COLONEL JOHN MCINTOSH MEMORIAL MARKER
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Listing Details
Type of Memorial: War Memorial Historical Wayside Markers
Year Dedicated: 1955
Access: Public
Wars Commemorated: REVOLUTIONARY WAR AND WAR OF 1812
Photograph By: MIKE STROUD
Submitted By: COURTESY OF HMdb.org
COLONEL JOHN MCINTOSH A HERO OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. IT WAS COLONEL MCINTOSH, IN COMMAND OF FORT MORRIS AT SUNBURY, WHO WHEN BRITISH LIEUT. COL. L.V. FUSER DEMANDED THE SURRENDER OF THE FORT ON NOV 20, 1778, REPLIED “COME AND TAEK IT”. COL. MCINTOSH HAD A LONG AND DISTINGUISHED MILITARY CAREER SERVING THROUGHOUT THE REVOLUTION AND THE WAR OF 1812,
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