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Their sacred honor: every signer of the Declaration of Independence pledged his life, fortune, and sacred honor. Many sacrificed greatly to fulfill this oath. If their legacy is to live on, we must do the same.(HISTORY--GREATNESS OF THE FOUNDERS)
Caesar Rodney was weary when he reached his plantation near Dover on the night of July 1, 1776. An outspoken advocate of American independence. Rodney was exhausted from many months of battling Delaware's Tories while building up and drilling the colony's militia. The 47-year-old son of a plantation owner, he was first elected to the colonial legislature in 1761, and sent to the First and Second Continental Congresses. Caesar Rodney was also afflicted with a painful and unsightly facial cancer. So terribly was he ravaged by the disease that he wore a green silk scarf over part of his face, and was described by one colleague as "an animated skeleton, with a bandaged head." ...
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- Newspaper article from: Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN) Lileks, James November 10, 1999 700+ words
...U.S. holiday, we respectfully suggest Caesar Rodney. You are probably saying, "Who is Caesar Rodney?" Good question. That's what we would like to know. Our government put Caesar Rodney on a horse galloping across the face of the...
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- Picture from: NYPL Digital Gallery Hall, Henry Bryan,1808-1884--Etcher January 1, 1934 700+ words
- Caesar Rodney.
- Picture from: NYPL Digital Gallery Hall, Henry Bryan,1808-1884--Etcher January 1, 1934 700+ words
- Caesar Rodney
- Picture from: NYPL Digital Gallery Hall, Henry Bryan,1808-1884--Artist January 1, 1934 700+ words
- Res. of Caesar Rodney, Poplar Grove, near Dover, Delaware.
- Picture from: NYPL Digital Gallery unknown January 1, 1934 700+ words
- The monument [to Caesar Rodney] erected at Dover, Del. by the Rodney Club.
- Picture from: NYPL Digital Gallery Stauffer, David McNeely,1845-1913--Artist January 1, 1934 700+ words
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