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  1. 1722-1792. British general and dramatist. He
  2. served in the American War of Independence
  3. and surrendered 1777 to the colonists at
  4. Saratoga, New York State, in one of the
  5. pivotal battles of the war. He wrote
  6. comedies, among them The Maid of the Oaks
  7. 1775 and The Heiress 1786. He figures in
  8. George Bernard Shaw's play The Devil's
  9. Disciple.
  10.