Excerpt from Military Services and Public Life of Major-General John Sullivan, of the American Revolutionary ArmyThe prominent position held for nearly a quarter ofa century by General Sullivan, in civil and military life, the important epoch and events with which he was associated, the mass of material of interest to students of American history, that can in no other way be so intelligibly placed before the public, indicate an obligation somewhere to prepare his biography. Such a work should be less the history of the individual than of his times, of New Hampshire in the Revolution and the periods that followed it her social, professional, and political life while he was engaged in her service. Whatever inci~ dents he was conspicuously connected with, shedding light on the course of public affairs, or serving to illustrate the personages who shared with him in their management, would come within its scope.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.