and Monmouth, are here mentioned in the order of their occurrence, and anyone versed in the history of the War for Independence would readily note this fact, and, having once noted it, would have no trouble in remembering the order in which they are used in the speech. It would be incorrect for a speaker to quote these battles except in the form of a sequence, a succession of events in the order of their occurrence, unless he desired to place them in the order of their importance, and then he would denote which he believed to be the most important by moving from the lesser to the greater. If he considered Saratoga to be the most important of the three engagements, he should say: From the fields of Monmouth, Bunker Hill, and Saratoga, etc. The Irish orator, Richard L. Sheil, in a speech delivered in the British House
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