Service
During the American Revolutionary War, Sevier fought against the British Regular and Loyalist forces. His younger brother, Robert Sevier, commanded a company of Overmountain Men at the Battle of Kings Mountain and died during battle. Sevier also fought in many actions against Native Americans across the Washington District (part of the eastern division of Tennessee). During the Chickamauga Wars Sevier attained the rank of colonel.
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Famous quotes containing the word service:
“Barnard’s greatest war service ... was the continuance of full-scale instruction in the liberal arts ... It was Barnard’s responsibility to keep alive in the minds of young people the great liberal tradition of the past and the study of philosophy, of history, of Greek.”
—Virginia Crocheron Gildersleeve (1877–1965)
“The masochist: “I send my tormentor hurrying hither and thither in the service of my suffering and desire.””
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching. How far off, how cool, how chaste the persons look, begirt each one with a precinct or sanctuary!”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)