Hugh Mercer
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title:
Hugh Mercer
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Hugh Mercer was a Scottish brigadier general in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War. He fought in the New York and New Jersey campaign and was mortally wounded at the Battle of Princeton. He was born in Pitsligo, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, and studied medicine at the University of Aberdeen. He served as an assistant surgeon in Charles Edward Stuart's army during the Battle of Culloden in the Jacobite rising of 1745. After the failed uprising, Mercer escaped to the colonial-e
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General in the American Revolutionary War (1726-1777)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_Mercer
date created:
2004-10-22T18:32:17Z
date modified:
2024-09-04T19:00:51Z
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