart (general)
…his troops on a reverse slope behind a fence. He swung the right flank forward behind a fence and some woods so as to take any attackers in enfilade. Henry Monckton's 2nd Grenadier Battalion blundered into Weedon's trap as dusk fell. As his men came under heavy fire, Monckton asked Hessian Captain Johann von Ewald…
Osborne's Hill; power lines on the left mark Birmingham Road
Grenadier, 40th Foot
Eleazer Oswald's cannons probably fired the case shot that killed Monckton