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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: 13 WRECKED. 107 gailant exploits on the St. Lawrence, and was an able and efficient officer to the close of the war. Iii 1762 when war was declared between England and Spain, he accompanied the expedition fitted out at Portsmouth, to operate against Havanna. The Connecticut regiment was put under his command, and with five hundred men he embarked on board a transport. The fleet reached Cuba just in time to take a furious hurricane off the coast. At the outset the vessel in which he and his five hundred men were crowded was thrown on a reef. Here she lay with the sea constantly breaking over her, while not a ship could come to her relief. As a last resource, the soldiers made rafts of the spars and masts, and thus succeeded in reaching the shore. Putnam, with his usual promptness, immediately began to establish and fortify his camp, so as to be ready for any emergency. The storm raged for several days, but the other vessels rode it out in safety. The expedition was successful, but the troops melted away beneath the climate with frightful rapidity, so that but few American soldiers ever reached their homes. Putnam, who seemed impervious to bullets and fire, and water and disease, returned in safety to mingle his name- in with a still nobler struggle. The next year he commanded a corps of Connecticut men, in an expedition against the Indians. This ended his long military career of ten years, and he returned to hip farm, a man forty-six years of age, strong a.nd sinewy, and with a reputation for daring intrepidity and endurance beyond that of any of iis compeers. Hanging out his sign as a country landlord, he made out between his tavern and farm to secure a comfortable living. But scarcely had he settled down to a quiet life before our controversy with England commenced. W
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