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See also: American soldier and See also: political See also: leader, was See also: born in See also: Somersworth, New Hampshire, on the 18th of See also: February 1740
.
He studied See also: law in Portsmouth, N.H., and practised at See also: Berwick, Maine, and at Durham, N.H
.
He was a member of the New Hampshire Provincial See also: Assembly in 1774, and in 1774–1775 was a delegate to the See also: Continental Congress
.
In 1772 he had been commissioned a major of New Hampshire militia, and on the 15th of See also: December 1774 he and See also: John
See also: Langdon led an expedition which captured Fort See also: William and Mary at New
See also: Castle
.
See also: Sullivan was appointed a brigadier-general in the Continental army in See also: June 1775 and a major-general in See also: August 1776
.
He commanded a brigade in the siege of See also: Boston
.
In June 1776 he took command of the American army in See also: Canada and after an unsuccessful skirmish with the See also: British at Three See also: Rivers (June 8) retreated to See also: Crown Point
.
Rejoining Washing-ton's army, he served under General Israel Putnam in the See also: battle of Long See also: Island (August 27) and was taken prisoner
.
Released on parole, he See also: bore a verbal message from See also: Lord See also: Howe to the Continental Congress, which led to the fruitless See also: conference on Staten Island
.
In December he was exchanged, succeeded General See also: Charles
See also: Lee in command of the right wing of
See also: Washington's army, in the battle of Trenton led an attack on the Hessians, and led a See also: night attack against British and See also: Loyalists on Staten Island, on the 22nd of August 1777
.
In the battle of
See also: Brandywine (See also: Sept
.
1777) he again commanded the American right; he took See also: part in the battle of See also: Germantown (Oct
.
4, 1777); in See also: March 1778 he was placed in command in Rhode Island, and in the following summer plans were made for his co-operation with the French
See also: fleet under Count d'See also: Estaing in an attack on See also: Newport, which came to nothing
.
Sullivan after a brief engagement (Aug
.
29) at Quaker See also: Hill, at the N. end of the island of Rhode Island, was obliged to retreat
.
In 1779 Sullivan, with about 4000 men, defeated the
See also: Iroquois and their Loyalist See also: allies at New-See also: town (now See also: Elmira), New See also: York, on the 29th of August, burned their villages, and destroyed their orchards and crops
.
Although severely criticised for his conduct of the expedition, he received, in See also: October 1779, the thanks of Congress
.
In See also: November he resigned from the army
.
Sullivan was again a delegate to the Continental Congress in 1780–1781 and, having accepted a loan from the French See also: minister, Chevalier de la Luzerne, he was charged with being influenced by the French in voting not to make the right to the See also: north-See also: east See also: fisheries a condition of See also: peace
.
From 1782 to 1785 he was attorney-general of New Hampshire
.
He was president of the See also: state in 1786–1787 and in 1789, and in 1786 suppressed an insurrection at Exeter immediately pre-ceding the See also: Shays See also: Rebellion in Massachusetts
.
He presided over the New Hampshire See also: convention which ratified the Federal constitution in June 1788
.
From 1789 until his See also: death at Durham, on the 23rd of See also: January 1795, he was See also: United States See also: District See also: Judge for New Hampshire
.
See O
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W . B . See also: Peabody " See also: Life of John Sullivan " in Jared See also: Sparks's Library of American Biography, vol. iii
.
(Boston, 1844) ; T
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C
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See also: Amory, General John Sullivan, A Vindication of his Character as a Soldier and a Patriot (Morrisania, N.Y., 1867); John Scales, " Master John Sullivan of Somersworth and Berwick and his Famity," in the Proceedings of the New Hampshire See also: Historical Society, vol. iv
.
(Concord, 1906) ; and See also: Journals of the Military Expedition of Major-General John Sullivan against the Six Nations of See also: Indians (Auburn, N
.
Y., 1887)
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