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Benjamin Lincoln ( 1733- 1810) was a Major General of the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War. He was seriously wounded at the Battle of Saratoga, but returned to duty in August of 1778. He surrendered and was captured at Charleston, South Carolina, but later was part of a prisoner exchange. As Washington's second in command, he formally accepted the British surrender at the Battle of Yorktown (1781). He helped to surpress the 1787 Shay's Rebellion.



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