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Richard Montgomery, pictured in an engraving made around 1777, was a brigadier general in the Continental Army who was killed in Quebec in 1775. Montgomery County, in east central Georgia, is named in his honor.

Courtesy of Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division

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