American Biography, Vol. 6 (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Excerpt from American Biography, Vol. 6

Of the boyhood of the younger anthony wayne we have no information, other than that afforded by a letter written by his uncle and pre ceptor, Gilbert Wayne, who had formed some uh favorable prognostics Of his nephew's capacity for literature.

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Excerpt from American Biography, Vol. 6

Anthony Wayne the elder, was a native of England, who, under an impulse of character or of fortune, quitted the land of his birth, and, about the year 1681, established himself in Ireland, as an agriculturist. In the contest for supremacy between William of Orange and the exiled James, which took place in 1690, he entered the army of the former, and at the battle of the Boyne and the siege of Limerick rendered the state some important services; an obligation, which, though amply acknowledged at the time, was soon forgotten by the receiver.

Displeased with this inattention of the government, and not satisfied with either the civil institutions or social habits of the country of his adoption, he at the advanced age of sixty-three years became an adventurer in a distant land.

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