Excerpt from A Memoir of Lieut.-Colonel Samuel Ward: First Rhode Island Regiment, Army of the American Revolution; With a Geneology of the Ward Family A manuscript Journal of the Count de Rochambeau in America, belong ing to Mr. C. Fiske Harris of Providence, R. I., also praises the Rhode Island Regiments as being the best troops the writer had seen in this country. The engraving of i.ieut.-col. Ward is taken from a beautiful miniature by Miss Anne Hall, - one of her numerous and remarkable works, - now in the author's possession. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com 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.