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Putnam

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Put·nam  (ptnm), Israel 1718-1790.
American soldier active in the French and Indian War and the Revolutionary War. During the Battle of Bunker Hill (June 17, 1775), he supposedly issued the order, "Don't one of you shoot until you see the whites of their eyes."
Putnam, Rufus 1738-1824.
American Revolutionary soldier who organized the batteries on Dorchester Heights that eventually forced the British to evacuate Boston.
Putnam [ˈpʌtnəm]
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1. (Biographies / Putnam, Israel (1718-1790) M, US, MILITARY: general) Israel. 1718-90, American general in the War of Independence
2. (Biographies / Putnam, Rufus (1738-1824) M, US, MILITARY: soldier, MISC: surveyor-general) his cousin Rufus. 1738-1824, American soldier in the War of Independence; surveyor general of the US (1796-1803)
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Major Putnam was a bald-headed, bull-necked man, short and very broad, with one of those rather apoplectic faces that are produced by a prolonged attempt to combine the oriental climate with the occidental luxuries.
The Wisdom Of Father Brown by Chesterton, Gilbert K. View in context
Of one thing I am distinctly conscious: the man's presence at my side was strangely distasteful and disquieting--so much so that when I at last pulled up under the lights of the Putnam House I experienced a sense of having escaped some spiritual peril of a nature peculiarly forbidding.
Can Such Things Be? by Bierce, Ambrose View in context
When we speak of Clive, Nelson, and Putnam as men who "didn't know what fear was," we ought always to add the flea--and put him at the head of the procession.
Pudd'n'head Wilson by Twain, Mark View in context
 
 
 
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