Benjamin Lincoln (Person)
Benjamin Lincoln
1733 AD - 1810 AD
- 1st Collector of the Port of Boston 1789–1809
- 2nd Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts (under John Hancock) 1788–1789
- 1st United States Secretary at War 1781 – 1783
- 1st Clerk of the Massachusetts Provincial Congress 1774 – 1775
Major general in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War.
Lincoln was involved in three major surrenders during the war: his participation in the Battles of Saratoga (sustaining a wound shortly afterward) contributed to John Burgoyne's surrender of a British army, he oversaw the largest American surrender of the war at the 1780 Siege of Charleston, and, as George Washington's second in command, he formally accepted the British surrender at Yorktown
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