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C.D. Warner, et al., comp.
The Library of the World’s Best Literature. An Anthology in Thirty Volumes. 1917.

Winthrop Sargent (1825–1870)

Sargent, Winthrop. An American lawyer and historical writer; born in Philadelphia, Sept. 23, 1825; died in Paris, May 18, 1870. He lived in New York City, and wrote largely for the press on historical subjects. He wrote ‘History of an Expedition against Fort Duquesne in 1755 under Gen. Braddock’ (1855); ‘The Loyalist Poetry of the Revolution’ (1857); and the ‘Life and Career of Major John André’ (1861).