No star of Promise, shed its dying gleams
Upon thy path—and left thee, thus to bow
A lone survivor! Oh! no lot so blest
As that which calleth early unto rest!
LIFE OF GENERAL BARON DE KALB.
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BY THOMAS WYATT, A. M., AUTHOR OF “HISTORY OF THE KINGS OF FRANCE,” ETC. ETC. ETC.
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Very little is known of this illustrious officer till about the year 1755, when we find him filling an inferior station in the quartermaster-general’s department, in the imperial army of France; his intimate acquaintance with the details of that department led his friends in America to believe that he had held it for some considerable time.