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Word: wrightstown (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1929-1929
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Reserve officers and National Guardsmen were aquiver with excitement. On the night before the big Red drive, few if any of them got any sleep. Brig.-General Cornelius Vanderbilt, commanding the 154th Brigade of the New York Guard, waited bravely for the attack at the Wrightstown-Lakewood crossroads. When along toward dawn it did not occur, he rolled up in his blanket and took a 60-minute catnap on the roadside...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY & NAVY: Battle of Rancocas | 7/29/1929 | See Source »

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