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JACOB BROWN

Jacob Brown was an American General. He was born in 1775 and died in 1828. A militia general in New York, when the War of 1812 started he joined the war and gained a victory at Sackett's Harbour in 1813 and was made a major-general in the regular army. In 1814 he won victories at Chippewa and at Lundy's Lane. In 1821 he succeeded to the command of the army as general-in-chief.
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