Excerpt from A Synopsis of the Records of the State Society of the Cincinnati of Pennsylvania: Including a List of Its Original Members and Their Successors; Brought Down to July 4, 1891 The Officers Of the American Army, having generally been taken from the Citizens Of America, possess high Veneration for the Character Of that illustrious Roman, lucius quintius cincinnatus, and being resolved to follow his Example by returning to their Citizenship, they think they may with Propriety denominate themselves the society OF the cincinnati. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.