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| | Alexander Smyth |
 | | SMYTH, Alexander, lawyer, born on the island of Rathlin, Ireland, in 1765; died in Washington, D. C., 26 April, 1830. |
 | | For many years he was a member of the Virginia house of representatives, and he was appointed by President Jefferson, on 8 July, 1808, colonel of a United States rifle regiment, which he commanded in the southwest until 1811, when he was ordered to Washington to prepare a system of discipline for the army. |
 | | General Smyth was the author of "Regulations for the Infantry" (Philadelphia, 1812) and "An Explanation of the Apocalypse, or Revelation of St. John" (Washington, 1825). |
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