Revolutionary War General Baron de Kalb
People who saw Major General Johann de Kalb's heroic actions at the battle of Camden, South Carolina on August 16, 1780, never forgot it. A soldier who fought there wrote fifty -three years later that de Kalb was "…perhaps the bravest man that ever lived." De Kalb had fought fiercely on that fateful day, but he was finally felled by eleven wounds. His life ebbed slowly away, and he died three agonizing days after the battle. Accolades began almost immediately. British officers attended his funeral in respect for an honored...