Excerpt from Captain Gustavus Conyngham: A Sketch of the Services He Rendered to the Cause of American IndependenceThe Pennsylvania Society of Sons of the Revolu tion have recently restored the old tomb of Captain Gustavus Conyngham in St. Peter's Church-yard that had (until within a month or two) been forgotten for nearly a century. When the ¿ags and ¿owers were so generously distributed among the graves of the heroes of the country on Memorial Day, there were none for the tomb of Conyngham. Yet this brave man, whose bones lie here, rendered the cause of Independence an exceptional service in an exceptional way. With his little cruisers he gave the Channel ¿eet of England and the statesmen of Europe as much, if not more, to think about than any other man of his period. There was so much of the heroic in the service he rendered, and so much of practical value in its results, that his fame was entitled to a stronger hold upon his country men.His tomb stands in a remote corner of the church yard, within a stone's throw of the house on Lombard Street in which he lived and died, and near the resting place of Charles Willson Peale, the famous portrait painter of the Revolution.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.