Excerpt from The Story of General Johann Dekalb In the year 17 43, our young friend appears again with his front name changed from John to Jean, and with an aristocratic de in front of his last name. He has, in some way, become a lieutenant in a German regiment of infantry in the service of France. And how he has grown! He is six feet high, with great broad shoulders, and searching eyes, and a splendid forehead, and a brave and haughty air. He looks as if he had been born to be great. He might have had a title sev eral ...
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Excerpt from The Story of General Johann Dekalb In the year 17 43, our young friend appears again with his front name changed from John to Jean, and with an aristocratic de in front of his last name. He has, in some way, become a lieutenant in a German regiment of infantry in the service of France. And how he has grown! He is six feet high, with great broad shoulders, and searching eyes, and a splendid forehead, and a brave and haughty air. He looks as if he had been born to be great. He might have had a title sev eral inches long and carried it with a noble air, so proud and handsome was he. How did his name get to be dekalb? And how did he at tain to his position? We do not know. Surely. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This 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.
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