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From Yale to Yorktown: In youth, Eneas Munson served in George Washington’s elite Light Infantry Corps. In old age, he reminded new American generations of Freedom’s Fight.

By Joe Bauman and Ronald S. Coddington British warships and transports anchored off New Haven, a key port in the colony of Connecticut, on July 4, 1779. Aboard the vessels about 2,000 sailors and 3,0
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