David Wooster Quotes


My life has ever been devoted to her service from my youth up, though never before in a cause like this - a cause for which I would most cheerfully risk and lay down my life.


Citations

Deming, Henry Champion. Oration Upon the Life and Services of Gen. David Wooster. Case, Tiffany, and Co., 1854.

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David Wooster
David Wooster
  • Born: March 13, 1711
  • Died: May 22, 1777
  • Nationality: American
  • Profession: Soldier

David Wooster was an American general who served in the French and Indian War and in the American Revolutionary War. He died of wounds sustained during the Battle of Ridgefield, Connecticut. Cities, schools, and public places were named after him. He has been called "a largely forgotten hero of the Revolution."