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- ↑ Herdegen, Lance J. (21 September 2005). The Men Stood Like Iron: How the Iron Brigade Won Its Name. Indiana University Press. p. 231. ISBN 978-0-253-21825-4.
- ↑ Skaggs, David Curtis; Nelson, Larry L. (1 January 2012). Sixty Years' War for the Great Lakes, 1754-1814. MSU Press. p. XX. ISBN 978-1-60917-218-3.
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