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Edward Hand

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Professor of History, Colorado College, Colorado Springs, Colo. Author of The Wars of Frederick the Great and Patton and Rommel: Men of War in the 20th Century; among others.
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Born:
Dec. 31, 1744, King’s County, Ire.
Died:
Sept. 3, 1802, Lancaster, Pa., U.S. (aged 57)

Edward Hand (born Dec. 31, 1744, King’s County, Ire.—died Sept. 3, 1802, Lancaster, Pa., U.S.) was an American army officer during the American Revolution. Trained as a doctor in Ireland, Hand served with the British army on the Pennsylvania frontier from 1767 to 1774, before resigning his commission to practice medicine in Lancaster. An early supporter of the American cause, Hand was commissioned a lieutenant colonel in the rifle battalion that Pennsylvania raised in 1775. He served at the Siege of Boston, the Battle of Long Island, and the battles of Trenton and Princeton, N.J., demonstrating tactical and administrative abilities ...(100 of 270 words)

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