Litchfield enquirer., 1850-02-14
EDUCATION OF THE Military Heroes of the Revolution.

EDUCATION OF THE
 Military Heroes of the Revolution.
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 Compiled from History. .tor the EpqSirer. Gen. George Washington. was ed6cs- ted by his mother and a aprivate tutor. A grammatical knowledge of the Eng- fish language, mathematics, geography, natusaIand moral philosophy, to the exclusion. uf, the learned languages. formed the course 0f'tsis youthful studies. For several years of his minority he was as . County Surveyor.
 sam Joseph Warren. graduated at Harvard College at the age of eighteen; subsequently, studied medicine, and be- came an eminent physician,
 Gen. 4Richurd Montgomery received his education at Dublin College, Irelans. and at the age of eighteen obtained a commission in, the army. He possessed a. mind adorned with every accomplish. ment, and personin. which every manly grace shone with conspicuous lustre.
 j Gen.. NathuMiel Greene received, at ! school, only che elements of a. common English education. He, however, pur- chased small but well selected library, and spent his evenings, and all the time he could redeem from his fathers busi- ness, in regular study. He, studied Watts Logic, and Locke on the 5Un ler- standing. He early displayed.a taste for mathematics ;; and, but d few years since, the seat was still pointed.out in his fathers forge, where he used to- pour over Euclid while the iron was heating.
 Gen. Philip Sehayier received an cx- cellcnt education. at least for the colonies, and rose to-, confluence among his young companions in the study of mathematics.
 Gen lsroel Putnaps received but little education in his youth, but served a reg ular apprenticeship in the French War.
 Gen.. Horatio Gates received u military education in England. a4'
 Gen. Wiltidm Alerandsr. called Lord Sterling, received as excellentan educa- ton as the country at that time could af- ford, and he, discovered an early fondness for mathematics and astronomy, iip which he attained great eminence..
 Gen, .Chayles Zee was natural lyofqpick parts and made rapid advances in sdaca. tien. At eiepen years .ofage.,he received q comm.ssion in the army.
 Gen. Henry Knor employed l'is youth in obtaining the best education that the justly celebrated schools of Boston af- fordsd. The great qualities of Gen. Knox were not merely those oftthc hero and tlie statesman with these were combined. those of the eJegdat schotdr and the. accomplished gcntlsman-
 Gen. John Suil;van was sdpcated for tire bar, and attained. a, high. degree of eminence in his professioA-,
 l Gen, AntApny Wayne, in early life. was dismissed from, school with a certi- ficate that, having acquired all that his, master could teach, he merited the means of higher and, rpore general instruction. " Wayne accordingly was sent to the Phil adciphis Academy. Here he remained until his eighteenth year, when he as sumed the profession of Surveyor. A company of merchants having assoeiated to purchase lands in Nova Scotia, Wayne was chosen as Surveyor on the recon nendation of pr. Franklin. over nuEner- JUS competitors, He was at tha period put twenty years of age, and the choice proves the reputation for talent which he lad even then obtained.
 Gen, Hugh 1Nsrcsr, for Q lucaticqpp. ex.. ,erience, talents, disposition, integrity md patriotism. was second to no man but he commander in chief and was quali- jed to ,ill the highest trusts of the cdun,; ". He was fatally wounded at the battle of Princeton.
 Gen. Ethsn Allen, as early as l779, wrote several pamphlets advocating the. rights ofl the Green Mountain Boys in their disturbances with New York. g a,s@ sJa
 Thus it will be seen that ignorance even of knowledge that is obtained from books. was not the presiding genius in that war of revolution which obtained our liberties, but that most of the officers of the. American. array. were, men whose minds had been disciplined bE study in their youth, especially ip, the study of ma.hcmatics, which affords the best kind .uf discipline. Those of them who had received but little early education. were naturally men. of strong minds and were diligent students of the art of. war both in tho camp and in the field, But very few of such. however, hellany civil office after the close of the war while many of the better educatsd officers held high &. posis of trust. and influence both in the State and nation,
 DEATH oF. HsRaIr.--Mr. Bennett, coroner at WattsbnlU'. Sullivan conaty,