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Flint Hill Encampment 1812

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The Army of the Frontier under General Alexander Smythe camped here at Granger's farm during the winter of 1812-1813 while preparing to invade Canada. Nearly three hundred soldiers died there of camp disease, and farmers Daniel Chapin and Rowland Cotton were left to bury the dead in Granger's meadow, in present Delaware Park.
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