Hanger, George:

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THE LIFE, ADVENTURES, AND OPINIONS OF COL. GEORGE HANGER. This work, actually ghostwritten by William Combe, covers a variety of topics on which Hanger had opinions, thus only part of the book is of American concern; that part, however, is of great interest for the Revolution. Hanger went to New York in 1778 and was sent to Savannah the following year. He took part in the siege of Charleston, mustered Loyalists in the Carolinas, and fought under Cornwallis in North Carolina in 1780, including service as Tarleton's second-in-command. He was recuperating from yellow fever in Bermuda when the battle of Yorktown took place, and was back in New York from 1781 until the final British evacuation in 1783. Page two of the text in the first volume includes a wood-engraved illustration of a hanging man, punning on his name.

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