Lt col james wilkinson biography sample

James Wilkinson was born on March 24, 1757, in Calvert County, Maryland.  He was 18 years old and studying medicine at the University of Pennsylvania when the Revolutionary War broke out in 1775.  He left his studies and enlisted in the Continental Army under Thompson’s Pennsylvania Rifle Battalion just in time for the Siege of Boston.  That winter he was commissioned a captain and became an aide-de-camp to Major General Nathanael Greene.  After the British were driven from Boston, Wilkinson joined the staff of Major General Benedict Arnold, who was fighting in Canada.  He was knocked out of commission for a few months with sickness but came back that fall with a promotion to Major and was placed on the staff of Horatio Gates.

Wilkinson followed Gates in December to Washington’s army in Pennsylvania in December of 1776.  As Gates left Washington’s army to go to Congress and argue for Washington’s job, Wilkinson decided to stay with Was