Friedrich Heinrich Christoph Breymann ( – 7 October 1777) was a senior

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of Brunswick–Luneburg troops who commanded

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s in the Northern Theater of the

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Under the command of

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, Breymann fought in the Battle of Bennington and the Battle of Bemis Heights. On 7 October 1777, Breymann's unit was driven behind a redoubt by American troops; he grew frustrated with his own men and began attacking four soldiers with his

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before Breymann was shot and killed by one of them.Higginbotham, Don (1961). ''Daniel Morgan: Revolutionary Rifleman.'' University of North Carolina Press, p. 75.

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