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6 unusual facts about Francis Barlow


44th New York Monument

The memorial is crowned with a maltese cross and has numerous interior and exterior bronze tablets which include 2 bas-reliefs of Generals Daniel Butterfield and Francis Barlow.

53rd Pennsylvania Infantry

The First Division, now commanded General Francis Barlow, reorganized its four brigades, the Fourth (Brooke's) joined by the 66th New York and 148th Pennsylvania.

An ass eating thistles

A very similar design and poem were used in Francis Barlow's illustrated volume of Aesop's Fables in 1687, where a final couplet sums up the miserly behaviour of

Francis Barlow

Francis C. Barlow (1834–1896), US lawyer, politician, and general

Leopold von Gilsa

In June 1863, Von Gilsa initially had bad relations with the new division commander, Francis Barlow, who put him under arrest for allowing more than one man at a time to leave the column to get water.

The Lion and the Fox

Latin poems based on it were written by Hieronymus Osius and Gabriele Faerno in the 16th century and in England it was included in Geoffrey Whitney's Choice of Emblemes (1586) and the collections of Francis Barlow and Roger L'Estrange in the late 17th century.



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