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Usage examples of tryon.

I never read a word about Governor Tryon, or North Carolina, or a place called Alamance.

I think Tryon only means to frighten the Regulators into good behavior.

While Lord Dunmore had been waging war against his former colony (and threatening Washingtons Mount Vernon estate), New Yorks ex-governor William Tryon, then living on a warship in New York harbor, was laying plans to blow up the city arsenals and murder Washington and his staff at his headquarters at Richmond Hill.

Arnold, in front, arranged his men between a ledge of rocks and a farmhouse and on the twenty-eighth met Tryon in a sharp engagement at Saugatuck Bridge.